Scott F.

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

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

It happens.
Like most things it is the response that counts.
Good luck.
Scott

Nice work.
I had sort of morphed into eating once per day so going 24 hours sort of felt natural.
The first 24hours is the obstacle, stretching it out to 48 and beyond actually gets a bit easier.
I get an energy boost around 40 hours or so and sustain it out to 4+ days.
And if you had told me the same thing a couple years ago I would have looked at you like you were crazy, maybe even calling BS.
Great work. Good luck as you progress.
Scott

Pretty much the same here. I try not say 'never; on anything but I do feel really confident it will be carnivore for me fo as far into the future as I can see.
Scott

I weigh most every day although I know I should not, but I keep doing.
When I was losing weight really fast if the scale tipped the other way it was disheartening. It was funny because due to body re-composition I could lose a pant size but gain a pound or so. My brain went to the pound gained vs. the size lost, which is polar opposite of I should have been thinking.
I sort of purposefully gained some weight back and this past week I went back to more of a carnivore approach of 'eating when hungry and eating til full'. I am starting to lose weight again now.
This morning from the front door to the shower I said no need to weigh today, just take a shower and crash after nightshift. I walked into the bathroom and stepped onto the scale probably out of habit as much as anything.
Scott

Congrats on your progress.
I did the same thing. This can be like an 'interactive journal'. I actually enjoy reading other people's experiences. I have learned a ton when other people describe their carnivore journey.
I feel better when my fat content is higher also. Sometimes it feels like/looks like a lot of fat but it works for me.
Good luck.
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

Dr. Chaffee has a video and pretty much says if you are eating once per day on carnivore there is no need to "fast". And then others don't call it 'intermittent fasting' but choose the term 'time restrictive eating'. I would guess going twenty hours apart it would not make much difference between one larger meal or two smaller meals.
And then it depends on the goals. If fasting is being done for weight loss then OMAD with 20+ hours between should serve the purpose, especially if the OMAD is the carnivore/low to zero carb approach.
The metabolic benefits require some longer fasts.
So far all the changes I have made have been relatively easy. I switched to carnivore cold turkey and didn't experience any cravings for all the crap I was eating before. When I tried fasting, I didn't have any issues going past 24, nor 48 and then 72 hours. No issues doing 96 hours and have done one 7-day water fast.
My biggest issue with fasting is how to break the fast. I have not figured that out at all. I have tried smaller meals, broths/soups, eggs, what feels like everything but fruits. (read about the benefits of melons recently but have not tried it) The first thing I eat gives me really loose stools for a day or so afterwards.
I just woke up from night shift and I am about 52-53 hours into this fast. Feel great. I had a solid lift this morning at the gym after work. Although I only slept from 10AM to 3PM I feel well rested. I'm going to lift again in the morning and then figure out when and how I break the fast from there.
Big fan of fasting. And if someone made this same post some two years ago I would think they were as full of it as a Christmas turkey. It makes no sense to be energetic and feel great from "not eating". I have found the more I read and experiment with fasting how little I actually knew about things before.
Scott

Ours are so basic.
We fry and as soon as they come out we sprinkle them with ranch dressing seasoning (flavor packs).
Quick and easy.
Hope all went well.
Scott

Good luck.
I started off on the carnivore diet and looked at it just like any other diet out there. Do it for awhile, drop some weight then revert to my previous ways of eating.
After six-8 weeks I was seeing metabolic improvements and improvements with an autoimmune disease that if anyone told me my story beforehand, I would have called BS. Just can't be.
With that, my carnivore diet has evolved into my carnivore lifestyle. I can't predict the future, but I can't see any reason to go away from this WOE.
Good luck.
Scott

Congrats.
In the beginning I was concerned with cholesterol as I had spent many years on a dumpster diet with pretty much no exercise other than the physical nature of my job.
As time went on I put less and less thought into the cholesterol numbers. Mostly, because I was deep into ketosis most of the time (with high GKI numbers) so it would stand to reason more fat/cholesterol would be in my bloodstream at any given time.
After two years I get it checked but don't really make adjustments. My initial total and LDL went down after the first three or four months on carnivore. Six months later it made a significant jump, then sort of planed off some and here recently made some drops across the board. Other than the first six months I can attribute the cholesterol numbers to the adjustments I have made within the carnivore diet. (upping/lowering fat content as well as upping protein grams per day)
Congrats on the progress. Continued successes.
Scott

My son did some deer jerky back in the winter and did a few strips of bacon as well.
The bacon was quite the treat.
I'm not sure how long your trip is going to be, but it is bacon, so those look like single serving packages. If you can't just eat one with a potato chips, I am almost positive a person can't stop at one with bacon.
Good luck and safe travels.
Scott