Scott F.

I fell into the group of almost instantaneous positive results, so much so, someone would be hard pressed into talking me into changing the course. I stumbled upon the health benefits and have reaped many in just 13 months. On the flip side of that, my son has started the carnivore diet three-four-five times. He drops 10-12-14 pounds in short order and then the "lack of variety" crunch happens. He and his wife like to eat out and they like to eat all kinds of food at all kinds of places. Maintaining the carnivore approach and eating at every restaurant within driving distance can't be a successful adventure. I told him if he ate carnivore 5-6 days a week and then ate out would be better than the SAD 7 days per week. But he opts out then opts in. My wife tried the diet, had OK results the first two weeks and then some significant weight loss the second two. She simply likes vegetables and fruits. Like me she came off the farm and meat and "potatoes" is a way of life. At some point she may be a candidate for keto type approach but for now, he plate could be heavy on the vegetables/fruits and lighter on the meats and she would be just fine. I think for a lot it is lack of patience. We live in a world where we want things right now, right here, in my hand this very minute. We have lost the ability to wait, lost the ability to work for something in the end and mostly just lost the art of patience. If a person does not see results the first week and then experiences some carni-keto type flu symptoms then it obvious the carnivore will not work for them. They bail. For most it is more than likely a combination of a lot of things. Scott

Welcome to the forum. I'm biased but I think you made a pretty good decision. A few things to keep in mind. Keep your fat content up high and proteins moderate. Make sure you use salt liberally or use an electrolyte type drink mix (or make your own mix). Rule of thumb is eat till you are full and then eat when you are hungry. Tons of information on the board and tons of knowledgeable people here. Good luck. Scott

Congrats on the graduation. Both to you and yours. Scott

Making your own is definitely cost effective. I made it a point about a month in because I didn't really know any better the first month. But I didn't really care for the taste in my water. I used the mixture for 'table salt' and that worked for awhile. Then I had three or four bottles of different kinds of salt in the cabinet. I poured them all in a container, shook them up and not that is now my 'salt'. As of late I noticed the only thing salt really taste good on is my eggs. We sliced a Boston Butt into steaks yesterday and I did salt mine before tossing it on the grill. I had read about others who sort of 'came off salt' as their carnivore journey lengthened. I think i am following suit. Scott

I just finished watching the video from last Monday night and wish I could have been more involved with the salt discussion. My internet service was not up to par and we were being disconnected every five minutes or so. I bought the 'salt' ingredients to make a LMNT type drink but really didn't like the taste. I bought the Himalayan Pink salts and another brand of sea salt. I got one type of the Grey salt. I even bought the No Salt for the potassium. I used salt quite a bit in the beginning of carnivore and in time pretty much just when cooking. Maybe the only thing I use salt on now is eggs. I took all the salt cannisters and dumped them into a plastic bowl, capped it and shook it all up. I now use a 'blend' which works OK for me. I had read how people ease off salt on carnivore and I guess I have made it to that point as well. Scott

Welcome to the forum. I'm strict carnivore and have not had carbs nor sugars from food in 13 months. No real help to you there. There are few that post here that are animal based with some fruits and vegetables here and there. Hopefully they will be able to offer their insight. The only advice I can give on the meat is that as you change protein content make sure the fat content tracts up with it. A big part of this way of eating working for people is for it to be high fat/moderate proteins. The few stretches I have actually counted I found that in an attempt to hit protein amounts I neglected the fat I needed. I gained weight. Good luck, and again, welcome. Scott

I am firm believer in fasting. I feel like it has helped me tremendously on a number of fronts. Probably a few pounds lost. The realization the eating is probably 95% mental and 5% actually being physically hungry. Food or eating does not have to be your primary source of energy every day and there is energy to be had in your self-storage areas. I broke 200 grams of protein down over two meals about 12 hours apart and the second meal was a struggle. I tried my best and I'm sort of back to eating til I'm full, maybe a tad over to get toward the extra protein but not chasing the number. Agreed, some of the amounts listed I think I could comfortably two, maybe even three days off those amounts. And I too wish I had started in my 20's before I dug such a big hole with the dumpster diet for the last 35 years. I would imagine things would work better and do better with a much cleaner canvas. Scott

I think the pound and half is my upper limit. I struggle eating beyond that limit. Considering weight loss was my first goal and I ate by the five-gallon bucket prior to carnivore it is ironic now I want to eat more food per day after losing so much weight. This carnivore thing is like the gift that keeps on giving. Scott

I said the same thing. We were on the video show the other night and the amounts listed had me blown away. Tonight, I ate four eggs, a summer sausage link and maybe a 1/3 to 1/2 pound of hamburger. The dog will get the other half pound in the morning. With that I was stuffed. That was the part I was mentioning when I was trying to hit 200 grams of protein per day. 200g with fat for a correct ratio is way more than I can eat in a day. I'm 6'3" 215 and I can't eat the amounts the others mentioned. Sometimes I feel like I am doing something wrong because if I ate only when hungry I would probably create another approach one step past OMAD called OMEOD (one meal every other day). It has been a really long time since I have been actually hungry. I'm still amazed at the amounts others are able to eat and the only thing close is looking back to how much I could eat before carnivore. Scott

