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.
I am going to start the carnivore diet this week and I plan to increase my meat consumption (only beef) over the week until I eat about 1-1.2 kg of beef a day as that would be roughly the amount of kcal I eat now (3000) and then adjust it up or down based on how my weight reacts (I also train quite a lot so I don't want to lose too much weight as I am trying to build muscle).
For convenience I plan to use a slow cooker over night (I have used it in the past for meat and it really frees up a lot of time) and put the meat in the slow cooker and let it cook on the low setting over night (I think it is set at about 70 degrees (158 Fahrenheit))
One potential "issue" I have heard though is that using a slow cooker can produce a lot of histamines. Is this a problem or what is the deal with histamines? Are they only a problem if you are sensitive to histamines and is that easy to detect? From what I understand meat is high in histamines in general also?
I am contemplating getting a Steam Cooker instead as from what I have read this should be one of the methods with the least chance of producing histamines? Is a Steam Cooker in stainless steel good or should it be glass?
I also read that you should cook the meat as soon as possible after buying to minimize histamine accumulation. I assume this also means you should freeze the meat as soon as possible when you get it? (I buy in bulk). In the past I have stored it in the refrigiator until close to the expiring date since this was recommended to tenderize the meat, but this might also lead to higher histamine then?