When's the next occasional entry going to be?

Ah, what the hell, I'll try resurrecting the thread, and see if I can stay the course.Won't always be able to add stuff every day.

OK, today(and yesterday, combined)
, I'm eating 1 or 2 kilos of raw  grassfed/naturally-reared lamb shoulder(with weight of bone included)
 . Also eating 3 small boxes of, variously,  strawberries and blueberries and rasperries(all organic) and a banana or three. Oh, and 2 boxes of raw quail eggs.

. I've been doing a rare experiment by adding in lots of black pepper to the meats. I've noticed, interestingly, that my bowel movements have been more frequent as a result(I've only been adding in carbs as of this friday, mostly, so it wasn't the carbs but the pepper which was responsible). I have to admit to being rather concerned as to how bowel movements are so infrequent when only eating raw meats. I suspect that the spices somehow speed up digestion and/or passage through the bowels.

I'm currently lacking in raw
suet/raw marrow as I usually have to buy sizeable amounts lasting a couple of months and I'm about to go abroad in July and need to clean out my fridge. So, marrow/suet I'll get again in August, and make do in the meantime. I can get grainfed suet/marrow in Italy but it tastes no good  and is, IMO, useless nutritionally-speaking,
so I'll mostly be getting grassfed horsemeat over there when I leave the UK(The UK forbids sale of horsemeat for UK consumption).

Oh yes, I'm also taking raw fermented cod liver oil from blue ice here and there.


Current situation:- I'm about to enter the lobster season and I'll be ordering them this sunday (live)  from my local fisherman. Unfortunately, the samphire-season , I think, only starts in July. Samphire is a very good herb/plant by the way - I eat it in minor amounts while in italy as it's one of the few plants which thrives on beaches(it needs the salt from the sea-air). Samphire is also what "salt-marsh"-fed sheep/cattle largely
feed on that makes their meat taste even better, reportedly, than standard grassfed meats.

As the horrible summer comes up yet again, I've had to cut my hair as short as possible. Also, whenever summer approaches, I tend to find that eating too much raw animal fat
 makes me feel far too hot. This experience
is counter to some silly remarks made by  Aajonus and Stefansson    re animal-fat consumption supposedly making one more resistant to the heat. So, I tend to significantly
up my raw-carb-intake/reduce animal-food-intake
 in the summer(also, in order to enhance my sporting performance as I always do far more exercise then) and I also fast. Fasting really does seem to cool me down as well, so I sometimes do that. Indeed, lots of sunshine does seem to reduce my appetite, perhaps due to more
vitamin d-production being stimulated by sunlight?

The heat of summer always makes me feel irritated. Of course, the main reason for the heat is not the heat itself but the fact that we have outdated , absurd notions re nudism being improper. Clothes are simply not necessary unless one is living in a semi-Arctic environment, and are an anachronism given the presence of central heating everywhere.

At the moment, I'm considering going to brixton market in a few days so as to buy some raw goatmeat. I love the pungent stench of goatmeat.

Sadly, we've passed the goose-egg season which was nice.

Ah yes, here is my testimonial:-

http://old.rawpaleodiet.com/geoff-purcell/

Been doing  a RVAF diet for c.7 years(almost 8 , now), if one includes a disastrous phase or two involving the primal diet, among others.

Oh, forgot to mention that I take regular supplements of (raw) adrenal, (raw) thyroid and organic organ delight from dr ron's website: drrons.com  I also eat whole raw organ-meats but am unable to get hold of raw glands like thyroid or adrenals here in the UK so it's 1 of my 2 compromises re supplements.

What gave you the idea that you need black pepper? Lots of black pepper is not paleo and plant oils / plants cause harm over time (just like grains...)

http://www.essentialoils.co.za/essential-oils/black-pepper.htm

Nicola

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I just thought I'd do an experiment with various raw spices. Part of the problem I have, currently, is that while there are many raw animal food restaurants in London(ie Japanese Sashimi restaurants), it's more difficult to be raw when eating indoors. Being able to eat raw salads and occasionally using spices means I'm more used to eating like others. For example, using raw spices can help me overcome some of the disgusting taste of various cooked foods.

As regards plants, I have had enough personal experience that makes it clear that raw plants, especially fruits, are essential for optimum human health, albeit in small quantities. No plant-food whatsoever in the diet, at best greatly reduces physical performance, and, for many people such as myself, it causes  very terminal health-problems in the long run.

I've done c.3 raw, zero-carb trials., each lasting c. 5-6 weeks or so, the last one being  a couple of years or so ago(2-3?). I've been doing rawpalaeo(LC or VLC) for 8 years, in general. I'm afraid that people have been making wrong assumptions, as my allexperts.com page was rather unclear on the issue(up till now, a lot of people seem to have gotten the erroneous impression that I was doing a 100% raw, fatty organ-meats diet or something.


Basically, every time I went zero-carb , I would experience the following effects:- at first, for the first 2 weeks, I'd get greater focus/alertness, and greatly decreased physical performance/endurance. Then, after that, by the 3rd week, I would quickly  get decreased alertness, chronic fatigue, panic attacks, ravenous hunger(for carbs) and I would have to struggle to force myself to eat even tiny amounts of raw animal food. After several weeks of this, I would get deep black circles under the eyes and loose, weakened  teeth - both kinds of symptoms I had before going rawpalaeo(and during my raw-dairy-phase). I'd lose a lot of weight due to the lack of appetite and the ravenous hunger for carbs interfered with my daily life, to a huge extent.I'd also get panic-attacks(especially on one occasion, when while zero-carb I tried some heated suet, for taste-reasons, but at other times as well. I'd , in addition, feel forced to drink vast amounts of mineral-water, due to excessive thirst, but no amount of water was enough as I really needed some raw fruit, instead. By the 5th/6th weeks, life became an absolute hell, getting additional headaches etc. etc.,  and I would feel literally like I was dying, so I had no choice but to give up on raw, zero-carb or face hospitalisation, and, eventually, death.

I remember hearing something being claimed on various diet-forums about how going zero-carb puts an excessive strain on one's glandular system. So that, presumably, people with a reasonably healthy glandular system, from the get-go, might be fine on it, whether for a period or even  in the long-term. But anyone who has ever had issues with their (adrenal/thyroid etc.) glands in the past(which is a majority of those on SAD-diets, IMO), even if they've healed as a result of raw foods, night be well advised to stay away from zero-carb like the plague.

Of course, it's just a theory, like any other.