Although I have spent the last three days (Sunday was meant to be a sort of rehearsal, but turned into a full new diet day) being a carnivore, I shan’t be able to continue unabated.
It’s only now that I read – amongst the plethora of YouTube videos on the topic – that I’m supposed to TRANSITION !! The two or three very well-muscled blokes who are doctors among the carnivore fraternity (what word fits with fraternity and sorority but means both genders ?) I find to be instructing me that it’s not sensible to go the full monty from day one. They utter dire warnings about diarrhoea and/or constipation, mostly – as a fairly logical bodily response to so radical a change overnight.
ACK !!
So now I must boringly read up on some method of transitioning from omnivore to carnivore.
Sighh …
DOWNUNDER WITH BOODZ 
It never affected me but then I never cut out eggs and I was a lot younger when I did this…a lot! Hope your tummy is okay.
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I have yet to find advice about transition to carnivore that’s specific, Amanda: I’m the boring kind of person who needs detailed instructions for everything !
Tummy OK so far !
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Fingers crossed.
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Ugh, I hope you weren’t too negatively affected. A gradual change certainly makes sense. Just be sure you’re getting your info from approved, real medical sources. Legit docs will publish in journals, not YouTube videos.
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Gawd, Colorado ! – you want me to read journals ???- like, scholarly journals ????
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Nah, you don’t have to read actual journals if you don’t want to. But use reputable sources like Mayo Clinic, WebMD, NIH, etc. (Yep, I do read the journals sometimes. But that was my job for 20 years.)
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You are persuasive, my friend. I think perhaps I am relying too much on not necessarily tried, tested and proven sources …
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What Pied Type says about sources… but yes it makes sense that a sudden dramatic change like that could wreak havoc. My guess is that two or three days won’t be too bad though? Hope not anyhow.
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I hope I’m in the process of what you dread, Sue; and stuff like this is proving extremely distracting.
Because I can’t find anything specific regarding transitioning, I may have to put it all off until my next … ahh … stop.
P.S.: it took me a second or two to realize you were talking about my mate Colorado ! I forget that she has a real ID as opposed to the one with which I have saddled her. 😀
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Ah … I remember Colorado used to comment on your blog but this is now Pied Type?
Anyhow I am glad you are stopping until you research transitioning. I should have thought of it myself when you talked about your plan because I have heard that you shouldn’t change diets dramatically.
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Susan has always been Pied Type: the confusion is created by me, who started giving her the appellation of the State she lives in.
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M-R, I would start with fish and seafood and leave the beef and pork for later. Red meats are the hardest to digest, as you may well know.
My cholesterol was way too high last fall and instead of accepting a prescription for statins (something I will never take), I ate very little red meat and focused on chicken, fish, seafood, veggies and fruit. Six months later, total cholesterol was down, but I’m still trying to stay away from too much beef, summer bratwurst, fried chicken from the deli, etc. The fried chicken has been the hardest because it’s easy, Gibbs and I both love it, and…yum!
Wishing good health with this new diet, but make sure you have bloodwork done six months in to see where you are at. Okay?
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Oh, the joy of learning that someone dear refuses to take statins !!! – GOODONYERMATE !
(I would so love to hear that your high cholesterol figure was a source of happiness; but I don’t expect everything.)
XO
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My mother had high cholesterol and my brother does too. He takes statins, but I wonder if he could go off of them since he eats healthier than I do and exercises almost every day. The food that caused my high cholesterol made me happy…a little too happy. :-p
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I wish I could persuade you to read a mind-boggling book called “The Great Cholesterol Con” by Malcolm Kendrick, M-J … it would make you cry “WTF ???” in amazement and rage …
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Perhaps one day, M-R, when I pare down my to-be-read pile of books that keeps growing.
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I immediately felt a stomachache just reading of your plight! My friend, moderation in all things. LOL! I hope your system is adjusting quickly! 🙀
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The benefit I discerned from the 3 days, beautiful Debra, has made me absolutely DETERMINED to do this thang !!!!
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Missing you over at my place. Hope that new diet hasn’t done you in.
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And I was wondering how come you were so quiet !
Sighh … looks like you and I are sentenced to follow, wonder, re-follow, wonder, and so on ad infinitum, Colorado !!
Have I ever indicated that I’m not the biggest fan of WordPress’ before now …? :-}
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Hey M-R – just saw you on Albo’s insta page! You rocked! Nice to hear your voice. Hope the transition to meat is going okay?
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I was flavour of the month, briefly, Amanda – https://www.instagram.com/p/C9bkk-iR-Ka/
Insta all over the place !!
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You were insta-viral!
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OMG, you speak!! How wonderful to hear your voice. You really are real! 🙂
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Whereas you are an idiot, Colorado !! [grin]
It’s an ancient voice; but once I get my new Ninja grilling thingy and my first delivery from Stockman Meats arrives and I then become a carnivore adherent, I am expecting all manner of improvements – including some repair of the vocal chords.
I’m still not receiving any notifications from Pied Type of any posts. I hate WordPress. 😦
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And also !!! – my comments just disappear from Pied Type. I s’pose you set that up deliberately, knowing you …
Heh heh …
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I just posted a question about those disappearing comments …
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So do I. They keep “improving” things, causing all sorts of problems, while not fixing previously created problems. Keep resubscribing and maybe they’ll finally recognize you. I can’t find the subscriber list to check if you’re there or to enter your address manually.
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(Well, that comment went in the wrong place … )
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Hey, just found my subscriber list and added your name. Let’s hope it works.
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Hadn’t tried that. Will do !
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You and I know I’m an idiot, but do you have to tell everyone else!?
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Yeth ! I have now outed you as (as my husband liked to say) a maroon ! [grin]
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🙂
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AND !!! – I re-subscribed; and it told me scornfully that I’m already subscribed: but it suddenly published my latest comment ! HONESTLY …
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Sigh …. WP is so exhausting. I did manually add you to the subscriber list yesterday or maybe the day before. At least I think I did. And maybe because WP now believes you’re a subscriber, it’s permitting your comments? Your guess is as good as mine.
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I fear that neither of us is sufficiently up-to-date technologically to cope with WP’s constant updating, Colorado. Nil desperandum but ! 🙂
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You’re right about that. And I just said as much in a correspondence with WP support. He was trying really hard but I just didn’t understand. … sigh…
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