60 Day Carnivore Diet Results: 270 to 249 in Two Months

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Two months of carnivore, one scale, and the actual numbers. I just wrapped month two of this experiment, so here is the honest update: what the scale says, exactly what I have been eating every single day, the digestion situation you all keep asking about, and how my energy and training have held up. Short version, I went from 270 to 249 across January and February. Long version is below.

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The Two-Month Numbers: 270 to 249

Let me set the table properly, because context matters. Back at the end of December I was sitting at 277. I was doing carnivore maybe 70 percent at that point, but I was also drinking a decent amount because it was the holidays, and eating more because it was also the holidays. By the time I stopped weighing myself over the break I was around 266, then put a few back on, and by New Year I was hovering right around 270.

My first real weigh-in was January 2nd, because I am an idiot and should have done it the day before. On the last day of February, I weighed in at 249.

  • Starting point (Jan 1): around 270 lb
  • End of February: 249 lb
  • Total: roughly 20 lb over two months
  • Average: about 10 lb per month

I am thrilled with that, and it is even better than it looks on paper because February is a short month. As I am recording this in early March I am already below the 249 mark. Twenty pounds in two months, with one of those months being 28 days, I will take that every time.

If you missed the first check-in, here are my 30 day carnivore diet results for comparison.

How I Track (and Why the Moving Average Matters)

I use an app called Happy Scale. It gives you milestone tracking, you plug in your goal weight, and it breaks the whole thing down into manageable chunks so you are not staring at one giant number.

The feature that actually matters is the moving average column. It takes roughly the last ten days and averages them out. That is the number you should be looking at, not today’s weigh-in.

Here is why, and this is the single most useful thing I can tell anybody tracking weight: daily weight is noise. Water, sodium, sleep, when you last used the bathroom, all of it swings you two or three pounds in either direction for reasons that have nothing to do with fat loss. If you weigh in daily and react to the raw number, you will quit on a Tuesday because of a Monday steak dinner. The moving average smooths the spikes out and shows you the actual trend line. Weigh daily, judge weekly.

This Year vs. Last Year, Side by Side

This is the comparison I have been most curious about the whole time. Last year at exactly this point I was also working on losing weight. I was working out, I was eating smart, and I was at 254 when December rolled around.

This year I started December at 277. That is roughly 20 pounds worse off. And by the end of February this year, my moving average had essentially caught all the way up to where last year’s moving average was at the same date.

Think about that for a second. I started 20 pounds behind and pulled even in eight weeks. That is what convinced me this was working rather than just being a good couple of weeks. I could feel it inside the first month too, I remember thinking man, I am dropping pounds quick.

I also did an InBody scan back in January. I have not done a follow-up yet, but I will run one when this experiment wraps so we get body composition numbers and not just scale weight. Scale weight alone never tells you whether you kept your muscle.

What I Eat on a Typical Day

Here is my honest advantage: I am good at eating the same thing over and over and it does not bother me. If variety is what keeps you sane, this specific approach will be harder for you, and that is worth knowing before you start.

My default day looks like this:

  • The main event: about a pound and a half of ground beef from my local meat store, cooked with butter and salt, topped with shredded sharp cheddar
  • Eggs: almost every single day, five or six, sometimes more if I am eating them hard boiled
  • Snacks: turkey bites (Walmart sells them in little bags and they are great), bacon
  • Fill-ins: shrimp from the meat store sometimes, chicken occasionally, the odd steak kebab
  • Drinks: zero calorie energy drinks, water, and unsweetened tea that somehow tastes sweet

One thing I cut: I was using Philadelphia cream cheese for a while because I liked the texture and taste it gave the beef. I stopped. It was mostly empty calories for a tiny bit of extra protein and it was not earning its spot.

The Problem Nobody Warns You About: Not Eating Enough

This is the one that will sneak up on you. When you are eating that much beef, it is so satiating that you genuinely do not want to eat as much as you normally would. Some days I flat out do not hit my numbers.

