ZeroCarb Community: Seafood on Carnivore
The ZeroCarb community channel has over 1,000 mentions of seafood — the highest volume of any source — with wide-ranging protocols from strict lion-diet members to flexible animal-based eaters who freely include fish and shellfish.
How Community Members Define Carnivore (Including Seafood)
"Just saying carnivore instead of, you know, only eating meats and eggs and possibly seafood and fish — that was different. But she wasn't opposed to it."
"You can make carnivore pizza. You can eat chicken or pork or seafood if you'd like."
Real Diet Example: 70% Beef / 30% Mixed Animal Foods
"My diet consists of fatty beef with the other 30% consisting of chicken, pork, lamb, tripe, eggs, cheese, fish, and shrimp. All of which I buy at conventional grocery stores. I generally eat twice a day and only drink water, unflavored salts, and bone broth."
This is a practical, real-world flexible carnivore — beef-dominant but with fish and shrimp as regular variety proteins, sourced from ordinary grocery stores.
Steak + Shrimp: The Carnivore Celebration Meal
"When we were a year into carnivore, all my girlfriends went out to celebrate my year being carnivore and every single person did not drink and ordered steak and shrimp."
Steak + shrimp is the de facto social "carnivore celebration meal" — achievable at virtually any restaurant.
Eating Out: Seafood Restaurants Are Carnivore-Friendly
"We've gone to her favorite restaurants, which are seafood restaurants, and I just have — I can have fish and all any seafood — I gladly feast on and still maintain my carnivore diet."
Cooking Discovery: Oysters and Crab for the First Time
"I never cooked before really. But ever since I started carnivore, I cook — and now I cook all the meat and I'm making crab cakes and I'm making oyster fritters. I'm like, 'Oh, wow.'"
Carnivore pushed someone to cook for the first time; shellfish variety increased culinary engagement and enjoyment.
Thailand: Sustained High Training on Fish + Chicken Carnivore
"They provided carnivore food for me, which was in Thailand, as you can imagine, a lot of chicken, a lot of fish and a bit of beef. But I trained 6, 7 hours a day."
Real-world adaptation: In countries where beef is expensive or scarce, fish becomes the primary carnivore protein. High athletic training volume sustained on fish + chicken.
Grizzly Bear Ancestral Argument
"There is a project in Canada where they follow grizzly bears watching them get fed going into hibernation... this bear sitting in the river eating salmon all day long and I kind of said — okay, well if bear is a carnivore and it eats salmon..."
Dr. Boz (Annette Bosworth): Oily Fish for Ketosis
"She very much advocates for a carnivore diet. She very much advocates for using lots of oily fish and things like that to up [fat and omega-3 content]."
Dr. Boz's approach: sardines, salmon, and mackerel as fat and omega-3 vehicles to deepen ketosis on carnivore.
Shrimp When Protein Is Hard to Hit
"I find it hard. I have to add things like shrimp sometimes... so sometimes I'll do things like that [to hit protein targets]."
Exotic Seafood Exploration
"And now with carnivore, I see a fish I didn't know yet or I see — oh my gosh, jellyfish, silk worms, sago grubs, horse shoe crabs, all this — I love them. Like I never had that before, so cool."
Beginner Advice from the Community
"Lots of people saying: just eat meat and fat and fish and eggs and that's all you need — it is all you need. But then I see 'I failed, I'm not feeling well, I've got diarrhea...'"
Meat + fat + fish + eggs is the community's standard beginner recommendation. Adaptation issues (diarrhea, fatigue) are common in weeks 1–4 regardless of protein source.
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