Scott F.

I ate 5 or 6 pork shops Friday night about 8PM and last night around 2AM I ate a handful of beef jerky. Technically, I broke it then but will not eat again until tomorrow night. The first 24 hours was a dry fast and then water fasting til tomorrow. It is totally weird, or maybe I am weird, but I get the fact I can lose a few pounds here and there when fasting. I also understand there is metabolic benefits to allowing the body, for no better words, to catch up and reset. But as of late the weight and the metabolic health are more like bonuses to fasting. I am fasting now for no more reason than how good I feel from 24 hours and beyond. I'm no spring chicken at 56, a hard 56 at that with most of those years eating a dumpster diet and working was the only working out I was doing. This past weekend I ate Friday night and I dumped 5500kgs of re-process material. That consists of tipping over a 50 kilo drum (a little over 100 pounds), lifting the back and dumping the powder into a process tank. The plant was well over 100 degrees til the early morning when it dropped to the mid-90's. I didn't eat for 24 hours and repeated another 5500 kilos on Saturday night and did the same last night soon after 48 hours of fasting. On Saturday morning I stopped by the gym a lifted for just about an hour, leg day on top of that. Here I am on Monday morning with a boat load of energy and don't feel like I am going to sleep much today. Sort of awake and ready to do stuff. Feels good but sort of sucks knowing I have to do 12 more hours tonight. Babbling til bedtime but carnivore, fasting and resistance training has been a life changer for me, and at times I would even say a life saver. That might be a stretch but at times I sort of feel that way. Scott

Congrats. There is nothing like hitting a target attaining a goal. Nice work. Scott

Lots of people eat outside the 'carnivore diet' when they first get started. It is more important to celebrate the fact you decided to eat this was again more so than focusing on the fact you ate outside the carnivore way of eating. That actually can be a plan of easing into the way of eating long term. As you recognize the rewards and the benefits hopefully that encourages you to make the 'carnivore' stretches last even longer. The benefits come not as much from eating carnivore as it does from eliminating the non-carnivore items from the diet. Scott

Check his videos out on youtube. Just about anything you want to know about eating carnivore can be found there. The first real impact I had was I didn't realize how much salt I was eating prior to the switch and when I switched, I didn't replace the salts I was no longer consuming. It took me a couple aha! aha! moments to figure it out. After a few weeks of eating this way I started doing some research and pretty much what I did was go to youtube and enter Carnivore+________________ (and you can fill in the blank about whatever subject you'd like and just about every time there is already a video out there. Look at the side of this page. Bob and Geezy do a Monday night round table discussion. This past Monday was about 'advice to people new to carnivore' not the exact title but similar. Good luck. Scott

I liked Dr. Baker's book. YouTube can be an excellent source as well. Dr. Chaffee. Dr. Berry. Dr. Hampton. Dr. Baker. All have great content and offer up advice on just about any carnivore scenario. Over time you can take all their advice, make some slight changes here and there and dial it to what works best for you. It is well worth the efforts. Scott

Welcome. This is a good place to learn and share your story. Good luck. Scott

Happy Father's Day. Hope all is well with you and yours. This was a Father's Day gift for my son and I. Turned out really nice. Scott

Carnivore is great, blah, blah, blah. Carnivore is good, blah, blah, blah. It has worked wonders for me and to the point I can't really see eating another way. Several months ago I started eating to hit a protein target and to that I had to eat more than I wanted. As the protein went up, so did the fat. I also stumbled upon the fact that a little bit of sugar triggers some hunger which helped me get to the protein target most days. With that I gained a h air over 20lbs in a couple three months. When I switched back to a more normal/traditional carnivore approach the weight started to fall off again. I went from 215 to 238 and now back to 225, dropping 13 pounds in a month or so. It's a pretty good plan. LOL If I say another thing about somewhat repaid weight loss here my wife is going to administer some inflammation that not even carnivore can clear up. LOL Scott

It happens. Like most things it is the response that counts. Good luck. Scott

Nice work. I had sort of morphed into eating once per day so going 24 hours sort of felt natural. The first 24hours is the obstacle, stretching it out to 48 and beyond actually gets a bit easier. I get an energy boost around 40 hours or so and sustain it out to 4+ days. And if you had told me the same thing a couple years ago I would have looked at you like you were crazy, maybe even calling BS. Great work. Good luck as you progress. Scott

Pretty much the same here. I try not say 'never; on anything but I do feel really confident it will be carnivore for me fo as far into the future as I can see. Scott

The midsection weight gets harder and harder to lose as we age. The body is really good a storing fat. I am not a 'calorie counter' and hardly use the word calorie but everyone gets the gist when the word is used. If a person needs 2500 calories and eats only 2000 there would be some weight loss. But in time the body will 'learn' not only how to survive on 2000 calories but will also learn to store some fat from that 2000. I'm at that stage now. I went from well north of 300lbs down to 211 but recently went back to 238. (trying to hit a protein target and eating more than I actually wanted) I am carnivore but did drink quite a bit of milk while hitting the protein target. During the big weight loss milk could put the brakes on any kind of weight loss. I am started to read about cortisol levels with the latter parts of weight loss. I'm on fall again so I will see how just strict carnivore does in re-losing the weight and hopefully it pulls from the love handles. LOL Scott

I weigh most every day although I know I should not, but I keep doing. When I was losing weight really fast if the scale tipped the other way it was disheartening. It was funny because due to body re-composition I could lose a pant size but gain a pound or so. My brain went to the pound gained vs. the size lost, which is polar opposite of I should have been thinking. I sort of purposefully gained some weight back and this past week I went back to more of a carnivore approach of 'eating when hungry and eating til full'. I am starting to lose weight again now. This morning from the front door to the shower I said no need to weigh today, just take a shower and crash after nightshift. I walked into the bathroom and stepped onto the scale probably out of habit as much as anything. Scott

I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer by any means. In the beginning people would say I OMAD and I would say I don't know much about that but I only eat one meal a day. Took awhile before I put two and two together. With that said, the first rule of thumb I used with carnivore was 'eat fatty meats' and the second was 'eat when hungry and est til comfortably full'. The combination of the satiating red meats and waiting til I was hungry started to curb my appetite a couple months after starting carnivore. I was OMAD before I even knew anything about OMAD. I read where some do not consider 'intermittent fasting' a thing and choose to call it 'time restrictive eating'. For me they are one in the same, like same flavor but different labels, if that makes any sense at all. Around 18-19 months eating once per day felt as natural as those years where it was natural to start everyday off with a 20oz Mountain Dew, a bacon, egg and cheese on white bread followed by two Little Debbie oatmeal cakes. Almost like a religion. Turns out I actually needed some sugar in my diet in order to have an appetite again. Just the craziest thing. Scott

Congrats on your progress. I did the same thing. This can be like an 'interactive journal'. I actually enjoy reading other people's experiences. I have learned a ton when other people describe their carnivore journey. I feel better when my fat content is higher also. Sometimes it feels like/looks like a lot of fat but it works for me. Good luck. Scott