I might could pull off three pounds in a couple tries. LOL Looks good. Tonight, it was a long link of homemade summer sausage, a pound of hamburger with four fried eggs. I got the eggs and the summer sausage down and maybe half the hamburger is left. Sometimes the dogs are big fans of me struggling to eat. LOL Scott

Interesting. Sort of jumps all over but interesting the same. I will try to check him out again. Scott

Thoughts and prayers. Scott

I watched my dad fade, as well as my father in law. Both hard working men who had health issues in the end. Both still wanted to get up and go when they could no longer do so. Maybe the biggest thing that hurt them was the 'not be able to do things'. I'm hoping to avoid that with the 'just don't lay down' approach. Scott

If they don't post it I can tell within minutes of eating. LOL As stated, it is a good start. Believe it or not the masses do not know the origins of seed oil nor the dangers. It is a good way to help get the work out. But three years to make a laminated sign is a stretch. Scott

One of the best ways to combat my autoimmune issues is thru building muscle. I went on a kick the last 8-10 months or so ramping up the intensity a varying the volumes from time to time. I have gained some muscle which is good, probably lost some more weight but I am now noticeably stronger per set/per rep. So when someone says that guy/gal is really strong for their size, I am the polar opposite. I grew up both bigger and weaker. Luckily I could breathe and could run and not just for a big guy and that helped thru the service years. But like everything else I put all that up on a shelf and made the decision to be fat for a really long time. I'm increasing weight to the point I am starting to think about scaling it back because an injury is just about the last thing I need. I feel like if I am thinking about it changing a technique to prevent it, it is bound to happen. Law of average, Murphy's Law, not sure which will apply but I am sure I'm limping out of there one day at my present rate. I walk about 3.5 miles, hopefully four times per week but mostly averages at three times per week. Along the route I have spots I stop and knock out 15-20 push ups, with a total of 100 by the time I get back home. I was going to play basketball this morning but during the night I remembered I have not did a hard sprint in many years. I lifted this morning after work, came home and tried to sprint. Funny what the body can and can't remember. From a distance I probably looked like I had the coordination of a newborn giraffe, probably not even that much. About three or four 30-40 yard tries ( I can't call them sprints) and I have almost remembered how to run. (on a side note, if chased I can't run far nor fast, I will turn around and take it like a man, whatever it may be. LOL) Babbling but good luck with the dead lift. The fat should give you the energy to get in the gym and get the weight lifted. The protein and some good sleep will allow you to do it all again on the next scheduled day. Carnivore is working for me in that regard as well. Caught your walking video. I might try that and post it as well. Scott

I know they went up for a stretch and have heard they are back down again. I seen an issue on TV in Arizona with another outbreak. I imagine there will be a slight tick up again, if nothing else, geographically. I usually end up giving eggs away to my mom and a few of the ladies in her apartment complex. A couple years ago I hatched too many chickens and now the eggs can come in waves. There are stretches where I buy $10 bag of corn, a $9 bag of wheat, and get a couple three dozen eggs in return. That math hurts. Then there other waves, like this week, where I am getting 15-20 per day. Maybe it averages out, not sure. If I did the math I would probably just eat the chickens and buy my own eggs. LOL I never seen the point in pasture this and pasture that. I am sure it is meaningful but just not to me. I'm more of an egg is an egg. Scott

As previously stated, Carnivore has been an amazing journey thus far, and I feel like there is still a ways to go. My metabolic numbers are what I consider great. BP is 100 over 65 on the regular. Blood glucose is in the upper 70's to low 80's. Total cholesterol dropped from 221 to 212. My blood showed at some point I may need some iron but for now carnivore will be my supply. My Vitamin D jumped to 55. HDL is at 39 and LDL dropped from 187 to 152 and back to 164 over the last five months. I am sure part of the fluctuation can be from adjusting protein and not hitting my fat content, to seeing that error and maybe overly bumping fat back up. Plus, throw in some regular fasting and I am sure there is some 'extra fat' in my blood. Maybe not the best numbers in the world but moving from well over 300 to 215 in 13 months, I'm more than satisfied and feel like I am in a pretty good place. Thru the carnivore approach and increasing effort in lifting and working out my total testosterone moved from 381 to 481 from August '24 to May '25. No TRT treatment and no supplementation. I had a couple of 20-somethings doubt my work out routine a few weeks ago so I invited them to come along. At less than fifty burpees both quit. I'm not sure if I felt good as a 55 year old or felt bad at this 20-something crowd. In my 20's I would have died from heat exhaustion before some old guy outperformed me. Times have changed and sometimes I am just too dumb to quit. I have been scanning articles and videos for 'elite' type athletes who practice carnivore or even animal based. It is one of my new carnivore interests. I am debating going to the gym to play full court basketball in the morning with a bunch of 20-year-olds after night shift. I think I have bitten off more than I can chew. If nothing else my body will tell my mind on what is the correct page. LOL Scott

