oh and btw I am also a fan of the term suboptimal haha
My advice!
It’s not a quick fix, it’s more of a life style change! And I guarantee you’re gonna feel so much better when you’ve adapted to it!
What I don’t sayin the video is that you don’t need the carbs, because the body will make what you need and ketones will take over their role when you go over to fat. And you don’t have to
Menu suggestion:
Breakfast: Bacon and egg, as an omelet or any way you like it. Coffee, if you’re into that.
Lunch: Fat fish, as salmon, baked in the owen with feta cheese, mozzarella cheese, butter and heavy whipping cream with the spices of your choice. Eat it whit a nice salad with avocado and olive oil.
Dinner: Meat of your choice, fried in butter. Steamed broccoli and cauliflower with butter on it and to that you serve a sauce based on butter and whipping cream. Salad if you like.
For desert a piece of high cocoa content chocolate, at least 70%.
Drink a lot of water. If you want alcohol I would go with red wine instead of beer, since it contains less carbs.
For more info and recipes:
Ok so what you wanna do is bake this huuuge pizza. Throw bacon, egg and some coffee beans on it. Continue with salmon, feta and mozzarella and put on a layer of whipped cream on top of it. This will serve as the base for the pizza. The following ingredients will make those flavors really come through. Throw on a big steak and some cauliflower and a bunch of big salad leaves. Sprinkle that cocoa powder all over it to create that perfect blend of flavours.
Finally, put it in an oven tray filled with water and bake until the crust is golden brown.
Mmmm, mmm, mmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
On a serious note, Anne’s food really makes you feel like you eat enough food, while consuming less of it. I haven’t gone full LCHF yet, but I like to throw in some LCHF dishes in my “diet”.
Ah, yes. Grant has been telling me about this. 
It sounds fine, though I have to say, the part that turns me off a bit is the hysteria of “carbs will kill you.”
Just to put things in perspective, for thousands of years (or present day in 3rd world countries), humans have had to endure sooo much. Poor medicine, poor sanitation, malnourishment, and more. Compared to 1000 years ago, life is incredibly cushy, sanitized and healthy, yet now suddenly the worst thing that happens to us is consuming carbs.
Just given that humans endured so much more miserable conditions than most of us now, if we’ve become so soft that carbs in beer will harm us, than we’ve got a bigger problem. 
The karate instructors at the honbu train 6 hours a day, have the bodies of gods, and I can tell you, aren’t shy about tossing back a few pints.
And of course, no offense. I know you and Grant are really into this diet and I don’t want to deflate any bubbles, so it’s to be taken lightly. I’m a party pooper anyway.
Haha! No carbs wont kill you, but your system isn’t built for the copious amounts that is put into it in a “normal balanced” diet.
Even when you cut out most of the obvious carbs from your diet, you’ll still eat some of them through the vegetables, meat and diary products you consume.
Our bodies are products of evolution, just as all the living things on earth. We have been living on mostly meat and fats and occasionally higher amounts of carbs until the recent 10 000 years, when agriculture came into the picture. In evolution time, that’s a blink of the eye.
The more you exercise the easier it will be for the body to take care of the carbs. But it’s not the carbs that worry me really, it’s the insulin.
Keeping the insulin levels low and steady will put a lot less pressure on your system. Insulin is proinflammatory and anabolic and will also keep you from using your fat stores as a reliable energy source.
Think about it, and read about it and argue with me, that’s how we learn and get better!
And above all, try it and do what works best for you!
How to not have low energy/fluctuation: there’s the answer. However it’s not the easy way out that most of us want.
Can’t deny the long term health benefits of no sugar/low carb (carbs are just another way of saying “sugar”) diets.
Oh yeah, and by no means must you become a carb-nazi (aka no beer, for instance). It just means you change the way you way you think about enjoying food and drinks.
For instance, instead of having vanilla lattes all the time, I changed over to drinking them with higher fat milk, and no sugar. This really promoted my ability to appreciate the taste of a well pulled shot of espresso or a nicely brewed cup of coffee. Whereas before, I realize in hindsight, I was enjoying the sugar more than anything.
Now to put it into alcohol perspective; you learn to appreciate clear alcohols and enjoy a whole new world. I’ve limited myself to maybe one beer if in a night on the weekend, and if I want to have other alcohol, I have scotch, whiskey on ice, gin & tonic w/ lime, etc. This has also resulted in me learning to appreciate more flavor (just like with the coffee), with less alcohol consumed (which we all know is obviously better for our bodies in itself).
This isn’t a diet; it’s science. That’s why I actually believe it. But BY NO MEANS do you have to cut out everything. It’s a matter of exercising control in order to reap the benefits (in Kyle’s case, it would more energy when he wants it: being able to wake up in the morning and use already existing fats in the body as fuel) in your day to day life, and to also have good habits later on when your day-to-day health is more vastly and directly effected by your diet.
Blah blah blah blah blah…
Aaaaaahhh… Na-ru-ho-do!!
Okay, I can live with that a bit more. With a half-filled out punch card at 99 Bottles of Beer (the local bar where you get a plaque on the wall after you fill out a punch card of 99 beers), there’s no way I’d give up my sparkling wheat drink now.
Grant:
Oh snap!!! I remember when you were drinking vanilla lattes all the time!! You actually got me started drinking them too, though more out of tradition than flavor. Good times.
As I bite into a thick hunk of Manjuu, I say I am all for discipline practice in exercising control / enjoying minute flavours, so I can’t argue (besides my usual desire to play devil’s advocate, of course )
Yes, just as you say Grant! It’s not about excluding everything you find good in life forever, it’s about finding a way of living that is good for you and that will keep your body healthy in the long term.
Kyle: Please be the devils advoacte, that’s always needed, because that pushes me to look things up thoroughly to be able to explain things for my self and others.
It’s litteraly a djungle to go through the material written about food, nutrition and physiology. And science and statistics is tricky. The interpretation never is easy.
And as Grant said, you start to appriciate tastes differently when you take out most of the sugar from your diet.
Fat is also carries the tastes and smells in the best possible way, so you can actually get an even better taste and smelling experience when going LCHF.
My smell has become much more sensitive since I started taking out the carbs.
For me the biggest benefit lies in not having the big blood sugar oscillations anymore. I don’t experience big hunger cravings and can go on for almost a day without food if needed, without having my body feeling exhausted and my brain dumbfounded.
And as a bonus I feel more harmonious and can focus better on each and everything I do during my days. It’s great!
I’ve recently realized how much salt that I eat, and that is just counting the salt that I add to food.
The LCHF method usually involves a lot of salt from bacon and cheese.
What are your thoughts Anne? Us Swedes love our salt. Is it too much in your diet?
Karl: I’ll have to get back to you on this one in a day or two.
In general you can eat more salt when on a LCHF diet than on a high carb. This is because high carbohydrates makes the kidneys retain salt and vice versa. A low carbohydrate diet increases the excretion of salt.
The exact mechanisms will have to be unraveled another day, but in general you don’t have to be so worried about salt if you cut down on the carbs. 
Good times, huh!?