Going Hardcore -- From Carnivore Diet to Lion Diet
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- čas přidán 31. 07. 2024
- I've hit a weight loss plateau. In this video I talk about my progress over the past eleven months that I've been on this diet, and how I've it a plateau and why.
I also talk about steps I plan to take to up my carnivore game, including the Lion Diet.
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I am a former tech worker who lived in NYC for 30 years. At 50, I started an Amazon FBA business. Fun, but neither career allowed time for healthy living.
Last year, I turned 60, overweight, out-of-shape, pre-diabetic, with high cholesterol, and couldn't walk 20 minutes without resting.
In August 2023, I began the carnivore diet. I lost 65 pounds in 3 months.
Now, I can walk for miles without a rest. My cholesterol and blood pressure are at healthy levels, and I am no longer pre-diabetic. I feel 30 years younger, and I'm passionate about sharing my story to help others.
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Throw in a 36 hour fast once or twice a week. As a 60 yo lady, my weight hardly budges now without fasting. God bless
Yes, I definitely need to do this, and I think a once per week fast would be a good thing.
I am doing the same. Have been fasting from 7pm to 12:00pm. Then back yard eggs,butter and ground beef then hamburger or steak for dinner. The butcher wizard CZcams channel has allowed me to affordable go Lion by buying in bulk and cutting the slabs my self. 🥩❤️
Im hearing that name a lot, will have to check out the butcher wizard.
This is the best show I have seen you do. Many people come to carnivore to lose weight and find that it transforms their body. January 1st 2024 I stopped drinking alcohol because I want to be healthier. After 6 months now of no alcohol I will never go back to alcohol. I applaud you for going to the next level. Thank you for the content.
Good on you for quitting booze. I was never a heavy drinker, but I quit for a few months about 12 years ago to lose weight, and I felt so much better that I had no interest in starting up again. People in my life were really upset -- especially certain family members who were / are heavy drinkers -- and a lot of things shifted around. Kind of like when I started carnivore. I'll do a video about it soon.
@@Jaylwoodworth Good idea. I put a comment on a carnivore forum about alcohol. Mostly positve feedback. There were people that were ready to make a change and there were people who were pissed off. I just like the discussion. Jay where do you see yourself in your health journey in 2 years from now?
I see myself fit and healthy 🙂. I’m coming up on 62, and I want to be fully mobile for at least the next 10 years. If I keep my weight down there is no reason I can’t be.
66 years old here. Been carnivore for almost 5 years now. First 50 lbs came off fairly fast then weight loss slowed. So far lost 150 lbs. Going OMAD (one meal a day) allowed my weight loss to continue SLOWLY over the years.
I think OMAD, or at least keeping one’s eating within an 8 hour window, is key. Great job on the 150 lbs.
@@gwb8445 I've lost weight on a plant based diet. You can lose weight on pretty much any diet. Your weight always slows down the closer you get to your ideal weight I think.
@@mrmaxcarter2306 I agree. Most diets work if you can stick with it for a lifetime. Then it becomes a lifestyle change.
@@gwb8445 agreed. It's why I think a plant forward/plant dominate diet is best. You have so many options and can have a little fish or meat here and there. Carnivore is ridiculously boring and lacking scientific merit for health and longevity. That might change One day, but it's still very boring. But I guess if you don't care much about food and can tolerate being strict, it's ok..I just love fruit. Can't have summer without cold watermelon..
@@mrmaxcarter2306 Everyone should eat the way they want. For me it's meat and eggs. I enjoy my meals now more than ever. Enjoy whatever you eat.
My new way of cooking is when I know it rare in the middle I put a top on it and turn off the heat and walk away for 10 minutes. Perfect for me.
I’m doing the sardine fast right now. I’m on day 7. I’m readying myself for a major surgery. Good luck to you and me 😃
Yes, good luck with the surgery.
I think you are very smart to take your stove with you, that way you get just what you want & need, no guessing what the meat has been cooked in and it's cheaper! I certainly enjoy seeing the countryside of the areas you are visiting. The weight loss looks good on you, you seem to be keeping your muscular integrity. Good luck, thanks for taking us along on your journey. 💜💜
I won’t travel anywhere without my stove now!
Thanks for the Content Jay' Always a Pleasure....Cheers&Have a Wonderful Weekend.....⭐😎👍💙🌲
Thanks!
I'm a strict CARNIVORE. The longer I do this way of eating, I'm realizing that much of the time I'm actually OMAD/LION DIET. JUST MEAT SALT AND WATER .
TWO YEARS INTO THIS AND I'LL NEVER GO BACK TO CRAP FOOD!!
Im looking forward to seeing how I do with this diet.
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I'm excited for you!! The changes and benefits will change your life!
