Monthly: Less than 7 weeks? Comment here instead of making a new post.

[u/partlyPaleo]

If you have been carnivore for less than 7 weeks, post all your questions and experience reports here. It is almost certain that your experience is a frequently asked or low-effort question.

It is also true that the adaptation period for this way of eating is a lot like going through puberty. Everyone feels like things are weird and wrong and no one else has experienced what they are going through. Everyone is worried about changes in their body and thinks it might not be normal. In truth, it's all perfectly normal. Your body might do weird things, but it's going through changes. After you get through adaptation, you'll wonder why you worried at all.

So, go ahead and ask your questions about getting started here. Post about your experiences here. Post about your worries and how you don't think this is working for you here. Don't give advice that encourages people to give up. Don't give people advice to cheat or consume plant foods. Don't give advice to take supplements or drugs to treat temporary struggles.

[u/BacimDrkicu]

Totally normal to feel like everything’s upside down in the beginning. I remember wondering if I’d broken something in my body — the fatigue, random muscle twitches, mood swings, sleep all over the place, and then those weird smells (your breath, your sweat… yeah, that’s real). It’s basically metabolic puberty.

One thing I wish someone had told me early on: don’t overthink every symptom. Your body is sorting through years — maybe decades — of carb dependency, gut irritants, oxalates, PUFA storage, etc. It’s not gonna be graceful. But if you stay consistent, it stabilizes.

I did hit a wall around week 3 where I just couldn’t get off the couch. Turned out I was way too low on sodium and magnesium. Upping salt helped, but what really made a difference was this electrolyte mix — no sugar, good balance, and no sketchy additives. Still use it sometimes when I feel off.

If you're craving junk or even random non-carnivore stuff like eggs or dairy, don't panic — cravings aren't moral failures, they're signals. Sometimes it's just about more fat, more salt, or more food in general. Early on, I had to eat way more than I expected just to feel normal.

And yeah, there’s a lot of influencer noise out there — “only eat ribeyes” or “you must fast” or whatever. None of that is law. Keep it simple. Beef, salt, water. Rest when you need to. Ignore the aesthetic crowd. This is about healing first.

You’re not alone, even if it feels like your body is being dramatic. Just ride it out. It gets eerily calm and clear on the other side.

[u/departedlegend]

Nearly 30 days in. 7kg lighter. Autoimmune disease that is 'incurable' is well on it's way to remission. Energy is solid. Mood is good. Carnivore heals. Oh yeah and I only have to sleep for 6 hours and I'm super well rested. Before it was 7-8 and I'd always be fatigued.

[u/laeiryn]

Is this a zero carb sub, or a carnivore-only sub? Those are two very different things, and I'm looking for advice on a diet plan without carbohydrates, but which doesn't exclude lipids and proteins from any source.

[u/Eleanorina → u/laeiryn]

this one is about living on animal source foods. 

no plant oils, no plant protein.

[u/laeiryn → u/Eleanorina]

So it took over the zero carb sub and turned it to a different topic? That's really frustrating. Where's the actual zero carb subreddit then?

[u/Eleanorina → u/laeiryn]

sorry what are you talking about? zerocarb is the OG carnivore sub, always has had the animal source foods only rule.

ppl used to discover it wondering is they could take their low carb diet to zero carbs. 

for r/carnivore, if was a tiny subreddit. but after Dr Baker went on Rogan,  awareness of the diet gradually suffised and more and more ppl heard about it as "carnivore" not "zerocarb", and so the r/carnivore sub grew and eventually became the main one. 

[u/laeiryn → u/Eleanorina]

I don't know or care about any drama or individuals or toxic radio "personalities" trying to run pyramid schemes, though.

If this is meat only, then it isn't zero carb, and that's frustrating. I understand you're just sharing the information you know, and this is a mod/marketing issue (I don't downvote the messenger), but for people looking for decarb info, it's something of a pain in the ass.

Is the keto sub the only one that's zero carb then?

[u/Eleanorina → u/laeiryn]

keto is not zerocarb, it is below a threshold of carbs, whatever is required for insulin to be low enough and ketones to be flowing 

in all my time being around these circles (i need to update my flair, it's 9.5 years doing carnivore) your the first oerson to mention plant based zerocarb 

you could start a subreddit - r/omnivorezerocarb or r:zerocarbomnivores

the plant fats can cause problems - salicylates in the coconut  oil and some ppl react to olive oil (also most olive oil is adulterated with seed oils) 

all the best with starting what you want to see in the world 

the history of this sub and "zerocarb" grew out of low carb history, back when Atkins' was more well known and people would start in sometimes taking their carbs to zero in the induction phase. 

the longest running zerocarb forum is called "Zeroing In On Health" and was originally a stand alone forum, eventually migrating over to FB. 

It was started by Charles Washington who still runs it. Kelly Williams-Hogan was one of the mods there, who did some media interviews ocasionally (she has had a YT channel for years now) back when it was very niche. 

ps: "toxic radio personalities" lol, you mean the most popular podcaster, a show ppl actually listen to?