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Welcome. Former soldier myself. Yes it’s hard to refrain from sharing with everyone one you meet about the good news of carnivore. My wife helps keep me in check. “But honey, they asked.” Typical w
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Welcome. Veteran here as well.
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Wow. Thank you again for the information Geezy. I just read about oxalate dumping. I have been a little itchy recently too and have a bit of a rash on my face. An article that I read suggests that a s
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"World Carnivore Month" January Challenge!
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.-
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Retired military-type here. I had always managed reasonable fitness, at least enough to not get into trouble, but my weight and general broken-ness seemed to increase with age and I just assumed this was the natural course of things. I'm 5'10" and was hovering at around 200 lbs when I started a keto-like diet and changed my workouts while on a deployment. It worked, I dropped 20 lbs and was able to mostly maintain for the rest of my career. This "maintenance" still incorporated a lot of plants, as well as a no-holds cheat day once a week or so.
After retirement, I suppose I slacked off a bit and the weight started creeping up again, joint pains increased, and, in retrospect, my mental health was probably not ideal. I was starting to get desperate a little over a year ago and tried some fasting. I did one week with water only, and it had amazing results as far as my mental clarity and general mood, and it made the transition to eating only one meal a day really easy which also helped me maintain. I still had problems though, I'd damage something (shoulders are bad, occasional muscle strain, etc) every couple of months while working out, and by the end of last year, my knees were getting so bad that I felt like it was time to start that medical spiral of surgeries and eventual replacement.
I abruptly decided to switch to meat only around the middle of January, no doubt subtly influenced by various youtube videos or other social media, but with some apprehension as well, as there are just as many videos out there telling me I'm straight up murdering myself by doing this. I told myself I would try it for 2 weeks, just to see how I felt. I was a week into it when I picked up Dr. Shawn Baker's book and that helped allay some of my concerns.
So here I am, end of February and still sticking with it. It's freaking magical; had I found a drug that has this kind of general effect on everything from my mood to my various aches and pains, I would be a junky. My insomnia is fixed, I'm starting to work out again and don't feel like I'm going to break something. People who I see fairly infrequently ask why I look different. I'm not anxious or angry. Really, my only problem is that I feel like I may appear crazy; I want to tell everyone that I've found something supernatural and I know how that would look. So instead of shouting from the rooftops, I'll post here for now. Nice to meet you all!