Carnivore

#PROS 👊

• I 👁 feel 😁 amazing 🧡

• Every 💯 day 📆 is Meaty 🥩 Treaty 🍆💦 Monday 🗳

• When you 👉 always have the meat 🍖sweats 💦, it’s like 😄 you 👈🏼 never ❌have the meat 🥩sweats 💧, if you think 🤔about 💭 it

• I poop 💩 once a week 🗓, usually 😌 in a torrential burst 💦🍆 of rancid 🚽😱👻 diarrhea 💩, which is a real 💯👌 time-saver

• Bleeding 💉😳 gums 😋 are a convenient 🏪 source 📰🎨 of iron ⚙ and minerals ⬆ you 👈 can’t get 🉐 from plants 🌱

• Bacon 🥓

• My brain 🧠 fog 💨 has lifted 👐💪, and been replaced 🔄 with what my doctor 👨‍⚕️ calls 📞 “encephalopathic smog” which I 👁 believe 🙏 is a type ⌨ of ketone

• Newfound 👄appreciation 👍for the moon 🌝, it’s simply 🔢 gorgeous 😍

• Did I 👁 mention 🗣 I feel 😁 amazing 😉?

• I 👁 currently ⌚ hold 👫 the Guinness World 🌎 Record 🎥 for “Most Cholesterol” 🍔😎

#CONS 🚫

• My doctor 👨‍⚕️ keeps 👌 passing 🎫 out when he 👥 looks 👀 at my recent 🕛 blood 💉 work 💼 and I still 🙄 haven’t heard 👂 the results 💹

• I 👁 bruise 🤒easier 😀than a ripe 🍎peach 🍑in a tumble 🌀 dryer 🤢

• Once a month 📆 I wake ⏰ up ☝ covered in blood 💉, feces 💩, hair 💈, and bone 🍖 fragments 💯 with no 😣 recollection of the previous ⬅ night 🌙

• Two 💏 words 🔚: butter fingers 👆

• Children 👶 run 🏃🏻 away 😐screaming 😱 when they see 👀 that I’m overtly riddled 😣with parasites 🐲

• Limited ⚠ options 🍂 when ⏰ eating 👅 out

• In the twilight 🌙 hours 😳, as I lie in my bed 🛏, perched ❕ on 🔛 the narrow 😛precipice between slumber 😴 and waking 😩consciousness 🧠, I often glimpse 👀 in my periphery 👁 a hooded figure 🤔🧐 with sucking black ⬛ eyes 👀, its crooked 🤥😈 maw brimming with maggots 🐛 and pus 💦, clutching 👊 an ornate iron 🙅‍♂️❌ scythe as ancient 📜 as time 🕐 itself. Its tepid, sulphuric breath 💨 lingers in my nostrils 👃 as it whispers 😮 in a language 🗣 I don’t know ⛔ but understand 🤔 perfectly 💯. It knows my secrets 🙊, my dreams 😴, my darkest 😈 ambitions 👩‍🎓💤. A strange 🤔 euphoria 😍 washes 🛁🚿 over 🔁 as it beckons me into the abyss with pallid, elongated fingers ☝. I 👁 am no 🙅 longer 🍆 frightened 😱. Alas 😫, as I step 🚶 closer towards the veil 🔮, suddenly 😱 I am awoken by the distant 🌚 crack 🍑 of thunder ⛈ in a cloudless sky ☁.

• Everyone 👥 at work 🏢 calls 📞 me “hamburger helper”

• My farts 💨 made 👉 my dog 🐕 break 💔 up ☝ with me

• It ain’t easy ✅ bein’ greasy 🍕

*This is an emojified version of [one of my favorite VCJ posts](https://old.redd

How many people here are planning on doing this carnivore thing indefinitely? I see tons of threads of people who want to do it for 1-3 months as an elimination diet and then phase things back in to see how it impacts them.

Also, how many are doing it just for overall health benefits. I am just starting it (about 4 days in) and unlike what I see from most people here, I did not have any health problems before beginning. I was/am somewhat overweight but overall I am very healthy. I have no negative reactions from any foods, including processed foods, sugars, etc that I have noticed.

I'm a huge fan of seafood but it seems like the most popular dishes for folks on Carnivore is steak, eggs, and organs. Was wondering why there isn't love for fatty fish like salmon, sardines etc.? Do beef have more nutritional benefits or is there another reason?

