i want us to start thinking about what's the best way to know if the diet that i'm
eating is actually working there are two major questions that you need to ask the first one being
what is the goal of your diet and most people are going to say well weight loss
right weight management but i want us to look a little deeper than that i want us to really be
understanding of why any animal eats food we eat food because we're trying to attain
good health and when we start talking about the signs of good health now we have different
things that we're going to focus on the first one i want us to think about is our skin our hair our
nails are in good condition when we are eating properly our body can produce these visible signs
of positive health the next one would be that if your lady your menstrual cycle is well regulated
first of all i wanted to point out that these signs of health i went looking online to see can
i find something that says like what are the true things we're supposed to be paying attention to
to make sure that the way that we are eating but also taking care of this important structure that
will take us through the rest of our life that we're doing a good job these were the things
that came up as actual signs that doctors if us say are important and should be there so i'm
not making these things so i want to make sure everybody understands that i'm i'm giving you
something that i did a bit of time to research you should have enough energy to get through your day
if you're still working you should be able to work and get through a work day and have time at the
end of your day for whatever other activities you might have in store for yourself and you
know if you're retired and you want to play with the grandkids you should be able to do that too
your emotional state should be stable i want to clarify that this is not about you never get
upset it doesn't even mean that you solve every single problem that comes in front of you like
simply that's not what this is about it means that you can deal with the feelings that you are having
and you can deal with the the situations that are coming up in your world
right and if you need extra help to manage a problem that you have seeking medical attention or
seeking psychological attention or like an expert to help with that there's no problem with that
that's your pain free so you can do with your body what you would like to do with your body
without being i for me when i was before i started keto living the hip pain that i
was living i couldn't do with my body what i wanted to do i couldn't go for a walk
and even prior to that for 20 years prior to that if i went for a bike ride or played badminton
or went skiing or all the activities that i loved to do very regularly the following day i needed to
recuperate at 23 25 28 35 years old needing to recuperate after doing normal exercise activities
that shouldn't be the story about disorder that was my story because the diet that i was eating
wasn't creating the best possible body so you want to be pain free so that means no
joint pain no internal physiological problems or pain no headaches right you want your body to be
managing the internals well you would like to have good muscle tone i can honestly tell you
that even though i was doing a lot of activities i didn't have good muscle tone because i was covered
especially in the later years like i would say the last five years before i began my keto diet
no even more than that i would say the last eight years before i started before i began my keto diet
i was covered in a layer of fat that i had no muscle tone showing now did i have muscle under
there obviously i had some because i was doing all these activities however i will let you understand
that carrying all that extra weight caused me to struggle when i tried to do things with my
daughter i remember specifically taking her to Arbraska which is a a tree climbing place where
you you know you go from tree to tree doing um obstacle courses and she was like zipping through
there and i was so struggling to keep up and we did this every year from the time she turned four
years old and it progressively was getting harder and harder to keep up and of course did i say oh
this is just because i'm getting older of course it's normal well the year after i started keto
i kept it with her so easily it was unbelievable good muscle tone and then of course
that you should have normal bowel movements normal bowel function i will point out that
we think it's normal to go to the bathroom several times a day and i feel like we believe
that to be the case because we are so used to eating things that are poor quality that our body
needs us to eliminate the stuff from the system several times a day but for normal bowel function
the medical literature seems to say that once a day is what you should be aiming at i will
have you know that since eating better quality food i've learned that it doesn't necessarily
have to be daily if you're eating especially if you're doing carnivore i've heard many carnivore
people talk about the fact that they don't go to the bathroom daily they go maybe every other day
and why because if your body's absorbing almost everything that's you're getting
from the food you eat you have less movements to have but it's still important that you have
normal movements so they shouldn't be diarrhea they shouldn't be excessively difficult to expel
