u/grasse_man

I just made a new youtube channel and posted a new video. I happen to have 8 other alt youtube accounts and I subscribed to my new channel with all of them right after uploading the new video. I also watched the video all the way through with all of the accounts. Most of the accounts are under the same email as well. Is this hurting my reach? My video hasn't seemed to gain any views besides the views from my own accounts. Should I unsubscribe with all of them?

Let me first mention I'm a college soccer player looking to become fully fat-adapted as an athlete on the carnivore diet. I have been following the diet for around 3 months. From what I understand, it can take up to 6 months to become fully fat-adapted.

It turns out, from a previous post I had in the community, I was following the diet wrong. If I had a practice or game, I would pre-load around 25 g of carbohydrates around 30 minutes before playing. It turns out I was kicking myself out of ketosis in the process, because I was eating more than 20 g carbs. It turns out I was never getting the full benefit of the diet. It seemed as I kept putting myself into a keto flu because my body didn't know to use fat or carbs for fuel.

The last 2 weeks, I have been going strong eating less than 20g of carbs per day. When I've played soccer, I've felt full of energy and great. However, yesterday I accidentally ate more than 20g. If I have a day where I kick myself out of ketosis, does that restart my progress of trying to become a fat-adapted athlete? And if not, how long does it take to get back to a fat- burning state after kicking yourself out of ketosis? Thanks

Just got back a recent blood test, and here are my numbers:

Cholesterol: 457mg/dL

Triglycerides: 37mg/dL

HDL: 81 mg/dL

LDL Calculated: 369 mg/dL

Also, my BUN is at 22 mg/dl, wondering if thats from too much protein intake?

Anyways, My HDL are considered very high, and my triglycerides are at the lowest of normal range. From what I understand, if this is the case it's fine if your LDL is high as well as total cholesterol. Even potentially means longevity and living longer. However, is there a point where your LDL and total can be too high and potentially dangerous, like how my numbers look right now? Let me know what you guys think, thanks.

The only way I know how to deal with POIS symptoms is abstinence. I would rather avoid ejaculating at all costs to stay symptom free. I have gone a year on end without ejaculation before, and I am happier when doing so.

Recently, after going 7 months without ejaculating, my silly self thought that maybe my issue would be resolved, it's been so long how could the symptoms come back right? Well I was wrong. Almost immediately after, I switch into a state of extreme brain fogginess (all of the sudden I can't form sentences or socialize with people effectively), my social anxiety gets really bad, I get a headache on the top of my head, and I just feel like sleeping and doing nothing. These symptoms last for approximately 3 days, and then it is like a switch is flipped, I can feel the pressure on the top of my head slowly disappear, and I'm back to my normal self. All I can think about during these 3 days is how I would do anything to feel normal again. It's almost as if my life is on pause, because I'm a complete incompetent version of my former self.

I know people have mentioned before that a carnivore diet could be a great way to cure POIS, and coincidentally, I happened to be on a carnivore diet during this recent time I ejaculated. From my experience, I definitely felt less physical symptoms. I'm a soccer player, and prior to the diet, and I would feel so slow and fatigued while playing when dealing with POIS. However, with the carnivore diet it was actually pretty manageable playing soccer, which was interesting. The mental symptoms pretty much stayed the same for me, though.

It could also just be my OCD bringing on these symptoms. When I do ejaculate, my brain pretty much expects the symptoms to come on, and I start to panic realizing I will be in this state for at least 3 days. I have pretty extreme avoidance OCD, so I get stuck in loops of completely avoiding things. Somehow I convinced myself that looking at a girl would put me in this state of symptoms, that I only experienced from ejaculation. So any time I would see a girl, my brain would go in a fight or flight mode, and I would bring the same symptoms on to myself, without even ejaculating. This obviously caused a lot of problems for myself, and I was pretty much avoiding girls at all costs. Luckily, I have overcome this. Just wondering if my OCD is the reason I feel the symptoms or if I really have POIS. I have experienced "POIS" symptoms since I was about 13 in 2020, so I'm pretty confident that there actually is a problem there, my OCD just makes it worse.

But yeah, not really sure where i'm supposed to go from here. Don't really plan on ejaculating any time soon because I feel great and I know how quickly that can change. Let me know your thoughts

I struggle follow movie plots, as was as in reading books. I often have to go back a re-read what I just read.

-Very forgetful and lose track of things quite often

-stuck in an endless loop of showing up late (forget about time)

-slow processing speed

-excessive daydreaming / disassociating

-constantly leaving lights on/leaving drawers cabinets open

-trouble articulating thoughts into words

-abruptly switching between new hyper focused interests

-throat clearing tic, shoulder shrugging

-starting high, then abrupt burnout in soccer

-love being in tight spaces

-first soccer game, first social gathering I’m at my best, then as time goes it disappears

-Diet Pepsi made me feel tired

-revenge bedtime procrastination (no matter how hard I try, I can’t go to bed earlier)

-difficulty with “chunking” (like an essay), I struggle writing bits and pieces, would rather write entire paper in one sitting)

-I get really annoyed and tired of the people I am close with

Some signs I've gathered, should I consider getting tested?

First, I would like to mention that I already have really bad OCD, I was diagnosed with it at about 10 years old. I've had a history of problems with avoidance, and I get stuck in an endless spiral of avoiding different things (foods, people, etc). I'm aware that if you have OCD it is a lot more likely that you also could have ADHD or even be autistic, and I think this could be applied to me.

