Bloody Hell!

(Jason Ford) #1

Hi there fellow Meat Heads!

So, here we go, will try to make it short.

One month ago the wife introduced me to the whole paleo thing and As a slowly fattening 41 year old male I thought what the hell, why not!
Everything was going well, feeling good, shedding a little weight, awesome!
Then I saw a video of people eating just meat, and I thought yup, f$&k it! I’m a man! Let’s go! Filled the fridge with shitloads of meat, threw out the spuds and stuff and got stuck in!
The spare tyre around my guts is disappearing and I’m losing weight pretty fast. However, yesterday I hit the wall hard, runny nose, weak legs, lethargic and generally feel like shite! Just wondering if this is quite normal?

Cheers

#2

The runny nose sounds suspiciously like a lurgy but the other issues could be electrolytes - are you salting your food & supplementing with magnesium?

(Jason Ford) #3

Hi there safi, yup just mixed up a teaspoon of pink salt with water and skulled it! And low and behold Ive perked up quite a bit so I’m thinking I need to up my game in this area.

Cheers

(Ellie) #4

Welcome Jason!

Yes, salt and electrolytes are an ongoing area to keep an eye on.
Other than that, eat if you are hungry, don’t if you’re not and when you do eat, eat meat and fat til you’re full!

(Ken) #5

IMO, your protein macro is probably getting too high, and your fat macro is too low. That’s what occasionally happens to me, creating the same symptoms. You want protein at about 35 percent and fat at 60 percent. That means eating protein to fat at a two to one ratio, by weight. Fat is a little more than twice as caloric as protein, so you eat half as much of it.

(Lonnie Hedley) #6

What kind? Macros aren’t as important on carnivore as they are on keto, but you still want to be eating higher fat than protein (see rabbit starvation).

(Jason Ford) #7

Just an update if anyone is interested,
Day 20, Meat only, lost about 6kilos so far.
I don’t feel as rough as what I did a week ago but my energy levels are still not what they should be, still feeling slightly nauseous and got this weird almost imperceptible tingling around my body. Anyone else had these symptoms?