 for those that have been on a low-carb journey for a long time you ever think back to the very beginning and compare like what you were going through then compared to what you know and what you do now either njrude22.com with another low-carb keto carnivore chat and we might have mentioned this in the past but we like to talk about the difference between our mindset when we started the low carb journey about a decade or a little more ago and now and how different it is it's much better now it's much easier let's just say in the beginning like when we were just learning about what's what was going on we didn't really know anything we were we were stressing out and worrying about what we couldn't couldn't eat and I guess the first couple years to undo the addiction of the foods that you were used to eating in our case it was like sandwiches burgers french fries pizza pizza was my number one food and and you know I guess some of the first hiccups we made was trying to replace the food that we used to love with low carb alternatives and it really just never really worked out number one it didn't taste as good and you know taste is subjective you know taste is often wired into your brain and it's a taste you think it tastes good but really maybe it's not all that good after all it's like a multifaceted sensation it's not just on your tongue I don't know brain power you know how it goes but a lot of times like I'll mention to people and and people on my vlog and my readers on my website like you know it's easy to say oh I wish I knew then what I knew now and you know the simple knowledge is not enough I guess a more accurate statement would be I wish I would have all the experiences I had in the in the past 10 years then which you realize is kind of impossible because experience is something that you have to experience firsthand you know I've said this before and anyway like it was all going like vegetables no whatever the case was and then it took years for me to realize that these things that I thought were healthy what other people think are healthy aren't all that good for you now our rule I mentioned many months ago it's a simple trick don't raise your blood sugar and as you live through that that mantra or whatever you realize that it comes down to basically meat and that's why a lot of low-carb people and keto people and paleo people end up being carnivore because they realize that that's the perfect food meat red meat and of course eggs and depending on the person dairy and all that but when you just eat meat it's the greatest thing that happens that you just stop thinking about food you just eat your meat you never get full or bloated or sluggish or slow or lethargic and you just eat and you move on and then you it just feels good it's not just about you know not being terribly obese or physically ill because you're carrying around too much weight you know joints and so on heart problems you just you feel better so even if you're not perfect I'm far from being at my goal meeting my goal but in general I feel really great physically capable every day no pains no aches and a lot of energy and even with the with the drinking involved which is probably something I have to knock off the list but that's it that those are the things I think we had to go through it maybe if we started the low-carb journey in 2020 it may we may have reached the destination sooner or maybe not at all because of all the misinformation out there and all the other complicated diets and plans and I don't know that's it if you liked the video please hit the bell and subscribe and we'll see you next time