Scott F.

@geezy Spot on. I sort of dove right in and ate non-carnivore stuff because I had just bought it and didn't waste it (LOL) Most start on Carnivore as a diet. Just remember it is an elimination diet. Some of the things you listed can be eliminated to get you closer to carnivore. Over time it becomes a lifestyle change and the idea of it as a diet is a thing of the past. Welcome. And best of luck. This is a really good place to learn, voice your experiences and engage with others' experiences. Again, welcome and good luck. Scott

Going on the bare minimal of information (and only 6 months experience) I would lean toward fat content and hydration along with total amounts eaten. I have only been truly hungry a couple three times, twice really early and one the last hour of a 72 hour fast. None of the edginess or stress but hungry as all get out. Once I got my fat content and electrolytes up it has been smooth sailing. (I didn't read the directions. I just ate meat, salt and water and waited for the magic to happen. After some adjustments the magic started to happen, LOL) Good luck. Scott

Welcome. There is a lot of good information here. As far as the gym membership, save your money and us youtube. There are millions of at-home workouts that will get you to where you want to be. Bodyweight exercises are amazing. And most don't believe it, but simply walking for30-60 minutes several times a week will do wonders. Then build from there. As far as the sugars, I finished up the Mountain Dews I had purchased earlier in the week when I started. (I also finished off a tub of ice cream that first week as well) I had never been much of a water drinker so getting started i used the drink mixers to stay hydrated. Now it is strictly water. Carnivore is addition by subtraction. it is more about what you removed from your diet that what you are eating. Good luck, and welcome. Scott

I'm thinking the line between getting ripped and getting ripped off is not so fine. Scott

They turned out pretty good. I turned the heat down and was tending to a sick dog. It took a few more minutes than needed and I dried the first ones out. They still tasted good but not like a juicy hamburger should be. The rest I froze and will eat tomorrow night at work. Growing up bacon was a staple. My Pops use to say if you made a sandwich out of three pieces of bacon between two pieces of cardboard, at least one person would ask for seconds. This is a pretty good topic, but I doubt I ever get to that level of discretion. Scott

A chunk of ours is homemade but the biggest part is store bought. I'm not all that strict on the bacon. I don't eat a ton of it regularly but every so often I eat a pound pack over a couple three days. Earlier in the week I ground a pound into some burger. I will get that over three to four meals. I'm sure some of the bacon I buy has sugar but I'm not sure I could ever reach total perfection with carnivore buy reading every label and researching every brand. Interesting topic. Scott

He has a couple good videos I have watched. Week after next when I am off work for 6 or 7 days I am going to give this a try. I feel like I can eat eggs by the five-gallon bucket anyway. Scott

At three months I will assume you are still adjusting. My suggestion would be to check the fat content of your meals and check for an electrolyte issue. I didn't read the directions on carnivore and missed on both getting started. I tried the pre-made electrolyte drink mixes but they tasted like crap to me. I went to you tube and found a homemade solution. I used it to drink for a stretch but now I use that solution to salt my food. Once I got some salt back in my system and upped the fat content of each meal my energy levels increased to much better than before. Best of luck. Hopefully you figure out the fall off. Scott

Ground up some sirloin, chuck roast and flank steak into some beef fat to make a (maybe) 60/40 burger. I then added a pound of back. Nothing real exciting but it tasted pretty good and should get me thru night shift for my OMAD. Scott

I made some hamburgers today. I ground up some chuck roast, sirloin and flank steaks into some beef fat. I then ground up a pound of bacon. I cooked them a bit much and they dried some but still tasted really well. Really basic. Scott

A funny about submarine habits (and apologize for taking the thread even further off topic). On the boat two guys can pass each other in the passageway, both twist shoulders the opposite was and move along with barely touching one another. You get so use to squeezing between something and someone it becomes second nature. You (we) don't even realize the close proximity as we make our way thru. When I was home one weekend I went to the grocery store with my girlfriend. As I walked up the aisle I saw what I was looking for and headed that way. It was barely enough room between this other lady and my target. I twisted my shoulders, cut in front of her, got my stuff and out the other side. I didn't even realize how rude it was to cut in front of the lady and before it set in my girlfriend snapped, "Don't be that guy. Apologize now!". Then it set in on me and I felt like a real bozo. Maybe the funniest part, being in a Navy town, the lady comes back with, "It's OK living at sea he does not know another way". (or in so many words). Again, apologize for taking the thread further off topic. Scott

Welcome. Hopefully you are feeling better. I didn't have pain, but I had some stomach issues from about week three to week six (thru the first month). I would go from loose to constipated, back and forth. I found that I was not using enough salt and the meats I was eating didn't carry the fat content needed. I made and electrolyte solution and now use that to salt my food. I upped the fat content (and now try to maintain a higher fat content) my issues (and were minimal big picture) were resolved. Hopefully you get it figured out and more importantly, hope you feel better. Scott

USS Glenard P. Lipscomb and the USS Sunfish. IC2/SS 87-93 (2192 days, not that I was counting) Scott

Welcome to the group. Best of luck as you move forward. I tried LMNT but I just didn't like the taste. I went to youtube and found a video showing how to make an electrolyte solution and I use it to salt my food. Great advice above. The carnivore diet, if it does nothing else, will show you that you are an individual. It affects people in a lot of different ways. Thank you for your service as well. Bubblehead myself. Scott

