if you want to lose weight you're going to succeed at using fasting as a tool to lose weight from
Day 1 till you get to about Day 19. Dr. Mindy here and on this video I am going to show you
this is for women when there is a good time to lose weight and when there will be a time
you're going to struggle so if you're new to my channel, I just want to say welcome
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okay this is a really cool concept that I'm hoping is going to get into your brains after this video
because I want you to love living in the body that you are carrying around with you every single day
and we get thousands of messages from you guys every single day talking about some of
the struggles you're seeing with weight loss and fasting so I've got five key points that I'm going
to bring to you really showing you how you can strategize using fasting as a weight loss tool
and when you're going to want to back off and not fast so that you can recover and make sure
that your body will have a sustained weight loss experience so sit with me for a second here
okay first thing I want you to realize let's start with the big picture and then I'm going to go into
the details the big picture is that there's a time in your monthly cycle and postmenopausal
women don't worry I'm going to come to you in a second there is a time in your monthly cycle
where you're going to drop weight quite easily and if you've been following me for a while hopefully
you know when that time is but I'll bring it to you here in a moment and then there is a time
in your cycle where you will struggle to drop weight so it's based off of your monthly cycle
now I know that some of you have a 24 day monthly cycle I know some of you have a 34 day
some of you are perimenopause you have no idea when your cycle is coming and going
but on this video, I just really want to give you some guidelines so you can start to really drop
weight effortlessly and ditch the struggle of weight loss okay so stick with me here
the second concept I want you to remember and this one is doesn't matter your age
doesn't matter your age this one is so massively important it's called the hormonal hierarchy and
it looks like this I wrote about it in the menopause reset I talk about it all the time
but when you're trying to lose weight this is so important and it looks like this oxytocin is going
to have an effect on cortisol, cortisol is going to have an effect on insulin and insulin will have an
effect on your sex hormones so remember when you come to weight loss when you're using fasting as
a tool for weight loss you are trying to affect insulin, insulin is the fat storage hormone
so as insulin goes up your fat storage goes up if this is a new concept for you go back and watch
some of the other videos I've done on weight loss because we don't the calorie in calorie out theory
of weight loss is proving continually to be wrong what we are learning for weight loss is you've got
to work on insulin so this is super important because those of you who want to muscle your
way to weight loss you want to worry your way to weight loss you want to stress your way to
weight loss you cannot do that you have to be mindful that when cortisol goes up
insulin is hard to influence so that's the second point I want to make okay third point you
talk to any professional athlete there is always a time for training and there is a time for recovery
so when we come to weight loss we tend to think I just want to lose weight let me just take
do whatever I need to do and let me do it over and over again until the weight drops
but the body doesn't work like that it needs some recovery and if you honor recovery when you're in
that period where you're trying to lose weight you will be more effective so there's some like big
mind shifts I want you to have here you may have to go back and listen to this video again to just
let this sink in when it comes to weight loss we're going to approach this like an athlete
approaches performance there is a time to train and there is a time to recover now
what's really cool is we can use your monthly cycle to know when that time is and I'm going
to be very broad in this explanation right now so day one all the way through about day 18, 19
you can go and do more fasting you can work on weight loss using fasting as a weight loss tool
in the very first part of that cycle so day one all the way till day 19. so in that window
of your cycle, your body can handle what we call hormetic stressors really nicely now if you've
heard me talk about the fasting circle or what word the fasting circle that we're teaching in
my academy you're going to say but wait I thought there was a middle period during ovulation that i
needed to mind for this video I'm giving you the big picture if you want to lose weight you're
going to succeed at using fasting as a tool to lose weight from day one till you get to about
day 19. now there's one little window in there for those of you who follow are in the academy and
you're following the fasting circle there's one little window that I want you to be aware of which
is day 10 to day 15. I would just mind your fast don't go into a 24 hour fast in that little window
but for the most part fasting will just do wonders for your metabolism from day one through
day 19 day 10 to day 15 just keep it to keep it around 15 hours of fasting okay so now we have
that all clear now here's where the recovery comes in the recovery comes in at day 20. this is when
your body's starting to make progesterone progesterone does not like cortisol spikes
so you do not want to be in a part of your life where you're restricting food because in that
moment of restricting food or overdoing exercise you are spiking cortisol and when cortisol goes
up progesterone goes down and now once you've created that scenario you're going to throw
all your hormones off now some of you might have been listening to this and you're like okay well
I don't care I just want to lose weight I don't care about my other hormones and I care about
them you should care about them and eventually if you don't care about them you will get stuck with
your weight loss efforts so remember we're going to have a training period day one through day
19 round there some of you are gonna be a little earlier but I'm giving broad ideas
day 20 we're not gonna fast and we're gonna go into some recovery foods okay that leads me to my
fourth point here what does a recovery look like recovery when you're trying to make progesterone
does not look like sit on the couch and eat a tub ice cream that's not going to help you with your
weight loss efforts but it does look like at day 20 just you're going to fast less you're going to
not fast more than what your body is used to so if you're used to like 13 hours let's keep it there
if you're listening you're like but I'm used to 24 hours doesn't matter I want you
to bring down your fasting to about 13 hours or don't fast at all maybe eat breakfast mix up your
eating style and at that point what I want you to be eating are foods that will raise progesterone
so what you're doing to your body is you're telling your body we're safe we're okay and
when you tell your body it's safe then it will when you come back to day one is going to want
to lose weight again when your body thinks it's running from a tiger it doesn't want to reproduce
it doesn't want to grow you beautiful lush hair it doesn't want to calm your mind and it doesn't
want you to lose weight it has no incentive because it thinks you are running from a tiger
so that week before your cycle we need to keep cortisol down we need to bring progesterone up
and we do that by 13 hours fast max if you're used to it and hormone building foods like the
beans the squashes everything I've talked about here you're also going to shift your workouts so
go more into the yoga less into the cardio and you're going to think of that time period or
more walks more gentle I really want you to look at the week before your period, I really want you
to look at it as recovery and then when day one hits we can go back to fasting for weight loss
so super important and I can't emphasize this enough because I don't want you to be frustrated
with weight loss and fasting I want you to be really skilled at this if you are wanting to
learn how to use fasting as a weight loss tool specifically around making sure your hormones stay
intact join me in my next july fat burner reset we are going to take a 15-day experience where I
will and bringing you all my favorite weight loss tools so I would love to have you join me and my
other academy members on that journey just put fat burner reset in the comments and I'll make
sure that they send you a link last thing if you are like listening to this and you're like oh my
god this woman's crazy what is she talking about what do you mean I have to do things differently
with my cycle then you need to go and see the video where I have several videos but the
about how women should be fasting I will put a link in it here make sure that you guys get it
I've done a ton of videos on women and fasting but I want you to know how you should be fasting
I have another great video called why everyone should be fasting so I'm a big fan of fasting
and as always don't give up on yourself just keep working the principles hope it helps