Going low carb-Pros? Cons?
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Im clueless as to how to set up my goals. Ive tried a number of times but cannot seem to get it right. And protein poisoning???? Seriously? I see diaries that are nothing but protein. And the majority of the ones that are eating just meat are posting about how they would rather die than eat a plant based diet. Im at a loss.
I can't speak for those people who eat only meat, as I haven't seen them on here and so I don't know what the details of their diet looks like. However, meat isn't just protein, unless they're living on chicken breasts (which is, generally speaking, unsustainable; [. . .]
Hi, you've probably seen me on here. I don't talk a lot about it, but I eat only meat. You probably haven't noticed because I don't bring it up when I offer other people advice. And, when I talk about foods, I don't point out if I had no sides... or I make a point of picking foods where I did have a veggie. So, I can speak to the details of my diet. I have eaten only meat for a while now, and nearly only meat for the majority of time I have done keto--veggies maybe a couple times a week--316 days. Around 45 days or so ago, I made the conscious decision to just stop pretending I was going to eat more veggies and stopped eating them entirely. I did include some nuts recently. But, I cut them back out because they gave me headaches and slowed my weight loss. I also had a salad and some green beans when I went out to eat recently. I guess you could look at that and technically say I don't "only" eat meat. But, I eat veggies very rarely and not as a real component of my diet. Those veggies were the one time in a month and a half.
What do I eat? Lots of steak, ground beef, pork, ribs, lamb, eggs, and some cheese and heavy cream and butter. I rarely eat chicken. Although I will as long as it's skin on and I also have some fatty thing to dip them in (dressing/mayo). Sometimes, I will use some whey protein isolate in my coffee with heavy cream. I stopped bothering to track the macros, but when I was, it was 65-80% fat every day.
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Huh, you learn something new every day. Nope, I didn't notice that you were full carnivore.
That said, your food sounds fantastic, I must say.
It also wonderfully illustrates my point -- even though you only eat meat, you don't live entirely on lean protein (thank you for doing that). The OP's goals were originally set to something absurd like 19g carbs, 13g fat, and 245g protein (she's since changed them to a more reasonable LCHF/keto setup). Now, it was pretty clear that she was having a hard time actually reaching that, due to the inherent fat content in meat, as the previous several days were over in fat by about 30-50g, but striving for what she had set is a road to failure -- at the very least for compliance/craving reasons. Fat and fatty meats? Completely different story.
So, thank you, again, for sharing what you eat and illustrating that even "meat only" doesn't equal "protein only." :drinker:0 -
Right, I figured that was what you were trying to say and that I could elaborate on what a "meat only" diet would look like and how it's not just pure protein. That's why I pointed out that I eat the way I do and that it's based around fats and rarely gets below 65% calories from fat, even on relatively lean days. Most days are higher.
I think I have alluded to it before in threads asking about carbs/fiber. Generally, my fiber is around 0g-3g and my total carbs are around 10g or less (usually from cheese, eggs, or heavy cream). What fiber I get is from when I add some veggies for flavoring or if I end up having some for a side. I don't like pointing it out because I don't want to end up defending it or having people think I am suggesting it. I do believe that everyone should find what works for them. Where I am is probably not going to work for most (it certainly doesn't work for my fiancee, who eats lots of veggies and some more dense carbs). I only point it out here to support your statement about protein not being the majority of calories, even if someone is going all meat.0
