i've heard many online keto experts telling us not to really worry too much about falling off keto
to just get back up jump back on and like keep doing your thing and i want to talk about why
i kind of don't agree with that mentality hello Wellness Warriors welcome to Mind Blowing Health
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every week now obviously if i'm talking to someone who's telling me that they've fallen off of keto
at some point in our conversation we're going to get around to how to get back on and keep moving
forward but it's eventually i don't start there and there's a reason i don't start there because
for me the more important thing for all of us to try to figure out is why to fall off and in fact
that's the most important thing that you can do to help yourself to stick to your keto lifestyle
long term because if you don't figure out why you fell off you'll fall off again and again
and again and this is exactly what i see in some of these stories that i hear about people doing
kato that it's the tenth time that they've done keto it's the seventh time that they've done keto
oh i did keto years ago and it really worked for me and i'm gonna do it again so there's a
misunderstanding first of all about what it is to do keto because it's not just doing a diet
it's living a healthier lifestyle that's gonna keep you metabolically healthy and if we don't
understand some of these core ideas then we're going to fall off keto i think it's important
for us to understand that there's more than one reason that we fall off keto if i don't look at
my life situation and understand where i'm coming from then i'm not going to be able to really
tell that there aren't things in my life that could be pushing me to put it down that i'm not
even aware of so one of the first things that i find that can cause people to fall off keto
is not knowing exactly what foods we're supposed to eat is healthy to eat allowed to eat should
be eating these ideas like what foods are part of my diet and there are many people
coming from the standard american diet who still believe that fruits and vegetables
with high glycemic indexes should still be part of the way that they're eating because they
are just healthy so they're still incorporating these high glycemic fruits and vegetables in their
everyday yet still believing that they're living a ketogenic lifestyle
now a lot of the time what's really happening is that by eating just one of these items each
day you're already not in the ketogenic state for those who are trying their best to keep themselves
under the numbers so now they're actually checking how much they're eating that little bit that you
eat of a high glycemic vegetable or a sweet fruit is still enough to keep you chasing that dopamine
hit so getting clear on which foods are healthy and which foods we should put down become super
important but i think the other thing that i want people to think about because if i'm eating things
that are high in fructose it's not only about sugar as a whole but now it's about fructose
which we know is damaging to the liver so eating a lot of fruit which then puts your liver to work
more and it puts insulin to be more involved will obviously lead to metabolic issues no matter how
good you're being with everything else the second thing that can cause you to be kicked out of keto
is eating highly processed foods now i've actually seen it happen where someone's eating a highly
processed food that's labeled keto but then if you read the ingredients questionable ingredients
however i will say that even if the ingredients fall in line with what's a ketogenic way of eating
we also need to understand how many of these processed foods you allow in your day and how
much artificial sweetener so how sweet does this thing actually taste will matter because it's not
only a physical reaction there's a psychological slash um cephalic reaction that happens your brain
all of our brains does not understand what's the difference between artificial sweet and sweet
wellness worries you need to understand that sugar is such a damaging elements it's so toxic to our
bodies that as soon as our mouth tastes sweet our body is already in the process of trying to
clear space for the incoming sugar so the thing that could happen to you is you might be eating
a totally approved keto friendly something that tastes sweet and then your body is making space
for the not coming sugar but of course that means later on you're gonna be pushed to be hungry and
then you're gonna have to go eat and that's a real hunger that's gonna happen because your body puts
sugar away peer pressure is another reason that many people get kicked out of keto the fact that
they go out to eat with others or maybe in their household they're the only person doing keto
and there's this pressure to eat like everybody else this something's wrong with you that you're
eating like that or this you constant shaming because you're not able to eat like us and be
thin like us most people don't consider that just because i'm thin does not mean that i'm internally
metabolically healthy and so feeling the need to eat like everybody else even though you know
that eating the way you're eating is much more healthy for you is another reason that many people
stop eating their healthy ketogenic lifestyle the fourth one that i see often is well there
was a holiday an occasion and this feeling that well if i only eat off plan during those holidays
and occasions it doesn't really matter right part of this is not understanding that every
time i eat off plan i'm allowing the toxin back into my body because now i'm eating regular foods
but also not understanding that if i have an attitude that well it doesn't really matter
because as one time per month or whatever then that means that whenever those kind of situations
