Oh I eat lots of carbs even on pure animal food (even without milk and milk powder. I like organs, eggs and dairy so the carbs easily add up) so that’s not the problem… I usually get satiated too easily on carnivore so I get hungry again. There are ways against it but that’s eating according to plan, it’s not so natural… And if I want to fast, I need to eat late to begin with…
24h isn’t too hard if I make my mind I suppose (it depends though, sometimes I easily skip lunch, sometimes it’s not realistic) but I never skipped a day since I tried out carnivore for the first time
That would be at least 40 hour fasting. Short but something.
Oh lamb, I am envious, I can’t find lamb anywhere since many months!
Wow! It was always amazing to me how some people can do that (and less when there is totally zero added salt)! I don’t eat much salt but I do need a significant amount for my meat. I use least for roasts, about 1g per pound of meat is perfect. I only feel fine if I eat about 5g salt a day. That’s what, 2g sodium? Much more (happened when I ate too much salted smoked pork as I had few other meat options at that time) and I get salt aversion, less and I feel like eating saltier food… So I can’t go far from this amount. but I know some carnivore just don’t salt their food. I wonder how much sodium they get naturally. They need some too… And meat has very little. Eggs have a significant amount, I feel the saltiness of yolk (it mildly bothers me when I make a heavily yolk based dessert as it gets too salty for me).
And for some reason, it doesn’t matter if I drink a lot, I don’t need to add salt (it’s possible I automatically eat more salty food later though, I didn’t focus on my behaviour and without it, I never noticed anything). But I am fine without sodium for days under normal circumstances according to my old fasts so I am just not so sensitive…? Some people just do IF and need to take sodium in their feeding window!
I know the feeling… And it’s still hard when I get determined, for reasons. Only okay if I am very fine with a generous amount of meat for a while. I love my non-meat items. And they are fine if I don’t eat too much of them… Maybe it’s harder than just cutting it out but as I don’t NEED that, I won’t go that far. No Greek yogurt anymore, I could do that. Cream always finds its way to my life and I should cut it out together with coffee (but 2dl lasts for several days and I don’t open another box when I run out, yay!). And sour cream isn’t a problem for me anymore. Still love it - but only use a little in certain dishes.
Good luck!!!
Mine too on/near carnivore (except when I inhale 400g liver and potentially eat several eggs too) but dairy still kept me fat as I ate too much, even on carnivore. It’s enough problem I prefer fatty meats, finally trained myself to like the leaner ones too (but they are good anyway, well the few cuts I use), I can’t afford all that fat from dairy too! (Especially that I WILL eat fatty meats, I just don’t often base my day on them.) And carbs, maybe they matter a lil bit but my cheese has little (usually zero), still not good, I can overeat it. Eggs aren’t the best either. Pork is the best but I can’t live on it.
And some people have problems with dairy beyond calories/satiation. I don’t think I have.
I had circumstances as a dangerous item entered the house, my life isn’t good, I have no mental strength whatsoever (or care about much) and did some baking… So I try to go back to carnivore (or anywhere close), again. I eat lunch again, probably serious overeating (I don’t eat very much from my viewpoint but definitely over satiation and the meat I eat is fatty as I had leftover pork shoulder and a very nice sauage. and smoked pork hock today, leftover from the fridge so at least without the excessive amount of soft fat it normally has), I expect zero gain as that is my norm but one can never knows.
At least I barely eat cheese. I have whipped cream though but I naturally eat it slowly now! I like some of my training results. And quark is very much acceptable as it is high protein and not very high fat, I stopped eating it with much sour cream at some point.
I run out of my leanish pork anyway but it changed today so I will fry up some tomorrow and it will be amazing (I hope. the last slab was very very good! and it felt just as fatty as it should be. did I change at some point…? possible). And regarding cheeses, we have Cheddar now, it’s quite rare in this household as it’s more expensive than the perfectly fine other favs of ours but it was on sale at some point and this one is fabulous, super flavorful! A tiny piece is enough for me. Of course, Alvaro doesn’t eat it like this… If he consumes cheese, he means business, it’s a main part of his dinner then. While it’s just a tiny but highly enjoyable extra for me.