Beyond Survival | The Wilderness Living Challenge 2016 S01E10 - BERRY BRUNCH

Jeremy (One Wildcrafter): / @onewildcrafter
This experiment made me re-evaluate my thoughts on fat. It was something that I hadn't thought much about. Unlike others, I never swore off fats entirely, nor showed it the distain that is common in our modern culture, but I sure didn't look at it as a vital element of a balanced diet, as I now do thanks to this challenge.
In recent times we've come to talk about fat in very mixed ways. Fat has gone from being totally evil to being something tolerated in moderation. However, we've not yet seen fat as totally necessary. Today we still think of fat in terms of good fats and bad fats, but let me tell you, when you haven't had any fats of any kind for some days, any fat would do.
I've come to learn that fat is a building block to life that is vitally important, and one that, if not available, can lead to certain failure. Frying our lean pike in oil or butter would have made all the difference in the world. Consuming 30% of our daily calories from fat would have surely permitted us to move from a deficit to a surplus and made our lean meat more consumable. It's not that we didn't have enough meat, it was that our meat was too lean, and our bodies began to reject it.
Our stomachs simply didn't want to swallow more of the foods we kept offering it. The palatability for lean meat is as limited as it is for chokecherries. When it's enough, it's enough. When there is no more need for it, your body just can't take it. I remember chewing pike and not being able to swallow. It wasn't like I wasn't hungry, I was, it was just that my body didn't need or want any more lean meat. Dousing that meat in some oil and frying it, would have made the entire lot more balanced and allowed us to continue devouring our spoils.
Regardless, fat in wilderness living is likely the difference between success and failure because it dramatically reduces the volume a person needs to consume in order to meet their daily caloric requirements. Without fat, the body can hardly stomach enough protein to sustain its normal functions. Fat is loaded with calories and packs an energetic punch - it makes a welcome addition to wilderness living.
One Wildcrafter (Jeremy): / @onewildcrafter
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[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

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[@Pnwrat]

I've rewstched these so many times every night. Got my 22 yr old ass up and out wanting to solo camp around the pnw.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Nice!

[@therealdeal3866]

If you're in Washington drop me a line, Xavier. I've camped this whole state when I was younger and I'm always ready to go again! (I'll be in Alaska for a bit, tho.)

[@FullSpectrumSurvival]

The advanced fuel cell. Ha. That is awesome.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Bahahah, I didn't even notice he did that until I watched the video...I was too friggen hungry!!!

[@dheeladheel]

a little late but just started binge watching your videos. loving these so far. you definitely found a subscriber here.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Thanks, glad to have ya!

[@1lumberjack333]

On day 3 of watching this series now, you have given me so much knowledge here! It's literally more than a lifetimes worth, I couldn't learn this much through trial and error even if I tried for the rest of my years! Thanks boys!

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

That's what it's all about!

[@JustTheBob]

i think it is all mental state of mind. i can go for a couple days of not eating before i really get hunger pains. yes i will feel week and have no energy but its just something i have had to do in the past. the longest i went with out eating was 30 days. i drank vegi juice for the 30 days. i felt great had lots of energy and enjoyed it. the down fall was it was costing me around 20 dollars a day for juice.

[@travismckinney5758]

I guess-10.1! Great series! I love the will of you and Jeremy

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Thanks Travis!

[@whitecompany18]

I think you guys would benefit from a different kind of fishing , I think two of those red berries on a hair rig and a ledger would catch bigger fattier carp ... I'm assuming carp are in lakes that far north . Us British carp fisherman sit in bivvys for days doing nothing and get big weights of fish.. We don't eat them though.. The polish do, they have them for Christmas dinner and apparently taste great. Awesome vid guys.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Never caught a carp. They are in some of the lake though. It didn't really think I would need so much fish to make it so figured we could get at least a few fish and move on to other things. The cattails were a surprise though...not really much else to choose from. Berries are around the corner though. Netting would have been ideal. Hard to be an active fisher because you can't be in two places at the same time.

[@briantreat9482]

......i've seen these vid's a thousand times........thanks Beardman of the Woods.........still learning from watching...........

