I Ate Only Meat For 2 Weeks And Lost 4kg
A Steak A Day Kept My Pounds Away
Granted half of that was probably water weight.
But my clothes fit better, I feel much stronger and I’ve even trimmed a couple of inches belly blubber.
The “carnivore diet” is legit. And proclaims all manner of benefits. A lot of Bitcoiners do it, so I had to at least try.
And so far, so great.
Don’t shoot the messenger — I am simply paraphrasing the carnivore-diet thesis: meat, and animal products, are the most nutritious and bioavailable foods on the planet. A lot of plants are barely digestible, aren’t meant to be eaten in large quantities, and contain compounds that are toxic to ingest. The same goes for seeds and grains. And don’t even get a carnivore started on the fructose-acid trip that’s fruit.
So I decided to test this by eating only meat and animal products (eggs, ghee, cheese, etc.) for a fortnight — and my weight dropped from 83kg to 79kg.
Is meat really all we need? Are we all innately carnivorous? Animals can defend themselves from being eaten but because plants are immobile, do they defend against being eaten by being toxic? What if we eat herbivores who can digest plants in their multi-stomach digestive tracts? What if we “outsource” our digestion of…
