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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FilipSRB" data-source="post: 1293668" data-attributes="member: 5248"><p>Although it is not advisable to count calories on carnivore diet, the general ratio of fat to protein calories is important. Stefansson and Paleomedicina advise this diet to actually be a high fat diet with around 80%+ of caloric intake coming from fat. This can be a bit of an issue at the start as most people's digestive tracts are not used to this amount of animal fat in their diet, but it gets better over time. Also, the meat in general is not as high fat as it was 100+years ago, so it can be harder to source so much fat calories if you just have access to leaner meat and you may be required to add bone marrow or suet/tallow. So if somebody is having trouble with low energy or with keeping the weight on this way of eating,  they are probably simply not eating enough (fat).</p></blockquote><p></p>