No but I am not that committed. If I want to eat something, I eat it.
I have no social life, I do have a high-carber SO and yes, cooking and baking for him makes things a tad more difficult (not nearly as much when he cooks though… I never mix meat with vegs but he does and I may get torn there!) but I do like challenges and I can go off if I really, really want. It’s not always an okay option, like in the next 2 weeks (if I can’t do a few weeks of carnivore starting tomorrow, I will be highly displeased with myself… but I know I theoretically can do it so I will be right…) but I am healthy enough to go off a lot and feel pretty good. As long as I don’t overeat epically at the same time, that only feels great on carnivore.
It would bother me if my SO ate very processed things. But he eats the food we make, almost exclusively from simple ingredients we are okay with. We are both health-conscious and seem to have a default woe that is good for us.
Safisfying the itch… That can be a problem. I have a part that I call my rebellious inner self. I am usually not in that mode but when it happens, I change and want something I don’t normally want and it’s irresistible. I feel restricted while normally I don’t as carnivore food tastes and feels best for me. Yes, a bite of something else can be nice here and there but when I am in that rebellious mode, that’s urgent, more serious and usually not so good for me. I don’\t get sick and I don’t have a choice so I itch the urge but I would love to lose that confusing state. Or make it less frequent, at least.
Food can’t sooth me and I do the latter with carnivore food, usually (but I want my hours of actual sunshine too). But ask me after 2 weeks without fruits, maybe I will say something different … Though I did that once and didn’t miss my fruits… I need a longer time for that.
I NEED not to feel I had to sacrifice anything. I am bad with compromises and sacrifices. So I only go as far as I still am in my hedonistic comfort zone. I do train sometimes but that’s fun. A little push is okay, forcefulness and lack of flexibility isn’t my style.
I do feel lucky. I am healthy enough to handle some plant carbs here and there. I always loved my animal food, meat is newer though as I eat very little, often none for many months for decades. But meat is tasty and useful and I am glad I don’t need to spend a lot of money and time on vegs now… (I only tried out carnivore when I lost my interest in most vegs. How it did happen, I have no idea. It was surreal for many months, I was such a huge veggie lover that I couldn’t stick to keto for more than 7 weeks because my 40-45g net carbs a day allowed a very small amount of vegs and I needed more. And now I don’t want them even on my off days. Some happens, a pickle or a sorrel leaf is even desired by me sometimes but that’s it.)
So I am lucky but I totally understand it can be very tough if one must choose health and lose things in the process. Probably all of us have hardships and challenges but some has actual great losses.
My hedonism works in a way, at least regarding food that I can’t feel restricted or having losses. It would bother me horribly. This is so strong that I suppose it would be very hard for me to be in a situation where I really wouldn’t like the woe I really need. I would change my taste and viewpoint, anything but not enjoying my woe. It’s just a hypothesis and I couldn’t get used to just any diet, of course (low-fat is my room 101 but high-carb isn’t good either at this point) but I think this is the case. I actually trained myself out of habits, tastes I have found very unfortunate. Like sweet drinks and not liking leaner meats. I still only like lean pork and liver and maybe quark but it’s a big win for me.
But maybe I am just lucky that my tastes and healthy food met well enough. Not completely but I can smooth it out eventually. Still, my very deep desire to enjoy my food and have it healthy too motivates me to change and that’s precious.
As we both changed our woe and then I went further, I had easier and harder times. The worst was when I did vegetarian keto (no veggie dishes except some very weak - I mean, mostly water - soup I liked but he didn’t eat) and he did vegetarian high-carb. Sometimes I felt we have no common ground! I started to cook separate dishes back then.
It’s WAY better now as we both eat meat (he doesn’t do it every day but it’s still a good option at least once or twice a week), he just needs some simple side dishes. We both love eggs too…
With relative visits it’s similar, carnivore is way easier than vegetarian… (If I was an Indian, it probably wouldn’t be the case but well, I am a Hungarian…)
And anyway, my own woe allows super simple dishes, almost no work! Cooking some more elaborated, almost vegless vegetarian carnivore food for me and something else for him, that was too much sometimes, it’s nothing like that now.
But I am glad we are only 2 persons, I somewhat like cooking (I am just lazy… especially since carnivore as carni food is perfect without much work. but I still like baking even if it’s much more complicated) and we even have common ground. Oh and my SO cooks in the weekend and may eat that food for 4-5 days so I barely need to cook anything for him. He makes his own breakfasts and most of his desserts. I have it really easy.
My problem is that I love to eat with him. His workday lunch is at 3pm so it’s very hard for me to have my first meal later than that. It may or may not be a problem though I do think it’s a too early time for me, I would have it better if I ate just 1-2 hours later.
But food wise it’s fine, we both eat our own food and don’t want the other person’s. (Except maybe fruits on my part. It’s my number one potencial difficulty since carnivore. It wasn’t a problem on mere keto. I don’t need, usually don’t want but I definitely LOVE fruits. And they are there. ALL the time. My SO is a big fruit lover. Me too but he actually eats them all the time. I don’t feel it as loss as I always eat some if I truly desire some and it’s not often but I need to be determined to skip several days as I don’t see the occasional tiny fruit eating as a clearly bad idea.)
Around food but the connection isn’t about food, at least in my family. (My family is the only interaction I have nowadays.) We have a family Christmas dinner at my SO’s Mom and it’s most definitely not about the food. I don’t even like that food much, she cooks great but I prefer the usual food there, not the Christmas one. Last time my SO’s brother and his betrothed came only for talk, changing gifts and they didn’t even had any food. We did that with more distant relatives before. I don’t see why the food is important. We all can eat whatever we want and can… I can talk with the others just the same either way. Maybe it’s differences in our families but I never really understood the problem. If one is determined, I often lacked that but when I had it, I ate my own food. I even bring desserts for Christmas dinner (as part of my tiny Christmas gift, my SO’s Mom has diabetes but she still bakes with sugar and I bring some nice keto treat she loves, it’s a remake of a supermarket treat that lost the marzipan part since then, they replaced it with something cheaper but I make proper marzipan just a way more almond-y one than normal as no one in my family like the original sweetness).
