My usual diet is best described as BBBE (Beef, Butter, Bacon, and Eggs). My eating takes place in a 1 to 2 hour window. I eat about 12 to 20 ounces of beef and 4 to 6 eggs each day. I consume 1 pound of bacon a week.

Most of my meat is 85/15 ground beef or chuck eye steak marked down for quick sale (currently @ 6 dollars a pound. With the mark down).. I drink black coffee whenever I want to.

I get thru the holidays eating as above. If I visit others I tote the necessary food with me. I have a severe addiction to carbohydrates. I battle it with coffee when triggered. In November I buy 9 packages of 8 ounce Philadelphia Cream Cheese and make 3 cheesecakes. One pumpkin, one chocolate, one plain/vanilla/touch of lemon. I freeze portions in my portion size containers. If I travel some go with me. They make my holidays ! They are extremely low carb and have no crust.

At any time of the year, I may resort to a Cheese Cake or Carnivore Custard. My birthday is usually a chocolate cheesecake. However, a key lime one is on my mind.

My food budget runs about 50 -60 $ a week, 250 dollars a month maximum for now.

Be well

Solid plan.

Scott

Ty, I keep it simple.

I have to ask how is your cholesterol eating like that, mine sky rocketed.

Me too, for the most part.

I have adjusted my meal plan as my wife does not do carnivore so I eat a lot of chicken, pork and fish.

I spent the last couple months overeating trying to hit protein targets. Since carnivore it is hard for me to eat a large meal. When I eat normal carnivore I eat every 24-36 hours and am simply not hungry in between. And when I do eat the amount is minimal in comparison to others. One 14-16oz ribeye and I am done. I am envious of those who eat 2+ pounds of meats at a sitting. Envious as well as impressed.

Next week I will roll back into a month of red meat only for 30-40 days or so as this is old school medicine for my autoimmune disease that I think I no longer have. LOL

Scott

My hunger ebs and flows. A few weeks eating more a few weeks eating less, I never force it.

Be well

12 hours ago, Peggy said:

I have to ask how is your cholesterol eating like that, mine sky rocketed.

Most of ours do but since cholesterol is an essential component to the human body and has very little if anything to do with cardiovascular disease it’s not something we concern ourselves with.

HDL   87, 

TRi    59, 

LDL  161,  

TOT  260

Are from 2 months ago, Triglyceride abd HDL are very nice. I not worried about LDL. Some go up. Some down, some no change. I am allergic to ststins, so no dr discussion. Not sure what change is 'sky rocket'

That is what I mean by sky rocket.

Edited October 31, 2025Oct 31 by Peggy

Well, IMHO, not super bad. In part it depends where u at on your journey. If you earlybin your journey you got numbers to compare to next blood work. If u can eat close to zero carb. Retest b in 3 to 4 months.

True.

Activity level also plays a role.

There is more fat in the blood at any given time but it is moving and being used for energy. Increase the activity with things as basic as walking and those numbers can adjust some but within the numbers there is a lot more efficiency of fat intake/fat used/fat stored.

Scott

Your LDL is a non issue. Mine is the same as yours according to my last blood draw.

Your Triglycerides are high. Ideally you’d like to see them under 100. I don’t know how long you’ve been carnivore or how strict you are but if you are eating right that number should come down in time.

Your HDL looks good.

A good indicator of potential cardiovascular risk is your HDL to Triglyceride ratio. Yours is 2.8 which high. It would be best if you could get it down under 2.