Profile For Brett Aquila

I’m certainly intrigued by the diet but would have no idea where to start. Seems like it would be expensive to do on a regular basis. Am I wrong?

Well, there are two costs involved. The first, of course, is the cost of the food itself. The second would be the cost of medical treatments and lost productivity if you're unhealthy most of your adult life.

The second cost would be the greater of the two by far.

But you'll be shocked at how little you eat when eating carnivore. Last night, Tuesday, I finished my weekly 48-hour fast. I never eat from Sunday night until Tuesday night. So you'd expect me to go nuts and eat a freakish amount of food, right?

Well, I'm only 5' 7" and weight 150 pounds so I'm not a big guy by any measure, but even after 48 hours without food, and a four-mile run both Sunday and yesterday, I ate about 2/3 pound of steak, 1/3 pound of burger, and three eggs.

The steak was $7/pound, the burger was $5/pound, and the eggs are about $5/dozen.

So my food cost for the day was about $10.

You won't get prices that cheap in a restaurant, but you can certainly buy the food and cook it yourself in the truck with a Ninja Foodi or similar appliance.

Pork is incredibly cheap, and it's great for you. I bought a pork butt roast yesterday for $1.49/pound!!! You can get pork loin for that price as well, and it's boneless. Watch for sales on meat at the grocery stores. They have ridiculous sales.

I spoke with the people at the meat counter at my grocery store. I asked why pork was so cheap. He said that all winter long they'll get big shipments of pork about every three weeks and they discount it heavily. So I'm always on the lookout for great deals. Meat doesn't last long, so when they get a surplus, they have to mark it down aggressively. Take advantage and load up the freezer!

If you want to see sticker shock, try eating vegan, and I dare you to try organic vegan. You'll have to consider financing your meals!

You'll be surprised at how inexpensive it is to eat carnivore.

My current state is that I'm down 25# to 215 which at 6'4" and a large frame makes me feel pretty good. My bp is 106 over 70 and resting heart rate is 48. For 53 years old, I feel great and have no intention of letting myself go as so many unfortunately do.

Those stats are super impressive! Congrats to you on doing excellent work!

don't drink any soda or energy drinks or anything with fake sweeteners

Years ago I stopped putting sugar or creamer in my coffee, and switched to black coffee. That was not an easy transition, but I made it stick. I had considered artificial sweeteners for a bit but knew that wasn't any better than sugar.

Having the mindset that allows you to do the job for forty years with no incidents is the hard part.

Amen to that. That applies to all trucking jobs. You either have a mindset of long-term safety or you don't. If you don't, it will catch up with you. You can not keep rolling the dice and keep on winning forever. At some point, you'll roll snake eyes.

I pulled a food-grade tanker myself but never hauled gasoline. There was no heavy lifting for me. Hoses were the only thing I had to move around, and they didn't weigh very much. I wouldn't expect gasoline or chemical tankers to be any different, but you could find a specific job that requires some heavy lifting. They would tell you up front if that was the case.

I just went to the dentist for a routine cleaning and they took my blood pressure - 116/75 !!!

Can you believe that? I'm 53 years old and my blood pressure is what you'd have as a teenager. That wouldn't be nearly as interesting if it weren't for the way I eat.

It never stops being a shock to think back to the 80s when they preached incessantly that you must eat three square meals per day and avoid red meat, eggs, fat, and salt or you will get fat, clog your arteries, get high blood pressure, and die young.

My entire diet for years has consisted of red meat, eggs, fat, and a high level of salt. For the past 1 1/2 years I've eaten only one meal per day with no food at all for 48 hours starting every Sunday night.

I'm at my perfect weight. I have perfect blood pressure and clear arteries, and I'm going to live beyond 100.

I can't help but ask how they could have been completely wrong about everything. Are we to believe that the government, the medical associations, and the food industry never did a single experiment to see what would happen if people ate mostly red meat and eggs?

Did they just blindly recommend against eating all of the most healthy foods?

Were they good scientists with good intentions but they somehow got everything wrong?

How could any of that be possible?

