Pure Carnivore Testimonial

David Kelso, Scotland

unleashing the wolf within

I wasnt born into health. As a baby i had severe colic, then as s toddler i had severe constipation issues which continued until i was about 6. At age 5 I developed quite severe asthma which prevented me from sleeping much due to the chronic coughing, even with the asthma medication i was on. My diet growing up was not too good at all. Until about the age of 5, the saving grace was that i lived with My grandparents and my mother. My Gran cooked in quite a traditional fashion, Lots of carb sources from potatoes and white bread, but also lots of meat in the form of beef, liver, pork, fish, and lots of eggs- which were my favourite- Gran, could you make me a 'boggled ogg' as i used to utter. After that I lived with my mum and my diet became more orientated towards sugary breakfast cereals, white bread sandwiches, processed foods, lots of sweets, every single day - ate a silly amount of sweets and chocolate, fizzy juice, and a whole host of other garbage. The saving grace was that my gran looked after me everyday after school, so i still got a daily dose of meat. However my gran did spoil my sweet tooth, In her house i could gorge on sugar and sweets- she had a drawer filled with chocolate!

I never got fat, due to my lack of sleep I was quite under developed actually, small, and skinny and not very athletically inclined at all. Despite that tho, I was always strong and fast, stronger and faster than the other kids i played with at climbing trees and fences and walls, and could run faster and longer- despite the asthma.

My uncle was a Karate champion, and all through my youth Id mess about with him play fighting and wrestling- I love that kind of play. That and playing with toy swords was all i wanted to do- I thought i was the greatest swordsman in the world, I thought i was HE-MAN.

At age 12 all of a sudden I was taken over by an irrepressible urge to begin athletic training. I began studying martial arts, and started doing push ups and sit ups at home every day. I started climbing everything and anything, more than i ever had, I began going 3 mile runs at night. After a few months of this- ALL of my asthma symptoms were gone- completely, I was doing 300 sit ups a night, Running 3 miles every other night, and doing 100 push ups a day. I was 12 years old. My doctor took me off of the asthma medication and said id simply out trained the disease. This fuelled my fire even more, i became obsessed, especially by Bruce Lee. Here was someone who was only little like me, but had the most amazing and powerful physique I had ever seen, like a jungle cat, possessed immense strength and power, coupled with lightning speed and graceful agility. I read everything I could about Bruce, every book I could get my hands on, every documentary i could watch. I imitated his training programs, getting stronger and faster all the time.

Enter the barbell- At age 13 the only thing i wanted and begged my parents for at Christmas was a barbell set. Bruce trained with weights- so would I. When i got my weight I began studying all the information that came with them and practicing it. It was the old YORK barbell courses that came along with the set, and they were actually very good, and to this day are quite legendary in the old time training world. I began to pack on muscle, my small skinny frame was becoming a well muscled one, I could feel an immense power rising within my body, giving it form and shape, but it something much deeper too. When i trained something magical happened, everything went quiet. There was no worries, at all. My mind became completely still and the only thing that there existed was that single moment in time. That single squats, that single push up, that singe roundhouse kick. Everything else completely and utterly dropped away, everything was completely still and only the action was there, happening in the moment, David disappeared.

I started studying everything i could on bodybuilding, I read Arnolds auto biography and his encyclopaedia and started following the bodybuilding dietary notions of the time. Lots of lean protein, lots of fruit and veggies, lots of rice and pasta, whole grain bread- we need carbohydrates for energy and to build muscle dont you know?? LOL. It was probably alot better than what i had been eating for sure, but still a High carb Low fat fest it was. That didnt slow my development however, I was becoming mightily muscled and very define, I was known in school for my abs and ass, and chest, I started fighting competition Karate, and winning competitions, I became the school sports champion for my last 2 years in school and by my last year in School teachers were asking me if i was on steroids LOL- no I wasnt.

I decided at 17 what better place to test my fitness than in the Royal Marines- I had heard the 30 weeks training to earn a Green Beret was the hardest, toughest, most gruelling basic training in the world. I bought into the whole modern warrior image the Marines fed me, just like the ancient Samurai I had been studying i thought, my ego was stroked at the thought of being the best and toughest I could be, so off i went My Diet in the Marines was pretty much as I had been eating- Just alot more of it. Also i had to live off of military ration packs whilst in the feild. Boil in the bag food, is not the greatest LOL. My fitness and strength however became legendary within my unit, i was the maniac who stayed up all night doing push ups and handstands, i won numerous awards for fitness and unarmed combat I continued my martial arts practice and study and the Marines and went further and deeper into the spiritual and philosophical side of the arts, and really began studying Buddhism at a deeper level- I had began studying it in school. As i immersed myself more and more in spirituality I started to spend more time on my own, not partaking in the usual marine activities such as drinking and brawling, I spent most of my time in the gym or sitting staring at things. It was time to act, in the eyes of my family and friends I was a hero, a brave man fighting for a good cause, but I didn’t feel that was truth. Maybe this whole quest had been an ego quest to gain recognition in these peoples eyes. Well it wasn't their life so I decided to leave the military. My whole philosophy of life had changed and evolved, and it was time to move on. The ego that wanted to be a badass green beret lay shattered on the floor, I was an evolving being, not a static one. I was 19.

now my real adventure in diet and spirit was about to begin

To be continued ...