so when we were gonna start keto there was all this question mark about how could we
possibly take carb out of our diet so then i decided to try carnivore now i really took
carb out of the diet and the question is is it doable how hard is it how sustainable is it
we're gonna dive into that today hello Wellness Warriors welcome to Mind Blowing Health and Wellness with
Violet Pat chat edition i'm Violet and i'm Pat so yes you're at your second month carnivore
my second month was a little bit more flexible uh anything surprising happened in that second month
actually yes okay the one thing that i want everybody to think about that i figured out
so through living it and along the way i was reading dr gundry's book um about foods and plants
etc i can't remember the name of it but i'll link it below there's and a time frame that it takes us
to kind of switch over to our body to do something that i wasn't really maybe giving enough attention
to so month one of carnivore wasn't difficult except for there were like cramps and things
that i needed to figure out by month two fine what i figured out was that this idea that because i
was already keto just taking all the carb out that my body was just gonna be there wasn't reality it
still was expecting some carb and so like there were processes like he talked about your gut
and how your gut has microbes in it expecting to be fed and like i wasn't feeding them
so it took a little while for everything to kind of catch up and i think that was surprising to me
i caught off guardian video i was gonna say you know if there's something i learned from
the first month with all your readings and and like the research we did is that like veg were
not that like essential i guess i didn't make a requirement of having some in my plates i feel
i was doing like you did before like you don't you don't push yourself to eat veg but when it happens
it happens in the second month i don't remember i think the only salad i had was the marathon salad
like uh two times because i eight years the day after but like i didn't go the extra mile to do
myself a salad at home i was just eating meat and eggs and cheese and i was fine with that so
chasing the vegetables like not anymore if you notice i i had much less vegetables last night
we went to the k barbecue place than before i have a lot of curiosity what's gonna happen to me
next month because like in this coming month i'm open to eating veg and i do feel like
again the scientists in me i'm probably not probably i know i'm going to do olives
and then see what happens so my plan is to reintroduce olives on like for example on
a monday very likely and then wait to see in the next few days how do i feel
and then the following week i'm going to probably do monday avocado i'm going to eat it and wait to
see how i feel and then very likely hopefully if i'm feeling better by friday we will have
gone to our restaurant that makes a salad and on there i will have salad and see how i feel
i want to give enough time in between the foods to kind of really tell like how is that now if
i don't feel well so for example let's say i eat the olives on monday and i'm still having
if i feel like i'm having a bad time i'm probably gonna wait two weeks before i have the avocado
but i feel like the thing is going to be interesting from reading the book
one of the things that i find really cool but at the same time we don't give ourselves enough time
this is the big takeaway that i'm getting from this people want to be
carnivore one month and then eating veg the next month
matter of fact carnivore one day and eating veg the next day and don't realize that your body
takes time to adjust so if i'm gonna go a month or two months without eating something which is
what i think has been happening to me where i do not buy asparagus he does and if i happen to
eat at your place on a day that you're having asparagus it could be months in between when
i've had it the last time and sometimes i have these issues happening and i wasn't sure what was
going like why would i sometimes happy gassy and whatever and like and i think it's that i think
it's that if i'm not eating for example asparagus regularly my stomach doesn't know what to do with
it my intestines don't know what to do with it and then right and then we end up in trouble so
what i'm realizing is that because my staple my staple has been for months olives caesar salad
avocado broccoli and cabbage like those are the things that i eat regularly everything that was
falling outside that sometimes i think was getting me and i didn't understand why so once in a while
i'd be a little gassy and i would be like oh i wonder like and i couldn't figure and now i think
i understand what's happening but are you missing those vegetables like you want to reinforce
but you want to introduce to just to see the effect on your body well okay so i'm not gonna
lie the one thing that i will say that i actually missed olives nothing else okay interestingly when
did i miss the olives on the day that we had our greek meal and i wasn't having salad but i kind
of wanted to take the olives right i didn't want the salad i didn't want it i just but i wanted
the olives so can i just point out that they have the tastiest olives like i don't know what they're
doing with their olives i did get to have the cheese so that was fine but like the olives that
they have they're amazing anyways but i didn't miss anything like i still don't miss anything
right now i don't miss anything but and even right now i don't miss olives as i'm sitting here
but i wanna see i wanna i have this feeling that i'm not gonna feel great and like as scary as that
is though i still wanna i wanna see it play out and if it doesn't play out i'm going to be excited
but it's going to be weird like so there's a part of me that thinks there's no way i'm going to
reintroduce it without feeling bad i'll be happy if that happened but i don't think it can happen
