Carnivore: Week 1 Check-In
What I’ve learned after one week of eating only beef, salt, and water.
Going into this, I monitored my mood, energy, sleep, and inflammation-related symptoms (such as gas, bloating, etc…) through daily journaling. I also tracked my food intake via MyFitnessPal.
Read more about why I am doing this below:
How did it go?
Overall, this was a much easier elimination diet to get started on than previous elimination diets. The food is all really tasty and very, I repeat, very filling.
The first thing that I noticed this week is that I’m rarely hungry on this diet. I find myself dealing with boredom far more now that I am not allowing myself to eat spoonfuls of peanut butter or hard-boiled eggs during lulls at the office.
The other way to view the fact that I am rarely hungry is to realize that I am fully sated on this diet. At the beginning of the week, I felt no real lacking, or like anything was missing. Besides coffee, that is. My fasting window has already increased from barely 13 hours a day up to 16…
