That was one of the craziest things about carnivore to me. I was all of a sudden eating once maybe twice a day. So a plate of eggs and bacon around noon and big fatty steak for dinner. And some days it just be a big fatty steak and I would be fulfilled and satisfied until the next evening! It's unbelievable. Btw I lost 25 lbs in two weeks with ZERO exercise which never happened before in my life.

I've heard a few critics say "it's just calorie restriction". well yes it is but that's not the goal unlike conventional "dieting". the calorie restriction happens naturally not forcefully. the calorie restriction happens because of the sufficient nutrients. not because of sufficient "will power"

Keep up the message theme. I’m freaking here for it! Sadly most people I try to impart these already well proven ideas to toss me to the side. I’m 4.3 months in, which is just the start, and things are drastically changing. In my 60’s! But some are watching me heal like I was born to, and just beginning to scratch their heads. This way of life is hard af, but only when you get past all the plethora of addictions you are attached to. I’m in this for the long game. And I’m feeling like a Lioness with a side of extra Bad@$$. Thank you Doc Chaffee💪🏽

This is so true, before going carnivore I was hungry all the time and my life revolved around food. This way of eating is so freeing. I eat twice a day and inbetween I'm never hungry.

It's all true. The carnivore diet has done wonders for my health. I'm 70 and have zero aches and pains.

So True shopping and cooking has never been easier ! And eating much less , it’s a win all around ❤

Totally agree. 70 years old and in the best health of my life on carnivore. Just finished cooking for guests and OMG the expense and the complication involved. Loved having them visit but thankful to go back to the simplicity of carnivore and 1MAD or 2MAD ( meals a day).

I agree! So easy but still have to cook other meals because of family. Now I hate those old complicated meals.

Watched your interview with Benjamin Brown and it just clicked in my brain that this is so right for me. After 64 years of low fat, plant-based diet and now suffer from metabolic syndrome.

OMAD all the way! Your skin looks great. Glowing and healthy. 🥩👍🏼

Your skin looks amazing ! That probably is another benefit of eating this way....

Best thing I have ever done 14 weeks. Pain gone. Wright lost. Full all the time. Omad

Initially I ate way too much meat and soon realized I didn't need half as much. Now I eat much slower and also enjoy the flavor longer

Thanks for this very informative post! 👍 I’m gradually being persuaded toward the Carnivore Diet.

I'm almost six months back in, doing one meal a day, and I've gotten so disinterested in eating that it's hard to break my fasts.

It really is true , I ate yesterday at about 2pm , soft boiled eggs , butter and bacon and it’s 1pm now and I have no cravings or hunger pains . Im prepping a chuck roast now for dinner . I was diagnosed with pulmonary sarcoidosis in 2018 and since it never went into remission I was told it’s now Chronic . I’m also obese , down 20lbs so far and plan to astonish my pulmonologist in October and get on with my life .

🥩🥩🥩SO TRUE !!! 🥩🥩🥩 I have worked Night Shift for so many years and have always brought food to work… UNTIL CARNIVORE !!! 😁😁😁 I eat twice a day now-morning and afternoon… no snacking and no more eating at night… it’s amazing !!! No hunger, no cravings… BEST WAY TO EAT EVER !!! 🥩♥️🥩♥️🥩♥️🥩♥️🥩

I was actually caught by surprise by the convenience but mainly by the low cost. People do not realize how expensive it is to be stuffing processed foods in your mouth. Carbs make you want to eat more...

Amen! 🙏🙏🙏 you’re awesome!

I'm on my second week of eating high density. I cannot believe how much less I'm eating. Have we as a society been programmed by our "handlers" for the sole purpose of monetary gain? Think about it. What's truly amazing is that anything contrary to the "status quo" is deemed dangerous misinformation. Heaven forbid we think for ourselves.

I can’t wait to go full carnivore because I have suffered with acne from the age of like 13 to the age I am now (23) and I’ve been hearing so many crazy things about acne completely disappearing and people not having to use products on their face anymore. I hope carnivore can give me some confidence back because I’ve hated myself for years.

Also LESS of a grocery bill. Thanks 4 sharing

Can you make a few "what i eat in a day" videos?some more stats, how much you eat, workout or non workout day etc. What time you wake up, when do you eat- i think this would be really helpful.

I was used to eat ALL THE TIME. I was, literally, hungry every half an hour. Now, I eat 2 meals a day and NOTHING in between because I am not hungry.

Discovered this truth on day 3. My monthly food costs hardly changed at all, but now im eating like a king.

Atm I'm only having one meal every 36 hours or so. Appetite has gone, my body is content eating my excess belly fat. Which is annoying in a way, as I don't want my beef to go to waste.

