Today is the first day of January and is also the first day of World Carnivore Month. To that end, let's challenge ourselves to eat a carnivore diet for the entire month of January. The type of carnivore diet and the level of strictness you choose to do is entirely up to you. Examples of carnivore diets include the following...
1) The Lion Diet. A person eating the Lion Diet only consumes the flesh of ruminant animals, water, and salt.
2) The BBBE Diet. BBBE is an acronym for Beef, Butter, Bacon, and Eggs.
3) The Carnivore Diet. This allows for the consumption of any and all animals and animal by-products, including dairy.
In any of the above examples, the object of course is to not consume any plants as part of your diet. Of course, we're not going to micromanage hoe you prepare your food, so your use of seasonings is entirely your own personal choice.
IF your circumstances don't allow you to go full on carnivore in January, then you can participate in this topic by challenge yourself to do better, above and beyond what you have been doing. For example, if you have still been eating grains, seed oils, refined sugar, or drinking alcohol, challenge yourself to avoid these items and just eat a clean, single ingredient whole foods diet such as clean keto, ketovore, or animal based.
We encourage you to check in daily, and share what you have eaten, perhaps a weigh-in if you're willing, and enjoy in some small talk. Participants in this topic will be entered into a drawing for a prize at the end of the month.
So I've been carnivore for about 4 years now. It's done wonders to my sleep, neck and wrist pains, brain fog and physical performance.
But the whole time my BP slowly rised, I used to be about 100/65, 2 years ago 110/72, and now last week i hit 120/80 so I'm starting to get a bit worried. It's a bit confusing since I see everyone reporting the opposite, so I'm wondering if I've been doing something wrong. Despite this, my resting heart rate hasn't budged, still 59-64.
I'm 32. My diet consists of no supplements, beef (daily), turkey (1/3 days), salmon (1/3 days), bacon (daily), eggs (daily), butter (daily), cheese (1/2 days) and about 3-4g of pink salt (daily), macros balanced at about 50/50 protein/fat by weight (so like 25/75 by calorie). I usually do a small fast on Sundays (skip breakfast and lunch). I do about 4hrs cycling a week (roughly 30min commute to work a day) and 3000-4000 steps a day (I like going on an evening walk with an audiobook).
I still "feel" really good so I'm very reluctant to change my diet, but if I can't turn this trend around I might not have a choice. So I'm posting this here hoping maybe some people in the community might have some insight on what's up. Any ideas?
Edited by Chiptune