Yes! Doing very low carb had given me huge energy boots compared to when I fall off the wagon. Just itching to get out and go
Lchf vs carnivore, I think I have the same Energy either way.
After 3 months I think I top out my vim and vigor.
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Doing very low carb had given me huge energy boots
Whhaaat---you got energy boots? All I rolled was high uric acid.
Serious though, I felt like my gas tank would empty a lot quicker. I always hoped it would give me that kind of boost, but the closest I got was a tangential motivational boost from dropping pesky weight that I had trouble dropping otherwise--the flirt with gout (with what I was eating, anyway) did happen though.
How long were you doing lchf? Did you measure your ketones?
There is data showing that lchf can be protective against gout, I can dig it up if your interested
Under keto I couldn't do nearly as much. I'm progressing well on the resistance exercises, and I'm faster each time I ride
On keto I didn't advance and I was tired all the time. I think it's because I wasn't eating enough
Interesting; How different is your carnivore diet from keto?
For me I just removed the avocados and stopped trying to find "keto bread", or "keto pizza"... meaning I was already doing a 500g of ground beef and liver on carnivore. I just removed the other stuff. Maybe thats why I felt fine on both?
Keto for me had quite a bit of low carb veg. I think some of those didn't agree with me given how much better I feel on zero carb
I never did the keto fake foods, I think I have been doing low carb on and off since I was 20, I'm now 47
My carnivore diet has been scotch fillet steak (rib eye), eaten until satisfied, and often about 4 eggs a day. My "too much fat" thing I think was because I had fallen into a one meal a day pattern, and it's hard to process a day's fat in a single dose
While I was fat I ate leaner cuts
I buy my meat as whole prime cuts, I need to up my frozen storage space so I can instead get a whole cow
That sounds awesome; Have you put your food into something like cronometer to make sure your covering all the nutritional targets? (Fillet is mostly muscle meat, I wonder if the 4 eggs a day give enough nutritional diversity, hence my question)
Example here is my cornometer readout for my default
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I don't normally weigh my food, though I did a couple of times while I was eating once a day at 960g. I'll measure what I eat tomorrow and drop it into chronometer
I have a kilo of liver on order which will pick up tomorrow. My intention is to grind it with lean meat and fat trimmings and make rissoles (maybe burgers in Americanese) with the ground beef and liver and egg for binding
Oh and I fry my meat in tallow, my eggs in butter
My average in the past has been a kilo a day over the course of ten days (reckoned on my usual ~10kg meat purchase lasting ~10 days)
I have a kilo of liver on order which will pick up tomorrow. My intention is to grind it with lean meat and fat trimmings and make rissoles (maybe burgers in Americanese) with the ground beef and liver and egg for binding
That sounds great. My only advice for liver is the less you cook it the better it tastes.
Oh and I fry my meat in tallow, my eggs in butter
Delicious.