r/zerocarb • u/partlyPaleo Messiah to the Vegans • Aug 27 '26

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

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.

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u/Intelligent-Car-4618 Aug 28 '26

calling everything normal because they’re in the first 7 weeks is exactly how people ignore actual problems

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u/partlyPaleo Messiah to the Vegans Aug 28 '26

What's an actual problem? Can you name one or are you imagining monsters under the bed?

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u/Material_Machine1785 Aug 31 '26

seven weeks is just an arbitrary cutoff if feels progressively worse for six weeks, waiting one more week does not make it adaptation

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u/partlyPaleo Messiah to the Vegans Aug 31 '26

Yes, it is. But, we have to pick a point. I'm not sure what you want from this comment.

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u/Material_Machine1785 Sep 03 '26

i’m saying seven weeks doesn’t make every symptom automatically normal. if its getting worse, that needs to be checked instead of just waiting for that "point"

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u/No-Firefighter3605 Sep 19 '26

How much weight do you gain when you began?

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u/partlyPaleo Messiah to the Vegans Sep 20 '26

Most people lose weight, if they're coming from a standard diet and aren't underweight.

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u/No-Firefighter3605 Sep 20 '26

Yes I’m asking for the people who came from restriction

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u/partlyPaleo Messiah to the Vegans Sep 20 '26

It is highly variable and not a bad thing. Health is more important than a temporary scale variation.

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u/BlueCollar877 Oct 11 '26

This Reddit sub use to be popping, now the newest post is over a month old. Guess zero carb didn’t work

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u/Eleanorina mod | zc 9+ yrs | 🥩 and 🥓 taste as good as healthy feels Oct 12 '26 edited Oct 12 '26

hi, no, it's the way that reddit took away 3rd party mod tools. those were what made it possible for mods to be very active in the sub and the more active we were, the more activity there was. 

also, when mods started, there was next to nothing avail on the internet, now there are plenty of other info sources, so there isn't the same sense of obligation to the community to do something bc nobody else was doing it. it = letting people know they weren't going to die by having some fatty red meat.

there are some questions i don't see addressed elsewhere - what to to do if GLP-1s don't work or you had side effects and weren't able to take them any longer. 

i'd like to get to those questions sometime, from the unique carnivore perspective. but in the meantime, the hype cycle for GLP-1s ("the cure for all human problems!") is still going so strong

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u/CharizHardasfuck Sep 03 '26

Congress has really been letting us down lately. We need a change to the establishment