I started the carnivore diet at the end of 2023 after being mostly plant based and a heavy spinach smoothy user for years. Two weeks in, my right eye started leaking, getting sore and itchy. I went to the doctor, but he wasn’t helpful. A few weeks later, the symptoms switched to the other eye. Around that time I learned about oxalate dumping and started getting itchy rashes in various places. This has been going on in cycles for 2 years now. The first 18 months were a nightmare, and starting to improve now over the last 6 months. My oxalate dumping symptoms are: Sore, itchy, leaky gritty eyes, brain fog, fatigue, irritability, skin rashes, cloudy urine. A sand like film of the stuff collects on the inside of my reading glasses when I’m in a flare. When it comes from my skin, it’s like small grains of sand work their way to the surface, at first causing intense itching, then as it penetrates the surface it becomes sore as it comes out. I have a collection of these little pieces that have come from the bumps on my stomach and chest. The rash looks like hives. When my eyes are bad, I can’t tolerate bright light, or stay outside for long, I’ve had to stop driving for periods too when its been bad. I know for most people, these symptoms are fairly mild and don’t last longer than a few weeks, but I was poisoning myself with raw spinach for about 5 years, handfulls of it every day, thinking I was doing something good for myself. Anyway, I was wondering if any other ex-vegan spinach eaters went carnivore, and what your experience has been like.
comment_12981Enjoyed the video. I was working so I didn't get to participate. Maybe next week.
Couple good points about supplements and dairy. I drink milk on occasion and use a whey protein supplement.
The dairy is just like mentioned in the video, very individualistic. I do fine and have no issues. When I was losing some of the weight, I did have stalls and over time I linked the stalls to the milk. When weight loss was still a goal the milk was limited for me. I'm down somewhere between 90-95 pounds and drink a couple glasses a week, or so. Milk was designed to make us grow, and that it will. As babies and toddlers, it makes us grow up and as adults is can make up grow out, if that makes any sense at all.
I struggle to eat enough protein to hit the target for hypertrophy. I'm amazed at how much others can eat, not only per meal but per day. It is a struggle for me to eat 200 grams of protein (1 gram per pound of ideal lean body mass). If I eat a 14-16oz. steak with a couple thee eggs I am stuffed and that full feeling lasts for ~24 hours or so, somedays even longer. In order to hit the target, I have to eat another meal that I do not really want, which is another carnivore irony in itself. Prior to carnivore I could eat a 14-16oz steak with a couple-three eggs three times per day and do a desert with 4-5 Mountain Dews during the day. I suppose it was all the carbs and sugars, cravings and maybe even addictions, that was telling me to eat/telling me I was hungry. I simply don't feel comfortable eating large amounts of food. I sort of 'protein cheat' with a protein drink.
For me, this is working. I dropped 95lbs in 13 months. I have had some muscle growth but am much stronger (more plates).
Good video. I hate I missed participating.
Scott