and i want us to keep in mind i am not sitting here trying to say carnivore is
the be-all end-all everybody should be carnivore that's not the point of this video have you ever
wondered about the impact of a cheat meal on different types of diets on a standard diet
so this the typical low-fat diet that most people do a cheat day causes guilt and can also
lead to some excessive eating now many people report feeling satiated after they cheat on
their diet like if they've scratched some kind of itch that they had meaning that
they were missing the food and that they were kind of waiting for the opportunity to eat it
of course eating these foods will cause your doc your weight loss and it could even result
in you having an upset stomach depending on what you ate and how much of it you ate and
you're risking your diet coming to an end because you might start to believe that sticking to your
diet is just too hard for you to do on a keto diet there's this extra level of the fact that
you can get kicked out of ketosis and the fact that you're reintroducing high levels of sugar
and the question that i want to pose today is what about carnivore like how does cheating impact if
you're eating a carnivore now in fairness it's going to be similar to keto in the sense that
you're going to get kicked out of ketosis it's going to be similar to all diets and the fact
that you're going to feel like can i do this forever and is this a good idea but by the time
that someone decides to do carnivore you would think that they're pretty committed to eating
a certain way and that they wouldn't be cheating on their diet anymore but one thing that i've
started to realize is that many people choose to do a diet to lose weight because they're choosing
to do a diet even carnivore for weight loss reasons the health reasons are not top of mind
or the foods i'm actually eating are not top of mind now i'm hoping that by the end of this video
you're going to see why doing any diet strictly for weight loss is a recipe for disaster let's
just start by the basics on a keto diet you're eating 20 grams of carbs or less every day and
what this is going to do is it's going to solve your insulin resistance it's going to solve
your addiction to sugar so that physiological addiction to sugar is going to be solved because
you're going to go through your withdrawal process and by the end of your withdrawal
process your body is no longer looking for extra sugar from you this takes about seven-ish days
right so if you're in good health two to four days to get into a ketogenic state if you're
insulin resistant getting into a ketogenic state can take up to seven days so five to seven days
what would be considered insulin resistant what are we looking for we're looking for overweight
again most people start diets because they're overweight so chances are you're insulin resistant
if you have inflammation right knee joint issues elbow issues if you're diabetic automatically
insulin resistant i had two out of the three i'm sure that some people have one of them
we need to be careful when we are thinking that we can quickly get into ketosis we're probably going
to be on that higher end of seven-ish days if you remain consistent on eating 20 grams of carbs
or less each and every day then what's going to happen is you're going to solve your psychological
cravings so now that desire to eat that's coming from your head is going to also start to go away
and now that's going to improve your internal health it's going to improve your cognition so the
longer you're on a healthy diet the better you're going to be able to think it's going to improve
your sleep it's going to improve your energy and it's going to regulate your weight and this
all takes several months this is not a quick thing that's happening and this is exactly what
gets us all into trouble there's this expectation that when we modify our diet to lose weight the
modifications are going to work quickly and this when they don't work quickly often leads us to
abandon our diet that the modifications are going to be insignificant or unrelated to our health
so the idea that the weight loss i'm going to get trumps any possible negative side effects
that could come from eating a specific kind of diet and this is why so many people will tell you
that they think keto is an unhealthy diet it's a fad it's it's ridiculous you're removing a
complete macronutrient and yet have tried it it's also going to mean that you're eating foods that
you hate right if you're going to do a diet and that of course can also lead to you abandoning the
diet because if i hate the food i'm supposed to eat i'm going to see this diet as either temporary
or unsustainable and either way at some point i stopped doing the healthy thing that i'm trying
to do for myself so what happens if you're doing a keto diet and you eat off plan and get kicked
out of ketosis minimally you're going to resume eating healthy foods at some point and your body
will be out of ketosis out of ketosis so for a day or two you'll be eating healthy food but your body
will actually be storing that away as energy like so basically those healthy carbs and the healthy
fats and the healthy protein because i'm out of a ketogenic state i'm going to be storing that
another level up you might have the reaction where you fall prey to eating off plan for several days
which means that your addiction came back full force you resume gaining weight and possibly quit
your diet in between quit in your diet and and and fighting with your diet trying to get on track
if you're able to get back on track you're gonna need to get yourself back into ketosis and now the
issue that i see is that you possibly end up going through withdrawal again because the sugar is
back and it's full force and it was pushing you to overeat for several days and you got to go through
withdrawal symptoms which is very uncomfortable i've only ever done it once i don't suggest
people doing it more than once because it was not pleasant now is there any difference for people
who cheat on a carnivore diet and i'm going to say that it depends on how long you've been carnivore
because as with any diet if you're constantly cheating you're not going to get the results
because your body will be used to the foods that you're eating so if i'm constantly cheating on my
diet whether it's carnivorous whatever then i'm my body's still used to these foods so
interestingly i have two different scenarios i have people tell me oh i never had keto flu but
then when you actually look at what they're eating they're still eating quite a bit of carbohydrate
