About to try my first bite of Raw Grassfed Beef Liver...

Not as bad as I thought it would be.

Reminds me of scallops a little.  The flavor is hard to describe besides saying that it is Different.  I'm chasing the liver down with some grassfed hamburger.

Just finished my liver, I'd say 1/4 pound.  My reward... Some fresh tasty grassfed hamburger

I'll eat some more liver tomorrow.

I decided against eating it.  It just smelled so bad today.  I am thawing out some grassfed beef for tomorrow.  Maybe after I become more accustomed to this WOE I won't mind smelly meat, but for now, I don't think I can handle it.

Yes I do believe for me right now a willingness to compromise is a good thing.  Went out to breakfast with some friends after a night of drinking mead and wine.  A practice I am seriously considering giving up permanently.  At breakfast I ordered steak and eggs.  So I ate rare steak, over-easy eggs and some bacon.  Not too bad a cheat meal I think.

Eventually I want to be to the point where I feel comfortable telling people that raw foods is my WOE (way of eating) and that I don't feel the need to compromise my diet to be social.  That is an evolutionary step that I am not quite to yet with some people.  My immediate family knows about me eating raw and that is it. 

One step at a time, one day at a time.

As far as I can tell nothing has changed.  I might have a little more fat around my midsection but that is it.  Before the 1.5 pounds of raw honey I ate over the past 2 days, I usually ate between 0-2 tablespoons of raw honey a day plus some fruit to go with meat and fat.  I was constipated the last 5 days before the honey.  It did help me go to the bathroom, maybe thats why I craved it so much?  Maybe I was just craving sugar or carbs?  Anyway, I'm going to lay off the honey for a couple days and then see if I can get back to just eating 0-2 tablespoons for a day.

I've always been a big sweet eater (cookies, brownies, ice cream, candy-bars, gummy-worms, Dr. Pepper, everything in the candy isle).  And when I was going off diet last month and the month before I would eat a lot of sweets.  So I am happy I stayed all raw while gorging myself on sugar.  I know 1.5 pounds of honey is not optimal but I am not going to beat myself up for it.  I can only move forward.

Hey Max,

In lieu of searching for fluoride-free toothpaste you could try using organic, aluminum-free baking soda. It is less expensive and more accessible in most cases.

Thank you for the suggestion Juzeza, I may have to try that.  I did pick up a fluoride-free toothpaste already though.  I don't put much on the toothbrush because the flavor is overpowering. 

Thanks for the advice Amris, I think I will eat the rest of my ground beef today.  It doesn't taste bad to me and I didn't get any negative reactions last night eating it.  I did see Sully's video where he talked about chewability and the dried meat is definitely more chewable.  My ground meat isn't high meat because it has been exposed to the air in my fridge the whole time.  I will probably start eating high meat in a few months after I've figured out my WOE a little more.

Thank you for the encouragement.

I ordered from slankers, and am currently eating some of their back fat.  It is pretty good.  I don't think I ate enough fat the last couple weeks, so I am really enjoying it and it gave me a great energy boost.

I know the slankers website says limit 2 packs of back fat or whatever, but call them up they might let you have more.  Just tell them how many pounds of back fat you want and see if they will give it to you.

Thank for the response Tyler.

I was wondering as well what some zero carbers on this forum think of salt?

What achillezzz is trying to say so nicely is Soy is terrible for you!  It is not paleo and you shouldn't eat it.  Search this site and the internet long enough and you will learn about the health consequences of Soy.  For your health stop eating it in any form.

Hey Brad,

I am relatively new to raw paleo as well.  My advice is to get fresh grassfed meat if you can because the taste is so much better than meat that has been frozen.  That said I have used Slankers and I really like their marrow bones.  (although they are the only marrow bones I ever had)

I wasn't at my house when my order arrived so I called my roommate and had him put 70lbs of meat including heart, liver, tongue, kidney, back-fat, suet, and marrow bones into my freezer.  I think my roommates think I am a serial killer or something because of my organ meats and knives.

I try and not be on the computer for a couple hours before I go to bed.  I have no trouble falling asleep usually, it is just getting up in the morning that is difficult.  I am going to try to condition myself to get up and out of bed as soon as my alarm goes off.  I will do this by practicing getting up when my alarm goes off in the daytime while I am awake.  If I do this enough I think that my body's conditioned response will be to get up as soon as my alarm goes off.

I don't know what kind of meat you are getting but I highly suggest getting the best quality possible.  What I mean by that is fresh grassfed beef.  I will also say the mental barrier of eating raw meat takes time to get across.  Maybe you only eat a few bites the first day.  Maybe you gag.  But if you continue to eat this way you will get used to it.  I was gaging on raw sashimi grade yellowfin tuna in march this year.  That was my first raw meat ever.  Now, just this weekend (not 3 months later) I found myself enjoying the taste of fresh grassfed beef.  (And now of course I find many raw seafoods appetizing)  Find a meat (high quality) that works for you and take it one day at a time.

My diet has been spot on this last week.  A lot of grassfed beef, raw egg yolks (from a farm), and around 100grams of carbs per day from, apples, peaches, cucumber, watermelon, and raw honey.  I think it might be that I ate a lot of SAD food the weekend before and my body was recuperating.  Also it might just be a bad habit (sleeping in) that I need to break from.

Try this, it may as well help: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/04/how-to-get-up-right-away-when-your-alarm-goes-off/
It has worked quite well for me, even with just a few "trainings".

I'm going to give the idea in this link a try.