MEDICAL PULL

 

5 Rules to Avoid a Medical Pull on ALONE

1) Never starve while sitting on food

If you have edible calories banked (fish, fat, dried meat), eat enough to stabilize.

• A small daily deficit is fine.

• A chronic crash-diet while food piles up is how you get pulled (Dave’s exact trap).

Rule: If you’ve got food, use it to keep your body functioning, not to “save it for later.”

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2) Put a floor under your bodyweight

You don’t need an exact BMI calculation out there. You need a red line.

Rule: The moment you feel your strength and balance dropping (wobbly, dizzy, weak grip, slow thinking), you’re near the cliff. That’s when you increase calories and decrease activity immediately.

Carleigh got pulled on BMI threshold. You avoid that by never letting yourself drift into “fragile mode.”

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3) Shift to “Systems Mode” by Day 3

Active hunting burns you out. Winners run passive systems.

Rule: By the end of Day 3 you should have:

• At least one passive fishing method working (where allowed)

• Multiple hooks/lines soaking

• At least a couple snares/trap attempts

• A simple daily loop to check/maintain them

Systems catch food while you rest. Rest keeps you in the game.

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4) Protect sleep and warmth like they’re food

Cold and poor sleep quietly destroy you:

• more calories burned

• worse decisions

• higher injury risk

Rule: If you’re cold at night, fix that before you “hunt more food.”
Because cold nights create the hunger problem.

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5) Reduce risk when you’re weak

Late game is where people get hurt or pulled:

• falls

• cutting injuries

• cold-water mistakes

• overexertion

Rule: When you’re in a weakened state, you stop doing “hero stuff.”
No long hikes. No risky shoreline moves. No heavy lifts. No solo carries.

Your job becomes: stay safe, stay warm, keep lines in the water, eat enough.

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The “Dave & Carleigh” One-Liner

Don’t outlast yourself.
Outlasting other people is useless if your body hits the medical cutoff first.

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A super practical daily checklist

If any two are true, you immediately eat more and do less that day:

• dizzy when standing

• hands shaky / weak grip

• balance feels off

• thinking feels slow

• sleeping badly from cold

• you’re “hoping” food shows up instead of having a working system