it's hard to understand that calories are not a focus when you're trying to lose weight because
we've lived years and years and years of being told that it's a calorie deficit that you need
in order to lose weight today we want to talk about why we don't focus on calories that we
talk about carbs hello Wellness Warriors welcome to Mind Blowing Health and Wellness with Violet Pat Chat
edition i'm Violet and i'm Pat so how many times have you guys been told by your nutritionist your
doctor that you need a calorie deficit to lose weight so for example on a 2000 calories daily uh
who eats 2 000 calories when they're not on a diet yeah i don't know okay but i'm just pointing that
out okay but that you need to bring it to 1500 actually have you tried to like to do that kind of
diet the calorie restrict uh restrictive years ago when i was a young person so i was a normal weight
and then in my in that period of time that i was a normal weight for some reason i felt like i wasn't
a normal weight so i tried to lose a little bit of i know it doesn't make sense and then
but then like life went on and i put that idea down and then i got pregnant and then i six years
later i gained weight so but it's funny but i mean i have lived that scenario of trying to like eat
fewer calories at least once in my life and it was not a fun experience like even if you have apps
that like like you're tracking your food uh i know i don't remember which one i was using but like uh
uh i had a calorie budget and basically you create a deficit by either by either or both of them
like eating less and more exercise so i was all happy like oh today i had a 750 calories deficit
uh during my day so none of that matter actually yeah for me what it was more like the the first
few times i tried to lose weight although i was tracking my food it wasn't like i was trying to be
in the calorie deficit as much as i was trying to eat healthier okay so like theoretically though it
looked like a deficit because i wasn't eating all the cookies like right so like so like it looked
good but in the end did i lose any weight zero like year zero right so and the one occasion that
i did lose that's not even true i did lose once so back after my daughter was born and then i i did a
track my foods and i took all the junk food out i did lose so i shouldn't say zero that's not true
but like did it last it didn't last so the funny part was that i lost and of course that typical
six months hits and then i started to go up again even though i still wasn't eating the junk
which is then of course what happens well why am i not eating junk if my weight is still going up and
then it all goes to pot right the problem with that actually is that if you rely on you moving
more problems like yeah when you stop moving you're gonna like regain the weight that was my
my case but did you stop moving only after six only after a year or two years or did you stop
moving before the six months oh no no like usually my uh get all motivated to go to the gym and do
spinning classes and then you have yeah it's six months like you you have a something happening
at work you have a rush use like so you actually made it six months and then stopped or you stopped
before yeah i think like the first time i did lose a good amount of weight i was moving way
like like it was a move more scenario i was doing spinning classes uh lasted yeah six
months i remember when i was in university early university also like i took um a gym membership
and yeah it lasted six months as soon as like there was something at work or can go to the
gym always like yeah so i had never been really like um or you never made it past six months you
know you're trying yeah yeah yeah not once really okay i've gone to the gym for more than a year i
actually my gym membership i did do i i actually was at the y and i was going to the y for years
again how much weight did i lose from that nothing but i was going to the y yeah sorry like this is
the first time uh since i've been doing low-carb keto or changed my lifestyle that i've maintained
my membership more than six months i like i do miss the gym right now so it took a change in
diet like for me to be able to uh to keep going and so like one of the things that i think
and i'm not like looking at myself like even when i went for that year more than a year i had that
i was going to the y for years with an s um didn't lose any weight but i was i felt more flexy though
i definitely felt good in myself but you're not at your ideal weight when you were doing
that you feel like so what's interesting is you know again this is where like that whole thing
with women where it's like where you are versus where you want to be and what like how you want
to look in your clothes and whatever but i think like i definitely felt good going to the gym when
i did go for that period of time where i was and again it was more than a year because i remember
going i'm going after university and going and so it was really it was a nice period of time
uh but just going back to this whole calorie deficit thing because you would think for how
much i was going to the gym going to the gym how little i was eating at that period time because
i was in school so like you know student didn't have a lot of time to actually and yet still my
weight was just stable stable it's like just like stable compared to so how come i didn't that's
a good question how come i didn't just blow up after i stopped going to the gym that's weird no
actually no i didn't blow up at some point because i was like when i was like i blew up after my
daughter like she was six by the time that that happened but okay no you know what that's probably
why i'm not thinking straight the inflammation the inflammation was happening because i remember
i was sore like so like when i stopped going to the gym yeah my knees my yeah you know what wow
i never even put that together until just this moment when i stopped going to the gym
