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

For me, it was not as difficult as it sounds. I am currently on a fast. I ate this past Monday night and plan to break it tomorrow morning. Again, for me, around 24-36 hours there is some hunger but easily solved with a glass of water. From 24-36 hours on I do not experience any hunger at all. Like most anything, it is probably easier and maybe even better to ease into the fast. Do 24-36 hours, then wait a while and maybe try 48 hours. Then later add 12 more, then 12 more and so on. I don't know if I'm different, or maybe just weird, but I have tons of energy after the first 24 hours or so. The energy and ability to go and go lasts for a day or so after I break the fast. I'm a fan of carnivore, fasting and resistance training. The combination is working really well for me. Scott

Good luck. I started off on the carnivore diet and looked at it just like any other diet out there. Do it for awhile, drop some weight then revert to my previous ways of eating. After six-8 weeks I was seeing metabolic improvements and improvements with an autoimmune disease that if anyone told me my story beforehand, I would have called BS. Just can't be. With that, my carnivore diet has evolved into my carnivore lifestyle. I can't predict the future, but I can't see any reason to go away from this WOE. Good luck. Scott

Congrats. In the beginning I was concerned with cholesterol as I had spent many years on a dumpster diet with pretty much no exercise other than the physical nature of my job. As time went on I put less and less thought into the cholesterol numbers. Mostly, because I was deep into ketosis most of the time (with high GKI numbers) so it would stand to reason more fat/cholesterol would be in my bloodstream at any given time. After two years I get it checked but don't really make adjustments. My initial total and LDL went down after the first three or four months on carnivore. Six months later it made a significant jump, then sort of planed off some and here recently made some drops across the board. Other than the first six months I can attribute the cholesterol numbers to the adjustments I have made within the carnivore diet. (upping/lowering fat content as well as upping protein grams per day) Congrats on the progress. Continued successes. Scott

I was the same way when I first started. I went with the 'eat when hungry and eat til comfortably full' I lost 95lbs in about 10-11 months. I could eat a steak today and it would be 24-36 hours before I had the slightest inkling of hunger. Around 15-16 months I started protein shakes to try to hit protein targets with the lack of hunger. I experimented with a store bought 30 gram protein drink which had 7 grams of sugar. When I drank these it triggered some hunger and I could then get in another steak or burger. I have since gained some weight back due to eating to a target vs. eating when I'm hungry. I think carnivore results vary from person to person but I also think people have to dial it in to fit them as an individual. It takes some experimenting and dialing to make it fit just right. Good luck. Scott

My son did some deer jerky back in the winter and did a few strips of bacon as well. The bacon was quite the treat. I'm not sure how long your trip is going to be, but it is bacon, so those look like single serving packages. If you can't just eat one with a potato chips, I am almost positive a person can't stop at one with bacon. Good luck and safe travels. Scott

I should have taken a picture but my wife scored on ribeyes yesterday. Food Lion has them for $10.99/lb. We got 20 steaks. Saved about $125 off the normal $18.99/lb. Most of them looked really good but there were a couple that were a tad lean for ribeye. For those I will just add a stab or two of butter. Scott

I'm going to check this out tomorrow to see if it is the same price in our area. Is it sliced or is the packaging fooling me? I watched a video on how to cut the chuck roll into the denver steaks, the ribeyes, etc. but my buddy buys his whole and just slices it into steaks. They turn out pretty good. Scott

Congrats on your successes. I personally didn't have asthma nor allergies, but I had an autoimmune disease that made a lot of things difficult for 6 plus years. Some similarities are none of the doctor's ever said, "Let's address your diet/nutrition, for this we have Pill #1 and for that we have Pill #2, and then Pill #3", and so on and so on. I guess I had some food addictions but I went cold turkey to carnivore and didn't experience cravings nor withdrawal type issues. I guess my bonus was I had no idea of the benefits of carnivore. My initial thoughts were it was just another weight loss hack. I tried it for no more reason than to drop a few pounds. 6-8 weeks later I was no longer taking pills for pain and inflammation. "Who'da thunk it?". Congrats on your progress. After two years I can't imagine eating another way. Scott

So much stuff is "lab grown" now. I think it is Primal Gal that has a video showing what a banana looked like years ago vs. the bananas we buy in the stores today. Most fruits and vegetables are geographical and seasonal. The work in the labs are why they can be grown most anywhere and last long enough to be shipped all over the world. When I grew up a six-week-old pullet/hen running around the yard was small and growing. Today, they hatch and between 6/7 weeks they are in the grocery store. They science was developed in the lab by advancements in feed/nutrition. I think Bill Gates just moved the needle a couple points forward in the direction it was already going. Personally, I would want no part of it as like anything new and developmental, we assume too much for the long term. I mean, asbestos was new once, and it was readily used all thru industry. Turns out, the great idea early on was not such a great thing long term. I would be totally against it myself. Scott

Today was a protein shake before the gym and then four eggs with maybe 8-10oz of last night's leftover London Broil. Looks like pork shops on the grill tonight. Scott