Esther
Are you currently Keto or Carnivore?
Carnivore
How long have you been keto/carnivore?
7 months on, 4-5 months off, currently back on carnivore
Describe what a Typical Day of Eating Looks like for you.
Typically, a pad of butter and 16 oz water, upon rising. 1-2 (8oz) cups of coffee with butter and 1-1/2 Tbsp heavy cream per cup.
Breakfast 10:30-11 steak or ground beef or bacon and 1 or 2 eggs. Sometimes 2 sardines.
Lunch/dinner 3-4 PM, steak, hamburger stirred with scrambled eggs, or sardines, haddock, salmon, shrimp, scallops, pork steaks, dark meat chicken, etc.
Meat snack if hungry, or bone broth with butter, 6-9 PM.
Sometimes, aged hard cheese and a small amount of plain yogurt if feeling acidic.
Redkin salt, iodized salt, smart water.
Describe the health changes you have experienced since going keto/carnivore.
Digestion is 90% better. Plain high-fat yogurt, 1-2 tsp, usually helps. I would like to eat some fruit, but won’t lose weight when I do.
Your Keto/Carnivore Story
I started in March 2023. Twenty-seven days later, I got long-term COVID. But by then, I had already lost 18 lbs.
COVID remained until June/July. That’s when I started adding berries and really craving sugar. So for a few months I ate sugar everyday. I didn’t eat hamburger buns, potatoes, any starch, or veg, but I did have one fruit per day, and some type of sugar such as a 1/2 cup ice cream, 3-4 caramels, skittles, glazed croissants, sweets like that. Then, I began eating sweets twice per day.
I started out weighing 234 lbs. Then went down to 210 lbs. Then, with the sweets, I went back up to 225.
I’m currently back on Carnivore. I’m not liking the heartburn, but back down to 217 in 9 days. Carnivore works! Stupid sugar addiction.
What is the best (or top 3) pieces of advice you could give someone starting their keto/carnivore health journey?
Get informed as much as you can. Knowledge is power.
If hungry, eat! Just eat what carnivore whole foods until you’re full.
Drink water, add ice, or heat it, just make sure to stay hydrated.
Move! Even if it’s just a slow walk. Start with 10 minutes. Build up to 1 or more hours per day.
Rest, sleep, relax.
