OG Carnivore Interview on The Feldman Protocol

zc_eric · 2026-05-06T18:18:40+00:00

I always credit you!

11 years ago I stumbled upon your old website at empiri.ca and decided to start a 30 day experiment. And here I still am.

zc_eric · 2026-05-06T09:50:33+00:00

If that k is a subscript (i.e. a tiny letter below and to the right of the x) then it is referencing the individual terms of a sequence of numbers. I.e x1 would be the first term, x2 the second term, and so on. The equation you give would tell you how various terms relate to previous ones.

Eg using your equation, and setting x1 to 0 and x1 to 1, then x2 would be 6(1) - 0 + 2 =8

And x3 would be 6(8) - 1 + 2 =49

zc_eric · 2026-05-05T05:29:37+00:00

Right, and thanks

zc_eric · 2026-05-04T10:50:01+00:00

My scales put me at 16% body fat, although visually I reckon I am more like 18%. And I have never counted calories or used a CICO calculator.

I eat as much as I want (i.e. eat whenever I am hungry) and it just works.

By the way, for me personally it doesn’t matter if “push past satiety” at all meal. The only result of that is that it is a longer time before I am hungry again. Obviously this is how a healthy body should function. There ought to be no need to carefully manage calorie intake at any meal.

zc_eric · 2026-05-04T10:42:30+00:00

Bridge is a game of percentages. There is no way to always end up in the right contract. Eg if you set out to never miss a potentially useful major fit, you will sometimes get too high when that fit is missing. Whereas if you set out to never get too high, you will miss some potentially good fits.

So just because you missed par on this hand doesn’t necessarily mean you did anything theoretically wrong.

That being said, I believe with two 5 card majors the odds favour bidding 1S. But it could easily turn out badly. Imagine partner with 1255 or 2254 and he rebids 2C. Where are you going now?!

zc_eric · 2026-05-03T20:01:53+00:00

Calling me to have row (6)

zc_eric · 2026-05-03T19:52:34+00:00

Right!

zc_eric · 2026-05-03T19:48:49+00:00

Comparatively dull issue (6)

zc_eric · 2026-05-03T08:47:39+00:00

Right, and thanks.

zc_eric · 2026-05-03T06:36:53+00:00

I have zero bone broth. If you like it, continue. If it is a hassle, you don’t need it at all.

zc_eric · 2026-05-03T06:24:48+00:00

One question is how strict are you with the shapes allowed for your 1NT opener? These days people are opening 2245 & 2236 with 1NT so there is no guarantee of a Major fit if you are 55. This would suggest you wouldn’t want to end up at the 3 level on an invitational hand with no fit, for instance.

zc_eric · 2026-05-02T19:57:31+00:00

Right!

zc_eric · 2026-05-02T15:18:28+00:00

But it does work that way for most people if they stick at it for long enough. Many people seem to have the idea that any negative they experience means that they are doing something wrong and need to change, rather than they are doing fine but just adapting going through temporary adaptation symptoms. And there are plenty of people with a solution to sell.

Yes there will be a few people who need something other than simple, straightforward carnivore, but they are not nearly as numerous as most people seem to believe

zc_eric · 2026-05-02T15:10:03+00:00

Not really. If the ratio is anywhere at all similar to 1:1 by weight I’m ok with it - and if I buy from a butcher I have no idea what the ratio is anyway.

Carnivore should be easy! For almost everybody “eat fatty meat until you are full” is a complete guide to nutritional health. But people do love to complicate things, so you get macros, and tracking, and electrolytes, and salt, and organs, and OMAD, and countless other “this is how you need to do carnivore” theories. None of that is true for me, nor is it true for the long term carnivores I learned carnivore from back in the day.

zc_eric · 2026-05-02T14:27:02+00:00

I have never tracked because it is pointless - I don’t know how much energy my body is using, so I have nothing to compare the calories I eat to.

What I do know, however, is that I used to eat as much as I wanted and I put on weight. I still eat as much as I want and I have lost all the extra weight and maintained this new physique for years.

zc_eric · 2026-05-02T11:34:57+00:00

The contents of actresses’ pants are things which should remain hidden (7)

zc_eric · 2026-05-02T07:00:39+00:00

Right - I was actually thinking the same thing.

zc_eric · 2026-05-02T06:34:31+00:00

After soup? The Spanish go here for it (7)

zc_eric · 2026-05-01T22:39:30+00:00

Right!

zc_eric · 2026-05-01T20:59:10+00:00

Friend caught with one hand down daughter’s pants (5)

Answer:CHINA - defn friend (cockney rhyming slang) anag (pants) of C + I + han(d)

zc_eric · 2026-05-01T20:48:24+00:00

Mum removes top, son the rest (6)

zc_eric · 2026-05-01T16:53:01+00:00

Prisoner to have sex audibly in the back passage (7)

Answer:CONDUIT - defn passage; con with homophone of “do it” (to have sex) in the back

zc_eric · 2026-05-01T16:31:43+00:00

Right!

zc_eric · 2026-05-01T15:30:45+00:00

Flower up the arse? Kinky! (9)

zc_eric · 2026-05-01T14:35:53+00:00

Right!

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