Scott F.

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

I'm the same but maybe not so much carnivore. I am a lifelong shift worker. I'm 55 and never had a dayshift/first shift job. When working nights, I am usually asleep by 9:30 or so and sleep like a rock til 3:30/4PM. Unfortunately, it is the same when I work dayshift. I get home, feed up, and get in the bed by 9PM/9:30. At 3:30AM or so I am awake. I have not had any of the 'mental clarity' people speak of with carnivore. But....when I wake up at 3, whether it be day or night, I am immediately awake and ready to go. Since carnivore I don't wake up sluggish or drag myself out of bed. Eyes open-ready to go. I credit carnivore for the ready to go feeling but I am not sure if that leans toward the mental clarity. Scott

My triglycerides are 75, my LDL is 187 and my HDL is 37. My total cholesterol is 219. @Geezy. Understanding everyone is different and results are individualistic. If I can ask, how long did it take you to from "needing medicine" til your numbers (you) felt like you no longer needed the medicine? If that is none of my business, hit me with a NUNYA. My doctor recommended a non-statin type medicine. I won't risk the statin again as I have been basically healthy since 2019 and I still feel like the statin was the trigger for the onset of the auto-immune issues. I may be medically wrong, but it is just the way I see it (felt it, lived it). I feel like I am on good path and I sort of hate to rock the boat. Scott

What is the CAC? I had the exact same conversation today with my primary doctor. Mine is 187. He is thrilled with the results from the carnivore approach but gave me the 'fatty meats' spiel and encouraged me to go the same route nut lower the fats and make the proteins leaner like chicken and fish (ditching the skin on the chicken which sort of defeats the purpose of eating chicken in the first place) Overall, he was supportive of the approach but suggested a mild shift. I tried statins in 2018 and had a number of issues. I hit just about all the advertised side effects and when I came off after a week the issues remained and even worsened. I spiraled downward and after two to three months of testing I was diagnosed with NMO/SD. The discussion then and now was whether the statins was the trigger for the underlying issue or the underlying (NMO/SD) manifested to all the outwardly symptoms at once. A few years later he recommended medicine for the cholesterol, but I could not gamble on it being a trigger. Same boat today. Reading all I can tonight. LOL Scott

Went cheap and easy. Rotisserie chicken from Food Lion. Scott

I could easily drink 6-8-10 20oz. Dews in a day, especially on night shift. Since May I am assuming Pepsi stock dropped. I have cut them out completely and have not had any cravings or yearnings since the first week. I worked with a nutrition scientist for a stretch in the early 90's. He had invented and was researching a chemical/enzyme to make bread stay fresh longer. They actually use it in Europe and Asia, but it never faired well with our FDA. We preserved a lot of enzymes with large quantities of salt and sugar which came in 50lb bags. We were at break once and I had my Dew. He read the label, broke out his calculator and did the "Engineering/Chemistry conversion type math" and his calculations were absolutely wild. Every other month I was eating a 50lb bag of granulated sugar via the mass amount of Mountain Dews. Math is crazy. Scott

I always lead off with I am 'brand new' at five months, but I think there is the carnivore lifestyle and there is my carnivore lifestyle. I like milk, not the biggest fan of raw milk, but a glass here and there is not the end of the world to me. It has its sugars and was never really meant for an adult, and with that said, I like drinking a glass of milk here and there. I hit a stall around 245 or so which I hung around the 60lb mark, a few pounds up and down for a month or so. Prior to that stall I had not drank milk at all. I tried to connect the milk to the stall but can't really swear there was a connection. I planned to stop the milk and do a self-experiment, but I mixed in a 72 hour fast and the 'fall' started again down to bouncing around the 70lb mark now. Did I jump start the fall with no milk or the fasting? I am going to lean toward the fasting (maybe because I really like milk, LOL) As I ease toward carnivore being a lifestyle vs. a diet I'm leaning toward "if I wake up today and feel as good as yesterday (and a lot of days even better) then yesterday's plan was pretty good". . I am more than happy with the changes since May. I'm a 'meat, salt and water guy (with an occasional drink mixer) and the closest 'cheat' I have had is the occasional glass of milk. I don't consider myself a "t-totaller" by any means, but I think I can see that light down at the end of the tunnel. Maybe I need to log on to one of the "carnivore police' sites and see? Great topic. Nice discussion by all. Scott

Yep. Very inspirational and really makes one think. Thoughts and prayers to his family and friends. Scott

Welcome. Both are great responses. I hit the energy wall early on and for me I upped the fat content of my meals and made a homemade electrolyte solution. Once I fixed those two things the energy level returned. As I became fat adaptive the weight fell and the energy picked up, actually, much better than prior to carnivore. I'd say a little patience, check your fat content and get your electrolytes. Scott

Welcome. I'm five months deep this week and have only had the positives thus far. Best of luck as you make another run on the carnivore. Scott

I just cooked some burger I ground a week or so ago. I mixed it up with some cheese. I wish I had left it in patty form. I lost a lot of the fat (60/40 grind). I could have kept more fat content in a patty. But a pound of hamburger mixed with a handful of cheddar cheese is not exactly top of the line but it will get me thru night shift. Scott

I will check it out tonight. Personally, I like the shorter videos. I find myself skipping videos sometimes when I look down and they are really long. My tri's dropped but my co-worker's went up. I'm going to forward it to him shortly. Scott