PrimiFit,
I guess I have a problem.
Look, this is me after only one month of lifting - befor that, zero sport, sedentary life. I am starting to get big.
It does not look very feminine at all.

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My arms are quite big.. this is in relaxed state - no sport for 3 days.



What to do now. I love lifting!
Do you think if I lift 20 reps x 3 my muscles would not get bigger..? But I really want to get strong, I do!!!
But I want to look like a woman too..

Inger

Okay guys, I will listen to you both.
I just checked out these compound exercises and will try them next time in the gym.
Thank you so much for you sharing your knowledge.

PrimiFit,
yes that is funny about Hakaniemen halli.
Hubby mostly shops for me in winter as I seldom go to the city, but at times I do go there myself!
I guess they have lambs hearts only in season, I got some until before Christmas. Maybe they still have? I have not asked.
Lambs hearts are just awesome. Makes me feel so good.
But Elk heart are the best. OMG the feeling I get from them. You HAVE to try them PrimiFit!!!
Next fall just ask for it! Elk innards. Costs almost nothing. I got a whole plasticbag full, kidneys, lungs, heart, liver.
All together 35,00 €. That is gold. Really. I have them cut up in my freezer now, and enjoy them regularly - raw.
They are like medicine to me.

Inger

Hello Primifit,
I live in Kirkkonummi.
I love to go shopping in Hakaniemen halli too!!!! It is there where I got all my lambshearts and livers and elkmeat, from Hakkarainen! Cool!
You can by raw organic goatmilk from Lentävä lehmä, the cheese-shop there, you have to order it and they get it Tuesdays. I just ordered some today. They have colostrum (ternimaito) too! I drink it at times, raw, I have got no negative symptoms from it AFAIK, just feels great!

I eat a little cooked at times too, I very well know what I can tolerate or what not.
Wen I am very low in money I eat "seitä - pakastettu" it is wildcaught and very cheap fish. I just heat it very gently, just until cooked. I feel great from that too.
But mostly I at raw, all organs always raw, meat also always raw, most fish too.

My workouts are self designed.
I do about 3 times a week, one session certain muscles, the next others. I have split up muscle groups in too.
I do bot legs and upper body every time, just different muscles. Maybe so 6 different muscles each session.
So every muscle get at last 3 days rest.
I do 12 - 25 repetitions and 3 sets each. I have thought about adding more weight and do fever reps..
I do no squats, just leg-press, about 70 kg 25 x 3 but I have been thinking about quitting it and do squats with weights instead. I dunno, I don't want very big legs though.. But nice and muscular. Maybe they want go big anyway?
I have been training only one month.. before that I had years without any sports. It feels SO good to do something again!
I already had to add weights a couple of times, I am going stronger fast!

Inger

Just watched the video Eric.
Thank you so much! What a great documentary.

Inger

Oh Adora,
me too hopes you feel better soon!!!
I dunno what to suggest cause I have no experiences with diabetes..
I just know when I eat too much protein like 200 grams / day, I do not feel good.
Have you checked out how much you get? I ususally eat about 120 g/day and that feels good. Some days less or more.
I know our liver converts excess protein to glucose so you might be careful when you have BS-issues..
I guess the advices already given are great BTW.

Inger

Adora,
that is really interesting! Thank you for sharing!
Mmmm.. I guess I will not try testicles though. I was thinking, something like that could happend..
Why is no one eating ovaries, though? I have never heard of that. But sure about tribes eating testicles.
Maybe woman was not allowed to get stronger.. HA. Like "womanly" stronger, the same way that men get "man" energy from certain foods .
I dunno, but sure I believe it has something to it, eating certain animals part for certain things.
I do feel my heart strengthens from/after eating elks heart, I do. I kinda feel stronger/more with my heart.

I love fish-roe by the way! Always had. We had them as kids occasionally, cooked. In Norway it is common food.
So yummy!

Sile,
so happy you found out how great raw meat tastes!!!
It is yummy, indeed. So much better than cooked!
There are also a lot of recipes to try out with raw meat if one likes for variety. But it actually tastes so yummy by itself I mostly eat it plain.
I never had bonemarrow with honey... sounds dangerously good - like one could be seariously addicted..

Inger

Yes, I like to eat plain a lot of time myself too, GS! (feel free to use my pics how ever you want! They have no copyright )
But, sometimes I just need "food for my soul" and these times is, when I makes such recipes.
I never feel ill from them, so no regret.

Also great to make for someone new to raw meat maybe?
I will try and post recipes more often, Tyler.

Van, I would love to make a recipe-book. A meaty, wild, raw one.

