[WARNING THATS A REALLY LONG POST] Carnivore for an half year, here is the story of how i found the way. I knew great victories, I knew fighting with myself into crazy training to feel I deserved any calories I ate and so I knew REDS, I knew the slow descent into hell and i finally knew that fatal injury which makes you realize that you need to stop the nonsense... I remember get out of the hospital with canes because my hips were completely f*cked and two days after already doing 5km walk with the canes, recovery was not even something existing in my stupid head... Then I knew what it is to be at the bottom with not a single physical capacity left and to have to develop everything again, during this period I oriented myself more than ever on endurance, (I was before someone really explosive doing lot of sport of high intensity and impact) during this endurance era I kinda make peace with myself and were not as strict as I always been, I was changing after years of military routine... but endurance is endurance I slowly started to become the perfect type of the "zombie runner"... seriously all these guys doing endurance, especially when it's start to expend to marathon or even more are mostly not feeling in good shape at all... after months and months to continuously complete weeks over 70km the injuries started to show up again but not as a one and only explosion like the first time but more little ones at intervals... outside of the high volume factor I was not eating enough again as I always did... and not the good food (I always been strict on my diet but "strict" based on what?... on usual poor recommandations that gives most of sports guys... So with all those little injuries i finally got bored. And I decided to stop to run FOR EVER! I actually started to hate it. Then I discovered "race walking" (if you never seen it look a few videos the movement can look a bit weird but that's a wonderful activity) I always walked a lot but at this moment walk became a sport! So I combined it with strength training (the only activity I never stopped for almost my whole life)... I felt in better shape than ever during this time but it was still something weird... I was always inconsistent, especially mentally... I'm a severe autist and yes it's not help me to feel good every days but I don't want of that excuse to let my own life f*cking me... one day I have just no idea from where but after considered and experimented everything with food I finally discovered something I never heard before "the keto diet"... at this moment I needed to move really really quickly, even consuming extra amount of oats on the few last days to bring forward the date by which I will no longer have any carbs into my house LOL... I never felt bad at the beginning in keto, probably because I had the chance that for years I always had a relatively reasonable distribution between fats and carbs in my diet compared to most people that eat a standard type diet. My performance stagnated for a while but I never have a fall. But the progress out of the gym came to an impressive speed! Headache, constant drowsiness, heatstroke, anxiety skyrocketing after meals, constipation... all was gone! and it's only now that I name all these issues that I realize how I was miserable when I was as it seems leading a healthy life, eating what is considered as "healthy foods" and aside of it being a great sportmen... Bullsh*t.... The keto diet was already a great improvement, but not everything was solved like the arthritis and joint pain I developped over years of eating sh*t and training to the limits, as well as a bad thermoregulation, my relation with food was still bad as I was constantly continuing to track my calories intake and stayed to a relatively low daily intake... I think the final transition has finally came of a sudden boredom of spending so much time to eat per day... I eat really slowly and in keto I was eating a lot of veggies so it was endless... I firstly got ride of the veggies, then during 2 or 3 weeks i finished the 2 foods I had in reserve at home, which were olive oil and nuts, then the cupboards ended up empty and the only things I had to think was to go get my meat, my butter, my eggs and my cheese, that's it. The carnivore definitely ended the last issues mentionned that were remains in keto. And the most crazy was about the sport, I came a beast in carnivore, it's simple the hormones start living again! No more digestive fatigue too, ou dont realize how it consume to digest... After five years of struggle with myself, to loathe my fate I'm back. Probably my greatest pride is to reach again numbers of cals I not saw since about 4 years, reaching close to 3k , 3k yes... but 3k for someone that is 160cm and 47kg! Until now I was almost limiting to strength training every day and "race walking" as became much rarer, but now that I am completely adapted to this diet I have the desire to do more again! (without going to excess for sure) And by doing more I will eat more and my greatest challenge is now to get some additional weight to simply have more reserve. I actually eat 2 times a days, on a whole day I eat about 500/750 gr of meat, and lot of cheese and eggs, and there is the butter... I'm on a consecutive streak of 100gr per days for months and months 🤣 but now I'm closer to 150gr a day. Hope some smiled reading my post. Take care. J
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Sort of pick up around 16 minutes. It gets into breaking a fast with high fats/moderate proteins and how that can mimic the fast and extend the benefits of ketones days after breaking the fast.
I think this sort of explains the two to three days of being super energetic after the end of the extended fasts. I am thinking it is an individual response as well but in theory, this video sort of backs up how I was feeling.
Tonight, I hit 72 hours of the water fast. It has been pretty similar as the other fasts and is actually much easier than it sounds. There was a time I barely went 96 minutes without eating something or drinking a soft drink and back then going 96 hours without eating would be straight craziness. I'm probably going to break this fast around 84 hours tomorrow morning when I get home. This possibly can go to the video posted about "fasting too much". Since I have body fat to "spare" the longer fasts can help with fat loss but more importantly it is the metabolic return. Since I am 90+ pounds lighter than I was 11 months ago I may get to a point where there is diminishing returns on the length of the fasts as well as how often I do them. The fasting should be providing some stressors to the body and at some point, the body will start to adapt making the fast a normal part of life. From there, with that normalcy, it could start losing some of its effect. I read the 'body is smarter than the brain' and at some point, we need to listen to our body more than we do with the brain'.
This video and Dana White had a couple good excerpts (and the ones I am experiencing but could not figure out how to explain). We are constantly exposed to food thru brilliant marketing. There is pretty much no part of our daily life where this 'brilliant marketing' keeps food at our disposal. During the fast, for me between 48 and 72 hours, I am not physically hungry, and my body is not calling for any type of sustenance. I have a ton of energy. I feel really good. I'm pulling 12–13-hour night shifts. I am going to the gym the morning after the shift. My body is telling me it is in a good place. However, my brain is constantly thinking about food. I'm watching a video on carnivore and fasting, and every frame is a person cutting an amazing piece of meat. I immediately start thinking about eating and how I am going to break the fast. This would taste really good right now and my brain starts the negotiation about 48 or 72 hours is long enough and the benefits are there already so let's eat now. We have an over-abundance of food access, and the marketers have made it OK to walk around the house and eat out of habit and boredom, which is a vicious cycle in itself.
Babbling again. But the last part of the video sort of proofed how I felt coming off my last couple of fasts. Being fat adaptive already, fasting followed by a high fat/moderate protein breaking of the fast keeps the ketones going for longer after the break. The opposite would be if I did the same fast and broke it with a heavier carb meal which would kick me right out of ketosis and the ketones would be drastically reduced, if not stopped altogether.
The more I look into it, there may be something to this carnivore thing after all. LOL
Scott