Weight Loss & the Carnivore Diet

What Our Members Say

Members across these threads frequently report weight loss stalls despite strict adherence to a carnivore diet, with coaches consistently pointing to healing phases, hormonal factors, stress, sleep, and excess added fats as the primary contributors. A recurring pattern shows that early results often reflect health improvements such as reduced inflammation or reversed conditions rather than fat loss, and coaches frame this as a necessary precursor to body composition change. Dairy and added fats like butter and cream are repeatedly identified as the most common dietary factors slowing fat loss progress.

• Coaches consistently distinguish between a healing phase and a fat loss phase, explaining that the body often prioritizes reducing inflammation, improving insulin sensitivity, and rebalancing hormones before releasing stored fat, and that patience during this period is encouraged.
• Dairy products including butter, cream, and cheese are frequently cited by coaches as the most likely dietary culprits behind weight loss stalls, bloating, and inflammation, with a common recommendation to remove or reduce dairy for two to three weeks and reassess.
• Coaches repeatedly emphasize that factors outside of food, specifically sleep quality, chronic stress, and cortisol levels, play a significant role in fat loss outcomes and can override dietary efforts even when eating is very clean.
• Coaches advise against under-eating or eating too lean, explaining that insufficient fat intake keeps insulin elevated through hunger and cravings, and that eating to true satiety on adequate fat is more important for fat loss than simply reducing overall food quantity.