Any carnivores in here?

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That zero carb diet was originally a book by Dr. Atkins and is the Dr. Atkins Diet but now a lot of people have started claiming it and calling it their own. In Dr. Atkins Diet, you actually urinated on keto sticks so you'd know if you were burning fat yet or not.

 

I was on that diet when I was young off and on for a couple of decades. It's a slow way to lose 15 pounds on an already reasonably slender frame. I agree you feel good on it. Also caution you that artificial sweetners, as Dr. Atkins "suspected" back then are still suspected to convert to sugars/carbs in the bloodstream and can derail the diet, which severely limits what you can have.

 

I'm old and fat now, but it's not the diet's fault. However, you should know that you cannot be on this diet even when you're diabetic. You can't go into ketosis when you're older and becoming diabetic. So you should always have your blood tests and be sure they're normal while dieting on any diet. I have had two of my vegetarian friends instructed they must add meat back in after getting blood tests by their doctors. Not everyone thrives on all diets. And a strict diet of any type is not meant to be every day for the rest of your life. A body needs balance. While on Dr. Atkins, you must take a lot of vitamins, which will make your breath yucky because vitamins are in vegetables and fruit.

 

I had plenty of energy on that diet. I think once you get to a weight range you're happy with, start adding in small amounts of fruit and vegs gradually. Dr. Atkins advises this too. To this day, if I diet, no matter what diet, I can eat more meat than the calorie limit recommends and be fine, where if I eat more anything with carbs or sugar, it makes me gain. Meat is a great diet ingredient. On Dr. Atkins, it doesn't matter how you cook it, both meat and fat are allowed. On other diets, you want to cut back some on the fat in your meat for best results.

 

Try blacked fish with a little fresh pico de gallo.

 

Here's my recipe for an extremely meaty, hearty, puffy Dr. Atkins'-safe omelet. It's plenty enough for two or three people.

 

Atkins-safe Puffy Omelet

 

This is best done in one of those two-sided omelet pans because it’s not a thin omelet you can easily fold. The alternative would be to do it like a fritatta, finishing it in the oven to get the top set. But really, when you’re on Atkins, you need one of those old-fashioned hinged omelet pans because you'll be eating a lot of eggs. If you do a fritatta, you’d need to use more eggs.

 

3 eggs, yolk and whites separated

2 T chopped onion

4 oz mushrooms

¼ C shredded cheddar

¼ C shredded monterey jack

1 slice American cheese

1 C cream (may not use all)

½ C cooked hamburger

¼ C chopped ham

butter

 

Beat eggwhites until medium stiff

Beat the yolks with a fork and fold into the whites

 

In saucepan, add half the cream and all the cheeses.

Make a medium thick cheese sauce. You may need to add more cheese or more cream to make it come out right. Add the hamburger and ham to the mixture. If mixture becomes too thick, which happens easily, just add a little water to thin it.

 

Butter both sides of the omelet pan, covering the sides and hinge to prevent sticking.

Saute the onions and mushrooms in both sides of the omelet pan.

Pour the egg batter into the two sides of the omelet pan onto the vegetables and partially cook

Add half of the cheese/meat mixture

Close the pan onto itself to form the omelet and check for doneness. It doesn’t take long. The omelet will puff way up.

 

Turn the omelet onto a plate and cut in two for two people.

Pour the remaining cheese/meat mixture over the outside.

[OatsAndHall]

I'm going for at least another two months, I haven't felt this good in years, man. I get that I feel better because it's essentially a restrictive diet, but I don't feel like trying to experiment any time soon, since that would take a lot of work (it's likely not just carbs that did me wrong, probably certain ingredients in some foods that I was sensitive to). I not only love meat, but the simplicity of groceries and meal prep. Compared to the exponentially longer vegan meals (aint no one got time fo dat), I will continue eating meat for sheer convenience.

 

Plus it makes me feel like a predator, like I'm better than everyone else. I look around and people are literally shoving gross carbs down their gullet. I saw an easily 400lb man outside the grocery store with multiple packs of coke bottles, and I did a little "ts" as I passed and shook my head, people like that are ridiculous.

 

 

I've done plenty of low carb spurts in my life as ketosis is a quick and simple way to drop body fat. But, as I posted earlier, you do need to be careful when coming off of it as you will not be sensitive to insulin. The carbs have to be brought back into the diet slowly or you'll gain fat back, you'll feel like crap.

 

 

 

When I follow a low carb diet, I don't use the Atkins or the South Beach method I described above; crash carbs for two weeks and then gradually bring them back up to a point where you're still losing weight. I backload; drop them below 20-50 grams per day for ten-fourteen days and then load up carbs on the night of the tenth-fourteenth day. Then, I cut them back down low and backload every seven days. This backloading of carbs helps to keep my insulin sensitivity up and my hormones balanced. I'll do that for a month or two, drop weight and then reintroduce carbs. I can reintroduce carbs at a faster pace though as I've been spiking my insulin every seven days and keeping those receptors firing.

 

 

 

Atkins or the South Beach diet are fine but coming off of them can be an absolute PITA as the "maintenance carb level" is still quite low. The longer you follow this kind of diet, the longer it's going to take you to get back to a healthy normality. And, it's that "bouncing back" period SUCKS as a) your carbs are still low and b) you'll have to watch your calories as you bring those carb levels up or you'll put the weight right back on. You'll hit a middle point where you'll not only be eating low levels of carbs, but you'll be in a caloric deficit. That is murder.

[Substance Abusix]

I consider myself a carnivore for the past 2 months. I eat nothing but red meat (cooked with a bit of salt), or some fish if I feel like it. It's called carnivore or zero carb diet. This is the ideal diet, it has transformed me into something I could not imagine 2 months ago. My mental health has improved drastically (I was in a depression), and my body has lost a lot of it's extra fat that it was storing thanks to all the carbs I was eating.

 

I am wondering if anyone else has any experience with this type of diet, or even a related diet such as keto? From what I gather, carbs are pretty bad for us, and we should all as a general rule try to eat less carbs than more.

 

Do I understand right, NOTHING but meat?

 

Dude, they must smell you from Texas to Moscow!

 

Anyway, what you do is not healthy. And I bet sissy too. Control question: how far can you swim in 30 mins? Or how good are you at HIIT? Because that is the point of being fit, not just cutting fat. Just looking good and lifting...some weights is for weak sissies.