Scott F.

Thanks for the insight.
I will do a bunch of reading over the next couple days.
I didn't think too much of it but I guess I should.
Scott

I have done 7 and felt like I could have continued.
I have been reading a lot about the advantages and disadvantages of going past the 96 hour mark.
Sometimes the answer is in 'which one you believe the most' as it feels like it is a split amongst the 'experts'.
Scott

I have done it a number of times now and I am still amazed. I mean, pretty much all of us were programmed from an early age we had to eat three times per day and the food fueled our bodies, etc. etc. 3-4 days in and I have a ton of energy and zero hunger. Still leaves going, HUH? at times.
This last five I actually came off of it without getting really loose. I felt like I tried every combination but it was all the same. As of late I just sort of gave up on 'breaking the fast the right way'. I just ate some bacon and eggs, which I had tried before, but this time all went as normal. Maybe it took me ever how many to adapt, not sure.
Congrats on the 86. Nice work.
Scott

I have done it a number of times now and I am still amazed. I mean, pretty much all of us were programmed from an early age we had to eat three times per day and the food fueled our bodies, etc. etc. 3-4 days in and I have a ton of energy and zero hunger. Still leaves going, HUH? at times.
This last five I actually came off of it without getting really loose. I felt like I tried every combination but it was all the same. As of late I just sort of gave up on 'breaking the fast the right way'. I just ate some bacon and eggs, which I had tried before, but this time all went as normal. Maybe it took me ever how many to adapt, not sure.
Congrats on the 86. Nice work.
Scott

Nice work. I probably fast a bit too much, I'm guessing anyway.
I usually land somewhere between 72 and 96 hours. I have read around 96 hours starts some points of diminishing returns. But then others say not so much.
The autophagy and ketosis and human growth hormones and stem cells are all fine and good, and dropping a few pounds is good too, but mostly now I do it because of the way it makes me feel.
From 24 hours on, (did one 7 day fast) I really feel good. I have energy, I am not hungry and everything about it feels positive.
The 'feel good' is the biggest reason I do a couple a month.
Good luck with yours. I need to check out the APP because I am just wining mine. LOL
Scott

I will have to check it out.
For me it is not so much finding variety as I can eat the same thing everyday with zero issues.
A taco meal like this will allow for my wife and I to eat 'together and eating the same thing' as she strives for variety and 'colors' on her plate.
Nice work.
Scott

Three hamburger patties and two eggs for breakfast.
Normally, I do not eat this early in the morning but was sort of hungry.
On the way home this morning the neighbor up the road had cows in the highway and across the road. I woke them up and helped keep them on the right side of the road while trying to get the cars/trucks to slow down.
Maybe it was being that close to really fresh red meat that triggered some hunger. Not sure. LOL
Scott

Agreed.
I feel like if I got better with a shift in diet I would like to think so could a lot of people.
What I think would help, similar in thought to what you posted, is doctors being a bit more open minded. I get pills and potions can help correct a situation in a hurry and a lot of times that is the best practice. But I wish there was the next step to see what could be done for an alternate means of healing/staying healthy.
Good luck on your continued progress.
Scott

Best of luck with your upcoming tests.
Yes, it is sad a large part of the medical community, and most in general, think pills and potions are the way to go. (And with that said, in 2018 without pills and potions I probably would not be here today, so I am all for the use of medicines to start the healing process. I'm just not a fan of lifelong prescriptions.)
Good luck with your testing.
Scott

Nice work. I probably fast a bit too much, I'm guessing anyway.
I usually land somewhere between 72 and 96 hours. I have read around 96 hours starts some points of diminishing returns. But then others say not so much.
The autophagy and ketosis and human growth hormones and stem cells are all fine and good, and dropping a few pounds is good too, but mostly now I do it because of the way it makes me feel.
From 24 hours on, (did one 7 day fast) I really feel good. I have energy, I am not hungry and everything about it feels positive.
The 'feel good' is the biggest reason I do a couple a month.
Good luck with yours. I need to check out the APP because I am just wining mine. LOL
Scott

Congrats. End of the day is your health and happiness.
Probably a thousand routes to get there with getting there being the goal.
Scott

Congrats. End of the day is your health and happiness.
Probably a thousand routes to get there with getting there being the goal.
Scott

