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Great story. Congrats on the victory. Big picture for me, it is just crazy to me at times how with all the advances in modern medicine we find the answer in a ribeye. Scott

This list of items reminds me of my diet PC (Pre Carnivore). In the name of health, I was testing and trying every influencers idea of what they thought healthy should be. I have MS and that is my main area of concern as far as my health goes along with a laundry list of other conditions that sometimes go along with an MS life. I made the chia seed puddings and was adding flaxseed to everything, drinking vinegar water, homemade kombucha, adding Mushrooms powders, High dose biotin, Etc, Etc.......... in the end all I noticed was my wallet being drained by unnecessary items in my diet. Then I saw a Dr Berry video, totally cleaned out every kitchen cabinet and the fridge and never looked back. If spices don't bother your system then enjoy them for flavor but I wouldn't look to them for ANY health benefit. They may contain healthy bits, but the small quantities we consume will have very little to no effect on your health, IMO. I still use apple cider vinegar for my pickled eggs and unrefined coconut oil for ketones along with a few spices for flavor. Otherwise it is pretty much just meat (mostly beef). Leftover hamburgers and a few hard boiled eggs for today.

I have been on "Ketovore" with under ten grams of carbs per day. Good ketosis going on, no cravings for anything including alcohol. 20+ kg lost since November. Feeling strong. High blood ketones (2.0-5.0) are good heart fuel for my failed and stented heart. Those spices on the OP list would not bother me but I see they do no belong to a proper Carnivore. I use no seed oils! Pure organic olive and coconut oils only. Lots of butter. My carbs come from fatty sausages,yogurt,cheese,nuts and an occasional salad. My fat is 75% or more, energy % to be clear. Salads with fatty cheese like Feta help to keep fat up,all our meat (except bacon) is lean here in Finland.

We have arrived home safely. I would like to show you what we bought in Poland. The finest pasture-raised beef, 37 kg in total :) All the 37 kg are not shown in this photo. It is only a "small" part of our order.

When I purged our kitchen and fridge of all the crap nutrition I figured if it's no good for me, then it's not good for anyone else either. All the grains and spices went in our compost pit. All the sweet stuff was dumped on the lawn for the wildlife to consume and all the bad oils were used to light our fire pit. And after the purge our cabinets were bare! There is still a small container of real sugar in our house, BUT that is used for the hummingbird nectar that I make up during the summer.

For cravings you can also try a pinch of salt under the tongue. Smoked salt is even better IMO. Works for hunger pains also.

We were at a cookout last week and had the brats and hotdogs from this place. They were very good. We will be checking out their store next week. It's only a few towns away (20 miles) and I never knew it even existed. Sounds like it's been there for years. Go figure, Ey.

Studies are not worth reading. Ed goeke Bart Kay and alot of other drs say the same thing. Trust yourself and your gut.

Agreed. It is one thing to lead by example and an even better to share one's knowledge. I try not to make much about it when I get 'corrected' on my way of thinking/eating. I provide feedback when I can but if the wall has been built I don't spend an awful lot of time trying to break down barriers. I'm coming up on my semi-annual visit with my neurologist and our biggest conversation will be around my immunoglobulin numbers, my immune system and have I 'healed' enough to discontinue the infusions. My last bloodwork said I was really close to being 'normal'. I'm interested to see where we land. I have been lucky with the two Neurologists I see. Both are super-supportive of my carnivore efforts. My primary is pretty much 'if it is working for you, then it is working for me' approach. If you think the people in this group are anti-statins, you should listen to his spiel. If you didn't know him or have contact with him, you would think it was an all-out scare tactic. He is that much against them due to long term neurological and brain impact. I alternate visits between the two but my second is participating in research studies for MS at the Mayo clinic. The Mayo clinic is not onboard with the carnivore approach but the number of people in the MS community seeing positive results with carnivore is ever increasing. One of the interesting facts is that in the 50's one of the most successful treatments for MS was called the 'red meat diet'. It was basically the Lion diet before it got the catchy name. Dr. Chaffeee speaks to this in one of his carnivore-auto immune videos. My neurologist actually checks in on me and my progress in between visits. She asked if she could present my story to her colleagues even asking if another neurologist could sit in on my last appointment. I feel like I'm in a really good place with neurology. My primary family doctor is on board with the results and not totally against carnivore, but he is not a fan of my LDL. He is not a fan of the number of eggs I eat per day/per week. I also enjoy the board here. I am a much bigger fan of a person's personal story as I am 'study for this and study for that'. It is almost like there is a study to support whatever your persuasion is about just about any choice you make. I often chuckle at how two people from the same medical school, who received the same education/training on a 'scientific' subject can have such polar opposite opinions. And then can deliver 'scientific studies' to support whichever side of the fence they are standing. Like, 2=+2=4, regardless of what side of the fence one resides. I guess I amjust not smart like that. I can relate better to someone's personal experience. This type forum works well for me. Scott

And the best on is in my back yard. From pasture to pit to table all within a few hundred yards.

