My Health Got Worse - Is My Carnivore Diet to Blame?

Although I do not follow the advice myself, it is always best to not weigh yourself daily. Maybe once per week or so.  With that said, I weigh almost daily. And I have had stalls and drops just about the entire 10 months I have been eating this way. Sometimes when I stalled or even added a pound or two, I had to cinch my belt loop. You can have changes in body composition and that change not be reflected when stepping on the scale. During my first month or so I also naturally eased into eating once per day. I used the rule of thumb 'eat til I was full and then eat again when I was hungry'. That approach moved me from 2-3 times per day to once per day. And as far as the fat to meat ratio goes with carnivore, I eat more fat than the basic ratio recommends/suggests. The stalls can come from any number of reasons. For me, if I drink milk I can just about guarantee a stall. I don't eat much cheese, but it feels the same. A stall can also come from meal timing. If I waited til I was hungry the once per day could get slightly past once per day and then a meal would approach later in the evening, or even first thing in the morning. Not the best two times to eat during the day. Life also plays a part. I am a 12-hour rotating shift worker. I can't really have a routine working both days and nights throughout the month. Meal timing also includes eating when someone else eats (like family dinners), especially if you are not hungry.  It is a process, and the process time varies from person to person. I lost 30-31lbs in the first 31 days or so. Then the stalls happened, and I was just like you, trying to figure out what I was doing wrong to create/trigger the stall. I have now bounced around 85-92lbs lost for well over a month. At times I don't look at the 85-90 lost but wonder when the next three or four is going to drop. That's the wrong approach but totally natural. If I were to give advice it would to 'be patient' Eat the carnivore way, eat til you are full and eat again when you are hungry. The healing process is a different for every person. Be patient and trust your process.  Congrats on the first month or so. Good luck. Scott

when I started  the first of feb. I was eating at least twice a day and I was losing weight.  but over the last two weeks my hunger was telling me to only eat once a day and since then my weight hasn't moved. I've been walking and working out a little.   do I need to eat more to loose weight?  Is there any truth to if you don't eat much your body thinks its starving and won't let go of weight?  thanks

Totally butchered his name in the above post. Incredibly rude people. Scott

Yep. I'm about halfway thru Dr. Baker's book.  I watched a video last night where Dr. Pauldinin (spelling?) was being grilled by the panel on "The Doctors". It was brutal, but mostly very rude. The appellate judge was sitting on the panel berating him on why he was an expert or not and she was in need of Carnivore, Atkins, Keto, something.  I'm lucky my neurologist is totally onboard, and my primary doctor is close. He likes the results, but he gives me the cholesterol talk the last couple times I had appointments.  I agree. At some point the medical field has to say, "Hey, wait a minute. Let me check that out", especially as more and more people report the positives. Maybe even more so when those positives are medical issues just not weight loss.  Sort of bored at work waiting for our supply plant to catch up. Filling the time with carnivore research/reading. Scott

Tony is some good people. In the past there was a lot of backlash against doctors who encouraged the carnivore diet. Dr. Baker had his license suspended for a time because of it.  I believe the tide is turning though as carnivore becomes my mainstream.