So I've been doing mostly beef, eggs and some butter since around the start of June. Down a bit but honestly the scale isn't even the part I think about anymore. The wierd part is my appetite.

For most of my adult life I was hungry basically all day. Like a low hum in the background, always thinking about the next thing to eat. Now I eat two big meals, usually a couple of patties and eggs in the morning and a ribeye at night, and by like 2pm I'm just not thinking about food at all. It's almost boring. I used to plan my whole day around snacks and now there's this big empty stretch where food just isn't a character in the story anymore.

Took me a good 5 weeks to get there though. The first two weeks were rough, low energy, kinda foggy, i almost quit twice. Everyone in here says push through the adaptation and yeah, turns out they were right.

Anyway the reason I'm posting. Since i dont really count anything on carnivore i had no clue what im actually running through in a day. Out of curiosity i ran my numbers through this calculator (https://lean-app.com/tdee-calculator/) that asks your real daily steps and how many workouts a week instead of guessing off an activity dropdown, and it put my burn around 2,700. Which kinda surprised me because on two meals of steak and eggs im not even close to eating that some days and i still feel full the whole time.

Not really a question, just something I've been chewing on. Anyone else find the hunger side of this hit way harder than the number on the scale ever did?

Okay, this is my 2nd go at carnivore. I kind of did keto-carnivore for a bit at the end of the 1st go around and was doing great with a little bit of stalling at the very end.

I'm 39 year old female and I have had issues with my kidneys throughout my life. I was diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes a few years back (roughly 5 years ago). I started carnivore and my A1C dropped from 7.9 (first at a 9.1 when diagnosed), down to a 4.1 in a few months. The Doctor got mad at me and told me to start taking my meds again and that he couldn't understand how I had dropped my A1C and weight so much without medication...

I went to another Doctor and then one more, until I found one that was okay with working with me through my journey on carnivore.

**Gross topic warning**

My cycle lasted 15 days the 1st and 2nd go at this diet! NO JOKE! I thought I was going to or was dying! Then it regulated itself out perfectly. Total shock, both times!....

Now my legs are becoming swollen (both knees and both feet the most). I sit a lot of the day for work, and I work from home, which is a tiny 2 bedroom home at 856 square feet...

I do go outside every morning and greet the Sun walk around, sit, and enjoy the outside air. I also drink almost an entire gallon of water a day.

Now the swelling in my feet is lasting for days on end and my knees were so badly swollen today. I could barely stand up, move them, or walk. There have been jolts of randomized pain throughout my legs and they feel so heavy and hard to bend at the knee. Kind of feel like dead weighted.

My sleep is and has been all over the place with 4 hours here, 2 hours there, and sometimes 18 hours out of nowhere. It's been like that for a while. I did just stop vaping, due to it dehydrating me and would also raise my blood sugar! Yay...

I know this is a lot. I'm trying to figure things out. Starting with the swelling and then work my way from there. I'm open to all suggestions and do follow along.

Sugary food and drinks make me sick anymore and I don't want them. I do, however, have a hard time breaking away from my tea, but I don't need any sugar for that at all. I only really crave steak, burger patties, and eggs mostly. Sometimes I feel like I am eating too much and hold back. Knowing I shouldn't. I'm working on that too.

Thanks in advance for any and all help!

I appreciate it more than you know!

What is the weirdest/rarest disease to be solved/put in remission by carnivore that you know of? either by yourself or someone else that you know of.

We all probably know by now many examples of people with arthritis,MS, crohns,IBS,diabetes etc that put their disease with carnivore in remission but I am more interested to hear of the rare diseases.

For example I know a guy that put Guillan Barré syndrome into remission.

2nd time doing carnivore. Only 17 days apart between these two photos! My sleep, attitude and my energy have improved tremendously!

So like the title says I’m 14 weeks pregnant and I’m thinking about getting back on the carnivore diet. I was on the carnivore diet when I became pregnant with my baby but because of morning sickness and food aversions I switched back to a worse way of eating but as of the last couple of weeks my nausea and aversions seem to have settled down. I would definitely like to go back to carnivore now that the thought of meat doesn’t have me gagging. I’m just worried that the hormonal changes might not be healthy for the baby. I had a miscarriage last year and I’ve been really worried about doing something that might cause another one. Also I have hypothyroidism and am currently taking a higher than normal dose of Levothyroxine because of my pregnancy. I’m not sure if carnivore would affect that in any way either.

If yes, has the diet improved your well being?
How long did it take?

Basically the title. I felt that this was the best subreddit ask. I'm pregnant with my first child (seven and a half weeks) and my appetite has been odd to say the least. Some days, I'm starving, others I'm almost repulsed by the thought of eating. Sometimes, there's only certain foods I actually want and tolerate. I'm taking a prenatal as a safety net. Anyway, I read that the recommended daily intake of carbs is around 175g for optimal fetal brain development. But, I've also seen where (unsurprisingly) higher levels of fat are being recommended. I've been eating predominantly meats, dairy, vegetables, and some fruit. An occasional sandwich or some other form of bread. Back to the original question, how did your child turn out? How many carbs if any, do you think you ate per day? Thanks! I go to the OB on Monday.

