3 weeks ago I dropped the lingering carbs from meals and went full on carnivore. What changed? Hardly anything. May be I have a tiny bit more energy for my walking, cardio, and lifting but it could be my imagination. I save time. I probably save money on the ingredients for the large dinner salads that was the evening meal.
The one big change, that’s problematic, is I’m way WAY over consuming calories. My time restricted eating disccipline has faded away. I believe I now understand the cause of this. When dinner is the big salad I have no interest in eating it until I’m truely hungry and when It’s finished I’m truely full. I can eat and over eat the carnivore food much more easily. Carnivore foods are not so filling for me. There will have to be a solution to this. I’m starting to think about what ZC foods might be more filling than what I’ve been eating so far which are, ground chuck, eggs, bacon, salmon, cheese, heavy cream, butter.
Something noticably positive since starting ZC is an increase in energy for brisk walking and cardio. I can measure those. I use a metronome to set the pace for both and with the cardio, on a Schwinn Airdyne, I monitor heart rate. I’ve quickened the pace a couple steps per minute walking and I’m up 10 beats per minute on the aiirdyne with the same perceived effort. There is some chance these are eiither because of ZC or may be the increased calories.
P.S. One more observation. I started resistance training a year ago. After some months progress stopped. 3 sets of 10 exercises 3 times a week was too much. Progress resumed when I cut back to 1 set of 10 exercises 3 times a week. Carnivore seemed to increase my energy for lifting so I increased sets and you’ll never guess what happened, progressed stopped. So I’m going back to 1 set and stay there until it stops working. I’m looking for 1 pound of muscle gain per month. 2 years of that would be 25 pounds. Time will tell. (I can spot stalls early because my bio impediance scale can detect muscle mass changes over weeks.