It’s a bit funny that I rarely eat such sweet, carby treats despite being pretty healthy while people with diabetes eat so much carbs but we are different and not everyone can go easily as far as I did at my first big jump… And I came a long way since then (despite my lack of discipline. I like my low-carb food). My health-consciousness is pretty high too, I don’t see that in people often, I don’t understand why.
No, people got around and interacted around the fire while/before/after eating since they had fire and cooked food on it I am pretty sure. It’s human. Joy (to be able to eat), relaxation, merrymaking, interaction of a very social species…
Oh I see you thought about that too… I do think food was in the center of most non-official human interactions and most longer official too… We need to eat so often, we like to do it, we can show off there…
Really? It’s such an anime thing to me. Or food blog thing. But I eat with my SO and he barely can tell me if he LIKES what I cooked, it’s a bit frustrating sometimes. But if he eats it, it must be edible and I just try to depend on my own judgement (I typically still taste my new creations. I have very few new carby creations and most of them happens on very off days so it doesn’t interfere with my carnivore plans, thankfully).
Well enjoying food is nice, I am a hedonist with big emphasis on food, I just dislike the overexaggerated bliss or the need to tell it’s oh so awesome. Well I do that to my SO’s Mom but she makes the absolute best soups ever, I can’t resist there…
But if it’s appreciating food, taste is only the most important thing (except when it’s the look), not the whole thing. I can enjoy a food without eating it, it’s a skill 
Oh, I am sorry for your true loss 
But if it’s worth it, what can you do? Merely continuing what you do. Sometimes we must choose (quite often, actually).
I often hate political correctness (my country is different in that from the US, for example, anyway) but I can’t imagine what it has to do with my chosen woe. No one has much to do with that, it’s my business. I may have it easy now but I was a vegetarian for very many years and people didn’t accept it (except part of my family, they were great. well Mom cooked vegetarian food 5-6 days of the week, it would be a bit odd from her… but my Aunt couldn’t handle it at all so visits were a bit tense. I was totally unrepentant and stubborn though) so I experienced what it is like to have some “abnormal” diet (and one would thing ovo-lacto vegetarianism is pretty normal… well, it didn’t seem so. almost no one was ready for that, not even restaurants). And while I can go off carni/keto/low-carb any time, a vegetarian can’t. It probably both helped and made it a tiny bit more challenging.
(I still was a tad flexible, I did eat food cooked with meat when I was starving and that was the only option in that whole area. It was the middle of the forest, I was cold and tired too. That happened once. I starved a bit first, I had principles. But even more common sense and hedonism 
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I can relate tremendously. Maybe I got into carnivore because the carni threads on this forum were such warm nests… And the people very accepting and mostly quite lovely. While my vegetarian, too carby keto just didn’t work so well. I just couldn’t resist. And how good I didn’t.
I am very pleased with the support from my family. My SO doesn’t tell me how to eat. Just like I doesn’t tell him how to eat (as he doesn’t do stupid things. we would have problems then, I need him in very good health in the next several decades). He even refrains from making irresistible carbier food on my planned carni times if possible even though I should be able to resist if it’s that important for me… 
But I have my limits and he is fine with some plant-based food I don’t want anyway. He needs to eat all the veggie dishes I never make but he wants at some point so it happens on weekends. (It works quite well as long as he doesn’t grab our tiny occasional ruminant meat and mix it with as much beetroot as the beef… That’s painful. I don’t like sweet meat dishes. But he loves that one so of course he makes it, I wouldn’t want it any other way except it would be nice if he wouldn’t love it I suppose… But we can’t do anything with our tastes. Except I do train it to some extent. This case is a problem because an off day can’t solve it, I don’t like that food but want the beef. Of course I take some of the beef before that atrocity happens to it but I can’t take much… My hedonist heart can’t handle this situation well. I must be so spoiled eating wise and yep, I suppose I am.)
By the way, it’s very handy to have a high-carber who eats carbier things I don’t want so there is that. We have so much fruit… I wouldn’t want them to rot, maybe we could bring it to someone to make booze from it, that is a huge thing in this country of alcoholics and hospitality… But it still would feel not ideal. And we couldn’t drink it all.
That is definitely a big part for me too. It was the clearest when I went low-carb. I lost absolutely nothing, just won, it was amazing! Keto was more challenging and carnivore was easier than mere keto but I can’t eat my tiny fruits there and it’s normally fine but still, FRUITS 
But it’s still mostly freedom especially that carnivore made my relationship with food much healthier. Keto did something but the carbs still interfered.
What I have now is okay-ish. It requires some more work. Normally I am kind of strict (for someone like me) and free and I don’t miss anything, it’s great. And sometimes I go off and enjoy myself. Or not enjoy but compulsions are powerful, that’s bad. Whatever, that’s very rare.
I can handle the off days and I don’t need to ever resist temptation. It’s a pretty good deal for me.
I do have struggles but probably the smaller part is about non-carni items, most of them is about timing and the amount of food (protein and fat macro).
What I feel a loss over is the connection we make with others. A lot of that connection happens around food. Was that orchestrated in the past 50-70 years by industries to pad their pockets with more money? Possibly. Historically feasts have always been at the center of social celebrations, but was it at every intersection of every single social interaction the way it is today? Or was there something more meaningful than food there before?
Too much narcissism and not enough sacrifice for others.
