Cin put together this collage too...

That chronicles our journey a bit:

Top left, I think I was pushing 200 and Cin was over 300; we were either late 30’s or early 40’s. We both were feeling horrible, and had even eaten vegetarian for years (lots of homemade whole wheat breads and pastas...those dang carbs and seed oils will get you, folks, give it enough time). Top right was basically after Atkins. Cindi dropped to her lowest in years and so did I. It was miraculous, but we gradually started adding in more carbs, as Atkins encouraged. Oops. Then we did a variety of different ways of eating, lower carb always, but Paleo / Primal / Wild Diet; the factor they had in common was more veggies and fruits. Healthy right? And that brings us to the bottom left. You can see Cindi was still inflamed and so was I. It showed above all in the face, but in other places too. We figured we’re getting old, THAT’S why we’re having trouble getting off the floor and climbing the stairs. It’s what we were told. Enter 2018 and Jordan Petersen’s famous interview on Rogan. We tried Carnivore, convinced this was going to be really weird and hard. To our shock, after the couple weeks of adjustment, we’ve been feeling AWESOME overall. Joint pain? GONE. Cravings? GONE. And time? Did we mention how awesome when you get time back because meal prep is so stupidly simple, and we’re usually eating no more than one or two meals a day. And mess? And waste? What waste? We eat almost ALL of our meat. We don’t have to throw things away. Back at the end of September we largely gave up on dairy too and that seems to have worked well. We do intermittent fasting, only not really. As Dr. Shawn Baker calls it, it is intermittent feasting. We eat when we’re hungry and then not till we’re hungry again. Sometimes 24 hours later! And so the last pic from a Christmas gathering at some friend’s house a couple weeks ago. It has been a long journey, but we’re both rather persuaded by the results for our own bodies. Cindi’s still dropping the lbs; I’m rather stable at about 145 (like High School weight!); and we’ve both seen our bodies simply transform before our eyes. It’s been weird beyond belief. Who knew? Eat meat. Drink water. Thrive.