It’s great. You can eat, or not. You can keep working either way, no problem. Not hangry, not starving, not foggy, not indecisive and stuck.

I strongly can say that’s because you have shown you eat more steak like meats. When I eat ground beef I could never eat once a day but when it’s steak yes absolutely

That's something I've noticed. I was intimidated to do carnivore because I thought our grocery budget would go through the roof. However, we eat less, which means we buy less food. We actually spend less on groceries than before buying only animal products and a handful of produce for our son.

True, I eat less too, and once a day. No hunger pangs, and I feel great with so much energy

Yeah, I was shocked how eating much fatter meals actually reduced my appetite and led to me eating fewer calories and losing weight without being hungry at all, unlike traditional diets.

I am 3 months in and very bored. Cutting off sugar is much harder than I thought. I am about to start eating 1 meaty meal per day. No snacks is also tough. I am drinking more water and appreciating being hungry.

I couldn’t agree more. Everything he says here is 💯 spot on. I eat maybe twice a day and it’s always meat or eggs. I eat kimchi and avocado in the evening with my meat, also Less food=longer life

I am not carnivore (yet) but keto since May 23, lost 55 pounds and I am at 214pounds now. The immense positive effects are undeniable, and I noticed that my athlete’s foot I have had trouble with to get rid off (including the nail fungus) has disappeared (probably due to the lack of sugar they thrive on) as well as all the aches and pains that crawl in once you hit the 50 mark of age. I am planning on carnivore next month to see how that agrees with me. Thank you all for comments on how much carnivore diet has changed your life!

Smaller kitchen and less cabinets!

I know, even with my increased activity level, I'm less hungry. I live on a small farm, and I don't break fast until I have fed the dogs, we take a good walk through the corn field to the pond and around the edge of the woods, 45 minutes worth, then I feed chickens and cats, then, between 1230 and 1330 I eat 5 of my chicken eggs with butter, and bacon! Today I added two Canada Goose tenderloins cooked in butter as well as a side. Very good eating!

Actually turns out to be the best thing about it, not being hungry all the time and only eating once or twice a day, what a blessing. Weight loss is automatic, just eat until full.

I have taken the last two weeks of March to remove all sugars and carbs. Starting April 1st I will be eating full time Conivor. All I have left to remove is cheese and pork rinds..

The main problem with the carnivore diet is most people can only afford to eat hamburger and 2+ lbs of ground beef a day is brutal lol

It's one of the best things about carnivore but I'm on a 3 times a day antibiotic that needs to be taken with food. It's really bothering me to have to eat something three times a day! If I don't my stomach kills me though, because of the antibiotic, so I'm going to just keep breaking up what I would normally eat into three meals. Can't wait till I can go back to eating once or twice a day.

So true. OMAD, 400 grams of roast (measured), chunked, sauteed in butter, and topped with Oaxaca. Sometimes I'll place antire meals in separate freezer bags. Just place in large bowl and microwave for super quick meals. I'm a trucker and don't miss a beat.

My go to is a 3-4 egg omelette with minced beef, sometimes liver and some cheddar That can do me for a whole day. I try and get some meat in later tho like a ribeye or pork loins. Never feel hungry nowadays

I do eat a bit of fruit as well, but 90% carnivore, and I do feel satiated more now than I did when I was on higher carbs and veggies.

I triggered a xenobiotic obseneogen chelation which dumbed all the toxins along with most of fat cells going from a size 22 pant size to a size 2-4 in less then 6 days. Visceral fat shrunk so rapidly it compression brusied ALL MY INTERNAL ORGANS. Beyond pain...screamed for 3 days. Not making this up. My underpants fell off... my shoes, rings and hsts are too big as well as all my clothes. I went from 9 years whole food plant based to carnivore next day's OMAD. Sudden fall face first alseep in my food plate breaking my eyeglasses leg hinges sleeping on frames. I actually was holding the fork on it's way to my mouth slmamming chin into table top when it dropped. On a Monday in August of last year@ 7 Central, I google insulin residtance and metabolic syndrome. It was pushed into the live feed of Dr Ken Berry a popular (3 million) CARNIVORE. My stardard please for help, DESPERATE TO BE WELL Ubber Flouritoxic Mo here falling asleep in my plate of food everyday while eating during daily OMAD 20-22 IF for last 6 years with all normal labs...norcoplesy ruled out. HOLY CRAPPOLA!!! I thought GOD answered my prayer with the commandment, get off all seed oils immediately. Jumped up and changed my diet doing a 180!°diet change completely from vegan to carnivore by the next day's meal. As I chewed and swallowed...I instantly felt my cells respond. It was as if they all woke up with happy wagging their tails. I could not stop moaning!!! Wowza! 1st, 2nd, 3rd day's pound 'O meat I did not fall asleep, but had sudden fatigue so complete I could not have lifted my feet to run out of the house if it had been on fire. I felt what it was to feel alive...really alive...for that day. Then intense pain as all organs...liver, gaul bladder, pancreas/spleen, kidneys adrenals were compression bruised as fat shrank

