Is there a November Carnivore Challenge? (90 days)

(Cheryl) #21

I’ll keep an eye out for glitches then! :grinning:

(Cheryl) #22

Awright! I’m all in!

#23

I have two questions :slight_smile:

  1. @Ilana_Rose, I hope you don’t mind answering, again, bt we have waaaaayyyyyy too many carnivore subforums with endless posts, I got lost after a while…I remember you mentioning that you feel best when you eat protein:fat in 2:1 ratio, by weight. Does that mean that for every 100g of protein you try to get 200g of fat?
  2. I remember the beginning of some Delauer video saying that egg whites are inflammatory and I’ve seen Jody eat only yolks, I remember someone mentioning something similar as well…does someone remember any more detail in regards to these egg whites?
    Thanks in advance for your answers, but I’m still in Pula and these search options become confusing on phones :slight_smile:
#24

I actually can’t wait for this to start so I am doing my good carnivore today as usual………are we using this thread or will Cheryl start a new chat thread for the new challenge? will see tomorrow I guess LOL

I am so Carnivore ready for a challenge…rocking to go~

(Bob M) #25

I have been 90+% carnivore since 2017. It may take 30 days for SOME people, but for those of us eating barely any plants already, it shouldn’t. We do not have to be concerned with oxalate dumping, for instance, since we (or at least I) eat barely anything with oxalates. For instance, I eat some chocolate about once per week, but even then I combine it with fat so that the fat binds with the oxalates. Other than chocolate, I avoid basically all the high-oxalate plants.

Everyone also has to understand what this means for a family. This means I may have to make my own meals, instead of eating what the family eats. If they are eating a casserole with ground meat flavored with taco seasoning and with cabbage, I can’t eat that. I have to eat something completely different. That puts an additional burden on both my wife and I, as I have to have something to eat. We have to buy separate foods and cook them separately. It’s difficult enough to make meals for the family, let alone cooking two separate meals.

Tonight, after getting home from trick-or-treating, we have a protein “noodle” (uses sliced meat as the “noodle”) lasagna, made over the weekend, which we’ll reheat and eat. I’d have to have something completely different. It’s possible to do this, but I would have had to plan this on the weekend, since I have zero time during the week to cook. This also means my wife, currently tasked with making multiple meals per day for the kids and me, would be tasked with making yet another meal.

It’s not as simple as people think. Thus, 30 days and not 90. And I’m not sure I could do 30.

#26

Hey do the 30 with us…when 30 ends post some results you found and other info. you deem fit and drop out. It is cool…no one has to last the 90.

I am the wife in the family and I cook for hubby and kid.
I ALWAYS cook 2 meals…every meal time. I cook for them first…then I cook for me personally. I SO GET what you are saying on time and being a pain but I do it for myself so I have no problems with it and I just put up and shut up about it cause of course like I said, I am doing it for me so I just do it. For a person who hates the kitchen, I do spend a lot of time in it HA I sure get where you are coming from tho cause prep for food, feeding everyone etc and all is more work than one would think sometimes.

Remember also a challenge is just a challenge in that if you go 12-15 days and need to eat a bit different for family occasion or whatever choice, it is fine.

I really don’t think it has to be all or nothing for anyone.

Thing is I am a Carnivore. Dirty on occasion cause I can be but that is very rare so I fit right into this challenge very easily. Some not 100% into this and want something a tad different, join in, see what you can do, see where it takes you and just participate, chat up and have fun with it.

all cool truly :slight_smile: you’re in the mood to try it, go for it and just go with the flow and see what goes down for you :slight_smile:

(Cheryl) #27

What do you recommend? I’m new to this forum.

(mole person) #28

Yes, but I’m not a huge tracker. However, at the start of carnivore the high protein made me feel bad in several ways and I lost all the keto NSVs and my hunger and weight became less well controlled. So I started upping my fats and lowering my protein. It took a while to really get used to but now I absolutely love it and couldn’t enjoy eating any other way.

