so recently I was online and I came across a video from Jillian Michaels
talking about intermittent fasting so apparently some of her followers ask
some questions about intermittent fasting and she explained what it was
today I want to talk about why what she explained was actually incorrect and
because I want to make sure that you understand that your mental health and
physical health come together to create that overall sense of well-being if you
find this kind of video helpful please consider subscribing so the first thing
I want to point out is that miss Michaels starts off the video by saying
by contradicting herself first thing we have to address is what is fasting
actually mean so a lot of people make the mistake of thinking fasting is
synonymous with not eating or dramatically reducing your calories
which it is fasting is simply a period of time where you're not eating it
doesn't mean you're eating less so adding and restricting calories was just
a way of trying to say that what everybody says is not what it is but
nobody says that intermittent fasting is restricting calories we're quite aware
that intermittent fasting is fasting but I really do believe that that first
statement sets the tone for everything else she says in the video because she
goes on to say that intermittent fasting is simply breakfast intermittent fasting
has been around for thousands and thousands of years it's actually called
breakfast otherwise known as breaking the fast and what she meant by that is
that if you get up in the morning eat three to four times a day go to sleep at
night and repeat you're doing intermittent fasting that's not accurate
are you fasting overnight I absolutely agree we are all fasting overnight
because we don't eat overnight and overnight is a long enough period of
time that we could technically consider that
a fast however when I say your intermittent fasting well no because
you're doing it daily that's the typical way that every American Canadian
European African like the world eats that way intermittent fasting is about
specifically allowing yourself periods of time where you would have been eating
that you don't and you're doing this for a purpose and she's correct when she
said the reasons that we're doing it for a tapa G and apoptosis yes
and so I'm not disagreeing with that but what I'm trying to help everyone to
understand is that right away miss Michaels starts off by saying whatever
you're doing just keep doing it you're already doing intermittent fasting and
that's not reality if we look right away at the fact that miss Michaels continues
to encourage us to eat four times a day and we know that in order to get benefit
from intermittent fasting the fasting period that you are going to engage
should be approximately 16 to 18 hours long the math of what she says to do
breakfast snack lunch dinner with three to four hours apart doesn't give you
enough time to get to sixteen hours again starting there miss Michaels in
this video although she's claiming to be telling you how to appropriately do
intermittent fasting is encouraging you to continue to eat the way you've been
eating and calling that intermittent fasting I don't think that there's
anyone who's gonna disagree that that's misleading people what's frustrating
here is that I believe Miss Michaels is trying to rather than teach us what
intermittent fasting is keep us doing typical behavior and why would she want
that you know a lot of people are gonna say oh it's because if she keeps us
doing typical behavior then she can sell his products I don't know is that what
she's doing I'm leaving that to you guys to the side all I know is that if we eat
four times a day with three to four hour intervals between we do not allow
ourselves to get into an intermittent fasting situation or even at our
restricted eating situation because we're eating over the course of 12 hours
so that's the typical what everybody does
miss Michaels also presents that eating four times a day is healthy and you know
it depends on who you are whether even four times a day is going to be healthy
enough for you I still don't think it's a healthy thing for people to do long
term but here's the thing if I'm insulin sensitive then when I eat
a meal my body is going to be able to do with those carbohydrates what they're
supposed to do with them so my insulin is gonna work appropriately what that
means is that it's gonna burn it's gonna help my body to burn whatever carbs it
can and then it's gonna put away what needs to be put away but if I'm insulin
sensitive and if I'm relatively eating a moderate amount of carbohydrates so I'm
not even talking about keto numbers now I'm just talking about you know anything
close to low-carb I will see that my body weight will
remain stable here's a question I have for everyone does it mean that because
my body weight becomes remain stable that the carbohydrates are not doing
things in my body that are damaging and the answer to that question is actually
not so do I agree that if your insulin sensitive you can eat a normal four
times a day for a period of years and not gain weight or not gain excessive
weight I do agree with that do I think that you can do that indefinitely I
don't agree with that do I feel like while you're doing it it's not affecting
your body I do not agree with that you know one of the things that dr. Seif has
said to me when when I was speaking to him was that it doesn't matter if I burn
off the calories if I've eaten the sugar I've eaten the sugar so whatever is
gonna do to my arteries my liver my pancreas like whatever it's doing to my
internals it's doing to them whether I was able to burn off the energy that
would have been sort of fat or not and he was very clear with me that what I
need to understand is that eating excessive carbohydrates which is more
than 20 grams of carbs per day will in the long term
back to my health he didn't care if I was working out or not so I say this
because I want people to understand that it's not only about being overweight
there are a lot of people who are at the correct weight and they have diabetes or
heart issues or stroke issues or Alzheimers or right it's not only about
being overweight the other thing that Julia Michael says is that the quality
of the calories don't matter and I'm I'm not gonna spend a lot of time on this
guy spoken about a lot of times before but I just want to remind people that
when you eat any food your insulin rises and the more insulin you have floating
around in your body the more for the for it and for longer periods of time the
more that you are pushing yourself towards insulin resistance the same way
that when we drink alcohol the more often we drink alcohol and the more we
have in our system for any period of time pushes us towards alcoholism right
so it's a resistance issue that we're trying to solve here so since we have to
eat every day we don't have to eat every day but since we generally eat every day
then if we were eating every day and we're allowing ourselves to eat whatever
kind of calories we want so that means carbohydrate calories then we need to be
conscious of the fact that the insulin response that we get from carbohydrates
