Tonight completes my first week on the Carnivore diet. Tomorrow will be another weigh-in and, so far, the main benefit has been the weight loss. Breakfast consisted of a cheese omelet, and a hamburger patty with cheese. The bacon I recently purchased because it had the fewest additives, turned out to be extremely salty and so we fried it up and cut it up into bacon bits for flavoring various dishes in the future. I felt no hunger all day on so little food. I am amazed. But at times I feel like I am running on empty, legs feeling a little weak and shaky.
"Dinner" was a bowl of chicken broth loaded with chicken meat, and a small helping of cottage cheese, which I love. I was grieving over the fact that I had no fruit with it, one of my favourite things to eat.
I have been looking for some result that might encourage me to go on. I am, day by day, discovering that my sleep is better. My diverticulosis seems to bother me most in the mornings so when I wake up I am too uncomfortable to roll over and go back to sleep. This morning I felt almost nothing and that is why I was going to get up at 7 but ended up sleeping 'til 9. This is highly unusual for me but it almost feels like I am catching up on lost sleep.
I think my joints are feeling better too. I test them not only in the gym everyday, but I always take the stairs down to the car park so I know on any given day how my knees are. I do not want to be premature, but there are small indicators that the diet is doing what it is supposed to do. I am waiting for the carb and sugar craving to go away, not just lessen.
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