tip number two is that we want you to make sure that you stay away from the three worst foods you
could ever eat and will destroy your metabolism quicker than any other habit in your life
Dr. Mindy here and on this video we're going to talk about weight loss and I really want you
guys to understand this because so many of you come to fasting to lose weight. A lot of you get
great results and some of you get stuck. so on this video I'm going to show you seven really
simple strategies to maximize your weight loss efforts with intermittent fasting specifically
and if you're new to my channel I just want to say welcome I'm a woman on a mission to get a
million people here this year to teach people how to fast this is our way out of chronic disease
and those of you that share my videos as always just so grateful we are going to
change the world through fasting so I'm excited to be on this journey with you.
Okay we're going to start off this concept of maximizing weight loss accelerating weight
loss with fasting with two really key principles okay first is called metabolic flexibility
I've talked about this on other videos I just want to make this as simple as possible and reinforce
the concept of metabolic flexibility you have two energy systems one where your body will make
energy from the foods you eat the other one is your body will make energy from the fat it burns
when you look at these two energy systems we call this one a sugar burner this one a fat burner now
when you first hear that it makes perfect sense to think well if I want to lose weight I just want to
be a fat burner all the time and a lot of you are discovering that once you switch over into
fat burning mode you start dropping weight so you just want to stay over there but that is not how
you lose weight permanently if you want to lose weight permanently you're going to need to switch
in and out of these two states and I'll show you and talk about how we do that in a moment okay
so that's key principle second key principle is that fat is literally saving your life so think of
fat instead of always villainizing it and saying mean things to yourself when you look at your fat
look at the areas that you have extra weight and say okay that was a way that my body needed to
store toxins it needed to store extra hormones it needed to store extra sugar and thank god it put
it around my belly and it didn't put it around my liver so that's the mindset we need to look at
so as we start to drop weight with fasting we've got to open up the detox pathways so the body
knows how to get rid of this excess so the second principle I want you to keep in mind is you've got
to open up your detox pathways okay with those two principles out of the way let's go to seven
things you can do so first if you want to improve metabolic flexibility you're going to need to
vary your fasts so we've got to get you going in and out of these sugar burner fat burning states
more often so this is where one day at 15 hours of fasting is great the next day you want to go
to 24 hours and maybe the next day you don't fast and then the next day you do a 17-hour fast and
then the following day you do a 24-hour fast this in and out of fasting is what is going to unstick
your metabolism and make you able to go in and out of sugar burner fat burner very efficiently
how you know you have great metabolic flexibility are two really key things one is to ask yourself
can you go without food if you're struggling without food then you're still your body's
still trying to get over here at a fat burner so we need to make sure that you can go without food
the second way to look is to go look at your blood work that your doctor did what is your level of
hemoglobin A1C that is a big predictor because hemoglobin A1C will show you
three months of glucose and insulin and how you've been managing this sugar burner system
if your A1C is really high it means you've been more in the sugar burner place and less in the
fat burning place so watch that number we want it under five for great metabolic health second tip
tip number two is that we want you to make sure that you stay away from the three worst
foods you could ever eat and will destroy your metabolism quicker than or any other habit in
your life food number one bad oil I've done videos on that food number two foods that are high
in refined flours and sugars, I've done videos on that and food number three is anything packed with
toxins so get to know your ingredients come back to nature's food get away from the processed foods
and you're gonna find be going in and out of these two states much easier okay tip number three we're
now gonna move into opening your detox pathways so the first thing we love fasting for weight loss
it's phenomenal but there are other hacks we can use to accelerate our weight loss efforts
that will not only get our metabolism working well but open these detox pathways up and one of those
ways is just walking it is just pure movement if you want to go running great if you want
to go walking fine but when you walk in a forward direction what you're doing is you're calming your
lizard brain down that part of the brain that is always looking to keep you safe when you move in a
forward direction you calm that amygdala down when that calms down cortisol comes down when cortisol
comes down you are going to lose weight a lot easier so make sure you're moving on a daily basis
second thing make sure you're sweating did you know that your skin actually produces
testosterone and you've got to make sure that you sweat on a regular basis so that we can not only
mobilize toxins but we can make sure that your body's making some key hormones like testosterone
so sweating a couple of times a week if you're not sweating let's make sure that we can find some new
ways for you to sweat like using an infrared sauna but you want to make sure that you're sweating as
many days out of the week as you possibly can every day wouldn't be the end of the world okay
tip number three you gotta hydrate our body does not do well when it's in a dehydrated state
it will raise cortisol now when we're fasting that's pretty easy but if you have a busy life
like I do what ends up happening is i often forget oh I gotta go drink water
I want you guys drinking water on a regular basis so there is no magic number to the water intake
that you should be doing but if you put the element mineral powder in your water
and you take like a big container like this is one of the containers that I use on a regular basis I
try to get two to three of these a day when you do that on a regular basis you're now supporting your
kidneys you're hydrating your gut and you're gonna make the exit of those toxins coming out of fat
much more efficient and the body's not gonna hold on to weight like it used to
tip number five is no tip number six is bowel movements you have got to have to
have a normal bowel movement I'd rather you have diarrhea instead of constipation but when you're
constipated what ends up happening is that you hold those toxins inside so you're doing all this
incredible fasting but it's those toxins are not getting out so we need to make sure that you're
having daily bowel movements I have done a whole video on constipation so make sure that you go
and watch that video okay last tip number seven is sleep this is so vitally important for
your weight loss efforts you've got to be getting good quality sleep now what is good quality sleep
well this is where a whoop comes in handy because we can see how long we're sleeping but it's the
deep sleep that's the most important you want to be somewhere between one to two hours of deep
sleep because that's where the brain detoxifies this is the organ that's gonna control everything
from the head down so if this gets toxic and this gets toxic you are gonna struggle to lose weight
so when we're sleeping what we're doing is we're allowing our brain to reboot itself we're getting
the detoxification of the lymphatic system around our brain we're detoxifying efficiently so that
the brain works better the next day so those are my seven tips they're very simple I hope
um and they're incredibly effective I feel like I've answered almost every question I possibly
could on fasting and one of the things i know you guys struggle with is where you either hit
plateaus with weight loss or you start gaining weight or you just want to make sure that you are
speeding the weight loss process up it's it would be easier for me to give you some fancy trick
but we've got to get to the fundamentals and those seven things are the fundamentals so let
me know if that helps I'd also love to know in this video go down into the comments and tell
me how much weight you've lost with fasting and you guys that are new to my channel go read those
comments because it will blow your mind what people are accomplishing with fasting when it
comes to weight loss if you guys need more help with the fasting building a fasting lifestyle
that's what we're doing in my reset academy and I have a lot of courses in there on fat burning
we have a 15-day fat burning reset that's videos are already done that you can hop in today and
start moving into that reset so if you want to come over into our academy just put reset academy
and my team will send you a link and if you need more videos I would head over from this video to
a video that i did called what fast should i do to lose weight that's a great resource for you
but i can't wait to read your story so put your fasting weight loss in the comments i
will be sure to watch those and as always don't give up on yourself you are a flippin miracle