they say they're doing keto so there's a question mark in my mind are you actually in a ketogenic
state and then you have other people who are constantly cycling in and out of keto flu
because they're constantly going above the number their body can manage and then pulling themselves
back down re-experiencing that withdrawal after two months of my own experience with
doing a carnivore diet and i was strict i only ate meat and fish and eggs and i did have cheese
but no veg at all and i learned something very interesting the diet that you eat changes more
than your body composition so we're all coming to this diet or whatever diet we're choosing
for weight loss we want to we want to look fit and have muscles and and be that right weight
well fortunately we do get that the other thing that's happening that we're not thinking about
is that the food we're eating in that new diet is impacting our gut microbiome and so when you don't
eat any veg for an extended period of time and the gut microbes that would be feeding off those veg
die when you reintroduce those vegetables into your diet you feel bloated you have indigestion
and even diarrhea i had all three another thing we don't think about is that we're reintroducing
the toxin so sugar is actually toxic in our body in high doses and when you're doing carnivore
guess what you're doing you've taken the amount of sugar that's coming in
on a daily basis to the minimum you possibly could have been giving yourself and that's
terrific because it regulates your sugar in your blood it regulates your insulin levels as a matter
of fact a lot of our hormones get regulated when we take sugar completely not completely but as
much as possible out of our diet and the problem though the flu side of this coin is that it only
takes a little bit right so it only makes sense that if all of a sudden i eat some veg
when i haven't been eating any veg my insulin is going to rise i'm likely to have a rise in
dopamine and serotonin leading to addictive engagement in food again my body is going
to have a reaction to the fact that i've allowed myself once again to have sugar in my life so when
i reintroduced carb to my diet i began to struggle what did i reintroduce well i brought those nuts
in because i didn't think well anyways i brought those nuts in and it it led to an excessive
consumption of nuts i wasn't having one serving i wasn't even having two servings i was having
multiple servings and i could eat nuts through out the day i was even eating when i nuts when
i wasn't actually hungry because i was craving them now i know most of you um you're going to
be like that doesn't sound like cheating like nuts are okay on keto but you need to keep in mind that
when i eat them i am losing control so the fact of the matter is that i wouldn't eat a cookie
i wouldn't eat a chocolate bar those were my old go-to fun foods and i wouldn't allow
myself to do that today but since my carnivore experience i've noticed that nuts diet soda
even flavored water can activate my pleasure pathways in my brain and then i'm chasing again
i'm craving again i'm out of control again because you see it doesn't take much when you're addicted
and you just have a bit of the thing you know we've seen people fall off the wagon from having
a toast at a wedding all of a sudden they're out of control again because they introduced the thing
that lit up that pleasure pathway in their head so for me i've noticed it doesn't take much sugar
to get me chasing again it doesn't even take actual sugar the taste of sweet so diet soda
that cephalic response gets me and then especially if i'm eating a food that i deem acceptable
that falls in line with keto i'm much more likely to give myself some leeway on eating this
and i've noticed it with myself pat and i have talked about it where yeah sometimes you just end
up finishing the veg on the plate now i have to be more conscious about that and i want us to keep in
mind i'm not sitting here trying to say carnival carnivore is the be all and all everybody should
be carnivore that's not the point of this video i'm asking you to think about what does it mean
if i'm carnivore somehow i find myself eating veg what does it mean if i'm keto
and somehow i find myself over eating the foods on keto that are acceptable or i find myself allowing
on carnivore or keto allowing myself to bring in foods that are not acceptable wellness orders i
want you to think about the fact that any time you eat off plan you need to question why you're doing
that you need to verify with yourself do you notice that less carbage that you eat the more
leeway that you give yourself with the healthy veg that's on your plate so back in the day when i was
doing standard diet and i was not eating chocolate i was not eating cookies but all of a sudden pizza
hasta became more meals in my week than they were when i allowed myself to eat chocolate
we can get the sugar from anywhere overeating healthy veg will still lead to weight gain
we need to be careful of the treats we allow into our diet so i want you to prepare your
meals based on eating healthy foods that build and fuel your body and if you're going to eat veg
make sure it falls in line with the goals that you have for your health right so you're weighing
and measuring your veg so that you can be certain that you're eating that 20 grams or less per day
and pay attention to how your body reacts to the veg that you are eating to ensure that you
can actually eat the veg you're putting on your plate by paying attention what i learned is that
i actually need to stop around 18 grams per day or my body starts reacting negatively i wouldn't have
been able to figure that out if i wasn't weighing the veg from all my meals and noticing that when i
got past 18 i wasn't feeling great we're trying to build healthy bodies so that we can live the life
that we want to live do the activities that we want to do and have fun with the people in our
lives because relationships are the reason that we're so happy i mean i feel like we think it's
the food we think oh we got together we ate a good meal no we got together and we enjoyed the
other person's company we had a laugh we had fun so if you're gonna build a healthy body that means
making good decisions about the foods you eat at every meal i have a video about the problems
of carb cycling those myths that we believe that you can watch after this video and the
truth of the matter is we're trying to overcome an addiction and i know you didn't choose to be
addicted to sugar because we're at all addicted to sugar because of the way our world eats
but at the end of the day you're the one that needs to solve that you're addicted to sugar