hello everyone today we were talking about lazy keto so I'm gonna go through
my understanding of what it is and why I don't even think you should be trying to
do it I make these videos because I want to help people to better understand how
their mental health and physical health come together to generate an overall
sense of well-being so lazy keto is a form of trying to do a ketogenic
lifestyle where I can do whatever I want as long as I keep my carbs under a
certain level so the first problem I have with that is the nutrient density
and quality of the food that you would be eating if I'm feeling myself today
with the chocolate bar and even if I make sure that I eat just enough of that
chocolate bar that I'm not going over my my daily allowance my first concern is
the nutrient density is very low and then I wouldn't be able to eat enough to
feel satiated so am i living the rest of my day hungry it's a very bad idea to go
through day after day after day feeling hungry now the second issue that I have
is that when we do an if it fits your macros style eating even if our macro
count is at a certain level if I'm eating something that's full of refined
sugars and grains and then the quality of what I'm giving my body again comes
into question if we're trying to solve metabolic issues the quality of the food
that you're ingesting matters because these are the nutrient blocks that we're
going to be using to build the body you're gonna have down the road it
really becomes important for you to pay close attention to the quality of the
food that you're eating the other issue that I have with lazy keto when we talk
about the ketogenic lifestyle a lot of what comes down to is trying to make
good decisions about the food you're eating so that the quality that you're
eating Rises so when we take out most of the carbohydrate Laden foods which then
of course does eliminate packaged foods because they're refined and they're so
if I'm aiming myself at Whole Foods which is what a ketogenic lifestyle is
aiming you towards even a low-carb lifestyle is aiming you towards Whole
Foods paleo lifestyle is aiming towards whole
when we're looking at a lot of the diets that are considered healthy they aim you
towards Whole Foods so my issue with lazy keto is that it allows for a lot of
packaged foods that at the end of the day we still don't know how the food
companies is qualifying for example whole grain when you when you read hold
grain on a package you're thinking that it's a good thing but unfortunately the
percentage of actually whole grain that they have to put into collet whole grain
is sad they don't necessarily need to have the entire product be made from
whole grain they can put a small percentage of each of the particles that
makes something a whole grain in there and then call the whole product whole
grain so even when we're trying to do our best and choosing quality foods its
if it's processed we'd not guaranteed that its quality food my my goal here is
for you to be able to make a decision for yourself based on good information
and in order to have that good information it means that you're gonna
be able to take a decision that whatever I'm eating today is creating the body
I'm gonna have in a month two months a year or two years and if I understand
that am I using prepackaged easy foods because that's when I hear lazy Kido
I'm really hearing packaged foods I'm hearing you know fast-food restaurants
I'm hearing and don't get me wrong if you need to eat and the only option you
have is that that's one story if you're planning to eat and that's the way
you're planning every meal to me that's a different story
I do believe that lazy Kido possibly is coming out of fare failure and why I say
that is if I don't think I can do something then I won't even try because
I'm afraid to fail verses if I believe I can do something I'm gonna give it a
shot well a fully ketogenic lifestyle I'm saying fully like if there's a
difference but a ketogenic lifestyle in theory is aiming people at taking their
carbohydrate count low and the best way that you can do that is
by eating whole foods because then you really know what's in there I know how
many carbs is in a green pepper I know how many carbs is in a certain weight of
lettuce like you just know you can wait and find out when you have even even a
keto friendly bar you don't know for sure that what's in there is what's in
there because you just get a list of ingredients you don't know the
percentage of each of those things and what's what you're trusting a lot of
your health to a company versus trusting it to what you know you prepared
yourself so this fear of failure I do believe pushes people to try to go
the quote unquote easy route because they're afraid they wouldn't be able to
do something that looks hard and I feel I say it looks hard because keto isn't
really that hard low-carb isn't really that hard the same way that you feed
yourself you just leave the carbs off the plate it's not that hard but it
sounds scary because it's new and it's different and not the whole world isn't
doing it today but believe it or not go back three four hundred years the whole
world was doing it right go back a thousand years the whole world was doing
it right so it's a matter of perspective am i able to eat vegetables and meats
