Geezy
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Spent all day on the tractor cutting pastures. The eclipse was interesting and the relief from the sun for that little while was pleasant. Didn’t have anything to eat all day and I didn’t get in the house until after seven. But I was tired and hungry so I had seven scrambled eggs with four slices of bacon chopped up in them. Man, that hit the spot after being in the fields all day. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Ok, Bob has tagged me to step up on the heart issue but first I just want to say that Bob is spot on. I’d just add that carnivore is the proper human diet. There are absolutely no carbs that are essential to human health or life. Fat and animal protein is all we need to be healthy. Some processed meats are not bad for you or junk. The key is in the ingredient labels. It just must be clean of all sugars and sweeteners, grain fillers, soy and all plant matter. It’s hard to find but it’s out there. I make much of my own so I keep it fairly clean. If you’ve seen any of my posts about waffles you’ll see they are Chaffles which are all carnivore. Recipe in the recipe forum. Now to the heart. What is your heart issue? I have Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation. I’ve been carnivore for 334 days now and in that time it’s been over a year now since my last AFib attack. That is significant since when I have one it’s bad and I end up I ICU for a few days. My cardiologist is extremely please with my diet and what it’s done for me. In losing 55 pounds and reducing the inflammation in my body my heart flutters have reduced from a stop and let me catch my breath six or seven times a day to something so mild I have to wonder if I actually felt something and this only a couple of times a week. I was take my completely off of one medication (Metropol) because it was taking my blood pressure down so far naturally that the medication was taking in down way too low artificially. My BP yesterday was 112/ 62. As of my last visit with my cardiologist two weeks ago he has now cut my o the medication (Flecanide) in half and if I continue doing so well he may take me completely off of it in six months or so. So yes sir, carnivore can help with heart issues. I also just had another sleep study to see if carnivore had help me there and unfortunately my sleep apnea is not cured but I have gone from a ranking of moderately severe (22) down to mild (11). This a list of my other healings and improvements. Inflammation way down. Hands don’t hurt. Can make a fist again. Knees don’t hurt. Right hip doesn’t hurt. Left hip (prosthetic) is better. Back is 80-90% pain free. Shoulders are 90% pain free. IBS is gone. Bowel inflammation is gone. Crohns is gone. Energy is better. LI’m Attitude is better. Floaters in eyes are less noticeable. Eye watering gone Running nose reduced 90%. Walking two- three miles every other day without support. Exercising with resistance bands every other day. Long rides on my motorcycle again. Light sensitivity is greatly diminished. Rarely use sunglasses. Dandruff is healed. I can clip my toenails again. Sleep apnea is much better and may be cured. Elimination of one heart med. AFib much better Hunger is now “Keto Hunger). No carb addiction, no temptation. So yes, carnivore really does heal. I will never eat any other way again. I don’t eat carnivore, I am carnivore. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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I’m not sure if I’ve had one or not. When I had my first big AFib attack my cardiologist put me through a battery of tests to see if there was any damage to my heart or if I’d had a heart attack on top of the AFib. They also looked at my arteries for any blockage or buildup. It started with a very thorough sonogram the like of which I’d never experienced before. It was interesting to see the blood flowing through my heart. Then I had a nuclear stress test where they had me wired for sound and walking on a treadmill at a steep angle until my heart rate got up the the numbers they were looking for. I think it was 130 or 135 bpm. As soon as I hit that number the shot me with a radioactive isotope and then did an scan of my heart and arteries. Test came back negative in all regards. No heart attack, no damage, no blockage and no build up. So they said I was clean in my arteries. I don’t know if that has anything to do with CAC but saying my arteries are clean as a whistle gives me a warm fuzzy. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Lamb steak and lamb burger with butter. Later on while working in my garage I had a little fat snack of rendered fat with a touch of smoked salt on it. The cracklings are my little fat snacks or fat bombs that come from rendering down beef fat for tallow. After I’ve rendered out all of that liquid gold these fat bites are left over and with a little salt they make a good fatty snack. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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I think there are a couple of different types of chops depending on how the meat is cut. Now I’m not a butcher but I believe standard chops, just like pork chops are taken from a section along the back bone and just above the ribs. The ribs are then cut out for spareribs. If the ribs are not goin to be used as spareribs then the rib is kept in and more meat is attached as part of the chop. You get more meat and a better quality cut. In cattle it would be called the T-bone. If cut further up the spine it would be a bone in ribeye. I may be a little off on my explanation but I think I’m close.