Well, it's not possible. Not when you realize that profits for the food and health industries skyrocket when we eat large quantities of unhealthy, processed foods that keep us sick. They profit from selling us excessive amounts of unhealthy food and then they have us take a long list of pills for the rest of our lives, which ironically makes us even more sick.

Robert Kennedy, Jr is leading the charge for a healthier America, but unfortunately, he will have to start from the wrong end of the spectrum. He won't just come out and tell people the truth like I have because look at what that gets you - a litany of hate and ridicule. Our society has been brainwashed for years to believe lies and to defend against people like myself who reveal the truth.

Instead, he'll start by trying to reveal the truth slowly about the most dangerous things, like poisonous food additives and excessive childhood vaccines. This slow roll of the truth will unfortunately drag this on for many years and allow the food and medical industries to prepare propaganda that leverages the existing brainwashing.

In other words, you'll see constant arguing and relentless personal attacks, but very little in the way of progress. It's too easy to confuse people with complex explanations, which is why I avoid that and try to get people to focus on experiencing it for themselves. Once you experience proper eating, no sinister arguments will ever dissuade you again.

Now if they wanted to be truly bold and daring, they would challenge Americans to take this much further by promoting a diet based on meat and eggs, consisting of two meals per day within 8 hours of each other.

THAT would quickly start a radical health revolution. But that ain't gonna happen, at least not from our Government.

How are you guys doing with your health and nutrition?

Unfortunately, it's pretty slow so I was already off twice this week.

Wow. That's not what anyone is hoping to hear six weeks before Xmas. Hopefully you'll pick up something great in January.

Is anyone else finding things slow right now?

Happy Veteran's Day!

Welcome, Mike!

I have an article and a podcast for you, both with the same title, but different content:

Episode 15: Is Trucking Worth It?

Blog: Is Trucking Worth It?

My current job pays decently but honestly I can't stand it, and BADLY want to get out of it and find something new.

That's the best reason in the world to take a shot at a new career. I've never wanted to force myself to do anything I don't enjoy. I'd rather take the chance on something new than guarantee my own misery.

I've heard the first few years driving will probably suck depending on your employer, but that it can be pretty enjoyable and lucrative once you've got some miles under your belt.

Although we all make a ton of mistakes early in our career, I enjoyed all of it. In fact, I can remember my first day on the road as a professional driver. I was with my trainer, and we left Atlanta for Maryland the next morning. I remember the first truck stop I ever stopped at and ate that first night. I remember changing shifts, talking for hours, and just trying to comprehend the idea that I was actually doing it! I was on the road for real!

It was a thrill.

I loved my entire career, though I have to say things became much easier even after a few months of driving. Once you get a few months under your belt you'll begin to feel like you belong out there.

Finally, remember you can walk away at any time. I always recommend sticking with your first company for one full year, but no one will stop you from walking away if you decide it isn't for you. There isn't much risk in taking a shot.

Hope that helps!

I love to hear conservatives speaking up and becoming emboldened again! Kersey and Turtle - that was amazing! Thank you for having the courage to stand up publicly and speak your mind honestly and genuinely. We need more people like you!

I've been speaking out loudly for years about what we need to do to protect our society from the establishment, and I'd love to see more people continue to share their opinions. I have to warn you, though - you'll lose friends and make enemies for a while. Most will never apologize or return, even when they realize you were right. But that's what leaders do. They take criticism from the fools but keep speaking the truth relentlessly.

Let's review some of the topics we've covered over the years, so you can see what I mean and be prepared for the firestorm ahead.

I spoke about the virus tyranny in 2020, which I said at the time had nothing to do with health but was a Marxist coup. Today that's obvious, but at the time it wasn't. Now we can see in the voting data that it worked! They really did seize power from numerous Western governments, including our own. People thought I was insane at the time and blasted me for it. But it was important to let people know what was really happening.

I spoke for years of the need for strong unions to return, which were desperately needed to fight the economic manipulation from the Fed, big corporations, and Wall Street. Now we're suffering from massive inflation and a weak economy because of their manipulation, and almost every union across the board has responded with huge victories over the past two or three years, the largest increases in their history in some cases. People also blasted me for that, but I wanted people to understand what was happening.

