Having a carnivore salad at Five Guys ... on our way to Costco for a meat stock-up.

I'll be a 95% carnivore. I like how I feel eating no plants but I kept coffee and some coconut cream. I also want the option of an occasional treat like fresh berries or just picked peas.

I don't know if it will be forever, but I'll stick (mostly) with it for next few months.

Have to share this one of me and my son goofing around on our trip.

Not looking for any arm compliments here ~ lol. The point of sharing this one is to show how much I've leaned out, with zero effort to do so. When this happens, I carry any remaining fat in my lower half. I know, my arms look skinny ~ and some people may even think they look gross. I'm cool with that.

@cricketpower your hands look exactly like mine - no extra flesh - all the vascularity and joint definition, lol.

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Oooh I WANT a bicep vein. That would be so "mom cool". And my boys would be jealous. I do carry weight in my arms. Even when slim I could fly with my bat flaps! LOL

Lol. Don't get me wrong. I love my veins.

But they only used to come out due to weightlifting. Now they're out due to carnivore.

Bringing this conversation up one more time, for something I've been wanting to do. For the visual folks who like charts ~ here are my results of once/week fasted tracking ~ for what ended up being 8 straight weeks of carnivore eating.

A few notes:

1) I ate a keto diet for two weeks before switching to carnivore. I wasn't measuring glucose during that time, but I measured ketones at the end of week 1: 0.2 and week 2: 0.7

2) I did not set out to lose fat, but as you can see from my pics ~ I did lose fat. I think I reached a point where my body said enough is enough and my hunger did increase. However, I filled that void with more meat & seafood. Toward the end, I got a little more brave and allowed more spices, and sugar in bacon ~ and probably more cheese here and there ~ but at no point was I just straight up adding carbs or "cheats". So I feel this is a realistic picture of what MY body did with a carnivore diet ... and I cut off the results when I know I was intentionally having things beyond meat & seafood.

(FWIW ~ my ketones actually went UP a little bit in the next week's measurement, but so did my FBG.)

3) I never did manage to completely cut coffee. I drank it black, as always ~ and I tried to cut back in total ounces ~ but it was still very much a part of my daily life.

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In conclusion ~ and reflecting back, now that I have messed around with plant foods again:

This was possibly the best experiment I have done with my food in my entire 39 years of life. The benefits are too many to count.

I had a spot on a tooth that had been bothering me for years completely heal itself (!) and now it never hurts, ever.

I've managed to get my body on a good circadian rhythm ~ I get up and watch the sunrise every day, and I don't eat after dark. I go to bed after dark... as humans are meant to do.

It was the catalyst for change in almost every area of my life. That may sound dramatic ~ but it's true. If you are consuming things daily that do not make you feel well, if you are living in a state of anxiety or fog all the time ~ and you remove those things that are making you feel that way ... the sky's the limit.

THANKS to all who have been here & contributed to this thread. I value each and every one of you. And best wishes on your journey ahead.

Thank you @FIT_Goat ~ I know you are a busy guy.

I think I got some plant experimenting out of my system, and I'm back at it today. I am going to start a new journal in the carnivore section. I've learned A LOT since I first started. Feel like a different person.

I know everyone's microbiome is different, I'm sure some are optimized for a carnivore diet and have much less of the microbes needed for plant digestion, and of course, vice-versa.