trying to keep the language pc and of course we have the main one that most people are thinking
about well we think this is going to be the main one but i'm going to say something different here
your body fat percentage should be normal and i want us to really listen to the words i said
there your body fat percentage should be normal that's not the same thing as having a normal
weight and the reason that i want to make this distinction is because having that quote unquote
normal weight doesn't actually tell me if i'm in good health because my weight doesn't tell
me if i have good muscle tone the slide before and it doesn't tell me how much fat i have on
my body i could be exactly the same weight as the woman next to me but she lifts weights and she's
doing bodybuilding and all kinds of stuff and i'm not our muscle composition and our body fat
composition is going to be very different i could be the exact same weight as a woman on the other
side of me i do lots of activities she doesn't do any much more fat on that body than on my body
what's my point weight is often the first metric that people think about when they're trying to
manage their health and deciding what they're going to eat and we're so programmed to believe
that our weight is the most important thing and then we follow this kind of behind with
this idea that muscle okay muscle is okay but we're we're focused more on muscle definition
than we are on why muscle is healthy and we get pulled into this low low body fat rather than
normal body fat idea right we're obsessed with the idea that eating fat is going to cause us to be
fat that's going to cause us to have heart disease and so we end up eating meals that are ultra low
in fat i mean this plate is being saved by those eggs but there's only one and a half eggs there
so it's not that much fat still on that plate and i want us to pay attention to this because
we're so focused on the fat count being low that we don't realize that we might end up
and the protein count being low because that's not nearly enough protein for me
maybe if i was eating that i'd have more than one meal so there are many doctors that have
explained why fat isn't the big problem that we think it is i'm going to direct you to watch their
channels you know Dr Berry Berg Ekberg there's so many of them but for today's conversation
i want to just especially talk about Dr Bikman who gave this great explanation about our confusion
about eating fat and cholesterol and he talks about why it's not what causes the heart
attack it's part of our process especially the cholesterol is part of our process of how our body
heals itself and i encourage you guys to go watch Dr Bikman's videos they're amazing i learned so
much when i watch interviews and videos from him after years of trying to eat healthier
and trying to get my weight under control and being unsuccessful i'm not even going to try to
pretend that i was successful when i was trying to get my weight under control because i wasn't
and mostly because i focused on two simple things i would i would eat less junk food and i would eat
less fatty meats and try to eat healthier foods which i thought was like the plate before
vegetables and fruits and i've forced myself to eat fruits i hate fruits and i've forced myself
to eat these things and then i never got the results i was looking for i finally got results
for my better health because i was trying to solve that painful hip
that hit me around 40 i want to say 43 ish i could never remember when it actually hit me
and i did something that went against what my logic was telling me
okay i did i did drop the junk food some that was towards logic but i allowed myself to eat
a normal amount of fat so i stopped buying lean cuts of meat and what do you think happened so
adding fat isn't necessarily the answer though so i don't want you to get me wrong on this one it's
not just about adding fat to your diet the people who say oh violet said you can just add fat no
the answer was removing the junk food obvious removing fruits and starchy vegetables removing
nightshades and focusing on eating healthy protein and low glycemic vegetables now why did that work
i i'm going to talk right now about my n of one observation right i am a case study
the processed foods that we eat help us to gain weight we know that they force our body to process
non-food items right because all the chemical garbage that's in those foods if i just go
even if i just go pick a fruit off a tree that was grown in my backyard
that garbage is not on it so that's part one meat if i grow some animals in my backyard
again and i feed them what they're supposed to eat there's no chemicals so our bodies
being forced to process chemicals is part of the reason that we struggle to lose weight those
fruits and starchy vegetables that i was eating get easily broken down into simple sugars so that
any positive impact that you could be getting from the food from these fruits and vegetables
become greatly diminished and even eliminated because of the high sugar content because
our body just cannot manage having too much sugar it's actually toxic so it's sort of like i want
white teeth so i buy one of those at home kits and i do this whitening process and sure my teeth look
great but i've damaged all the enamel on my teeth well they look great right now but when the sugar
and all the stuff that i'm eating the coffee that i'm drinking starts causing them to look ugly and