I will have to disagree but I'm OK with you keeping your membership card.
Maybe a probationary period for the flaw but no reason we can't still be friends. LOL
But we stumbled onto a guy right down the road who makes the best homemade sausage I have ever eaten. Just down the road and we never knew. Last year we probably bought 40lbs over three times he made it.
I can eat it every day.
Scott

That's a good starter and congrats for the doing the 40 hours.
I am now reading on how many extended fasts I can do before I reach the 'diminishing returns' plateau.
As of late I have been fasting when working nights. I do two nightshift rotations per month which is one 72-hour fast and one that is around 96 hours.
I feel pretty good doing two and sort of been just 'rolling with two'.
Scott

My weight fluctuates as well. I'm the first one to say a person should not look at the scale every day to see those fluctuations, but I am also the first one to look at the scale every day.
Every third day or so I do a 'three day average' and consider that my weight. it sort of adjusts for the fluctuations.
When I was dropping weight really fast I could see my weight go up a pound but at the same time I had to cinch my belt up a notch. And then it would settle in on my 'new three day average;.
Good luck and congrats on your progresses.
Scott

When I look at it on plate and I feel like an average to above average veterinarian could still save him, I'm good.
Scott

Happy Father's Day. Hope all is well with you and yours.
This was a Father's Day gift for my son and I.
Turned out really nice.
Scott

Carnivore is great, blah, blah, blah. Carnivore is good, blah, blah, blah.
It has worked wonders for me and to the point I can't really see eating another way.
Several months ago I started eating to hit a protein target and to that I had to eat more than I wanted. As the protein went up, so did the fat. I also stumbled upon the fact that a little bit of sugar triggers some hunger which helped me get to the protein target most days. With that I gained a h air over 20lbs in a couple three months.
When I switched back to a more normal/traditional carnivore approach the weight started to fall off again. I went from 215 to 238 and now back to 225, dropping 13 pounds in a month or so.
It's a pretty good plan. LOL
If I say another thing about somewhat repaid weight loss here my wife is going to administer some inflammation that not even carnivore can clear up. LOL
Scott

I ate 5 or 6 pork shops Friday night about 8PM and last night around 2AM I ate a handful of beef jerky. Technically, I broke it then but will not eat again until tomorrow night.
The first 24 hours was a dry fast and then water fasting til tomorrow.
It is totally weird, or maybe I am weird, but I get the fact I can lose a few pounds here and there when fasting. I also understand there is metabolic benefits to allowing the body, for no better words, to catch up and reset. But as of late the weight and the metabolic health are more like bonuses to fasting. I am fasting now for no more reason than how good I feel from 24 hours and beyond.
I'm no spring chicken at 56, a hard 56 at that with most of those years eating a dumpster diet and working was the only working out I was doing. This past weekend I ate Friday night and I dumped 5500kgs of re-process material. That consists of tipping over a 50 kilo drum (a little over 100 pounds), lifting the back and dumping the powder into a process tank. The plant was well over 100 degrees til the early morning when it dropped to the mid-90's. I didn't eat for 24 hours and repeated another 5500 kilos on Saturday night and did the same last night soon after 48 hours of fasting. On Saturday morning I stopped by the gym a lifted for just about an hour, leg day on top of that.
Here I am on Monday morning with a boat load of energy and don't feel like I am going to sleep much today. Sort of awake and ready to do stuff. Feels good but sort of sucks knowing I have to do 12 more hours tonight.
Babbling til bedtime but carnivore, fasting and resistance training has been a life changer for me, and at times I would even say a life saver. That might be a stretch but at times I sort of feel that way.
Scott

I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer by any means. In the beginning people would say I OMAD and I would say I don't know much about that but I only eat one meal a day. Took awhile before I put two and two together.
With that said, the first rule of thumb I used with carnivore was 'eat fatty meats' and the second was 'eat when hungry and est til comfortably full'.
The combination of the satiating red meats and waiting til I was hungry started to curb my appetite a couple months after starting carnivore. I was OMAD before I even knew anything about OMAD.
I read where some do not consider 'intermittent fasting' a thing and choose to call it 'time restrictive eating'. For me they are one in the same, like same flavor but different labels, if that makes any sense at all.
Around 18-19 months eating once per day felt as natural as those years where it was natural to start everyday off with a 20oz Mountain Dew, a bacon, egg and cheese on white bread followed by two Little Debbie oatmeal cakes. Almost like a religion.
Turns out I actually needed some sugar in my diet in order to have an appetite again. Just the craziest thing.
Scott