Take before pictures, have a blood panel drawn before you start, if you can.
Make notes of health issues you have so you can watch them go away. Otherwise good changes will happen and you'll not realize it til much later because you are feeling so well.
Hey 👋. Glad to see your still at it 👌. Your channel helps you to evolve to less pounds and the diet lets you enjoy food now and again - interesting to see about the lion
Yes, the channel has been very helpful. It’s really the best thing I did as far as being able to stay on the diet.
Hi Jay. The body seems determined to hold on to calories. Millions of years of evolution. Possibly since we were fish!
My problem is milk in my tea and drinking it against my better judgement. Having said that, I'm around your age and also dropped around 50 pounds in a year ish.
I'd suggest lifting weights 2 or 3 times a week just to build muscle. Just lift once to failure. Legs back chest shoulders. Lifting this way only takes 30 minutes, 2 or 3 times a week. We older guys need muscle to stay healthy long term. Your diet is just super 👌.
As I think about it, I think on subconscious level I was holding off on the weight loss since I lost so much in the first 3 months. So yeah, millions of years of evolution and all. Sometimes it’s hard to remember that these patterns really aren’t necessary anymore. First we have to surface them; then we can deal with them. Thanks for the comment!
Doesn’t hurt to implement different forms of carnivore into the lifestyle from time to time for a health or weight loss adjustment. Being out in nature is so peaceful! You’ll do great on the lion diet! No worries! You got this!!
Yep, definitely good to mix it up sometimes.
Hi Jay! You are one of my go to’s for this carnivore way of eating! I quickly went to your video after I received your notification 😊 I am only on day 4 after a restart. Lost 24lbs the first month I was on it but one cheat ended up being like 3 weeks and I gained 20lbs back. So I am back on it. I’m inspired by you because you are in my age group and you keep it real and honest.. I will be watching for your updates. Wishing you all the success!!
Thanks! Glad you’re back on track again.
Trust the process. Your going to be fine yourself. 👍
@@stevestudley5685 thank you! I know I need to be patient and no cheating. I’m tired of losing and gaining the same weight over and over again. Slow and steady wins the race.
Hey Jay. Something to consider would be to weigh your portions and start cutting back and see how your body reacts. Instead of a pound of meat eat three quarter pounds. Instead of 5 eggs eat 3 etc. I lost 50 pounds and hit a plateau and made small changes to push past. Good luck!
Yes, I think that this is a good thing to try.
i think that happens naturally though. i'm still ketovore but less and less and more meat n eggs (yolks). i had so little appetite yesterday it kinda scared me (used to a life of junk food compulsion). i don't think about food and some aversions are presenting like egg whites. so don't we naturally lower food consumption over time? i've been on a million diets in my 65 years so i see it from a different perspective. yes you want to get all the weight off but listen to your body too. maybe it isn't ready and is doing some healing. i'd say if you lose nothing for 3 to 6 months then time to rethink things. but that's me. if you have the ability to get it off quickly and want to then good for you. for me slower means less sagging skin. may we all get to our goal!!!!!
I appreciate your perspective but I think it might depend on what kind of hunger you experience and what led to being overweight in the first place. Some people might be better at listening to their body cues and naturally decreasing the volume of food. For me I have to be intentional with how much I'm eating no matter what it is, especially if I am trying to lose weight.
@@davidcoddington6442 Yes, weight loss is very individual. I've tried many different things and have never had lasting success until I switched to Carnivore. Others find that carnivore doesn't work for them. I believe that the best thing for us to do is to share our own experiences. That way others can decide whether to incorporate some of what has worked for us. Thanks both of you for commenting; the experience we bring to this is invaluable.
What a nice video. I'm right at the doorstep of the lion diet too. good luck!!
Thanks! You too!
Thanks Jay...
You’re very welcome 🙂
We are cheering for you Jay!! Video your shopping and prep for us!!!
Thanks, I will!
Hi Jay I will be doing lion with you!
Awesome!
Thanks for your honesty! Lion Diet good for you! Let us know how that goes! Tried the piccata cap sirloin beef you recommended on another video from Costco! So good Jay!! My husband loved it! It is a high heat index here in central VA! Be careful on your hikes with this crazy weather and we know you are farther up north but still! Thanks Jay!😊❤
Yeah, we’ll see how it goes. I was fine with the plateau for a while since I lost a ton of weight so quickly and felt like it was a good idea for my body to get used to it before losing more, but realizing that I’m approaching a year brought out my achievement-oriented side!
Glad you enjoyed the picanha steak 🥩
Id recommend incorporating some weight training in if you can. When you build muscle you add healthy weight, and burn a lot of calories
Yep, gotta get more serious about my workouts!