i start getting cavities because i've ruined the enamel was it worth doing the treatment having
pretty teeth for a little while i want us to think about the fact that we are so focused on getting
a calorie count to be low that's we are letting ourselves eat foods that cause internal damage
because sugar causes internal damage ruins our health and of course we're inflamed our weight is
rising and we're confused eating healthy protein and fat that comes along with that healthy protein
helps us to build muscle organs internal tissues proper structures so that we can function properly
and it's so important for us to just to do these simple things to help our body to be strong
and the fact that we're eating along with those healthy protein sources does double
duty because it's a clean source of energy for the body it's not damaging us internally
right it's building us it's part of the building blocks what i find really cool
about you know protein is that you can eat beef lamb goat pork chicken turkey duck
i'm sure if you live in a different part of the world fish did i say fish if you live in
a different part of the world you're going to have another protein source and another type of animal
that you can throw on there and you're going to have even more options and for those people
who complain that there aren't enough varieties there's not enough when you do a keto diet when
you do a carnivore it's just so restrictive that's seven different types of meat add fish to that
how many kinds of fish are there they all taste different i haven't touched eggs yet and for those
of us that really do need the variety each one of those types of meat you could have a different
cut right there's many different cuts of pork many different cuts of steak many different cuts
of chicken and you can cook all of these different things different ways i know for sure that if you
like to cook you can do a different meal every day with a different meat from that list i just gave
you and like i said if you live in different parts of the world there's probably even more
meats you could add to that list and not cook the same meal twice in a month and for those of
us who do eat veg you can take some low glycemic vegetables and put it on that plate understand me
that part of the story is for fun we don't need to eat veg but if you do like eating it you like
making your plate a little bit more interesting the opportunity for different meals every day
so what the idea that eating healthy is boring is a trick to keep you eating junk food to keep you
chasing flavors rather than allowing you to eat the thing that helps your body to be the strongest
so that you can do with it what you'd like and live the life that you want to live second
question i need you to ask is have you achieved the goal of the good diet i know that most of you
are not going to eliminate sugar from your diet and that's not the point of this conversation
what i want you to know is that the amount of sugar that you do eat impacts the internal health
you will have that's actually the goal of the diet right to determine the internal health you
will have so what you eat determines the internal health you'll have and so if you are unaware that
rice potatoes carrots pasta are high carb foods you'll keep eating them and that's gonna interfere
with your desire to be healthy because the foods you eat builds the body you have if we
don't allow ourselves to understand that bread takes healthy food like eggs like sliced meats
and makes them fattening and dangerous to our health we keep eating sandwiches made with bread
and this is something that i know myself i was doing this that i take something that's healthy
make it unhealthy and then confuse why i'm gaining weight and if you don't see that bananas mangoes
are ruining your liver any other high carb fruit so we can add grapes in there we can add like any
everything that's sweet when you taste it and it's a fruit means that there's a high amount
of fructose in there and i want to make sure that we understand that taking fruit and concentrating
it down into a juice or even worse into a jelly or a jam all you're doing is making your ability
to ingest more fructose easier but then later on we'll be confused while we have distended stomachs
your liver is struggling your pancreas is likely going to start to struggle eventually all these
internal organs that we end up packing fat around because we're allowing ourselves to have
a lot of fructose in our diet maybe even allowing ourselves to have alcohol in our diet we've all
heard of the infamous beer belly it's not just bear other aqua house can do it too your diet is
the building block that will determine how your body is built your diet is where your energy
comes from you know your diet is working if these eight markers are going well for you so i want you
guys to put it in the comments below are you doing well on these eight markers and if there are still
areas that you need to work on well kilo really keto really helped me to get my health back so
i'd encourage you to watch the video that i'm gonna link here that talks about how keto works
so that you can get healthier because you need to keep it in mind along this warrior when our
physical health and mental health are working well together that is when we experience that overall
sense of well-being do you have it because if you don't have it let's get out there and get it