Month 9: We’ve been doing carnivore since April 2020, and wow has it changed my life for the better in so many ways. One of the ways I think that people don’t talk about is just how SIMPLE it makes eating and cooking meals. Eating simple creates a positive relationship with my food not only in the sense that it loves me back (relieves my health issues) but for example, I don’t track anything, I don’t have to look at my macros to make sure I’m hitting certain numbers. When I did keto I was just obsessing over how much fat I was getting and what I had to eat next or if I was counting net carbs correctly, etc. it’s pretty simple when you eat an animal based diet. I eat till I am full. THAT’S IT!
I think a lot of people also wonder about if we “cheat” and yes we sometimes do, and EVERY single time I regret it. I get very sick, it’s like being on an elimination diet and every time you try to reintroduce sugar or gluten (& some vegetables) you realize how shitty those things are for you. But yes, so we do have cheat meals, we try to have cheat meals instead of cheat days so it still follows some discipline and you don’t go off the rails in a way that’s too hard to recover from. I will admit every time I do cheat here is what happens: bloating, stomach pain, feeling like you have IBS, sometimes throwing up, acne that pops up, irritability, headaches, bad sleep, bad mood, brain fog, you name it. So yeah, NOT WORTH IT.
I am very thankful to have found carnivore and I would’ve never realized how bad my body was reacting to sugar, gluten, soy, vegetable oils, some vegetables, etc unless I went down this path.
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Actually so nice to read this cause this is exactly what happens to me to, every time I cheat. I also feel that this has gotten worse on carnivore. I’ve had periods after starting carnivore where I was off of it for a while (like on holidays or around Christmas) and then a beer, for instance, is ok whereas one single beer while on carnivore really fucks me up. I do feel my best on strict carnivore though, that’s for sure.
May I ask, how do you deal with things like Christmas and especially holidays/traveling? I really want to travel again (like a few months perhaps or at least a few weeks) and sticking to carnivore just makes this more difficult – but I also don’t want to have all these symptoms all the time.
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