[@HamsterLife_EnglishLearning]

Lol you mention about smacking the lips when chewing the food. It is only faintly heard by the other guy lol. The fire crackling drowns out most all of it. I'm getting my wilderness fix, and really enjoying the video's now. The commentary is educational.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Thanks Jude. I had to cut out some of the other video because it was a big much LOL.

[@NomadicWoodsman]

Lobster mushrooms are so tasty in butter with some 35 % cream hahaha. I tried roasting boletus mushrooms on a fire before .... it was bad lol. Like really saggy. I know with wild mushrooms always better to cook them. Great videos man always curious to see what you guys will find. This would be tough in winter. Cheers.

[@brianspencer4220]

Seems like this is turning in to a constant search against hunger. Merry Christmas Brian 76

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Brian Spencer Merry Christmas Brian. The oldest challenges, man against nature & man against himself!

[@se3939]

I love these videos, I feel like if you eat every day, it doesn't matter how much weight you lose , it's still successful survival.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

In a way, you're right. Also, a lot of people miss the fact that we had 2 moose to choose from, in shooting range. The laws really do hold us back quite a bit.

[@fishingandfossils8767]

Are you going to continue the challenge into the winter? great video also. any recommendations for what I should do on my channel?

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

I don't think it would be possible at all to do in the winter. Not in the boreal forest at least. There are very few seasons open. Would you want to watch a couple of guys hunting spares rabbit and sitting over an hole icefishing? Seasons all close up, unfortunately.

[@downeastprimitiveskills7688]

Sound like some exciting Utube!

[@georgeredbranch1186]

quick question. When you said you found it hard to take in more lean meat even though you were hungry. You pointout the necessity for fat in your diet. Are you referring to carbohydrates or actual lipid fat? ie fat already found in meat?

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

If you eat only meat, then you need to be 80% fat to protein. Unfortunately, I learned that the hard way! inhumanexperiment.blogspot.ca/2009/09/two-brave-men-who-ate-nothing-but-meat.html

[@WesS2016]

I watched the show Survivor from day one. The common ground for the guys doing the best throughout many of the seasons were that they went into the show ready to loose weight. The skinny people faded the fastest and always resorted to being carried to the end. I cannot remember her name but one young lady was hoping to get the chance to go so she increased her body weight with 30 pound of body fat to start an athletic challenge, it was the reason she was voted off. They knew she would faded the slowest. I wish she would have gotten on Second Chance, she would have dominated.

[@WesS2016]

The first winner started out as the "Fat naked" not using whole thing because of fear of offence to tender folks. But he was able to survive off of protein rich diet for 30 days he dropped over 30 pounds in the show. but he was more agile during second half of season that in the beginning.

[@Average_Libtard]

I love Survivor. It has to be the best "reality" show ever made. Of course it is an organized production so it's not 100% "reality" but you can't really have a large scale TV show like that and not be organized. Even with all of the behind the scenes stuff, the show is quite transparent compared to other comparable shows. I wish they allowed them to hunt more than just fish. I know they sometimes have chickens given to them, but it seems like most times they don't butcher them, and if they do, they make a huge deal out of it. It would be awesome if all of the contestants were athletic survivalists allowed to hunt how they like. Still. It's the best "reality" show IMO. Definitely a model to look up to in that genre.

[@jacquiblanchard3131]

Another interesting episode. You're wasting away, Chris. I'm going to guess -18.7 this week and will spend the rest of the week wondering how you haven't ripped open that butter yet. ;)

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Haha, well I'm not going to lie. It really was hard.... and much harder than I though!!

[@lazyprimitive]

I feel like I'm starving just watching you guys!

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

A Lazy Primitive So am I!!!

[@therealdeal3866]

I'm eating M&Ms!

[@TheVodec]

I have a lot of respect for what you and Jeremy are doing out there. Wish that there was some way for you to get some more fat in your challenge diet.

[@erichluttenberger8624]

I admire you guys for not succumbing to the temptation of using butter! -11.4 lbs.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Haha, butter and everything else. I was close though :) It's much harder than it looks...well except for Jeremy and his advanced fuel cell LOL

[@garyboese60]

Would recommend a swag you can pack in tent pillow and sleeping bag all in one unit. Don't know if it works in you're climate but works well in aus

[@MchaelTeeter]

I like that tent. Oh my guess is - 13.4lbs. Berries sound so good.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Thanks!