I've unmasked the hype behind driverless trucks on the highways which was scaring potential drivers away from trucking. I wrote an article in 2017 called, Self Driving Trucks Are Not Coming Anytime Soon.

Then, in January of 2020, I went to a business seminar where the speaker believed the hype about driverless trucks and said, "There will be no truck drivers in five years!" He loudly and proudly proclaimed that to a massive audience. I just laughed to myself and thought, "Wow, this guy really fell for the technology hype."

Here we are on the eve of his five-year declaration, almost eight years after I wrote my article, and there are more truck drivers today than there were back then. People thought I was clueless at the time. Now we can see it really was just hype.

I've been unmasking the fake nutritional science that's been poisoning people for decades like avoiding salt and red meat, eating vegetables, getting healthy natural sugars, and eating three or more meals per day. Myself and thousands more have experienced the astounding health benefits of eating properly, and I wanted people to know the truth about nutrition. I've been blasted for that as well.

The point is this - even if you're right, it's no fun being the guy willing to challenge deeply held beliefs or systems that people might not be ready or willing to abandon. You will face resistance or hostility due to cognitive dissonance, where people reject the new information to avoid discomfort, sometimes attacking the messenger to defend their current beliefs. They'll attack both your integrity and your opinions. When you defend yourself, everyone else will jump in and attack you for being so cruel as to defend yourself!

It's a thankless job.

We have people in the forum today who have stormed off in the past, furious with me for my take on these topics. When I turned out to be right, they quietly returned hoping they could blend back in and we could just forget that whole stink they made about it at the time.

No one has ever apologized to me for any of it, though. I've lost friends, family members, and long-time forum members over every one of those topics and it never mattered that I was right and I was revealing a truth that most people could not see.

I believe Gen X'rs are the group that needs to take charge now and fix this mess we're in. We're at the age when control of the government, major corporations, and technologies will fall into our hands and we were always the anti-establishment generation. We must do what we can to right the ship, and speaking out about it is something we all can do. It just takes a lot of courage and self-confidence, because speaking hard truths and pulling no punches will make you a lot of enemies, even amongst those you've helped the most.

As always, the most important things are the hardest things, and they require the strongest people and the best leaders to make them happen. I can see we have some of those types here in this forum, and that is super encouraging!

Keep speaking up! Shout it if you have to!

for the good of our country we just need to move forward and let the next 4 years speak for themselves.

I'm not sure what that even means. Is that actionable? Does it mean we should all be silent observers?

I've noticed a pattern with you, Navypoppop. Every time we have a discussion with even the slightest disagreement, you call for an end to the discussion.

You did it on another thread recently where we were talking about nutrition and fitness. You told us to end the conversation and stick to talking about trucking, even though our health is critically important and people benefitted from the conversation. A lot of helpful information and experiences were shared.

At that time, several people stepped in to let you know they wanted the conversation to continue, and it did.

Now here you are again, calling for the end of another conversation because not everyone agrees.

What gives?

I mean, really, can you think of one single policy the Democrats had that was meant to make America strong and healthy? I don't believe they intended to do anything good for us. They seem to have no love for the US and our people. They did not believe in our Constitution, follow our laws, enforce our laws, or protect our borders. They even blatantly disregarded Supreme Court decisions. Finally, they spent hundreds of billions on foreign wars.

They were not working for us. That should have been obvious.

And did the Democrats steal the 2020 election? Well, these voting statistics demonstrate how egregious it was. Here is the total vote count for Democrats in elections this century. There is no way to explain the huge surge in total votes in 2020.

2000 - 50,992,335
2004 - 59,028,444
2008 - 69,498,516
2012 - 65,915,795
2016 - 65,853,514
2020 - 81,283,501
2024 - 67,957,895

There is no chance they cast 81 million votes in 2020 while averaging 64 million in all elections this century. So they had no business being in power in the first place. They were not elected by the people.