⏰24 Hours, 3 Hours of Sleep, 🌊Flood Cleanup — and No Energy Crash

Over the weekend, I got a hard reminder of one of the biggest benefits I’ve noticed with carnivore.

My last meal was around 7:00 PM. Just hamburgers and cheese.

Later that night I went out with a buddy, got home around 1:00 AM, and was about to grab another bite to eat. Then I got distracted.

I came downstairs and felt the carpet under my feet — crunchy, squishy, wrong.

I heard an odd noise in the furnace room, opened the door, and found water everywhere. I live on a farm, so there are water pumps in there, and one section had about four inches of standing water.

From that point on, it was go time.

I was pulling levers, pulling plugs, mopping water into buckets, then dragging out a pet vac and sucking up water 500 mL at a time. I filled five 5-gallon pails. I did that for about six hours, got maybe three hours of sleep, then went to the rental place, picked up a proper carpet vac, came home, and kept going.

Then it hit me.

I still hadn’t eaten.

I’d had some water with salt in it, which I normally drink anyway, but beyond that? Nothing. No food. No crash. No brain fog. No shaking. No “I need to eat right now or I’m done.”

I went a full 24 hours without eating, while doing hard physical labor, running on three hours of sleep, and I stayed steady the whole time.

That never used to happen.

In the past, if I worked long hours, I had to eat or I’d hit a wall. I’ve done 17-hour shifts before, but I couldn’t push through without food. This time, I did heavy work solo — moving furniture, hauling equipment up and down stairs, pulling water, ripping out soaked material — and I kept going.

And keep in mind: I’m not in peak physical shape. I’ve got an arthritic spine, and jobs like this are harder on me now than they were in my twenties.

Was I sore? Absolutely.

But the second thing I noticed was recovery.

Normally, a job like this would flatten me. Instead, yes, I was in pain while doing it, but the recovery was far better than I would have expected. Today I ended up pulling the carpet because the underlay was still soaked and mildew was starting to creep in. Even with that extra work, I’m handling it better than I normally would.

That’s one of the biggest things I’ve noticed eating this way: better satiety, steadier energy, and better recovery.

For me, carnivore makes it easier to stay level under stress. High-protein meals keep me full, and I’ve found that animal foods make it a lot easier to get in what I need without overcomplicating things.

We’d even had oysters and shrimp the other night, which are packed with nutrients.

Simple food. Solid energy. Less drama.

This isn’t theory for me. This is real life.

A flooded furnace room. A wrecked carpet. Three hours of sleep. Twenty-four hours without food.

No crash.

That’s a massive difference from how I used to function.

That’s one of the reasons I keep saying this way of eating works.

Not medical advice. Just my experience. But for me, carnivore has made real-world stress a whole lot easier to handle.

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⏰24 Hours, 3 Hours of Sleep, 🌊Flood Cleanup — and No Energy Crash