My new diet plan: the 2/3 Carnivore system

 I have had a few health problems the past few months, including SIBO ... one of the ways of dealing with this is to reduce carbs by as much as you can stand ... I started with the Fast Tract diet, which has been helpful and started a 3-month experiment the first of December with the full Carnivore Diet ...

 

Since my wife wasn't interested in joining me on this, I wound up cooking ... which I discovered I don't like. I started by cooking burgers and steaks on our outdoor propane grill, but that required watching closely (so the burgers, especially, didn't catch on fire, but steaks too) ... frozen burgers (from Costco) take about 10 minutes on the propane grill, plus time for it to warm up and a bit of time for it to burn off the grease after the cooking is done. Steaks (the way I cook them) take 15 or 16 minutes on the grill.

I tried ButcherBox, but (a) one of their packages of bacon was bad, their frozen burgers were in one package so stuck together that I had to thaw them in the fridge first. And their burgers were about 6 times as expensive as Costco's.

So I quit Butcherbox and standardized on Costco frozen burgers with cheese. Costco got a D from some consumer organization on buying beef without checking on its antibiotic use. Shawn Baker says that antibiotics are out of the cattle's system at the time of slaughter ... but he's also an anti-vax advocate But their "grass fed" burgers, which I decided to trust, say "grass-fed, no antibiotics."

So I ate pretty much nothing but these frozen burgers with cheese ... and I got an air fryer for Christmas (actually Santa came early for this one). This cooks burgers in only 6 minutes, with maybe 2 minutes warm up.

So this was mostly my diet in December ... then:

My lovely wife couldn't stand the smell ... when in ketosis, my breath and body odor became intolerable to her ... one Redditor said the smell was akin to nail-polish remover.

So every third day now instead of my normal every day, instead of a Chomp and cheese or ham and cheese "breakfast" (really just a morning snack to get a little fat with my vitamin D) I have 

and ...

and, because bread turns to sugar and with SIBO that adds to my already too-great gas burden, I have this with my first bite:

Once a week my wife and I like to visit our favorite local restaurant. This coming week we're going on Wednesday, normally a Carnivore day on my new schedule but since I'd rather order something else at this place than "two burgers on a plate" I may reduce my Carnivore percentage for the month to 63% or so ...

Modern life is complex!