So Met Flex,
can you explain what metabolic flexibility is
and is that a way you're supposed to live
or something you do for a short time?
Yeah, so I heard this term recently,
had no idea what it was.
I started researching it and I was like,
wow, this is a cool concept.
Basically, what it says
is that your body needs to be metabolically flexible
which means it can burn different types of fuel.
The two major fuels we like to burn in our body
are carbs and fats
and so a metabolically flexible person can burn carbs well,
can burn fat well.
However, most people are metabolically inflexible
and they can't do it.
Think about it like this, Rach.
Think of a hybrid car.
A hybrid car has a battery
and it has gasoline it can use for fuel sources.
When the battery runs out
then the car switches over to gasoline
and it can keep going.
That hybrid car is metabolically flexible.
However, when you look at a gasoline power car,
that car can only burn gas for fuel
so when the tank is empty, it doesn't go anymore.
You gotta put more gas in it.
That car is metabolically inflexible.
So on this program, in six weeks,
I'm going to help you be able to change
your metabolic flexibility
so you can burn whatever fuel you are seeing
and Rach, you know every time do one of these books,
I have a Facebook group who does it early
so I can get feedback from them.
So I had a great Facebook group
and people can join at home by the way, it's free.
It's called Met Flex Diet.
Join my group, you have me, I do Zoom.
Met Flex Diet.
Met Flex Diet. Just like the book.
I'm gonna show you some pictures.
The first one is Lisa Davenport.
She lost 17 pounds in just the six weeks
but she also lost eight inches
and another thing about Lisa is
she used my Met Flex Diet Workbook.
So I created something I've never done before
which is a daily workbook to make you accountable.
Only takes seven minutes a day
and she maximized her results.
The next person is Jill Cox-Cordova.
She lost 11 and a half pounds
and she lost eight and three quarter inches
also in just the six weeks on Met Flex Diet in our group.
Here's the deal.
There are three things you can do really to do it.
You can exercise, you can do intermittent fasting
and you can do something called cyclical ketosis.
Now, everyone knows that ketosis basically means
that your body doesn't have any carb or glucose to burn
so it starts to burn fat and that's how the keto diets work
but my program is a little different.
It's a cyclical keto program
which means that you cycle in and out of it.
You don't stay in it for a long period of time.
You do five or six days in keto
and then you do one or two days in carb loading days.
So let me explain to you why that makes a difference.
When you're doing keto, you're going to be eating more fats.
You have to be careful with fats.
Fats also have some negative consequences
so I would like people to understand
what a keto day looks like.
You're gonna be eating things
like avocados here that I have.
These are good fats.
You're gonna have avocado, you're gonna have flaxseed,
you're gonna have nut butter
and then you're also gonna have protein.
So you're gonna have protein from eggs, from seafood, fish.
I have salmon here, it has great omega-3s
and also lean protein from chicken.
Now, I'm gonna show you a graph
so people can understand what a keto day looks like.
In this chart here, you will see, Rach,
that 70 to 80% of your calories for the day
are gonna come from fat when you're on a keto day,
10 to 20% will come from protein
and then about five to 10% will come from your carbs.
Remember, we wanna have low carbs on keto
because when we have lower carbs,
our body then goes into our fat and uses that for energy.
So that is what a keto day looks like.
I find this fascinating.
I'm gonna show you guys what a carb day will look like
so let's look at the graphic here.
So on a carb day, the numbers are very different.
So you're gonna have 70% of your calories
are coming from carbs, 20% from protein and 10% from fat.
Completely the opposite of what we were seeing before
as far as the carbs and fats.
Now, the beauty of the carb day is you get to load it up
for two days a week so you get to have pasta,
you get to have pizza
but I also want you to have what are called complex carbs.
Those carbs are important
because they raise your blood sugars more slowly,
they're digested more slowly and they're healthier.
They have some fiber in them.
So I have some things here.
So you see I have some brown rice, I have some quinoa,
I have some kale and fruits and vegetables
and sweet potatoes, not white potatoes but sweet potatoes.
So these are the complex carbs and many others you can have.