Nick Heaz

It’s a weight loss strategy and not a forever diet. Vegans and fruitarians are the examples of individuals who have turned it into a way of eating for a lifetime. I’m not aware of anyone talking about sugar dieting and sugar fasting who is recommending it for a lifetime. I think most of the talking heads would tell you meat is essential for optimal human health. It’s simply different from carnivore. I believe the people with most success on carnivore and keto diets are those who suffer with autoimmune diseases, extreme food intolerance, and sugar addiction. I’m being redundant here but I thinks it’s necessary, sugar diet/fasting is a weight loss strategy. It’s not meant to be a forever diet. So many people who are carnivore are on health journeys for a variety of reasons, but mainly because other interventions have failed.

Great video and something that people who are attempting a protein restricted diet should be made aware of.

Get well soon! The carnivore community needs to stop with the CAC score and start utilizing CT angiography. CAC does not visualize soft plaques, only what’s been calcified. It’s like catching a disease when the disease is already in full swing of things. Soft plaques turn into hard plaques over time, like a slow burn. If you’re carnivore get yourself a CT angiogram scheduled.

I’m experimenting with the sugar diet and sugar fasting after coming off 9 months of ketovore followed by two months of the SAD diet where I gained back 10 pounds from what I lost while keto. There are a number of small unheard of channels of normal people experiencing huge success with sugar diet. Latchkey Gen Xer, Skeleton city, Sweet Truck’n, and more. These aren’t athletes and they aren’t health and fitness influencers. They certainly aren’t hammering their bodies with high amounts of exercise. In my opinion, the most important thing to remember with the sugar diet is that it’s a weight loss diet. It’s not meant to cure autoimmune disease. It’s not meant to be an elimination diet in the same sense as carnivore. It’s helping people shed body fat at higher rates. The idea isn’t to become a vegan. No one is promoting that. Sugar fasting (no protein and no fat other than what’s in fruit) is designed for expedited drops in body weight. Sugar diet (fruit in the morning with lean protein in the evening) is meant for slowed and more controlled weight loss. Then people have the freedom to eat what they like when they reach goal body weight. If the scale creeps up they can fall back on sugar fasting or dieting to lose what they gained. TLDR: sugar dieting and fasting is a weight loss strategy, not a cure to chronic autoimmune disorders or food intolerance.

I have not experienced fluctuating energy during the day. After coming off a keto-carnivore diet and then spending about a month on the standard American diet, now going on 4 weeks with the sugar diet—and honestly, my energy feels better now than it ever did on keto-carnivore.

Yes, I’m very familiar with Sally Norton. Electrolytes and hydration were part of my plan and routine from the get go. I did not to incorporate or “microdose” oxalate rich foods at the time of the rash. I tried to wait it out for a few weeks after it first appeared but it was unbearable. Adding carbs back into my diet cleared it entirely within 5 days. Maybe adding in very small portions of oxalate rich foods would have worked well… or maybe not at all. The only thing I’m certain of is the carbohydrates did and no rash has returned. The sugar diet continues to shed fat from my body with not negative sides. I will surely report anything negative that I experience here with everyone.

I was keto-vore for 9 months. Strict and monitored glucose and ketones regularly via keto mojo finger sticks. Was in low - moderate states of ketosis for months on end. Foods were largely Dr. Berrys BBB&E. I knew what I was doing and things were going great, until they weren’t. I mentioned last night that I’m not certain that my energy tanking and the rash were a result of my ketovore diet. But I added in carbs after experiencing the itchiest rash of my life for after about 4 weeks. Three days after adding carbs the itching started to go away. After 5 days the rash was gone. Again, my symptoms came after 9 months. I’m moving away from the keto / carnivore lifestyle to experiment with a new weight loss strategy—sugar fasting. My WHY is simple… I have been chronically 40 pounds overweight for too many years. My opinion is that getting rid of the fat is the best thing that I can do for my body to improve overall health.

Hi all, was recommended to join here after chatting in the live on last night's Youtube video. 1 year ago I began eating a keto-vore type diet. Initially lost about 15 pounds and then nothing. Plateaued for months. At 9 months in, I developed a very itchy rash all over my flanks and armpits. So itchy that I could barely sleep. My energy felt like I was running on motor oil instead of gasoline as well. I asked around the carnivore space for help and was told the same 3 things over and over again: 1. you're oxalate dumping, add more electrolytes to support. 2. Just keep going, it will pass. 3. You must be doing your diet wrong. I lasted another 3 weeks and had to bail on the diet. I wasn't sure if what I was experiencing was directly caused by the diet, but after adding carbs back in the itch began to go away after 3 days. And after 5 days the rash was gone. After this, my diet returned to the SAD diet and I gained about 10 pounds back. Today, I am 3.5 weeks into the sugar diet. I've lost 9 pounds and I feel good up to this point. Let me be clear... I don't think this is healthy when done for extended periods of time. There is no optimal human health when the diet excludes meat. Currently I weigh 226 lbs. Goal is 175.