I'm straight water now. I used the flavor packets to get going in carnivore as I was never a big water drinker. From there I tried to add salt but it tasted some sort of bad to me. I could not do it. It was easier to eat a pinch or two of salt and chase it with some water and then go about my way. Now I just drink water. We have a filtered machine at work and I have well water at the house. Those are pretty much my two sources. Sort of leads off topic but I don't use near as much salt as I did early in the journey. I really like salt on my eggs so I get it there daily, to every other day but seldom use it on other foods. Funny thing also, don't know really when or why, but I am not much on pepper anymore. Salt and pepper was a staple on most anything I ate. Now it mostly just used to get food ready for the grill. Another part of the journey I suppose. Scott

I think most can attest it is actually cheaper. But I do admit with the price of most meats and even eggs for a stretch, it sounds like it would be much higher. I guess form the outside looking in it looks like we spend our normal amount for groceries like always, then buy a bunch of meat on top of that to eat carnivore. In reality, the meat is replacing a lot of the really expensive stuff we no longer eat. It is a hard ticket to sell to most. Scott

Same old, same old. 16oz ribeye withe four fried eggs. I probably can count the slices of butter I ate while cooking as well. As of late this has become my nightshift staple. Scott

I'm not a doctor, nor do I have medical training, nor do I have a medical condition anywhere similar to yours. My post will be with a much broader stroke not a 'this is what you need to do' but more of 'what I think I would do'. I will also lead in with all medicine is not bad and all doctors are not bad. The entire purpose of medicine is to treat a symptom. The entire purpose of the medical system is to treat. There is nothing wrong to take a medicine to alleviate a symptom.....as you continue to pursue the cure. Medicine was never meant to be a lifelong endeavor. I have/had an auto-immune disease that would have been/might be a big part of my ultimate demise. With no medical evidence nor medical background I believe the 'straw that broke the camel's back' was the statin I was prescribed. And with that said, the 50 plus years of pummeling my body was the primary factor. I'm 55 now and in 2018 I had four prescriptions filled in my entire adult life. Even before pre-carnivore I was not a 'go to the doctor-take the medicine' kind of person. I'm definitely not a statin fan, and my doctor has offered up non-statin type alternatives, but I don't feel like my cholesterol is near a point I need to start a short term nor a long-term daily pill. Sometimes there are medical conditions that need to be addressed today, and doctors and medicine can help address the 'today' decisions. I have learned to be the biggest fan of carnivore as it has changed my life for the better. I have read and learned more about the body, my body, in the last 13 months than I had in the previous fifty plus years. I continue learn thru the aspect of carnivore and one of the first thing every carnivore question can be answered with is that this way of eating takes time to do the healing. In a lot of cases there is no time. Just like most anything in life, the combinations work better than the singulars. Being open minded does not stop at our own personal preferences nor does it stop at our personal choices. With that broad stroke, I don't see an issue with using a medicine as a temporary adjustment while using this way of eating as a long-term solution. And with that said, most everyone gets the choice of the sword upon which they fall. I wish you the best with your health. Thoughts and prayers. Scott

Someone had a pretty good plan. It has worked amazingly well. Scott

Anytime. I actually enjoy other people's story more so than I put a lot of faith in some huge study. I guess your story, and similar stories, seem real whereas a lot of the big studies feel like they lead toward the direction of the funding. I am sure I am wrong a lot of the times on that, but a personal story seems to carry more weight with me. Nice video. Since I am over 55 now I can start my story out with, "the son of a sharecropper, walked to school barefoot, uphill, in the snow.....both ways...... Good job. Look forward to more. Scott

Nice work. Our journey has some similarities. Heavy early as a kid. I did do a lean stint thru the military years but "blossomed" soon after. I made all the bad eating decisions along the way. I didn't totally yo-yo diet a lot but I did here and there. Weight loss was easy for me whenever I tried but soon as the notion past i would ballon to even bigger than before. Congrats on your journey and nice video? Does that channel have a schedule? I'd like to log on and check it out via youtube? I'm on the "kiltz video" kick right now. Interested. Scott

Do not do this at home. I air fried about 6 pounds of beef fat/suet to make a snack bag. This is a horrible idea. It made a pint or more of tallow which is good. The air fried fat tasted absolutely amazing. I was really impressed. The drawback is that regardless the size of the bag it turns out these are single serving portions. I just about had to hide them from myself. LOL Really easy process. Scott