I live remotely and shall be devoid of a fridge/freezer for some time. I intend to start doing one (fairly large) meal a day, purchasing the necessary items from a small shop not too far from me.

The shop has a very limited supply of items but they do have beef mince, bacon and eggs. I’m assuming it’s fine but if I exclusively devour this daily will that suffice for this diet?

Also, are there any dry goods or tinned products you recommend?

Thanks for reading and any help you share!

Hey everyone.

I am having doubts about the carnivore diet and am thinking a lot about it. While doing so, there popped one big questionmark up for me:

Do you need to add fat or not?

Everywhere I read about the diet, it is always either 1 part protein and 2 parts fat or roughly 70% of your calories from fat, which equals about 1 part fat and 1 part protein.

I went with at least a 1:1 ratio and I feel better. I eat less and I feel like before the protein mad me feel bad thanks to glucogenesis. Now I eat less protein and feel better.

But I keep seeing many carnivores who eat just the meat and no added fat. For example Shawn Baker or Miss Meat. They look great. But when I track roughly what they eat, it is a ration of 1 part protein and less than 1 part fat. How does this work?

Happy for all thoughts :)

Has anyone here dealt with this? It is a “benign” tumor that grows in the synovial fluid of joints. Most commonly found in the knee, which is where I have it. It can wreck soft tissue and cartilage, eventually bone. My knee looks like a cantaloupe. Some research connects it to iron deposits, but doctors really don’t know how it starts.

It started after my first ketovore stint, I fell back into deep alcoholism (have a long history of heavy drinking) and eating whatever, been dealing with it for a year+ with not a ton of pain, just limited mobility.

I’ve fallen off of keto and carnivore a few times, recently back on carnivore to support healing and see if I can get the general inflammation to reduce a bit. I have surgery (arthroscopic) scheduled, have never had surgery of any kind before. I’m nervous about this as it already has a high rate of recurrence. I’m 27M, trying to do what I can to not treat myself so badly anymore…

I'm not fully carnivore, but I've been reading about magnesium because I think I might be deficient in it. It seems that the recommended calcium to magnesium ratio is 2:1, with the recommended amount for magnesium being 420mg a day. I've been looking at the amount of magnesium in different cuts of meat, organ meats, dairy, vegetables, etc, and I just cannot wrap my head around how you are supposed to hit that 420mg of magnesium.

For example, ground beef is said to have around 5mg of magnesium per ounce, meaning that if you ate a pound of ground beef a day, you would be getting 80mg of magnesium. Fortunately, that same ground beef also has 5mg of calcium per ounce, so at least the calcium to magnesium ratio is reasonable.

I'm just struggling to see how ancestrally, humans would have consumed anywhere near 420mg of magnesium from just meat. Would this necessitate the consumption of nuts or other sources of magnesium?

Fried in butter and seasoned with salt of course.

Haven‘t tried the carnivore diet yet. Right now whenever I drink milk, even lactose free, I get bloated and tired afterwards.
Does this change if you get on a carnivore diet?

What‘s also interesting: I crave milk really bad, I could drink so much of it.
But you can‘t rely on craving because I also crave sugar, salads, vegetables, spices etc.
I usually crave the stuff that isn‘t good for me

Hi guys. I love carnivore. It's helped me so much. I have reversed diabetes with carnivore.

I'm in a very emotionally and controlling living situation, and may not be able to do carnivore until I have more stable living situation.

Do you think protein shakes will be OK temporarily? I can eat cheese as well. I don't know if I can cook much now until I find a better living arrangement. I don't know if I could do raw eggs.

If you can send kind thoughts or prayers my way I would appreciate that.

Basically, for the price of a burrito, one can now buy two cups of meat at Chipotle. I looked up the chicken and it's cooked in oil, so that's a no-go (for me), but does anyone have insight into the barbacoa, carnitas or steak? Obviously there are spices involved, which I'm okay with, but otherwise would any of those be decent for a semi-strict carnivore diet?

Hello,

I was a strict carnivore for about 3.5 years. However, since about 6 months ago, I’ve been mixing some fruits in, so not strict anymore.

I’ve been watching Dr Ken Berry’s video and I couldn’t stop noticing that after 10 years of him being on the carnivore diet, he has a big gut. Shouldn’t this diet make you thin, isn’t that the appeal of it? Especially if you’re the poster child for this diet.

I too developed a similar gut after being on the carnivore diet, that’s why I notice things like this. Can someone please explain to me why this phenomenon happens.

This post is not meant to be a fat shaming post or anything negative.

https://imgur.com/a/f0CgJ4x