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Carnivore Diet Update & the Mindset behind Change

• Ali Kay • Episode 8

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Can a week-long vacation really derail your health journey? Join me, Allie Kay, as I recount my experience with the carnivore diet on the Selfish Mom Podcast, where I explore how a brief escape from my routine led to renewed determination. Discover the powerful benefits of this diet, from reduced inflammation and increased energy to fewer food cravings, and how these changes have reshaped my understanding of health. Addressing the mistrust surrounding dietary guidelines, particularly about meat, I emphasize the need for personal research and self-awareness when making dietary choices.

Ever wondered what’s lurking in your food? This episode also shines a light on the harmful ingredients we consume daily, such as seed oils, excessive sugar, and processed foods, and offers practical tips for making healthier choices. I share insights from my weight loss journey, highlighting the importance of mindset, visualization, and sustainable habits. Finally, we reflect on the balance between motherhood and self-care, aiming to inspire fellow moms to pursue a joyful, balanced life. Tune in for an episode filled with honesty, motivation, and practical advice for a healthier, happier lifestyle.

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Speaker 1:

Welcome to the Selfish Mom Podcast, a podcast for you, so you don't get burnt out like a mother. I'm your host, allie Kay, and this is the Selfish Mom Podcast. Learn to prioritize your mental and physical health first, so we can thrive and not just survive. Let's take action, become our best selves together and redefine selfish as the most selfless thing we could do.

Speaker 2:

Welcome to the Selfish Mom Podcast. I'm your host, allie Kay, and on today's episode, let's catch you up on what's going on with my carnivore diet and I also want to talk about the mindset that you need to have in order to make a lifestyle change and just talk about how I was able to lose 70 pounds after my second son and then recently just lost over 50 pounds. With time and that's the key word it all takes time, but let's talk a little more about that and thanks for listening. On today's episode, I wanted to give a little bit of a recap on what's been going on with the carnivore diet. So if you listened to last episode, I was talking about how I felt after 20 something days on the carnivore diet. I lost seven. I could immediately tell a difference in my face as far as like inflammation. I was only eating about like two to three times a day, sometimes even like one like big meal a day, and I definitely saw an increase in my energy. I didn't have like that afternoon 3 pm crash where I needed to make an espresso and I felt full and satisfied throughout the day. I really felt like that food noise that I was typically experiencing where I wanted to go binge, kind of just quiet down and I could really get in tune and in touch with if I was truly hungry and if I was hungry, you know, I was intentional about what I ate for that day. Now, just again to back up, what is carnivore diet? The strict carnivore diet that I was following was only grass fed meat. This did include chicken, seafood, butter and eggs. That's it. So no vegetables, no fruit, no carbs. Basically it's a high-fat, high-protein diet.

Speaker 2:

Going back to the basics. And the whole reason why I was doing this is because I wanted to see if I could heal my symptoms that I was having. The past like two years I have really experienced brain fog, low energy, low mood, just inflammation, gut acne that just doesn't go away, my body really not responding to you know, lifting weights like I'm not really building any muscle and losing fat, like I just feel like I'm holding on to this inflammation, and these lists of symptoms just go on and on. So my thinking was if I went back to basics and kind of just eliminated basically all the things and then did that for at least 30 to 45 days and slowly add it all back in, I could see exactly what foods were making me feel a specific way and then I could be like, okay, this food I need to like cut out for good.

Speaker 2:

What I found is on day 30 something, I went to the beach for seven days and I just got back from vacation and, guys, I feel like crap. Seven days of just letting go of this strict carnivore and going back to eating whatever and drinking alcohol and getting off my structure routine. Like I feel like crap and, yes, like it was vacation, I got to give myself grace. But the thing is is I felt so good the past 30 something days on the carnivore diet. I feel like the first couple of days were the hardest but I started to get into a rhythm. They weren't perfect days Like I definitely had some sugar slip ups, but for I would say like 85%, I was strict carnivore and I felt my symptoms subside. You know. Just every day got better. I feel like and man, this beach trip just kind of I'm back, I'm back to ground zero and I think what I'm frustrated about is, again, I'm doing this more of like an elimination diet. So I really wanted to be strict so I could fully understand, when I start bringing foods back in, how I felt and I am not advocating this as like a sustainable lifestyle, because I'm telling you right now this was not sustainable for me. You know, I'm doing this as almost like a, a trial and error to figure out how to heal myself. So that's kind of like the update. I got back from the beach on Saturday, kind of gave myself a day on Sunday to just like reflect and figure out how I wanted to move forward with this. And, um, we're in the middle of a new week and I'm on day number three of the carnivore again and I just really want to follow through with this promise of myself to really stick it out for 45 days so that I can retest my blood work and fully understand how I feel. Um, I feel like the first 30 something days that I did were kind of like this, like trial period, easing into it, and now I really feel like I'm fully ready to commit because I have experienced the other side of feeling so good.