[@academicwritingandenglishg4342]

I am guessing now -3 pounds for you and -2 pounds for Jeremy. A total of 5 pounds for both. If you can find an oak tree, leach out the tannins and then roast them. Jeremy could also make roasted Acorn coffee. Great source of fat and protein, etc. Other nuts that are high in fat and protein are from the Beech, Pine, and Black Walnut trees. Anyway, your channel is always educational and entertaining.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Good suggestions. We have an experiment on pine nuts coming as well as black walnuts. The black walnuts are worth it, but they don't come this far North usually. Acorn is also a fall crop, so that would have had to be stored from last season. Seasons!!! Everything has one. It's one of the problems of starting from scratch!

[@academicwritingandenglishg4342]

Yes, I understand things are hard to come by because they are seasonal. It's too bad avocados don't grow up there where you are (great source of protein and fat). Here in Cambodia, although fruits and some kinds of vegetation are seasonal there is an abundance of food in the jungle and countryside; hell even in the city that can help support humans easily. But unfortunately, even the younger folk here have lost the ability to survive without markets. Anyway, can't wait for the next video. Take care "A."

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Interesting! I have no experience with the jungle at all so I have to take your word for it. I do think that tropical areas likely have more edibles available than our North. Our woods are almost dead of all life aside from dormant trees and hibernating animals which you never see :) Hard to live off that!

[@academicwritingandenglishg4342]

For example right outside our house a mango tree and it's now the time for picking. Yum!

[@YouTubeSafetyTroll]

So, the lean protein brought you to a point of nausea and disgust, and this is probably the body's warning to voluntarily reject that food source until it (r)ejects it on your behalf in the form of vomit, probably to guard against protein poisoning/inadequate protein to fat ratio. Even if you were happy to eat blueberries all day long, wouldn't your body eventually reject the blueberries as diarrhea? I'm thinking that diarrhea and malabsorption would be an important variable. Does the body adjust in this kind of scenario and accept more calories from berries before rejecting it as diarrhea than it would if you inhaled a pint of fresh blueberries from the grocery store? In other words, I wonder if the 'vast amounts of volume' theory is only technically correct, and variety of nutrients and food sources is essential in practice. Similarly, constipation, which is far more likely with excessive lean protein, may also cause some malabsorption. The digestive tract is a strange animal. Another consideration is that if you do not have enough fat stores but have quite a lot of muscle, as in your case, ketogenesis is not practical in the long-term, and your body would likely have to break down muscle. That requires more energy to break down than fat and provides far less net energy, and the breakdown of muscle tissue is much harder on the organs, especially the kidneys, and it becomes downright dangerous fairly quickly. I suspect that there are few (no?) known peoples who survived long-term in this particular way. Of course, they had the benefit of existing before the MNR was developing and enforcing hunting laws.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

I think you're thoughts are spot on. However, one clarification, there is no known research that says you'll die from too much lean meat (protein poisoning), but that the body just starves no matter how much you eat is likely true, just because it's nearly impossible to eat the amounts needed to keep a body going. Variety is really something our bodies need to be truly healthy. If you eat just meats, then you need 80% fat to protein in order to stay healthy. From wiki: "It has been observed that the human liver cannot safely metabolise much more than 221-301 g of protein per day (for an 80 kg/176 pound person),[3] and human kidneys are similarly limited in their capability to remove urea (a byproduct of protein catabolism) from the bloodstream. Exceeding that amount results in excess levels of amino acids, ammonia (hyperammonemia), and/or urea in the bloodstream, with potentially fatal consequences,[4] especially if the person switches to a high-protein diet without giving time for the levels of his or her hepatic enzymes to upregulate. Since protein only contains 4 kcal/gram, and a typical adult human requires in excess of 1900 kcal to maintain the energy balance, it is possible to exceed the safe intake of protein if one is subjected to a high-protein diet with little or no fat or carbohydrates. However, given the lack of scientific data on the effects of high-protein diets, and the observed ability of the liver to compensate over a few days for a shift in protein intake, the US Food and Nutrition Board does not set a tolerable upper intake level nor upper acceptable macronutrient distribution range for protein.[5]" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning

