i bet that if you go back in your history on some occasion you've been confronted with
this idea that losing weight is simple it's so easy calories and calories up
exercise more what's wrong with you why can't you lose the weight i know that at the beginning of my
ketogenic lifestyle i found a video by dr fung where in his video he's talking to a bunch of
students or he's giving a lecture of some sort and he says you know i asked my son one time
a few years ago you know how do you lose weight he goes he has six or seven at the time and he goes
just don't eat so easy right it's like huh how can you be so right about this point that has escaped
like 99 of the world's doctors and dietitians right if you don't eat you're gonna lose weight
and here's the thing to understand there's nothing wrong with it that's the way we're built we're
built to withstand these repeated episodes where there's no food so if this little kid
knows that sure you could lose weight just if you don't eat why are we so struggling
it's because although of course if i don't eat i will lose weight our body is not that simple
because we've got one of these things a brain and our brain is going to push us to find food
and to eat because this is not the way that we should be losing weight and of course we
can overcome this brain telling us to get food we we can fight it and just not eat of course we can
but eventually over time my brain will win and that's even more the case that my brain will win
if i'm doing a standard american diet standard canadian diet standard caribbean diet not going to
be able to hold out for as long as we think we'll be able to hold out of course if i ask my kids i
know they're teenagers but i'm sure if i went and asked my little nieces and nephews um what's the
most important thing we need to do if we want to be healthy i'm sure that all of them could come up
with eat healthy another thing that we hear very often when we're told how easy how simple it is to
control our weight i just eat healthy the problem is we don't actually know what healthy food is
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foods that we're supposed to eat we go to the grocery store and we look at these packaged foods
and they've got heart-healthy chex on them they've got low sugar on them although they're made from
rice or wheat or they're strictly carbs they've been fortified with nutrients
because their original nutrients were stripped out in the processing
and there are chemicals on the package that i don't know what those things mean healthy foods
that we are being encouraged to eat these packaged foods okay and then we have meat
red meat poultry fish animal products that we're being told we need to avoid eating red meat
because it's going to damage our heart everything that has cholesterol eggs we need to avoid because
it's going to give us high cholesterol we are being told to avoid the real food
that our ancestors ate towards eating processed food we're also being pointed towards eating
more fruits and vegetables because of course fruits and vegetables are very very healthy for us
even though they come with a lot of carbohydrate which we now know do we now know it we've known
for years carbohydrates cause all kinds of internal problems the one that affected me
the most was inflammation in my elbows in my knees in my back in my neck eventually in my hip which
is what helped me to find out that carbohydrates were causing my inflammation but we're being told
that that's that fruits and vegetables are the healthiest things that we can eat i've
spoken to so many people who try to pull all this information together and come up with well i'll
do a fasting protocol and i'll eat the healthy foods and i should be able to manage my health and
my weight appropriately and although that sounds very doable on the surface the unfortunate thing
that i've noticed is that if i'm eating more vegetables than i am healthy protein sources
my body is going to do what it's supposed to do to keep me healthy which is put those carbohydrates
away as fat and then i'm going to be in the cycle of not having enough energy
to fuel my day which means i'm going to be hungry so that now means that when i'm trying to fast
i'm going to struggle because i'm actually being given signals
from my body to go get food wellness lawyers when we try to fight our body we we will lose
and we will lose because our body is programmed to survive so it will a do what it's supposed
to do with the carbohydrates we eat and it will be force us to go and try to find healthier food
so one of the things that i want us to think about for all the people who are doing
fasting beside standard american standard canadian standard caribbean diet
if i want to use fasting as a way to allow me to keep eating the way i always have
chances are very good then i'm going to struggle in this process not because it's not doable i
mean honestly at some point i'm going to get used to the process of waiting for my meal
the bigger problem is that when i have that meal i'm still ingesting so i'm still eating
a large amount of carbohydrate for example when i was eating the standard caribbean diet
most of my plate was rice with a side of meat or pasta with a side of meat or high glycemic
vegetables like potatoes carrots dumpling which is just flour and a side of meat and when i say
cider meat i don't mean like a humongous amount of meat i mean a side of meat like you know
a small portion of meat because the idea being the food is the pasta the rice or the vegetables
that's a recipe for disaster that's a recipe for mounting weight so here's what's
unfortunate even though fasting will help me to manage my weight because what's going to
happen is on the days that i'm not eating my body will go in and take energy from me
it's not going to help me to manage my health now the reason it's not going to help me to manage my
health is because on the days that i am eating or the the period in my feeding window whether
that's between days or between whatever my feeding window is me eating a high amount of carbohydrate
so my body still is being damaged internally by all the carbohydrate that i'm eating
oh and by the way during my feeding days if i'm still eating high carb i'm replenishing
some of those fat stores because when i eat high carb my body stores those toxins away as fat to
neutralize them so i don't get hurt one other thing i want to point out here as i mentioned
earlier that we can override our brain we can push ourselves really hard to not eat um when i do that
i'm actually putting my body in a position that is not happy because it's trying to get me to eat
and i'm saying no i'm not going to so now i'm in this struggle with my body and then my body