Speaker 2:

I recently just got asked a question. Um, this writer says she's doing an article on the carnivore, my carnivore journey, so ask me a couple questions, and one of the questions she asked me was do am I frustrated that meat is getting a bad rep, like we're told we need to stay away from meat and that a lot of people like what are my thoughts on why people don't eat meat? And as soon as she asked me that question, it was like through a text, the first thing that came up to me is like I'm more frustrated that me as a person, as a mom, as someone who just wants to like live a long, healthy life, where I have to question everything I'm being told. You know, I am to the point where I question everything and I do not trust anything. I need to go do my own research and figure out what's best for me, and I think that's what's frustrating, especially with the food industry.

Speaker 2:

There is no food transparency. Labels are so deceiving. They cover ingredients up that are so harmful. There's Red 40 and our kids cereal. They're putting glyphosate on on vegetables and and glue and what we think is, like you know, supposed to be nourishing for our bodies, they're putting poison on it. And you know, disease is at an all time high, cancers at an all time high, adhd, autism all the things are at an all time high. And yet here they are approving meat meat in labs, like creating meat in labs that's been approved. You know, if you go to the grocery store and you see like red, shiny apples, most likely they have coated those apples with chemicals to make them more appealing and and shiny and more, you know like just ooh, you want this apple, but yeah, it's covered in chemicals.

Speaker 2:

And also, like food just is the processed food. They want us to become addicted to food and they make profit by us being sick and that's why I'm going to question everything. I'm going to question this where my meat comes from. I'm going to question how I source fruits and vegetables. You know that's what's frustrating and I think we just as a whole has we've fallen off trusting that like intelligence in our body and trusting that our bodies can heal if we allow them to. You know we're told not to go into the sun anymore, we're in front of electronics and and sitting down most of our days that we're straying further and further away from what our innate, just nature is. So that's what I'm more frustrated about is that I have to question everything and I don't trust anything. And that's one of the reasons why I'm doing carnivore diet is because I want to get back to the complete basics and allow my body to heal and tap into that intelligence Because, believe me, I think our bodies are so powerful Our mind, our bodies, our spirits, our gut, our brain it's all connected and I think, if we allow it, we can let it heal. And, like I said, I want to be running those half marathons with my grandchildren when I'm like 90 years old and we got to be our own advocates for our health and I think we have more power than we allow ourselves to.

Speaker 2:

But we can't turn a blind eye anymore. We have to wake up and realize that there's food out there that is poisoning us. You know, you read a label on something, thinking that it's healthy because they say, you know, it's gluten free and it has like a very appealing like green, like health label on it. And then you read the ingredients and there's seed oils in it. There's seed oils in everything and you know seed oils are a byproduct that are directly linked to disease and it is just. I could go on and on, and I think the biggest thing too is like we can't go crazy about it. You can definitely go down rabbit holes and, believe me, I've been there but I think just taking small steps is can lead big change and I think, if anything, what I've been hearing from professionals and just like understanding it more, like the three harmful things are seed oils. If we could just eliminate seed oils or, you know, just try to consume less of those, that would make a difference.

Speaker 2:

Sugar, or or sugar intake like there's so much sugar and all the things, especially kid products. It's like they are attacking our kids and it's, it's scary as a mom. But sugar is the second one. And just processed food. You know processed food in general. The ingredients are so confusing, you know, I can't even read the ingredients and processed food anymore and and that's scary. And I think when you also learn the manipulation behind processed food, of like them putting things in it to make us more addicted to these foods, just like they did with cigarettes, you know our greater good is not their intent. So question everything, question everything. That's the whole spiel. On the carnivore diet.

Speaker 2:

I feel like that was a little bit of a tangent, but to get back on track, the second thing I kind of want to talk about is I just continuously get the question like what workouts did I do? How did you lose the weight? You know, what did you do? What worked for you. Give me the plan, all the things.

Speaker 2:

And if you go through all these episodes that I have on this podcast, which I believe are like over 80 episodes, I truly think the first thing is a mindset, you know. It's understanding the mindset that you have to believe in yourself, that you can do it. And you also have to visualize, like what it is you specifically want, like who is that person you want to be Like, what does that feel like? What is she doing? What does that look like? Like very specifics. And the third thing is to understand like there is no finish line, like you don't just like do all these things cross a finish line and then that's it, you go live life.