Anyhow, while I was upping my fats I did some tracking. I knew there were lots of carnivores that recommend 2:1 by weight including the Paleo-medicina clinic but I wasn’t sure how I felt about that much fat so I wanted to see if I even got close to that. What’s interesting to me is that I eat nearly exactly that ratio now entirely by just eating the amounts that I know will feel best. Typically my protein is in the 55-70 gram range and my fats are about double that.

(mole person) #29

@ctviggen What is it that you hope to accomplish with such a challenge? You don’t seem to have any real health issues and it sounds like long term carnivore is something you wouldn’t really consider anyhow. I’m wondering why you want to put yourself through the restriction even for a month. What are you looking for a month of carnivore to tell you?

#30

Please don’t ever leave this forum!! {{hugs}} I"m trying to do the PKD to get rid of some auto-immune issues that keto wasn’t quite able to get rid of. I’m trying to keep my fats at 2:1 and am hoping, once I get the hang of all this, that the ratio will come naturally to my body too. So encouraging to read your posts. They’ve been soooooo helpful.

#31

During my 3 years of strict keto my hair loss was bad. Two weeks into Carnivore/PKD and it has stopped falling out! YIpee!!

Finally found a good butcher and I was able to order some fat trimmings and cow brains. Supposed to be in next week. Suet is also coming next week too.

#32

About a month and a half in and pretty sure I’m still not fully adapted so I agree.
I think 90 days is great.

I got a great NSV so far so I think this may need to be permanent. So far carnivore has moved the needle on something keto couldn’t fix.

#33

I’m a single dad so I know what you mean. It’s a pain because I cook for the kids then feed myself. Luckily carnivore cookery is really simple. When I was a veggie it was awful because it’s so complicated.

#34

Bob, that is so awesome, I love NSVs!! It’s amazing how this can fix the things that regular keto couldn’t.

(Daisy) #35

I’m in! I’ve been doing mostly carnivore for the last 2 weeks. I was trying to eat through some yogurt and lunch meat that I had. But if I have to waste 3 containers of yogurt to start tomorrow, that’s better than the 12/14 I had. I’m ok with that.

(mole person) #36

Oh wow thank you. It’s very encouraging to read your words. My diet seems so off-the-wall compared to many other ketoers here that I sometimes wonder if I’m just generally thought to be mad.

But yes. Carnivore helped every one of my autoimmune conditions, and being very high fat has been the only way I’ve been able to get there without feeling poorly while I do carnivore. I love being in a ketogenic state, I certainly don’t want to have to give that up. Carnivore and keto seem to improve two completely different subsets of health issues. For complete wellness I need both.

(mole person) #37

Oh my God, I am so jealous. I haven’t even drummed up the courage to ask any of mine for brains yet.

(mole person) #38

Oh, please do tell!!

#39

Don’t want to jinx myself but I’ll tell y’all anyway. I’ve been on BP meds for several years. I got elevated blood pressure issues as a fit, distance running vegetarian/vegan. I was floored because I was doing everything “right”. I tried magnesium, low salt, low fat, low carb, keto, still had issues. I was told it was genetic or whatever the term is they use when they don’t know the cause and aren’t going to look.
Anyway, keto improved my BP but not to the point of going med free.
Today, as a carnivore, I left my checkup w/o a prescription and with a big smile on my face. I celebrated with a lunch of suet and ground beef.
My provider was ok with keto as she had patients using it to treat diabetes so when I told her I had gone carnivore and my BP improved she was cool with it seeing that it works for me.

As a side note: I had a belly as a veg long distance runner. Seriously, I ran for HOURS at a time. I run way less now, I have abs again, and I weigh less than I did when I graduated boot camp 30 years ago!

(mole person) #40

@barefootbob. I think it will hold. Big BP and heart rate changes for me too since carnivore. I actually didn’t have mine improve at all in two years on keto. Now I’m getting optimal readings almost every time I check. Prior to carnivore 160/110 was a very frequent sight. And my HR went from always 100 to 55ish.