On July 1st I unofficially sorta-kinda started a carni keto test. The plan was one month of a test, with tweaks and changes as needed.
Prior to this I was doing a keto diet, not measuring my ketones much and going by feel. I was still eating a lot of veg -- probably 150-200 calories of veg a day as cucumber, zucchini, sometimes carrots, romaine lettuce, frozen spinach. It made my net carb vs total carbs a wiggle number. But I was ending up with maybe 50-75 total carbs a day, maybe <50 3="" a="" and="" bites="" box="" but="" d="" diluted="" drinking="" eat="" fermentation="" few="" glasses="" i="" in="" it="" kombucha="" m="" much="" nbsp="" net.="" not="" occasionally="" of="" or="" orange.="" p="" raisins="" really="" small="" stuff.="" sweet="" t="" tea.="" tea="" the="" training="" usually="" wasn="" water="" weeks="">
Not sure this was working for me. My energy was still flat and I didn't feel like I was adapting to the metabolic changes. I could run and bike but never felt zippy. My gut was OK but I was obviously passing a lot of fiber.
I wonder sometimes if I'm in carb purgatory, as one of my podcasters calls it. (Ketovangelist?) I'm eating more carbs than I realize (from the Kombucha or bad counting), and instead of committing to one metabolic path or the other I'm sitting the fence and not coming down square on one side or the other. Maybe I'm eating too much protein, the 0.7g/lb of lean body mass number for me is about 75g per day. I'm usually eating way more than that, easily. Yet I still feel like I haven't figured things out out. And why was I eating so many veg?
So what was the goal of this test? Curiosity? A reset of sorts, by removing the the fruit and veg and non-carni products and allowing a reintroduction?
So for the past 3 weeks, I'm mostly carni keto. So I'm not really "carni keto". There's no "mostly" in this, you either are or you aren't. Here's a run-down of what I'm eating, averaging the past few days.
PreWO usually my 2 egg yolks, half a T of butter. Maybe a few bites of orange.
M1 eggs bacon and butter, or a chunk of beef
M2 put fish here a lot, ground beef sometimes. Oft times I skip M2 for not being hungry
M3 is messy, I have my egg white fluff and then get munchy and nom-nom too much
I've almost quit chicken. Just wasn't satisfying. Man I used to buy chicken every freaking week.
I noticed in the first week or two that I was getting constipated. Took some time before I realized that DUH I'd quit the veg and lost all that water intake. And it was (and is still) surprising how much "stuff" appears each morning. Is that a sign that I'm eating more non-carni that I'm realizing?
Weekends I sometimes hit the salad bar as a treat. A few pieces of lettuce, small scoops of grated carrot, raisins, sunflower seeds, chopped hard boiled egg, bacon bits, pickles. I want this because I do miss the veg, the cold watery crunch. The flavor array.
And oooh I typed all that in and only after realized what I missed. Denial exposed! I put cheese on, lots of cheese sometimes. I think I want the salad bar for the cheese maybe. And the raisins. And the salt.
Weekends are also the time I buy my cream cheese wedges, sour cream, cream cheese, cheese sticks, salad bar cheese.....hmmmmm. I'm also nomming sunflower seeds, tomato sauce, my beloved flavored mustards (for salt and vinegar). That is where I vary off the "carni keto", those foods.
And I don't feel good after weekends. I get sick to my stomach, I'm swollen and have edema in my lower extremities, low energy, and unsatisfied overall.
So this past weekend, I drew the line on dairy. Now my only dairy is my kefir of which I have 0.5-1 cup a day. I know a dairy elimination means an elimination. But my goal firstly is to really reduce and get the processed stuff out. And to break the odd addiction I'm forming with it. And this was HARD at first. Kept going for it, kept looking for a replacement.
My brain is still hardwired into certain types of thinking, and I'm considering what it means and how I use it.
1. I wake up at 4:45 and think I need to eat a preWO meal for a 6am WO. But I can burn fat, I'm fat adapted and that's the whole idea. Should I be able to IF until 10 am or noon?
2. I also think that the night before my ride I need to eat some raisins for "carbs". True, I might sleep better with some carbs at night, or do I think that because I read it somewhere?
3. And I keep wondering if I'll feel better if I bought better meats? Should I avoid the grain feds and go grass feds? Are inflammatory oils having any effect on me?
My workouts are getting better over time, hard to say if it's due to just getting more fit as time goes by, or if it's the diet, or if it's eliminating the "bad lectins and etc" and pesticide residues plants have.
So I guess I'm logging this post in as an update. And set some goals:
1. Test skipping the preWO meal, really it's not providing any energy and it's only satisfying a habit and empty stomach feeling.
2. Remove the processed dairy like cream cheese, cheese wedges, salad bar cheeses.
3. Fix the day so M3 is so unsatisfying.
4. Start swapping in better meats, and keep the variety
5. Minimize the fruit! (case in point, bought $1 packages of berries Friday, ate them all over weekend, and paid for it this morning in BM).
6. Decrease the protein, a review of numbers shows a good number of days over 100g and the majority over my goal number
7. Test IF now that I'm more adapted
8. Avoid the salad bar if it's too much temptation for the nibbles. Just minimize
9. Avoid the tomato sauce, geez it's just a processed carby nightshade, what comes of it?
10. Can I make it an even ten....love even numbers.... ah -- up the water and limit the salt.
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