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From 35 Years of Dieting to The Accidental Carnivore — Cristie Explains How
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In this episode, I sit down with Cristie from Meating Wellness — a fifth-grade teacher, certified health coach, and creator of the Meating Wellness YouTube channel and community.
Cristie spent 35 years trapped in a binge-restrict cycle, trying every diet from her teenage years through age 47. Then in 2020, she accidentally discovered carnivore through a random Facebook group comment and one Doctor Berry video — and ended up documenting a transformation that changed not just her life, but her family's.
Cristie brings a rare perspective to the carnivore conversation: she's not an early adopter who saw the future. She's an accidental experiment. A teacher who's watching metabolic dysfunction show up in 10-year-olds.
A mom whose teenage son's behavior transformed in weeks on a meat-based diet. And someone honest enough to say she's still learning, still experimenting, and building a sustainable life — not a perfect one.
Her story is about what it actually costs to break free from diet culture, and what becomes possible on the other side.
Here's what we cover in the episode:
Cristie's 35-year binge-restrict cycle — from teenage diet culture messaging ("fat makes you fat, thin is in") all the way through age 47
How she accidentally found carnivore in 2020 — a Facebook lurker who saw one comment about Doctor Berry and fell down the rabbit hole that changed everything
The difference between knowing about keto and actually understanding it — and why lack of ideology sometimes works better than perfect knowledge
Her journey from keto to carnivore to her current way of eating — and how the details were the real treatment
What happened to her youngest son when she started cooking meat-based meals — behavioral transformation, self-directed hygiene, stability in weeks
Her older son's zero interest in carnivore — and why she's at peace with modeling instead of pushing
Building Meating Wellness as a private community and health coaching practice — asynchronous coaching for busy people
The mindset shift that made it all sustainable
Why the accidental path sometimes teaches you more than the planned one
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MeatingWellness
Website: https://www.meatingwellness.com
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