Inger

This, I like to make from a little ripened grassfed beef - the longer you let it stay in your fridge, the more tender it gets.
And it gets tastier too!

Slice the heart in thin slices. Add sliced onion, fresh herbs, little oliveoil and balsamic on the top.
If you like you can also add some seasalt and fresh ground pepper, but I think it is not needed.



Inger

Will you marry me Inger?

 

I posted one more recipe,  just for you.

Inger

(I'm still a bit worried about botulism during the fermentation process). Also, some of the cuts smell a bit.

Does botulism smell? Is this safe to eat?

"Botulism" smells like butyric acid (Buttersäure). Not that I have ever smelled it...
But I have eaten meat looking like yours 100 times and never got ill.

Inger

I was almost raped by my Thai Tchi  teacher, a guy that practised Chinese Medicine in Helsinki as I was 19 year old. I was able to escape though.
Later two of my bosses tried to do stuff I did not like, like asked for a kiss (a real kiss).. grabbed my ass.. tell me how much they liked me.. such things.
Now, after growing strong, eating lots of raw meat, no man has ever suggested such things to me anymore, just wanted to take me out for coffee, or a glass of wine - very polite . I clothed much more "moralistic" back then than I do now. Now I love tiny skirts, in summer especially, I dress quite femininely. When those things happened before,  I wore long skirts and such. So I personally do not believe a cent in the theory that "feminine beauty" makes anyone rape.
No way!

Inger.

Löwenherz,

Elk must be really delicious! I have never eaten it. I found a shop in Berlin where I can get prefrozen ground elk meat from Sweden and (if I remember correctly) from Finland. The sellers say that elk meat is always wild. Can I trust them?

Is Elk meats always wild game meat?

How would you describe the difference to grass-fed beef?

Löwenherz

yes, in Scandinavia / Estonia where I get my elk from, it is always wild.
There might be some hunters who put out food for them in the winter, vegetables and hay and maybe some grains (?). I am not concerned about that though, it is so little anyway. Remember, wild game eat from the agricutured fields too. Sure it is best to eat game from places with no agriculture. Almost impossible today, but better the more north you travel I would say.

I have heard about farmed elk in USA. But here, no.

Elk tastes.. hmm. Some says it has a gamey taste but I find it quite mild tasting? Sure it has a stronger taste than Beef. Maybe the taste is a little iron-like? More complex that beef though. Complex and rich.

Inger

GCB,
my own experience with this is, when I ate beef (organic, grass and grainfed) I could not eat it for long and it started to taste disgusting to me. After that I could only get it down slightly fried in the pan with salt an pepper. Yeah, stupid of course.
But now I eat elk every day, raw without spices. It is my staple food (I do eat fresh wildcaught fish and oysterz etc. for variation - some fruits (Orkos) too at times). I just love the elk - also the organs. Makes me feel so good. I cannot imagine I will never get tired of it. It so belongs to here (Finland). I guess long long ago when no agriculture existed here, that was the staplefood of people living here. Also reindeer. There are no fruits growing, berries yes, but you cannot live from them only. You could get some fish also - except the Sea is quite polluted here because of Russia.
How comes hat tribes living on mostly mammal-meat do not became cancer? As long as they ate it the natural way, not smoked and salted and fried..
I just cannot get it out of my head, as I have been thinking exactly the same thoughts as Van.
How could the Indians survive on mostly mammals meat?
If your hypothesis is, meat from mammals might give cancer - how do you explain people who healed from cancer eating raw meat from mammals?
I am just so confused.
Are you sure you have not mis-impreted the cause of your wife's cancer? Maybe it was stress, causing it? Cancer often have also psychological causes. I am sure your wife was eating lot of delicious fruits along with the 200 grams of mammal-meat.. who knows if that was not so good? Too much sugar? From domesticated sources? It would be intresting to know what else your wife ate, in addition to the beef.
 Was she stressed out, or harmoniously happy? Was your marriage happy and fulfilling for both of you?
I guess all these things have to be shed light on to really know more about the causes of her cancer.
I am sorry if I go too close with all these questions, it must have been a terrible loss to loose your wife that early.
But I ask cause I have the feeling you also want to clear up misunderstandings.

Just wanted to add, I do not believe it is good to eat meat only. The Indians, and every tribe that ate lot of meat also ate wild berries (that are known to have great anticancer properties) as also wild herbs, mushrooms etc. Might be, that these were needed to eliminate the possibly negative consequences of eating that much mammal meat...?
Could that be? So that is why they stayed healthy?
I do eat a lot of wild berries and greens (in summer)... it feels just so good to eat them. Like they were needed somehow.

Inger