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 my biggest takeaways from my conversation with Kristen. She had already done Carnivore before. She had lost 58 pounds and gotten rid of a lot of pain! But she was an “all in or all out” girl. A celebration or holiday could turn into going off plan, followed by two miserable weeks of trying to get back on.

Then life got HARD. Her mom died. Her daughter crashed a dirt bike and broke 11 bones. Kristen turned to food for comfort, regained most of the weight she had lost, and watched her pain and anxiety return.

But this time, when she came back to Carnivore, she did something different.

She stopped trying to make Carnivore harder

Kristen had tried OMAD. She had done intermittent fasting. She had done 36-hour fasts and even five-day water fasts. Could she lose weight doing those things? Yep.

But she noticed that extended fasting could feed a restrict-and-binge cycle. She would lose weight, feel like she had been SO GOOD…and then end up overeating afterward.

I understand that pattern. Before Carnivore, I could be incredibly determined to lose weight. I could tell myself, “Fine! I won’t eat for three days!” And then three days later, my body was basically saying, “MA’AM. WE WOULD LIKE SOME FOOD.” 😂

Kristen eventually tried something that once would have sounded crazy to her: three meals a day.

And she loved it.

Consistency quieted the food noise

This is the first time Kristen has stayed completely Carnivore without letting those little “cheats” creep in. As a person who considers herself a true carb addict, she says that has been key. The food noise is gone.

That doesn’t mean Kristen suddenly developed superhuman willpower. In fact, that’s the fascinating part. She says it doesn’t feel like willpower anymore. She can see a cookie and remember what comes with it for her: joint pain, cravings, and potentially another two-week battle to get back to where she was. That cookie isn’t worth restarting the whole process. Sometimes it’s easiest to stop before we ever start.

Pay attention to the wins the scale can’t measure

Kristen has lost 55 pounds since restarting, and she’s at her lowest weight in about 25 years. That’s fantastic.

But PLEASE don’t miss the better part of this story.

Her plantar fasciitis is gone. Her finger and joint pain improved. Her left knee is bone-on-bone, and she had been told she needed a knee replacement. She used to go downstairs one foot at a time because her knee hurt so badly.

Then one day she realized she had just…walked down the stairs normally. Those are the NSVs—the non-scale victories—that I LOVE.

Kristen had assumed she was probably walking 5,000–6,000 steps a day doing chores around her horse farm. When she actually started tracking, she discovered it was often closer to 3,000–5,000.

So she started moving more.

Now she commonly walks 15,000–20,000 steps, and she has hit 25,000 several times. Even better? She can ride horses again after spending years unable to participate in something she dearly loved.

That’s not just weight loss–that’s getting your life back! What a huge improvement.

Get curious about YOUR body

Another thing I love about Kristen’s story is that she started collecting data. This woman told me she hated tracking and journaling—and now she does both! She discovered that even half a cup of coffee early in the morning appeared to affect her sleep. She stopped drinking it and suddenly began sleeping through the night. She experimented with her food, movement, fat intake, meals, sleep, and habits and paid attention to what actually happened.

That’s the point. You don’t have to follow somebody else’s Carnivore rules just because they’re loud on the internet. Your honest results matter.

Kristen described Carnivore now with one beautiful word: freedom. She isn’t spending her life thinking about which carbs she can eat next. She’s walking, riding horses, participating with her family, and looking forward to her future.

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