Hello everyone. I'd like to ask for your attention and help/advice regarding how to follow a Carnivore Diet when you have financial restrictions.

I followed a carnivore diet for 12 months. I wasn't very successful in my weight loss goal. I lost around 15 pounds of fat. (I still have at least another 15 pounds). I am around 22% Bodyfat and my goal is to be under 15BF%

After the 12-month period, I ended up trying a more ketogenic model, but without success in terms of fat loss.

I'm Brazilian and live in São Paulo. Red meat prices have risen considerably. Therefore, I'd like to ask how to follow the Carnivore Diet if I can only afford eggs and hamburger patties.

I'm 180cm tall. My bodyweight is around 175-180 lbs(+- 79kg to 81kgs). I am 36 years old, have a sedentary job. I go to the gym (where I do perform resistance strength training) 3 times a week.(to build and mantain musle mass and improve fat loss) My goal is to lose 12-15 pounds of bodyfat.(until the end of 2025)

I don't know how to calculate how much food I should eat on a Carnivore diet based on eggs and Hamburger patties. (I'll leave some questions here about how to proceed :)

100 grams of Hamburger patties contain:

Calories = 135 kcal

Carbs: 2g

Protein = 11g

Fat = 9g

I man at my size and phisical activive usually ingest 2500kcals to mantain his weight. However, in a Carnivore diet most people dont control calories and sometimes even macros. I tried last year to eat to satiety but after the initial 100 days i was not able to lose bodyfat.

Allow now to aks a few question about how to set a carnivore diet , with the purpose of fat loss while only being able to buy lard, Eggs and Humburger patties(hard financial restrition):

1-How can I figure out how much food (and calories) I should eat to lose weight?

2-Should I count calories or follow the eating-to-satiety model, even if it hasn't worked for fat loss? (not after the initial 100 days of the Carnivore diet).

3-How do I deal with hunger when eating a carnivore diet with the goal of fat loss?

4-Would it be possible to lose 12-15 lbs by the end of this year without going hungry?

Thank you very much for your attention.

Excuse any grammatical errors. English is not my first language.

I look forward to your guidance.

1-How can I figure out how much food (and calories) I should eat to lose weight? The rule of thumb is to eat til you are comfortably full and then eat again when you are hungry, then repeat. For me, carnivore works best for me if my first meal is around noon. Some days I eat again at supper time but most of the time I eat again the following day.

2-Should I count calories or follow the eating-to-satiety model, even if it hasn't worked for fat loss? (not after the initial 100 days of the Carnivore diet). I don't count calories as far as a total daily intake goes. However, I have counted protein for the last several months. I'm 56 walk and resistance train regularly. I'm trying to offset normal muscle loss as we age plus the debilitating effects of an autoimmune disease. It is hard for me to eat 1 gram of protein per pound of lean body mass.

3-How do I deal with hunger when eating a carnivore diet with the goal of fat loss? Eat. A lot of times if you are not eating enough your body will respond by storing for another day. You will stall in your weight loss. Snacking is not optimal as it moves your glucose and insulin up and down throughout the say. But if you must, make the snacks as carnivore as possible. A burger patty broken into four sections is four bite size snacks.

4-Would it be possible to lose 12-15 lbs by the end of this year without going hungry? I would say yes. If you are already doing resistance training and a little cardio here and there eating fattier meats should help in the weight loss. Carnivore is a higher fat and moderate protein approach to eating. Once the body becomes fat adapted normally the weight starts to drop with consistency. I added a protein shake to get to a protein mark, but the sugar added to my appetite, and I gained weight.

I started carnivore with just weight loss in mind but stumbled upon several life changing positive effects to my health. Losing weight is positive and for most, it is the goal, but the other benefits are just as impactful.

Good luck.

Scott