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've been doing carnivore for about 4 months now and I gotta say, I don't know if I will switch back to keto, there is much more clarity, there are 0% food addictions, something that kept popping up with keto and oh man, just the calmness in my head to not think about food anymore. The freedom it gives is incredible.
In the beginning, I mostly woke up at 2-3 AM and couldn't sleep anymore because I didn't eat enough fat and my body was adjusting. I was eating so much meat in the beginning because I was constantly hungry, haha. Now I'm completely adapted, but I just wake up at 3-3:30 every night. Mostly 3 AM exactly, not even a minute late. After that, sometimes I can keep sleeping, but I keep waking up a little bit and then sleep some more. When I check my Oura ring, I wake up around 4-5 times.
I tried experimenting with some things like kefir and berries. I also quit caffeïne and quit eating at 3 PM to experiment. But for some reason, this keeps happening, even when I take magnesium and cherry tart supplements before sleep. I'm also very tired at 9-10 PM if I'm not behind a computer or anything. This didn't happen before I did carnivore.
Now I feel good and have enough rest I guess. I can work a lot in the day and have energy for other things, but I like to sleep 7-8 hours straight. Do more people experience this?