[@YouTubeSafetyTroll]

That sounds exactly right. The so-called "rabbit starvation" is probably just like most other poisonings that are not immediate. It would be nearly impossible to keep administering something(i.e. eating super lean meats without offsetting with fats) that is effectively killing you. Attempted suicide by sleeping pills, pharmaceuticals and even acute alcohol poisoning have fairly good survival rates, because the body will start to reject a poison well before we hit the LD50; death in these cases is often incidental, e.g. a consequence of aspirating on one's own vomit. You mentioned Chris McCandless as a case study in one of the research papers you'd found, and how his actual cause of death was starvation, rather than Jon Krakauer's romanticized version where he claims that McCandless consumed poisonous plants. I remember reading that the medical community had immediately cast doubts on that theory because of the impracticality of slowly poisoning oneself to death, and because the condition and weight of his body suggested fairly routine starvation. If I remember correctly, there was even a professor of botany or something similar who claimed that he would be willing to eat anything that was found in McCandless' ziplock bag of foraged edibles. I'm really enjoying watching what you guys have done here, and I appreciate the incredible effort this must've taken. I hope you'll attempt variations in the future, and keep laughing in the face of the ridiculous TV show premises!

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

semple3 I'll echo your thoughts, because I think you are spot on. We ate some milkweed that is apparently toxic uncooked, yet did not suffer any noticeable effects. Even chockerries are toxic, but if cooked or dried are rendered okay to eat. So many wild and even domestic foods have low level toxins that our bodies are made to deal with. Plus, as you say, we have early warning signs. I once mistook a Virginia creeper for a wild grape. immediately the raphides cut into my mouth and I spit it out before it did too much damage. The raphides are like tiny razors that can cause severe inflation to the mouth and throat. But out bodies tell us to stop quickly, making it hard to keep doing these things. But starvation is another story as well saw from this season of alone, where people will continue to spiral downwards without really feeling the pain. Likely the same as Chris Mcandless.

[@toocountry496]

Agree, but they are tossing what fat they have available. Most fish carry fat in the pluck "gut" and the head. And these are parts they are discarding. In a true live off the land as hunter gatherers you wouldn't discard anything you didn't have to.

[@parkerbrothers75]

You had the steady diet of mostly pike and which have a negligible amounts of fat in the fish and still are hungry. This sound a lot like protein poisoning. This is what happens when you have a diet of only eating rabbit. Could this be the same because pike is also very lean in fat.

[@parkerbrothers75]

From what I have read about protein poisoning the start of it was feeling and craving of food just after consuming lean meats for extended periods of time. This will eventually lead to malnutrition and starvation.

[@MchaelTeeter]

Since I have been sick I have been on a Paleo/anti inflammatory diet also the SCD diet the Terry Wahl's diet. I also have to eat more calories than most people because of malabsorption. So I will do some research for your calorie intake and requirements.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Interesting. I guess fasting is a dumb idea. I've heard that it can 'cure' a lot of things, but I wouldn't count on it. Refined stuff I would guess works best. I bet white rice is highly recommended?

[@MchaelTeeter]

Fasting can help with quite a bit of problems actually. If your intestines are damaged for some reason. Fasting can give you needed bowel rest allowing yourself to heal. Also it does help if you are dealing with cancers.

[@MchaelTeeter]

Fasting can help with quite a bit of problems actually. If your intestines are damaged for some reason. Fasting can give you needed bowel rest allowing yourself to heal. Also it does help if you are dealing with cancers.

[@veronicabutlerwade5592]

@@MchaelTeeter you are the best you say it as you see it good work

[@RyanSmith6644]

It's highly dangerous to not have any sodium. I've almost gone into what I the equivalent of a diabetic coma from too low sodium levels. How can you increase this if you are strictly eating in nature?

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

I heard eating blood....

[@smokeycanopy]

Great stuff guys.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

smokeycanopy Thanks!

[@HuplesCat]

Another great video Jeremy -8.4 and you -9.1 = - 17.5

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Thanks!

