A Letter From Paul To The UnleashTheBeefians
February 19, 2011

It’s always refreshing to hear from reality-based individuals. Granted, for sheer entertainment, it’s great to have cretins, imbeciles, and vegans submit their idiocy, but for the sake of sanity… and mankind… it’s reassuring to get emails like this one from Paul, who, similarly to myself, put his pecker into a vegetarian-induced coma and was only able to reawaken it with sweet, sweet meat.

I haven't had the "pleasure" of seeing Biggest Loser, but am familiar with the idea. What's truly hilarious is that these poor schlubs are doing endless slow-twitch cardio, working themselves to death and eating freaking starvation diets that will never be sustainable even if they manage to lose some weight.  If a cage match turns out to be a problem for Miss Michaels, I would at least like to see a contestant on a 100% carnivorous diet with a regimen of Tabata sprints and strength training, no jogging. Nothing but grass-fed ribeye and water. Blow the rest of those sad sacks out of the water. Of course it would be derided as a sure invitation to a heart attack, and I doubt the show has the cojones to allow it.

For the record, I don't eat only grass-fed beef, but it's my staple. I call my way of eating "anti-vegan" - animal products only, tons of butter, ghee, coconut oil and heavy cream which I believe is the nectar of the gods. I unfortunately did not discover this path until age 40, and like you put myself through years of vegetarianism which I believe caused my hair loss, incipient arthritis from "healthy" whole grains, and definitely caused me severe trauma in the libido department. Not to bore you with details, but it's been a revelation - at 43 now I have NO signs of arthritis, my hair is growing back, I have more muscle than I had in my twenties, and my junk is acting like it's 23 again. I haven't felt this good in years.

From a scientific point of view, carnivorism looks pretty damn good but I am keeping an open mind on a very limited amount of vegetables and maybe some berries in season. For now I avoid them because I find personal experience to be the best arbiter of what works, and with carnivory one must go whole hog to know the truth.  I can't say I am ZC though, because I am still a sugar addict and once a month or so I will against all reason and knowledge eat a pint of ice cream and pay the price. I look forward to the day when I no longer see such things as rewards, it's obviously not food.

Your writing is brilliant, funny, nasty - all the things I like in a writer. The post about monkeys getting poon for meat was a masterpiece. One of the best things about an all-meat diet is watching all the shocking ignorance of conventional wisdom play out, the discussions people have about diet, the recriminations when I serve up steaks for dinner: "delicious man! But I can feel my arteries slamming shut! Oh man I'm gonna have to do a few hours on the treadmill to counter this, hey do you have any potatoes?" It's hilarious when I go out to eat with colleagues; the chick with the giant ass ordering egg white omelet with dry wheat toast, the chick with a gut getting a healthy bowl of oatmeal, and me, 15 years older than both of them and in far better shape, ordering two burger patties with cheese and no bun. Then I am accused of being crazy and inviting disease… "what about all that cholesterol and saturated fat, omg you are insane, how will you ever get enough Vitamin C, what about antioxidants". After a few months of trying to convince people of the wisdom of this way of eating I generally no longer even comment. Most people don't want to hear it, and it is often more fun to just agree with them. I don't mention the obvious irony that most of these people are in truly crappy health and hate eating their miserable low-fat diets, despite protestations that they love raw carrots and celery. It's like being in on a great secret even though all the information is available to anyone interested enough to do a little research.  I also admit to a quite enjoyable feeling of superiority even as I keep it to myself.

Hell I planned just to tell you about my idea for carnivory on Biggest Loser, but I'm a bit obsessive about nutrition and get a lot of pleasure from communicating with like minded folks. I've toyed with the idea of a blog myself, beginning with a piece with a point-by-point destruction of the latest federal nutrition guidelines (a complete joke as I'm sure you have seen), but I stick to my strengths and your lampooning of the dietary madness surrounding us is far more entertaining than anything I might add. Thanks for a great blog, UTB guy, keep the good times rolling.