16 years ago when a handful of us started the Zero Carb diet we were lucky to find each other and share our experiences. It was synchronicity for sure. Back then, there was very little information about eating this way, mostly historical, and then we found “The Bear”. We were the modern pioneers of the current Zero Carb Carnivore Diet movement.
We all basically ate the same thing, meat, and had the same experiences. We didn’t have doctors or influencers telling us what we should be doing or how to do it. We just figured it out. As our bodies switched fuel sources from glucose to ketones, we all experienced random weird things that we called “adaptation symptoms”. They were things like dry mouth, cramps, rashes, fatigue, heart palpitations, meat sweats and other random issues. We all didn’t experience all of these things but we all did go through changes.
We didn’t freak out, stop the diet, change anything or add anything, we just rode it out and every single time the issues went away. It was part of “adaptation” to a ketone fueled body.
Just like a car that change gears as it goes from 0 to 60. You hear the motor rev and feel the car hesitate and surge as it changes gears to get up to speed. Do you freak out, stop the car and wonder what you need to do to make it stop doing that?! No, you ride it out because you know what’s happening is normal!!!!
This is why it is essential that you do the work to learn the foundation of this diet so that you know what is normal. We will not spoon feed people information about how this diet works and why, but we do provide the same information we learned from and encourage you to read it yourself, because that’s the only way to really learn so that you won’t be influenced and confused by the avalanche of bullshit surrounding this diet on the internet.
Today there is an overload of influencers who have destroyed the foundation of this diet and have people thinking they need salt, less protein, supplements, less calories, organ meats, carbs to ease symptoms, freshly butchered meat, honey and all kinds of crazy shit. They have complicated this diet into something I don’t recognize anymore. I eat a Zero Carb all meat diet, I have no idea what the “Carnivore Diet” is. All I know is that it is not what I have been eating for 16 years.
The Zero Carb Carnivore, all meat diet is the diet that has changed my life on multiple levels. I lost 50lbs, gained back most of it, then lost 70lbs, and my weight has been steady since then. I aged backwards, I have more energy, strength and endurance at 57 than I had at 25. I breezed through menopause, I rarely get sick, I have zero digestive problems, I sleep like a rock and my mental clarity is so clear it scares me.
If you want to be successful, do what successful people do. I eat plain grocery store meat, don’t use salt, no electrolytes, no organs, no fiber, no hormones, no medications, no supplements, nothing sweet, I eat zero carbs. It really is that simple.
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