Interview with Lynn Lynn has done a carnivore diet success story for me, and this is her meat up post. 1) How would you currently describe your current way of eating. I started Carnivore eating over a year ago. For the most part, I eat meat, but I have had real life challenges, taking care of an ailing father with Parkinson's who has weird diet issues and the stress of it has left me doing a lot of cheating. I've had other stressors as well; besides the virus we are all battling. Knock on wood, none of us have come down with that. The difference in my eating is, though, that I eat just meat in between cheating. Where before if I went off a diet of any sort, I would eat a lot of carbs for quite a while and then try to start watching it. In this case, most of the time, I am eating meat even if I add in something like pop or ice cream. My main diet consists of ribeyes mostly, but all meat: chicken, shrimp, salmon, pork, some chicken liver at times, oysters on occasion, eggs, some limited cheese.
For example, if our patient was consuming 200 g of carbohydrates per day—our data demonstrate that most of our patients are eating an average of 200 g of carbs per day—we would probably cut that down by 50% in the first week to a 100-g carbohydrate diet. This is not a ketogenic diet. Shubrook: A warmup. Mehta: A warmup, yes—the first week. Thereafter, we titrate the medications down. With a lower-carb diet, we need to cut back on the patient's medication to avoid low blood sugars. Usually, in the second week, we then begin the ketogenic diet—an Indian or vegetarian version of the ketogenic diet. I also would like to add that if the patient is overweight, we make this a hypocaloric diet. Many of our Indian patients are considered lean diabetic patients. They are not obese, but they're overweight. Their BMI may be in the range of 27 kg/m 2. So we do not want to make it very hypocaloric. If the individual is morbidly obese, that's when we would consider a hypocaloric diet. Bear in mind that our diet usually turns out to be hypocaloric compared with the previous dietary pattern.