because i was in my 20s when i was doing that i was at university but all that time after my
knees were like sore like i told you my my knees and elbow things started happening in my mid-20s
i think my big first blow up like in weight was after university like when i had my first job so
at university i feel i was like relatively active i had like gym classes i was playing badminton too
but with my first job like oh you have money go more to restaurants so i think on top of being
less active my diet was like less i don't i can say it was probably good university but it was
even worse like after when i started working was more in the restaurant was like pasta italian
bread and like my diet was horrific when i was in school it was horrific i think my diet was better
after i finished school okay because when i was in school like so not elementary or high school
because then like so like when when parents were no longer controlling my food so like from
seashep and university my diet was not was not i wouldn't even say bad it was horrific like
chocolate the amount of chocolate i was eating during those years are you feeling
chocolate horrific like again it's like that i had inflammation i think is is
not surprising for those people who don't know like cjep is here we have that in uh especially
i think in quebec in canada it's like a little passage between high school and university yeah
yeah so look i had a horrible diet and i i think my diet got better when i when i started
work because then i actually had funds to buy like real meals like so i mean not said i didn't have
money you see the funny thing is that i did have money because of course my parents gave me money
but did i spend it on the right things versus when you're in in the work world and you're
going out to eat lunch like you're not buying junk right you're with other adults so you're
buying like real food and i feel like that's when i started to have real food at lunch time
was that was that i spent a lot of money there too but right so let's say that probably most 80
percent of us like have gone through those loops of high and lows and high in lows and yoyo dieting
why calories don't matter then so if you look at what was actually happening when i was in
university in seashep i was eating cookies and chips and maybe hot dogs sometimes and like
but poutine and all this craziness which high calorie yes high carb then i went to eating
meals so go to a restaurant and ordering meals which was some kind of meat some kind of
side dish that's high in calorie but still high in carb i didn't lose any weight
so you think that eating those proper meals i should have lost weight during
that period of time i didn't lose any weight as a matter of fact when i was
at the end of all this when i actually gained the most weight which was when my daughter from when
my daughter was like six and a half or maybe even less than that maybe she was five between five and
nine right i guess i gained the most weight i was actually being at least conscious of like
okay don't eat chocolate don't like i was being conscious of like okay don't eat junk food violet
but i was still eating active meals yeah right yeah we were together like when your daughter
was around like seven nine okay so but but yeah but i mean i had gained most of my weight like a
little bit at that like just up to that point so like when i met you i think i gained a bit more
obviously after that but like but my point was we were active at the same time we were skiing
we were doing we i remember playing badminton so we were still moving and our weight was
going up like crazy this is the thing that's so frustrating is that i was always active
like i was i've been a skier from the time that i could go skiing i i played badminton um like
i was always active and yet the weight was just slowly slowly mounting and so like again
this whole idea of if you're on a calorie deficit so the problem here is this is that
our body doesn't understand calories so this this man-made idea of what happens when you burn food
doesn't translate to our body because if i eat carbohydrates today my body is going to put
them away today but the energy that i'm using to fuel my body is from stuff i ate a few days ago
so exercising doesn't stop my body from creating fat but this is this this idea that we have that
somehow we can outsmart our body you you cannot outsmart your body like this machine that we live
in was built to survive and it's built to survive even if we're doing not so smart stuff right like
i'll give you a different kind of example just because i want you to see how smart we are
you'll see young people walk in the street cell phone in hand scrolling and just
not get hit by the car and they'll pull themselves back because our body and senses are so smart that
it noticed the carb is coming even though a person was looking at their cell phone right
we have senses that like so to think that i'm gonna trick me into acting like the sugar that
i'm eating isn't supposed to be turned into fat because i decided to run a few kilometers no my
body's still going to turn it into fat because it has two options leave it in your blood to die
take it out of your blood and stay alive which one do you think your body is going to choose
take it out of your blood store it as fat so that you stay alive right and i feel like this
is something that we don't think about of course we can't think about it because we
don't know our body's doing this it's it's it's so scary to think that we believe that somehow
we can just make things happen that we can't make things happen that we can't make happen
right so that's the first thing is that the calorie deficit that we're trying to accomplish
to say that we're going to somehow so we only look at weight when we talk about the
story can i point something else out when you eat carbohydrates they are actually
