Scott F.

I'm going to guess it comes down to the individual. For me it is butter. If the butter intake eases up some I start getting a bit loose. The other fats are usually with their respective meat and it does not bother me as much, if any at all. I made some beef tallow to use with cooking and it does not affect me the same as butter. Just me, no literature or data to support. Scott

I am almost possible you get to keep your membership card. Scott

I think it was called the Meat Only diet or even the Stonehenge diet. Scott

Agree with Geezy. Stay positive. I'm no expert but sometimes the weight is just a number and you may stall on the scales and still cinch the belt up a notch. I hung out at 25-29 pounds, up and down for a period, but the belt was moving. Good luck. And not only see the positives but look for the positives as well. Scott

As I read more and more it is sort of strange that two different doctors with the basically the same medical school training can be polar opposite on certain situations. I have a friend at work that switched to carnivore when I was about 3-4 weeks in, and 25-30 pounds lost. He quickly started dropping weight. His doctor advised him against the carnivore diet based on the it being an incomplete diet. In turn, he prescribed him one of the ozempics, etc. etc. One of the neurologists I see tells me that if they had perfected medicine a long time ago, he could give me some absolutes but since they were still practicing medicine, a lot of the decisions would be on me. One day I would wake up with aches and pains and it could be NMOSD/Devic's as the cause. The next day I could wake up with really similar aches and pains, but it very well could be I was over 50 and over a hundred pounds overweight. Scott

As soon as we got past white sugar and brown sugar things were coating downhill....fast. Scott

Good luck to you as well. Scott

Welcome. Great community here. Scott

My sleep has changed and the immediate wake-up started pretty early after the switch. From the military to a life long 12 hour rotating shift worker my sleep hours have always been from 9-3 AM or PM. I can't remember ten times in the last 25 years where the alarm clock woke me up in the mornings. I have always been awake, just laying there til it went off or got close. About three weeks into this I was in another world and the alarm clock went off. My wife said I came out of the bed like the house was on fire. It was rather shocking. Not being a scientist or researchers or medical professional I can't totally say this is a result of the carnivore diet but I can say it never happened before the carnivore diet. Scott

We went to a Harri Teeter to do some meat shopping. My wife was in line at customer service and I pushed our basket to get out of the way of traffic. I landed right beside an end cap donut/sweet cake/muffin display. The marketing/strategy guy/gal was spot on because I think over half the carts that came thru the door hit that end cap. I'm not sure I was disgusted but I did think that use to be me. No craving or anything like that but I did think about how the placement helped make the sale. Which to me, means a lot of the bad things we ate are just habit and habit-forming. Scott

Congrats. I too eased out of the sugars easily as well. My Mountain Dew and Little Debbie cake every morning was somewhere between ritual and religion. LOL So far the only time similar to yours was some black beans and corn. I would have thought it would have been one of the sugars like the soft drinks or the sweet cakes or maybe even the ice cream. Nope. Black beans and corn. I have not tracked calories since I started. I might try it just to see where I'm at just to know. Again, congrats on the first two weeks. Scott

The testimonials and the information are endless. I enter CARNIVORE DIET + MS and the information is more than plentiful. Hope your friend can find some relief. From personal experience, it is a rough go. Thoughts and prayers. Scott

Thanks. Still in the 'who woulda thunk it?" phase but I have seen nothing but the positives thus far. Scott

Quick recap. 90+ days in and I stopped pain and inflammation medicine in May. No issues. I lost 54lbs thus far. My daily/across the board energy levels are higher than they have been in a lot of years. I'm getting to the gym and walking on my days off. I noticed sort of early on I was sleeping much better but maybe the big difference is when I wake up it is like a switch. Bam, eyes open ready to go immediately. Which leads to some weirdness. I was in the military and one of the things learned in the military is to sleep when you can. I can remember a 15-minute power nap feeling like an 8-hour snooze fest. You also learned to tune a lot out. I slept in a torpedo room on a nuclear-powered sub and slept thru firing torpedoes. I slept thru Hurricane Fran and walked outside to a different planet. My wife can vacuum in the bedroom, and I won't be bothered. But with that said, since those military days all you have to do is say my name and I pop tall ready to go. Since my 20's I have been able to sleep thru anything except my name. Everything the same after carnivore except we had a dog emergency the other night and my wife was yelling my name from the living room, and I never heard it. She came to the door and did the same/ She said I never flinched. The next night she had to actually touch me to wake me up. I have been sleeping really well since the switch, but I didn't know I was a couple hairs away from a coma. LOL. I am not complaining but do find it weird. Scott

I would either drop pure liquid with the force of a fire hydrant, or Nice. I phrased it as "I could shit for distance" (with the Olympics and all) Scott

On the opposite end. I grew up where if it landed on your plate, you ate it. Period. And with that, I had an uncle that if he saw you eat fat off a steak he would just about heave. I remember saying, "Don't look at my plate". My Pops gave me a 'pops lesson' with a pop to the head. Not because I was wrong and he agreed I was not wrong. I just struggled with the 'whens' when I opened my mouth. I gave him a lot of opportunities to 'parent'. Scott

That is the plan. I read some studies from the 50's when carnivore was called 'a meat only' diet. (maybe the current name is a better catch phrase). The MS community saw a lot of improvements with red meat and water. No gimmes, and no cheats, only red meat and water. I do notice a difference between the red meat days and the non-red meat days. I have to think it lies along the lines of fat content a bit but not totally sure. Just for my own individual story I plan to go much heavier on the red meat but not totally abandoning the chicken and pork (especially the pork). But the first 90 days was more than amazing. So much so, if you posted it and I had yet to experience it, I would question your honesty. (nay-sayer by heart). The more I read and the more I watch I am starting to feel like one of the many. Scott

I had had some really loose stools the past few weeks and really couldn't pinpoint the cause. My best guess is I was over doing the butter a bit when cooking but not sure. Other than occasional shredded cheese I have not done any dairy. When I first started I drank some chocolate milk and the stool was bad enough and smelled bad enough to support the myths around red meat staying your system for months on end. Like, I had to be rotting from the inside out. That bad. Milk sort of fell off the menu. This past week I drank a glass of milk on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. I locked up like Fort Knox. I didn't go from Tuesday til Saturday. Even after 90 days I am still trying to figure things out. Scott

I have had cramps a couple times while sleeping this week (trying to sleep). I hit the mustard bottle and it relieves them rather quickly. I think mine came from lack of hydration. All three nights this week were rough. Equipment that has not failed in years and years failed all three nights. It was like getting to the plant, taking a deep breath and holding it for 13 hours. It was non-stop all three nights. Each day I struggled with cramps while trying to sleep. My best guess is I was simply to busy to hydrate. Bob, hopefully you figure out the cause because waking up with muscles in a know is no fun. Good luck. Scott