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300 sats \ 4 replies \ @Signal312 7 Jan \ on: What has your experience been with the carnivore diet? alter_native
I love it! I've been doing it for about year, as a matter of fact just this minute I finished a reply where I talked about my carnivore diet (#840131).
I'll give my own replies to some of the comments that have come up:
Boredom- not a problem. I really thought it would be, but my mind just doesn't even really go there. I absolutely LOVE my breakfast of a beef patty and 2 eggs for breakfast (and lots of beef fat or butter). I look forward to it, every single morning. For other meals, there's a bit more variety. As a matter of fact, I just had some turkey. But nothing satisfies as deeply as beef.
Cost- is it expensive? If you buy the grass-fed grass-finished beef, from local farms - then yes, it'll be expensive. If you buy cheap ground beef and eggs, and look for sales, then I really think it will easily be LESS expensive than eating a standard American diet. You drop a lot of things - alcohol, all the processed foods, all the fruits and veggies that go bad so quickly. Your shopping list becomes really short. You can compare prices easily.
Health - I'm never going back to the standard diet mainly because my health and energy has improved so much on carnivore. I would do it even just for the improvements in mood. Previously I didn't have any serious mental issues, or depression or anything. But it's amazing how much better you can get, compared to being in an "okay" mood most of the time. Now I regularly feel exuberant.
Weight - I wasn't doing this to lose weight. I've gained about 3 pounds, probably because I started lifting weights.
Moderation - I don't believe in it anymore. Moderation is just the lie they tell you, in order to get you to eat "just a little bit" of some of their crappy addictive food-like products. This used to be an ad campaign, for potato chips:
Some good resources to look up are Dr Anthony Chaffee, Dr Shawn Baker, and Dr Ken Berry. Great podcasts and videos.
The way I started out was
- Knowing that Saifedean Ammous (author of The Bitcoin Standard, I respect him tremendously) was carnivore made it an option for me. When you first hear about it, carnivore sounds absolutely insane. But after knowing that Saifedean Ammous was doing it - it didn't seem so shocking.
- On Saifedean Ammous' podcast, he interviewed Nina Teicholtz, who wrote the amazing book, The Big Fat Surprise. I read it, and then started going further down the carnivore rabbit hole.
Here's a bunch of other posts that I've written, that are carnivore related:
Carnivore diet - looks like it fixed this nighttime disorder for me
Carnivore diet - believe it or not, it healed this oddball disorder for me
Can a keto/carnivore diet heal issues like depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar?
Latest steps in my carnivore path - and why you should consider a carnivore diet
Carnivore achievements unlocked
Taking a temporary break from mostly-carnivore diet during holidays
Sugar and Alzheimers
Kinda-carnivore diet is leading to WAY more energy
Question for carnivores/carnivore-curious folks
I'm transitioning ... to a more MEAT centric diet
This book is blowing my mind - The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholtz
One more note - I'd say try it for at least 60 to 90 days. A week or two may not be enough to start getting benefits.
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What you say about the cost makes a lot of sense, I've suspected as much.
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BTW I think you wrote earlier that you're from South Africa. Would love to hear more about what's happening over there. I think a lot of people would.
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I have a write up I'm planning to do about a Bitcoin community I visited!
On the topic of the diet, meat prices here are pretty reasonable so I should be alright cost wise.
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