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Of course. It’s very normal especially if you just jumped right in rather than easing into it. You could be eating too much fat but more than likely it’s just your gut biome going through the adaptation stage of rebuilding itself to digest fats and proteins instead of carbs. This phase can last anywhere from a couple of weeks to two months. For me it lasted 30 days. That’s common. Fat is very satiating so we stay satisfied much longer. We do t get that rollercoaster ride like we do with carbs. Just eat when you are hungry and eat until you are full. Just make sure you are getting enough fat. Again, normal. In the beginning your body is having to change its source of energy from glucose to fats. This can take some time so it’s important to just keep eating plenty of fat ( but not to the point of diarrhea). Give it time and it will turn around as your body adapts. Be aware that what some people experience others may not. I can’t say that my mental clarity has improved any but my irritability has improved greatly. I’ve never had depression so I can’t relate to that. That first ten pounds were probably just water weight. You haven’t stalled, you probably haven’t even started losing any fat yet. Until your body adapts to using fat for fuel you won’t lose any. A little advice for you would be to not be too concerned with the scale. Instead get you a tailors tape measure, the cloth kind. Measure every part of your body. Neck, shoulders, chest, waist, hips, butt, thighs, calves, biceps and forearms. Write them down in a journal and then remeasure every thirty days. This will be a better metric of your weight loss than the scale. This early in the diet I wouldn’t mess with any digestive supplements. If after you’ve been doing this for 3-6 months, if you’re still having issues then ox bile might be a good choice. But give your system time to adapt and heal. The only supplements you might concern yourself with at this time would be electrolytes of sodium, magnesium and potassium. This way of eating flushes water out of our system so it can affect your levels and might need to be replaced this can also affect your energy levels I think you should just ride it out. Your body is going through a radical change and the transition is different for everyone so just take some vitamin P (patience) and give your body time to heal. You didn’t wreck your metabolism over night and you won’t fix it overnight. Just KCCO (Keep Calm & Carnivore On) Oh, and welcome to Carnivore Talk we are glad you joined us.

@Bob You were thinking about getting a weighted vest and I came across this from Nick.

🤣 that is a great explanation of what we do. I love it. 👍 And that is how it’s done. There has never been and will never be a true RCT of how we eat. And since we are all so individual we must be our own N of 1 experiment. You are doing exactly what you should be doing and that’s finding out what works best for you. I’m personally scared of sugar. As an addict I feel that I must stay away from it. I don’t even want any sweet taste in my mouth, even from the artificial stuff. But that’s just me knowing me. Kerry Mann has put out three different videos about the 5 stages of carnivore. When I saw the first one I realized that he had nailed exactly what I had experienced. The 5 Stages of Carnivore 1. The decision 2. Adaptation 3. Healing 4. Ravenous 5. Maintenance The ravenous stage was really something. After I had lost all of the weight it looked like I was going to loose and my body had healed I became enormously hungry. I recognized that my body no longer had the fat stores to sustain my energy levels and it was craving more fat and proteins. That’s why I can eat more than some people. I have found that if I don’t satisfy that hunger I’ll start losing weight so in the maintenance stage I have to make sure I eat enough. Never in my life that I’d be in a situation that I’d need to eat more to keep from losing weight. Have I mentioned I love carnivore. 😋

There has been a couple of times in my life when I was pretty destitute and all I had was bread from the day old store. At one point I was starving for about 3 months and had nothing to eat but homemade flour tortillas that I made at the stove while in a walker. I am so grateful for God’s blessing today and for the trials He put me through in the past.

I saw that. I really like his explanations.

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12 hand cut one pound ribeyes and 13 half pound hamburger patties smoked. Of course I find eat all of that but that will be my meals for the next week and a half.

Wow, I’d like to try that but it sure sounds like garlic overload. 😋

Welcome to Carnivore Talk James. Your experience could be of value to us here. It’s an important lesson to learn that when we clean up our diet we can experience a whole new life. I’m glad you could join us.

When I was an afiber I used some of these to keep my blood thin so I didn’t have to take any pharmaceutical blood thinners. I did take a full strength aspirin for years but stopped that after I became a carnivore and learned how bad it could affect the liver and kidneys. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yesterday I cooked some hamburgers in my cast iron skillet. I used a combination of butter and tallow in the pan. I kept the used fat and used it to cook 8 scrambled eggs today. Wow, what flavors. The eggs weren’t pretty but the flavor was rich.

How does religion play a part? 1 Corinthians 6:19-2019 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

I quit using EVO because it’s hard to find any that’s not cut with canola oil. I do use some avocado oil but only to season my cast iron and my flat top. For cooking I only use butter, ghee, tallow, bacon fat or lard.