re: Do any of you have any experience with Keto or Carnivore Diets?

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False. That’s a myth. My cholesterol is better than it’s ever been. Animal fats are healthier for you.

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I've seen patients with an uptick of LDL but total did not skyrocket

I've had success with keto. I bought the test strips on Amazon and once I my body was in ketosis I started losing almost 2lbs/day. Daily weight loss tapered down but overall I lost 30 lbs in 2 months. I highly recommend getting the test strips and using the keto app to keep track of things. The app has a large database of common foods so it makes things easy to track. For example you can type "manda sausage" in the search bar and it's in the database. Just enter how many ounces and it tallies all the nutritional info throughout the day. The app made it easy to keep track of.

I’ve been on the Carnivore for right at 30 days and I feel so much better. I’m down 12lbs. I think the diet is really easy - I just eat meat and eggs. Never have to count calories.

I never did it, but half the people I know seems like they tried it. Got to be thousands on this board who have done it.

You can think of them as baseline establishers. You will figure out how good you are supposed to feel. Then incorporate foods back in one at a time to test for negative affects. Whole30 is another.

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Be near a toilet in the first couple of weeks

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I had the complete opposite experience when I started carnivore, I didn't shite at all for the first 5 days when I started and then my bowel movements were much less severe after that.

Stick to meat and veggies and stay away from sugar/grains/carbs.

keto works wonders for me. i do it after every football season for a couple months, but have had better lasting results when i've done it for 3 months or more.

stick to it for 3+ months and it seems to do wonders for the metabolism/liver long term.

also easy to go into a caloric deficit with it because the fat is filling and will sustain you as you get accustomed to the diet. don't cheat at all. find some high fatty sausage and fill in the rest of the protein with cheese and eggs. eggs aren't keto, but they're easy to mix in the same meal with higher fat content foods. it's a really easy diet to do. just gotta give yourself some time acclimate.

don't go over 5% carbs and stay at 70%+ fat. protein 4 calories, carb 4 calories and fat 9 calories per gram.

you can lose the same amount of weight eating w/e within the same calorie count, but the fat content in keto makes it a lot easier to just eat once a day.

try fasting for 3 - 7 days to start and you'll already be burning glycogen instead of glucose when you start the diet. a good mct oil and coffee can tide you over during the day.

Saw el gaucho was the last reply and decided to click the thread.

Did not leave disappointed

I tried Keto. It worked but I gained all the weight back when I ate carbs again.

Better to make lifestyle changes you can stick with forever. I lost 75 pounds and have kept it off by making lifestyle changes that I can live with forever and leaving changes I can’t live with alone.

I stared slowly changing just a few things and then when my weight loss plateaued I added something else.

I started with walking 4 or 5 days a week. Started doing 2.5 miles, then 3, then 3.5, and now I do 3.75 miles in 50 minutes, and replacing my calorie heavy lunch with a salad.

I pre make my lunch salads on Sunday and leave them at work during the week.

Just doing these two things took about 35 pounds off the first year.

Then I made other changes like: no fast food breakfast, which eventually turned into no breakfast at all, then I cut down alcohol from a couple of times a week to a couple of times a year.

I’m 6’3 and went from 300 to 225. I feel so much better, and people treat me better.

These were not quick changes and it took several year to lose the weight and I’d like to continue to lose 5 pounds a year, but after years of diets I couldn’t stick to I found slowly making lifestyle changes I can live with forever has been successful for me.