I would like this blog and website to be dedicated to more specific information, practical and research-based, relating to a carnivore way of eating and regenerative lifestyle. However, I would like to provide a link to my more personal and historical blog posts concerning my own health journey, for those interested and perhaps in the same shoes I was veganism and autoimmune.
For all things detailing my past health journey, my previous blog Juicy Living, has all the personal posts going way back to when I was raw vegan and struggling - it's pretty interesting to look back and see the development unfold. This post details my initial transition to carnivore. Here is the link to the whole blog and archive: http://juicyliving.weebly.com/blog Check out the blog for all the photos and additional details, but what I mention here holds pretty much true today (month 13 on a carnivore WOE): 30 days Beef & Water My last month in Copenhagen before moving was the perfect set-up to do 30 days on mostly beef and water. I included the occasional hot drink of 100% cacao powder with water and stevia for the colder days (I was in the depth of a Danish winter!!!!), but otherwise my food nutrition was all animal-based, no plants, no fiber, zero carb. I ate mostly ground organic beef, and supplemented with organ meat like liver, heart and tongue. I also treated myself a few times to the best pastured roast pork ever at my favourite organic butchers in the world! Current Carnivore + occasional 100% cacoa = my main template. This way I get the best of both worlds - the most nutrient dense foods on the Planet with none of the issues of eating a high-plant diet! Highest nutrient density foods with highest bioavailability where the nutrients are in a form our body can most readily absorb: organ meats from healthy animals; meat and game; pastured pork; pastured poultry; wild, oily fish; 100% cacao, especially heirloom varieties in the form of cacao powder for drinks &/or 100% cacao paste (aka chocolateee, yeah!). I do my own thing. I don't eat only bacon - I feel sick doing that (I also react to cured or smoked meat in large amounts, probably due to the histamines). I don't add extra fat like lard, butter, ghee. I don't even cook in extra fat, usually (sometimes, yes ;). As you can maybe tell, I don't like going by rules. I go by guidelines, and modeify what doesn't work for me and add what is purely my own that optimises how I feel & function. Motto for any self-experiment & examined living: TAKE WHAT IS USEFUL DISCARD WHAT IS NOT ADD WHAT IS UNIQUELY YOUR OWN :=) I eat:
What I eat daily is very simple. I buy the best-quality meat & eggs at my Farmers market 1x a week, freeze meat I'll be eating later in the week. I've gotten into a rhythm with this system where I rarely have to buy anything else during the week - it is SO LIBERATING! Saving time and mental energy for prepping, planning, shopping has opened up more time to do what I love. The 1% / occasional plant sources:
I think we can get the best of BOTH worlds - meat + medicinal plants. I was making fresh cucumber lemon juice, but stopped as I felt better without it. No fiber, and no vegetables that been the biggest beneficial change for me. Meat + nourishing animal fats + eggs + DHA -rich wild seafood. I do like the idea of using the beef + H20 template as a protocol to cycle in for periods of time, as a reset and in times where I need maximum simplicity.
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