show themselves i'm gonna let myself eat whatever well what about if you look at my
situation where between christmas and valentine's day i've got seven occasions happening because i
have christmas new years and five birthdays to manage and so what's happening is that in a in
a eight week period there are actually six weeks where i would have the excuse to eat off plan
and if i really believe that there's no big deal to do this that means that i will do that now
let's keep it in mind that during that six times out of eight weeks that i'm gonna eat off plan
it takes four days for the typical person to get back into ketosis well i'm probably never
gonna make it right maybe i'm gonna have a day and then i'm off again because every weekend
so i might have two days or three days and then every week i'm gonna be out of ketosis
more than i'm in ketosis during that eight week period what do you think will happen to my weight
right it's gonna skyrocket what do you think will more importantly happen to my internal health it's
going to plummet we need to keep it in mind that being healthy matters so much more than being thin
and i'm not gonna know that i'm making this damage unless i physically feel ill
it's a six week period now i probably will gain weight if i'm eating normal foods if i
allow myself to have cake and all these other things but more importantly it's all the micro
problems that are happening internally all the inflammation that's going to resume
all the heart possible problems all the metabolic possible problems that i don't know are happening
but are happening because the toxin is back if we allow ourselves to eat off plan without worrying
about it we've just normalized eating off plan and even more importantly if we're eating processed
foods we need to understand that those low quality energy sources which is really what they are
are not contributing to our nutrition they're not contributing to the building of our body
in a positive way they're not contributing to anything beneficial towards our health
what nutrition is there in a chocolate chip cookie what nutrition is there in a chocolate bar even a
square of chocolate what nutrition is there in that even if it's a hundred percent dark what
nutrition am i getting out of these tasty things that i'm eating for entertainment
and that's the problem it's entertainment not food if you allow yourself to eat for entertainment
rather than eating for nutrition building blocks for your body and a clean energy source you're not
allowing yourself to correct the bad habit that we were tricked into because we were taught that
processed foods are equivalent to real whole foods that's a lie that we were sold and the reality is
real whole foods have much more value to the body alongside that lie is the idea that we all need to
eat fruits and vegetables several times a day when in fact high glycemic fruits and vegetables opened
the door for us to chase carbohydrates i mean honestly caution should be taken with any food
that tastes sweet sweet taste encourage insulin production dopamine production that hit we get
and the chase of sweet begins if you really feel that you're chasing carbohydrates even
though you haven't eaten anything that tastes sweet i really encourage you to
look deeper there's so many high carb things that we eat that taste savory chips is coming to mind
there are so many high carb things that are whole foods that we could be eating that cause us to
chase like potatoes like rice they don't taste sweet but they are they high in carbohydrate
oatmeal they're high in carbohydrate i want you to look deeper because if you haven't eaten one
of these high carbohydrate foods then there's a possibility that you might be stepping into
some emotional eating maybe something negative happened for you emotionally recently and it's
pushing you to do some self-soothing but you need to look deeper when we see any of our loved ones
thinking about resuming an addiction that they put down whether it's cigarettes
alcohol drugs or anything else gambling anything else when we see them kind of
considering that maybe i can do it again now we always caution them against it we always
caution them to go back to their aaa or their therapist or yet when it comes to carb addiction
food addiction when it comes to the idea of using food for something that is not meant for
we don't stop and realize that there's some other reason that you're trying to do this behavior
and because we don't think about that we think that somehow you're going to be able to just use
moderation it's not a moderation situation we need to accept that you might need help
from your therapist to look at the things that are bothering you that's causing you to consider going
back to eating foods that you know are harming you because you might need that assistance to
truly understand what's happening with you so that you can make better choices in the future
now of course if you've already eaten off plan the answer is to start eating correctly right now
i'm just asking you that alongside of eating correctly right now take the time to truly look at
why did you eat off plan so that you can find a solution to whatever that thing was
because if i don't deal with it now when it happens again in the future because likely it
will i still won't know how to deal with it then and i will fall off plan again so yes get back
into your healthy way of living your life and also alongside that make a plan allow yourself to see
that this addiction you might need some assistance some support to truly put it behind you and walk
forward in life and be healthy for the rest of your life Wellness Warriors please be honest
with yourself so that you can get the results that you want and take the steps necessary
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