Thanks everyone for your ideas.

TylerDurden, fasting seems to be a really useful skill. Especially at times when quality, wholesome foods are not available, or when my body needs the rest and healing that regular digestion deters.

I understand what you're saying Van; I'll do my own research. I'm excited to keep exploring my health, and growing my awareness of my body and it's needs.

Iguana; thanks for this clarity about other body sensations. I have been getting that date stop, but I might not be sensitive enough yet to catch it before overeating.

Also, I forgot to mention, thanks Iguana for the invite to join you in this exploration! Where are you living? Looks tropical.

Thanks TylerDurden. I have had high meat several times in the past; do some people like the taste? I did the jar method that AV recommends; the results were repulsive but I ate it a few times to see what would happen. Are you experienced with high meat?

I have lots of experience aging beef. I would love to try aging chicken and fish, so thanks for the reminder! I loved that earlier post about how our gut pH was similar to ferrets and other scavengers... Definitely confirms my experience of loving well aged meats.

Also my father is a oceanic fisherman, so I'll try wild-caught seafood in a month or two. He also has lobster traps, so I'll give raw lobster a try as well.

This is my first post here. I've eaten large amounts of raw meat for about twelve years now. I was on the Primal Diet (AV) for most of that time, and I also spent three months in Hawaii eating purely instinctively.

It's been about eight years since I had that experience in Hawaii, and I'm called to eat instinctively again. I'm tired of trying to guess at what my body wants to eat, and mixing foods together to make them taste good. I need my body to tell me, clearly, what and how much to eat. I also want to eat for pleasure, not just for health, and still feel good afterwards.

I started this experiment about two weeks ago, and I wasn't finding clear taste changes originally. I'd just eat a mango or three and then take a break. Or eat whatever amount of raw beef I'd portioned for myself. Or eat raw eggs until I was full. All fruit smelled bland. I was loving the smell of unheated honey, so I ate very small amounts of that through-out the day, and often just went hungry at meal time... I was hoping that my senses would come back in response to hunger.

Today I'm getting taste changes with some foods. Beef changes to bland. Eggs, for the first time last night, become sour, almost bitter in excess. Too much honey develops a burning sensations in my mouth. But fresh organic dates still seem to have no taste change at all, and I have to willingly limit my consumption to one or two a day at most, or else I get audible and uncomfortable gas.

Has anyone had success including dates in their diet? Is there a "sour" taste change like Severen L. Schaeffer says?

I'm still struggling to find a variety of foods that smell really attractive. I've recently explored oysters, pork, salmon, opah (a fish), but beef and eggs are the only meats I enjoy the smell and taste of. Fruits are so-so; mangos are in season so I eat a few a day. Bananas are sometimes okay but usually repulsive, apples have no smell even if I scratch or score the surface, and oranges smell good but not appetizingly so. Vegetables are fun for a few bites but I get a taste change very quickly, and trying to make a meal of them seems to really slow down digestion for me.

It's an interesting world of food out there; and I'm grateful that my senses are guiding me.
Any suggestions for how to get off to a good start would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks so much!