I know it’s not just me but could others here comment? On meat or not.
I find often I need to exercise, I’m just itching to use my resistance training set until failure (and then, after an hour resist doing it again) or go for a bike ride - it’s a half hour up hill ride from here to most places I go, and I’ll ride hard to the top of that hill and see what speed I can get on the way back, just to burn off what feels like excess energy
Yes! Doing very low carb had given me huge energy boots compared to when I fall off the wagon. Just itching to get out and go
Lchf vs carnivore, I think I have the same Energy either way.
After 3 months I think I top out my vim and vigor.
Whhaaat—you got energy boots? All I rolled was high uric acid.
Serious though, I felt like my gas tank would empty a lot quicker. I always hoped it would give me that kind of boost, but the closest I got was a tangential motivational boost from dropping pesky weight that I had trouble dropping otherwise–the flirt with gout (with what I was eating, anyway) did happen though.
I had gout while I was on carbs, I couldn’t go off allopurinol until I had given up carbs completely. Now I haven’t had any medications for ages.
A thing I have heard, but I can’t place where, is that all the super muscle youtube carnivores have high uric acid, so there’s a hypothesis that success in strength training is better with high uric acid.
Anyway eating only
meatanimal sourced foods (I also eat eggs) appears to protective against gout, I still have high uric acid, as bad as when I put on allopurinol, but now I don’t get gout.Gout goes hand in hand with insulin resistance. Uric acid by itself is not a problem, in fact its necessary for the functioning of a healthy body (peoples bodies produce something like 8x more uric acid a day then you could possibly eat), its the ability of the body to regulate it and prevent it from precipitating into the joints that is the major issue with gout.
It’s nice to see recent stuff on gout, when I last looked into it there was nothing you could base food decisions on since before the invention of allopurinol
The old stuff right before all research stopped pointed the finger at sugar
Yeah! Sugar is the enemy, for gout Fructose and Alcohol are the super enemies!
How long were you doing lchf? Did you measure your ketones?
There is data showing that lchf can be protective against gout, I can dig it up if your interested
Under keto I couldn’t do nearly as much. I’m progressing well on the resistance exercises, and I’m faster each time I ride
On keto I didn’t advance and I was tired all the time. I think it’s because I wasn’t eating enough
Interesting; How different is your carnivore diet from keto?
For me I just removed the avocados and stopped trying to find “keto bread”, or “keto pizza”… meaning I was already doing a 500g of ground beef and liver on carnivore. I just removed the other stuff. Maybe thats why I felt fine on both?
Keto for me had quite a bit of low carb veg. I think some of those didn’t agree with me given how much better I feel on zero carb
I never did the keto fake foods, I think I have been doing low carb on and off since I was 20, I’m now 47
My carnivore diet has been scotch fillet steak (rib eye), eaten until satisfied, and often about 4 eggs a day. My “too much fat” thing I think was because I had fallen into a one meal a day pattern, and it’s hard to process a day’s fat in a single dose
While I was fat I ate leaner cuts
I buy my meat as whole prime cuts, I need to up my frozen storage space so I can instead get a whole cow
That sounds awesome; Have you put your food into something like cronometer to make sure your covering all the nutritional targets? (Fillet is mostly muscle meat, I wonder if the 4 eggs a day give enough nutritional diversity, hence my question)
Example here is my cornometer readout for my default
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I don’t normally weigh my food, though I did a couple of times while I was eating once a day at 960g. I’ll measure what I eat tomorrow and drop it into chronometer
I have a kilo of liver on order which will pick up tomorrow. My intention is to grind it with lean meat and fat trimmings and make rissoles (maybe burgers in Americanese) with the ground beef and liver and egg for binding
Oh and I fry my meat in tallow, my eggs in butter
My average in the past has been a kilo a day over the course of ten days (reckoned on my usual ~10kg meat purchase lasting ~10 days)
That sounds great. My only advice for liver is the less you cook it the better it tastes.
Delicious.