Speaker 2:

Like it is honestly a conscious choice to make a lifestyle change and to create a, to create a sustainable lifestyle. And I think or at least I know to be true from my journey is it all starts with small actions and these small actions drive motivation and they build habits and these habits create a sustainable lifestyle. But it does not happen overnight. It takes time. I lost the 70 pounds and the 50 pounds over a year, like I didn't just wake up one day and everything changed. It was a very small progression of things and I think that's why I'm so passionate online to keep sharing that footage of me, like working out through, you know, almost five years, six years however old my middle son is six years and see the progression, how, like, slowly I physically changed and slowly I added weight and slowly I started running. You know it was. It's an evolution and I think even now, where I am today, like doing the carnivore diet, this is something that's new for me of evolving on this journey where, like, I realized my goal. My overall goal is I want to feel mentally and physically my best, my healthiest, my strongest, best version of myself. That's I feel like that's always been the goal and this is the next phase of it. You know it's been a very long journey and this is the next phase of it. So I just want to send that reminder. I think, too, with today it's.

Speaker 2:

It's so frustrating when you just see drastic weight loss with you know, the semi-glutide and what would go be. Whatever it is, you know, and to each their own. That's everyone's journey and you know, I think it's definitely helpful for people. I don't I don't judge that at all, but I think it's also misleading where, like, you can have this drastic weight loss In the sense of like, that's not really manageable if you weren't on the that medicine, you know.

Speaker 2:

Like the natural weight loss really does start with a mindset and building habits and taking small actions each day, doing what you can and being consistent in the sense of like when you do have off days or, like me, you go on vacation and live your life as you should. The consistency is like continuing to push forward and falling back upon those habits and and stacking those habits to evolve into bigger habits and you know, and more and more habits, and that's what the consistency is. It doesn't mean you need to work out every single day and eat perfect. That's not what the consistency is. I think consistency matters in the sense of that you continue to push forward, even when you have those off seasons in your life. That's where consistency matters.

Speaker 2:

So I just want to say, whatever your goals are, whatever you want to do in your life, whatever your fitness goals are, your goals as a mom, all the things I believe you can do it, and I think that's what matters is like understanding that someone does believe in you, but mostly I think it falls upon you believing in yourself and really understanding and visualizing who that person you want to be is, and go, start being that person today. Like, don't wait until X, y and Z happens. Like, start being that person today, if you want to be the person who is in the best shape ever. Like what would that person be doing? They'd probably be waking up at 4am like Mark Wahlberg, you know, reading their personal growth book, checking their emails at 530, making their bed cooking breakfast. You know. Like, who is this ambitious person you want to be? Like what would they be doing? Like, don't wait until you are that person. You got to start being that person today. And I think this is just kind of like the conversations I have in my head that I kind of want to share with you Because, like I said, I believe that you can do whatever it is that you want to do, and and you got this. That's all I have to say is you got this.

Speaker 2:

So this has been a quick episode of the selfish mom. I want to know what you want to hear on this podcast. I have so many exciting things coming up this fall and that will bring us into the holiday season. It's so wild to say holiday season, because you know the kids are going back to school in August and we're going to blink our eyes and it's going to be Christmas and I think this is, at least for me, this is a time I'm hustling and I want to finish this year 2024 out strong, the best I can, and I'm bringing you a lot of great things, lots of exciting things. So I hope you stay tuned and thanks for listening. And if you want to hear more about my carnivore journey, I am doing daily updates on my TikTok. That's really where all like the oomph of my content is. It's on TikTok. I really get like just raw and real over there. So follow me on TikTok. My name is Allie, underscore K1. We have more episodes of the podcast coming out and so many exciting things dropping this fall.

Speaker 2:

Also, if you are a mom who is just in between sizes, I know for me I am still in between sizes after having my third son. My weight fluctuates and I'm at to the point where, like I don't want to invest in new clothing. I also want to look and feel my best and I want to have new outfits for dinners and events, but I don't want to buy it right now I don't want to commit to clothes, so I have created a rental subscription called the selfish style and it's you could go to the selfish style rentalscom, but for your first month, you get your free box of rentals where you can choose the clothes you want to rotate through throughout the week, the month. You get multiple styles and it's a really, I just think a very just a great thing, because I I use it throughout the entire month because I am not buying clothes right now, but I still get to look and feel my best and rotate through these styles. So I would love for you guys to just try it. It's, your first month is free. Go try it, the selfish style rentalscom. Get your free box today and let me know what you think of it. There's so many brands and then, if you actually do love an item, you get the option to purchase it. So go check it out and I will see you next time.

Speaker 2:

This has been the Selfish Mom Podcast with Allie Kay.