To describe me: I have very high highs and very low lows. This can be applied to all different aspects of my life. For example, I am a soccer player, sometimes it feels as if I am unstoppable, with unlimited bolts of energy, and I am the best player on the field. Then, the very next day, it's as if I am a shadow of my former self, completely unrecognizable. I feel like I just don't have the same energy levels or motivation to play the same way. I feel like this could be associated with a dopamine deficiency. At my best, I am completely hyperfocused and passionate about what I'm doing. But when I'm not in this mental state, oh boy...you do not want to be near me. There's intense feelings of exhaustion, burnout, and wanting to be socially withdrawn. I am very inconsistent with almost everything I do, and my commitment is questionable because it changes so often, I can't be relied on to consistently deliver. It's very frustrating for me because I know what I'm capable of at best.

I've always felt like there's a little bit of a disconnect between me and my peers. I always feel slightly disassociated from anyone, and like I don't truly build close connections with people. I don't really understand it because I can be quite social. I have a very blunt, sarcastic personality, and most people find me very funny. To me, it feels like a lot of people don't really like me, but friends and family closest to me absolutely love me. I feel like I don't actually enjoy conversing and interacting with most people, and could care less about what most other people have to say. Part of that I think is because I don't have typical interests and find the same things amusing that the people around me think. I also hate when conversation feels forced and unnatural, and I'd rather talk about something actually interesting to me. No matter how much I interact with people, like my peers around me at college, I just feel like I will never be more than someone to talk to every now and then, to most  people. I don't build close connections. I've always felt like people just don't understand me, and are uncomfortable with my presence. I tend to get along better with other people who have ADHD, as we can converse sporadically about random things.

Every time I mention that I think I have ADHD to my mom, she quickly denies it and says how I never showed signs as a kid. However, looking back at it, I feel like I showed discreet signs that just maybe weren't picked up on. In elementary school, I was considered the gifted, high achieving student. As I processed through the school system, I started to have trouble, specifically with my lack of preparation and inability to study for tests. I also had a weird habit of purposely not using class time to work on homework, projects, etc, because I'd rather work on it at home. My diet as a kid for lunch also consisted of a "cheese" sandwich. It was quite literally just bread and a couple slices of cheese. This was my lunch every day for most of elementary.

I have more reasons, but I ran out of words.

I am a college soccer player, and I have also been on the carnivore diet for 3 months. I originally changed my diet to lower my body fat percentage and get leaner in the face, and that very much occured from the diet, and I can't speak well enough on the benefits i've experienced personally so far.

Initally on the diet, around 8 weeks into it, I also realized the mental clarity on the soccer field that I would only experience every once in a while when I was on a carb heavy diet, was the default state when playing in the state of ketosis. I fell like my decision making was a lot faster, I fell lighter on my feet, and I can shoot the ball perfectly in the corners very consistently. When I was on a carb heavy diet, I struggled a lot with fatigue and inflammation, and I struggled to string multiple good performances in a row. For example, I would have a good practice, and then the next day feel like a totally different player. Almost like my body couldn't keep up. Slower decision making, feeling slower when sprinting, etc. What I realized on the carnivore diet in the first couple weeks on my spring season was if I pre-loaded my training with around ~25 grams of carbs 30 minutes prior to playing, I would have unlimited energy, and mental clarify and extreme sharpness of the ball. This would be my state every time I played. However, after the 3rd week of practicing, I continued to follow this regime, but it wasn't as effective. I noticed I was feeling hungrier a lot easier, and once the feeling of hunger kicked in, my thought processed slowed down and I experienced brain fog. To try to deal with this, I would try to load tons of fat in throughout the day, sometimes even consuming straight beef tallow, or sticks of butter, just to increase my fat intake for the day, since obviously my source of energy is fat in a state of ketosis.

Later in my spring season, it felt like my body couldn't keep up with the speed of the game, and I just didn't have the ability to sprint like I usually do. I felt less dangerous and less explosive on the run and as a pure dribbler, because I just didn't have the energy to burst past a defender. I also want to clarify that I play winger, so I am constantly sprinting and changing direction. My other concern is, I tried to increase my carbohyrdate intake, because I thought maybe my glycogen was depleted, so I tried a couple days of 30 g of carbs 3 hrs prior to practice, with the same 25g 30 minutes before, and then 30 g of carbs post practice as well. From my experience, eating more than around 25 g carbs a day causes a lot of issues for me. I experience a lot of brain fog and just feeling mentally slower, I feel less confident and anxious, and my nervous system feels unregulated when I consume too many carbohyrdrates. One reason I love the carnivore diet so much is how much it has helped me mentally, with my confidence, as well as almost completely clearing up any anxiety I had. But then when I return to eating my usual 25 g, I feel fatigued. I will say, we just did the beep fitness test, and I absolutely destroyed it. I was the last one running on my team, and I wasn't even tired while my teammates were exhausted. Clearly the carnivore diet helps with stamina, but I'm struggling in the sprinting aspect of the game. When I play I feel so mentally clear, so if I could find a way to get my energy back to run around, this would optimize my ability as a player.

My dream is to be able to stay in this ketogenic state where I feel my best mentally, and be able to perform my best on the soccer field as well. I don't want to have to make a big adjustment to my diet for soccer just to be able to perform better, potentially sacrificing my mental state. If you read this whole rant I really appreciate it sorry it was so long, if you have any feedback or changes I can make to improve my performance on the field I would really appreciate it. I've heard people say that it can take up to 6 months to be completely fat adapted as an athlete, and i'm already about 3 and half months in. Should I continue to troop it out until I reach 6 months, or is there a change I should make? I'm really hoping to optimize my diet and energy levels before my college soccer season in the fall. Thanks