Keep at it. I know your struggle cause I’ve been there. I’m in my eleventh month and I’m down to 175 which was my goal weight. However I do lift weights so I appear bigger than what the scale says. I’m a 58 yr old male, 5’ 10”. I too switched from a “dirty” carnivore to the lion diet about four months in and have had better results. But there is a little science to it if you really want to to dial-in. I had to weigh and track my food (my fitness pal) which I despise doing. But I needed to find my baseline of how many calories of fat and protein I needed a day because yeah, once you’re not obese anymore you can yo yo and especially stall on carnivore. Maybe not everyone has these issues but I did and it sounds like you do too. Good luck.
Thanks for the tips. I definitely need to get more serious about the gym.
I've been carnivore now for just over 13 months now and have also hit a plateau. 2 days ago I bought three huge Chuck rolls between 23 and 25 lb apiece. I had decided a couple weeks ago to try the lion diet to see if I could jumpstart my weight loss again. I have lost about 60 lb I would like to lose another 40 or so. All my blood work is perfect and it was mostly terrible before carnivore. So I will always be a carnivore of some type or form of. Good luck Jay
Your experience is similar to mine. Amazon that our bloodwork improved even though we went against the common wisdom about food.
Hi Jay sounds like a good plan. Thanks for explaining the lion diet didn’t know what that was. Be careful grilling up those steaks out there I would be afraid a bear might get enticed!
Hmmm, I wonder how bear meat tastes?
@@Jaylwoodworth haha!!
Your doing great Jay! 👍
Thanks 👍
Cows are only sacred in certain areas of India, other areas beef is very popular btw.
True. I was in Delhi and Himachel Pradesh, which are in the most Hindu areas.
Thanks Jay!
You’re welcome
Thanks Jay. Hoping to get back out on the trails here in the San Diego area in a few weeks. Knee surgery is set for next week. I tend to lose weight fast when I am out hiking. The picanha looks good.
Good luck with the.knee surgery, will be good to get that out of the way.
interesting update. not sure about thinking cows/ruminants don't eat bugs. they eat hundreds of bugs in the grass and even small baby rodents in those grasses (they are really large relentless lawn mowers). i lived near deer for 4 years and they eat more variety too, fruit, nuts, stems, twigs, and leaves, mushrooms, and tender spring grass...of course bugs are on all of those.
watched a vid on chickens and their digestive tracts. a chicken farmer explained they digest their food extremely well. starts with the beak then lands in the crop for 12 hours! then passes into the gizzard for grinding and onto the cecum where bacteria takes over to break food down further. but i guess it could be true that cows and deer do a better job.
Good luck on lion diet...i guess i'm not 100% sold on it yet. i also think about lions/cats eating grass often and not because they are sick necessarily. they say it aids digestion and they also eat the vegetation in the stomach of their pray. anyway it will be great to watch along with you on this journey. your videos are always well done and helpful and your insights into the information we find along this meat based way of eating presented clearly.
Thanks for the compliments. Yeah, I don’t know if I would stay on lion diet long term, but I will definitely stay with it long enough to lose some this excess weight and to see how I feel on it.
@@Jaylwoodworth you'll make a good experiment subject and we will get accurate results. thanks for sharing your journey.
Hi Jay- if you haven’t been, you should intermittent fast every day. Do at least 16:8. Hopefully that will get you of that plateau.
I did 16-8 for the first 6 months, but haven’t been so strict over the past 5 months. I’m back to it as of yesterday.
@@Jaylwoodworth You got this, Jay! I think if you I.F. every day, it won’t be necessary for you to go on the Lion Diet.
Maybe you’re consuming too much meat and that excess is converted into sugar? I’ve learned that building some muscle will help with blood sugar control. And for that, I recommend bodyweight calisthenics and walking.
Losing weight is simply calories in vs. calories out. If you are at a plateau perhaps you need to more strictly measure how many calories you are eating. A calorie calculator will tell you how many calories you can eat to maintain your current weight as well as how much to eat if your goal is to lose weight.
well i've been watching a new carnivore channel...APEX pack and tribe. he is actually doing a 30 day of what he eats macros and weight. he has been carnivore for 5 years and fit. continually eats nearly 1000 calories a day over his expenditure and loses weight. so the calorie in/out isn't true for some metabolisms. just watch some of the Korean mukbang channels or the single and live alone women channels from there. thinnest people ever eating nonstop and never gain a pound.
@@catea2551 Those people are the exception not the rule. It's rare but yes you are correct
Good luck Jay! You got this. I think it’s great you are going to try the lion diet 😋🦁🦖I will be interested to see how you do and what you think 🤔. I am the same age. I am playing for keeps now- I am figuring out what works best for me realistically! Sounds like you are too! Keep us posted 😉
Will do. And I know exactly what you mean about playing for keeps!
