Avoiding carb relapse

[Scott F.]

The 'boring' part and eating out is the reason my son has tried the diet a couple three different times. My wife the same. 

Long before carnivore I was a very boring eater. My Pops would say, "eat your supper because we have work to do tomorrow", or 'eat your breakfast that house is not going to build itself". 

From early on I associated food as the fuel to do work. I never seen it as an 'enjoyable' experience or "Let's go try the new restaurant". That part of eating never clicked in my brain. When we cook pigs, or shoulders or briskets over fire I enjoy the cooking more than the eating. 

I guess food has been more sustenance to me than enjoyment or part of having a good time. 

I could eat a bologna sandwich 6 days a week, and if I could swing a peanut butter and jell sandwich on Sunday, I thought I was golden. 

As I see my son and my wife make the attempts I can see how 'boring' can be a drawback.

Scott

[Idunno]

Try being a single guy with dating nowadays. the main hobby single women have is going to the new restaurants and being “a foodie”. Especially when the restaurant foods are overpriced and they use seed oils and who knows what else

women have to go out to the new restaurants to get selfies to show everyone online how they went to a restaurant lol

Every woman’s dating profile says “I’m a foodie” “I like tacos”

[Orweller]

1 hour ago, Idunno said:

Yeah I keep relapsing. It’s more of an alcohol addiction thing, where I get a sort of anxiety feeling about once every 4 days that leads me to drink booze

At least I pick plain booze with no carbs? lol

my new strategy prioritizes getting more sleep and avoiding stress. There’s some discomfort/anxiety I need to work through without reaching for a bottle

but also, steak and eggs gets boring after a while. It gets tiresome and time consuming to cook food every day, then clean up 

but this winter I have made some amazing hot soups. Yeah I boil steaks in water to make beef broth and near the end I add eggs to make an egg drop broth soup. Then lastly I add plenty of butter

i do the same with shrimp. These hot clear broths with butter added are great

it still gets boring

Consider this, food may not be boring if you do not consider it a form of entertainment. And this is how we are conditioned to see food. 

The drink is tricky. Maybe tapering down slowly? I've heard stopping cold turkey is not a good thing to begin with. 

The reducing stress and focus on sleep is an excellent strategy. 

Could you not choose a day where you just fry up some burger paddies so you can microwave them later? To minimize boredom, perhaps some different spices on each? 

Lastly, being healthy is boring. Being unhealthy and addicted is not. Perhaps this statement shifts that view on what boring really is. Change the way you look at things, and you may be able to deal with boring. 

[Orweller]

56 minutes ago, Idunno said:

Try being a single guy with dating nowadays. the main hobby single women have is going to the new restaurants and being “a foodie”. Especially when the restaurant foods are overpriced and they use seed oils and who knows what else

women have to go out to the new restaurants to get selfies to show everyone online how they went to a restaurant lol

Every woman’s dating profile says “I’m a foodie” “I like tacos”

People say they're a foodie. But they'll never say that they're a druggie. 

[ketomonster]

I'm married but I watch a lot of "red pill" content on youtube.  Women will scam a guy just for dinner (meaning she has no intention of anything else)  do with that info what you will.  Love to hear your stories.

[ketomonster]

1 hour ago, Idunno said:

 

Every woman’s dating profile says “I’m a foodie” “I like tacos”

I think thats womanese for Im overweight and will expect you to pay for my dinner

Edited February 22 by ketomonster

[Idunno]

No kidding right. Online dating is extremely bad on mental health. I had to delete my account this morning because it triggers alcoholism lol

Men that skipped the online dating app era won in the game of dating. The apps poisoned relationships 

women are addicted to the unbelievable amount of endless attention they receive from online dating and sugar daddy apps they do that on the lowdown to afford more expensive lifestyles 

when you meet a woman from online dating she’s likely been out with hundreds of men if not thousands. They will serial date guys for breakfast lunch dinner drinks and anything else

Edited February 22 by Idunno

[ketomonster]

I pity men today trying to find a good woman.  with family law and entitled women being what they are a lot of guys are simply saying no thanks to marriage. I for one wouldn't blame them in the least. Try finding a woman that is willing to go 50/50 on dates. they insist they're strong and independent and don't need a man until the bill comes.  

[Geezy]

I don’t get the boring thing. I’ve never gotten bored eating this way but I think it’s because I do cook a lot of different meats in a lot of different ways so I’ve got a lot of variety. We are only limited by our imagination.
I’m an old fart so the whole dating scene these days is nuts but I can tell you this, there is no woman worth me wrecking my health over. My bride and I have been together for 42 years but I wouldn’t change my diet for her or anyone else.


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[Idunno]

On 2/22/2025 at 7:50 AM, Orweller said:

People say they're a foodie. But they'll never say that they're a druggie. 

That’s what the restaurants are doing: they sell addictive food. Lots of carbs and lots of hidden ingredients to make it more addictive than the restaurants next door

as a Type 1 Diabetic I am more tuned in with what they are doing than most people. And I live in a food mecca full of restaurants, bars and cafes.

they are all basically Carbohydrate dealers but you won’t see the full picture as a non diabetic because one French fry won’t mess you up and you are not connected to a blood glucose monitor that clearly displays the spikes in blood sugar after eating this kind of stuff

but it doesn’t mean these restaurants are not basically drug dealers of carbohydrate rich and addictive foods

[Orweller]

9 hours ago, Idunno said:

That’s what the restaurants are doing: they sell addictive food. Lots of carbs and lots of hidden ingredients to make it more addictive than the restaurants next door

as a Type 1 Diabetic I am more tuned in with what they are doing than most people. And I live in a food mecca full of restaurants, bars and cafes.

they are all basically Carbohydrate dealers but you won’t see the full picture as a non diabetic because one French fry won’t mess you up and you are not connected to a blood glucose monitor that clearly displays the spikes in blood sugar after eating this kind of stuff

but it doesn’t mean these restaurants are not basically drug dealers of carbohydrate rich and addictive foods

That awareness becomes a blessing. With my auto-immune disease I quickly figured out what some food did to me. You start looking at food differently, because you have a direct, almost immediate response to it. While normal folk can eat it for years before the health consequences take their toll. Type 2 diabetes, for instance. 

[Idunno]

Exactly. But there is zero chance I ever would have gotten this far in my dietary habits if I was not T1D. Before I became T1D I used to eat anything I wished

and I was already a health nerd before my diagnosis so I must admit T1D is a lot to handle 

and I could exercise as much as needed 

Edited February 24 by Idunno