will to help me survive recalibrate my energy that means it stops giving energy to internal processes
towards giving energy to my brain because my brain's the most important thing that it
needs to fuel 20 of my fuel in my day goes to my brain and it never doesn't get enough
but then what happens there all that autophagy all those positive internal things that should
be happening when i'm fasting are being slowed down because i'm not fasting easily i'm pushing
myself to not eat which is not the same thing and although it sounds like the same thing when you're
not eating you're not eating but if my body is saying violet get food and pushing me pushing me
and i'm not getting food eventually my body will start to react to this it is important for you
if you're going to fast too fast in a healthy way at this point for those of you who know
my channel there's a lot of you that are saying hypocrite because you fast every day
and sometimes i even fast for several days in a row okay i'm not trying to be a hypocrite
and i'm trying to explain something really important i am trying to help
every wellness warrior out there understand the difference between
fasting and depriving my body of nutrients because there is actually a difference sometimes we want
results so badly that we don't realize that we'll do whatever it takes to get them and we don't
realize that that is setting ourselves up for failure what i want everyone to understand about
violet's ability to fast for five days straight and be comfortable is that i didn't get there
overnight and i didn't do it by force what i did was decided to eat a healthy way of living in this
particular case it was a healthy ketogenic diet and i did it for enough days in a row
that eventually i noticed that i didn't need breakfast anymore and then eventually i noticed
lunch was getting pushed back further and further until i didn't need lunch anymore
and eventually i noticed that i was able to do a full 24 hours and i was okay but and here's the
big butt everything that i was eating was healthy low glycemic vegetables healthy protein sources
and my protein sources were not side dishes they were the star of the plate and the vegetables were
the side dish because i understood when i started this way of life that the protein and the fat that
comes along with it is actually what my body needs and that the vegetation that i was eating
was for fun wellness warriors the majority of people who are struggling with their weight
are eating carbohydrates cookies candies processed foods as the staples of their diet so the most
that they're eating is that and the protein is a side thought and the fact that comes along with
that protein is a side thought every single person is doing a low fat diet that's what you're doing
and i want us to understand that if we do that then fasting becomes extremely difficult for our
body to manage because it's constantly looking for nutrients to build itself with clean energy to run
itself with but we keep giving it carbohydrates which it needs to put away and then ask us to
go get more energy unfortunately we keep bringing back carbohydrates rather than bringing back fats
by eating a healthy ketogenic diet my body told me when it was ready to focus more on repair
so i engage every day in building and repairing of my body because my body has the time
because i'm not constantly chasing food i eat that one meal it's one good meal and then my body has
all the time till tomorrow around the same time before it gets fed again our body talks to us
and for every person who is fasting and is not able to make it to the next meal without feeling
intense hunger who's thinking about food all day long your body is giving you the signal
that is not ready to be doing this if i want to be healthy and i want to be able to do all the
things towards my health long into the future the most important thing i'm going to do for myself is
allow my body to be in the best possible state it can be while it's trying to accomplish my
better health if i'm extremely hungry and i can't wait for that next meal
what's likely to happen when i get to that meal chances are very good i'm going to overeat or i
might not pay as close of attention to the amount of carb that i'm eating because i'm just so hungry
but the other thing i want you to think about for every person who is using fasting as a way to say
well i'm fasting so therefore i don't have to pay attention to how much carb i'm eating i don't i
can actually have cookies because i'm going to fast tomorrow i want you to be very aware that
fasting does not stop your body from being hurt by the carbohydrates that you eat
they will still affect your internal organs the same way they will still cause inflammation
they will still cause insulin rises eating carbohydrates is not healthy for our body
especially when we eat them in excessive amounts so fasting is not a free pass
to overeat your carbohydrates it's not a free pass to have a pizza night with real pizza or to have
chips or have any of the things that you decided to put down towards your health wellness stories
i really want you to pay attention to the fact that dr berg dr barry dr fung dr westman dr mason
dr baker all the doctors that i refer you to when we're talking about living a healthy
ketogenic healthy carnivore lifestyle always tell us that if we want to be able to fast comfortably
the best way that we can do that is to get fat adapted allow our body to be able to go longer
periods of time without food and what i want you to understand is that fasting
comfortably is what actually allows you to make a ketogenic or carnivore lifestyle alongside fasting
a lifestyle that you can do today and far into the future to help you be healthy long-term it stops
it from being a way of yo-yo dieting because if i vacillate between eating high carbohydrate foods
and then fasting i'm yo-yo dieting that's very bad for us that causes weight gain down the road
that's not something that's going to be healthy for anybody to do for any extended period of
time if you want to engage fasting as part of your healthy protocol for life that's terrific
what you need to do is have a healthy diet and let your body tell you when it's ready for you
to start fasting and it will tell you because you will start to notice that it takes longer
and longer for you to get hungry between meals because when your body is ready for you to fast
then it's also telling you that it's ready to do those internal repairs
that are going to help you to be healthy far into the future
there are some videos on the screen right here that are going to help you to get that
mindset you need to be able to not only lose the weight but maintain it long term
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