is the maximum response versus the insulin response we get from facts is
the minimum response and the insulin response we get from protein is in
between the two why is that important because yes the quality of the calorie
you eat does impact whether or not your body will store that energy away as fat
but it also impacts what your body is able to do with what you've eaten again
we have to keep in mind that carbohydrates cause inflammation
carbohydrates are actually quite damaging within the body fats are not
damaging within the body protein is a building block that we need to build her
body so the idea that if I have a choice between eating a
building block or eating carbs I shouldn't care which one I choose or the
idea that I have a choice between eating fat a clean energy source versus carbs
not so clean energy source I shouldn't care which one I choose is a fault as a
false idea I need to know that though in order to understand what she's actually
telling me to do I want to take this idea of what the actual calorie source
does in the body a step further since I know that calories from carbohydrates
also affect my insulin levels and if and since I know that having high insulin
levels over a period of time makes me more resistant to the effects of insulin
in my body and since I know that if I have hyperinsulinemia then my body is
much more likely to store any energy that comes in alongside carbohydrates
away as fat so carbs and they hate with the carbs then what's important to me to
recognize here is that the calories in calories out idea doesn't actually work
the way that she's saying because her statement was the only thing that works
for weight loss is calories in calories out
doesn't matter how healthy the food is here's my problem with that what my body
does with the food that I eat if I'm insulin sensitive or if I'm insulin
resistant so hyperinsulinemia makes a difference you see when I have
insulin resistance and you eat carbohydrates your body is much more
likely to be in storage mode and so even if you are exercising because you are
insulin resistant and you have so much insulin in your body at all times when
carbohydrates come in there quickly shuffled into storage because the
insulin response that your body does when you eat any carbohydrates is much
more intense because of the level of insulin in your body to begin with
you're not allow your body is not going like back to baseline the
way that an insulin sensitive person's body will go back to baseline in terms
of insulin in the body and this idea that calories in equals calories out and
that this is something that you can do over time doesn't take into
consideration that when we lower our calorie intake and we do that for an
extended period of time our metabolism changes to match the calories that we're
eating which slows down our body which solute means that our body isn't
expending as much energy so we feel fatigued and like a bunch of processes
happen the we are not a closed system and this is the mistake that
nutritionists and fitness people make all the time energy in energy out only
works in a closed system we're not a closed system because we have other
processes that can impact whether or not the energy that we intake will be used
in the same way every time and this is something we're all aware of when you're
ill the amount of energy that you need to take in is not the same as when
you're healthy right so it's not as easy as calories
and calories out I find this a very frustrating video only because I feel
like the video was created to keep people doing what they're already doing
and I'm making the big guests here that the people that reached out to Jillian
Michaels to understand intermittent fasting are not people who are at the
weight they want to be at or are not people who have zero medical issues I
have the feeling that people who are gonna reach out to her to understand how
to do this properly are people who have medical issues to solve and wait to lose
and if I have medical issues to solve and wait to lose and in your explanation
to me of what intermittent fasting is you tell me to just keep doing what I'm
already doing but what I'm already doing is eating a normal day going to sleep
waking up and repeat then you're not actually helping me to solve any medical
issue that I might have I feel like that is
not only irresponsible but there what's the agenda behind doing something like
that how difficult would it have been to explain that intermittent fasting is not
eating for periods of time on if every third day kind of basis to shake things
up so that your body doesn't know when it's not going to get food versus time
restricted eating is not eating let's say sixteen out of the twenty-four hours
anywhere up to eating once a day that's time restricted eating how hard
would it have been for her to just say that that's what it is right does she
need to endorse it no but at least if you're going to explain it explain what
pro is what it is for what it is intermittent fasting is giving yourself
a purposeful period of time where you're not eating and having it be intermittent
means that your body can you're trying your best not to let your body get used
to anything right because that's what helps us right if our body doesn't know
what's coming it can't it can't adjust our metabolism to match what we're doing
if some days I'm eating a normal day and then other days I'm only getting one
meal or I'm not even getting a meal my body is confused by that and be
confusing my body keeps the energy level so the metabolism rate high versus time
restricted eating what I do every every 24 hours my body knows is gonna get a
meal I'm not keeping I'm not keep giving my body any confusion right when I eat
one meal a day everyday I'm not giving my body any confusion that's why
sporadically I do do longer facts of two to three days and every six months I do
a seven-day fast because that's the way that I keep my body not knowing what's
coming in and I also on top of that half days where I overeat so I will
purposefully eat you know an extra like I would eat a 10 ounce piece of meat or
I would eat well actually is usually the meat I play with or or I add extra fat
to my coffee and like really a ramped up the amount of energy my
he's bringing in I never go over my carbs but I will either ramp up the fat
or a ramp up the meat and like so basically I'm giving my body so much
extra that is like whoa where did that come from
right it's on purpose because it helps your body to keep your metabolism at a
higher rate and therefore you're still able to eat and fuel yourself and and
not slow down in weight loss or even regain the weight I don't understand why
Julian didn't just explain what it was even if she said at the end I don't
endorse it right simple just explain what it was so I made this video because
I wanted to point out the discrepancies that I saw in what she said and explain
what it was right I hope that was been helpful I hope it helps you to
understand the difference between regular eating time restricted feeding
and intermittent fasting for everybody who is new here I want to thank you for
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