I can’t believe I’ve made it 3 weeks already on my beef, salt, black coffee and water diet. This week I did find it more difficult than usual to look at fruit especially, like golden slices of kiwi and fresh blueberries picked off the bush in the back yard. Mom’s homemade yogurt looked creamily sublime. Oddly, after all my googling I couldn’t find anything about Carnivore dieters and whether or not they miss eating anything else. It seems most people treat this diet pretty straight forward with a steel resolve and that’s that.
I’m averaging still 2 lbs meat per day and who knew that plain seltzer water was THAT exciting.
Interesting thing #1: So my body went through another one of those curious healing phases where I got so, so sleepy and just had to stay in bed for 1.5 days and sleep and relax. I felt like I weighed 500 lbs, just so heavy and I simply could not do anything, moving, walking, any kind of work. Again, totally different sensation than a lyme/ mold flare or exhaustion due to lack of food, overdoing it etc.. It’s hard to explain, a very sweet, pure tiredness accompanied by no other negative symptoms where my only desire was to sleep. Since this was the second time I looked all over the web for what this could be. I found in a comment section of a post by Charlene Anderson, a carnivore for 20 years who healed completely from Lyme disease, spoke of the exact same pattern after beginning to eat meat, these periods of total exhaustion/sleepiness/heaviness followed by gaining strength and healing. After this two day bout of extreme tiredness I got up with renewed strength and went for a substantial hike and felt amazing. I’m interested to see if this pattern continues.
Interesting thing #2: I had a church job in Cville, start time 7:30 am which means waking at 5am. I’ve done this gig many times and usually I hate my life from beginning to end until I’m able to be back in bed for a nap. Formerly my entire upper body would burn, aching in shoulders, arms etc.. circulation may or may not be good. I just felt so acidic and hardly awake, with constant yawning and a struggle for the brain to function. This morning, yesterday, I was incredibly more alert, not exhausted. I had NO pain or burning in my body, none of that miserable acidic feeling. I don’t think I ever yawned and had brain clarity. Circulation wasn’t great, but not terrible. I felt at least twice as good as I normally do doing that gig and I only had around 5 hours sleep. Whaaat?? Huh, that’s cool.
Interesting thing #3: As soon as I took communion and ingested a thimble full of actual wine I began to have brain fog. The pain came back to my right shoulder and arm and I immediately lost circulation in my hands. I get this weird sticky feeling that sometimes precedes blue fingertips. I could feel my nervous system firing on the inside as if the inside of my brain is twitching (so pleasant right?) (My church I dip a wafer in a cup of wine and barely ingest any wine.)
Now was this psychological? An over reactive nervous system? A gut sensitivity? I have no idea, but it did happen. It tells me that I’m on the right track by eliminating anything but beef and salt. This also jives with everything I’ve read, that when people who are super sensitive go down to beef and salt they can have extreme reactions when re-introducing food/drink before the body has healed.
Weight: minus 1 more lb, minus 4 total. (Seriously a great diet for weight loss if anyone’s interested. Even on keto I was hungry ALL the time and now I’m just hungry only at mealtimes and totally satiated the rest of the day.)
So I think week 3 is progress! I am very hopeful about these signs of healing!
Gonna Get Well 