Oddbean

Yeah, there’s A LOT more than goes into it than just “eating animal fats”. I was successfully on a Keto diet for a few months and for me, the benefits were pretty awesome. Got a lot of energy back, felt better, all that good stuff. However, to consistently be in a state of ketosis requires a lot of discipline and planning. You can’t just go out and eat wherever you want. You have to plan ahead and make sure there’s something on the menu that fits your diet. You have to constantly plan out your meals and educate yourself on what you can and cannot eat. In the end, it was too much for me to maintain with a family of 5. Benefits were great, but the day-to-day of it was time consuming and difficult.

I have just super simplified everything to make it easy. I have bacon and eggs on the morning, ground beef or some other ground meat generally at lunch (also chicken apple sausage and the like are common), and then a steak for dinner (air fried for 10 mins because it’s insanely easy). I obviously don’t keep this up every single day, but when I’m just at home working, this is basically my diet. My grocery list is simple, it’s easily reproducible, it’s delicious, and I don’t have to plan or think about what I’m going to eat. Usually if I’m out of something, I just eat bacon and eggs again. If I go out to eat somewhere, I just get a steak and get them to cook it in butter. If they use some rapeseed oil shit it ruins my recording for at least a day. That shit is poison and *everything* is cooked in it now. I just wouldn’t eat out until I realized that’s what it was that was killing my sinuses and inflaming everything. Going butter only and then simply not eating if they couldn’t do that, I’ve not had the problem anymore.

Carnivore diet is intimidating to start and simple once implemented. Eggs and bacon if you need breakfast (or just chug some raw eggs), grill up a couple of steaks at night (one for dinner and one for #pocketsteak🥩). I do eat veggies from time to time as well when I feel like it.

It’s also more difficult if you’re feeding more than just yourself. I’ve got 3 small boys that aren’t always going to want that plus a wife who is a bit of a picky eater. And while she likes steak, I don’t think I could get her to commit to it daily. So I’d have to plan out cooking for both myself and the rest of the family which gets a bit tedious. Not impossible, just hard to maintain without an iron will and dedication.

Have you tried reverse searing your steak? 1. Bake oven at 250 and pull when it is 10 degrees below your desired temp. 2. Just before you pull it melt some butter in a cast-iron skillet over medium-high to high heat. 3. Pull and sear on all sides. Let it rest for a few minutes and bam, perfect steak every time!

I have actually! I ended up cutting out the oven though (just to save a step) and started searing then basting with butter on the cast iron skillet. Got pretty good at getting it to the desired temp through that method after some trial and error.