Meet Christopher DeLisle

Today, we’d like to introduce you to Christopher DeLisle.

Hi Christopher, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for sharing your story with us – to start, maybe you can share some of your backstories with our readers.
As a musician in Nashville, I was living the typical musician lifestyle with fast food, drinks at the bar I was playing, late nights, and not prioritizing my health. After embarrassingly gaining weight, I started working to take my health back and did research to find the best way to do this. After countless hours of research and study, I settled on a low-carb way of eating known as keto, and this eventually led me to an ultra-low-carb lifestyle called carnivore.

The first time I tried this, I lost a lot of weight. Still, there was an underlying food addiction I had never dealt with that caused me to go back to a standard diet full of junk food, which saw me gain a large amount of weight back and resulted in the return of many medical issues I had seen disappear. I realized the issue was much deeper and chose to face the problem head-on, dedicating myself to take on the challenge of living a carnivore lifestyle for 365 days with zero cheating or compromise.

To support this effort and document my journey, I began a YouTube channel called Chris Cooking Nashville, where I could vlog weekly about my journey and share the carnivore recipes I was creating to help me stabilize myself on a carnivore diet without giving up my love of cooking or foods that were comforting, culturally important, or celebratory in life. After connecting with other YouTubers in the low-carb community, I saw my channel begin to grow. I found myself receiving messages about my story, inspiring others, and my recipes to help them with their health.

Fast forward a year, and I am now working full-time on YouTube, creating recipes for low-carb communities, recording health vlogs to inspire more people to take control of their health, and fostering a community of supportive people who encourage and lift each other up daily as we all pursue this journey of better health together. I have lost over 130 lbs and am closer to my goal weight than I have been in years, and I’m still working to improve daily while inspiring and supporting others trying to do the same.

My health, both physical and mental, is better than it has been for years, and I have a passion for this calling to help others who struggle as I did with their food choices, self-image, confidence, and more. Now, at Chris Cooking Nashville, I work daily to change the world one plate at a time. I encourage all my viewers in every video by ending with, “Eat your meat, love your life.”

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not, what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
This has been a hard journey to this point. Anytime you take back control of your health, it’s an uphill battle, but on top of that, I was already working several jobs when I began this journey. The pandemic took everything my wife and I had as musicians, and rebuilding from the ground up was a grueling process.

Together, we persevered to get our finances back under control after losing our jobs and businesses. Then, when the YouTube channel took off, I really didn’t have as much free time as it was, and doing this quickly became a full-time requirement and even more. Working seven days straight, 100-120 hours per week, learning how to run a YouTube channel, learning new skills of video editing and color correction, creating totally new recipes weekly, and more was a taxing load to keep you with. I refused to back off, though, because the response I was getting was so heartfelt and meant so much to people who had been struggling that I knew I couldn’t stop.

I buckled down to find new ways of becoming more efficient, so I could dedicate more time to the work I felt really mattered in people’s lives while not stealing anything from my music career as my wife’s lead guitarist and band leader, and not failing to still make it to my day job until I would be able to afford to quit. The balancing act was a difficult learning curve to keep up with, and to this day, I’m not perfect at it, but it gets easier with practice.

I appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I do full-time music, which includes playing guitar for my wife, Country Artist Ash Taylor. I’m also a singer, songwriter, studio musician, and guitar teacher. My main business alongside this is being a full-time YouTuber who creates low-carb recipes and health vlogs to encourage low-carb living for people trying to fix their health issues with diet.

I’m probably most known on YouTube for creating carnivore “mashed potatoes,” which took the low-carb world by storm as it was so outside the box. I’m also known for using crazy ingredient combinations with a bit of molecular gastronomy to create low-carb substitutes for many favorite carbohydrate foods in ways no one else has ever thought to try.

All of this is done with a country/rock vibe, as my music roots show through in my videos and lifestyle. We also take keto/carnivore on the road when we tour and show people how this low-carb lifestyle can go with you anywhere, even as a traveling musician. I’m a unique mix of chef and guitarist that no one else in the low-carb space.

What has been the most important lesson you’ve learned along your journey?
If you don’t value yourself as you already are, you’ll never find the tenacity to daily take steps towards who you dream of being. Your value isn’t determined by whether or not you can be the ultimate potential today.

It’s determined by your willingness to work to get closer to it each day so that tomorrow is always better than where you are right now. Love for your worth and love for others brings us all together, and succeeding at what I do can only happen when I learn to value what I already am and share that with others because I want them to enjoy the best of what I have to offer, too.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.ChrisCookingNashville.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriscookingnashville?igsh=MXZmMXg3MDl0a2ZkdA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
• Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/ChrisCookingNashville?mibextid=LQQJ4d
• Youtube: https://youtube.com/@ChrisCookingNashville?si=DImELEJ_20p4Pqmy

Image Credits
Nita In Nashville