Oh hi there! It’s been a while. I thought I’d let you in on what I’ve been up to. Let’s just get right into it.
Last year in late fall-ish husband said, “I think I want to go carnivore.” “What’s that?”I asked, very confused. “It’s where you just eat meat. Apparently it’s really good for you. ” My first thought was, ew (I don’t really like meat) My second thought was that would be so expensive! (I’m a shop sales, and only eat a bit of meat a day) my third thought was, you just was to eat a bunch of meat. (He’s been saying he wants to eat more meat for a while) He mentioned it a couple more times over the next couple months so I figured I’d look into it.
The first place I looked was YouTube and found that Jordan and Mykala Peterson were doing what they called the Lion diet. Ruminant animals and salt and water. Sounded like torture. But it did clear up a ton of issues for them. Then the trusty algorithm pulled up a ton of other carnivore accounts. I watched so many videos of how carnivore has helped people from autoimmune disorders and other ailments. Then i watched a bunch of ‘getting started’ videos. It was starting I seem like a good idea.
I told husband about my findings and told him if he really wanted to do it I would shop some sales and when the bison we ordered came in I would help him with it. There were a few accounts I found interesting that I continued to watch and was so intrigued about how they were able to get rid of insulin resistance, loose a ton of weight, didn’t have aching joints anymore and a ton of other things. It was starting to sound like a good idea for me. Currently I was doing intermittent fasting, which was helping some issues a bit, but very easy to bail on when things were hard. Which, i mean, is good and bad, cause it’s just as easy to jump back on.
So, by mid January I was convinced that I needed to try it for my self. I set the goal to do it for 1 month, with a long goal of 3. I know this is not something, even with it’s benefits, that I can do long term. I really am not a fan of meat in general…. So I set the date of Jan 31 to start and didn’t book much for 2 weeks. Just in case the ‘keto’ or ‘carnivore’ flu was as bad as I had experienced before. I got myself some digestive enzymes, because I have no gallbladder, some mineral pills so I didn’t get dehydrated and started stocking up on meat.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with carnivore, I’ll give you a quick overview. I’m not an expert, but I have at least a basic understanding. There are basically 3 tiers. Tiers 1 is all ruminant animals, salt and water. People with bad autoimmune disorders and other things tend to stick closer to this one for the most benefits. Tier 2 is all animals across the board, so tier 1 plus pork, fish and other seafood and such, as well as eggs. Tier 3 is tier 2 plus full fat dairy, preferably as little processing as possible. Some people have issues with dairy and some people don’t. Allot of this will be a bit of trial and error. Start with the basis of tier 1 and add things and see how you feel. Some other things to remember is that this is a high fat, zero carb way of eating. So make sure the meat your eating doesn’t have sugar added (it’s everywhere!!) Also make sure you are eating enough fat. You can cook with any animal fat you want. People even just eat straight butter lol. Another important thing is the stay hydrated. Make sure to eat lots of salt to keep hydrated and drink lots of water. A lot of people will ease into it. Like starting with keto, or start increasing their fat slowly. Besides that meat, meat, meat!
Stay tuned to see how my first week went:)
Jasmine Jean 