Copper

Pretty much the same boat. I dropped 95lbs and it was a sickly/puny look.
Mostly for an autoimmune disease but sarcopenia as well I lift three to four times per week. A couple to three times per week I walk around 3.5 miles. One day just walking, one day with a 40lb weight vest and the third day I try to get into 125 or so push-ups along the way.
My problem is that I struggle to eat the amount of protein needed for muscles gain. Depending on the source it can range from 0.7 to 1.5 grams of protein per pound of lean body mass. I'm guessing I need to be around 200 grams of protein per day. I have struggled to eat that much in a day. I added protein powder to get in a few extra grams, and it helped.
I ran out once and substituted a store-bought protein shake. It had 11-12 grams of sugar and after I drank a 1/3 of the bottle within an hour, I was hungry. I used that hunger to eat another steak or another source of protein. I gained about 9-10lbs over a month. I am sure it was mostly fat and water weight, but I did see significant gains in the gym. As the young folks say, "the plates don't lie". Maybe a little of that weight was lean muscle mass but the gains in the gym were significant, especially for a 56 year old guy that went the last 30 years without any sort of cardio nor resistance training (and ate the very bottom of the dumpster diet to boot).
I have hovered around the 80-90lb lost mark for the last several months. There is some weight left to lose but it is not as big a concern for me as of late.
Scott

"very bottom of the dumpster diet", that's so funny! Congrats on such a life transformation. 95 lb is impressive!

Thanks.
Carnivore has been amazing for me in so many ways. Before, I could my steak, half my wife's steak, a loaded baked potato with a double order of green beans, three or four glasses of sweet tea and then a big bowl of ice cream before bed. Now, I struggle to eat a whole steak. 14-16 oz is just about max for me and from there it is pretty much the next day before I am hungry again.
All the weight loss and healing has been quite the positive but I look back and see how much food I ate per day. (And since I'm super cheap in everything I do the first thing I see is how much money I wasted chasing phantom hunger signals. I was paying cash to pummel my body. I guess I'm smart like that. LOL
Congrats on your progresses as well.
Scott

This is great hearing that you are doing well at the gym and seeing gains while on carnivore. I really need to amp up my exercise routine. I get inspired, but I struggle to carve out the time because I am busy and spread thin.

After looking at the pics of myself from a visit to my son's house about a month ago, I was shocked at how skinny I was. I mean, I looked healthy but I had no idea how puny I looked. Back home, I weighed in (never do that) and I was a mere 131lb. Dang!
Except during my bodybuilding days 20 or so years ago, I've always been around 155 lb. As an old dude realized that I need to be concerned with sarcopenia (muscle loss as we age).
I decided to target 150lb as a start and so I ditched the intermittent fasting (I was eating one or two meals and to target a bodyweight of 150lb I need to eat 150g of protein per day). So, on August 10, I added an early meal of at least 50 g of protein so I didn't have to force in 75g in two meals.
I also rearranged my gym training. I am doing three days of squat, bench, and barbell rows with the goal of working up to ten sets of ten of each exercise. Anytime I couldn't do 10 reps I stopped and moved on to the next exercise.
Once I got five sets of ten of all three exercises, I ditched the 10 sets goal and started over with whatever number of sets I could get with heavier weight (10lb additional for squats and 5lb for bench press and rows.
In 3 weeks I've gained 8 pounds! I've still got veins all over my lower abs and inner thighs, so if I've gained fat, it's negligible.
Carnivore is the sh...t! At least for me, the only way to eat enough protein to increase muscle mass is to only eat protein. There's no way I could eat this much protein AND eat carbs (or anything else!)

I went to an all you can eat seafood buffet last night.
https://captainbenjamins.com/buffet/
I tried to get my money's worth out of them by hitting up the crab legs, shrimps, and ribeyes. I behaved for the most part, but certainly overate, lol.

I tried "Saving" family and friends from the SAD diet, but no one wanted my help, so now only my wife and I (and our dog) get to reap the benefits of a carnivore diet. Everyone else will need to do their own thing in their own life. The information desk is now closed! If ANYONE would ask for help I would direct them to a few Dr Berry videos and leave it at that.

