I miss raising my own beef. When I did, that is mostly what I ate. I'm really tired of chicken and pork but since that is what is cheap that is what I eat more of now.
Given I can't eat bread, fruit, potatoes, noodles etc, I'll be darned if I'm giving up my meat.
Freds started in Portland. Both Freds and QFC (which is a WA chain) are now part of Krogers.
Native boy myself. Grew up in Puyallup, now in Bothell. Have family who have been in Portland forever. Still a lot of family in OR.
I too miss eating my own grass fed beef. I started out raising Holstein bull bottle calves and gradually worked up to a small herd of beef cattle I ran on the side. Without a doubt the best job I ever had, even if it was only part time. My goal was to build up enough to spend one year of my life doing nothing but raising cattle, never made it though.
Ditto on having to eliminate bread, fruit, potatoes, noodles etc. Meat is the thing that allows me to easily stick to a low carb diet.
Glad to hear somebody watches the news. I admit as a vegetarian my word doesn't count for much on this thread, but I ate meat most of my life and that pink slime thing...that would have horrified me just as much as a carnivore.
Time for this vegetarian to bow out of this thread, which has basically become The Carnivore Group.
Zoe, we love ya anyway. 
Some of my best friends are vegetarian (see avatar, left, for two of them). Those two would see eye to eye with ya… Well… Ummm… Except for Annie, who naturally sees over all our heads
That's a hotly debated point. I find arguments on both sides all the time,
Howdy neighbor!
Interesting link to read.burning calories
Thanks! I didn't think of T.J.'s The one nearest me has crazy parking issues so I never think to go there. I did find some all-beef franks at QFC (Hebrew National) that are nitrate-free (I think that's the brand) but they have some kind of carb-y filler in them (they're between 1 gm and 3 gm of carbs, depending on the type, not 0 gm carbs) and I'm trying to avoid starches 100% of the time, just to see how that goes with my BG's and insulin resistance.
Thanks!!! I'm heading to T.J.'s this afternoon, for sure. ;)
http://www.freshhealthycooking.com/Food_Shopping_Guide.html
Is this link useful ??
I hear you. There is only so much a person can "give up" and then they're a breatharian. Am I right?!? ;)
Howdy and doody. You're in Seattle, right?
Sure, it sounds good on paper, but how do you determine if you're "eating more calories than you're burning" exactly?
Answer: no one actually knows how to apply that in the real world to all persons. Speak to people (like me) who have plateaued for MONTHS ON END while eating what should (on paper) be "MUCH less calories than burned" and explain to me how a simple "calories in/calories out" paradigm applies.
Please. I'd love to hear the answer to that. I've never met a doctor or a scientist who could answer it.
If I, at 5'9" and exercising on a daily basis, could plateau for MONTHS (three or four months) on 1,600 calories per day (about 500 LESS than I was supposed to need per day to MAINTAIN my weight at that time), and then started losing weight again on 2,000 calories per day -- after I kind of "gave up" and started eating more -- then how does the "calories in/calories out" meme apply?
Note that 1,600 is 400 MORE than the universal "don't go below 1,200 or you'll stall out your metabolism" warning, but it was (at that moment in time, with the metabolism I had at that exact moment in time) "too low" for me.
Weight loss is a crap shoot and it varies with the seasons, how much you've already lost, how much you still need to lose, stress, illness, sleep, insulin made/injected, insulin resistance, the kind of foods being consumed (e.g. fructose is preferentially stored as fat), the amount and kinds of exercise, etc. Anyone who says differently has no idea what they're talking about.
That looks like a very useful link for Canadians.
Yep. I moved to Oregon from the deep south in 1974 and then I lived in Corvallis and Eugene for nine years, with regular visits to the beautiful city of Portland. After a side-trip to the south, I've been in Seattle, off and on (with a few more side trips) since 1984.
I've left Seattle and then come back here four times; my joke is that "apparently, all roads lead back to Seattle".
I live near Woodland Park zoo.
Counting calories makes me insane, because it seems to capriciously vary from week to week, month to month.
It feels like torture to me because there is so little correlation between how much I eat and how much I burn.
My parents and youngest sister live on Corvallis. My other sister lives in Portland. They have lived all over the country. I stayed here to finish HS in '73 and just never found any place I liked better than WA. Lived in Ballard and then Maple Leaf for a few years in the '90s.
Since you are going to Joe's you might want to check out their peanut butter and almond butter. I also find their eggs are markedly better than what the big groceries carry. One of my favorites is their "Just a Handful" dry roasted / unsalted almonds. They are wrapped in 1.2 oz packets. Perfect snack size and keeps them fresh.
Right, since we are carb intolerant and not protein or fat intolerant, choosing what to restrict wasn't exactly rocket science. Whatever diet you come up with to deal with D has to have one characteristic, you need to easily be able to stay on it over the long term because D ain't going away. Take away the meat and my whole diet would quickly crumble.
I agree. I have one hell of a time grilling eggs.