The results are in: -4.23% or -9 lbs.

On its face, I am not happy with these results. It snapped a streak of 9 consecutive double-digit weight losses on my High-fat Carnivore diet. And it is the lowest negative percentage in three years (September 2021).

It is still a success, but perhaps it should have been much more. Or I am lamenting that I am so close to that 200 lb threshold!

Why, Oh, Why?

I set out food targets and hit them exactly. Honestly, I cannot find a correlation to my weightloss success to even make an adjustment. Take a look at my intake table. What's the relative positive correlation?! I have been lamenting the too low protein numbers as halfway through I saw it was a problem.

I let ChatGPT 4 take a crack at my data and the excerpt is below. I exclude 28E and 34E because they benefit from the carb withdrawal bump.

Conclusion:

When excluding 28E and 34E, the strongest positive correlations with weight loss percentage appear to be with:

• Butter (lbs): Higher butter consumption correlates with greater weight loss.

• Broth (gallons): Increased broth consumption also correlates with better weight loss percentages.

• Coffee (gallons): There is a noticeable but less consistent positive correlation with coffee consumption.

Overall, butter and broth consumption show the most consistent positive correlations with weight loss percentage.

Further evidence how calories don't count: these are the daily calorie numbers for ALL of my HFC Expeditions, and no, I didn't track them at all:

HFC #1 Calories

• 28E: 2253
• 29E: 2111 - Most Bacon: 9.5 lbs! 2nd Least Butter: 10.1 lbs!
• 30E: 2162
• 31E: 2310
• 32E: 2307

HFC #2 Calories

• 34E: 2102
• 35E: 2367
• 36E: 2266
• 37E: 2243
• 38E: 2361 - Most Butter: 22.4 lbs! 2nd Least Bacon: 1.7 lbs!

Both combined is 60 weeks worth!

The Takeaway

All that aside, there's this weird bit:

In The 37th, I lost 6.17% and trimmed ¾" around my gut. In The 38th, I lost 4.24% and hacked off 1 ¾"–more than double! *shrug*

Perhaps my 235-gram fat target burns fat more effectively, even if my Google Charts' playground slides are not as intense.

As to how this syncs up with my New Year's Resolutions:

• I can now squeeze into 34" jeans for a one-and-done wear—I'm all about my black polyester!
• My shoulders-to-waist ratio is close to 1.1, though that 1.6 seems like a good NYR for '25
• My arms dropped an inch! Dag burn it.