Eat the meat, save the humans
Change your relationship with food, change your life. For some folks, changing what they eat is mostly about figuring out which foods make them feel their best. For others, food has become tangled up with comfort, reward, restriction, guilt, and habit. That was certainly true for Elisha, who told me that she can trace her …
What if the foods we’re told are healthy don’t work best for our bodies? Sometimes we can make enormous improvements in our health and still have one stubborn problem that refuses to go away. We eliminate sugar, cut our carbohydrates, eat nutritious foods, and wonder why we aren’t feeling as good as we expected. My …
What If Eating Less Isn’t the Answer? For most of his life, Sheldon believed weight loss came down to one basic rule: eat less. If the scale was going up, he needed to cut back. If the scale stopped moving, he needed to cut back even more. That idea had been reinforced so many times, …
You cannot hate yourself into taking better care of yourself. One of the most important things I’ve learned about staying Carnivore has almost nothing to do with what’s on the plate: You cannot hate yourself into taking better care of yourself. If you’ve eaten something you wish you hadn’t, getting back on track with Carnivore …
Get your diet right first. When someone has a lot of weight to lose, it can feel like they need to fix EVERYTHING at once. Change the food. Start exercising. Fast. Track all the things. Get 10,000 steps. Sleep perfectly. Basically, become a completely different human by Monday morning. But after talking with my friend …
Carnivore consistency can beat trying harder. Sometimes the biggest difference between “Carnivore worked pretty well for me” and “My life has completely changed” isn’t a stricter plan. It isn’t more fasting. It isn’t eating less food or finding some magical macro. Sometimes, we simply need to do Carnivore longer, not harder. That was one of …
Cravings aren’t always a simple matter of hunger or willpower. If you’ve ever wondered why you can know exactly what you want to eat, make a perfectly reasonable plan, and then feel like an entirely different person when a craving hits, this conversation with addiction specialist Bitten Jonsson helps explain it. For people struggling with …
More is… less? When the scale stops moving, most of us know exactly what we’re supposed to do: eat less. Then maybe eat a little less than that. Because surely, if we want our bodies to get smaller, we need to keep taking food away, right? Well…not always. One of my coaching members, Holly, recently …
Not everyone comes to Carnivore for the same reason. One of the things I’ve learned over the years is that not everyone comes to Carnivore for the same reason. Some people are trying to reverse autoimmune disease, others are looking for better metabolic health, improved mental clarity, or relief from chronic inflammation, and then there …
How Kim Reclaimed Her Health with a Carnivore Lifestyle There are stories that don’t fit neatly into “before and after” photos, the kinds that feel less like a transformation and more like a life being carefully, painfully, and then unexpectedly rebuilt. Kim’s journey is one of those stories. When I first heard her speak, she …