30 April 2026

First, Happy Birthday, Dad. I can’t believe it’s been so long. I was 19 at the time. 

My body is tired. My body is getting old. I’m a 52 year old in an 80 year old body. 

My body was hurting. I didn’t know why. Then I saw a video about a lady that has a type of arthritis since childhood. The only thing that helped her was a carnivore diet. She said after seven years she is finally able to add things that aren’t meat back to her diet. But it was and is a slow process. 

So I decided to try carnivore also. My body was in so much pain that day in particular, I was not sure what to do. I ask my wife to make me a breakfast of bacon, eggs, steak and top everything with butter. 

Some people might say, “that’s going to kill you.”  

No kidding. Like dying is a bad thing. Everyone that is born dies. I’m living on borrowed time anyway. If I die everyone can cry for a week and then life will go on. 

But in the meantime I’m alive and not in pain. 

I have had days where I wanted to cry the whole day because I hurt so bad. I started this carnivore diet and I started feeling so much better when I woke up in the morning. One morning I felt positively euphoric. Nothing was hurting. It was good to be alive. 

But I had lots of food in my house, that was not carnivore that needed to be used. I hate throwing food away. It’s a sin, if it’s not gone bad, as far as I’m concerned. And I don’t believe in use by dates. 

I ate a wrap my wife made one day. That night my arm specifically was hurting. 

We made a lasagna . I love lasagna. But something seemed different. The next morning I was in pain. I have a lasagna in my freezer waiting to be cooked. But I was in so much pain after the last, I don’t even want to look it it.

Basically I’ve been eating steak, ground beef, eggs, bacon, cheese and some other things. Chicken is not my friend I’ve decided. It can go straight through my system. Plus I think it is dry and chalky. Maybe I need to try things with dark meat. 

Liver I bought, and my wife was very excited. I read that beef liver is the most nutrient dense food on the planet. My wife made the liver soaked it and cooked it. the way people say to make it better. I still don’t like beef liver. I don’t like the texture. I don’t like the taste. I honestly don’t comprehend how anyone could like it. My mom said she liked it. How? Baffles me. I might try to make liver jerky, but that’s a different story. 

My brother came to visit San Antonio. I went to help them find there way around. They bought me lunch while we were out. Sandwiches for two days. The third day I said I can’t do the bread because I was hurting to bad. So we did something else. Great German food. And I wasn’t hurting later. 

My brother’s wife mentioned that my uncle, my dad’s brother had celiac disease. I did not even know what that was. So I looked it up. Apparently it effects the lining of the small intestine and the body can’t process gluten. 

Not everyone gets it, another brother had a DNA test and it said he was not going to have it. But because our uncle had it we are more likely to get it. What I read 1 in 140 people get it. 

I was kind of bummed about the fact that we went to a church activity and all the desserts were made with flour. That was a bummer. I have made bread for years. I love bread. But I love not hurting more. 

But then the other day I seemed to be having a lot of reflux. That can hurt. So I began searching. Along with that I quit eating anything and only drinking water.   But after two days I found that you should not be drinking  anything while you are eating and then wait about half an hour.  So I tried using that advice and everything is much better.

Do I want to live carnivore forever? No. 

I ascribe to the idea, “Let your Food be your Medicine, and let your Medicine be your Food.”  I used to think it meant having a well balanced diet. But “for everything there is a season.” I love lots of things I’m not eating at the moment. Apples, bananas, watermelon, certain veggies. Plus I love to grow lots of my own food. But if I have celiac disease I need to be more mindful of what foods I eat. 

I will admit I love eating bacon. Bacon is happiness. Eggs, steak, jerky, and other things. 

There are lots information out there that anyone can find it. I would never say people need to do the carnivore diet to be a good person. I want to eat lots of things I know I can’t. But we all need to be more mindful about what we eat. 

Valentine breakfast