Folks, for those of us that have been lifelong hunters and love to access the back entry,

you will find something happening as you approach middle age.

And it's generally not a pleasant thing.

You're going to get that, um, so-called muffin top or carry a spare tire around your middle,

unless you're really active and maybe just

have a naturally fast metabolism right but for most of us especially with today's relatively

sedentary lifestyle and our dietary habits we tend to put on a little bit of excess weight

sometimes a lot of excess weight. I know about

five years ago, I was getting pretty frustrated with myself. I'd torn my Achilles tendon when I was

33 and put on about 20 pounds and had never gotten rid of it. And so I tried with my wife. I tried the ketogenic diet,

typically just called the keto diet, right? And I lost 26 pounds in 70 days. It was amazing.

Until I put it back on again. And so there's another approach to this called the carnivore diet. And I've got my good friend, Luke,

from Weatherby, on the line here. Those of you watching on YouTube can already see them on the

screen. But, man, thank you for coming on the show today, Luke. You bet. Now, you've been doing

the carnivore diet now for a good part of this year.

Is this the first time you've tried it or is this something you've done in the past?

No, it's the first time.

And yeah, I echo everything that you said, middle-aged, getting a tire around the middle.

And I consider myself active.

Yeah. But, yeah, I just had this breaking point where it's like, something's got a gift. Like I can't be more active. Like from a scheduling

perspective, I just can't physically make more time to get more active. And I just, and it it wasn't my fitness level was going up.

My performance metrics were going up, but my visual performance metric was staying the same.

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