Anyone been on a 100% carnivore diet?

@Keith Stowers thanks for sharing! I had stomach problems being on a 100% carnivore diet, but like you adding some fiber from vegetables helped me. Beef and sweet potatoes are a really good combination. It's also easy to prepare on the grill during summer. I - like you - try to avoid processed food as much as possible, but I have told myself nothing is forbidden. If I want something on a given day that is not healthy I just do it. It doesn't matter because I eat right 95% of the time (didn't calculate but you get the picture). Here we have a saying. "It's not what you eat between Christmas and New Years Eve. It's what you eat between New Years Eve and Christmas that matters." Maybe we should have a section here with a few recipes?

@Dave Ahearn you can't. The math is clear. If you do 12-16 reps in controlled slow motion with 2 sec. up, pause 2 sec and 2 sec down then one set is around 84 sec. That's around 20 minutes of active exercise for 14 sets. You then need to add the time it takes to get into position and rest period. Then you are at 40-50 minuttes already. It doesn't work out for me to have longer session than around 50 minutes. What you can do instead is to have 3 sets to failure. Keith will say it doesn't build muscle but that's not what I see. Some younger professional bodybuilders (which we are not) do only 2 sets in periods where time is limited. Those 2 sets are of course highly intense and not for everyone and not for guys our age. I'm just saying that when I lack time I reduce the set count and do more intense workout than when I do 4-5 sets. It's because of Keith that I have started to do more than 3 sets to see where it takes me. What you need to remember is not to blame yourself. If you have spent 40-50 minuttes in the gym with 2-3 sets per exercise you have at least done something. It's much better than nothing. Be proud of that you can dedicate 3 days a week and be happy with the result. Remember most men do not allocate those days, but you do.

@Adam Smith I certainly agree with most of your writing. Like Keith I have been exercising for almost my entire life. Started soccer (European football ) at 5 years old. That is 55 years ago. Then I started at Jiu-jitsu and Judo. Judo became competitive and at around 13-15 years old we added lifting weights to the program. I have been lifting weights ever since. The biggest mistakes I made was thinking I could improve on a weekly basis. I pushed myself too hard and got demotivated because it was not possible to improve all the time. Somehow I was able to stay. I think it was because I saw the movie "Pumping Iron" at the right time. For the first time I saw how big a guy could be. How training could be done. It kept me going for the next years. In my twenties I saw new guys coming to the gym growing much more in size than me. I knew why. I refused to take drugs and accepted my size. My studies at the University where too important for me to risk my health on steroids just because of growing in size. What I figured out was to accept that consistency is what matters. You have bad days where you don't perform like you did a week ago. I had such a day today. I didn't feel up to training at all. I went to my homegym anyway and started. Lighter weights. Felt the muscles work and got a fine exercise anyway. That is what matters. If that is what you mean by being better today than yesterday you are right. Otherwise it's a dangerous mindset because it's not possible to be better and better physically.

Congrats. Well done.