Scott F.

I do. I think I have the best shift as far as people as well as workers. I cook for the shift on occasion as well as do pizza for the shift once every other months or so. They make me look good pretty much everyday. Scott

When switching from a standard American diet to carnivore the difference between regular meat and grass-fed meat is minimal, minimal at best. Grass-fed, free-range and organic are often used as misleading terms. I would not eliminate eggs as they are just about nature's most perfect food. I eat fish and seafood for a couple three days each month. I do agree it is an elimination diet but there is no need to eliminate chicken or pork or seafoods. As far as 'good quality meats' I hit the bo-bo sections of meat whenever I can. I'm the guy that buys up all the reduced meats in one fell swoop. Scott

Welcome. Your fat content is based on you as an individual. I tend to eat more fat than most of the popular equations on X amount of fat vs. X amount of meats. I made some snacks once that were butter and bacon. really fatty but really good. I also add butter to everything and I eat stabs of butter here and there. I too dropped more weight than I had planned and made some changes. I dropped from the 300's down to around 210 and looked sickly. I switched up and started to force myself to eat more. I remained strict on carnivore as far as food goes but I did reintroduce some sugars via protein drinks. The sugars were minimal in amounts but did trigger hunger for me which helped me gain some weight. I like dairy but dairy (for me) the milk stopped/stalled any weight loss I was experiencing. I don't drink a lot of milk but I do drink milk fairly regularly. If you are doing things to not lose weight and like milk, I would drink it sparingly to see how you do with it. The lack of energy could be any number of things. Salts and minerals could still be an issue as amounts differ per person. Experiment up and down and see if you can dial that in to fit your needs. The lack of energy could be the lack of fat or it could be the lack of total amounts eaten. Again, hard to say. I have remained strict carnivore food wise since May 2024 but I have morphed the approach in several different ways in order to make it work for me. What works for me is going for long stretches on straight red meat and then a few days of chicken or pork or fish. Eggs have been a staple from very early on as on my days off I try to eat 8-10 eggs per day. Good luck. Scott

Hunger is a weird feeling, especially when I have not felt it in quite some time. Anything close in the past year or so could be quashed with drinking water. I guess I survived. Scott

So true. Scott

I finished a 72 hour fast yesterday. I'm still not all that good at breaking the fast as I was a tad bit 'loose with the caboose' last night and sort of the same this morning. Still a work in progress, I guess. My next attempt will be fruit. I have read melons are a good choice but I can't think of any of the melon family I actually like. This one was the first one in a while that I got hungry, actually hungry, going into day #3. Most of them is a little hunger around 24-36 hours and then none afterwards. I was standing int he shift meeting at 7PM Thursday night about to starve. A co-worker who went carnivore and lost a hundred pounds last year (carnivore, fasting and has switched back to some fruits) was standing beside me and he could hear my stomach growling. I have not had a stomach growl in what seems like forever. If I had brought something to work, I would have broken the fast then, but I stuck it out. I was pretty much hungry all night. Around 3AM I went to the vending machine and the only thing remotely close to what I will eat is beef jerky and of course, that slot was empty. So, I toughed it out. At 7AM I told my co-worker I could have 'eaten the hind end out of dead skunk' and he said "that would still qualify as carnivore but he would go another route'. I broke the fast with a small portion of eggs and here we are waiting to see if I am normal again on Saturday morning. LOL Scott

I don't disagree or nor could I debate the article. People who eat meat have cancer is a true statement. People who eat beef fat have heart failure. People who eat salt have high blood pressure. People who eat a heavy protein diet have kidney failure-renal disease. And now people who eat peanut butter could end up with colon cancer. All these are true statements. The details and the other life choices played a factor too, and from my perspective, even a bigger factor than beef or fat or salt or 'peanut butter' as a stand-along cause. Scott

I am the biggest fan of those who take their health into their own hands. Mr. Pauls I think your approach and your story could be an inspiration to others. It is not like you jumped off a cliff with your plan as it seems well thought out with a methodical approach. Very sensible. Very effective. Great work. Enjoy these steps as successes. Keep stacking them up. Scott

For my sake, the mounds of grape jelly neutralized the risks with peanut butter. I have eaten more than my fair share. Scott