but i i need it i i feel like i need to do it just to do it and then i'm gonna decide like what does
this mean for me going forward like like how often will veg be there and am i in that story now where
every time i'm gonna have veg so it's a question mark i'm not scared scared i'll be honest with you
for one simple reason it took a full month for me to get to the part where so i would say week
number five six i was totally calm all my cramps and everything were like no longer and i wasn't
doing the extreme measures which i'm going to tell you about that i did to get the cramps to
go away i had stopped doing that the last two weeks i haven't had cramps i've been going to
the washroom fine everything has been fine it takes longer for your microbes to switch
than we think we might be thinking you didn't really introduce anything new in terms of meat
except the ones that i made you taste your base line was pork chicken most of the time i think
and a little bit of fish and eggs and cheese yeah yeah i'm still not bored with those it's hilarious
to me that i'm not bored it's hilarious i feel like it has solidified my meals are not about fun
in my head i enjoy my meals though don't get me wrong we recently went on vacation and found this
new spice that i actually am loving cooking with but at the same time i'm still not chasing dinner
time once we are past this idea that meals are fun it's interesting how you want them to be tasty
and delicious but they're not where we get our entertainment or at least i know a hundred percent
it is not where i get my entertainment yeah for me i think this a little challenge we did and we
kept like doing for me like um 80 of the time i would say at least like i think allowed me to
rediscover some some food that i used to eat when i was younger i'm talking about the organ
meat so liver i was having once in a while now i do buy more often try to get it once a week
i actually bought some blood pudding and i thought i would be disgusted by that and actually
i did find it was tasting good my my grandmother used to make that all the time
so these are new foods that actually introduced in in the diet that i i'm going to keep and
funny enough i'd rather have like one blood pudding sausage then having some vegetables
so a little bit like you the the avocados i don't miss at all the only thing that i think i'm really
i'm gonna keep is the salad a caesar salad once in a while i do find it interesting you're talking
about like the different meats and again it's very much how for me there's the fun of food is like
just not there because even with those different mates i tasted them and some of them were okay
some of them were whatever but like honestly the chicken and pork and fish that i already eat
is tasty enough that like those meats are not it's not enough for me to say oh i need to figure
out how to cook that now to make it something that i would want to eat as a meal it's like
i tasted it it didn't poison me and i'm like i'm done like it's fine yeah you're right like
on top of the the usual pork and chicken we have together i do eat beef i i like beef and
fish like so salmon and trout i i really liked it uh but you're right like uh we we i bought rabbit
i bought duck what else did we try and and i did buy turkey one of the things turkey was like yeah
if it was a tricky leg like that was not bad i don't think i'm going to go like the extra to buy
some of those and force them in my diet i think i'm fine like with chicken fish and
beef this kind of brings us back to this idea that we hear so often when people are
talking about why keto is not sustainable and now we're talking about would carnivore be sustainable
and it always comes back to this idea of the um the types of food that you can eat is so
restricted but here we had an opportunity violet had an opportunity where i found
three other meats that tasted okay that i could have figured out better recipes for
that i would have had now instead of three things that i eat i could have had sick and guess what
not interested the idea that people will say it's not sustainable because
you don't have enough variety it's just a fallacy it's an excuse for people not to take their health
more seriously than playing with food fun with food you know fake fun flavors etc and who wants
you to love those fun flavors no companies by the way just letting you know pretty sure with all the
variety of food we had that you can easily make a one week menu and not eat like every not eat
the same thing twice in a week even if you had two meals per day if we add sausage in there because
that was another thing that we ate honestly there were seven things right so we had turkey duck
rabbit chicken okay you had beef yeah pork sausage seven things so theoretically every single day
you could have had a different meat six days i could have had a different meat yeah but on
top of that you can have like a meal with eggs forgot about that eggs and cheese and the bacon
so oh there was bake yeah oh yeah well i mean bacon is pork but okay like so honestly guys like
the idea that it's not sustainable because there's not enough variety yeah when we're on vacation we
ate at the restaurant i had beef and a ribs there was there were ribs on the plate you had like the
ribs and the bacon what i do find interesting did it change our restaurants we did carnivore for two
months did it actually change the restaurants that we went to the exact same restaurant
right because those are the restaurants that we like and i mean honestly there's like one two
three more restaurants that we would normally have gone to if the world was normal right now
that we couldn't go to just because of that but even if the world had been normal
it would not have changed our typical like we still would have chosen the same places again
guys it's so important for us to like put down this idea that we can't have what we want and as
a matter of fact we were on vacation even though we had called to make sure like what kind of stuff
