@Wendy198, I’m coming to the end of a seven month trial. I did the trial to see if carnivore would help my joints, particularly my back.
It’s been a mixed bag. There are days that I feel really great and think that carnivore is working and days I feel like crud and wonder. I went through a big oxalate dump for most of the first five months. I’m hoping that clearing the oxalate out of my body may help with the arthritis. That takes time.
In the past two months my histamine intolerance has really reared its ugly head. It can be related to oxalate dumping, leaky gut, hormones, missing nutrients, middle age. 
It’s my latest carnivore hurdle because beef has been particularly troublesome. I have seen people on other carnivore groups run into the same problem. So… is it carnivore or a phase that is a part of the healing process? 
There are some good things, though. I no longer need to supplement salt or magnesium which were musts for me on keto. I do think my back is improving. I am jogging three days a week and it’s not leaving me crippled on the in between days. I definitely have less hunger, but I still have bottomless pit days. Most days I can eat 2MAD, but I certainly didn’t start off that way. That started to change around the four or five month mark. I think because I couldn’t eat enough meat at one meal when I first started. With that being said, the past two days were 3MAD and Monday night I awoke starving at 1:30 am, so I ate a hard boiled egg.
I would suggest if you are hungry eat. Going to bed hungry just interferes with a good night’s sleep. Over time you will find your eating schedule will improve. I eat dinner by 6pm and I’m
in bed by 10. Then I have a late breakfast around 10 am. I’ve been up for four hours and gotten my exercise in by then. Sometimes I can’t make it until dinner time, so I eat a snack. This week my snack food has been hard boiled eggs. I am trying to give up processed meats, but pork rinds are still finding there way into my belly somehow. 
I hope this information is useful. Many people start carnivore and say how great it is, yadda, yadda, yadda. It has not been a smooth ride for me so far. I think it’s important for people to know that the transition may not be so cut and dried. In some ways, I WANT carnivore to be the answer, but wanting and reality can be two different things. I’m trying to be as objective as possible and at some point be willing to admit, yes, it works for me, or no, it doesn’t. I have seen people on other groups who were carnivore for a year or longer before they really started seeing benefits. I’m not sure I’m willing to give it that long.
I did buy some Tbones, not a great lower sale price but desperate for my steaks so I bought 12 of them…will hold me a bit 
I get too many benefits right away.
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