January is 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 how 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 (valued at $100) at the end of the month.

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• Each reply to this topic counts as one entry. You may post multiple times. But...

• Back to back replies may be merged and counted as a single entry to restrict users from spamming the system.

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• Joining the YouTube membership will also count as bonus entries, depending on tier.

• Participants must be residents within the USA.

Edited January 7Jan 7 by Bob
Added the Brief Rules

Indeed, there lies the addiction, at least for me it was. The snickers, plus the ding dong, Etc. Every day, year after years. Of course there was bread. Pasta, potatoes, on it goes most all 'comfort' foods are loaded with carbs.

1 hour ago, Bob said:

It's an elimination diet that heals but you have to have been sick enough to have the motivation to stick to it. If you live an active healthy life that consists of eating a variety of foods, then there is no need to restrict yourself like we do. You're right that nobody dies from eating one Snickers Bar. It's a repeated pattern of Snickers overdosing that'll do you in, lol.

For years I ripped on people who watched videos on youtube and reels etc. and now the tables have somewhat turned. I watch so many carnivore and animal based eating videos I can't remember the titles and hardly remember the names of the people making the video. I think it is Primal Gal or Primal Bod but she gets really deep in this one video about how everything turns to sugar, basically saying that a slice of an apple with peanut butter is no different than a snickers bar, it all turns to sugar.

I eliminated sugar for a long stretch and found some healing I never seen coming. It was like a killer weight loss program with an even better bonus plan.

I sort of accidentally/intentionally (mostly just not paying attention) reintroduced some sugar thru the protein drinks I was buying. Then at Christmas I ate some mashed potatoes and green beans (with green beans being one of greatest things on earth, LOL).

On both occasions I learned that sugar is way more powerful than meat. On strict carnivore I had basically zero appetite. If I ate today I had no interest in eating, no did I fell hungry until the next day, and sometimes even late into the next day. I have said before I have been amazed at how much other people can eat at one sitting. But since I started using the protein drinks and the little bit of sugar in the protein powder I have an appetite.

The little bit of sugar has sort of overcome the satiability of the fatty meats.

Going in to carnivore I had zero cravings and had zero issues with breaking away from sugars and vegetables and breads and pastas. But since bringing back sugar I have an appetite and I can see how important it is to choose the right things to eat when that happens. The sugar triggers the appetite and the appetite does not care what you choose bring satisfaction.

If one chooses crappy sugars the body will crave more sugars. The meats can off set some of that with some satiation and some satisfaction.

I think I learned quite a bit by doing things the wrong way, LOL.

Scott