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Notes one month into my carnivore experiment, for anyone who’s curious. Synopsis: so far so good, and I’m excited about pursuing this way of eating for both health and sovereignty.

January notes -

First few weeks weren’t great - likely some keto flu and possibly some oxalate issues. By week three I was feeling a shift, and now I’m waking up energetic and am in a noticeably better mood pretty much all the time. It’s like my brain is just happier.

What I’m eating

Beef, eggs, some cheese, occasional lamb chops and a ton of butter. To mitigate the oxalate issues I’m having a cup of tea every morning. Will taper that soon and see how it goes.

My motivations

- I’ve always been interested in fasting as a health and spiritual practice, but whenever I do it more than a day or two I have a miserable time going back to eating. My hunger cues just get really screwed up and stay that way for a long time. However, from the stories I hear from longtime carnivores, it seems like going a few days without food is just not that much of a physiological shock when we're truly well-nourished.

- we’re in a position on the homestead where we might actually be able to raise all of our own meat very soon. It’s generally the first area of food production in which people are self-sufficient. I have a friend whose family started with cows immediately when they got their land 3 years ago and she has two freezers full of their own Jersey steers.

- even without our own meat, getting a 1/4 or 1/2 cow from a nearby regenerative farm is a very cost-effective way to get excellent nutrition, support small-scale local ranchers who are doing it right, and to get about as close as I can imagine to removing ourselves from the screwed up fiat food system;

- we love fruit and nut trees and will continue planting them, but in general skipping the vegetable garden sounds great to me. Growing lots of veggies can be a ton of work! This year I’ll use sweet potato plants and squash as ground cover in some bare areas (also they're great chicken food) and we might have some tomato plants (my husband loves them) but otherwise I’m not doing a garden.

- some of the anecdotes from long-time carnivores are very inspiring: excellent strength gains and body composition; good energy; overall excellent health.

Next steps:

I’ve committed to the next two months for sure, after which I’ll evaluate. I’ll probably drop pasteurized, store-bought cheese at some point (it’s not a problem as far as I can tell but it would be one of the first things to change if I want to experiment). We’re working on our infrastucture so that we can store more meat at once.

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