Y’all are just great. Thanks for your input, but mainly, thanks for speaking this language! It really is like that, isn’t it? Like you’ve gone to a different country where you don’t eat what the natives eat? You don’t talk like they talk (when it comes to food, which is a lot of the time), don’t go where they go (to the pasta restaurants or fill-in-the-blank-SAD-restaurant). I live parenthetically to the rest of the world. Add to that that I’m a woman of faith, and boy, I live a very different life! BUT- it’s so, so good. No complaints. Like the company shirts say, “Life is good.”

Hi Cathy, I'm a dirty carnivore. I haven't had any major health problems, but now understand where all those tummy aches were coming from. I occasionally eat some broccoli, pickles and nuts. Lately I have been try to stick to meat and eggs as I went on a several month SAD bender over the winter. When people question my food choices I try to say something like, I have learned that I don't feel well when I eat XYZ. Kinda hard to continue to pressure someone to eat something that makes them unwell. My why is to thrive mentally and physically till I die. I have seen too many older women just breathing and eating, but not actually living for decades before they die. I'd love to avoid that.

Also use the same. Also improved teeth health and gums since on carnivore. No more carbs attacking that enamel all the time. Two factors may play a role, I do take Iodine since carnivore, and probably consume more collagen. Add to that, that I no longer use fluoride (Blocking intake of iodine), it makes sense that teeth and gums become more healthy.

Got me too. Scott

I've made a breakthrough!!! 🥳🥳🥳 I've found out that if I don't grind the meat and chop it into tiny pieces fried in tallow instead and then eat several very small portions of beef throughout the day, I don't get the nausea that has been putting me off meat! My stomach can't handle big portions it seems but small ones do the trick. I'm less light headed now. And it's really yummy. I don't make it like steak because this cut gets very tough and my attemps at medium rare fail. But this way I fry it for less than a minute and it doesn't take my teeth out.

Learn to make brown butter bites. You will either love me... or hate me because they are addictive, lol.

I do have the same problem as you with not wanting to eat meat anymore, which causes carb cravings. I now put tiny little chunks of butter in the freezer and eat one with salt when the cravings hit. (Excess butter does cause weight gain though). I just discovered last week that when I crave fruit it's because I'm thirsty. I drink some water and it goes away (most of the time). Fasting helps too if it doesn't make you crave carbs. Exercise helps too by making you hungry without you having to fast. One month is too soon for cravings to go away. For me the firtst time I did this, it took about 6 months and even then I still had carbmares (nightmares about eating carbs, lol). Here's a great article on recognizing hunger on carnivore: https://www.zerocarbhealth.com/recognizing-hunger-on-a-zero-carb-carnivore-diet/ About the ketones: I did a strict lion diet for 2 years. In year two, I went for a general check-up with a blood test and urine test and all that, and my ketones were non existent. I heard a veteran carnivore (not sure who) say it's possible that the ketones don't show up anymore because your body becomes very efficient at using ketones and not much of it is actually dispensed as waste through your urine for tests to show. That made sense to me at the time because, in addition to being a very strict carnivore, I had fasted for 24 hours for that test so not having any ketones would have meant that I had absolutely no metabolism going on (only happens in dead people) given that I must have had very little glycogen stored and had to have been burning some fat from somewhere and therefore I would have had ketones in my body even though they didnt show on the test. I wouldn't be concerned about ketones. I don't think they matter on carnivore (they do matter on keto though, because you do eat carbs on that). This is an excerpt from the "Zero Carb Health" blog by a friend of Kelly Hogan's and Charles Washington, who have been doing this for decades: "Our meat eating ancestors did not have high ketones or low blood sugar, yet they were healthy and fit. If you are not eating carbohydrates you are on a ketogenic diet. Just because your ketone levels might be very low does not mean you are not in ketosis. The current trend of trying to reach high ketones and get your blood sugar low is likely sabotaging your health, not helping it. By purposely trying to achieve something your body is uncomfortable with you are working against homeostasis. The body likes homeostasis. (Homeostasis, from the Greek words for “same” and “steady,” refers to any process that living things use to actively maintain fairly stable conditions necessary for survival.) It is IMPOSSIBLE to naturally maintain high ketone numbers, especially if you are on a zero carb diet, where you don’t have carbohydrates as a macro to manipulate. You have to constantly manipulate fat/protein macros, feeding times and calories to get high ketone readings. The body does not want to be producing lots of ketones so it will adapt to your tweaks so it’s not over producing which will bring the numbers down. How can this be healthy if the body is constantly fighting to bring ketones down? There is zero science or history on humans maintaining high ketone levels in the long term." https://www.zerocarbhealth.com/manipulating-ketones-and-glucose-on-the-zero-carb-carnivore-diet/ Sorry this is so long. I hope it helps a little bit.

