January is World Carnivore Month. To that end, let's challenge ourselves to eat a carnivore diet for the entire month of January. The type of carnivore diet and the level of strictness you choose to do is entirely up to you. Examples of carnivore diets include the following...

1) The Lion Diet. A person eating the Lion Diet only consumes the flesh of ruminant animals, water, and salt.

2) The BBBE Diet. BBBE is an acronym for Beef, Butter, Bacon, and Eggs. 

3) The Carnivore Diet. This allows for the consumption of any and all animals and animal by-products, including dairy. 

In any of the above examples, the object of course is to not consume any plants as part of your diet. Of course, we're not going to micromanage how you prepare your food, so your use of seasonings is entirely your own personal choice.

IF your circumstances don't allow you to go full on carnivore in January, then you can participate in this topic by challenge yourself to do better, above and beyond what you have been doing. For example, if you have still been eating grains, seed oils, refined sugar, or drinking alcohol, challenge yourself to avoid these items and just eat a clean, single ingredient whole foods diet such as clean keto, ketovore, or animal based. 

We encourage you to check in daily, and share what you have eaten, perhaps a weigh-in if you're willing, and enjoy in some small talk. 

Participants in this topic will be entered into a drawing for a prize (valued at $100) at the end of the month.

---

Some brief rules:

• Each reply to this topic counts as one entry. You may post multiple times. But...

• Back to back replies may be merged and counted as a single entry to restrict users from spamming the system.

• Participating ON SCREEN on our Monday Night Live's will count as 2 bonus entries.

• Joining the YouTube membership will also count as bonus entries, depending on tier.

• Participants must be residents within the USA.

Edited January 7Jan 7 by Bob
Added the Brief Rules

On 1/24/2026 at 7:14 PM, pauls said:

On a positive note I do believe i am making progress. Is a slow go.

Slow progress is still progress. It's not a race, lol.

My initial results were amazing. Dropped the first 60 pounds almost effortlessly over 6 months. Now if I want to shed more, it's going to require some effort on my part.

Some numbers : Avg. BGL

7 Day Avg. 102

14 Day Avg. 105

30 Day Avg. 109

I just keep as close as possible to ZERO Carb as is possible. My PCP says a Ketogenic Diet is a health risk and an ongoing problem for me. The same person tells me I may not have a heart attack bit a stroke is likely. They have no evidence.

H E Y ! So very much Zero Carb, my 7 day Blood Glucose Level (BGL) just got down to 100 mg/dL. WOW, DID NOT see this coming, but it is real. My Continuous Glucose Monitor appears to be functioning properly. It is nice. Yes my tolerance for carbs is , yeah, Zero.

May u all have joy in your journey too !

So as my 7 dsy average BGL drops to 98, I just had a utube ad by Rx scripts for introduction pricing for Ozempic. I am sure some believe this is 'the way' to health. Unfortunately, long term effects are not known. Very sad. I say no more. We all go on, marching on our journey.

BGL Is still going down. So right now I am not using any fast acting insulin. My long acting, Lantus insulin dose is constant. Will give it time, if it holds or drops more I will Very slowly dial back the lantus insulin. I an thinking very slow reduction in dose might be best for me, allow body to adapt.

I'm sitting around 174.4 pounds. I started the month at around 180. So I am happy with these results thus far.

The lowest I have ever seen since starting carnivore was 173.7. I'm sooo close, lol

Nice, very nice , imo I nit been ok n scale this month, yet

Not much choice. Having yo back down my Lantus. Llong acting insulin dose today. BGL was/is a steady 60. I feel fine. I know my body. My PCP would have a troubled worried look on their face.

Talked to a man yesterday, older than my 69, he is T2DM, his A1c is 7.4, his doc says it is fine at below 8. He is 85, not acceptable to me. Imo. The doctor is wrong. I guess the medical thinking is he is old. I just glad carnivore is a choice that really helps. Be well

On 1/29/2026 at 7:25 AM, pauls said:

his A1c is 7.4, his doc says it is fine at below 8. He is 85, not acceptable to me. Imo. The doctor is wrong. I guess the medical thinking is he is old.

And a man who is 85 years old is likely set in his ways and not likely to change his diet to keto or carnivore. An A1C of 7.4 might be an improvement over what he was at some time in the past. He's probably at 7.4 with the aid of medications. To get it lower without changing his diet or lifestyle, it would require stronger or more aggressive medications which might do more harm than good.

