I’ve been very intrigued by the carnivore diet for a while now. I haven’t listened to the podcast but am planning to this week.
1 When you eat something besides meat, is it on purpose or unintentional?
2. What are your regular meals?
3. When you go to a restaurant, do you tell the server not to bring anything else on the plate other than meat, or do you just not eat the sides when they are on your plate?
4. What are the biggest benefits you’ve seen from the carnivore diet?
I first tried carnivore in 2018 and it was the leanest I’ve been in my entire life. I used to hang out in body-building circles at the time, and I’ll never forget a friend asking me if I was prepping for a show. I worked an active job and was in the gym regularly and couldn’t keep fat on my body if I wanted to - very abnormal for my body type. Life has changed a lot since then, and I have bounced around with other diets experimenting since, but continue to come back to carnivore as my baseline.
1.) I eat a lot of non-meat foods, however they’re all animal or animal byproduct. Primarily eggs, cheese, milk. I’ve tried making /buying the carnivore noodles that you may see. The ones I made were gross and the ones I bought woke me up in the middle of the night with one of the worst stomach aches I’ve ever personally had.
2.) My biggest life crunch is time, and I travel almost every single weekend from January-May for work. My meals are mostly about convenience and accessibility.
- breakfast scrambles
-hard boiled eggs with the shitty hotel sausage or bacon
- deli ham and cheese roll ups (easy travel hack for me)
-steak (lots)
-precooked frozen meatballs (Costco or similar)
-precooked chicken thighs or wings (Costco or similar, and non-breaded to clarify)
- some fish
- in a pinch I’ll order 5 Wendy’s Singles with cheese with no bun.
- Jerky by the handful
- Lots of butter on/in everything above.
That about rounds it out. Simple and easy.
3. If I’m by myself or just my wife, yes, unless she wants the sides. If I’m with a group of friends or at business meal no. Mainly because I don’t want to come off as needy or picky.
4.
- when life gets busy and I cannot regularly exercise, I’m able to maintain my weight by simply adhering to the diet. There’s no thought or counting calories or scanning barcodes with MyFitnessPal or any of that nonsense.
- when I am able to exercise I’m able to lose weight without fuss
- in addition to the above, due to the surplus of protein it is my belief that I’m able to hold onto muscle easier while remaining in a caloric deficit
- everything involving food is simple (choosing what I’m going to eat, shop for, cook, order at restaurants, etc etc etc)
- I go to sleep easier (I have chronic insomnia though, so YMMV)
- fewer aches and pains in my joints
- more stable energy throughout the day
- my head feels clearer and I have less general day-to-day anxiety