I think fasting is the best seasoning for food boredom. I try to imagine, when I get a specific craving, that my body just released some patch of fat that stored the thing I am craving. So you ate melon at one time,then it got stored as fat, now it is being released and it's circulating so that's why you get the craving. Not science just a hunch. So just let it go.

I saw a teat on a almond once.

I have gone through two rounds of calcium/oxalate kidney stones. one had to be surgically removed, so I will not consume any medium or high oxalate foods. Another great reason to eat meat! ZERO oxalates from meat.

I bought a used ice cream maker off Amazon Resale so I can make Kiltz's ice cream. Ice cream was one of my weaknesses - overdid quantity. Haven't yet opened the box to use it yet, as I just got it a day or two ago. Blessed Easter and happy birthday to me.

And just when I thought I was in a position to provide some applicable information, 'ol' carnivore thru me a curve. I ate an awful lot since Wednesday. I didn't eat an actual meal since Wednesday morning. I packed all the meats I cooked into quart bags for the trail. Every couple hours I would eat whatever bag I had pulled that morning. I ate off and on, more akin to snacking, all thru the day. Between eating multiple times per day and even late at night as we did night rides I thought my weight would go up. It did not. I dropped 2 pounds since last Wednesday. Completely unexpected. Carnivore threw me an 0-2 curve and I whiffed. Scott

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Hello everyone, My name is Dominik, I am 34 years old and come from Germany. Last June, my wife and I started following the carnivore diet. The reason for this is, among other things, that my wife is struggling with infertility and we naturally have a strong desire to have children. After a year on this diet, I can tell you that we feel fantastic. During the week, i.e. from Monday to Thursday and on Saturday, we eat burgers that we make ourselves from minced meat, and on Sunday we always have a nice portion of steak with a hearty beef broth to drink. We also eat raw cheese with the burgers or steak, and I drink raw milk, which my wife doesn't like very much; she prefers a latte macchiato made with this milk. Of course, we also go to the gym to train. I have to admit, I feel really strong and energetic when I'm lifting weights at the gym. It's just a joy to train, see results, and reward myself with a great meal. We are currently on vacation in Poland. Yesterday we went to a hospital to have our blood tested and, while staying in Poland , I ordered 30 kg of the finest roast beef. I look forward to chatting with you here in the forum :) Dominik :)

I believe that. Everyone adjusts differently. My worst experience was on a Thursday I reached into the cooler at the store and grabbed the 2% milk with the blue cap. I opened it and took a big swallow to find out it was a Nesquik Vanilla type drink slam full of sugar and carbs. It was like 'drinking ice cream' and not being the smartest guy, I finished it. (I'm really cheap too, once I paid for it I couldn't let it go to waste. Then I paid for it again. I had a colonoscopy scheduled for the following Monday. If I had to choose the best product for the cleanout prior to the procedure, after being on Carnivore for 8-9 months, the Nesquik drink did a far better job. I was empty and clean before I even started using the prescribed medicine to get empty and clean. Quite the reaction. LOL Scott

Just one chic fillet meal was costing me $17 and making me fat. I can buy meat at 8 dollars or less per pound.

I went through all my cookbooks and got rid of 95% of them. If they mentioned vegetables, fruit or flour then they had to go 😂. I donated them to our local library book sale.