quality meats am i able to have nuts and cheeses rather than chips and pretzels
yeah we can all do that do you believe in yourself that you can do that that's
the question are you willing to invest in yourself so you can so fear failure I
think that's the other reason that we sometimes lean towards lazy keto versus
doing just regular and again I'm lazy person another reason I feel like people
want to do lazy keto versus keto genic lifestyle that's more widely spoken
about is because they're afraid to give up things and this comes back to this
whole idea that they want people want to be like everybody else why do I have to
suffer if you look at what you're doing as suffering then you're gonna be
questioning why do I have to suffer and you're gonna look for a easy way out
which is gonna again pull that lazy Kido idea in that this idea that I could just
eat what I want but eat less of it you know what of course you can do whatever
you want you could eat whatever you want you don't have to do keto at all
thing that I'm trying to point out is that if I start a lifestyle and right
away and starting the lifestyle saying well I'm gonna do it but I'm only doing
it halfway right something dude I'm gonna do but I'm doing it do it lazy
then I'm already setting myself up to fail in the first place I'm already
setting myself up to feel like I'm deprived
I'm ready setting myself up to feel like this is more work than it's worth if I
go into it thinking I'm gonna do all the tricks so I'm gonna go to restaurants
and just take the bun off if I'm gonna eat keto bars and all this kind of stuff
if that's the way that you're looking to do this diet regime because it's not a
diet it's a lifestyle if that's why you're walking into this lifestyle
you're already telling yourself that you can't do it whatever I tell myself is
what I'm gonna do if I tell myself I can't do it I won't do it if I want to
be like everybody else then I have to accept that I'll be unhealthy like
everybody else if I want to be healthy then I might need to make some changes
because I'm recognizing that my body needs these changes rather than do lazy
keto focus on being healthy and when I'm focused on being healthy what foods do I
choose when I focus on being healthy what food is what things do I drink and
I focus on being healthy do I cook for myself or do I go to the restaurant all
the time and I'm not saying you can't go to restaurants but am I going to a fast
food restaurant or am I going to a restaurant where I can choose my
vegetables to choose my meats choose mine I still can't necessarily choose my
oils I still I'm not gonna know every little thing in the sauces but again am
i doing that every day what I'm trying to suggest is in order for you to be
healthy and we need to decide am i doing this for my health or am I just lazily
trying to lose weight it makes a difference I think that lazy should be
reserved for things that we don't care about if you want to be lazy on your day
off because you're not really planning to do anything if you want to be lazy
about how you know you're I'm not even sure what I could label that to be lazy
about because I care about so many things but you know if I was going to
take a day off then maybe being lazy wouldn't bother me but am I ever taking
a day off from my health see there I feel like that's a problem
my health is something that I'm building every single day of my life so what
makes me feel like it's okay to take a day off from that what makes you think
it's okay to take a day off from that you know we don't get to take a day off
from parenting we're always the parent why do we think we get to take a day off
from taking care of ourselves right no we don't you matter so the same way that
you wouldn't take a day off from parenting right you don't take a day off
from taking care of yourself every day matters if you want to have something
fun to eat have something fun to eat but understand that that's going into
building the body that you're gonna have next month next year
two years from now so build it wisely but lazy keto I don't believe that
anybody should be investing their time and energy into lazy keto because from
what I understand about lazy keto you're not focusing on your metabolic issues
you're not focusing on your health in the future so nutrient density in your
food so that you can build the best possible body what I understand with
lazy keto is is about hitting those macros so that you can lose weight but
you know what we can lose weight in a lot of ways that are just not healthy
and we've seen this over the years yo-yo dieting beating our bodies up don't do
that to yourself if you're gonna invest in being keto invest in quality foods
that's gonna help you to build the best body so that you can live your best life
so you can have fun with your children fun with your family fun with your
friends energy at work build the best body really all you're trying to do on a
ketogenic lifestyle is keep your carbs low that's it keep your carbs low the
protein and the fats usually work themselves out
keep your carbs under 20 and live your best life so I hope you learned
something I hope you enjoyed this video thank you for watching Mind Blowing
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