The Buff Dudes brothers Brandon and Hudson White regularly tackle the toughest diets and workouts on their YouTube channel. Recently they took on the vegan diet, and now they’ve decided to do the complete opposite by tackling the carnivore diet.
If you’re unfamiliar with the diet, it’s basically as it sounds. No potatoes. No vegetables. No nuts. No 3 a.m. tacos unless they’re made with meat tortillas.
The brothers hit up Costco to buy meat in bulk. Hudson explains he normally eats a lot of chicken but opted for meat with more fat, like salmon and rib eye, to account for the lack of carbohydrates in his diet.
During the first week, Hudson enjoys this new style of eating for its simplicity. He consumes two hard boiled eggs before the gym, then bacon and eggs after working out. Lunch is ground beef and dinner is a rib eye steak.
However, he soon gets tired of eating meat all the time and eventually drops ground beef from his diet.
“I burp ground beef. I dream about ground beef. I’m over it,” he says.
But he does enjoy the diet for its ease. “It’s kind of a meal prepper’s dream,” he says. “You just eat the same thing day in and day out.” At one point, Hudson celebrates his birthday and is surprised with a meat cake.
Brandon, on the other hand, doesn’t feel so great on this all-meat plan.
“I’m feeling pretty exhausted at night,” he says.
In addition to the fatigue, eating large amounts of meat has left Brandon constipated. And when he does finally use the restroom, the results are less than stellar.
“The consistency is really….not good,” he says.
However, the Buff brothers agree on one point: the carnivore diet helps with weight loss. At the beginning of the experiment, Brandon weighed 225. A month of eating all-meat helped him lose 12 pounds. Hudson lost roughly six pounds in the same time period.
Of course, there are other ways to lose way that don’t involve giving up, well, everything.
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