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Track your food on an app. Track your weight on an app. Even for a little while it will teach you a lot about what you eat and what it does to you. Other than that, for weight loss? portion control, see how well you do on less calories. I normally eat 2200 calories, on carnivore I do well on 1600 calories. Something I learned through using an app. I've added calories/carbs a bit to stall my wieght loss as it is not needed, 12% BF here.

It sounds concerning, yes. Diabetes complicates the matter greatly. I'd say give it at least 90 days, that is 90 days without sugar, processed foods, no seed oils. What I'd do in this case, I'd add a fiber supplement. Again, no doctor here. Nor a diabetes patient. Nor a doctor with diabetes. Just thinking with you here. The question is also, are you overweight? that would be a factor as well. 90 days give you more data. I use an app to track food, macros, etc and weight in every morning. It has helped me adapting when needed. Good luck to you.

Magnesium, potassium, and salt. If you're worried about micronutrients, have some vitamin K and Calcium sporadically. Vitamin C every so often as you need less. A pro-biotic could be a good choice as well.

Cook your steak, add a tablespoon of butter and let it melt on top. Add butter in coffee or tea. Pork and chicken may be too lean. Bacon and eggs and some cheese, they give you lots of fat as well.

MCT and Coconut oil are great to use, you get access to important acids, they are anti-inflammatory, use them both. However, if you are nauseous from getting fat in on this diet, MCT may be the trigger. If you have a loose stool, you may want to step back from it for a while. Otherwise, good stuff, and use it in combination of other fats.

Your pallet will reset also. Maybe start with some delicious chicken wings? Red meat, hamburger meat, you can season them any which way you like. Maybe that's another trick you may use.

Schwing!

Yes low test can happen when you over train or under eat, the fat is the fuel, the gas tank. Leaner meat is going to be torture.

Exactly, body composition is the ideal metric.

Meat and mentioning a hormone, I don't think sounds good at all...

Thanks and welcome. I do agree with you on it being a reset and a reminder. It feels exactly that way. As for progress? I don't think I lost much other than gaining 2 lbs, which will be gone in no time. Weight-loss is not my goal anyways, it was just a by product. I welcomed those pounds back. Sleep was getting worse, yes. I noticed immediately. My body felt busier with digestion as well. And other than those 2 cookies, I haven't indulged in any simple sugars, not anything that is designed to be sweet. Perhaps a piece of dark chocolate, but that I did during carnivore as well. I am actually going back to keto/carnivore today, I feel ready, I miss it. I think I did well on staying low carb during these days, high carb, like potatoes and bread just felt wrong and I don't think I'll ever go back to that.

Actually, it was just a bad day and I said f%$k it. Was hungry, my meat was expired, so I had to grab something. It's an amazing lesson, made me appreciate the carnivore diet even more just by how my sleep changed and my inflammation. Good advice. Already stocked up on meat and ready to go.

I am almost 5 days out of ketosis. After about 67 days of carnivore/ketovore I tripped and fell right into some cookies, with my mouth. And I could immediately tell I was out of ketosis. This week I am low carb and prepping to get back into ketovore at the beginning of the week. I went from 148 to 135 lbs. in my 2 months of carnivore, and I found I was losing too much weight anyways. I added 2 pounds in these 4 days since, so I am glad about that. Excited to jump back in, I liked feeling light and painless, and the little aches are coming back. This is not catastrophic, just an appreciation for the diet, and a little breather in between. Keto snacks will get me through for now. Less than 100gr of carbs so I am ready to dive back in. By the way, no Keto flu, no Keto hang over or any of the draw backs of going in or out of ketosis. So I'll join the carniverse soon again.

Are you trying to seduce me, sir?

Nuts are so damn high in calories... it's going to make losing weight an uphill battle. Nuts are a big no-no. Great for fat, great for protein, great for bulking. For weight-loss they need to be gone, end of. There is no pretty way to say this. Same goes for milk, stay away if you seek to lose weight. Also great for fat and protein, great for bulking.

Yes, this is true, but 137 was my threshold. I am not stressed or anything, but I don't want to wait till I lose too much, etc. My weight was 136.4 this morning, by the way. With this awareness I can adapt my eating pattern.

Been eating between 1700 and 1900 calories a day. Again I feel perfectly fine, energetic, focused. I have about 10% carbs each day, as I introduced small portions of carrot, pickle, or pepper, for anti-inflammatory properties and potassium, I am talking 1 ounce portions. I am glad now I have been tracking my food.

So I am down to 136.6... 137 was my threshold. Add more fat? or add mor protein? Again, I've never been once hungry during my 66 days of carnivore. I already had a small stomach and don't like stuffing myself, I eat till I am comfortable full. About 500 calories a meal. Too much and my stomach feels like a brick.

It's like the old days when you used to keep your check book, or it's like budgeting. You'll spend more wisely. Same with eating, the awareness itself makes you be more conscious about eating habits and teaches you about the food you eat and what it does. It really doesn't take that much time, we all got phones. It doesn't have to be perfect either, just ballpark it.

Krautenbutter! Yes, it's delicious! In Holland Kruidenboter, it's something you make at home or can buy in the grocery store.

I'm a big proponent of documenting food intake, what's the trouble if you only eat once or twice?

If you want to be sure, at least document (myfitnesspal app) what you eat by using an app. I was never overweight but lost 11lbs and am under 15% body fat. Probably closer to 12% now but muscle definition. So the body composition is a fact for me, no significant muscle loss here. Just leaned out and more definition. The myfitnesspal app also allows you to track weight, and body composition. Gather that data.

I've had herbal butters back in The Netherlands, never seen it sold here. It's delicious on toast, but I can imagine it would do good on meat as well.

That would be exactly the case. I also think that moving around for work is not quite the same as weight lifting. Working is endurance, conditioning, weightlifting is building muscle, especially focused on hypertrophy sets and reps. At work we break the body down, in the gym we build it back up. Muscles are extremely significant for metabolic health. Especially after our 40s, we start losing our muscles every year. Fortunately, I started back when I was 35, so I probably metabolize food quicker. And you don't even have to lift each day, 3 times a week, for 30 minutes. No hours at the gym needed, part of building muscle is that rest day and sleep. I haven't been over 2000 calories in 45 days or so, and never once was hungry, or felt weak.

I eat between 1500 and 1900 calories, sometimes over. I eat when hungry, no IF, no big meals once a day. I guess my stomach isn't big enough as I always have eaten small meals 5 times a day. I work out daily, lifting weights. I have added carbs -thus also fiber- up to 45 grams a day. I guess I am glad I have documented everything I ate on Myfitnesspal. No processed foods though, and I have managed supplements meticulously. I eat an ounce of carrots or broccoli, or cauliflower each day. Fruits may be more benign, but then I consider fructose vs vegetables. Toxins vs. Fructose. I am just amazed how well this diet works for weight loss, in my case, a little too well. Again, I am not in a panic, I have weight 135 before, in fact in high school I was 130. So I am not in dire straits (great band by the way). Documenting what you eat is important for this reason I guess. I am glad I did. It gets annoying sometimes, but I have all the info I need to change paths slightly. I guess my post was designed to think out loud with fellow carnivore adventurers.