[@linklesstennessee2078]

Good catch I'm gonna try them milk weeds this spring I'm gonna guess minus 19.2 lbs

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Linkless Tennessee They are really good...for a wild edibles!!! Catch them when they are small!

[@shawnnaylor482]

I was hoping you catch a different fish with the clam meat so you taste something else!

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Hahah, yeah, I think we caught a few perch.

[@downeastprimitiveskills7688]

-6.2 pounds. I saw blueberry plants at the bunch berry spot, not enough sunlight for them to fruit, though.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Just around the corner :) Stay tuned.

[@downeastprimitiveskills7688]

Fire is a super method of pruning the plants down to spur new growth, the aboriginals did it. Fire is still a great method but mowing them down with a lawn mower or string trimmer will suffice on a small patch, do this in the fall or in the spring. Let them grow a summer, putting out new stems and fruit buds and next summer will yield a bountiful crop. In their natural state the just continue to put out wood stems and not much fruit buds. I hope you lay down in the field and gobble them right off the bush, like a bear! Yes I have tried this.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

For sure, slash and burn was huge and easy way to make crop fields! I don't think they would look kindly upon us if we did :) Oh yeah, there's a berries feast on the way!!!!

[@upstatenyphann]

This one WLC vid a week thing is kinda driving me nuts, especially since I binged the first 7 episodes back to back a few weeks ago. Man, Netflix has really really made me lazy. Regardless, i'm constantly checking my subscription feed each day to see if you've uploaded another one. This series really has me hook, line and sinker. (HA see what I did there!?) Good job guys, it looks exhausting, exhilarating, and fun. I hope this is an annual thing you guys are gonna do from now on. I do have a question tho, I remember in one of the previous vids, that you said you were intentionally targeting Pike because you knew you were going to catch them, and they're not as finicky as a fattier fish such as Trout . But what about the other fish you caught, ie that perch? Why not try eating a balanced diet of different fish? After you caught a day or two's worth of pike, why not try for Trout, or Landlocked Salmon? Something with more fat in it? Since you would have already had the Pike stockpiled, I maybe would have targeted a different species for different nutrients. Then again that probably would have required you guys to hop in the car and drive to a trout lake, as opposed to already having camp set up at a Pike lake.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Yup, you answered your own question. We kept a few perch, but perch are small so they don't go very far. It would take quite a few to make up one pike. Plus, we found there weren't much different in flavour really, not really detectable. Nutritionally, they would be the same. Yes, trout would have more fat though. They go about 10% fat versus the 2% for the pike, bass, perch. But as you said, we'd have to drive in the car to another system. We didn't want to rely on an auto to move around all over the place, it sort of defeated the spirit of the competition. We may explore this idea later though, and jump around more. We tried it over two spots and were very limited. There would be other things in season at this time too, which we didn't have in either spot. It would be worth trying though. And again, pike hit, almost all the time, they aren't picky feeders. We might try for trout and not catch anything all day or even over a few days. So really, pike was the best bang for the buck. Finally, cleaning perch is much more tedious. It would take as long to clean a perch as to clean a pike and you need a lot more perch for the equivalent meat. Good questions!

[@MchaelTeeter]

Those bunch berries look tasty. They remind me of ginseng berries. One time I was on a trail and I found what I thought was bunch berries or even ginseng. It was not it was a Jack in the pulpit berry and me and everyone who tried it now know how it feels to put a nest of bees in our mouths. Full of calcium citrate.

[@MchaelTeeter]

My friend Greg my fellow outdoorsman said Mike if I die from this I am going to kill you! lol My wife was the only one with water just enough for her self and Greg's daughter Rachel was the only smart one who refused to try the torture berries. The rest of the group suffered until we got to water.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Bunchberries actually have very little taste, even though they look great. Raphids....those are nasty. Had some of those from a wild grape look-alike. Like razors!!

[@OneWildcrafter]

I made the same mistake - was so excited to find wild grape that I didn't look close and ate a bunch of nasty!

[@MchaelTeeter]

One Wildcrafter It sure was a life lesson let me tell you and they never let me forget it! LOL

[@cohenlewis1481]

Does the fella that joined have Instagram? I recognize him looks like a guy named Troutbandit on insta. Awesome episode as always

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Cohen Lewis I'm not sure. You could ask him. His name is Joey.

