If you're like me, you're buying things covering your eyes with one hand, and paying with the other. It's painful right now! And the biggest complaint I hear is that the Carnivore Diet must be SOOOOO expensive!
You know what's weird? It's not!
Six months ago, I was budgeting $1200 per month for a family of 4. Now, all of us are migrating to a proper human diet (thank you, Dr. Berry, for the prompting and the name), and our outlay for food is dropping!
Why???
Well, this is not all encompassing, but here's a start. Add your observations in the comments!
- the ready made foods cost a lot but don't fill you up
- meat and eggs satisfy you better and supply nutrition better than processed foods
- fruit and vegetable prices are rising and they go bad quickly
I only eat 4 items and I can predict how much meat to buy based on that. I eat a pound to 1.5# meat total, daily.
In this video I show you cost saving tips I'm using right now to afford the Carnivore Diet and feel like I'm eating like a queen. Seriously? Steak, eggs, and butter all day? Yes, please, and thank you!
What cost saving tips can you share with others here on getting groceries on the Carnivore Diet?
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I did this video at the end of a trip! I was super frustrated by my blood sugar levels, but I had given in a little too much on the wine and very minute amounts of other snacks. I was pretty frustrated, and knew that I was the only one able to truly manage my willpower. I really wanted you to know that to truly make an impact I have to commit each meal to my awesome blood sugar levels for my health and for my family.
It was a valley, probably not the lowest I've been, but I was processing taking responsibility for my choices. After all, I am an adult. Even so, I don't believe in being too hard on myself or anyone else.
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WHO YOU CAN FOLLOW TO GET MORE INFORMATION about Carnivore Diet!
I break the sources for great info on Carnivore into two categories – professionals (doctors), and lifestyle
content creators.
I do not diagnose, prescribe, treat, or recommend anything to anyone – on my channel I share what
works for me. You will have to take responsibility for your own health and consult your doctor if you
have any questions. I am not a doctor, and I do not play one on TV!
DOCTORS, their channels, and relevant books:
Dr. Ken Berry Lies My Doctor Told Me
Dr. Richard Bernstein Diabetes Solution
Dr. Anthony Chaffee The Plant Free MD Podcast
Dr. Shawn Baker revero.com
Dr. Lisa Wiedeman The Carnivore Doc
LIFESTYLE CREATORS
I follow so many more people, but I make sure I catch as many of the videos the above creators have done, as possible!
My postal worker just paid me the biggest compliment ever!
Postal Worker: Hey beautiful!
Me: (oh, she’s talking to me!) Hey there!
PW: You have lost a lot of weight! Are you OK?
Me: (why do we think people aren’t OK when they’ve lost weight?) Thanks!
PW: I hadn’t seen you in a while! I used to see you walking all the time and here you are! You look
great!
Me: Thanks! I am eating a lot of protein – I put myself on an extreme elimination diet and I actually
haven’t felt better in a long time!
PW: Well, you look great! I’m glad you feel great too!
Gosh, I am just on cloud 9, still! What a compliment! I know I feel great, and I know I’m more muscular
now than before! I got kinda squishy before. Remember – I think I was the poster child for “skinny fat”
but I also know I got up to pregnancy weight when I wasn’t pregnant! I definitely had a lot of
inflammation that I feel so good having let go of.
I didn’t really “start” the Carnivore Diet, per se. What’s really interesting about “ways of eating” is that
transitioning from one to another can be fluid, as it should be. I do not believe we should be so rigid as
to say “I eat like this, or tomorrow I’m starting that.” Just eat! I caught one video of a Carnivore
criticizing another Carnivore because of what they ate. If it works for them, let them be!
Anyway, I said before that what transitioned me to the Carnivore way of eating was education and trial.
The first video I watched on the subject was a video by Dr. Ken Berry .
He also did a video about the BBBE diet with a very alluring name
I had stalled out on weight and inflammation levels, probably because I had trouble not eating nuts. So I
started with the Egg Fast and then did it over without much of a break.
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I felt SO good I kept going! I did another egg fast right after my first egg fast, then never
really stopped. Since the Carnivore way of eating is essentially an extreme elimination diet, I just kept
expanding my menu until I discovered what triggered inflammation. I first added beef and bacon, after
eating eggs and butter, and then expanded to chicken and pork.
I found that as I started allowing myself meat, eggs, butter, and cheese, I could not get enough meat
and eggs for a while. I wondered for a while if I would ever calm down my eating, or get over this
massive hunger I was experiencing!
After watching Kelly Hogan, I felt better knowing she was also just consuming massive amounts of meat until her hunger settled down. And sure enough, I went through spurts of insane hunger or pangs to eat, within the first two months of eating strictly carnivore. However, that has calmed down and I
can predict how much meat I will eat, and prepare to eat at roughly the same time every day. Right
now, I am actually hungry, though, so upon finishing this post I’ll go eat the ground beef I have prepared
already.
I would also say do not limit yourself to how much meat you eat! It will be more than you have eaten
before because when it’s all you eat, you WILL eat more. In subsequent posts, I’ll talk about quantities
and grocery lists. It’s SO much simpler in planning than any other food plan you’ve ever followed! It’s
so easy on life! So let yourself enjoy that.
You might now be wondering how healthy this is. Will you get your nutrients? What about Vitamin C?
How about electrolytes? In the next blog post, I’ll point you to several doctors you can follow who all
discuss all these issues. I will not do so in detail, since they as licensed professionals do so very well.
You can consult these doctors to get informed so that you can make sound decisions for yourself!
