That cat has it right. He's an obligate carnivore, who obviously ate the steak and left the salad behind. This can teach you something about leanness.
One of the biggest differences between the people who succeed in this lifestyle, and those who don't, comes down to one simple thing - eating habits. Many eating habits are acquired based on misconceptions. You can't sustain this lifestyle, for long, using recipe books and food lists. Instead, you need to become savvy on how metabolism works and how it reacts to specific eating habits. Below are some of the most common false beliefs people have, in low carb, which affect their eating habits and ultimately their results.
1. Must find bad ingredients - When you read labels, don't assume a food gets a pass, because it does not contain questionable ingredients. Many ingredients can affect blood glucose. Look at what it does contain. It might not contain 'sugar', but if it contains 'fructose', 'syrup', 'aminos' or 'concentrate', it's the same thing. Exchanging 'wheat' for 'rice flour' is not going to work either. So, focus on the ingredients that are listed and not the ones that aren't, as the ones that aren't won't affect you.
2. Must find low carb "alternatives" - Stop the endless search for "low carb alternatives". There are no alternatives. The only alternative, you have, is to stay fat. This diet is comprised of meat and vegetables. If you can't live with that, because you need pancakes, bread and palate entertainment, then stick to Victoza, as this is not the right diet for you and you will be struggling big time. I guarantee it.
3. Must count carbs - Counting carbs does not go far enough. We don't count carbs, in this lifestyle, because you can eat a 1/4 Snickers bar and be within your carb allotment. But, we know that isolated, concentrated, refined and processed carbohydrates, which are often mixed with man-made fats, are detrimental for blood glucose control, regardless of their carbohydrate grams or calories.
4. Must stop "gluconeogenesis" - If you have metabolic syndrome/diabetes, you won't have to worry about this, because you don't have healthy gluconeogenesis to begin with. So, there's no reason to try and "stop it". It has already been stopped for you. You need to resolve your hyperglucagonemia and that's not done through individual food items, but through long term dietary habits that regain and sustain proper blood glucose regulation.
5. Must taste sweet - Stop with the endless array of desserts. Tasting sweet is a huge problem for the brains of the obese. You will not be able to restore body fat signaling if you keep bombarding the brain with signals that it's eating for winter.
6. Must eat lots of fat - Stop consuming an enormous amount of energy. Use fat as a lever. Keep fat consumption to no less than 50 grams and no more than 150 grams per day. The more fat on your body, the more you need to keep intake close to 50 grams. The less fat you have, the more leeway you have to get close to 150 grams. Let results be your guide as to where you fall on this scale.
7. Must watch protein intake - The focus on protein should only be in trying to get enough of it. Protein should never be restricted, as it's the only macronutrient that does not contribute to your fat mass. If you want autophagy, get up and go exercise.
8. Must find low carb snacks - There is no reason to be concerned with "low carb snacks". No snacking, of any kind, is practiced in this lifestyle. Snacking disrupts blood glucose homeostasis.
9. Must not be "low fat" - There are two camps, out there, each as dumb as the other. Camp 1 believes that more protein equates to "high protein" (whatever that is) and Camp 2 believes that more protein equates to "low fat". The latter proves that no one has followed a true low fat diet, in their life, because everyone knows that low fat diets restrict protein, not encourage more consumption of it. Protein focused diets cannot be low fat, as protein always comes with fat. You should prioritize protein, moderate fat and keep carbs low. That's the anti obesogenic diet.
10. Must keep blood glucose low - If you are on carbohydrate restriction, you are already eating to keep your blood glucose stable. Better blood glucose regulation will automatically lower your blood glucose to normal. This means, you do not have to turn up the drama about every individual item on your plate, since now, the only thing that's keeping your blood glucose up is your own body. Don't eat to symptoms, because once you are low carb, diet has a minimal effect on metabolic syndrome symptoms. You will be changing your diet constantly, to no avail, if you keep chasing symptoms with what's on your plate.
11. Must eat less food - You will not achieve proper satiety and leptin expression if you practice any starvation based protocol. I know that we have been bombarded into thinking that the obese just need to eat less, but the only thing the obese need to do is eat right. So, no, fasting for 40 days and nights is not going to help your obesity and neither is your plate of hors d'oeuvres for dinner. Eat properly composed, timely meals.
12. Must not eat any carbs - The carbohydrate/insulin hypothesis is dead, so please let it rest in peace. We already know that carbohydrates are not the only thing that makes people fat as blood glucose regulation can be disrupted in many ways aside from diet. If you focus too hard on carbs, you will neglect to keep your fat and caffeine intake in check and then you will be one of these stalled obese people jumping from group to group, asking the same question, over and over: "How do I get out of a stall?" Simple - Stop eating fat for sport and lay down the coffee.
13. Must drop sauce on it - I know everyone has seen it before. A perfectly normal carbohydrate restricted meal is served and then ruined with a gallon of sauce poured over it. If low carb food is supposedly so satisfying, then stop adding to it. Adding "sauces" over meals means you are adding fat. Too much dietary fat affects basal insulin. If you are athletic, 120 lbs. and metabolically healthy, then go for it. But, if you are an obese, metabolically sick person, who uses the office chair to roll around the room so you don't have to get up, you need to stop. Season your food with spices and fresh herbs and stop drenching it in added fat.
14. Must never eat lean meat with a salad - This is the most ignorant one of them all. It's so ignorant, in fact, that it doesn't even deserve a pass with social "niceties". So, I apologize in advance for what I am about to say, but if you believe this, you aren't "Keto AF", you are "Dumb AF".
Lean meat and vegetables, like a chicken breast on a salad of greens, is one of the most effective low carb meals you can eat for weight loss. It is a typical meal in a 'protein sparing modified fast' diet, which is the only diet that is used in a hospital setting for massive weight loss before bariatric surgery. This is a science based, medically practiced and accepted diet for rapid weight loss, because it exclusively targets the fat mass. It is so effective, that people who are not obese are discouraged from practicing it, as they can end up losing too much body fat. So, ignore whatever obese person told you to not eat a chicken breast on a salad, unless you want to end up like them.
Now that these wrong "musts" have been corrected, you can focus on the only must that matters - must improve blood glucose regulation.
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