I part time at a small mom-pop grocery store. And the Mom part of the store got diagnosed with Alpha-gal about three years back. Odd, because she seldom sets foot on any grass. Still, that's what the clinic told her she had. She heard tell of some doctor in Kansas that got amazing results in treating it and she made an appointment. So she went. She got home and said she had to quarantine herself for 24 hours, then she could try a meat. She said she had a pork steak and ohhhh it was so good. Then the next night her husband made beef liver and onions. And that went without any drawbacks. She told me today she had a cheeseburger the other evening and it was soo good. It was like having a Gourmet meal. I'm happy for her and she's in a lot better spirits now.
So what they do to her? Well, it's still not clear to me. But The Doctor she saw was an MD/DO. So I'm guessing the DO in his name played a big part. She said he did some muscle testing and poked around with a clicker thing. She was on her stomach. I'm guessing it was kinda the same thing my chiropractor uses sometimes. There wasn't any acupuncture involved. As with one of the other Alpha-gal treatments called SAAT. (Look it up) I'm gonna take a guess there was some Kinesiology involved. I just learned that word from researching Alternative alpha-gal treatments. She doesn't really know what all he did. Just that it has worked so far. I think she's told every other alpha-gal person in the area and I think they're all making appointments.
So if you have or get alpha-gal, know that there is alternative treatments for it.

I never heard of it referred to as alpha-gal. My buddy has it and referred to it more as a derivative of Lyme disease.
He ate at a fast food restaurant, got on his Harley-Davidson and on the way back to the body shop started losing consciousness and blurry vision. He coasted up into the fire department and laid his bike over at their front door.
I think they treated him with epinephrin and then on to the hospital. It took several weeks to identify his trigger.
His faded in time for the most part but every so often red meat will cause him issues.
I just never heard of it referred to this way. Was sort of lost.
Scott

I'd never heard of it either and had to look it up.

Helenb,
Welcome. You're story of recovery is incredible and inspiring! Also a bit depressing I guess as we've all been duped throughout the years, and obviously that diet advice is still being preached.
I look forward to learning from you and sharing info.

Steve

Welcome! Nice to meet you. Its so encouraging to see others here sharing their experiences.

So technically.... and pardon me for getting technical .... a carnivore diet is animal products only. Zero plants. It's also referred to as a zero carb diet but that isn't always accurate. There is some trace carbohydrate in muscle meat and eggs. And then if you are okay with dairy, there will be trace carbs in certain cheeses and considerable carbs in a glass of milk in the form of lactose (milk-sugar).
With that said, a little nut butter and/or berries once in a while might be just fine for you, while they might stir insufferable cravings in others. And if you have any auto-immune or chronic conditions you are trying to alleviate or remediate, you should try eliminating even these for 2 or 3 months before reintroducing them to see clearly what affect they may be having on you.
Odds are you'll be fine. But we technically would call this "ketovore" since it's not 100% meat-based. But that's okay, because a proper human diet is a spectrum from zero carb carnivore on one end and up to 100g of carbs daily in the form of single-ingredient fresh foods that are God-given, Mother-Nature provided, and not processed (save for cooking).

I microwaved leftover steak yesterday, yummy

Wow! I have fasted 48 hours before and felt like a super human lol. Thanks for the info. I am finding the hardest thing is to plan ahead or prepare for the meal. Where I work, the cafe does not have much in the way of beef every day. Still trying to figure it out.

A true carnivore diet would be as close to zero carbs per day as possible.
I eat a carnivore diet and will still eat a few strawberries while in season and I will sometimes dip a pork rind into some Smuckers natural peanut butter. No crime in doing that I figure.
Even stricter than carnivore would be a lion diet, which is just beef, salt and water. I've done short stints of that one also.
Multi day fasts can be very powerful also. That is when I feel my best.

"If, now, those Donuts or Twinkies are making you stumble, dump them out and throw it away from you. For it is better for you to forgo ultraprocessed carbohydrates than for your whole body to be pitched into the grave." - According to Bob

They do have a point if it came from the internet. People are not allowed to lie or deceive on the internet. I read it in the by-laws.
Scott

Whenever I try to talk about it, I get, " well it must be true if you learned it on the Internet" 🤦🏻‍♀️

That’s so sad. It’s even sadder that their whole life focus is on food and not on Christ.

Lamb loin slow smoked.

If I have a half a steak left, I put it in the fridge for the next morning on the way home from the gym. No knife, no fork, no plate. Just teeth ripping thru meat coming down the highway.
I'm not sure if that is any closer to cavemen but I am sure I look like a psycho coming down the highway.
Scott

Two chuck steaks.
If I ate it caveman style, I'd havta borrow your teeth. 😁

4 slices of roast beef made into 2 sandwiches (meat and butter only with 2 slices meat with butter inbetween). These meat sandwiches (pork or beef) are my favorite thing right now.

Yesterday I listened to my best friend go on about a number of health issues they are experiencing and also some severe immune system and healing challenges a younger family member is going through. Although I am medication free and experiencing improvements to my health on carnivore, if I try to talk about how good I am doing they dont want to hear. It'slike they completely turn off.