Can you please give an example of what you eat on a typical day (in detail, eg. 2 thighs with skin, etc.). I find it so easy to overeat protein because I love meat!
Sure!
If you have a look here, you can see my daily menus going back to... er... pre-history.
But that won’t give you portion size. I will start giving those for a while, if you like.
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/what-have-you-eaten-today.75781/page-703#post-1770326
Yesterday I had a breakfast of 100mls of homemade liver pate for breakfast, and for the rest of the day, around 400g of chicken breasts, with around 50mls of double cream and 75g of mature cheddar, with a huge bulb of garlic (chick in cheese sauce) split into 2 meals. Also cream in 2 hot drinks.
That was a lot of protein for me. Too much in fact. I felt over loaded.
Most days I skip breakfast, and I often reduce the protein load by substituting either lunch or dinner with some high fat/low protein option like a small amount of tuna with a lot of mayo, or a few chorizo crisps loaded with cream cheese.
Today will be red meat in a smaller portion, salami crisps, and the fat made up with a bit of goatsmilk yog with added double cream.
Another day I might skip breakfast and lunch and then just eat roast belly pork. A standard pack from Tescos. The packs are 500g but I only manage about 2/3rds.
From the reading I have done, I seem to be fairly unusual in my lower protein intake. Most ‘carnivores’ seem to eat as much protein as they like by just eating fatty meat when hungry.
But I am new to this.
The first 3 months I ate more protein, then it slowly started to feel like too much.
Then i cut the protein down a bit and looked for ways to increase the fat intake to prevent hunger.
Next month will probably see more changes
Definitely a work in progress.