You have to work at getting enough in, because it is easy to fall into a big calorie deficit while still feeling perfectly comfortable. And feeling comfortable is exactly why you do not notice. As a trainer, the reason I care is muscle: if you want to hold onto as much lean mass as possible while the fat comes off, you need the protein and the calories to support it. Get your food in. Just get it in without the carbs.

Digestion: The Constipation and What Actually Fixed It

You all ask about this every single time, so let us talk about it. My first month, the first couple of weeks specifically, I had problems with constipation. Two things fixed it:

  • More butter. Increasing my butter intake solved most of it on its own.
  • Chicken bone broth. The unsalted organic kind. I melt a little butter into it and drink it first thing in the morning. It is protein and it keeps things moving.

Since sorting that out it has been easy. Every once in a while I still feel myself getting a little tight in the middle, and now I recognize it early. That is usually my cue that I am short on fat or fluids, and I bump one or the other back up. Two months in, I am much better at reading that signal than I was on day one.

Energy, Libido, and Training

I want to be careful here, because the carnivore corner of the internet promises a lot of things and I am only going to report what I actually experienced.

  • Energy: fine. Steady. No crash, no superhuman surge.
  • Strength: I do not feel any stronger.
  • Libido: maybe up a little, but not enough that I would confidently credit the diet.
  • Mental clarity: no change, but I did not have brain fog to begin with, so there was nothing to fix.

What I will say is that this week I randomly caught myself thinking about how good I felt in general. I had not connected it to the diet at the time. Maybe it is related, maybe it is not, but it is worth mentioning honestly.

Training has not slowed down. I am still going about six days a week, a mix of lifting and cardio, and right now the ratio is tilted more toward cardio because of the vacation coming up in April.

Zero Cheat Days (and the French Fry Incident)

Two months in, I have not had a single intentional carb. No cheat day, no bad day, nothing.

We have been out to eat twice. Both times I ordered a cheeseburger with absolutely nothing on it and picked it up and ate it like a chip, like some kind of neanderthal. It does not look cool in a restaurant. What are you going to do.

The last time there were fries on the plate and pure autopilot took over. One went straight in my mouth before my brain caught up, and I spit it out. In public. Also not a great look for a grown adult. But that is the closest I have come to falling off, and I am sticking with the exact same plan for the next 30 days.

Cravings and the Crunch Problem

There is an Oreo Cadbury cream egg that has been sitting on my desk this entire time and nobody in the house has eaten it. It is not driving me crazy. It is just sitting there. I am going to absolutely smash it the second vacation starts.

The real craving is not sugar, it is texture. Meat is soft. After a few weeks of soft food your mouth starts begging for something crunchy. Two fixes that have saved me:

  • Pork rinds. All the crunch of a chip. I eat them almost daily.
  • Pepperoni chips. Throw pepperoni in the air fryer at 350 and it comes out crispy like a hard little chip. Excellent.

If you are struggling to stick with this, I would bet money it is a texture problem and not a willpower problem. Fix the crunch and a lot of it goes away.

Month Three: The Goal and What Is Next

This was always a three-month experiment. I have a vacation planned for the beginning of April, so month three wraps right before I leave.

My goal from the start has been 235. I do not think I am on that trajectory, because I would need to drop 13 or 14 more pounds in a month and I do not see that happening. But here is the comparison I care about: last year, on vacation at almost exactly this time, I was 245. Today I weighed in at 248.5. If I can get into the 230s I would be over the moon, but I will be thrilled either way.

I will do a full wrap-up in another 30 days with the final numbers and a fresh InBody scan so we can see body composition, not just what the scale says.

Here is the full video version of this update if you would rather watch it:

One important note: this is one person’s experience, not a prescription. I am a NASM certified personal trainer and nutrition coach, not your doctor. Talk to your own physician before making a change this big to how you eat, especially if you have existing health conditions or take medication.

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Rob is a Certified Personal Trainer and Nutrition Coach through the National Academy of Sports Medicine. For the past 10 years, Rob has been navigating the health and fitness landscape to better himself and those around him, focusing on tools such as calorie and macro counting, intermittent fasting, and HIIT training techniques.

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