I see a lot of suggestions to eat less food, but I feel like it all comes down to the fat/protein ratios. You will very quickly find if you feel better with more fat or protein and which would be best for your fat loss. In general, it seems women do better with higher fat and men higher protein, BUT it is all very individual. You could also try a protein sparing modified fast a few days a week. Good luck!
Yes , the fat ratio is very important. I tend toward more fat / less protein myself.
Do you do any walking? When I started walking twice a day, three miles each time the weight started coming off weight again. I would walk early morning and then late in the afternoon after work. Congratulations on weight loss so far 🥳
I love to hike and usually go 3-4 miles 4 to 5 times per week. There is a lot of up and down, so this is more exercise than it sounds.
It’s been really hot, wet and buggy here in New England for the past month, so I haven’t been hiking as much as usual. I miss it!
I think it's more like the global diet instead of the American diet. All around the world, people are eating carb laden diets and snacks. America gets all the blame though. I like that you just pull over and grill your steaks. Much better than going to a restaurant and paying and waiting and then tipping.
It’s bad in some countries that I travel to, not so bad in others. Strangely it’s often the poorer countries where I see a lot of obeisity - like India.
I was amazed at how healthy people in Toronto were. Also, through much of Europe it’s unusual to see someone who is overweight. I don’t know how they do it, as I went crazy with the baked goods a d put on about 15 pounds in a month when I visited Europe last last year. In fact, that was what got me started on carnivore in the first place.
That’s a good attitude about Indian food I would freak if I gained 15 pounds. It’s probably the dairy that is stalling you.?
I think dairy is a big part of it. We’ll see how Lion goes.
Technically you weren't eating "dirty" carnivore. All meats are allowed on the carnivore diet, beef, pork, chicken, turkey, lamb. Seasonings and sauces with any plant based ingredients, coffee, tea, etc. would have made it "dirty". Eating just beef and lamb and water, now that's going to really be a test. I love grass fed beef but have never been a fan of lamb. Not sure I could do the lion diet to be honest. Switching to OMAD might also be helpful. If you can do 2MAD, OMAD shouldn't be terribly difficult. I did OMAD so I could afford to eat only grass fed beef, free range eggs and chicken, Duroc pork, and uncured bacon (usually Applegate). Mainly ate beef as it's more filling and makes you feel fuller longer than chicken. Used "lite salt" for the potassium, along with Himalayan pink salt because it tastes better. Good luck on the Lion Diet!
Thanks for the tips! I would love to switch to grass-fed meat only, but that would really be stretching my budget. There are a couple of farms in southern Vermont with better prices, so I may make the trip later in the month. And yes, I’m going to try OMAD. I’ll be quitting coffee as well. My one non-carnivore vice. Lifelong caffeine addict here. That should make for an interesting video….
@@Jaylwoodworth just realized I forgot to add fish, shellfish and dairy (though dairy is best kept to a minimum) to the carnivore list of foods. Steak and wild caught gulf shrimp sautéed in butter is a staple meal for me. Usually once or twice a week. I completely understand how hard it is to give up coffee. I tried and failed. Wasn't worth the literal headache so I wish you luck in that endeavor. I'll keep having my one or two cups a day with a splash of heavy cream 😂. Weight training (or resistance bands if you can't afford weights or a gym membership) to build muscle might also help break your plateau. Also, measuring is better than weighing. There were times when the scale showed no progress but I knew I was thinner, so I measured and found that I lost inches even when the scale didn't budge. Now I just go by how my clothes fit. Good luck!
I’m only 5 minutes in but do you weight your portions and count the calories? If you’re in a calorie deficit you should start losing again. 45 minutes of cardio everyday will help you burn more calories. At least 300 a day. Over a week that’s 2100 calories burned.
I haven’t been too concerned about portion size, but will be more mindful while on the lion diet.
@@Jaylwoodworth lions don't care about portion control though😆 we are all giving you advice lol. i think with lion you can eat til full. but again maybe nature does the portion control because they don't always get a meal for a while.
Jay i have been eating once a day for over 2 yrs now have lost around 150 pounds doing this i suggest working your way up to this maybe eating only twice a day then when your body will get used to this it takes a lot of discipline my body has adapted to this i can go two days with just water but i need the protean and supplements as i due dialisis three days a week and my blood is cleaned of some protean Exc feal free to see my story on my youtube channel
Thanks, I will check it out!
Do it
Sometimes lions eat poachers. Would you eat another person lol
Only if they’re vegan 🙂
if he gets hungry enough 😁
STOP DRINKING COFFEE.