[@msilverhammer]

OK...another great video, too bad there are no fat heavy fish like salmon, and I believe trout is fat heavy too. I would boil the pike fish heads with some mushrooms and milkweed to get a fat broth, that would probably taste good. My next guess is -12.25 pounds.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Msilverhammer It would be worth a shot. I'll have to try that as an experiment!

[@mikedebell2242]

All those ferns are out. No fiddle heads in them?

[@OneWildcrafter]

This was in August and May is the best time for fiddleheads in this area.

[@MchaelTeeter]

Here are two sites I thought you and Jeremy may enjoy. northernbushcraft.com/guide.php?ctgy=edible_plants&region=on and www.outdoorlife.com/photos/gallery/hunting/2013/02/wild-game-nutrition-guide-organic-meat

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Awesome!!!!

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

The fat content is a little misleading I think - which I'm most interested in. I know many of those animals have more fat than listed, but they aren't counting the total fat count of the entire animal - only the meat. An oversight of our modern times!!!! Part of our mistake on TWLC is that we focused on the meat portion, NOT what the entire animal would provide. We did that wrong, we should have been using the whole animal, not just the protein!

[@MchaelTeeter]

I totally agree. The one site I was researching nutritional data you can search the total fat content as well as the data of the food raw. I really like this subject.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

It's really fascinating because we don't really know how it was done. They would have had access to quantities we can't even imagine!

[@saminthewoods]

Surprised no bear sightings yet

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Yeah, we usually get at least one over a week...but they are pretty shy.

[@WesS2016]

I GUESS - 11.9 I would have caved on the butter for the mushroom. I am afraid of wild mushrooms we have a few different ones here but if you eat the wrong ones which look almost just like the right ones you are really sick for days. And if you eat the right wrong ones you might just climb a tree that isn't there. lol

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Bah, thankfully I leave that up to Jeremy. I know very little about mushrooms, in fact, the only ones I do know are because Jeremy told me :) I'd like to learn more, but I think I'd prefer to learn it from someone right there. Otherwise, as you say, it's dicey (and not worth it)!

[@Cerv3ra]

¿What about the powerades? My guess is about 5kg, wich would be a lot to lose in a few days, probably a little of muscle tissue lost, even in a high protein diet.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Did you see one on camera? If so, that would beJeremy's water. He used a flavoring with a salt and some vitamins in it. We mentioned it in one of the earliest episodes as part of his 'cheat.' He also drank 1 coffee a day. He gets headaches if he doesn't.

[@Cerv3ra]

The Wooded Beardsman I did saw the bottles around min 17 when you zoom out. Top left corner. Anyway in my opinion one of the things that i believe you overlook was the lack of salt in your diet, not for the flavoring but because we need that sucker to live. I knew about the coffee and the salts, i just didnt connect the two things when i saw a powerade bottle with blue stuff in it. Great content as always!

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Good point. I'll have to research natural salt. It must be part of the animal...fish eyes?

[@Cerv3ra]

I know that most mammals get their salt wit "saltlicks" basically licking stones, we humans probably used to do the same. I dont have much to add, sorry.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

No worries, I'll have to do some research! It's a good point. After a while, salt would be vital.

[@se3939]

Eat the fish and crawfish brains, also squirrel brains if you can get them.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Good advise. It's certainly something most people don't really consider, but something that needs to be done.

[@calvinmoon6040]

You should get some hungry man pancakes woodbeard

[@FisherGirl333]

I GUESS -13.3 lbs (final answer) - Merry Xmas & Happy New Year.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Thanks Tina! You too!

[@nevetsreyd4688]

Did you say "bushcraft a pet snake" ?? I think that's called a stick!!

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

We don't bushcraft anything LOL. It's a long running joke, hahaha. A stick stirs as well as a bushcrafted spoon and takes a lot less time to craft :)

[@nevetsreyd4688]

The Wooded Beardsman haha, yep a stick is very easy to make!!

[@MrNinjaHugger]

Food fatigue or in which u need more differ food. Like u said u need fat

[@theoldguy9329]

minus 5.4. Interesting progress.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Thanks Brian!

