re: Carnivore Diet

Guys,

If I wanted to implement some fasting into my regimen with Crossfit 4x/week, how would you suggest going about it?

My thoughts would be to fast on non-workout days (3 days/week, basically) and eat on WOD days. But I'm far from an expert.

I am considering it. Maybe start on a 16hr and work my way into 24hr fasts. It has been a long time since I fasted at all. I really want to hit my goal of 240 this year, and with a kid coming in a few months I feel a pressing need to do something to get to my goal more quickly than I originally planned.

I do it every day except Sundays usually bc I like to have breakfast with the kids and wife.

Now when you get to the 24hr and beyond it seems like 2-3 times a week depending on your goals. I thought about fasting for 24 today. It’ll be more like 20 though.

On off days start with 16-18 hour fast to start. From there you can extend slowly to 20 the second week to eventually omad after 2 weeks on off days. To eventually not eating on off days and eating a bigger portion on cf days before the workout to fuel the workout.

Joe Rogan recently interviewed Jordan Peterson on again recently. His diet explanation is very straightforward - I timestamped the link so they go straight into it.

His daughter's (Mikhaila Peterson) blog

Red meat is only inflammatory if you don't balance Omega 3 with the Omega 6. High quality red meat and especially grass fed red meat is known to be anti inflammatory for the record.

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IMO, the best perspective being widely shared right now is by Dr. Ted Naiman, who somewhat aligns with the carnivore diet but adds in plenty of "low sugar vegetables" - a very protein first, minimal carb diet.

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Dr. Naiman always emphasizes nutrient density. That's why he says it's OK to have a portion of heirloom potatoes but not OK to have a Russet.

He has an interesting background - educated as a 7th Day Adventist (both undergrad and MD). An explicit part of that religion is vegetarianism. He realized one day that he was a pasty, skinny blob, despite religiously adhering to a diet that was supposed to be healthy. Now, he essentially eats steak and eggs for every meal...and he's a ripped motherfricker (he also only does body weight exercises.)

He does eat some "vegetables" like peppers and cucumbers, but make no mistake: he absolutely believes that ZERO vegetables are required by your body.

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No, no supplements. Honestly most are garbage and not absorbed in any significant manner.

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Yup. Also, most of the micronutrient claims made with regard to vegetables are bogus also, as only a small fraction of the quoted nutrients are actually bio-available.

Things like red meat get a bad name because they aren't absolutely loaded with, say, magnesium. But the relatively smaller amounts they do contain are almost 100% bio-available. Also, your body needs way less of things like Vitamin C and magnesium in a low-carb environment.

Almost every single vegetable pitched to us by the media and the medical establishment as "essential" were bred just in the past 1500 years from the same exact weed. Brassica We'd have to be horrible idiots to believe that they were vital to our survival based on that history.

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If I remember correctly (and I could be wrong) but the fiber story started in the 30's when some British lad traveled down to Africa and found these baws eating fiber and being healthy as an oxe. Their fiber amount? 30 grams a day.

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And the reason fiber makes you take a shite is because we know as we eat it that 85% of the vegetable is indigestible...so of course we have to shite it out. Circular reasoning is circular.

I'd go on record saying all fresh red meat, grass or grain, is known to be anti-inflammatory.