03/03/2025
Monday morning dispelling the bu****it post
Diets and exercise fads go round and round like clockwork. Something becomes fashionable and then it gets followed because it works for a certain amount of people.
What often gets forgotten are the key indicators or limiting factors.
2 I've chosen to talk about today.
Carnivore diet
Fasting
The premise for the carnivore diet is that people lose a lot of weight and they feel better. All their aches and pains are gone and the inflammation they had is no longer there.
Let's look at the 2 key things that will influence the above.
Weight loss. Any diet that leads to a good amount of weight loss will make you feel better. A factor that happens with weight loss is lowering inflammation. If you lose weight. You lower inflammation in the body.
Another factor with the carnivore diet is also eating nothing but meat. You are having no vegetables or carbohydrate sources. So now the belief is that vegetables cause inflammation and carbs bad for you. Avoiding them on the carnivore diet makes you feel better so that was obviously the issue.
One limiting factor here is that you've essentially done your own elimination diet.
The other major factor here.
You've created calorie restriction.
On to fasting.
Fasting apparently is still the in thing. It makes you live longer and helps to treat all matter of ailments and diseases.
You know what else it does??
You guessed it
It creates calorie restriction.
** So calorie restriction and avoiding/limiting junk food or food that doesn't agree with you for better health.
Who would have thought it.
So fasting isn't magic. It isn't required. It isn't anymore beneficial than any other way of limiting calories.
Fast when you're asleep. That's all you need