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I get that then. When I did Adkins 20 years ago that was a common thing to do to shock your system off of the plateau. Since I’m now carnivore I’ve learned that I don’t need and tricks or gimmicks, I just need to keep eating the way I always eat because this is how I’m always going to eat. I hope that makes sense. So it doesn’t matter what happens I’m not going to change my diet because I know that this is about eating strictly for nutrition. If my body wants to stall out then fine. It’s got something that it’s trying to adjust to or it’s reached it optimal weight. My goal was never to lose X amount of weight. It was to become healthy and let my body decide what my best weight should be. I ignored plateauing and just kept on keeping on. Eventually it would decide to drop some more pounds. These stalls might last two weeks or even a month. No big deal when your eating for optimal health and nutrition. For the last three months I’ve been at the same weight of 172 average. That’s lighter than I’ve been since high school over 50 years ago. So three months with no change I figure that’s it. I’m optimal. This morning I was at 169. Lol, I guess it may not be over just yet. You see, I am 330 days carnivore and have not strayed from my WOE and never will. I just can’t ever see myself eating and kind of sugar, seed, grain, seed oil or vegetable. They just don’t have any nutritional benefits for the human body so they don’t need to be in my diet. Now with that all being said, I drink a hot bulletproof tea in the morning and I will sometimes use a spice, onion or garlic for flavoring but it’s in very limited amounts and doesn’t cause my body harm. I’m not saying any of this to say you’ve done anything wrong or to seem like I’m looking down on you I’m just trying to tell say that you don’t need to trick your body, you just need to be consistent. Be committed to this and try not to treat it like a weigh loss diet but rather a lifestyle. Good luck on your journey. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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This is fascinating. Recently I’ve been hearing bits and pieces here and there of dental hygiene and carnivore. Dr. Chaffee has mentioned it several times. I’ve heard some carnivores talk about going to the dentist and not having any plaque build up. I think I remember that Egyptian mummies we found to have terrible teeth and since they were basically, from what I understand, the founders of the agriculture era it would make sense. I have terrible teeth due to having seven teeth broken in a car accident and the rest all stress fractured. I’ve got one molar, top and bottom, both sides left. There of them are gold crowned. I’m doing my best to hang on to them. I’m really hoping that carnivore will help in that regard. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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You are thinking of this in the wrong ratios I believe. The idea is to get 75 percent of our calories from fat and the rest from protein. So it’s about percentage not volume or mass. Fat is higher in calories than protein so it’s not a balancing act of the meat vs fat but of the calories consumed. Generally if you are eating a fatty meat and cooking it in fat you will get the proper ratios. If the meat is lean then you may need to add fat to what you’re eating. When I eat something like chicken which is too lean I’ll add a lot of butter to it. Hamburger, even high fat hamburger I’ll add butter to it because most of the fat cooks out of it. Lean cuts of beef will also get plenty of butter or I’ll make my carnivorous steak sauce. If you want to be able to get a better idea of the fat to protein macros you could download and app such as Carb Manager and it will give you an good scale by which to measure what you are doing. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Agreed. I’ve been criticized for not being a carnivore because I’ll eat some dairy now and then or use spices occasionally but I’m not a purist nor a nazi. Eating something that is not meat occasionally as long as it doesn’t bother you and as long as it’s not an everyday thing does not hurt anything. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Exactly! ^^^^^ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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I’ve only experienced depression one time in my life. It lasted three days and I got over it by getting my butt up and going to work and stopped having a pity party. I’m a man with responsibilities to my family and that overrules anything else. So I really can’t relate to what your going through but there are a ton of people in the carnivore community that have cured all kinds of mental disorders as well as depression. So judging by the results from other carnivores you should probably keep going with eating carnivore. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Well I guess that’s been my problem all along. I don’t know squat because I can’t squat. [emoji13] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Welcome Adam. In my opinion this WOE is first and foremost a healing diet to help us get metabolically healthy. You are experiencing that now. Weight loss is a side benefit. A wonderful side benefit but still a side benefit. It’s also quite common to loose inches with little to no weight loss. Sometimes it takes a little time for our bodies to to transition over to being fat adapted and loosing the weight. I have been at what my body chose as my optimal weight for three months now but I am still loosing inches or maybe I should say millimeters since it’s very slow. I’m not too far from going to the next hole in my belt. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
