In this video we’ll discuss the reasons you may still be fat after intermittent fasting.
Hi ladies and gentleman, I’m Dr. Zyrowski and welcome back to the channel. If you’re
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and your life. In this video you’re going to discover why you’re still fat after doing
intermittent fasting. I recommend to a patients all the time to do intermittent fasting. They
all come back seeing great results but there’s always that group. There’s the group that
comes back and says Dr. Zyrowski I’m not losing any fat, I’m not having any weight
loss, I don’t feel any better, this intermittent fasting stuff is not for me. So that’s when
we sit down and we have the talk. Not the talk basically is where we dive into all the
different focus points where people will go wrong with intermittent fasting. Why they
don’t get results. Why their still fat. Why they won’t lose weight. Why the weight
won’t budge. So if you’re having this issue or you’re someone who just wants to
get better results with intermittent fasting lets go ahead right now and have that talk.
So let’s focus in on diet first. This is where I see a lot of people go wrong because
a lot of people use intermittent fasting as a crutch to follow a lot quality diet. When
you follow intermittent fasting and follow a low quality diet in many cases you’re
going to create metabolic instability and you’re driving these hormones all crazy.
You’re going to this fast where your driving insulin levels low but then you’re spiking
them with high sugar, high carb meals. It’s not a good thing to do so intermittent fasting
is not a crutch. A lot of people think I can do intermittent fasting because I’m going
into that fat burning zone and I can eat what I want over here. It just doesn’t work like
that. And so you want to make sure that you’re following a good quality diet. I always recommend
the low carb diet. This is a diet where you’re eating 100 grams or less of carbohydrates.
You’re eating a lot of good whole foods. You’re doing no sugar, you’re doing no
grains and you’re eating good delicious, satiating meals that make you feel good. Now
when we have people who are doing low carb and they’re still not getting results and
they’re being honest about doing low carb and not getting results we go and look at
different things. Some of these other things popping up which we’ll talk about in a moment
or maybe they have some metabolic instability. In that case what we’ll do is we’ll go
into Keto. Do 30, 60, 90 days of Keto, come back out do low carb and in the meantime we’ll
see some great results. Okay so diet is very important. Double down on diet if you’re
not getting results. Next, calories in, calories out, too little
too much. So this is a problem that people have. Now it’s always interesting because
if you look at the gym community like the fitness trainers they’re always talking
about calories in, calories out, that’s all that matters. And then you look over to
the other side of the spectrum and you see the doctors and they’re saying it’s not
so much about calories in calories out it’s about what you’re eating, the quality of
foods that you’re eating. And I’m kind of right in between there because what I see
happen with intermittent fasting is a couple of things. First of all people are eating
a high quality diet but they’re eating too much of a high quality diet. It doesn’t
matter how long you intermittent fast if you are over consuming calories then you just
aren’t going to lose weight. Now the other problem that’s going to happen is some people
because they’re doing intermittent fasting and their packing all their meals into a short
period of time they’re not eating enough so if you’re doing intermittent fasting
and you’re coming way under to a calories deficit the problem is is that you’re going
to crash your metabolism. These people typically see fast results right away but then after
that they just plateau and they can’t get things to budge in either direction. So you
don’t want to be over consuming because if you’re coming in at a huge calorie surplus
you can still do intermittent fasting and gain weight. A lot of people do this simply
because they go and their in that fasted window and they’re so hungry when the meal time
comes around they just stuff their face so the first meal, between meals and even for
the second meal. So we want to be right in the middle. What I recommend is that we go
and we track our macros for 30, 60, 90 days and we really truly understand what we’re
eating. We’re understanding the calorie intake that we have on a daily basis because
like I said if you’re doing intermittent fasting and you are either under consuming
or over consuming you’re gonna create metabolic problems. You can’t come in at that huge
caloric surplus and expect to lose weight and if you’re going way under you’re going
to crash your metabolism. So track your macros for a period of time, you can easily get some
different app calculators that are going to help you do so and track your calories for
a bit and you’re going to see great results if that is the issue that you’re having.