In short, the doctor is thinking about not overloading his system with more or higher doses of meds and giving zero thought to diet and lifestyle.

Yes, I get thevthinking, I understand. He seems pretty ok for 86 or so

Yep. I wish my mom would give the carnivore/low to zero carb approach to eating as she has issues with blood glucose.

Funny, I think I am adopted because everyone in my family it seems has issues with blood glucose with the exception of me. I never had a reading above 100 until I started carnivore. Go figure?

As of late my daily average is between 85-90, which is up a bit as I am eating a lot as of late and there is some minimal amounts of sugar in the whey protein I use, plus the milk carries quite a bit of sugar.

I have gained 13-14 pounds since late November when I have been able to hit my daily protein targets. Some water weight, same fat I'm sure and hopefully a little muscle. I am going to continue this til the end of February and then adjust back to just regular carnivore of meat, salt and water (I will try to stay strictly red meat but that won't be 100% of the time).

Babbling. Back to the topic.

I am amazed at how people will jump on the next weight loss fad, or drug that comes down the pipe. But if you stand in front of them as living proof and say I only eat meat, slat and water you will be frowned upon.

Maybe we could get a commercial on television advertising 'carnivore' and portray it like it is what 'all the cool kids are doing', these great family outings, hooking up with the hottie from down the hall, being the life of the party at the club, etc. etc.

Then people would flock to it like the next popular prescription.

Scott

21 hours ago, Scott F. said:

Maybe we could get a commercial on television advertising 'carnivore' and portray it like it is what 'all the cool kids are doing', these great family outings, hooking up with the hottie from down the hall, being the life of the party at the club, etc. etc.

Then people would flock to it like the next popular prescription.

Or some popular celebrity promoting it.

Yep.

In so many cases we have a sheep mentality and will flock together regardless of reasoning.

A big time celebrity or pro-athlete would make people jump onboard, which would be flock mentality but I feel like the overwhelming majority would actually benefit.

Scott

Speaking of celebrities, there's Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson. Peterson is pretty loyal to carnivore. I think Rogan is on again off again approach. Mikalia released a video the other day saying she actually has been reintroducing non-carnivore foods and not having arthritis flare ups (after 8 years of Lion Diet).

Joe Rogan has a couple sections here and there on his podcast about his experiences with carnivore. Really good takes on the positives and then a few of the reasons he gets away from 'true carnivore approach'.

Big fan of Jordan Peterson. I had watched a number of his videos and then one day after I was months in with carnivore I watched a video on him being a red meat eater also. And that led to his daughter and her videos.

I will check out her video you mentioned.

Using the Lion Diet or really strict carnivore to correct health issues and then doing some re-introduction would work for so many. In the other post about people quitting carnivore, we could add that starting off thinking "carnivore forever", is a daunting task. Maybe the 'forever' part stops people from trying it for a stretch.

I started off just meat and water then salt. I morphed into a red meat only approach on several stints for a month or two. As of late my sugar intake is up with the sugars from the whey and the milk.

I can't say non-carnivore foods triggered my auto-immune issues but I can say when I went carnivore the symptoms and issues went away. I have made no effort to figure out which ones with re-introduction.

I think I am holding a pretty good hand right now so I am going to stand 'pat'. LOL

Scott

Carnivore, just my opinion here. Is not going to be over about 5% of the population. Why.? Human nature and Addiction. You can go off plan, you do not die by eatting one Snickers bar. The lack of that outcome says it all. Is why there are seat belt laws, interlocking systems and the like. The final straw is people do not know or understand cholesterol, insulin, and basic biology. They believe the old repeating messages.

I agree.

The carnivore/no carb low carb approach will be tried by millions and sustained by hundreds so the percentages will always be really low. And for all the reasons you mentioned.

It is sort of ironic that in the information the information is so readily available yet percentages wise, so very few take advantage.

Scott

You never fully comprehend the term “Sheeple” until you raise sheep.

Lol, I get it

On 2/1/2026 at 10:32 AM, pauls said:

Carnivore, just my opinion here. Is not going to be over about 5% of the population. Why.? Human nature and Addiction. You can go off plan, you do not die by eatting one Snickers bar. The lack of that outcome says it all.

It's an elimination diet that heals but you have to have been sick enough to have the motivation to stick to it. If you live an active healthy life that consists of eating a variety of foods, then there is no need to restrict yourself like we do. You're right that nobody dies from eating one Snickers Bar. It's a repeated pattern of Snickers overdosing that'll do you in, lol.