Scott F.

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

I watched a segment on the news where a school district removed a soft drink machine from a high school, and it was an all-out revolt. Parents included. As I watched I thought how crazy to argue this point and then my first stop was the convenience store to get a Mountain Dew and a Little Debbie cake (probably two). Luckily for me, my son has never been a sweets nor soda kid. He didn't have his first soft drink til he was 15 and really didn't like it. My mother-in-law was his day care and she didn't have soft drinks in her house. She had barely sweet tea only on Sundays. It was water for everyone any other time. From being on water as a kid he didn't develop that 'sweet tooth'. He is 28 now and hardly, if ever, drinks soft drinks or eats a dessert. Me on the other hand, I did his share and mine for a lot of years. Great scripture. Scott

Welcome. This has been a great place for me to read and learn and even bounce some of my experiences to the forum. Best of luck moving forward. I'm 5+ months in and I'm on the 'only positives' side of carnivore. Again, welcome. Scott

Great job on the 66. It's funny to me that weight always seems to be the lead-in with the Carnivore conversation. I'm the guiltiest. For me, I should lead off with my autoimmune disease NMO/SD (basically it is like Multiple Sclerosis but attacks the optic nerve impairing vision). I was diagnosed in late 2018/early 2019. I have been prescribed gabapentin(Neurontin) and prednisone ever since. I would take them at flare-ups or when the scar tissue from the lesions along my neck and spine. The gabapentin made me a zombie and I hated it but it kept me going. I had a video pop up about carnivore and MS and it caught my eye. After watching it I didn't really buy in but as I thought about it I had went a couple three weeks without going to the medicine cabinet. I was like, "What a coincidence?". Then another couple weeks and it sort of sank in there was something more to the carnivore approach than just weight loss. I have been medicine free since late May/early June. I don't totally count the first week because I finished off the Dews and the Ice Cream but from week two to about week four or five the inflammation and pain didn't flare up and has not since. That is simple craziness. I get some of the medical issues are made better by the weight loss and the effects of being overweight. But for me, I had lost weight before and didn't relieve any of the inflammation and used medicine as necessary. When I tell people that they look at me just like I thought when I watched the first video on the positive affects of carnivore with autoimmune disease. Again, simple craziness at the changes it has done for me. Scott

Don't be surprised. I dropped 30lbs in the first 31/32 days and the first week I didn't toss out the Mountain Dew and ice Cream I bought the day before I started. Although I did move to carnivore on May 8th of this year I did eat some crap the first 4 or 5 days. (I guess I sort of eased into Carnivore) I started walking about a mile and half three to four times per week. In June I started going to the gym. I hit some stalls along the way as my meals staggered along with shift work. As of this week I am down 74lbs in less than 6 months. I'm not exactly killing it in the gym and my walks are about 4 miles three to four times per week. Scott

Hope all returns to your normal. Best of luck. Scott

Very interesting. I had the lipid panel in August about 90 days in on carnivore. I will have another done in November prior to my infusion and then again in December as a follow up. (Mostly the blood work is for immunoglobulin numbers but I the last couple I have asked for complete work-ups. More so for curiosity for 'where I am with carnivore' than anything. I will admit I was expecting and hoping for better numbers but had to realize it was only 90 days of correction after 35 years of pounding. If my numbers jumped in that 'opposite' direction it would have been more than alarming. (for me) Great subject matter. Scott

And here we are. It is a little after 4AM and I laid around for a bit hoping to fall back asleep. Seldom does that happen. When I wake up, I wake up. Maybe on the clarity. I don't feel anymore focused or alert than before. I am sleeping basically the same number of hours for a bunch of years but after a month or so with carnivore it feels like a higher quality sleep. Much higher. My sleep patterns are work induced and that covers my days off as well. Every so often, especially if I do 5 or 6 12 hour days shifts, I will sleep 8 to 9 hours which sort of throws my cycle off. Almost like a catching up on sleep. Since carnivore my energy levels are maintained higher even with my crazy sleep patterns. When my eyes open my feet hits the floor. I may lay around a bit as to not wake up my wife but that ship sailed years ago. Great topic. Great conversation. Scott