[@patterguitsit7124]

You guys probably had some of Joey's beers and chips. jk I guess -10.9lbs

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Hahah, Joey was funny. He ate his food really sheepishly after he found out how hungry we were!!!

[@hauki9286]

You sure are losing pounds fast. I guess -13,1 pounds.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Feeling the burn now :)

[@scottgalllion2612]

I guess -12.4. keep it up love the videos

[@bigziggy9017]

What knives do you use?

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

I'm not a big knife guy and don't like to carry weight around with me so I have a small knife: www.grohmannknives.com/index.php/products/outdoor/all-items/carbon-steel-2-trout-bird-knife-354-detail. Jeremy usually has a leatherman type knife. I also have a cheap fillet knife for pike, bass, etc. I just find gear that gets the job done. That knife is small, and I don't notice I have it with me, it's so small. Works for light woodwork, but it's not a bushcraft knife at all.

[@bigziggy9017]

The Wooded Beardsman Ah Alright. Keep up the work with this series!

[@NateBuker]

Was that some leek at 6:29?

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Leeks are spring, but could have been a flower head. I'm not sure they grow this far North, they are usually a more Southern edible.

[@quercus4730]

Fine paddling.

[@3vil3lvis]

I guess -10.0 lbs. Because of the math -1lb for 5 days x 2 people = -10.0 lbs.

[@shmuelbrody]

acorns have 28 grams of fat for every 100 grams they have tp soaked to get rid of the taste

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Awesome! A fall crop though, right. This was filmed in August, but it would have been great to to try to live off of them for a week :)

[@MrDancingnancies1]

i change my guess from 2 lbs for you and 7 for jer

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Thanks Mike!

[@astora4671]

*P I K E*

[@reeskree5526]

P I K E

[@seanantill3366]

need red meat and process the fats that come along with it even though wild game in general is lean even those animals have fat reserves and just a few chunks would go a long ways

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

For sure. It's really hard to do it any other way. We tried....it's just too much. I wonder if eating just the skin and discarding the meat, would be wise. Some bear fat to cook the fish in would have been fine.

[@seanantill3366]

Bear fat is awesome it's supposed to be even better than olive oil for salves

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Sean Antill It was great added to duck and to our cobbler!!

[@robbierox6998]

Couldn't you set up traps? That would get you some meat?!

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Unfortunately, traps are not legal. You need a trap permit and registered trapline. Snaring is permitted during fall rabbit season, North of the French and Mattawa river. Gill nets, etc. all not legal. The law is one something that holds us up the most!!

[@shaynereynolds6688]

I Guess! -6.3

[@williamnelson4066]

Full stop

[@frankie1956]

l guess 12 lbs 7 oz

[@jasonkoslow4174]

8lbs 9 oz

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Thanks Jason.

[@fredthorne9692]

I GUESS -17 lbs. Wow, "Paleo" sums it up. Cuisine du Neanderthal. I was just wondering if you couldn't derive fat from the fish heads. Brain cells are highly specialized fat cells. Also, perhaps the much coveted pike cheeks could be considered. On the up-side, despite your hunger, emaciation was at least a week or two away. One thing, could we have a little less nudity. Nothing personal. :oP

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Hahaha! No worries. Yeah, the fish heads would have been good to eat in a soup. Next time! I'll consider being less nude in the future :)

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

I just looked through this...are you okay Fred, there wasn't a single bit of nudity in this one!!!!

[@fredthorne9692]

The Wooded Beardsman I'm sorry, I was being facetious. I know there wasn't any nudity. I was just making reference to the humor of two grown men pinching for fat while looking into the camera display. I do get the reason why, it's in the name of science. And no I'm not alright, I'm quite mad, mad I tell you bwahahaha, oops it's medication time. (Seriously, I was just kidding and hope no offence was taken) :o)

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Yeah me too :) Well, I did edit this a long while ago and so I have to remember what it's them. Some other guy was telling me to pull my pants up lol and I honestly didn't know what I looked like...the belt was getting kind of loose and I was a little too hungry to give a shit LOL.

