The last thing you’d expect to see when opening Instagram is a video detailing Married At First Sight (MAFS) star Jono McCulloch‘s current bowel movements, but here we are. The reality TV star is sharing intimate details about his health on Instagram, as he attempts to stick to the “carnivore diet” for two weeks — where he can only eat eggs, butter and meat.
Jono tells Chattr he embarked on this strict diet because he had some health concerns, like “reflux, brain fog and poor sleep”. His girlfriend Ellie Dix is supportive, but is worried about Jono potentially “losing too much weight”.
“I think Lucinda [Light] mentioned it’s TMI [to talk about my toilet habits] which I get… [but] I don’t give a sh*t — pun intended. We are all adults and a lot of people won’t do [the] carnivore [diet] as they feel they will become constipated. Wanted to spread the word this isn’t the case as I feared that too,” he explains.
In one of Jono’s videos, he admitted that he hadn’t visited the toilet after two days of being on the carnivore diet.
“[It felt] very concerning! Well, it just doesn’t feel right. In reality, it’s not harmful or dangerous you just have to get used to it,” he adds.
He didn’t have to worry, because the next day, he visited the toilet three times. “I was worried about constipation but got the opposite! Narrowly avoided disaster pants a few times today (if you know you know),” he wrote on Instagram.
While it looks like he’s struggling when it comes to lack of variety in food choices, overall, Jono is pretty positive about everything.
“It’s actually really easy. You don’t eat as much or go to the bathroom as much,” he says. “[My] mental clarity and alertness have increased. [I] don’t get tired during the day, [I’m] sleeping better [and have] no reflux.”
What is the carnivore diet?
The first record of the carnivore diet was in 1856, after German writer Bernard Moncriff spent a year consuming only milk and beef. In recent history, the fad diet gained popularity in 2018, after orthopaedic surgeon Shawn Baker penned the book The Carnivore Diet.
Jono shared a clip of his food shop at the start of his carnivore diet challenge. He purchased 48 pasturised eggs, 20 steaks, grass-fed butter, and 12 grass-fed meat patties.
The carnivore diet itself is controversial, with some experts saying there are many health risks that come with cutting out all carbohydrates and vegetables.
“Dietary fibre is noticeably absent from a carnivore diet. This is a problem because a low-fibre diet can increase your risk of diabetes, heart disease and some cancers,” Deakin University’s Katherine Livingstone told The Conversation.
“The strongest evidence shows eating a diet rich in whole plant foods, such as fruit and vegetables, with a moderate amount of lean and unprocessed red meat, poultry and fish is good for our health.”
The MAFS star’s carnivore diet experiment will finish on Sunday, so no doubt he will update us on his results, experience… and toilet habits. Something to look forward to!
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