Ok, muscle meat has less flavor raw. Liver, well liver just has a lot of flavor. It's horrible when it first goes in my mouth but after I swallow it it tastes like liverwurst and reminds me of the liverwurst sandwiches that my grandmother used to make me when I was a kid. I'm so conflicted about my liver!
 

Edit: Couldn't finish the liver. I'm going to throw it in the compost and eat some eggs and milk instead.

it might be strange to ask on a forum about a preagricultural diet but does anyone here practice farming of any kind on any scale or have any plans to in the future?

I plan to raise free range, grain-free ckickens, pasture fed dairy sheep, oysters, and fish. On top of that, I intend to have some fruit trees, greek vegetables, and a couple algae photobioreactors.

Maybe I'm a geneticly post-ag man because I crave home grown food and hate to hunt the supermarkets for it.

I believe it. My psycopathy goes away when after a few glasses of raw milk.

I have leftover acne scars from when my mother raised me on hamburger helper and hot pockets. I've got a few areas on my backs that are still gross but for the most part it's just the scars that I have to deal with. Has anyone on the diet had scars disappear?

I'm looking to build muscle but, having a slightly defective heart, I tend to avoid cardio except at night, when there seems to be more oxygen in the air and I don't fatigue as quickly. I doubt I'll be promoting heart failure anytime soon but I'm never going to be a world-class or even good long-distance runner.

Testosterone makes me want to design and build machines and also gives my face some shape to it. My testosterone increased after I started taking charge of my diet and avoiding my mother's idea of a meal(do all nurses fear nutrition?) but absolutely skyrockets after two glasses of raw milk. I know this because I adopt very stereotypical hypermasculine speech patterns, my style of walk changes, and I really, really want to show women my German sausage.


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In other news, I notice a sort of chlorine smell whenever I get ready to fight someone. Also, my entire brain fills with blood and becomes active when I watch people fighting. I will definitely continue my MMA training for the, surprising, potential brain benefits.

Also, I was expecting to be somewhat sore today after my MMA class but the places that I expected to feel sore instead just seem "larger" and exert more pull than before. I think that eating the muscle meat was exactly what I needed to recover and build after exercise.

haha reading this journal is a trip, and quite humorous at times as well.
All in a good way of course 
Good to have you on the forum, python

Glad to be welcomed.

Are you laughing about how I noticed my balls got bigger? Or at the massively successful marketing campaign that could be made out of my "success story" on raw animal foods?

Any SoCal RAFer's that would be interested in meeting up sometime? Maybe share information about local meat and dairy?

Interesting journal. I've been training mma at a bjj school for almost a year now, hope it goes will for you.

My second class is tonight and I just this morning got over the muscle soreness caused by my first class so I'm definitely going to keep it up. Besides, it has a great effect on my hormone levels and right now I'm making most of my short-term life decisions based on my hormone levels.

I'm having a lot of fun with the mini fridge in the garage. By keeping all of my food organized and separate from the cooked food that my family eats I think that I will have a much easier time sticking to a raw diet. If I get into the habit of eating food from the mini fridge in the garage instead of the large, icky fridge in the kitchen then I might manage to get out of the habit of searching the kitchen for food when I get hungry or feel a food craving kick in.

In this fridge, I have:
Two jugs of raw milk(which does wonderful things for all parts of my body and seems to enter my bloodstream quickly, making it a quick way to end a food craving).
A carton of extra large eggs.
Half of a fish fillet(I just ate the other half)
Beef, cut into strips.
Beets.

Everything went very smoothly today in terms of eating. I started off with a tall glass of raw milk, then had two bananas and an apple(dietary fiber is important to me, especially when I can feel it in my bloodstream), then two juiced beets(precut the night before so that they were no hassle), one whole egg and an additional egg yolk(I meant for three but threw out one egg that had a crack), and half of a fish fillet(stupid me, I had thought that I would find the internal organs still in the fish that had their skins on. Boy was I disappointed!). I'm going to get another glass of milk in just a moment.


The portions are comparable to the portions I was eating before I went raw, though I will admit that the amount of meat has been cut down as I adjust to the taste and texture. I actually am surprised for some reason to find that raw food tastes more or less like cooked food, only richer in subtle flavor and less like ash.

I am still looking for a butcher to provide me with liver, since my other source is reluctant to carry it due to low demand for anything but muscle meat.

I have a mini fridge now which means I have a place to keep my food now! No more of the bullshit cooked food that made my body feel acidic, left me hungrier, and took forever to enter my bloodstream(I'm convinced it only ever did after rotting in my large intestine, actually).