[@fredthorne9692]

The Wooded Beardsman I can't blame you. I'm pretty sure that quite a few of the viewers out here in Tube land (myself included) have no idea what you guys went through during this challenge. But, that's what makes this series, and your work in general, genuine. The network stuff is good and entertaining, yet, the ultimate driving force is to sell airtime so content is highly processed. Conversely, what you and other fact/science based videographers do is motivated purely by a desire to instruct, teach, and illuminate. Thus, every nuance of content is purposefully thought out. Even product reviews, by and large, are purposeful. For me, the viewer, I've spent the minutes well and I get the added benefit of commentary (even to point of being idiotic.) Nothing is more annoying than watching an episode or series on network and having that feeling of being fed BS. There's one or two hours of my life I'll never get back. Keep up the quality work!

[@ked4]

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[@seanantill3366]

and you really need some different types of fish way to much pike

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

LOL. tell me about it. They are reliably caught though, trout in these waters will starve you in a few days.

[@davidlogan7149]

I guess: -17.4.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Thanks David!

[@frankie1956]

-5.760 l think that's right ( 😂😂 still a bit old school 👍 )

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Ha, no worries, it's just a guess anyway!

[@MchaelTeeter]

If you guys can't catch fish it must be a bad day.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

We've had bad days :)

[@jeffwood9503]

I guess -18.0

[@jeffreyzehr1958]

Full Stop

[@rumblechick73]

New guess, -11.7 pounds lost

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Thanks Diana!

[@Jazhuirama]

Rabbit Starvation

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Yup, we got stuck in a rut.

[@Jazhuirama]

I only metioned it because I noticed a change in your speach pattern at times, probably more from sleepless nights. I only had a "theoretical knowledge" of "Rabbit Starvation" but after watching this series I feel like I have a first hand knowledge of what that looks like. This has changed my mind set about things I thought I knew but now understand it in a whole ne manner. I've learned so much from this......thanks guys.

[@frankie1956]

-12 lb 7 oz

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Thanks Frankie. Put your guess in a decimal though, that's what our scale spits out!

[@zigzag1.5_43]

-11 lbs.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Thanks!

[@thedoghouseoutdoors4116]

I guess -23.7lbs . You guys are falling away to nothing. It is sure hard to convert from regular food that people eat on a daily basis to just protein and a few greens, it really is a sock to the body

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

For sure. I wonder if going keto beforehand would help. I have my doubts that we should be keto to begin with or that humans were designed for it. We can cope, but we're much happier with a complete diet. Surely, there is a way.

[@thedoghouseoutdoors4116]

Just switching from the normal things that people eat on a daily basis to a more leaner more healthier diet to get the body used to what was to come would have helped some. We have just got so used to lots of fats and carbs and other unhealthy form of foods, switching in a abrupt change has the negative reactions as of weight lose and messing with the digestive system. I had went on a no grease thing for a couple of months and you would be surprised how much just greese would change a persons body behaviors. Your all experience has really opened my eyes, to what would be most important in a long term survival situation or like you have done a wilderness living challenge.. life's a garden dig it!!!

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

The Dog House Outdoors Ha yeah, and I'm still playing around. Man, trying to drop carbs is really hard. Tried today and was super hungry. I'll keep trying to fight it. Get myself ready for the next challenge.

[@TheGrizzlyHillbilly]

-9.6lbs

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Thanks Grizzly. The comment is edited though. So I'll say -9.6 to avoid any claim that it was changed after the reveal.

[@TheGrizzlyHillbilly]

The Wooded Beardsman yes it was edited. i was trying to put -9.6 but at first i put -19.6 so i removed the 1 that i accidently hit :)

[@cgilvs]

I guess -10.2 pounds

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

:)

[@geraldgenita6742]

UR A COUPLE?

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

No, hahaha!

[@geraldgenita6742]

sorry hahaha

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

No worries!

[@jonimiddleton4511]

u guys no how to camp

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Thanks Joni!

[@coffeyjinx4673]

please do something,i think you Talk to much.😑

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Talking costs fewer calories! What would your recommend we do?

[@savagewolf1966]

I guess -11.6.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Thanks man!

[@savagewolf1966]

The Wooded Beardsman ,thank you,and happy holiday;).

[@biggy1182]

i guess - 11.8

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Thanks Biggy!