People that think they can’t give up bread or pasta or desserts have just never actually tried it. After three years of being hardcore keto (real keto, not honey or artificial sweeteners, or eating fruit, or some “keto” bread) after a couple weeks your body doesn’t crave those things anymore, and after a few months, your body finds those thing unappetizing. Carbs and sugar are an addiction and were historically a substitute for real food during hard times. They were used to feed armies to sustain them long enough to win wars, and then the soldiers could no longer subsist on the same diet for an extended period of time.

Changing your entire “mealtime routine” or sugar “treats” throughout the day is hard and requires true discipline, but the reward is unbelievable. You will never feel better, you will never have more energy, and you will never be in better shape. Additionally, it’s a psychological battle with yourself that you prove to yourself every day that you can win. The value in that alone is worth embarking on a path to a proper diet. The amount better my life has become is truly incalculable. I’d encourage others to do the same. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. #foodstr

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Congrats!!

I feel the real challenge is whether your family is along for the ride

Haha. Very true. My wife knows it’s true, but isn’t prepared to go full psycho like me.

Yes! And that's how I came off of carnivore diet. Cuz I became too hard to share a meal with anyone. But...I shall try again.

Agreed it’s tough at meals. It took me a while to become comfortable asking for very specific orders. I’m generally low maintenance, and so troubling someone for a very specific food order or bringing my own olive oil to lunches took some getting used to. But now it’s second nature and I just own it. It get easier with time; like killing prostitutes.

Do you bring olive oil for them to cook in? I've been joking about bringing butter for restaurants to cook my food in.

When I did the 5 months carnivore, I pretty much didn't eat out. It's too hard to avoid traps out there.

I bring olive oil to use as salad dressing if I’m getting a salad, but I will specifically ask for something to be cooked in butter; breakfast food especially.

Good to know.

Sometimes they say they can't tho.

Yeah, then I’ll ask about bacon grease.

If they can’t do that either, I just tap out and drink coffee or tea with whoever I am with.

Yea I need to be ready to just fast for the time being.

And interestingly, not surprisingly, I can sustain much longer without food on carnivore.

Now blood sugar fluctuates and hunger would come on quickly and have me at my knees fast. 👎

Yes, that’s one of the main benefits of the diet. Much more even energy levels and no need to eat for extended periods of time. I personally don’t recommend people fast if they aren’t in ketosis yet. Just very difficult to pull off. It also leads to a lot of people giving up.

I never did keto but carnivore (so no veggies etc). And yes, I felt the same. No more cravings and when I see those fake food, my body just knows and didn't care for them!!!

I need to get back on that and your ted talk is what I needed to hear today!! 😂 Thank you!!

Love it!

My dinners are almost always meat. But when I try to do also a meat lunch, I find that to be too heavy on the stomach. Any ideas on this?

Just go with a smaller portion for lunch. Or maybe do something lighter like chicken for lunch and then red meat for dinner.