Coconut Shrimp

I took my granddaughters Annie and Jacqueline up to Salt Lake to meet with other members of the family at a Maple Sunday dinner at Nancy's house.  Nancy has been attending a meal preparation course that provides ingredients and recipes and a kitchen to prepare dishes that can be saved for later meals.  She provided some shrimp for me to eat.  I ate more than I wanted to because I didn't want to tell her that the sauce on the shrimp was quite sweet.  She had gone to special effort to provide something that not many others wanted to eat.  This is not the most difficult issue I have encountered since beginning the Carnivore Diet.  I am far more likely to sabotage myself than be lured into leaving the track by the blandishments of others. 

Farewell to oxalates

Or in other words, farewell to some of my favorite foods, chocolate, strawberries and almonds.  I learned that all of them score high in oxalates, a natural poison made by plants to cause pain and destruction to animals.  I either threw chocolate away or am giving it away.  This feels good.

Jicama

The root of the jicama plant is supposed to be tasty and nutritious but everything else on the plant is deadly poison.  A neighbor joined me for the morning yesterday and she brought along a plastic bin that contained about a pound of raw jicama root which she proceeded to eat with expressions of gusto and exclaimed about how tasty it was.  I believe she hoped that I would ask her for a taste, but I was well into a 20 fast and didn't care to cater to her lure.  Later she told me that she had a colonic scheduled for the afternoon and usually had several doctors appointments weekly.  So much for the superiority of jicama.

Popular

I created a graphic to illustrate the changes to my body in the past nine months since I began doing a carnivore style keto diet.  In a normal ketogenic diet the emphasis is on getting more fat and keeping both carbohydrates and protein limited.  Carnivore diet is based on eating fatty animal products.  The strictest protocol is to eat only grass fed beef and drink only water with various electrolytes used as needed.  I found a picture of me on the mule I rode on a trip through Bryce Canyon.  I took a picture of me on my front porch.  The look on the face of the mule seemed to illustrate patient forebearancc at balancing a heavy human on its back.  I flipped the mule so its patient face with laid back ears was in the center of the profile picture I used on Facebook.  I have only lost about 50 pounds, but it makes a significant difference.  Most people post pictures wearing bathing suits, or for the men, they are bare chested.  I knew that the wrinkled skin that covers me would not make an appealing photo.  I put on my gray yoga pants, my skinny boots that I bought in New York City after my surgery, and a lavender, long sleeved t.  I put on a hat to keep my face partially shadowed.  I posted the picture to my own account and shared it with the two carnivore diet groups I belong to.  I got a great many likes and comments.  This was the most popular post I have ever made.

Ceiling

I designed a dropped ceiling for my kiln area.  It consists of sections of heat resistant plasterboard hung between doubled steel 2x4s.  The idea was to protect the wooden structure of the porch from the heat of the kiln.  It has been quite an enterprise.  Tomorrow I will work on the outer framework.  I discovered that one of the hanging straps had disengaged from the nail that was supposed to hold the 2x4s in place.  I hope this was a one off or I will have my own preview of what an earthquake might look like as the ceiling tumbles down. 

Twit War

I hardly ever get involved in contention on the internet, particularly the social channels like Youtube and Facebook.  I don't participate in Instagram or Twitter, even though I signed up for accounts.  Today I inadvertantly fell into a twit war.  Sadly my opponent is named Mindy which is the slightly unusual name of my youngest grandchild.  She is evidently very 'woke' although it seems she is a champion of some very dubious thinking about technology and populations.  She dismissed theTed talk of a environmental engineer who is returned life to desert areas after doing lots of harm with conventional methods that included destroying 40,000 elephants. When I gently rebutted her claim that populations can be easily reduced and that mankind would be better with a pre-industrial, pre capitalist system she attacked my lack of knowledge of the meaning of words.  At any rate I left the conversation at last with a simple question of how long she had been vegan. 

Obsession

I tend to get a bit obsessed about various ideas and pursuits.  I can become a formidable fan.  Lately I have spent a lot of time searching out information and participating in Facebook pages about living the carnivore lifestyle.  I am a great defender of the cause even though I fall short of a pure carnivore practice.  I am fairly satisfied with the results I have had to date.  But I still have 'floaters' which may be an indication that the two vegetables or one fruit, or possibly the dairy or eggs that I still eat are a problem for my immune system.  I will test this idea out more thoroughly with my next extended fast.  I hope it isn't the eggs.  I already have a problem dealing with the bounty of my tiny flock.