I will always say "Fasting , for the win!". The energy effect I get personally from multi day fasting is nothing short of amazing and the personal challenge of going as long as you can is very powerful also. Autophagy and all the other hidden good things that the body goes through are probably the best part of a long fast.

Check your heavy cream ingredients most have carageenan --pisses me off.

Congratulations on getting this far. You are doing great. You should be past the physical cravings by now as long as you’ve been strict but you can still have phantom or memory cravings. You remember how good something used to taste and it comes back to you. It can be overwhelming. I’m almost two years in and I still get them. My solution is to eat something fatty or just fat itself. I make my own tallow and I save the leftover rendered fat pieces for a snack if I get a craving. Bacon helps with those cravings too. When it comes to variety of food you are only limited by your imagination. Instead of just burger and scrambled eggs why not make a meatloaf wrapped in bacon. Cook your eggs in different ways or even make an egg custard. There are cheap cuts of beef you can find on sale at the store such as chuck roasts, flank steaks, breakfast steaks. We will often buy a whole roast chicken and eat the dark meat and make chicken salad out of the white meat. Tuna or salmon salad are an option too. Pork butt is cheap and you get a lot. Hopefully you’ll get to the stage in at where I no longer eat for entertainment but only for nutrition. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Willkommen Dominik. I’m glad you could join us.

Check out church charities in your area as well.

Simply awesome you both started at your age.

Strict carnivore most of your list is off limits but would move you into more of a ketogenic type diet. With ketogenic diets one would have to count carbs to keep them low. I have read less than 50 and less than 30, not sure which one is more accurate. I would guess the lesser the better. Almond milk is a bad choice because it is straight seed oil and seed oils probably contribute to a chunk of what is wrong with the Standard American Diet. But at the same time, find the path that works the best for you. if you need/want some of those things as you work yourself toward zero carbs/zero sugars, then by all means go with what works for you. When you move to lesser carbs and lesser sugars that has to be an improvement. God luck as you find what works best for you. Scott

It all depends on the carb content. On carnivore I would only use the MCT oil on a regular basis. On occasion but rarely, I might use some thyme in a recipe. I will use ACV when I make biltong. On ketovore you have to count the carbs in everything you eat so as long as you stay under 20 grams you should be good on most of that stuff. The big exception would be the almond milk. There is no such thing as almond milk. There are no teats on an almond. All that junk is is seed oils. One of the worst things you can put in your body. Use cream, half and half or just whole milk. If you cans handle dairy and just have to have some kind of milk type product then use coconut milk. It still isn’t milk but at least it’s not a seed oil. EVO isn’t too bad for a fruit oil but finding real EVO can be tricky. Do your research to find real EVO that hasn’t been cut with seed oils. If you are going to do carnivore it’s best to just cut all of that stuff out and just eat and use animal fats, eat moderate protein, use salt liberally and drink water.

Carnivore turned me into a Lean Mass Hyper Responder. 🤣🤣🤣 So what do you do with that? Yeah, it doesn’t make sense. Yeah I forgot to mention that last night. I encountered that myself. My doctor has asked me to get one because I refuse to go on a statin but I’ve refused for a couple of reasons. First, my insurance doesn’t cover it and I’ll have to pay out of pocket. Two, it doesn’t matter what the score is. If it’s zero then great, it was a waste of money. If it’s high, oh well, it still a waste of money because I’m not going to change anything. Eating a high fat moderate protein diet does not create cholesterol, calcium or plaque. If you have a plaque or calcium build up it isn’t from carnivore because it takes decades for it to build. No, it was from a lifetime of eating the SAD diet. Eating carnivore is the best way to eat if you have that buildup because it can reduce that buildup. So in my case I just don’t care because if it’s there I’m going to treat it with a proper human diet.

I'm sure I gave myself the kidney stones by listening to the influencers of the day (10 yrs ago) while eating a SAD diet. I would down huge spinach salads, handfuls of almonds and beets, all in the name of eating healthy 😂. That advice was nothing but a big crock full of sh%t. Since then I have done my research and found actual science based nutrition advice by influencers who use actual results in their findings. That along with my own health results from 4 yrs of Carnivore have shown me a better way of getting my nutrition. I'm not planning on EVER changing the way I now eat. I also do NOT follow any influencer's who sell their own line of supplements. They just want your money and probably do not care how it turns out for you yourself!

