But since people (except my wife, also a carnivore) act like it's the craziest thing in the world, I figure I better get connected.

We came to this nutrition approach via keto after listening to the podcast The Sacred Cow. Until going carnivore, I was like that woman on the commercial where she said that anywhere she went, she always makes sure to know where the bathroom is (sorry, can't recall the product they were selling). Digestion was better on keto but completely transformed doing carnivore.

My wife and I both lost significant weight even though we were both already very healthy. I recently realized after seeing pictures of myself from a recent trip that I was so into being lean that I had lost a lot of muscle.

Listening to an interview with Dr Chaffe opened my eyes to the change in hunger signals that is possible on carnivore and realized I needed to up my protein and get busy in the gym!

Looking forward to learning from you all and contributing where I can.

Exact same boat. I started the diet as nothing more than a weight loss hack and it worked amazingly fast. I dropped 30-31 pounds in the first 31-32 days and down 85 pound by year one. I'm currently around 15 months or so at 95lbs lost I looked frail and some even thought I was sick again.

I had been lifting regularly about a month or so into carnivore and walking around 3.5 miles three to four times per week.

I tried to up the protein content to 1 gram of protein for every pound of lean muscle mass. I'm guessing my number is around 200lbs but I can't eat 200 grams of protein in a day. I'm just not hungry and in order to get to 160-180 grams of protein I feel like I am force feeding myself.

I went the route of protein shakes to get in some extra grams of protein. I ran out and bought one of the store-bought pre-mixed protein drinks. It had 50 grams of protein, but it had 11-12 grams of sugar. As soon as I started those drinks my appetite went crazy. I was able to eat really close and sometimes over 190-200 grams of protein.

This month I switched to an all-red meat diet (Lion Diet) and without the sugar the appetite is starting to fall off again. But the couple months I used the protein drinks my progress in the gym made big strides. As the young people say, "the plates don't lie". At 56 I'm stronger now than I was 20-25 years.

Welcome. I'm sort of the same with the internet as well. I use this board and it took me forever to figure out how to participate in the Monday night round table discussions.

Good luck.

Scott

Welcome to Carnivore Talk.

While it’s not important to exercise to loose weight it can be important to exercise to keep from loosing too much weight. This happened to me over the winter. I got off of my workout routine and lost muscle mass.

5 hours ago, Geezy said:

Welcome to Carnivore Talk.

While it’s not important to exercise to loose weight it can be important to exercise to keep from loosing too much weight. This happened to me over the winter. I got off of my workout routine and lost muscle mass.

Wow, I guess I made a good decision coming here. It's definitely a relief knowing others have been in "the exact same boat".

After the past 3 or 4 days of eating enough protein to reach my target weight, I definitely have more energy. I think I was slowly killing myself before!

get jacked dude,