Yo so I will start to work monday, and I want to try again carnivore. But i am wondering how to manage it at work, so looking for ideas : what do you eat at lunch at work ? How do you manage the cooking ? Ty

There were icees to my right, soda behind me, donuts straight ahead and and candy all around... never going back in there.

I hope you got a kick out of that, but since I’m here, how long do the cravings usually last? And also I’m right now thinking I’ll do 100% meat for about two weeks and then add in some dairy products (those are my main joy in life and if my body reacts well I could probably sustain this diet for a very long time) is two weeks long enough?

Thanks!

I hissed and shiffled my [feather analogues] uncomfortably.

I glanced around the high society ball covered by decorations and diplomatic regalia. It was being held in the orbital station BZ37. Such things weren’t to my preference, but for something as politically significant as the discovery of a new race of sentients, I was expected to be there.

Each new contact or discovery has led to significant economic and political impacts in the known galactic region. With 17 species of sophonts known to us so far.

I wandered through the crowd. Which consisted mostly of members of my own species, waltzing slowly on their pseudopods to the music.

I eventually sidled up to someone I vaguely remember, as a major researcher of the site.

Chittering out a customary greeting of my kind and getting one in return. I struck up a conversation with the fellow member of my species.

I locked a few of my eyes on him, I think his name was Sllqintqurixtr or something typical like that.

“So what are your thoughts on the nature of the newly discovered sapients of [Earth]?” He chittered out about the topic of the celebration.

I briefly eyed some rotted offal and other delicacies being served out of the corner of some of my eyes. Before responding, “I was wondering what type of [carnivore] they were.”

I was referring, of course, to a rule that applied to all sapients known so far. The one that said the mental rigours causing sapience to evolve, are only found in predatory organisms due to the challenges of consuming active and adaptive prey.

These 3 types of predatory strategies include, [Scavenger], [Hunter], and [Parasite]. They heavily shape the species psychology and the cultural mindset of their race.

Examples such as, [Hunter] species being belligerent but straightforward, like the Tzz-i-kyl Empire.

[Parasite] species being untrustworthy and slothful, like the Hu-lmurub-um Kleptocracy.

And [Scavenger] species such as my own being crafty and noble.

He rattled a few of his [feathered] tails absentmindedly, “That is actually a matter of some debate.”

I chittered out, “What do you mean?”

He gestured grandly with his datapad and brought up a holographic image of a rather hideous biped.

“[homo sapiens], the newly discovered inhabitants of [Sol 3].”

He continued, “Initially we thought they were a [Hunter] species. Judging off their biology and behaviour in their natural habitat, fairly typical pack based endurance hunters.”

“We’ll have to rais

Let me preface this by saying my boyfriend (33M) fully admits that he wants to like veggies but that he never got used to eating them growing up (mom didn't/doesn't cook, let him be picky when he was little, always fast food, etc) and it's mainly a texture thing for him. I wanted to make him a nice steak dinner but I can't stand just steak and mashed potatoes so I told him I wanted to add veggies as a side. Specifically, I told him it would be "zucchini, spinach, green beans, shallots, and mushrooms", to which he replied "that sounds like a bunch of stuff I don't like." CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

I did a pretty basic steak (salt/pepper/garlic, medium rare, seared on a buttered pan) and focused on the veggies. Since it's primarily a texture thing (he doesn't like the crunch or pop of veggies) I peeled the zucchini when I otherwise would have left the peel. I also used canned sliced mushrooms (which I also chopped) because they tend to be softer than dry packaged. I chopped the spinach and minced the shallot.

Recipe for one saute-pan-full

I prepped 1 shallot (minced), 1 green zucchini (peeled and diced), and 1 cup green beans (chopped into 1inch pieces) in enough olive oil to coat and sauteed them in the same pan I did the steak (crust/fat/etc and all) until medium tender and then threw in the one small jar of chopped mushrooms (strained) and ~1/2 cup chopped spinach. I seasoned with salt and at the very end, garlic powder and black pepper to taste, but depending on the amount of flavor you get from the steak pan leavings, this will be more/less necessary.

I admit I did over-cook them specifically because of his apprehension to the texture but I figured the green beans and shallots are always a good introduction to "crunchy" cooked veggies. He ended up having one-and-a-half extra servings of veggies with a ~6oz steak. Not gonna lie, him saying "the only reason I'm willing to try new things is that you know how to make things I don't like, in a way that I will love" made my day.

When we moved in together and I first started cooking for him, he would literally gag and spit out any vegetable that wasn't french fries or didn't texturally resemble baby food. Now he eats broccoli, corn, zucchini, green beans, peas, diced tomatoes, spinach, and sometimes, caramelized onion. My ultimate goal is to have him eat cold lettuce, but I try not to get ahead of myself lol happy cooking!

