I go most places with a little container of at least back fat slices.  put it next to a little frozen water bottle, keeps nicely for the day.  You can eat fat slices very quickly, before going into a restaurant.  This way I am not tempted to get calories from plants or other sources.   But then again,  the fat I am eating right now, just doesn't get any better. 

  I do well following a little bit of advice by a guy named Bear.  I eat my fat, in my case mostly back fat, first.  I slice it and this time of year it is superb.  Then i wait till I no longer want to put anymore in my mouth.  There is a real definate stop, and it changes daily as to how much fat my body wants.  Then I do the same with the leaner portions of beef, in my case the grass fed beef is very lean.  I eat until I no longer want to put any in mouth.  I  then wait till I am hungry.  Charles, on another site also has great advise.  Don't eat till you feel hungry enough to eat a steak.  Which is most revealing about one's current state of hunger.  Sometimes though i will snack on slices of fat.   

  Bison liver is great too.  To keep fresh liver, place it whole in fridge on stainless steel wire rack, so that air gets all around it and dries the outside layer.  Same works with fresh meat.

  Hey Lex,  that was most generous of you to take the time to have written such a detailed and helpful response.  Nice job!

Make sure you floss daily.  Meat pieces will get down inbetween the gums and teeth, and if you include fruit or sugary stuff in your diet, those sugars will find their way in along side of the meat pieces and there can start to grow some damaging type organisms. 

  In the last few days I have been following my recent passed on advice from the Bear, and that is to eat the fattiest parts first till it no longer is tasting Great, and then on to the lean.  It seems again, that the body knows just what it needs.  For there is this 'stop' for both the fat and meat for me when doing this.  It's really interesting how sometimes I want a lot of fat, and others, it just isn't appealing.  I watch my dog a lot know when eating.  He will eat what he likes also.  He also eats raw.  I place fat next to the meat for him. 

  what sucks?

  You all might want to try to just use hot water and a sponge.  I find that especially when 'raw' the fat or particles simply dissolve off the plate etc.  Any soap residues are so obnoxious to me.

  I think many of us use food to sedate, not only at night, but during the day also.  So, with me,  it's a balancing act of looking what's underneath the craving and truly feeding myself.  An egg yolk in the middle of the night always puts me back to sleep.  But, for me, eating and then going to sleep doesn't allow complete digestion.  Everyone is different.  So, more and more I have learned to self sooth myself, thus avoiding the addiction that eating maintains.  Interestingly, most of the times I wake up after self soothing,  I am not really hungry at all.  But in general,  I would look to fats, rather than sugars, or bread, to put you back to sleep.

I never would have imagined it.  That I would look forward to eating meat at every meal.  I have well over thirty years eating raw.  And in most of those years I was always eating, always putting something in my mouth.  Now,  I eat twice a day, and only when truly hungry.  When I am truly hungry,  my body wants meat, and fat.
  NOt saying that this way will be my life long pattern, just that in getting past the sugar needs has led me to burn fat for fuel, and therefore bypass my incessant need for a sweet something or other and trust that when hunger comes,  I will once again recognize what I really want. I was as much as a fruit appreciator as anyone.   The switch over isn't easy.

   I think I have posted this advice before,  I was lucky enough to have spent at least a couple of hours with with a very willing PHd of parasitology that worked for years in Seatle on fish parasites.  Bottom line, it's only time before you'd get two different types of worms from Fresh pacific Salmon.  One, the worm shown in the video, and a the other a tape worm that an grow to 30 feet.  After our discussions, sure enough, after looking carefully at my fresh salmon, I found two very alive worms like the ones in the video.  I then tried mincing my salmon, say about one thousand knife cuts, to shred the worms to death, and also tried blending with a hand held blender.  Eventually gave up,  really don't like salmon without mixing in a bunch of other flavorings etc.  I do believe in the value of dha, which isn't found much in meats, except for brain, coincidently I just received at my door three raw brains of cows which are loaded with dha, and am also sourcing salmon eggs, collected and flash frozen in Alaska.  Also high in dha.    Different parts of the world have different parasites for same species of fish.  And farmed tend not to have worms.  They have not had a chance to pick them up in streams, where they can originate.

  I have found good luck with cramps by using an ionic form of minerals which is from the great salt lake in Utah.  The sodium has been removed, and it is especially high in Mg.  I use drops in my drinking water, which makes it tastes great.  I think that yes, finding or hunting large animals gave bones unable to eat, but 'they' may have done as I always do, and that is grind those bones.  I use a Ferrier's flat file and consume at least a couple of tablespoons of fresh refridgerated bone powder a day.  It is low in Mg, the Mg is supposedly in the cancellous bone or softer portions which is hard to grind, for the marrow clogs up the file.  Hence, the ionic minerals with high Mg.  "they' also I think had springs or ponds etc. with high mineral content.  I watch my dog readily go for water puddles in dirt.   Also 'they' ate everything that flew, walked or crawled.  I read an account of what the Indians near texas ate.  All kinds of small vermin.  Bones and all. 

  What is gravlax?  I share your views on cerviche.