Sunday. I woke up early with my son and wife by me. I felt tired and weak. I wanted to sleep more, but my son didn’t so we got up and went to put Lego bricks together.
We are working on a tricky Porsche model. It’s challenging for me and way above what a 5 year old should be doing.
But it’s a nice, slow pace and it’s great as it puts us together in one room without other stimuli.
My son tunes in and out. He can get bored and frustrated during tricky parts and then play something else and rejoin me a few minutes later.
The thing I want to focus on today is me being tired.
While I am eating relatively clean during this challenge with no sweets, I am still managing to gain weight.
So no sweet drinks, no alcohol, no fast food and my weight keeps going up and I still feel like shit when I wake up in the morning. I snore.
That’s beyond frustrating. At the same time it’s another confirmation that carnivore is my thing.
When I was carnivore(my longest run was just over two months), I would wake up super energetic even if I only had a few hours of sleep. I stopped snoring within a few days. My mood was much more stable.
I was almost never hungry. And my weight was plummeting.
So what this last few weeks has shown me is that no matter how much I try, if I really want to lose weight and do it fast(which I should, for health reasons), I should give carnivore another go.
So that’s what I’m going to do.
My target is going to be 99% carnivore. So routine meals when I am alone, will be beef bacon butter or eggs for the next 30 days(at least). I have some social events planned, dinners where it’s not feasible to stick to it and it’s ok, I’ll have a social meal, make it mostly meat, maybe try something with everyone to not be a social weirdo, but after that I’ll be right back on my routine.
Enough is enough. Let’s fix my body. Let’s give it the chance to heal. I did it for two months, it was the best I’ve ever felt. Why am I torturing myself by eating “normal foods” when I know that I could be thriving on carnivore.