Nothing new, nothing outrageous, nothing smashing today.
Virtually all induction symptoms, if you can even call them that in my case as they were all pretty minimal, are all gone. All vital signs in check.
The biggest surprise I think is the looseness of the bowels. I thought for sure after a week or two it was going to be like pushing silly putty through a syringe. Nope, in fact regularity (every day within 20 minutes of waking up), lack of straining, moisture, etc. are all good to go.
I even slept fairly well last night after all that fuss I wrote over not sleeping for very many hours. I think I slept for over 8 hours last night.
I must admit, my fears about the diet are starting to erode. My only question is ?why do so many others suffer on this diet?? This is particularly true when considering the diverse ethnic background of Arctic explorers that traveled through, lived off of an all-meat diet, some even subsisting off of, like Charles Washington discusses in his most recent article, a steady diet of muscle meat and fat in the form of pemmican. It seemed to be unanimous that the all-meat and all-pemmican diet was not only sufficient, but perhaps even preferable for the well-adjusted.
My premature conclusion is that an all-meat diet could be a viable treatment for those with high insulin levels and resulting disturbances in carbohydrate metabolism (actually, high insulin levels cause a disturbance in fat and protein metabolism as well, and bringing them under control enhances the proper utilization of those foods). Good for those with inflammatory bowel disorders as well.
But my guess is that it must be continued religiously for an extended period of time to really be truly effective. Most zero-carb experiences gone awry probably lasted for shorter periods of time, such as my measly 17 days, which was enough to cause insulin upregulation and rapid weight gain and carbohydrate sensitivity following.
That’s my guess. Anyway, that’s all for tonight. If you’ve never heard of the pemmican thing, check out Charles’s post. It’s a good one.
Breakfast: Pork face stew with 6 ounces meat, 2T butter
Lunch: 12 shrimp scrambled with 4 eggs, 3T butter
Dinner: 12 ounces ribeye, oven roasted rare, 1T butter
“Oven roasted rare”? ‘Splain, Lucy. To be honest, Matt, you are going to have to come up with some recipes for those who might be inclined to engage in this sort of diet.
(You can forget the pig stew, though. F-that, fo sho.)
i got a snotty nose today but i’m looking hot on day 12 of no carb.
defo lost weight and toning up, i feel pretty good but my nose is blocked up today.
even slept pretty good last night
xxpxx
Ben, I roasted that badboy like a big fat hunk of prime rib. Check this out…
Get a 5 pound chunk of totally untrimmed ribeye with the bone in still. Rub your s and p on the outside. Sear it fat side down until nice and brown, sear the other sides, and then place it in the oven sitting sort of on the bones with the fat cap facing up. Roast at low temp, like 250 tops, for an hour. Let cool slowly. Slice, dice, and devour – with pig face on the side for the gentiles!