100 Pounds Lost: Exactly What I Ate on Carnivore

In this video I explain exactly what to eat during your first 30 days on the carnivore diet. And, just as importantly, I explain what not to overthink. The goal when you start is not a perfectly optimized carnviore diet. You need stability while you adapt to this new way of eating. In the beginning simplicity wins, every time. In this post, you will discover the foundational foods that make carnivore sustainable and simple for beginners to follow.

Key Takeaways

• Carnivore works best early when food choices are boring and repeatable
• Undereating causes most early problems
• Fat is not optional in the first 30 days
• Beef should be eaten daily to control hunger and cravings

What to Eat on the Carnivore Diet (First 30 Days)

The first 30 days of the carnivore diet are not about variety, optimization, or perfection. They are about stability.

Most men fail when they start because they try to make carnivore overcomplicated. You start to overthink food choices or worry about portion sizes. Another problem is you try to apply diet habits learned on other diets and these approaches don’t work with the carnivore diet.

Your goal the first month is simple: eat real animal-based food, eat enough, and remove decision making.

You will learn exactly what and how I ate during my first 30 days on carnivore.

These meals are intentionally boring, repeatable, and effective.

The Goal of the First 30 Days

You have to think of these first 30 days as a reset period. I time to give your body a break from all the processed junk food you have been eating.

You ARE NOT trying to:

• Maximize fat loss speed
• Experiment with food variety
• Hit macros or calories

You ARE trying to:

• Reduce hunger swings
• Stabilize energy
• Remove cravings
• Simplify decisions

When you have fewer choices, you make fewer mistakes. This is why simple repetition matters when you begin.

This approach is not forever. After you finish 30 days, you can make changes to give you more flexibilityand variety. But during the reset, simple wins.

The Only Rule That Matters

Here’s the simplest rule to follow during the first 30 days:

If it comes from an animal, you can eat it.
If it doesn’t, you don’t.

That rule alone removes confusion.

• You don’t tracking your macros.
• You don’t weigh your food.
• You don’t count your calories.

You are just eating food your body recognizes.

Meal Structure: Three Meals Per Day

During the first 30 days, I stongly recommend three meals per day.

This is not because snacking is bad, but because eating consistent meals will help your body adapt faster. This stops you from grazing, it stabilizes hunger signals, and makes it easier to recognize real hunger.

Meal timing isn’t need to be by the clock or perfectly divided through the day. Eat when your hungry.

If you get hungry a couple of hours after eating, eat another meal. Also be sure to eat more at meal times.

Meal One: Simple and Repeatable

You want to keep the menu simple. For me, breakfast was always one of two options:

Option 1

• 6 slices of bacon
• 6 scrambled eggs
• 2 tablespoons of butter melted into the eggs
• Sea salt to taste

Option 2

• 1 pound of ground beef
• 6 scrambled eggs
• 2 tablespoons of butter
• Sea salt

Simple meals like this mean there is not decision making or confusion. Just simple food to eat.

Meal Two: The Largest Meal of the Day

Lunch will typically be your biggest meal. Here are two meals I ate repeatedly.

Option 1

• 1 pound of steak
• 4 boiled eggs
• 4 slices of bacon
• Butter
• Sea salt

Option 2

• 1 pound of hamburger patties
• 4 boiled eggs
• 4 slices of bacon
• 2 tablespoons of butter
• Sea salt

The goal at lunch is to eat until you are comfortably full.

That means you are not stuffed. Just comfortably full.

Some days I ate it all. On other days I stopped before I finished when I was not hunger anymore. That’s an important concept:

Eat to satiety, then stop.

Meal Three: Based on Hunger

Dinner is a smaller meal and you base how much you eat on how hungry you are. Here is my typical dinner.

Option 1

• ½ pound of steak
• 3 eggs
• 3 slices of bacon
• 1 tablespoons of butter
• Sea salt

Option 2

• ½ pound of ground beef
• 3 eggs
• 3 slices of bacon
• 1 tablespoons of butter
• Sea salt

If you aren’t very hungry, eat less. If you are hungry, eat more. Some days I ate a huge dinner, other days I ate much less.

You goal with of eating this way is to learn to listen to your hunger, not just eat because it’s time.

No Snacking: Don’t & Do This Instead

You don’t need to snack on the carnivore diet.

During the first 30 days, if you get hungry eat a meal. If that means you eat four meals on some days, that’s fine.

As you progress, if you’re getting hungry two hours after you eat, that’s usually a sign you aren’t eating enough for your meals.

When you get hungry, don’t snack. Instead eat another full meal. If that means you eat lunch aroudn 12:00 and another meal at 3:00 then dinner at 7:00, that’s fine.

When you get hungry between meals, remember to add more food to your meals the next day.

You will most likely find that the longer you eat like this, you will start to gravitate towards eating two meals a day.

I eat lunch around 12:00 everyday. There are days that I realize at 9:00 at night I never ate dinner and I never felt hungry.

Early on, eating more is almost always better than eating too little.

What to Drink on Carnivore

The first 30 days, keep it very simple. Your main drink should be water.

The other two options you can have are black, unsweet coffee or unsweet tea.

Some people argue these aren’t “pure carnivore.” And that is true. However, if your goal is fat loss, it doesn’t matter. These drinks won’t interfere with results for most people.

The drinks you want to avoid are anything with sugar or artificial sweetners. Read the labels. If it has more than one ingredient, just don’t.

Don’t Be Afraid of Eating Too Much

One of the biggest fears men have starting carnivore is eating “too much.”

That fear comes from years of being told to eat less, count calories, and control portions.

Early on, undereating will cause more problems than overeating.

As your body adapts to eating real food again, your hunger will self-regulate. You’ll start to notice fewer cravings, longer time between meals, and less about food.

Hunger is not the enemy here. It’s all the misinformation we have been fed over the years.

This Is Temporary Discipline Is Permanent

This very strict approach is for the first 30 days only.

After you can start to add foods back in. Add different types of meat, dairy, honey, some fruit, or some vegetables.

Add them slowly to see how your body reacts. Your body will tell you which foods you should eat and which your shouldn’t. Trust YOUR BODY, not what anyone else tells you.

You could swithch entirely over to a Keto or Animal based diet.

You will probably feel so good that you want to stay on carnivore forever. And that’s fine and great if you feel that way.

But don’t rush that decision.

A huge benefit I found and I hope you discover too is Discipline. It’s amazing to realize that you actually have the discipline to follow through.

Every day you follow through you build more:

• self-respect
• confidence
• consistency

When you do what you said you would do, day after day, it carries into every other area of life.

The Foundation Foods

To summarize, the only foods you should eat during the first 30 days are:

• Beef
• Eggs
• Bacon
• Butter
• Sea salt

That’s it. Keep it super simple.

Stay Strong!

I have faith that you can change your entire life.