For me, it was not as difficult as it sounds.
I am currently on a fast. I ate this past Monday night and plan to break it tomorrow morning.
Again, for me, around 24-36 hours there is some hunger but easily solved with a glass of water. From 24-36 hours on I do not experience any hunger at all.
Like most anything, it is probably easier and maybe even better to ease into the fast. Do 24-36 hours, then wait a while and maybe try 48 hours. Then later add 12 more, then 12 more and so on.
I don't know if I'm different, or maybe just weird, but I have tons of energy after the first 24 hours or so. The energy and ability to go and go lasts for a day or so after I break the fast.
I'm a fan of carnivore, fasting and resistance training. The combination is working really well for me.
Scott

I ate 5 or 6 pork shops Friday night about 8PM and last night around 2AM I ate a handful of beef jerky. Technically, I broke it then but will not eat again until tomorrow night.
The first 24 hours was a dry fast and then water fasting til tomorrow.
It is totally weird, or maybe I am weird, but I get the fact I can lose a few pounds here and there when fasting. I also understand there is metabolic benefits to allowing the body, for no better words, to catch up and reset. But as of late the weight and the metabolic health are more like bonuses to fasting. I am fasting now for no more reason than how good I feel from 24 hours and beyond.
I'm no spring chicken at 56, a hard 56 at that with most of those years eating a dumpster diet and working was the only working out I was doing. This past weekend I ate Friday night and I dumped 5500kgs of re-process material. That consists of tipping over a 50 kilo drum (a little over 100 pounds), lifting the back and dumping the powder into a process tank. The plant was well over 100 degrees til the early morning when it dropped to the mid-90's. I didn't eat for 24 hours and repeated another 5500 kilos on Saturday night and did the same last night soon after 48 hours of fasting. On Saturday morning I stopped by the gym a lifted for just about an hour, leg day on top of that.
Here I am on Monday morning with a boat load of energy and don't feel like I am going to sleep much today. Sort of awake and ready to do stuff. Feels good but sort of sucks knowing I have to do 12 more hours tonight.
Babbling til bedtime but carnivore, fasting and resistance training has been a life changer for me, and at times I would even say a life saver. That might be a stretch but at times I sort of feel that way.
Scott

I ate 5 or 6 pork shops Friday night about 8PM and last night around 2AM I ate a handful of beef jerky. Technically, I broke it then but will not eat again until tomorrow night.
The first 24 hours was a dry fast and then water fasting til tomorrow.
It is totally weird, or maybe I am weird, but I get the fact I can lose a few pounds here and there when fasting. I also understand there is metabolic benefits to allowing the body, for no better words, to catch up and reset. But as of late the weight and the metabolic health are more like bonuses to fasting. I am fasting now for no more reason than how good I feel from 24 hours and beyond.
I'm no spring chicken at 56, a hard 56 at that with most of those years eating a dumpster diet and working was the only working out I was doing. This past weekend I ate Friday night and I dumped 5500kgs of re-process material. That consists of tipping over a 50 kilo drum (a little over 100 pounds), lifting the back and dumping the powder into a process tank. The plant was well over 100 degrees til the early morning when it dropped to the mid-90's. I didn't eat for 24 hours and repeated another 5500 kilos on Saturday night and did the same last night soon after 48 hours of fasting. On Saturday morning I stopped by the gym a lifted for just about an hour, leg day on top of that.
Here I am on Monday morning with a boat load of energy and don't feel like I am going to sleep much today. Sort of awake and ready to do stuff. Feels good but sort of sucks knowing I have to do 12 more hours tonight.
Babbling til bedtime but carnivore, fasting and resistance training has been a life changer for me, and at times I would even say a life saver. That might be a stretch but at times I sort of feel that way.
Scott

Lots of people eat outside the 'carnivore diet' when they first get started. It is more important to celebrate the fact you decided to eat this was again more so than focusing on the fact you ate outside the carnivore way of eating.
That actually can be a plan of easing into the way of eating long term.
As you recognize the rewards and the benefits hopefully that encourages you to make the 'carnivore' stretches last even longer.
The benefits come not as much from eating carnivore as it does from eliminating the non-carnivore items from the diet.
Scott

Happy Father's Day. Hope all is well with you and yours.
This was a Father's Day gift for my son and I.
Turned out really nice.
Scott