I'm eating a lot of farmed fish and shrimp(conservational issues not heavy metal, we're overfishing the oceans), eggs, and raw milk. I also got some beef because I'm starting to get more active(starting Brazilian JJ and MMA training and starting to bike to work) and thought that some muscle meat would be good, in the theory that like promotes like. I'm trying to get some liver(fond memories of liverwurst sandwiches and a craving for organ meat) but the local, self-proclaimed "high-end" butcher shop only sells grain-feed muscle meat cuts.

I'm going to go eat some shrimp now.

Having trouble keeping to a RAF diet at the moment because I live with my family and their opposition to the diet, constant pressure for me to eat their junk(and I mean it, they overstock the fridge with junk, eat fast food, then throw out half of the food they bought at the end of the week), little fridge space, etc…

I can't afford to move out yet, especially not in California. I'm hoping to save up and get a job in another state after my computer programming classes are finished this semester of college. Then I can stock my apartment only with raw foods and not have to deal with any social pressures from others(like having to hide away from people in order to eat in peace).


I do have some things that I've noticed about food, specifically regarding how they feel in my bloodstream after digestion that I thought I'd mention.

I can taste the individual components of raw foods in my bloodstream after I've eaten them. Raw foods taste like fats, proteins, oils, sugars, etc in my bloodstream. Cooked foods taste like ash or dirt and spoilage in my blood and do not feel like anything useful at all.

I hate the feeling of sugar in my blood, even from fruits. It doesn't seem to actually do anything but give me the jitters and make it difficult to think straight. This is acceptable when I'm working because I need to act excited and perky for work but bothers me otherwise because I just don't like the feeling of sugar just "sitting" in my bloodstream. It doesn't stimulate growth or do anything useful so why should I eat it?

I notice a sudden increase in hormone levels after eating raw eggs, especially testosterone. I can be an anxious and low-hormone state for most of the day but after a couple of raw eggs I'm cocky, horny and have completely different body language and voice tones.

I think I got taller after eating raw eggshell.

I may not be able to stick to a RAF diet 100% until I move out but I know now that when I do I'll be a completely different person. Healthier, confident, and motivated in ways that I just can't feel when I eat the crap that makes me anxious, lazy, and sick.

I'm returning to RAF diet and thought that while recording my progress and observations during my transition that I would also take a moment to come up with some goals for myself so that I have an idea of what it is that I want to get out of the RAF diet.

1. I want to be able to think clearly. I am dizzy, disoriented, or fully insane when I eat cooked food(especially dairy) and can only maintain the focus to read if I've not eaten during the day. I do not have energy to think about complicated matters on a raw vegan diet. So ultimately, I hope that including raw meat into my diet will provide the energy to focus that I could not find in fruits and vegetables.
2. I want to become more active.
3. I want to heal the scars of having been raised on food devoid of nutrition. I was raised on hamburger helper and hot pockets for the majority of my life. The only vegetables I had were lettuce salads topped with gobs of creamy dressing(which had high fructose corn syrup and preservatives, no less). I had horrible acne for years, which returns when I eat cooked food, and which has left my face, neck, chest, back, shoulders, arms, and legs with horrible scars. I feel really bad about my scars and they make me very nervous around women, for obvious reasons.

Now my own experiences with the diet have only truly just started today since I needed a meat to eat that didn't taste like I was chewing on a dirty fish tank. I've got a cut of calf's liver that I'm eating and I am surprised to find that it tastes alright. My stomach has become very acidic after swallowing small bits of it, which I find very warm and pleasing. I am thinking that I will swallow my future bites without chewing because I do no notice it becoming broken down by chewing, because chewing causes an undesirable taste in my mouth(a bit like raw egg yolk), and because it goes down very easily without chewing if I bite off small bits at a time. Also, most carnivores do not chew their meat but let the acidity of their stomach break it down for them. If my stomach has become more acidic, surely it can break small pieces down to some functional degree?

I am eating my liver with two cloves of chopped garlic(which I crave more than life itself) and some salt, which I find myself easily growing deficient of since I started drinking distilled water. It tastes a bit like a tangier version of the liverwurst that my grandmother would spread on sandwiches for me when I was a child though the texture is obviously much different!


So far, most of my trouble with raw eggs and raw liver is with staring my food down before actually putting it in my mouth. Once it's in my mouth I usually don't have a problem with it. I'm going to go back to my liver now so wish me luck in achieving my goals.

I'm completely avoiding beef after hearing this. Absolutely frightening.

Actually, I was wondering if there was anyone here who had any recommendations about seafood. What types are the best to eat? Which ones should I avoid? Which ones are tastiest?

I gave the farmed tilapia in the freeze a try and it tasted like I was chewing on a fish tank. Maybe saltwater sea fishes would be better?