Hello fellow people,
as the title says - Im coming from the carnivore diet. I also read the threads that have already been posted, I hope this new thread isn't against the rules.
I did the carnivore diet for over a year now and ate mostly beef and beef liver from a pretty much perfect source - a little farm that's only 10 minutes away from my home.
I started to feel really good and felt the need to work out. After 6 months I was able to become really athletic, my body looked as good as never before. Here and there I incorporated carbs into my diet, but only occasionally, mostly on workout days - I ate fruit, milk and honey. It wasn't more than 50g of carbs in total/day probably.
Then the fatigue/brain fog began. On some days I felt quite normal, on others I was really fighting with sleepiness and fatigue. It also became harder and harder to improve my strength and mass - which is not quite my goal, but I noticed it.
2 weeks ago I read about the thyroid and carbs debate - I was sleepy again on that day, so I ate some dates and banana chips. I almost immediately felt better, euphoric and energetic.
Because of this experience I started the next day with eating some dates again, snacked on some banana chips and drank more milk (I've been drinking milk while doing carnivore, too).
It felt really great, I had superior mood and energy, was really aware and didn't feel sleepy at all at day time. In the following days I started to incorporate OJ, more milk and dates, honey and some other sources of carbs (maple syrup, other fruit/juice). I also didn't notice a negative impact on my digestion, just some farts. I also drink coffee in the morning (which I have been doing while eating carnivore, too - on and off). My mood was really good, I was super productive and my energy was skyrocketing.
After my short "carb incorporating time" im now eating around 200g carbs, 130-150g protein an 100-150g fat.
I am 180cm (5'11) and weigh 165 lbs (75kg). I only take magnesium, creatine and beef gelatin as supplements. (also eating the raw carrots/carrot salad)
My calorie intake is around 2000-3000.
EDIT: My metabolism seems good, as far as I can tell. I often feel warm, poop 2-3 a day and my temperature measurements were around 36.7-37-5°C. This improved fast as I started eating carbs again. Before I felt cold way more and pooped one time a day.
After some days of experimenting and feeling simply great, like 100% great, I did a workout with the following exercises (4 sets each):
weighted pull ups
weighted dips
normal pull ups
ring rows
different variations of push ups (the one with legs on a chair and normal ones)
some ab exercises (ab roller, knee raises)
I really like these exercises, but after the workout I felt really exhausted and wasted. (It took 1/1.5h)
My sleep was also really bad that night, I couldn't sleep in as fast as normal and I woke up in the night feeling restless.
After that day the feeling of energy and great mood was gone.
It has now been like 5 days and I still don't feel good again. My sleep is also not as good as in the first days.
I think it might be the work outs - since then I'm trying hard not to work out and get more rest. Maybe I depleted the liver glycogen and I should do shorter work outs with less intensity. But Im not sure if it also could be something else, like the coffee, the carbs or anything which I didn't notice yet. Or my body might be healing or learning the carb-oxidation again.
Sometimes I feel moments of the energy that I had before the workout day. I didn't notice that when I was still carnivore, but I also didn't have that great of energy while being carnivore. EDIT: I also started to notice twitching in my right eyelid.
Do you guys have any ideas how I can gain that energy and great mood from the beginning of the experiment back?
as the title says - Im coming from the carnivore diet. I also read the threads that have already been posted, I hope this new thread isn't against the rules.
I did the carnivore diet for over a year now and ate mostly beef and beef liver from a pretty much perfect source - a little farm that's only 10 minutes away from my home.
I started to feel really good and felt the need to work out. After 6 months I was able to become really athletic, my body looked as good as never before. Here and there I incorporated carbs into my diet, but only occasionally, mostly on workout days - I ate fruit, milk and honey. It wasn't more than 50g of carbs in total/day probably.
Then the fatigue/brain fog began. On some days I felt quite normal, on others I was really fighting with sleepiness and fatigue. It also became harder and harder to improve my strength and mass - which is not quite my goal, but I noticed it.
2 weeks ago I read about the thyroid and carbs debate - I was sleepy again on that day, so I ate some dates and banana chips. I almost immediately felt better, euphoric and energetic.
Because of this experience I started the next day with eating some dates again, snacked on some banana chips and drank more milk (I've been drinking milk while doing carnivore, too).
It felt really great, I had superior mood and energy, was really aware and didn't feel sleepy at all at day time. In the following days I started to incorporate OJ, more milk and dates, honey and some other sources of carbs (maple syrup, other fruit/juice). I also didn't notice a negative impact on my digestion, just some farts. I also drink coffee in the morning (which I have been doing while eating carnivore, too - on and off). My mood was really good, I was super productive and my energy was skyrocketing.
After my short "carb incorporating time" im now eating around 200g carbs, 130-150g protein an 100-150g fat.
I am 180cm (5'11) and weigh 165 lbs (75kg). I only take magnesium, creatine and beef gelatin as supplements. (also eating the raw carrots/carrot salad)
My calorie intake is around 2000-3000.
EDIT: My metabolism seems good, as far as I can tell. I often feel warm, poop 2-3 a day and my temperature measurements were around 36.7-37-5°C. This improved fast as I started eating carbs again. Before I felt cold way more and pooped one time a day.
After some days of experimenting and feeling simply great, like 100% great, I did a workout with the following exercises (4 sets each):
weighted pull ups
weighted dips
normal pull ups
ring rows
different variations of push ups (the one with legs on a chair and normal ones)
some ab exercises (ab roller, knee raises)
I really like these exercises, but after the workout I felt really exhausted and wasted. (It took 1/1.5h)
My sleep was also really bad that night, I couldn't sleep in as fast as normal and I woke up in the night feeling restless.
After that day the feeling of energy and great mood was gone.
It has now been like 5 days and I still don't feel good again. My sleep is also not as good as in the first days.
I think it might be the work outs - since then I'm trying hard not to work out and get more rest. Maybe I depleted the liver glycogen and I should do shorter work outs with less intensity. But Im not sure if it also could be something else, like the coffee, the carbs or anything which I didn't notice yet. Or my body might be healing or learning the carb-oxidation again.
Sometimes I feel moments of the energy that I had before the workout day. I didn't notice that when I was still carnivore, but I also didn't have that great of energy while being carnivore. EDIT: I also started to notice twitching in my right eyelid.
Do you guys have any ideas how I can gain that energy and great mood from the beginning of the experiment back?
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