they had on the menu but when we walked into the restaurant and we started moving things around the
waitress initially said to me oh no we don't do that yes they did they did because i was insistent
and it's like you want my money you're going to move the stuff around and guess what they moved
the stuff around it's so not reality that they can't make adjustments and for sure like it might
require a little bit more work at the beginning before especially on vacation it took me like
probably an hour to find one restaurant where we were to uh can i point out the only reason it took
an hour for us to find a restaurant wasn't because of it was not just my menu because if it was you
you would have found something easily it's because i don't do red meats so to
find something that the kids were gonna like and had a white meat on this menu for violet
that was a bit trickier if i wasn't there the four of you would have had an easy time yeah is there
any specific meals or food you want to talk to our wellness warriors about so i think the thing
that i needed to solve from the very beginning was the cramping what i understood from dr berg and dr
barry and a bunch of others was like either i'm gonna eat organ meats however dr burke points
out that you can get a lot of micronutrients from eggs because it's a complete my first jump in was
i'm gonna eat a bunch of eggs and try to make sure that i get all the micronutrients i need
and that did not work as well as i wanted it to work but now there's a part of me that's still
looking at this whole story of it takes a little while for our body to get used that i figured out
through reading the book what i did notice though is that when i added so here's the front here okay
how did i solve it i added really really well cooked rib bones
i just ate the bone that of the of the ribs which if you've ever done um bone broth you'll see like
sometimes you can cook those bones down so they're super ridiculously soft and that's what i did i i
cooked some ribs i made them like really soft and i would just eat a bone or two and guess what god
like my now everybody has their what what am i willing to do i'd rather eat a piece of food
than take a medication i could have bought magnesium potassium pills but i wanted to
really see is there a way to do this naturally without buying a supplement of some kind i would
say like almost immediately the cramps were gone yeah that was it i mean like i really cooked
them though like you couldn't you couldn't tell what was bone what was meat i was just
i ate it as you can see most of our meals was a large amount of meat um
and so here's the thing for violet a typical serving would be like five to seven ounces if
i was eating veg versus as you can see from the images there's like oftentimes two eggs in the
images that i took now sometimes i didn't have the egg like i mentioned but i want you guys to
just notice that there's there's eggs there's meat sometimes there's even still cheese on the plate
it wasn't a small amount of food this is i feel the amount of food that if you would show that to
anybody on a standard diet they would feel like that's going to make you gain weight
i maintained and i'm still like every time i've stepped on the scale within a degree of one pound
i'm at my my maintenance weight yeah so and at this point that would be eight weigh-ins and
fine yeah that's a good point uh like also as you as you as you saw i think my
problem in the first month was actually eating too too much meat like some of the plates are
well there's like i feel it was just uh getting excited with all the the new meats i wanted to
try and a little bit of this little bit of that and that's like was probably too much
but i'm i think the second one i adjusted and feel fine with much less meat i'm more reasonable
let's say i like that because i was not hungry before i'm not even hungry now and yeah which
is interesting too because i feel like one of the in the switches that happened being at maintenance
for some reason i seem to be able to eat more and i can almost eat as much as you
and yet my my weight stays the same versus like i feel like because you have weight to
lose maybe that's impacting like that if when you eat to even you were close to your max you end up
struggling and so maybe that's an interesting thing too for wellness workers to think about
because we're so afraid of over eating sometimes that i feel like we don't eat to satiation
and for me eating to satiation means that i make it from meal to meal and in my case that's 24
hours versus i've heard people who are at maintenance still struggling and i wonder
if it's because of this because they're not just allowing themselves to eat to satiation
knowing that once my body gets what it needs to build and repair and do all this stuff it's going
to stop bugging me and maybe you're maybe you're just under eating a little bit and not realizing
it which then makes you hungry sooner and then you're struggling and your weight is kind of
fluctuating more than a pound or two which would be normal but if you're fluctuating like 10 5 10
15 pounds like that's more than is normal for someone who's in maintenance and i think that
that would be something to pay attention to so it's a little observation that i've made because
it's true like when we were doing carnivores like it was crazy how close even sometimes how how i
was able to eat more and you didn't finish and i finished i'm looking forward to next month's
experiment maybe sort of kind of um i hope that there's nothing explosive that happens but
i do i am looking forward to see like what happens when i reintroduce some veg and you guys are going
to be the first to know in the follow-up video there is a video on the screen right there that's
going to help you to understand why we decided to do carnivore in the first place i want to
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