Dr. Chaffee has a video and pretty much says if you are eating once per day on carnivore there is no need to "fast". And then others don't call it 'intermittent fasting' but choose the term 'time restrictive eating'. I would guess going twenty hours apart it would not make much difference between one larger meal or two smaller meals. And then it depends on the goals. If fasting is being done for weight loss then OMAD with 20+ hours between should serve the purpose, especially if the OMAD is the carnivore/low to zero carb approach. The metabolic benefits require some longer fasts. So far all the changes I have made have been relatively easy. I switched to carnivore cold turkey and didn't experience any cravings for all the crap I was eating before. When I tried fasting, I didn't have any issues going past 24, nor 48 and then 72 hours. No issues doing 96 hours and have done one 7-day water fast. My biggest issue with fasting is how to break the fast. I have not figured that out at all. I have tried smaller meals, broths/soups, eggs, what feels like everything but fruits. (read about the benefits of melons recently but have not tried it) The first thing I eat gives me really loose stools for a day or so afterwards. I just woke up from night shift and I am about 52-53 hours into this fast. Feel great. I had a solid lift this morning at the gym after work. Although I only slept from 10AM to 3PM I feel well rested. I'm going to lift again in the morning and then figure out when and how I break the fast from there. Big fan of fasting. And if someone made this same post some two years ago I would think they were as full of it as a Christmas turkey. It makes no sense to be energetic and feel great from "not eating". I have found the more I read and experiment with fasting how little I actually knew about things before. Scott

You are spot on. Even what most consider big results started with something small. No one ever lost a 50-100 pounds on carnivore until they lost the first one. If we do the math on long we were in need of this meat healing and then compare to however long it takes once eating the proper human diet, things can move really quickly. Congrats on your progress. Anytime the needle moves to the positive is a win. The size of the win will always be relative. Congrats. Scott

I think a lot of people go the 16:8 route. I have never had insulin nor blood glucose issues (never got over a 100 til carnivore, go figure?) If the circadian rhythm is factored and the normal dawn effect with blood sugar, an early breakfast sets the tone for insulin resistance the rest of the day. For me, if I am eating breakfast I make it much later in the morning, more like lunch time. I have read 16:8 is more effective if the 16 is from later at night til midafternoon. Personally, I have used OMAD form of fasting, and my longest was 7 days. I'm back on nights this week. I ate last night and will eat again this weekend, maybe Friday or Saturday. I'm a big fan of the fast. At this point it is all about the healing and the life longevity it provides. Weight loss is just a "lil' bonus". Scott

Experiment in a forward moving path. Figure out what works for you. I quit drinking 20+ years ago. Either I was really getting good at it or I was totally regressing. I got blistered drunk. A deer ran out in front my wife's new car and I couldn't get out to check on the things. Basically, I said, "Let it roll" and I didn't hear anything, so we drove home. When we got home her door would not open and she had to crawl over me to get out. Later that night my son got really sick and had to go to the hospital with a fever. I was still drunk in the car. I have never felt lower. I stopped cold turkey that next morning. Never wanted another drop. When I switched to carnivore, I went cold turkey and didn't have any of the sugar cravings others have experienced (just lucky, I guess). Since I have not drank in a lot of years I have had none of those cravings. I can't really speak to those with experience. My only advice would be try to plug something healthier into those cravings. If you can skip one, and then in time skip two, they should get further and further apart, until you no longer have that load to carry. Best of luck. Not much help. Scott

There is a guy at our gym who is what he calls part-time carnivore-part-time keto and sometimes whatever he wants. He uses carnivore like a tool much the same as a hammer or a wrench. He will go three or four months on a strict carnivore diet and reap those benefits and from there he eases into a keto-type diet by reintroducing certain things to his diet. From there he morphs into some bad eating habits. When the bad eating habits come back around and he adds a few pounds he switches back to a strict carnivore diet. He has done this for the last few years. I can see where it would work for a lot of people. We laughed because we both agreed that we can dig a hole with a hammer but there are better tools out there. He is the first person I met that purposely starts and stops carnivore with a reason in mind. Scott

Yes. I use Bulk Supplement brand whey protein. On occasion I buy the Fairlife 30Gram Chocolate protein drink (I think it is 7g of sugar per bottle). I didn't realize the sugar would have the impact it did. I went to the protein drinks/shakes because I could not eat anywhere near 200 grams of protein in a day. When others would talk about eating 2lbs, and even more, in a meal I was blown away. There was a stretch when 2lbs could last me three days. I am sort of jealous. LOL The sugar has spiked my appetite but not to the point I can consistently hit the protein target for muscle growth. Since I can't get there with food I choke down a protein shake here and there to boos my daily protein. Thus far the appetite is still what would be considered carnivore and the drinks have not gave me any cravings for more sugar. Scott