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Well, I'm going from a standard "healthy" American diet of brown rice, lean meats, fruits and veggies, etc. straight into this Carnivore diet thing.

Today the only vegetables I've had was a quarter an Onion and Half a red bell pepper. The rest was Steak, Eggs and Salmon Eggs. So I'm not sure if that counts as "easing" my way into it. If I feel fine the next two days of doing this, I will probably go full Carnivore by eliminating all plant based items and increase my fats substantially. But we'll see. The idea of eating zero vegetables/plant based foods is kinda terrifying, tbh. My friends think this is insane. And I'm someone who typically eats a lot of meat.

Edit: By the way, it's my first day doing this and I feel ever so slightly light headed tonight. Is this normal?

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Trying to narrow my waist line, that's all, lol. Want to lower my body fat percentage.

No finger swelling. But this morning when I woke up, my fingers definitely felt oh so very slightly, just very slightly numb. As if I was wearing a rubber band on my wrist overnight. But it's a very subtle feeling, like so subtle that I need to pay attention to notice it.

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Right now I'm eating some ground beef and eggs that I sauteed in a skillet, with some seasoning salt.

It's strange, it tastes like pork or sausage. Is this normal? Did the butcher give me ground pork instead of beef? >:(

Maybe it's the seasoning, idk. There is no pork in it the seasoning though. I asked for grass fed ground beef as it is very high in protein and Omega 3. Maybe my taste buds are acting funny?
I had a glass of water last night, and it tasted strange.

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These days (note: I'm not eating straight carnivore and have no desire to, but it still applies - think Venn Diagram, and learn from all the various "diets") I cook my protein sous vide. I work from home which makes this easier, but I'll tend to throw my protein in the water bath around 4:00pm. It's ready by 5:00pm, were I to pull it out and eat it immediately. 5:30pm if it went in the bath frozen straight out of the freezer. If I was still going into an office every day, my wife would do it (she's always been a stay at home mom). If both of us went into an office everyday, I'd figure out a system, any system, that worked and make it happen.

The advantage here - especially on a weekday, is really one of timing. While it's possible to overcook your meat (fish is even easier), you really have to leave it in there for several hours longer than necessary to fuck it up. And it takes all of the skill out of it - your protein is always at the perfect temperature. This is especially nice when I'm cooking an expensive fish. I was always about 50/50 on the end result, and nothing pisses me off more than not absolutely nailing something I paid $20/lb for. Sous vide more or less idiot proofs that for me.

You just need to put a sear on it for some color and flavor (easy peasy). Use a skilet, your grill, hell - just fire up some lump coals in a chimney with a grate on top (my favorite for steaks). So what it does, if give you some time. In my case, when my circulator beeps at me to let me know it's done, if affords me the opportunity to start warming up the skillet (for searing and any veggie cooking I'll be doing), prepping all the veggies and whatever else I'm eating on the side, etc. I spend no more than 45 minutes to an hour in the kitchen each day actively doing something. Dinner is on by 6-ish.

I'll eat as many as 4 eggs in a day (and not every day), and don't personally have any trouble with them. I feel like if I was eating 8 of them, it would be because I didn't have anything else to eat and I was trying to make up for it by just doubling down on eggs (fast and cheap). The thing is, I always have a fridge and freezer stocked with stuff to eat, and I deliberately schedule my weekdays to make sure I have an hour available to prepare it.

As far as I know (I haven't studied any of this at length), people with egg allergies are mostly reacting to the types of proteins found in the egg whites. And given that, as far as I know, food allergies are really just an immune response to something perceived by your body as harmful for whatever reason, it might be said that "the dose makes the poison". So then, given that it's probably the types of protein found in the whites that cause you discomfort, and that in your case it's probably the amount of it you're eating that finally triggers a response, and given that - as near as I can tell - most of the nutritive good stuff is found in the egg yolk and not the white, you might try just eating the yolks if you're going to be eating a lot of eggs. Maybe have a couple of eggs (which you seem to tolerate just fine), and then for the other 4-6 you feel like eating - ditch the whites. See how that goes.

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Let me know how it goes. I'm kind of curious.

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will do.  I did just have 3 eggs for lunch and not bad.  I'll have to try just yokes though.  kinda hate wasting all the whites though.  can you save those?  my wife might eat them.

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I quit wearing glasses, vision is crystal clear and I blame the glasses on cholesterol or blood sugar.

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Do you guys do 1 or 2 meals a day?  I've been doing 2 but 1 is interesting...

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Go join a Carnivore group on Facebook or something of the like.

You wanna talk about some blow-hard T-totalers?

Jesus.

Some of them act like they'll leave a trail of diarrhea around the grocery store if they just walk down the bread aisle.

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How old are you? That's actually pretty interesting.

I'm 41 and still not wearing them. I haven't had a vision test though, unless you count whatever they do at the DMV (which I just did a few weeks ago - it was easy).

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No matter what the diet is, this is what everybody (well...most everybody) ends up doing after a while.

My strategy to combat this, is to not purchase that stuff. Ever.

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So why did you buy the unhealthy bullshit the next time you went to the grocery store? Did somebody bring it to your house, too?



I'm the Excuse Eliminator^TM. It's what I do.

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I'm in IT (it sounds like you are as well?), and I know the feeling. I had quit smoking cold turkey for 3 months (hardest thing I had ever done, up until that point...fucking brutal). Then...some shit went sideways at work, and I was up for 2 days straight unfucking it. In a moment of weakness, I bummed a cigarette. That pretty much destroyed 3 months of effort in 3 minutes. I ended up buying a pack eventually (seeing a pattern? ), and...that was that.

I got better (I quit smoking in July 2019).

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Fad diets are fucking stupid. Just stop eating so damned much. It isn't that hard.

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Welp, just woke up. Made clams for the first time in my life last night. That was SOOOO good. I'm definitely adding shell fish to my regular diet, like forever. I've completed day 2 of my carnivore diet, and I don't feel bad at all. No diarrhea or anything. When does this supposed "keto flu" kick in? I've been dreading it, but I havn't experienced anything aside from less frequent and smaller bowel movements. Might have to go pick up some metamucil or something. But no sickness, no lethargy, headaches or whatever else. Am I doing something wrong? I'm not eating any plant based foods. I do admit, I had a craving for some gatorade yesterday while at the market, but I havn't had any.

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I don't consume much dairy. Maybe some cheese once in a blue moon or some Greek Yogurt. I wonder if a fiber supplement would be okay. After all, most of it is insoluble fiber that just passes through you.