So how does this work for those of you who go on dates while doing carnivore? Do you order a $40 steak, don't eat the sides and take the bone home for bone broth? Obviously I'm exaggerating to make a point. Point being: is it hard, does your date understand even if it's your 1st date, is it awkward? Do you eat for real at home before or after the date then just order a piece of chicken? I might start dating again and am not sure how to handle it.

Edit: what made some of you certain I was a guy? I'm a girl. Lolz. Surprised this got so much traction but glad, ty!

This happened 3 times already. This is the 4th time. Whenever I go carnivore, it happens after the first week. I don't consume diary.

They're like acne but you can't squeeze them like acne. Nothing comes up when you squeeze them.

When I put really hot water over them in shower, it makes me feel something close to cumming. When I put the same water over another part of my body, it burns. Its that hot water.

They go away after 2 or 3 weeks (meanwhile I'm staying always carnivore). Their marks go away much slowly but I don't mind them. Certain processed meats make them come back though.

When I consume caarbs and break carnivore they disappear quickly. e.g they appear on day 7, i quit carnivore on day 10, they disappear in a few days.

In terms of size, they cover 2/3 of my upper shoulders up to neck, 1/3 of my back, 1/8 of my sides and chest. None on neck, face or below the belt

Sometimes they itch, A LOT.

1. What are they?

2. Why does this happen?

Hello Fellow Carnivores,

I did the carnivore diet for over 2+ months over a year back before the lockdowns started. During all these lockdowns and the scare of not getting enough food, I started to eat literally everything again which resulted of course in me gaining 10 kg. I like to go all in and want to reverse this transformation by starting directly with the Carnivore OMAD since it is also very budgetary.

Are there any reasons not to do the OMAD like jumping into cold water?

EDIT: Thank you all for the quick reply. Wanted to start tomorrow but hey, why not now. OMAD, here I come.

If anyone has tips on what/when/how much to eat that first meal, I'd love to hear them.

Has anyone has some longtime experiences? I did it for 2+ month, lost 10kg, gained 10kg after over a year of Lockdown. Other than that, health like I ever was ( I'm 32 BTW).

ABSTRACT

Background: Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) is a clinical condition characterized by an excessive bacterial growth in the small intestine. Clinical symptoms might be non-specific (dyspepsia, bloating or abdominal discomfort). Nevertheless, SIBO can cause severe malabsorption, serious malnutrition, immune reactions, and deficiency syndromes. This retrospective case report introduces six patients with positive lactulose hydrogen SIBO breath tests. The patients chose between different therapeutic options and willingly consented to a nutritional intervention, based on a zero carbohydrate, zero fibre, carnivore diet, extended over two to six weeks of time. The rationale for this dietary approach was based on the idea that opportunistic, carbohydrate favouring bacteria and methanogens proliferate in the small intestines if the natural barriers in the digestive tract have been weakened due to stress, illness, medication, etc. A zero carbohydrate, carnivore diet, consisting of animal fats and protein, could essentially eliminate these carbohydrate favouring bacteria through starvation while still providing plenty of both calories and nutrients.

Methods: six patients from our functional medicine clinic followed a strict zero carb, zero fiber, carnivore diet for 2-6 weeks. A lactulose breath test was performed immediately before and after the dietary change as well as extensive medical testing.

Results: five patients that followed the carnivore diet for four weeks or longer tested negative for SIBO, and the one patient that only endured the diet for two weeks had a near complete eradication of her hydrogen elevation. Methane values were generally low both before and after the dietary treatment, but there was a significant decrease in patients 3 and 5.

Conclusions: The carbohydrate, zero fibre, carnivore diet shows great potential for being a readily available, cost-effective, and equally effective alternative treatment for SIBO. According to our observations it also results in better satisfaction after meals, decreases cravings for sweets and generate weight-loss in patients where it is needed.

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-148500/v1

https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-148500/v1/22a367ac-c79e-494e-a906-43c169d94477.pdf

Hello ladies. I switched from eating beef/chicken/pork to just wild (not farmed) fish, shrimp for source of protein. I completely cut out all processed meats (deli, sausages etc). I feel so much better already:

• retaining way less water
• my sinus is cleared up
• my skin is clear
• I feel more energy
• my sleep improved even more

Can it be that overall inflammation went down in my body? I feel lighter and brighter.

Does anyone else change their diet this way and felt better?