Very interesting Dr. Chaffee. I've been following you and Saladino 7 -8 months. I was 135 lbs July 2022, I am now 105. 5'5" 62 yo female, and continue eating the delicious meat, although I have gotten some mild criticism when I share my thoughts about the unhealthy SAD; I also experience the benefit of not having much hunger throughout the day and if I'm very busy can get by on one meal. No chopping, dicing, rinsing, mixing, baking, sugar, shopping. I'm happy with my eggs, milk, fruit and meat and I take coffee and honey or Maple syrup for some sweet. in my fridge. Some naysayers think "It's dangerous". Gheee whizzzz.

Carnivore for over a month, I am constantly eating and I'm obese. I love to eat.

I'm aiming for OMAD..gotta do it :)

How many grams of protein do you eat a day? A gram of protein per pound of body weight? I started the carnivore diet and I want to make sure I’m getting enough protein so I don’t lose muscle especially with working out every day.

On the vegan diet I felt like I was starving even after 6 meals a day. On the carnivore diet I'm satisfied with one or 2 meals a day. Because the carnivore diet involves eating FOOD

Im in my first week of carnivore and Im able to fast most of the day with ease and when I do get hungry Im not as hungry as I would be if I was eating carbs. Im definitely still craving carbs though.

High density nutrition. I guess this why when i eat raw meat I eat much less, but have much more energy.

I find this VERY TRUE!!

This is good to hear for my budget lol

I don't even feel hungry until around 3 or 4 in the afternoon.

I agree completely

I only eat meat, or fish so once is enough. If I add anything to my meal apart from salt, it's butter and mushrooms. ❣

I’m eating more protein and I can tell it’s definitely making me feel better. I’m still eating some carbs but in a more strategic way , and a lot less than I was eating before. We’ll see how this goes. I’m definitely intrigued.❤

If I eat more than twice a day and genuinely hungry I look at what I have eaten and reassess as it clearly is the wrong choice. I am on a carnivore diet and appetite has disappeared because I am satisfied with what I am eating

After all the fasting and OMAD'ing I've done in the past 3 years, I can barely imagine eating more than once per day.

I'm SO Confused!! Even tho I did OMAD, ADF, and intermittent fasting on keto & now Carnivore Day 22, I thought if we don't get all our calories in for the day, we slow our metabolism?? Help!!

Can't thank you enough for all your content Dr Chaffee! Keep it up!!

That’s been my experience. You can eat as many calories as you want until you feel satiated on a carnivore lifestyle. As your body reaches a homeostasis of nourishment, there’s less caloric intake required to keep the body in that state of health. People who don’t eat nutrient dense animal foods are having to eat more calories of junk food to which they never feel satiated. They may feel full, but never satisfied.

@anthonychaffeemd: I've been on board since January, with no regrets. My issue is that I've always been slender, slightly underweight, & without much appetite. So since becoming "keto-vore," I'm now even leaner (which is good), but I'd now like to bulk up by increasing muscle mass. Any suggestions on how to actually increase appetite and consequently muscle gain?

Not me... I'm eating 4 or 5 times a day (no snacking). I don't get hangry but I'm trying to grow bigger and I'm not (I was/am hyperthyroid), so I'm eating close to what I used to. My typical day is around 400 grams of protein and 500 grams of fat, sometimes more... and I'll have to calculate my carbs, as I've been eating plain yogurt with honey every night, which I'm sure bumps me past 20. Yogurt with honey is the only sweet thing I'm eating now.

Yes

Newbie here! I’ve done awesome so far (Day 20), sleeping better, huge spikes of energy, losing weight, but I’m having a hard time eating more than 1200 calories a day now. At first I was eating more, the first two weeks, but this week it fell off so hard. I don’t know if it’s a hormonal shift or if my body is stabilizing in some way, but I’m afraid I won’t get enough nutrients (though I am supplementing with iodine, a multivitamin, and electrolytes). I have a genetic disorder that needed so much caring for in the past, but now I feel good, but am worried I’m going to crash. Is that something I should worry about and force-eat more?

Keto or carnivore are the way to go.

So, how do you manage the amount of protein when you are eating less and once per day? Are you supplementing, in addition to whole foods?

Not having to take a nap.