damaging because they're toxic they are actually damaging to other parts of the body
so we're so focused on being skinny that we don't we would eat a pile of pancakes and go exercise to
stay skinny and ignore the fact that that pile of pancakes that we just ate and all that sugar
that's in our is gonna cause inflammation and cause heart disease and cause heart disease and
cause gout and cause cause okay damage the liver because there's high fructose corn syrup in that
syrup that you put up and we're just only looking at but am i skinny oh if i'm skinny then it's okay
no it's not okay it's not okay guys it's not okay please we need to stop doing this it's not okay
the answer to that is like calorie in calorie out doesn't work you need to cut the carbs
you need to cut the sugar out of your diet the reason that we talk about carbohydrates
is bigger than weight and i say this so often but i'm going to say it again
it's not about being thin it's about being healthy a healthy body regulates its weight
you cannot expect an unhealthy body to worry about regulating weight when it's trying to stay alive
so are you going to keep poisoning yourself and then expect your body to be skinny
so that's really the question that we're asking right is like oh i want to eat all this junk
but then my body is just going to focus on how many calories it was and what are we saying to
um to viewers who are asking they want to get to one meal a day but at the same time feel
like they should stuff themselves with the 2000 calories in one meal because like we just said
it's not a matter of calories which is why i'm confused why we're talking about calories anyways
like i feel like if you first of all why do we want to get to one meal a day that's
the first question so if you would like to get to one meal a day because you're working on
autophagy and apoptosis and you're trying to get your body to clean itself and to be healthier then
okay great but that's not about calories but at the same time like what i want to say to that let
it happen naturally like don't like don't don't we i think we said in the past but like don't
uh make it a goal to get to one meal day like do it when you're comfortable with it and when you're
not hungry if you're on the standard american diet or you have to like still eating too many
carbs like getting to one meal a day is not going to help you you're just going to starve yourself
right right no right so like i again i'm just what i was trying to say a few seconds ago is that
what is where do calories come into the story one of the mistakes i think people make
is that when you're trying to do your carb calculations you're looking at that calorie
counter but we need to be careful about something because you're doing your carb calculations
and if you're looking at that calorie number and you have an idea in your head that i can't go over
x number well now where are you going to cut so the mistake that i see people making is that i
want to eat the vegetables so what ends up getting cut is how much meat i'm allowing on my plate i
might be falling within this fictitious calorie number that i'm aiming at but is my body getting
the nutrients that it needs is my body getting a clean energy source in that case no because i've
left the calories from the carbs on my plate i cut the fat and the protein that's not healthy
if i want to get to one meal a day and again i don't know why you would want to get there
unless you're trying to heal internal stuff but let's say that's what you're trying to do so if
i would like to clean up internal stuff and i'm trying to get to one meal a day
paying attention to my carb count is what's going to help me not the calorie count and i'll explain
why if i'm eating less than 20 grams of carbs a day every day every day without fail every day
no cheats no exceptions every day the interesting thing that starts to happen is that you're not
chasing food anymore i'm guaranteeing every single person out there who's still chasing food
who's still sitting there thinking oh i might have supper if you're still doing that it's because you
are eating more than 20 grams of carbs a day and it's hard to accept that piece of information but
i'm telling you right now if you're watching this and you still find yourself chasing food weigh
your food measure everything in which you're going to figure out is that yep you were going over
so if all i would like to do is get to one meal a day eat 20 grams of carbs or less and only 20
grams of carbs less in your day so when you wake up in the morning not hungry and you eat when
hungry that meal is gonna start being pushed and pushed and pushed and pushed until finally
it's not gonna make sense to have two or three meals anymore you're gonna get down to two you're
gonna get down to one for uh we've been to there for all the the wellness wire that are new to keto
that are gonna go to their page app like the keto macro calculator like in the end the the calorie
number whenever you put your height your level of uh of active uh and like the number of calories
that are there like you don't don't pay any really attention to to it just like keep your carbs low
eat the satiation and just like go from there basically and measure every single thing you eat
that's the mistake that most people are making they are not measuring so they're not counting
everything and i mean everything if i eat one nut i log it one
one i log it are you logging every single thing you eat and if i'm not gonna log it i won't eat it
so you need to take a decision because that one nut that one french fry that one cookie that one
like all of those things over the course of a day add up it's hard it really is because
i think that we want to do well but at the same time we want it to be easy sometimes the answer
isn't easy right and calorie calories encounter it sounds easy right oh i just need to hit this
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