RE: 120 Days Carnivore: What Happened When I Stopped Eating Plants
Holy what the frig with those CARNIVORE BALLS. WHY HAVEN'T I EVER HEARD OF OR CONSUMED THESE?
PLEASE KINDLY WALK ME THROUGH THE RECIPE AND HOW=TO, PRONTO.
K, in all seriousness, I can tell you that to me.... learning how much better I could FEEL just from what I do (and mostly DON'T) eat, was a true religious experience. Really. I used to literally live on sugar and carbs and I was quite a bit thicker as a result, had huge dips and swings in energy, had severe period symptoms, etc.
My current 8 to 9 year diet now/lifestyle has been basically centered around keto/paleo. I'll never look back, and even when I 'test' the waters again and reintroduce some grains here and there... I am ALWAYS FUCKING SORRY, and always swear them off strictly again. The lifestyle is still here to stay and how I eat as a general rule is literally unrecognizable from how I once ate.
So I FEEL all the FEEEEEEEELZ here, even though I haven't specifically tried just meat and drinking water. My 'scientific biohacker' brain that loves testing things on my body cannot wait to go full force with this for at least a couple weeks just to see. I would say I've almost always had other things besides just meat.. even if it's fruit/veggies/avocados/seeds and the like, I've always had other stuff with meat in my diet so going only meat would be a veerrrrrrry interesting metabolic experience for one like me who, I discovered, puts on muscle really fucking fast when I eat a lot of JUST animal, even for a day. I hang onto muscle longer than some, I can put it on super fast when I basically add a hair of extra effort to my physical activities, and if I add to that an increase in animal intake... oh boy. That could get really fun. I'm actually most interested to see what it does to muscle mass increase in PARTICULAR AS WELL AS strength increase in particular. I love strength increases when I've decided to go for it... and since I've let myself get 'weaker' again, I've been back in the mood to ramp back up and pack on strength and size.
Congratulations though, for real, I know exactly what kind of a religious experience this feels like for you, as I know now that literally every fucking thing we do to our bodies matters, and even our mental relationship to the food (or herbs/plants) matters too.
INDEED. The carnivore balls are just a blend of ground beef, chopped liver and lard. Make into meatballs, wrap with bacon and fry! Favorite food lol
That's really interesting about your ability to gain muscle. I've recently started working out as I notice I'm starting to gain muscle in places I've always had deficits. I'd be really interested to see what kind of results you get.
I'm doing a talk at Anarchaforko for sure on the carnivore, perhaps there should be a meaty panel of some sort with you on it too :D