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Carnivore diet! Some good YouTube channels to check out: Intentional Carnivore, Ferrigno Freedom, HomeSteadHow, Dr. Ken Berry, Dr. Anthony Chaffee. All have talked lots about carnivore & weight loss
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A buddy of mine is doing this. Got his mom and wife on it now too.
He lost weight is now lean and more energetic than ever. His mom's auto-immune disease (don't remember which) hasn't given her any of her flare ups as of late.
At around the 2-week mark of the diet gave him dizzy spells and some gut issue. It lasted 2 days and only came back when he decided to have some sugary cocktails.
I think the most apparent sour ce of benefit has been from the elimination of processed foods and other junks, including alcohol. However, I'm skeptical about the long-term damage that this kind of diet could do without too many studies including mortality data.
Some of the most interesting stuff that I've seen about the diet is about the unexpectedly low (bad) cholesterol. Something about the elimination offsets the effects of all those eggs and meat.
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Bon voyage on your cut journey, but just you remember: nobody likes to hug chiseled marble; teddy bears on the other hand...
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Detail your meal plan & exercise routine for better responses. Eating only once or twice every 24 hours would probably be a good start.
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Maybe some belly pictures too. It would be good to track his progress here on SN
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Like other poster said, carnivore. 40% protein, 60% saturated fat. Keto {<25g carb) will shred the weight, but non-keto carnivore plus some honey and fruit will improve insulin sensitivity over Keto and will help you retain electrolytes.
Throw out the “protein” shakes and powders. Those are soy, pea, fiat garbage. The only protein you should be eating is meat.
Enough fat is the key. Fat will turn off the hunger and cravings in your brain. Eat enough fatty red meat (ribeye, 80/20 grnd beef) that you are not only full, but physically can’t eat any more. For me this is just under 1kg per day.
As far as intermittent fasting…with a high fat carnivore diet, you can eat 1 meal a day, even skip a day eating, and not feel hungry in the slightest. I go about 30 hours before I really start to feel hunger, and even then, it’s very gradual, I am still able to function normally.
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @co574 18 Feb
intermittent diet
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @co574 18 Feb
star off with 16:8 and see how it goes. (commit for at least 90 days)
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Cut out all refined grains, refined sugars, crisps/chips. So basically anything made of any type of refined white flour - bread, cakes, crackers, biscuits/cookies, waffles, pancakes, croissants, anything with pastry... just do that and nothing else & see what happens. Assuming you eat those things, that is.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @BTCFC 22 Feb
I've always considered myself healthy because I'm a competitive athlete and like you workout and train frequently throughout the week, however, the past few months ever since going low carb (not completely keto, just lowering my intake of carbs drastically from before) I began to drop a lot more fat and feel in the best form of my life.
I did try carnivore before, but I've always had a liking of vegetables, especially leafy greens, and even when I was doing carnivore, at the time I was trying to put on weight so I was smashing carbs, simple and complex in order to add weight. I successfully put on the weight but I never felt great being carnivore.
Everyone is different, but for me personally the low carb approach of mainly eating leafy greens, red meat / fish, and adding healthy fats to them in the form of extra virgin olive oil, grass fed butter, ghee, etc, has improved my health immensely and has led me to shed off some fat that never seemed to get off my body no matter how hard I trained and worked out. On top of that, the brain uses fat as its main source of fuel so if you are depriving yourself of quality fats and instead are carb dependent, which most people are including my past self, you aren't able to fuel the brain to it's full potential. Therefore, I have noticed an immense improvement in my brain function when it comes to mental clarity and focus, as well as in learning and creativity, and also in athletic performance.
And when it comes to vegetables, I understand it's a controversial subject as of late with plant toxicity and all of that, but for me I've found it beneficial to shift the mind into understanding that vegetables are mainly for your microbiome instead of being directly beneficial for yourself. Again everyone is different and thus everyone's microbiome can differ from others, however, in my case, eating plenty of non starchy, leafy greens I feel has only benefitted me.
In terms of exercise, not sure if you already incorporate this but maybe include some low intensity cardio, also often regarded as zone 2 training. Going hard for short periods of time can be effective to burn fat as it stimulates growth hormone, however, long, low intensity, zone 2 training can be just as effective if not more effective at helping you burn fat.
Oh and sugars, try and cut that crap out as much as possible!
YouTube channels that really helped me in the learning process of optimizing health
  • Dr. Sten Ekberg
  • Institute of Human Anatomy
  • Thomas DeLauer
Podcasts
  • The Huberman Podcast
  • The Whoop Podcast
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Plenty of diet recommendations, some might work, some don't.
Most important though is: eat less calories than what you need. Calory counting basically. You can keep eating what you want, as long as it is less than what your body needs.
Aggressively, while still being healthy, would be: eat 1200 kcal while an average man usually needs 2000 kcal, daily.
There are apps to track this. In the US, I've found this one to be very userfriendly: https://www.myfitnesspal.com/. E.g. you can just scan the bar codes of most of the products you consume.
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