I’ve been biking from Austin to Panama on an omnivore diet (carbs, vegetables and meat). I’ve gained and reduced weight.
I’ve been slowly reducing my carb in take. To be honest, I do feel I have far more energy when I include or add a higher dose of carbs into my diet.
But I have also noticed that by adding carbs (oatmeal for example), I crave more carbs along the way.
I want to try a 100 percent carnivore diet. I don’t have a tiny stove to cook so my approach so far has been to let whole beef steaks or cuts soak in vinegar. I’ve been doing this for about 6 months at least 2 a week, but I’ve been increasing my weekly count in the last month to 4 or 5 times, while also replacing my carbs intake with more nuts such cashews and almonds. The past couple of weeks have had essentially zero carbohydrates other than fruit a couple of times, and some yogurt every other day.
The past 3 days have been about 90 percent meat accompanied by some avocados. I’m ready to go 100 percent carnivore as a test. I feel I’ve been craving food less. I don’t like buying large bag of nuts because I tend to finish them in a day. It’s hard to control myself.
Other than eating beef soaked in vinegar for a few hours (6-8 hours and on a few occasions 2-3 days), I will also include roasted chicken I’ll buy from roasters along the way, and also include some sardines. On a few occasions I’ve eaten the beef raw.
According to ChatGPT, there is significant risk to eating raw beef or beef soaked in vinegar. I understand the risk and luckily, I have not gotten sick yet. According to ChatGPT, there is also a chance the excess and frequent vinegar may affect my teeth.
Anyway, any advice as I enter this stage of the trip? Any words of encouragement in this diet experiment?
by moises8war
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Godspeed, soldier. I spent the better part of the last 5 years on the carnivore diet. It worked well, but I’m off carnivore at the moment (same diet as before, but I added white rice). I’ve wondered how I would do my dream bike tour on a low carb diet, so I hope you’ll succeed.
The only real advice I have for you is to not take *any* health advice from ChatGPT. Seriously, it’s not capable of giving sound advice and people have been hospitalized for following its recommendations on health.
Uhm, well good luck I guess.
If your teeth start hurting from too much vinegar maybe switch things up. Or scabies due to a lack of vitamin C. Or you know, botulism from bringing vinegar soaked meat through warm climates.
Also: ChatGPT is not a source of truth. It is a way to get the *most likely* answer from a large amount of data.
That can also be *very* wrong.
This is nucking futs.
Makes me want to watch Durianrider videos.
Is this for real?
This sounds like a terrible idea
Buy a stove ?
Add more animal fats.
I’d just eat like a normal human being, whatever local people are eating tbh.
You could just go vegetarian if this is about health.
Sounds pretty unhinged for a lot of reasons dude… maybe just trolling? Mostly though, lots of exercise + ketosis = high stress on your organs. Bad call.
“Any words of encouragement in this diet experiment?”
No.
You’re craving food less because all of the meat is sitting in your stomach waiting to be digested, and you’re burning more of your body’s energy on digestion. This is a crazy idea in so many ways.
Vegetables and carbs are cool. Good luck, be safe, and listen to your body.
I beg you to reconsider
advice – don’t mess with a high risk diet in poor countries with poor Healthcare.
RIP kidneys
This is an utterly terrible idea. This is categorically not what an endurance athlete needs to sustain themselves.