Eat the meat, save the humans
I saved the toughest questions for Judy Cho. When someone tells me they’ve been eating carnivore consistently but they’re still struggling with weight loss, energy, hormones, or bloodwork, I don’t automatically assume they need to change what they’re eating. Sometimes the problem isn’t the food itself. Sometimes they’re not eating enough, they’re dealing with chronic …
She Was Eating All the Right Foods. So Why Was She Still So Sick? One of the things I’ve learned after so many years of eating carnivore is that a person can be doing everything they’re told is healthy and still feel absolutely terrible. That’s certainly how it was for my friend Candace, who recently …
One of the strange things about feeling better is that you become much more aware of what makes you feel worse. If you’ve spent years feeling tired, hungry, foggy, achy, or generally not great, it can be difficult to connect any one symptom to any one food. But once you’ve felt consistently good for a …
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 …