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179 sats \ 9 replies \ @Aardvark 6 Jan \ on: What has your experience been with the carnivore diet? alter_native

I'm personally not a fan. I lost about 100lbs over 11 months by counting calories. My diet was approximately 50% cabs during that time.

29 sats \ 4 replies \ @nout 6 Jan

Yeah, I also did counting of calories and it was amazing how precisely that works. Like I knew how much I'm going to weight in a month. Doing more meat&protein makes it easier to eat less calories per day.

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark 6 Jan

Yea, I still have to go on a diet once a year because I eat too much, but I can pretty much know exactly how long it's going to take because my weight-loss is very consistent when I count calories.

26 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 6 Jan

But how do you know your calorie intake? Is just assuming it's 2000 kcal per day good enough?

Or did you measure how many calories you need to keep your weight before you decreased it to lose weight?

89 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark 6 Jan

Use a TDEE calculator. It will give you an approximate calorie per day estimate. Reduce your calorie intake based on that number, and how much weight you want to lose per week. If you're losing weight too fast, add some calories. Too slow, subtract some calories.

https://www.calculator.net/tdee-calculator.html

44 sats \ 0 replies \ @nout 6 Jan

I used some tool online to calculate it based on my weight, height, activity, etc, but yeah it was essentially that if I'm eating 2400 kcal per day I'll have constant weight, if I'm eating 2000 kcal and less I'm losing weight. Then it's 1kg weight loss = 8000 kcal deficit. I used MyFitnessPal to track it and you can modify the target calorie number in MFP based on what you are trying to achieve.

Overall I think when you are fat, then start strength exercise to get muscles under the fat (for like 6 months) and after that you can do some weight loss.

If you first start losing weight and get skinny, then the next step you feel like you actually want some muscles, so you will need to eat a lot again anyway.

12 sats \ 3 replies \ @CheezeGrater OP 6 Jan

I'm fine weight wise, looking to improve my physical and mental health.

56 sats \ 2 replies \ @Aardvark 6 Jan

I saw a massive improvement to my physical and mental health by beginning strength training 5 years ago. Carbs are pretty important for peak performance, but i know people who have done well on the carnivore diet.

I was in a pretty dark place prior to that, I attribute a lot of my current mental state to prioritizing my physical health.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @CheezeGrater OP 6 Jan

I absolutely agree on the strength training! Started 2 years ago myself.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark 6 Jan

Its insane what a difference it makes. Ill never go back.