If you watch your consumption of other high oxalate foods I'm sure you will be fine. Eating calcium rich foods like eggs will help because some the oxalates in your system will bind to the calcium and be excreted through "the back door". You DO NOT EVER want kidney stones, that I can guarantee you! I've been through several episodes of body pain in my life including a broken femur and gallstones and by FAR the WORST was kidney stones!

That is a great book. One of the few that I have gone through twice.

I hope you're thinking in terms of long term and sustainable. Eating to little without a doubt will tank your metabolism, It sends info to the metabolism to shut down as much as it can so you and it survive. The sustainable solution is to walk, lift weights and "feed the beast" Eat whenever you get hungry until you're full. This will promote good habits and good health for a lifetime. Don't expect to see multiple pounds per week of weight lose. Building muscle offsets some of your fat lose.

I tried other sweeteners but allulose really works well for an ice cream. Years ago I picked up a package of reusable plastic ice cream "push-up" molds. Those are great for portion control. I think they hold 3 oz max, but you can of course fill them with less. That's much better than sitting down with a mason jar full of ice cream and a spoon - TRUST ME! I know how that turns out. For me that's like saying "Well, I'll have just one slice of pizza" 🤣

Congrats on the 50. I always heard about "50" but for me, the wheels fell off at 49. Congrats and respect for the ability to stray off carnivore and then come back. I am almost sure I can as I had a couple slip ups and for me, the best case scenario happened, they simply didn't taste as good as I remembered. Or maybe the carnivore side of my brain won out, not sure. Either way, congrats. @Geezy. Happy Easter to you as well. Hope all is well with you and yours. Scott

You as well sir. Had an amazing Easter weekend. I turned 50, I ate cheesecake. Ice cream. I felt a rush of sugar, crashed hard. I great reminder, now back to my normal, carnivore. I could not stop thinking, I feel better turning 50 then turning 40. The power of the diet.

I was watching a video on what a vegan "athlete" eats in a day. the amount of crap could fill a small grocery store.

Pot roast is so much better in cast iron Dutch oven. I have followed the same recipe in both the slow cooker and instant pot and they don't come close to the cast iron!

Possibly. As a general rule of thumb, don't eat unless you are hungry. Then when you do eat, eat until you are comfortably stuffed (NOT overly stuffed). Basically, comfortably full and satisfied. Don't snack in-between meals. You could technically do 3 meals a day to start, but most people find themselves happy with just the two meals because the fat and protein on the carnivore diet are so satiating. Intermittent fasting starts to come naturally. 3 eggs (210 cals) in the morning would not do it for me. I need like 7-10, lol (490-700 cals) + butter. This is true as well. For example, if I eat a lot of lean fish and lean chicken, I will get hungry more often and maybe even gain weight. Without sufficient fat, the body will convert that protein into glucose and I won't be using ketones. This is why I said to try and maybe consume a little more - so the body doesn't go into "conservation mode" because it's under the impression there is a famine or lack of resources. Intermittent fasting will allow time to metabolize what you consume. The occasional extended fast is good when you metabolism is running "high". But then eating low calorie or having a prolonged extended fast will put you back into "conservation mode". So a good routine is 2 meals a day within an 8 (max) eating window, and an occasional extended fast here and there. Some people actually eat one meal a day, but make it count by basically eating 3 meals in one setting (which isn't my thing, lol).

I cooked five Chuck steaks, five chicken thighs, two big packs of boneless country style pork ribs, two extra thick pork chops and 12 hard boiled eggs before leaving for a five day trip to ride side by sides in West Virginia. Each day I reach in a grab a gag as we head out. Each day is a surprise meal on the trail.

I fast for the immune system reset. The autophagy and HGH release and then the stem cells pour out into the body are all pluses. On top of that there is killer energy coming out of the fast that lasts two-three-four days. I’m tracking mine but I think my energy baseline is better after several long fasts. Hard to say that for sure but it sort of feels that way.

24 hour dry brined Pseudo ribeyes for lunch today. I just cut a rump roast in half for 2 nice 2" thick steaks. Not as tender as ribeye but very tasty.

We always try and find any clearance meat deals and either cook it up right away or freeze it. Never had an issue. Sometimes we can get up to 60% off @ Wally World, And YES, There is nothing wrong with meat from Walmart, other than their high original pricing, because That is not a bargain in our area. Our best find ever was an 11 1/2 pound brisket for $6.63 total. That's what they tagged it at, so we bought it and it was one of the best tasting briskets ever. Now i always check all the briskets looking for another "once in a lifetime" find 🤣