Zero Carb/Carnivore Diet - update 2 months in

Hey everyone,

I tried reintroducing olives. I was pretty skeptical about the zero carb thing. I thought maybe the reason it was working for people was because they ended up cutting out all the problematic foods at once - wheat, dairy, soy, sugar, preservatives, everything. But maybe they were also eliminating the beneficial foods.

Anyway, I reintroduced olives, just to see. I thought olives would be in the category of beneficial foods. Ones with nothing but organic olives and olive oil. I had no bloating, no digestive problems, and no weird woozy feeling after eating (a lot of) them,  but then two days later I started getting lower back pain. I get lower back pain before the reaction hits my mood. And it always hits my mood if I get that pain. So I stopped the olives (actually I ran out - I really like olives). I haven't had any since. I probably had the equivalent of a jar of them over a period of 3 days. I may have continued eating them when my back started hurting, hoping it was nothing. But it's never nothing.

Long story short - vegetables/fruit/etc are not in the game for me anymore. I'm having a reaction (very minor in comparison to what I've experienced previously with other foods - rice, soy, etc.). My muscles are tense, my ankle and my hip have stiffened up, I'm minorly arthritic in my shoulder, big toe, and knee, my lips started cracking, my face is a bit puffy, and my mood has dropped about 25%. I have lower back pain, I'm closer to tears, and my skin is irritated - minor breakouts. I'm also getting cravings again! I haven't had cravings in months. All in all, I can't eat olives, looks like plants are out, but the reaction is minor in comparison to most other foods

If I were reading this a number of years ago I would probably look at this and think "hypochondriac". I don't know what to say to that.

It looks like everything other than meat is giving me arthritis. I seem to have lost a tolerance to the few vegetables I could tolerate before the pregnancy. I'm not particularly upset, I'm still happy that I can get rid of the arthritis with diet. Just wanted to update everyone.

On the bright side, my husband is thriving on the diet I have listed, and dad is managing. He's not quite as sensitive as me, but I feel like if we can't figure out the underlying problem, he might end up on just meat too.

Another bright side, I am not sick of steak. I don't think I can get sick of ribeye. At least I'm not stuck eating eggplant right?

Here's a picture of a 6-month-old baby:

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