The carnivore diet is massively overhyped, amirite?

dont say common sense like "CICO". There will always be that one "i rarely eat, usually only 500kcal a day and i weight 400lb". yeah right..

by Anonymous 5 days ago

People are really bad at estimating how much they are eating in a day. When I was in my 20's I started getting precise about how much I was eating while I was getting in shape so I started measuring all of my intake. It's the little things that add up the extra calories in a day that people tend not to factor in.

by No-Pressure7183 5 days ago

some products are confusing too. I had noddles packets that were like 100g dried Then had calories per 100g like 180kcal. making you assuming 1 pack was 180kcal Then on small print below said that the values above were COOKED WEIGHT, and that HALF a packed cooked was 150g. Essentially, a pack was indeed 540kcal, not 180.

by Anonymous 5 days ago

It's a little more complicated than CICO. A teaspoon of oil and banana have a similar amount of calories. Your body will absorb 100% of the oil but not the banana.

by Anonymous 5 days ago

not all calories are the same, but if you're 400lbs and you eat 1500kcal a day, you will 99% lose weight, fast. regardless of how much attention you put on macros. Although that doesnt mean is more/less healthy. a balanced died is important for your health and proteins makes you feel fuller for longer than sugar for example

by Anonymous 5 days ago

Its not overhyped. Its popular amongst a few manosphere folks and mostly not taken very seriously by others and as a joke by a lot. Thats my impression at least

by Breannalynch 5 days ago

What's even more hilarious are the raw carnivores that I'm convinced are only raw dogging those steaks on social media lol

by Pleasant-Loss 5 days ago

Whenever someone says "sustainable" I think of Hermitcraft and I cannot get it out of my head

by Temporary-Flow 5 days ago

Yes, we could call it "The Standard American Diet"

by ashleyframi 5 days ago

Haha for me that's the standard diet as a European, not sure that's very American, but I don't know.

by Top-Appointment1254 5 days ago

CICO isn't a universal solution. There's a lot of science to back that! But yeah the carnivore diet is stupid

by Anonymous 5 days ago

Any trendy diet is overhyped

by MainLife7007 5 days ago

Too much carnivore diet can make you leak cholesterol out of your sink

by handdashawn 5 days ago

To be fair, you could make this argument for basically every fad diet out there.

by Anonymous 5 days ago

You kind of contradicted yourself. If it's just calories in, calories out, then it wouldn't matter if a person cut out junk food. It's junk bc of all the bad ingredients. Also, a lot of people don't realize how addictive junk food is until they cut it out. For most people though, it's just not sustainable.

by schmidtlilian 5 days ago

I'd recommend looking up the "Twinkie Diet."

by Pleasant-Loss 5 days ago

Youre eating less calories if you eat straight up protein since its usually more filling than eating other stuff. It is CICO

by Anonymous 5 days ago

Which country has carnivores? Are they edible?

by Anonymous 5 days ago

Argentina is purely carnivore

by ewell47 5 days ago

Honest as a vegan, I disagree with them, but I have odd respect as well. They are creative people, I genuinely had no idea how they'd make a carnivore diet textured and flavorful, covering everything in butter probably isn't healthy, but if probably makes their food taste addictive. Just a guess.

by Anonymous 5 days ago

It was a fad in 2019 because of Joe Rogan, is it still being hyped?

by Anonymous 5 days ago

Any diet that heavily restricts what you eat is going to be atrocious. Variety is much better. We're omnivores, not carnivores. I wouldn't call it overhyped though simply because it's incredibly niche like veganism.

by Pure_Category 5 days ago

every lifestyle is massively overhyped nowadays with all the social media.

by Lemkeverla 5 days ago

Carnivore/Keto is just veganism for conservatives lol

by Pleasant-Loss 5 days ago

My response to anyone hyping the "carnivore" diet is "enjoy your colorectal cancer!"

by sherman79 5 days ago

Carnivore has its place. I eat a carnivore diet because of insane inflammation. Joint pain and mental health conditions. Carnivore makes it so I can live a normal life without handfuls of pain meds and without depression so bad I want to end it all. I'm not sure of the mechanism. But it works for me and my blood work is fantastic for my age. I don't cover everything in butter tho. So there's that.

by Anonymous 5 days ago