1) I'm currently using a blood ketone meter. Read my update above about the fiber/keto thing, I might've been wrong about that and will have to test it better.
2) I'm not 100% it is the protein that's doing it, so I wanted to keep the name of the diet descriptive of simply what it's doing, not what I think its effects are. I…
1) I'm currently using a blood ketone meter. Read my update above about the fiber/keto thing, I might've been wrong about that and will have to test it better.
2) I'm not 100% it is the protein that's doing it, so I wanted to keep the name of the diet descriptive of simply what it's doing, not what I think its effects are. Initially I called it "low-protein" but what if it turns out to be something else?
Like you, I also had a very hard time with carnivore. I can do keto forever and don't feel limited in food choices at all. But when you go to pure meat, boy oh boy does it get boring. Yes, steak got absolutely boring after less than a week. Ground beef is practically unpalatable without anything to soak up the fat. I ended up mostly making meatballs (easier to prep than burger patties) but they weren't great, either.
3) It was various countries in Asia. They don't seem to eat a lot of beef there to begin with, and I could definitely imagine that what they feed the animals is very different. That said, their portion sizes were also much smaller, and as I just started out with keto there, I began experimenting with heavy cream and fat bombs and all that stuff. So it fits various hypotheses, even if their beef isn't all that better there. But could be, which would be the "contamination" hypothesis.
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1) I'm currently using a blood ketone meter. Read my update above about the fiber/keto thing, I might've been wrong about that and will have to test it better.
2) I'm not 100% it is the protein that's doing it, so I wanted to keep the name of the diet descriptive of simply what it's doing, not what I think its effects are. Initially I called it "low-protein" but what if it turns out to be something else?
Like you, I also had a very hard time with carnivore. I can do keto forever and don't feel limited in food choices at all. But when you go to pure meat, boy oh boy does it get boring. Yes, steak got absolutely boring after less than a week. Ground beef is practically unpalatable without anything to soak up the fat. I ended up mostly making meatballs (easier to prep than burger patties) but they weren't great, either.
3) It was various countries in Asia. They don't seem to eat a lot of beef there to begin with, and I could definitely imagine that what they feed the animals is very different. That said, their portion sizes were also much smaller, and as I just started out with keto there, I began experimenting with heavy cream and fat bombs and all that stuff. So it fits various hypotheses, even if their beef isn't all that better there. But could be, which would be the "contamination" hypothesis.