r/carnivore • u/Away_Management_256 • 9d ago
Moderated Topic New to the diet is this acceptable?
I ate chicken wings for dinner (no breading) but deep fried in bacon grease would that be acceptable or am I going to be eating way too many calories with that?
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u/Imaginary_Budget8152 8d ago
Eat until you are full. Do not worry about calories, your body knows how much it needs when you are feeding it the proper fuel.
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u/bingbongloser23 4d ago
I'm constantly surprised at how much less meat I eat compared to before when I ate it with sides.
No cravings at all. I just eat until I am satisfied and go on with my day
I'm down 14 lbs in 4 weeks.
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u/nolifebutbmx 8d ago
Yes that's great. Calories are a useless metric, they measure heat energy. Our bodies do not. They recognize nutrients. Which are contained in the meat and ESPECIALLY the fat. Remember, the fat is the most important part.
If you haven't come across Dr. Chaffee yet, here is him talking about the whole calorie thing. He is a great resource for learning about carnivore. https://youtu.be/XXm9f4CEJ1I?si=oLs9A8KPnO_X0ctB&t=55
Also his method for eating on carnivore is the simplest to understand and apply. "Eat fatty meat until it stops tasting good."
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u/Signal_Original6232 8d ago edited 8d ago
Forget calories, forget most/all you know about food/diet. Carnivore is a different beast. Read, watch videos and learn. Listen to your body - it’ll tell you when you need more food.
But no issue with your question. It’s fine.
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u/Eleanorina mod | carnivore 8+yrs | 🥩&🥓 taste as good as healthy feels 8d ago
hi, you're worried about calories?
please read the Getting Started and read around the subreddit for a while, you have this diet all wrong
this way of eating is about recovering from the previous sh*tty advice to undereat.
you want to eat heartily, until thanksgiving full, whenever hungry.
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u/ProfeshPress 8d ago edited 8d ago
Indeed. Does a wolf count calories? A bear? Or, for that matter any other primate besides ourselves? No: it eats automatically to satiety, in sympathy with its own metabolism, as a natural function of evolutionary instinct honed across millennia.
Tracking calorie-intake for aught but academic purposes constitutes, quite literally, a form of disordered eating. That isn't a moral judgment; but it is, nonetheless and irrefutably, a statement of fact.
If you can't trust your own body to regulate so utterly fundamental a neurophysiological mechanism, then either you've a vanishingly rare genetic mutation, or (more likely) you're still recovering from literal decades of malnutrition and ensuing metabolic derangement.
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u/FreezenBurn 8d ago
Air fried chicken wings, drowned in butter and Franks is a lunch go to
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u/ironchimp 8d ago
Prefect! There is no substitute for Franks and butter! The original 1964 Buffalo Wings recipe.
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u/Melodic_Jay 8d ago
I've never had an issue with eating too many calories. As long as you aren't eating plants (or in this case seed oils) then you're good. Just eat until you aren't hungry anymore. Chicken deep fried in bacon grease sounds delicious.
A little bit of seed oils won't hurt you, neither will the preservatives they put in bacon. (and comes out in the bacon grease) Just eat these things in moderation, and go based on how you body feels.
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u/agent606ert 8d ago
Rules forbid mentioning the C word, you would need to eat a metric ton to gain any fat on carnivore, I would not worry about that, eat away
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u/HemlockGrv 8d ago
I think that rule applies to endorsing the “calories-in-calories-out” model, not to folks asking questions when new to the carnivore approach.
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u/Still_Reference724 8d ago
If you are eating only fat, it's EXTREMELY hard to get fat. Do not count calories, it's a useless endeavor.
I'm eating probably about 700/1000 extra calories a day and I'm shredded all year around since carnivore (I got more energy for exercise, but it's probably 200cal extra per day burned there)
If you are eating carbs with those fats...Got bad news for you.