First 30 days on Carnivore

*Aloha curious readers – I’m updating this post because I am well past the Carnivore experience and while I learned SO MUCH, I didn’t want to delete the post entirely. This is your quest. I gave it a FULL 100 days – actually I ate 1/2 an avocado on the 99th day but that was the extent of my plant consumption for 3.5 months. I don’t regret the experience – it informed me well about the benefits of animal protein. I currently advocate for a balanced omnivorous approach to food and healing as no complete program of recovery is based on food alone. I have also since gotten a breast explant as of doing this experiment – explanting ended up being the key to eliminating inflammation in my body. I do eat meat now but more importantly I don’t eliminate any carbohydrates, quite the opposite. I praise all macros and am now reveling in my clear path and optimal health. On to the post…

July 2, 2025:

Carnivore was such a major shake up to my belief system since the thoughts I was thinking on repeat praised the plant kingdom and I assumed the answer to all my body’s questions rested in: clarity, purity, honesty, kindness which also had to come from plants. “Keeping the channels clear” I’d say. To me it made sense that clarity meant clean and clean meant plants like kale, spinach, apples and lemon. Like, animals meant dirty… But unless you’ve tried this before you’re quick to learn – no honest human can subsist off of leafy greens and fruit and still be in their right mind. We clearly can’t do it off of processed refined and commercial foods either. Being a well rounded vegan is literally the only way to survive so you have to be smart about it – so I made sure that I was but it came with a sense of superiority I really really hate to admit. This is my blog and I’ll cry if I want to.

Day 1 Carnivore:

: 4 jammy eggs

: pork belly before

: pork belly after

: whole milk kefir

: easy dinner – bone broth & sardines fried in butter

: finished product

Why the detox?

I was researching endlessly: Breast Explant Surgery, plastic surgeons local to me here on Oahu and others I’d have to travel to, I was speaking to my naturopathic doctor and trying to get to the root of why I felt so BLAH, inflamed and my immunity felt like was tanking. Carnivore was a last ditch effort to “fix myself” before going the route of surgery once again.

On June 30th it dawned on me that on July 1st I could give this new lifestyle a good faith effort. My narrative: let’s plunge into Carnivore and give ourselves 30 sincere days to really check it out and see how I feel.

In this elimination I am omitted:

Sugar
Flour
Fruits
Vegetables
Grains
Beans
Most seasonings other than salt and possibly some other simple spices
Tea
Basically – all sugar and all plants

What I ate plenty of:

Butter
Fatty Fish
Beef
Pork & pork belly
Poultry
Bone Broth
Dairy – unless it hurts my skin, I’ll experiment with raw unpasteurized dairy before I give it up entirely. Dairy products will include cream, whole milk yogurt, unpasteurized cheeses
salt & electrolytes
coffee (1 in the am) thank GOD people consume coffee on carnivore – however the more I progress and see how much energy I have I’m so grateful not to be chasing the caffeine rush. One double espresso is more than enough to get me through the whole day energized!

How I felt:

mentally clear
motivated
energetic
inspired
grateful
focused

How my body received the drastic change:

my bloat disappeared. Like – where’d you go? Don’t come back….
my skin purged – a pimple here or there and then nothing erupted since the first week.
THERMOGENESIS is real. I can feel the heat in my body.
My caffeine consumption has been cut in 1/2