Hello Everyone,
This is my first post here. I commit ed to the Zero Carb lifestyle 56 days ago. I started from cooked meat and water only and slowly transitioned to raw beef, some raw liver and water.

I eat about 1.5 pound of muscle meat daily (30% fat) and 50g liver 3 times per week. The problem is constant weight gain. So far I gained about 10 pounds. I started from 117.6 pounds at 5.4' height, 52 y.o. female. I came to this woe from keto and 'conventional' paleo because of constant sensation of hunger. The hunger is now under control but the weight gain unwelcome. And no, it is not only muscle weight. Plenty of new cushioning called fat.

I eat 2 meals a day, eat till satisfied but not stuffed, experience healthy hunger between the meals, drink water when thirsty and do not cheat.

I will appreciate your comments, ideas and experiences.

Looks like Van beat my post by a few seconds. At any rate, my take is about the same as his. My first guess is that you're eating way to much protein, given the diet you listed. When we eat more protein than out body needs, our kidneys turn the excess into sugar. When we have sugar in our bloodstream that we don't need for fuel, our bodies can turn it into fat and store it. If we don't get much exposure to cold, this will likely be white fat, which is slow to disappear because it's not metabolically active.

My advice, as unpleasant as it might sound to you, is to make some substantial changes to your daily diet. I'd first suggest adding in a little carbs, as they can help convince the body you aren't about to starve and keep your metabolic rate up. Eating carbs from raw root vegetables like Jerusalem artichokes, onions, sweet potatoes, beets, etc. will add a lot of fiber to your diet, which your gut bacteria will turn into short chain fatty acids. These make great fuel, and will help to coax your body to burn more fat as fuel. My next suggestion is to reduce your protein intake to just barely what your body needs to replace/repair muscle and other tissues. There are equations you can use to estimate what this is. My guess is that for you it is probably no more than 6 ounces of meat/organs per day. The rest of your calories should come from fat.

Getting all of your daily calories from fat and carbs will likely involve eating a lot more fat than you're used to. It might mean eating a stick of butter every day if you're into dairy, or eating a sizable chunk of suet or back fat from a grazing animal if you can get it.

I would also suggest regular cold exposure, especially on your upper chest and upper back. This will turn your white fat into brown, metabolically active fat that has more mitochondria in it. The more brown fat you have, the easier it will be to burn fat and to reduce your body fat percentage. You can start with cold showers, then you will probably want to transition to ice water baths or swims in cold (under 50 degrees F) streams or lakes.

Good luck!

What muscle meats are you eating that yield 30% fat? Are we talking by weight, or by calories? Reading through the numbers you're offering us, I see many discrepancies and am struggling to make sense of it.

Are you on any form of birth control chemicals / hormones?
Are you on any form of medication?
When was the last time you were on birth control or any medication and what was it?
Have you had any surgery, organs removed, disabled such as "tubes tied?"

1.5 pounds seems like a lot for your weight and age. Judging by Principia Carnivora fb page, most adult heavy males only manage to eat 1-1.5 pounds.

Personally, I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing. Perhaps you are underweight.

You could probably elaborate more on what Thyroid Medication you are taking over the years and why.

Thus you taking both medications above are factors in your health.

Ideally you want to get into a diet that gives you the best stuff you need so you eliminate all medication.

Medication just screws up the predictability of the body healing.

goodsamaritan. Thank you for your reply. Before I take any supplement or medicine, I do extensive research. I don't always believe everything I Google.
Let me remind that the weight gain happened SINCE I started the Zero Carb diet. I have been taking the Natural Progesterone for many years now as I was estrogen dominant. It helped tremendously since menopause.
My thyroid has been a problem for all of my life. My mother and grandmother, and great grandmother all were hypothyroid. Yes, I would love to 'cure it' with diet and this is why I came into raw Zero Carb. So far I have not been successful but it is early days yet, as I started this woe on July 13.
My blood tests showed that my body was not producing sufficient T4 and T3 giving me many terrible symptoms. So, this is the reason i was prescribed medication.

Don't you  think that the improvement in thyroid functions should precede dropping of the medication and not the other way around?
Do you think that the raw Zero Carb diet is not appropriate to elicit the healing?

Thanks, ys. I came across this forum through a link straight to Lex's journal and had an impression - wrong one apparently - that this is a ZC community.
I am curious if anyone on raw paleo experiences unwelcomed weight gain? Will do some reading....