In a few days of carnivore i lost 5 lbs, dont feel tired even with less sleep, dont have blurred vision randomly happen, my eczema on my hands cleared up, i have more energy. Its insanely fast turn around time. Im never going back. Only downside is the runs from eggs and increased fat that i have. 😂

Easier than anything I’ve ever tried. Shopping, chopping, recipe time, cook prep, cook time, stress of prep, and yes cost is much less than a plant based diet or the terrible balanced diet

I saw you frying in one video, what oil are you using?

How much protein and fat do you think you eat on average?

Meat + air fryer grill, so fast and easy.

I eat 2 times but mostly bc I cant eat enough in 1 time😅

I've been doing this for a few weeks now and find it hard to hit my macros in two meals, Im trying to get 150 gm of protein then of course, more fat than that and a min of 2000 cal ?

I want to put on about 20lbs. while doing carnivore. I’ve got my fat at 70% of my calories and just started working out today. All of this just started today. I’m 6’6” 205 at 18% body fat this morning. I’d like to eventually get to 225 and be 12%. I know it’s going to take time and that’s fine. Is there anything I should do different than a normal carnivore trying to get healthy or lose weight would do?

100% simple

Food is one of the joys in life. We are all different, hate eating if you like.

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If it's recommended that we eat a gram of protein per pound of lean body weight then it's seems quite difficult to eat that much in one meal.

but what about protein distribution for weigt liftin and increasing muscle mass? will i still build muscle eating all my meat in one sitting? or will I build more eating meat spaced out every few hours, like 40g protein per meal?

I just had a question as you say, the plants have adapted so that they can protect themselves with toxins against others, eating them, and that certain animals adapt to certain plants to eat them I would ask if not that happens to humans. You can look at the obituaries in my area we come from a Ukrainian Polish background with lots of sauerkraut, onions and garlic, eating all garden vegetables and some meat and everybody’s in their late 80s and 90s even up to 100 like more than half the people and they eat bread and pastry and drink dairy and everything else so maybe our bodies get adapted to these things, because after generations of having to eat what there is like, flour beans, and rice so maybe there is a way that our body can adapt to these things obviously people have been eating this for many years. I’m wondering if it’s the onions or garlic or the fermented sauerkraut and food that they put so they also use heavy cream and an animal fat so maybe it’s a combination sometimes

How much meat are you eating in that one meal? I have trouble eating more than 1.5 lb raw weight of meat in a single meal

HD grocery shopping is easier too

I think we evolved in ketosis. Glucose was second.

I'm honestly just not hungry. Like not at all. I fear I'M UNDEREATING In last 4 days I've had some bone broth, a few eggs and about 1 pound of beef AND some butter... And food isn't tasting that great... I'm just not interested in food and when I do force myself to eat "because I think I should", I eat a few bites and I'm done.

respectfully disagree easy to prepare: 2nd best thing about carnivore mindblowing countless health benefits: 1st best thing ever. But I get you ^^

I started recently and am trying to reach a macro goals and calories but my body just can’t eat that much 😂 I’m noticing that I sit down and eat about a pound and a quarter of ground beef and I’m full. I normally only eat ground beef and fruit. Do you think that I could be malnutrition because of the lack of diversity in terms of meat?

Love carnivore but how do I get unconstipated? It’s not the quantity that bothers me but the quality! Obviously less in, less out.

I tried OMAD but was consistently undereating and my hormones were not great. I think my sweet spot is twice a day with breakfast right away around 6:30am and dinner around two with maybe a snack at work around 5 and done until the next morning..

How do you not loose to much weight?

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I find my fat and muscle is dropping slightly would you increase fat I am getting at least 150 grams of protein?

I've always eaten once a day as an adult. I just never get hungry. I started this Diet to CURE my Rheumatoid Arthritis. Don't need to lose weight, which leads to my question....if you are already skinny, will end up looking like a walking skeleton?

I’ve hit a plateau only 1 week after being on carnivore . I lost 6 pounds that week and my second week my weight remained the same . I only heard how people loose 15-30 pounds in the first month and having hit plateau already is a bit off putting . I’ve experienced extreme hunger in the morning but i try to eat around 12pm and my second meal around 6pm . I usually have for the first meal 5 eggs and calf liver plus 2-3 pork sausages and my second meal i have a sirloin steak about 400g or 0.88 pounds . I also exercise in the gym 6 times a week following p p l routine . Would anyone advise me of what am i doing wrong ? My height is 6 feet and my weight is 234.7 pounds

Same here

I'm on day 7 and it's kicking my rear end. I want a big a** bowl of fruit😂 Do you ever just crave those foods? How do you get over that?

you get true satiety eating meat. Once you're full you dont need to eat for a while and cna go all day without eating another mean. Which might explain the weight loss.

If you only eat once a day it's nearly impossible to get all the protein and fat we need in one go,I can't eat 150 grams fat and same Inprotein in one go its not possible