Eat the meat, save the humans
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
What happens when your brain just doesn’t feel right anymore? At MeatStock a couple of weeks ago, I was standing in the hallway talking with people between sessions when a husband and wife came up and started telling me why they had started carnivore. Within a few minutes, I knew I wanted them on the …
Do the work that actually heals you. Lately, I’ve been talking with quite a few people who tell me they’ve “been carnivore for years,” but they still aren’t getting the results they hoped for. They still have joint pain, stubborn weight, cravings, fatigue, inflammation, or poor lab work. And almost every time, when I ask …
Part 1 of 2: Claire’s Ongoing Transformation In this first part of a two-episode series on My Zero Carb Life, I sit down with Claire Lee, a long-time coaching member who has lost 182 pounds—but as she shares so honestly, the real story goes far beyond weight loss. This conversation dives into the mindset shifts, …