Ice cream followed by beer would be a gut grenade for me. I would say it is not the end of the world. I'm a believer in if you can 'fall off the wagon' you in turn can crawl back up. I wouldn't beat myself up too bad. Maybe don't think about doing two more months but maybe two more days. Build from there. Do the best you can. Best of luck. Scott

Yep. The guy that lived down the road form us did that. It looked like an oil refinery in his garage. _OIL slick included). Same thing for him. The food chains wanted to charge them and now, like food trucks around here, they have to pay to dispose of it. Sort of weird how that worked all the way around. Scott

Sounds odd, but it is crazy if people just think. I never thought all that much about what I was eating. I seen a post the other day that margarine was only a molecule away from being plastic followed by vegetable failing in its original intent as diesel duel and engine lubricant. Both taste awesome on food. They had me for a really long time. Scott

I read that earlier and "I'm going to go with that (however, I know that is not true as I'm still sporting some tonnage) I may have almost forgot what hungry was like. LOL I'm also on a "fall" the last couple days. I hung within a pound or two at 70lbs lost for close to a month. Wednesday morning at 71 and this morning at 77. Six pounds in two plus days may have made a pull of that "tonnage". Sort of using the board as a journal to use later in my book. "The not-so-smart guide to Carnivore". Scott

Today started off as a pretty much normal day. Eyes popped open just after 3AM, wide awake from that point. I made the drive to work and ate three boiled eggs like normal. I drank a 34oz bottle of water within the first hour or so this morning and then another around mid-morning. Last night I ate a steak and half of Rib Eye. Everything sort of ho-hum. Since starting I can hardly remember being hungry at all. But today, just about lunch time I was as hungry as I have been in a really long time. I ate 1/2 rib eye at lunch, and it felt like it made me hungrier. Since I have not been hungry in months and months, I don't really bring anything to work with me. For the first time in 5+ months I hit the snack machine. So far, I have eaten three packs of beef jerky. It has since subsided. I was thinking to be this hungry I would have had to fast or skipped a meal or something other than feeling this way on a normal Friday at work. Weird feeling. Scott

Nice post. Spot on. Scott

As I re-read the post I was leading up to weight and body composition. In the big picture the weight is just a number. I have hung around 70 for a month or so, like said, but I have also cinched the belt up one and may need another cinch soon. Yet, my weight (my number) is sort of hanging around at 70 but moving up and down a couple pounds each way. (I'm the guy that tells other people not to check their weight everyday but then I step on the scale most every day, so I should leave a disclaimer). Good post by Geezy. I took his advice in the beginning and there is always a boiled egg or bacon or last nights meat in the refrigerator. I was lucky enough to not have any real cravings (maybe milk, but that starts skirting some of the ideals as it is a sugar source). I'm hardly ever hungry so being hungry and then craving/snacking things that are wrong for me has not been an issue. (lucky me, I guess). Prior to carnivore my primary snacking time was sitting around waiting for night shift. I'd eat a boat load of any and everything from 2-5PM and then be starving by midnight. When I started carnivore I left eggs and leftovers in the refrigerator for snack time but soon found I didn't really need nor want them. @geezy @Nassim I'm not sure if your LDL is an employment condition or maybe I misunderstood. But......A few years ago United Healthcare offered "free testing" as they were concerned with our health. If you do these ten things and get these five things tested you get $XXX off your medical insurance. Tons of people jumped on that and saved money. However, what we did was provided them with baseline test numbers. In the following years if improvements were not shown the discounts were no longer available. And in time I am sure there will be at risk groups which in turn draws a higher premium. At our meeting I immediately asked was if HIPPA was a thing then how can my insurance company make business decisions on my health information? I have yet to be invited back to the annual roll-outs. Scott

I'm still new, just shy of six months. Every so often I drink a couple glasses of milk, here and there. I have stalled a couple times and usually it is just after I hit the milk two or three times in a week. I'm not so sure milk is the stall 'culprit', possibly coincidence. I'm on meats, salt and water just about all the time and the only thing outside of that is the milk. I guess giving into cravings can be an issue but I guess it would be more about how much you eat on the cravings. The carnivore diet is about eliminating foods. Dr. Berry has a video on going carnivore and then re-introducing eliminated items to identify what works for the individual. I would celebrate the 34 and identify the plan that got you to 34. Although I haven't strayed outside of carnivore per se, I have changed the ways I eat, what I eat and when I eat to 'come off a stall' or offset a weight swing a couple-three pounds up or down. I have been on the 70lb mark for maybe a month or so, bouncing up and down a couple three pounds on each side of 70. I mostly do OMAD but have found I drop a couple pounds by eating just after I work out (a couple-three eggs) and then a normal OMAD on the non-workout days. Good luck. I'm not sure I answered your questions but I have hit similar points in the past 5 plus months. Scott

Congrats on the progress. Scott

Cooked a 1/2 pound of sausage with an egg. 1lb of hamburger with an egg. A pound of ground pork with one egg. Each layer covered in cheese and then cheese on the top. Baked for about ten minutes at 325. Probably should have did a better job draining the grease so it would 'bake' better. But I will go with the high fat content. It is holding me thru the nightshift. Scott

Hopefully it works for you and whatever plan works best for you, is in turn, your plan. I watched a video with Dr, Berry and he advised to go carnivore for X amount of time til you feel like you have become fat adaptive, maybe a month or so. Then re-introduce the plant matter one thing at a time. If you do OK then move onto the next. If it makes you fell like crap remove that from your diet. Carnivore is more of an elimination diet than anything. If you can use it to as tool to get where you are going, then so be it. I don't feel like this site is the Carnivore Police. Best of luck. Scott