P.S. Im in surgical meno for last 8 years, no hormons.

Pescetarian....phone auto corrected my title 😞

I've experienced lots of improvement on Carnivore, but I've also run into some issues. Firstly I was eating junk from the gas station and drinking Pepsi almost exclusively for many years. I had terrible eczema that would leave my entire arm open and bleeding profusely. I wanted to eat healthier and I discovered the Carnivore diet. I've been eating this way for a little over 8 months now. I've experienced an incredible improvement in my skin, absolutely no more eczema or acne. My hair is the best it's ever been and my energy is more stable after becoming fat adapted.

Unfortunately, I've also been dealing with chronic diarrhea and digestive issues. In the entire 8 months that I've eaten this way the number of solid stools I've had I could count using the fingers on my hands. Really this wasn't too big a deal to me considering all the benefits I was experiencing. I just hoped that it would go away, but it never did. I played around with the amount of fat I was eating but I never got anywhere. Adjusting ratios did me nothing. On top of that my sleep is really unreliable. I tend to wake up several times at night and at the worst, I woke up a couple of times per hour every hour.

Also my hands are pretty cold all the time. The rest of my body is very warm and I can tolerate the cold extremely well. But I'm a bit self-conscious about my cold hands when everyone around me has very warm ones. I can't remember if my hands were always like this and I don't think that carnivore necessarily created this issue. But I wonder if adding some carbs back into the diet could resolve that and the other issues.

On carnivore I try to eat nose to tail and eat lots of liver, eggs, fish, etc. Plenty of fatty steaks cooked blue. I add butter sometimes.

I'm a little nervous to add carbs back into the diet. I'm nervous that my eczema will return or that I'll wake up to find acne on my face again. I've been battling these skin issues my entire life and now that they're gone I want them to stay gone. But I also want to keep in mind that I've never eaten a diet like this for an extended period of time before. My diet history was swinging from one extreme to the other. I don't know what I'll find if I eat more "normal" or "balanced" whatever those words mean. Even while increasing variety I want to remain 80%-90% animal-based.

When attempting to add carbs back into the diet, what would you suggest I incorporate? I'm already considering sweet potatoes and blueberries. Any veggies that

1 week and 1 day into carnivore. Down 7 lbs. Mental clarity and energy in the gym is through the roof. Always full until my feeding window. Zero cravings for sugar. Any amount of anxiety or depression is gone. Eating a 14 oz ribeye in butter or beef tallow with a couple pieces of cheese, a couple cups of bone broth, 4 eggs with more butter or beef tallow. And that’s pretty much it. I’ve been on and off diets all my life and do good for a few days then crash and start from scratch. This diet or more of a lifestyle I suppose is so easy and simple and everything TASTES SO GOOD. Maybe Paula Deen had it right all along by drowning everything in butter. I promised myself I’d do this for the month of January for world carnivore month but if this train keeps rolling the way it is then I’ll never go back to the standard American diet aka SAD diet.

I've been eating mostly beef for the entire year of 2020 but I became strict about it in June. I haven't cheated once. I was eating fatty ribeyes, chuck roasts, drinking only water and I stopped relying on salt which saw my cramping go away.

I introduced eggs and grass fed butter back into the diet since I only saw improvements from them. When I first started carnivore these foods would make me go run to the bathroom shortly after consumption. That is no longer the case. I've been relying on butter as a primary source of fat for about two months now usually eating 8oz a day alongside a couple pounds of steak and maybe a carton of eggs every now and then.

I'm also eating beef liver once a week, usually a little over a pound because it tastes so good to me.

I go throughout my day just fine after having eaten for the most part. But then when it becomes night I have trouble going to sleep waking up 4-6 times in the second half of the night. Then when its finally time to get up the first thing I do is go to the bathroom and have diarrhea. I'm suspecting that my trouble sleeping is caused by digestive issues I'm having during the night. If I drink water before or during the night then I'll wake up needing to go to the bathroom several times in the night. I don't drink water for 30 minutes to an hour before and after my meals. I tend to avoid drinking water until I'm very thirsty because if I'm too casual it can sometimes lead to diarrhea. Or at least, that's how it used to be a couple months back.

I've experienced such great benefits eating this way but I long for the "perfect digestion" everyone says they have. What's also disappointing is that whenever I try to find information online regarding chronic diarrhea on carnivore its almost always from people new to the diet who have their symptoms be resolved after a couple weeks.

