Not sure you got your facts right as I’ve followed him for years.
He is not ex-carnivore exactly. He simply used his experience to learn more. He openly shared his issues with having no carbs and getting cramping / heart palpitations. Once he figured it out, he swallowed his pride and added carbs that he thought were least toxic and most beneficial…on TOP of his previous carnivore diet.
He regularly posts his entire lab work…so he’s super open.
He’s not for everyone but he certainly doesn’t hide things. And it’s helped me big time. I follow his exact recommendations 99.9% and it works great for me. (Only thing I do that he says to not do is I can’t stop coffee). Otherwise I’m a walking billboard on his stuff working for some people.
And yeah he’s obviously a little over the top with some of his internet posts…that’s what gets attention. But he backs it up on his podcasts.
No, I don’t think I do, and I have as well. There are plenty of legitimate and well researched critiques of his work / positions, and plenty of data and research that disagrees with him on a number of things.
If you’re going to recommend him on a public forum, I would in turn encourage anyone else to do their own due diligence and be very careful of the guy, especially as an endurance athlete. There are better resources than someone that says follow a primarily animal based diet and avoid vegetables and seeds (which goes against almost ALL of the documented longevity research, by the way), makes his money on carnivore and keto books, yet has had to back off on some of his own recommendations. He’s an influencer, not a great source of information.
I’ll leave it at that and not press the point further.
But he’s a psychiatrist and carnivore diet influencer… I’m glad he’s helped you though.
Ok, I read further and see that others suggested the same thing and I’m glad to hear that Saladino is not longer so dogmatic. I’d still recommend Layne Norton’s analysis of Saladino’s claims if anyone is interested.
I’ll say that I lost a ton of weight back in the day doing Atkins. It really works for weight loss especially if you track calories. I do think people often got Atkins wrong by thinking they could just eat lettuce wrapped bacon cheese burgers at every meal. Real Atkins is like lean cuts of grassfed meats and lots of low calorie greens (spinach).
I couldn’t imagine doing Atkins or low carb though while training unless it was mostly low intensity training.
Layne Norton I would highly recommend also. he’s more mainstream “sensible” and you would learn a lot listening to him. also love his weight lifting expertise. and he’s very very entertaining. I watch him all the time when I ride indoors and bought all his books and they are super super solid.
another one is Mike Isratel with Renaissance Periodization (RP). I see a LOT of parallels with trainerroad and RP. very high level podcasts and also well produced and entertaining. AI programming that does a lot for you but still has a bit of a DIY element in that you still need to choose your protocol. a lot of very fit people and a mix of people starting out (and the fit people are super helpful).
tbh both of those two above are probably better recommendations and watching or reading their material will keep anyone busy for a long long time… Paul is a little in the deep end.
ETA: to OP - what you feed your brain is important. if you listen to the news all the time you’re gonna be miserable. if you listen to some of this stuff in the background of your day, it’s gonna sink in.
not saying to not get a coach, etc…but having this type of thing constantly feeding my brain has been super helpful for me. you can do both.
I’ve been consuming both of their content for years and they are both great. I still I quite enjoy and apply what Paul Revelia puts out on youtube. He was coached by Layne before he started his own physique coaching and competition company. I’ve done a couple of his “transformation challenges” and was able to achieve some great results. I’d recommend his channel for getting his approach to weight loss.
That doesn’t sound terrible bad, imho. Just have 2-3 days of eating normally, then get back on to it. Similarly to how you’d have a rest week in cycling. Just don’t beat yourself up about it. The problem isn’t losing focus for a few days imo, it’s letting those few days ruin the long-term plan.
Might also be worth having a couple of fall-back options for foods on stressful days. Things you could have in the freezer, or are available a shops or food places you’d go to, that might not be on your ‘ideal’ list, but aren’t a terrible option either.
Given this forum’s penchant for citing scientific literature and the general knowledge base I seem to see here, I’m surprised anyone would suggest Saladino as a good source of information. The guy gets his butt handed to him by Layne Norton frequently. Anyone who says plants are evil needs their scientific credentials revoked.
yeah like I have youtube and podcasts and audio books stored and ready to go…so when say I walk my dog or i’m doing mindless house chores or driving, I listen to it and feed my brain.
i’m sort of on cruise control with diet / lifestyle stuff so right now my learning is geared towards cycling and astronomy…so I have like 30 episodes in my que of podcasts I resonate with…so it’s like automatic that I turn it on even 10 min here and there.
so yeah whatever i’m currently learning I try to deep dive and just flood my brain with it.
and I stay off social media as a rule. i’m on here, my astronomy forum, there’s a reddit forum i like, and that’s it. social media tries to feed your brain what it wants to…i wanna control that.
you have a good wolf and a bad wolf inside of you. whichever one you feed more is gonna take over the other. feed the good wolf as much as you can and starve the bad wolf.