have you ever wondered why when we eat ice cream pizza or French fries when we're upset
we feel better i'll give you a hint it's the same reason that when we're stressed
and we drink alcohol we feel better the same way that alcohol has an impact on brain chemistry
so does food this is why we can feel compelled to eat ice cream after a breakup or that we might
be frustrated about our weight but then turn around and feel comforted by eating chips
it doesn't make sense until you understand that whenever we eat
any high carbohydrate food our brain releases neurotransmitters
that allow us to actually feel good and that's both emotionally good and physically good so
if you have a pain in your body and you eat something with high carbohydrate for a little
while the pain is lessened now that doesn't mean that that's something that you should do because
those same carbohydrates turn around eventually cause that pain to feel worse because they
increase inflammation in the body so the same way that alcohol is a stimulant and then a depressant
carbohydrates can help us feel good and then make us feel really bad
i want to pause here and reassure you it's not your fault that you're addicted to
carbohydrates i'm not blaming you for the fact that you're addicted carbohydrates as a matter
of fact we are all addicted to carbohydrates we've become addicted to sugar carbohydrates
sugar two words for the same thing we can throw starch in there all the same we've
become addicted to sugar because we've allowed ourselves to use sugar as our main fuel source
because we've allowed ourselves to eat an unhealthy diet the standard American diet
isn't only unhealthy and obesogenic it's actually addictive i'm not really sure which one came first
but in the end although it's not your fault that you're addicted to sugar it's your problem
you see as long as you stay addicted to sugar everything that you try to do towards your health
is 17 times harder i want to make it easier for you but before we can do that you are going to
need to test my theory because i don't want you to just take my word for it you need to
figure out if what i'm saying is true so what i want you to do is get your phone download a food
tracking app and then i want you to track every single thing that you eat in the next 24 hours
everything and if you think that tracking is going to make you a little more careful track for the
next three days every single thing that you eat i want you to eat normally if you eat a piece of gum
track it anything that goes in your mouth gets tracked i want you to see what the number is and
then you're going to come back to this video in a few days and i want you to put it down below what
number did you find now i know when i did this i was surprised for my three days i saw that i
was doing around 350 grams of carbs each day can we just pause for a moment and understand that
454 is a pound i was 104 grams away from eating a pound of sugar every single day are we surprised
that i was 70 pounds overweight what was i eating that was causing me to reach 350 grams per day
okay so if we take away the cookies and chips which funny enough i didn't do those on the day
that i tracked myself still was managing to get up there because every single meal
i had rice potatoes or pasta every single day i had some kind of bread all of those foods
are very high in carbohydrate and even with the bread we haven't talked about what i put on it yet
and can i just say that being from the Caribbean when i say i had rice or pasta that's a it's not
one serving which i feel like even if you go to a restaurant the chance that you're getting one
serving of rice is very very very low because if you make a serving of rice if you make a serving
of pasta and put it on a plate most of us adults would say that that's a plate for a child
i was eating a lot of sugar and i was unaware so keep in mind when the nutritionist tells
you that you need to have two starches per day what that person's actually trying to tell you
is that you need to have two sugars per day because starch is another one of those words
that's another name for sugar that's what our body does with it breaks it down into
the composite sugar and then it wreaks havoc on our weight and our health it's pretty scary stuff
not your fault that you're addicted to sugar the professionals are telling us to eat this way
we are all addicted to sugar but it's absolutely your problem and therefore it's up to you
to solve it well i'm sorry now that you've tracked for a day and you've come back to
this video and you're ready to start making some changes towards solving it the next step is for
you to make real changes that equal you eat less sugar it's not going to be easy because
my guess is that you might be overweight you might have physical inflammation issues i had both
you might be on medication all of this coming from the fact that you've been eating
too much sugar your entire life but i know that you are committed to your health so
wellness worker i have a lot of videos that you can watch that are going to help you to address
this problem to get your life back under control by eating a healthy keto diet
click on this video on the screen and i'm going to join you over there so we can tackle this together