What NOT To Eat. Nutrition On The Road.

[BK says] stay away from pork

This was my dinner last night - pork loin covered with a dry rub and smoked with applewood for 3 1/2 hours, glazed with honey, brown sugar, and spices.

mmmmm.........yummy pork.....

[BK says] stay away from fish

The night before last I had a huge swordfish steak. Normally I have salmon, but they didn't have any wild caught salmon this time.

Pork and fish......yummmmm!!!

And you mention Dr. Jordan Peterson. I have followed him for years and have a tremendous amount of respect for Dr. Peterson. You, sir, are no Jordan Peterson. He would be appalled by your bombastic and caustic manner.

I'm glad to hear you respect the man, BK! But he's a lot more bombastic and caustic than you seem to remember. Here's a video of him with his arms folded defiantly telling the world he was right about the carnivore diet. Don't forget, this man is being forced to go through Orwellian "re-education" by the Canadian government because he is so belligerent toward them for their authoritarian ways. They feel this man needs to be broken, but he's too strong and he won't bend the knee.

So I'm not sure what makes you think he's not bombastic and caustic, because he most certainly is and I love that about him. He will get right in your face and tell you when you're wrong and tell you that you're harming people. He goes straight into the dragon's lair and has hardcore debates face-to-face with the people who disagree with him most vehemently. He attacks the food industry and the medical industry continuously. In fact, that's now his life mission - to spread the word about the lies we've been told and the harm it's doing to our society.

Enjoy!

Yesterdays party foods for daughters 12th birthday...top left, squid, pig belly center, cordon blu chicken, whole shrimps, under sketti chicken wings....Parrot fish pic to follow. THAT was a damn yummy fish too!

Since I started watching my food eaten, I checked, and I've dropped over 4 inches in my waist lol @ a 36" from a 40"+......Ain't been that waist size since my mid-30's....Honey's cookin' some more fresh fish right now, she loves her fish too

Since I started watching my food eaten, I checked, and I've dropped over 4 inches in my waist lol @ a 36" from a 40"+......Ain't been that waist size since my mid-30's....Honey's cookin' some more fresh fish right now, she loves her fish too

Way to go! Love to hear it!

The two most shocking things to most people who switch to a meat based diet:

1. You don't eat all that much, but you never seem to be hungry or lose energy

2. You lose all of your extra bodyweight and become lean

To us older guys (I'm 53 years old) it's shocking to eat all this fatty meat and be thin because we were specifically told growing up that fat makes you fat.

What I've found is that your body does not have a shutoff mechanism for carbs and sugars. It doesn't know when you've had enough. You do, however, have a nearly perfect shutoff mechanism for fats and proteins. Once you're full from eating fats and proteins, you will lose all desire to eat.

You guys can try this for yourselves and see what I mean. First, eat a meal with plenty of carbs like potatoes, vegetables, and dinner rolls. Eventually, if you keep eating you'll feel full, but you'll never really lose the desire to eat one more roll or one more fork full of potatoes unless you're so stuffed you're about to throw up. Then you'll want dessert, even though you're full.

Next day, eat a meal with only proteins and fats, like steak and eggs. Don't eat any carbs with that meal. After about 15 minutes you'll suddenly lose the desire to eat anymore. You won't be stuffed. You could eat more, in fact, but you just don't want to. Someone could offer up another full plate of fresh steak off the grill, and you'd say no thanks. You'll almost be repulsed by the idea of having more fats or protiens.

Our bodies know how to measure fats and proteins and we know when we've had enough, but that's not the case with carbs and sugars. That's one of the reasons why people who eat meals based on fats and proteins are thin, and people who regularly eat a lot of carbs and sugars are either fat or they have to count calories and stop eating even though they're still hungry.

Try it! You'll see.

Doing 25 minutes of cardio daily will deplete your carbs for the next 24 hours so during that period your body will burn fat. If not your body will burn off your carbs all day and store the fat. I went away from doing this for a while and when I took my DOT physical my BP was 138 over 90 barely passed. I have started doing 25 minutes of cardio a day again my BP is now 117 over 77 and I have gone from 226 lbs. to 212 in 3 weeks.

Interesting convo between Brett and Bruce. In all fairness to BK, from the sounds of it the folks he was talking with were basically espousing a mostly carnivore diet as well. While I didn't speak with them personally, I did talk with BK for a quite a while about it.

Something that clearly shows up over and over, that many of us have said is that there is no one size fits all diet or solution. Genetics and environmental factors play such a large role in how we react to nutrition and physical work.

I have a guess that most, meaning we'll more than half of drivers, struggle with being over weight and probably did so long before they set foot in a cab. It's just their body type, it follows the numbers of population in general. Few of us are naturally thin and wirery.

I'm built, on the other hand, like most musicians. I too am 53. I weight exactly the same as when I was 18. I am not quite as lean as when I was working production new home building, but close. At that time I walked 10 to 14 miles a day with 20 pounds of tools on, up and down stairs, carrying loads, all day, everyday. It was a struggle to maintain muscle mass. I did a walking marathon a few years ago and I had to frequently eat while I was doing it. There was absolutely no room for cardio in my life. In fact, my coaches at the gym took it off the regime. I could eat any amount of carbs, junk food, healthy food, didnt matter, I'd burn it all the same.

Genetics play a huge role. My body type just burns fuel. We're horribly inefficient at Fuel milage. Concequently, we'll never see big gains, even though we may be strong. To this day, the amount of protien I'd have to take in to get sustainable muscle mass growth is astounding and I'm generally not willing to do it. I do enough to matting what i have and not get fat. I do fear it because of the job.