Next is metabolic instability. So there’s a lot of things that come in to play when
it comes to the metabolic hormones, metabolism, how it functions. We look at these three major
metabolic hormone players: insulin, leptin and ghrelin. Now insulin is this hormone basically
that is going to shuttle sugar into the cell. If you have like pre-diabetes, if you have
diabetes you have insulin resistance, essentially you’re going to have a harder time getting
results with intermittent fasting. The results may just not come as quick. Now the other
problem that you have is leptin resistance or ghrelin resistance. Now leptin is basically
the food suppressant. So when you go and you are eating your meal leptin goes and tells
your brain “hey, you’re full, stop eating”. People who have leptin resistance don’t
hear that signal. They don’t hear that leptin signal and they just keep eating so it’s
very easy for them to over eat and over consume every single day. Now the people that have
ghrelin resistance, this is the food initiator. This is the hormone that basically says “hey,
I’m hungry and we need to start eating because I’m really, really hungry”. Some people,
they’re just getting over stimulated in that area so you can see what’s happening
here. First of all, you’re not properly shuttling sugar into the cell. You’re going
and not being told by this hormone leptin to stop eating. This hormone ghrelin just
keeps being a gremlin and telling you to eat constantly and this causes a lot of issues.
So once again we’re doing intermittent fasting we’re going to go back, double down on the
diet. This is very important here. We’re also going to go in and do a couple other
things. First of all we can go in and make sure we’re doing something like the Keto
diet, which is really going to help create that metabolic stability which I talked about
over here. But also what we can do is we can add some nutritional supplementation that
not only helps balance insulin but also just creates metabolic hormone stability across
the board. I’ll put a link to the one that I use. So if we have this metabolic instability
first of all we have to realize that intermittent fasting may take longer for us to get results.
We can go in and do a diet overlook. We double down on the diet, potentially follow the Ketogenic
diet for a while. And then lastly we add some different nutritional herbs and vitamins in
order to help balance metabolic hormones. And so that’s what we do here.
Next breaking your fast. Ok so this is very important because a lot of people need to
do a reset. It’s very, very compelling to go and find all these little things that you
can do while fasting that won’t break you fast. I get probably questions like “will
x y and z break my fast” more than any other question out there so a lot of people are
trying to get creamer in their coffee. They’re trying to get stevia and xylotomy in their
coffee. They’re trying to add in all types of different drinks and potion and powders
and what happens is you can just create this whole issue where you’re just basically
breaking your fast every single day. If you’re not getting results with intermittent fasting
take a step back, get rid off all of that stuff. Get rid of the apple cider vinegar
drink, get rid of the supplements, get rid of the powders, get rid of all of that stuff.
Take a step back and go to water and things like black tea or black coffee and then that’s
it. That’s it when you’re doing your fasting. And that way you can be sure that you are
truly fasted during that time. Because it’s very compelling to try to add in all these
little sneaky things that won’t break your fast, but if you have metabolic instability
and you have some other issues it’s hard to say what’s going to knock you out of
that fast state. Just like somebody who is pre-diabetic or diabetic is going to have
a much different reaction to eating some simple carbohydrates than someone who is metabolically
healthy. So we want to make sure that if you’re having a problem where you think you may be
breaking your fast, get rid of everything and just go strictly to something like water,
sparkling water, coffee, black tea and stick in that area. Any by the way, if you want
a full guide to intermittent fasting, a complete guide that teaches you everything, go ahead
and click on this video right up here because this video I did teaches you everything you
need to know A to Z about intermittent fasting. Last here is time. How long should it take?
Now, one of the things I get all the time is “Dr. Zyrowski, I’ve been doing intermittent
fasting for like a whole 2 weeks and I haven’t gotten any results yet so this clearly doesn’t
work”. Okay so there are so many things wrong with that statement. First of all you
may just be one of these metabolically unhealthy people. Maybe your diet is messed up, there
are so many things that you have to be aware of in this time. But there other thing is
is that when you’re looking at these people who are seeing huge results right, they didn’t
do it 1 or 2 weeks. People who are having massive weight loss transformations. People
who are getting lean and ripped. In most cases this has taken them months to years in order
to get these results. So a lot of times we, even myself, we want to get results so fast.
We want them right now, we want them here in the moment. But the problem is is that
that is not reality. We have to realize that when we look at intermittent fasting as a
strategy in order to help us to improve our overall state of wellbeing, lose fat, lose
weight, get healthier and it is a time game. It is something that we’re implementing
in and we have to give it the time. And if we can just stick to it over a long period
of time we are going to constantly get healthier and healthier. So be sure to give it the time
that is necessary in order to lose the weight, in order to get those results.
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