Breakfast: apple / banana with black coffee
Lunch: Rice and mixed vegetables
Dinner: Mexican Rice Salad with salsa
- Everyday eat the same thing (diet is based on monotony)
- Starch based
- No oil / fat / animal protein
So on Carnivore I gained weight from jump. I went from 186 to 196 in a month which is a personal record for rapid weight gain. I felt super damn unhealthy especially after developing issues with my bowels and bones. If I can become accustomed to starch and actually digest it okay – it would make visiting SE Asia a lot easier. I don’t know if I can do this diet as most of the time starches put me to sleep and tank my energy level. Maybe without fat though it won’t? I don’t know if I can choke down all the starch with no fat. Hmm.
Day 1 Reactive Hypoglycemia – weight lost: 2.2lbs
I have almost discovered something important…
- If sugar retains water and makes you bloated why would I have lost weight eating only carbs and why did I gain weight like there was no tomorrow on Carnivore / Keto?
- High carb DUMPS salt much worse then KETO (for me personally – it’s what happened yesterday) – electrolytes are a lot harder to balance Have you ever heard that? I haven’t, but I experienced it, is it because of my hormones / diabetes though?
- Why would all carbs put my blood sugar in the normal range. Why.
- I never stopped being ravenously hungry. I was hungrier after eating rice then I was prior to the rice but I did not want more freakin’ rice.
- I didn’t under eat nomatter what Chat GPT thought – I had way more ‘calories’ then I generally would ever on Carnivore.
Yesterday was horrible, I started out the day with a banana. Then I had some senbei rice crackers and an extra coffee with sugar. I took a walk but abandoned it early for lack of energy. I attempted to mow but oddly enough sweat poured off me, it was in my eyes and running down my back, I sweated through my shirt. I didn’t even clean my mower, I put everything up and left for a shower. I don’t normally sweat, I would say I have something a bit wrong with my sweat glands even, but not yesterday.
By lunch time I was nauseated. I took my blood sugar wondering if it was up.
80
I took it again
78!
That is absolutely tanked for me. For my body it thinks 110 is cozy and 130 not so bad. Hello diabetes – I know, I know, I just rarely see anything in the 70’s.
By the end of the night even looking at a carbohydrate (without salt / fat) made me nauseated.
I also had a bad GI and ended up on the toilet. Was all the weight loss diarrhea?
I’m trying to eat an apple for breakfast but the nausea is back. This really reminds me of Japan and how I couldn’t even look at food after awhile and didn’t want to eat it.
Speaking of Japan – they use a lot of different appetite suppressors in their food like methyl cellulose and konjac. Maybe we used to also, and that may have been why Americans were thin in the 70’s. I’m suggesting nation states control their inhabiting population with chemicals in the food supply and I’m 100% serious. Hunger leads to a lot of unrest in a country… and as the American economy declined – well, we still had the top healthcare system in the world and the most expensive but c’mon, when I was a kid even old people barely had to go to the hospital. We’ve probably easily quadrupled hospital traffic since I was a child in the 80s. I’ve watched it happen.
People like McDougall write nice books but I kept waiting for him to address the chemicals.
I need more research.
I ended up having to take Ativan last night and benedryl because my brain was messed up from the sugar. I had a big black spider just start coming towards me outside. Huge – I couldn’t believe my eyes as we don’t normally get large spiders here…unless it’s me. If it’s me, then all bets are off they’ll locate me. Things are so bad this year I’m spraying my car mirrors with pesticides and the cracks in my car as they infested my auto last year.
I might revisit this – I don’t know if I’m healthy enough to have my blood sugar on a slippery slide all day but I’m very intrigued.