Just because your body type and physical load requires cardio base for your intended body use and appearance doesn't mean that everyone else does. For those going for body recomp, or naturally thin with long muscle mass, cardio isn't a priority. Their dietary needs differ too. Doesn't mean it's good or bad, just different needs for different situations.

from the sounds of it the folks he was talking with were basically espousing a mostly carnivore diet as well

Considering the overwhelming evidence, I'm not sure what choice they would have if they wanted to be taken seriously. You can no longer deny it. Thousands of people have eaten almost nothing but meat and eggs for many years now and we have the best health of anyone in our society.

People have reversed diseases and conditions like cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's, arthritis, and more by going carnivore. Many of us are athletes as well. You wouldn't perform well or recover well if you weren't getting the nutrition you need, and you certainly wouldn't reverse disease.

Like my former coach said, athletes and coaches figure out what works many years or even decades before scientists can figure out why. We conduct experiments, we get the results, and then we know what works. We don't care if science can explain it or not, because for us it's all about results, not explanations.

People get hung up on the explanations instead of trying it for themselves. We need more action and less talking when it comes to nutrition. It doesn't take long to figure out what works.

Something that clearly shows up over and over, that many of us have said is that there is no one size fits all diet or solution. Genetics and environmental factors play such a large role in how we react to nutrition and physical work.

We are all built the same. We all get the nutrition we need from fats and proteins. We all have the same organs, nervous system, hormones, circulatory system, immune system, etc. Genetics plays a role in some ways, but not in such a way that you'd have to create different diets for different people, assuming they are healthy. If you're born with a genetic defect, that's different.

We are all in different places right now because of how we've eaten and exercised in recent months and years, not because we're built differently. If everyone slowly progressed from where they are now to where they should be with regard to fitness and nutrition, you would find that all healthy people react to food the same way.

Think about cars. You have all different manufacturers building wildly different engines, yet they all run perfectly on exactly the same gasoline. People are all designed to run on fats and proteins. There are no healthy exceptions.

Someone who exercises very hard will need to eat more than someone who doesn't, but they still need the same nutrients to be healthy, and those nutrients come from proteins and fats.

This idea that each of us is different and therefore needs different solutions is another example of health professionals marketing themselves.

"Diet is not a one-size-fits-all kind of thing. You need a health professional like myself to analyze how you're different than everyone else so I can give you a custom diet made just for you. Only a professional like myself can help everyday people like yourself know how to eat." - every nutritionist

Again, total baloney. Transition to a proper diet of fats and proteins and you'll be healthy. There are no exceptions.

I have a guess that most, meaning we'll more than half of drivers, struggle with being over weight and probably did so long before they set foot in a cab. It's just their body type, it follows the numbers of population in general. Few of us are naturally thin and wirery.

I come from a short, fat Italian family. Half of my relatives look like Danny Devito. I eat a huge pile of fatty meat every day until I'm stuffed, and yet I'm lean. I could easily gain 50 pounds by pigging out on all the wrong things. But I challenge you to find a carnivore who is struggling with their weight, especially if they're eating one meal per day.

One big problem is that the food industry has tricked us into eating way too often. If I can train as hard as I do and get all of the nutrition I need eating one meal per day, so can everyone else. We're taught to eat all the time, which is absurd. Eating three meals per day seems completely ridiculous to me. I don't even eat twice a day. Heck, I don't even eat every day! I skip Mondays! And yet I'm rarely hungry or full. I feel about the same all the time, which is how it's supposed to be.

I did a walking marathon a few years ago and I had to frequently eat while I was doing it.

You had to get those carbs to keep going, am I right?

Back in the day (in the 80s and 90s) everyone used to do "carb loading" for sports. The night before a big race or game you had to eat a huge bowl of pasta and bread. Before the event, you drink a bunch of sugary drinks. During the race, you need your sugary Gatorade. Everyone thought you would perform best by fueling yourself with carbs as often as possible.

What athletes figured out over the years is that your body runs best on fat, not carbs. You can only store a tiny amount of carbs, but you have an endless amount of fat, even if you're super skinny. Even the thinnest people in our society often have weeks worth of fat storage they can tap into.

That's why I did all of my long endurance training days in a fasted state. I wouldn't eat for at least 12 hours before the day started, and I wouldn't eat all day in the mountains. The guides I hired to climb with me were always blown away that I would go into the mountains for 8 - 10 hours without any food. My coach would have to explain to them that I've done it for years.

In fact, many of my coach's other athletes changed up their diets after hearing that an ordinary dude like me can do long days without food, day after day, and perform great. People didn't even think it was possible, so they didn't try. Once they realized it worked, they made the switch.

I could eat any amount of carbs, junk food, healthy food, didnt matter, I'd burn it all the same.

You didn't gain weight no matter what you ate, but the food you eat doesn't all burn the same. The body uses different chemical processes for storing and burning carbs vs storing and burning fats. You needed fuel during the long race because your body wasn't properly adapted to burning fats, not because you're built differently. If you removed carbs from your diet and trained that way, within a few months you'd easily walk that marathon without any calories whatsoever and feel way better than you did when you did it eating carbs.

It takes time for your body to become properly fat-adapted. Once you get there, you realize that's how our bodies are meant to perform.

So we're not all built differently, we're conditioned differently. Once properly conditioned, we're all very similar. Certainly some people will gain weight easier than others, that sort of thing, but our bodies know how to regulate fats and proteins properly, so someone who gains weight more easily will self-adjust and eat less than someone who burns fat more quickly.

Brett, I'm glad you're in great shape. You are doing what works for you.

However, BK is correct you are an ass. You won't update your site. You constantly put people down. You are the reason so many good people don't post great advice anymore. It's harder and harder because the info on your site is years out of date. You know this and refuse to do the work to make a better product.

I'm not perfect, but I always try to improve myself.

My two cents.