Venison for a Week...Your superstitions?

Well guys, been back on less than 20 grams of carb for 4 days now since my obligatory diet break to accomodate my family back in the US's food and sweets fetishes...

As I mentioned before, someone gave us a bunch of deer legs and since I've always wanted to try a caveman-like diet, I've been eating ground venison, flax oil, raw cabbage, walnuts and almonds.

Discoveries? Well, I haven't turned into a testosterone bomb or anything, but I do have plenty of energy and don't get very hungry at all. Could be the protein, could be the flax oil, I suppose. Faigin, the author of the Natural Hormonal enhancement diet says Omega 3 fats are more easily turned into energy than other fats. All grass-fed meat and flax oil contain a lot of Omega -3

However, my biggest motivation for this diet is probably superstition. People at this kind of stuff (deer meat, leaves and nuts, anyway) for thousands of years, so just wanted to try it for a short while. Next week I'll expand my diet and go to about 60 grams carb. I'll also return to carb loading about twice a week.

Best Wishes,

Dave

Dear Dave, It is good to see you back posting.  I was wondering where you went.  It sounds like you went home to visit family. I like deer meat if I can get it, but I haven't had it in awhile.  Many people in NE PA hunt and deer meet is in abundance.  I had a friend that used to make sausage and smoke it in his fireplace.  It was great. Every day a herd of deer come through my yard in the morning and the evening to eat my bushes and shrubbery.  I wouldn't mind if there were two hunting seasons to thin out the herd a bit. By the way, I'll be in Narita next month, but won't be spending a lot of time there.  I have other business in SE Asia, Taiwan, and China.  I'll be thinking of you as I fly over Sapporro!

Hi Jim,

Deer meat is great (better than whale meat, hehe).

Oh go ahead shoot those deer for trespassing!

Enjoy your trip and please let me know when you're coming through N. Japan!

Best Wishes,

Dave

Hey dude...when you carb load...how do you do it? I still dump like a MF.... While you were gone I told everyone you were filming a HITT Video on the side of Mt Fuji My gut is too dainty to do this cave man diet....that raw cabbage would kill me...2 teaspoon of cole slaw and I'm toxic.. Russ

Hey Russ,

I do starch first, something like brown rice porridge or mashed potatoes, maybe Kabocha pumpkin. Then for the second wave later on (carb load is double evening meals), fruit like tangerines or apples.

Not to say I don't dump about two hours later. No intestinal effects, just heat and sweating, weakness, even muscle cramps. Goes away if I eat more oranges.

Dave

Hey  Dave welcome back .  I dont mind venison , but if you ever have the chance to try Elk that is really tasty stuff .I could live on it and it alone. ( if i had to )

    Best wishes back at ya   Nick

Hi Nick,

Thanks, good to be back!

The deer here are big, but not as big as elk. They do taste somewhat different from the Virginia Whitetails, though.

Probably won't be able to find any elk here. Maybe I could farm them? That would be the business. Big suckers to try and deal with though. Tempermental as well..

Best Wishes,

Dave

Hey Dave, Ditto the glad you're back responses. I don't know if superstitious is the word, but I do have an affection for and faith in more "natural" or approaches to well-being: the sort of diet Natty Bumpo ate in Last of the Mohicans and the rest of the "Leatherstocking Saga." Same thing with weight-lifting: I like the notion of lifting rusty train wheels, crudely made chunks of iron. Seems more "real" and "manly" and effective. So maybe this is a superstition. Right now I'm reading a book by Elizabeth Gilbert called The Last American Man. It's about Eustace Conway, a guy who is living a mostly self-sufficient, self-reliant 19th-century way of life. He makes clothes out of animal hides, farms with a horse and plow, braids rope out of grass and hair, has ridden across America on horseback, etc. Inspiring,humbling, and troubling. And for all of my affection for the "strenuous" life, I still scoot to Starbucks regularly and munch on Atkins Bars while reading about Eustace! Still, eating venison and making my own bucksins sounds better than eating tofu . . . but then what do I know? Looking forward to more of your posts.

Hi Doug,

I often feel I should live a more rugged life, only drinking instant coffee, refusing to clean much, welding up weight training racks and eating venison and raw fish while running in the snow are just not enough.

Maybe I could sell everything and get a homestead somewhere in the mountains here, living off Hokkaido deer, salmon and brown Higuma bears.  

The wife likes working outdoors, but also likes fine coffee, wine and climate control, so she might not go for it.

Always good to hear from you,

Dave