Eat the meat, save the humans
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 …
I waited YEARS for this interview. When I say this was my number one bucket-list interview, I truly mean it. From the very beginning of My Zero Carb Life, there was one person I hoped I could someday sit down with, and that person is Charlene Anderson. She and her husband, Joe, have quietly influenced …
Don’t get too hung up on “forever.” A lot of people get stuck before they ever begin because they think they need to answer a very large question: “Can I eat this way forever?” That is usually not the most useful question. When Megan started Carnivore, she did not make a dramatic lifetime declaration. She …
Part 2 of my interview with Adi and Tzivi… One of the biggest mistakes we can make is assuming that if someone has been eating what the world calls a “healthy diet,” they couldn’t possibly end up struggling with their health. Adi’s story is a good reminder that our bodies don’t read nutrition labels or …