Tried carnivore?

It sounds like another variation on atkins/ radically low/ zero carb diets.

You might lose weight but it's probably not healthy. Also pretty horrendous for the environment.

I think if you are physically OK to eat a varied diet then that is the best way - to include things from as many food groups as possible.

A diet that recommends all meat is developed by a physician so bad he loses his license.

Oh, yeah, why not try it?

No, eat a healthy, well balanced diet -- just less of it -- and you will lose weight.

rebekahstrachan3 wrote: »

Has anybody tried the carnivore diet and what were your results?

What results are you looking for? If it is weight loss then all diets that create a calorie deficit will work but not all of them will be sustainable for you. What is sustainable for one person will not necessarily be sustainable for you so whatever results someone eating this diet or any other diet for more than a year will have are not guaranteed for you.

Weight loss does not require a specific style of eating it only requires portion/calorie control. The inflexibility and lack of variety of the carnivore diet makes it unappealing to me. It also goes against my personal conviction of replacing a portion of my meat protein each week with plant based sources. If my health required this diet I would do it but I am thankful it does not.

tgillies003 wrote: »

Is it sustainable? No. So why would you do it?
Read ‘eat to live’ by Jeremy Sherman, ‘in defence of food’ by Michael Polson or ‘the China study ‘ by Thomas Collins.
Another good source is Canada’s new food guide.
Don’t want to read, then there is a documentary of interest defence of food’ that is available on Netflix.
Michael Polson summarizes things well with these few words:
Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.

The reality of it is, we get far more nutrition from plants than from animal based products.

"Sustainability" is a very personal and subjective metric. I certainly wouldn't find it sustainable, but then I'm not contemplating it. There are people who report eating this way for extended periods of time and find it sustainable (either because they enjoy how it makes them feel or they find it helps with health conditions or it makes their weight management easier).

The name is Michael Pollan, by the way. And he's not a nutritional researcher, he's a food writer. He's a very good writer, but I don't know if we can assume he gets to be the final word on what people should eat.

kshama2001 wrote: »

Joe Rogan Reports Back After a Month on Carnivore Diet

Around 5 minutes in he starts talking about the "explosive diarrhea" he had for the first two weeks. He says that phrase is not strong enough to convey what happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivMoNhjnhqw

And I am exactly immature and petty enough to find this hilarious BUT . . . .if OP decided to give it a try and experienced, um, Roganesque results, she can always bail and eat some broccoli or whatever it takes to get her digestive system back to normal.

Although I am very skeptical of diets that are put forward as the "one true way" and I am irked by those who tell others that they MUST follow a specific set of restrictions to achieve their weight management goals, I think we (not meaning YOU, just a general observation) can also get too worried about people trying out different plans just to see how it makes them feel.

I think the average person contemplating this way of life is going to give it a try, quickly get bored or realize they feel even worse, and then tap out without harming themselves. Finding out you hate a particular way of eating or that it doesn't make you feel good is, in itself, a pretty good piece of information to get.

(Note: I'm not saying that everyone is going to get bored or feel worse, I'm just saying that my perception is that the average person isn't going to stick with this style of eating for very long -- it's just too counter-intuitive to how many of us like to eat and there are powerful social, gustatory, financial, and probably physiological incentives to eat stuff other than meat).

Obviously, people should make sure they understand the nutritional implications before adopting a novel dietary pattern. My understanding is that there is not a great deal of evidence detailing outcomes on this type of diet, especially on a population level. Even people who traditionally eat close to a carnivore diet like the Intuit are still including berries, tubers, greens, and seaweed when they are available. As a vegan, I would never say that we shouldn't follow a certain diet just because it wasn't followed in the past. Obviously, we wouldn't have our current data on long-term nutritional/health outcomes associated with veganism if earlier generations hadn't gone first. But we can't ignore that there is a higher potential for risk associated with being an early adopter of a novel diet. Things go well, you're in the group that will help prove it. If things don't go well, you're in the group that provides a cautionary tale.