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.
It is sort of ironic to speak on carnivore carb intake, which I guess moves the needle to some degree of keto, but I found this interesting. Several months ago I posted about a guy at the gym who went strict carnivore for several years. I am guessing he is late 50's/early 60's but he is jacked. He is strict carnivore six days a week but on Thursdays he eats a couple three sweet potatoes because Friday is higher weight/higher sets/higher weight/higher volume day in the gym. He uses the carbs for glycogen and fuel for the next days work. He said after going carnivore he felt some drop in performance/energy when doing burst type work. The all-day steady energy was present but if he went higher in intensity he felt some drain early on in the work and dialed salt and water and timed his meals and nothing seem to get him where he wanted to be/how he wanted to feel. He added the carbs one day a week before his big workout and it bridged that gap.
I thought it was an interesting concept and have thought about it myself but just not ready to rock the boat with my immune system health after going carnivore. With my luck the very carb I choose will be the one that triggered my auto-immune response way back when. LOL.
This is the first really pro-carnivore advocate to speak to the addition of carbs for sporting/workout energy expenditures. (others may be out there but most are not exactly pro-carnivore)
Good video.
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