Despite my digestive difficulties I've experienced better energy even with my rough sleep. I don't experience any crashes and my energy is very consistent. I'm not hungry all the time, my eczema has gone away, my skin is much better overall. Asthma, while not eliminated is much better now. I'd also like to ask as a second question if its possible to completely eliminate asthma on carnivore?

I've tried using probiotics like kefir both raw and pasteurized. I didn't see much benefit from them, but perhaps I simply wasn't using them long enough. Only for a couple weeks.

If this diet isn't for me, what would I need to change to fix my

There are a handful of advocates of the diet, like Shawn Baker, Jordan Peterson, and Joe Rohan, that talk a lot about the diet’s benefits but they provide hardly any studies. I like these advocates and take them at their word but would love to see some controlled studies!

PS. I am 4 days into the diet and honestly feel great. Just consistent energy most of the day and no crashing at all so far

What was it & what symptoms or benefits did you experience while consuming whatever it was??

Obviously inhaling vs. eating in edible form will be somewhat different discussions here but I’m curious what y’all think?

PROS 👊 I 👁 feel 😁 amazing 🧡

Every 💯 day 📆 is Meaty 🥩 Treaty 🍆💦 Monday 🗳

When you 👉 always have the meat 🍖sweats 💦, it’s like 😄 you 👈🏼 never ❌have the meat 🥩sweats 💧, if you think 🤔about 💭 it

I poop 💩 once a week 🗓, usually 😌 in a torrential burst 💦🍆 of rancid 🚽😱👻 diarrhea 💩, which is a real 💯👌 time-saver

Bleeding 💉😳 gums 😋 are a convenient 🏪 source 📰🎨 of iron ⚙ and minerals ⬆ you 👈 can’t get 🉐 from plants 🌱

Bacon 🥓

My brain 🧠 fog 💨 has lifted 👐💪, and been replaced 🔄 with what my doctor 👨‍⚕️ calls 📞 “encephalopathic smog” which I 👁 believe 🙏 is a type ⌨ of ketone

Newfound 👄appreciation 👍for the moon 🌝, it’s simply 🔢 gorgeous 😍

Did I 👁 mention 🗣 I feel 😁 amazing 😉?

I 👁 currently ⌚ hold 👫 the Guinness World 🌎 Record 🎥 for “Most Cholesterol” 🍔😎

CONS 🚫 My doctor 👨‍⚕️ keeps 👌 passing 🎫 out when he 👥 looks 👀 at my recent 🕛 blood 💉 work 💼 and I still 🙄 haven’t heard 👂 the results 💹

I 👁 bruise 🤒easier 😀than a ripe 🍎peach 🍑in a tumble 🌀 dryer 🤢

Once a month 📆 I wake ⏰ up ☝ covered in blood 💉, feces 💩, hair 💈, and bone 🍖 fragments 💯 with no 😣 recollection of the previous ⬅ night 🌙

Two 💏 words 🔚: butter fingers 👆

Children 👶 run 🏃🏻 away 😐screaming 😱 when they see 👀 that I’m overtly riddled 😣with parasites 🐲

Limited ⚠ options 🍂 when ⏰ eating 👅 out

In the twilight 🌙 hours 😳, as I lie in my bed 🛏, perched ❕ on 🔛 the narrow 😛precipice between slumber 😴 and waking 😩consciousness 🧠, I often glimpse 👀 in my periphery 👁 a hooded figure 🤔🧐 with sucking black ⬛ eyes 👀, its crooked 🤥😈 maw brimming with maggots 🐛 and pus 💦, clutching 👊 an ornate iron 🙅‍♂️❌ scythe as ancient 📜 as time 🕐 itself. Its tepid, sulphuric breath 💨 lingers in my nostrils 👃 as it whispers 😮 in a language 🗣 I don’t know ⛔ but understand 🤔 perfectly 💯. It knows my secrets 🙊, my dreams 😴, my darkest 😈 ambitions 👩‍🎓💤. A strange 🤔 euphoria 😍 washes 🛁🚿 over 🔁 as it beckons me into the abyss with pallid, elongated fingers ☝. I 👁 am no 🙅 longer 🍆 frightened 😱. Alas 😫, as I step 🚶 closer towards the veil 🔮, suddenly 😱 I am awoken by the distant 🌚 crack 🍑 of thunder ⛈ in a cloudless sky ☁.

Everyone 👥 at work 🏢 calls 📞 me “hamburger helper”

My farts 💨 made 👉 my dog 🐕 break 💔 up ☝ with me

It ain’t easy ✅ bein’ greasy 🍕