Dr. Mindy here and I want to talk to you about resetting your metabolism
and I want to bring up a concept that I get asked all the time and that is " If I
fast won't it slow my metabolism down " so I want to explain to you how much have
metabolism works, how it works in a keto world, and why we like to vary our
ketogenic lifestyle okay so think of when you're eating carbs it's like every
time you eat a carb you're creating more wood for a stockpile of wood next to a
fire you're about to build, and your metabolism is the fire so when you want
energy and you're constantly eating carbs what you're doing is you're just
building this pile bigger bigger bigger bigger and it just goes right into the
fire and you start burning the wood for fuel okay then one day a friend says
to you hey I've been on the ketogenic diet
I've lost a ton of weight I'm feeling great my Energy's up so you decide no
more carbs but you have been a carboholic your whole life so your stockpile of
wood is like super super super high so your body starts burning it.
You start being able to put more wood in and more wood in and as it's
burning it what ends up happening is you're getting energy and you're
watching fat just disappear on your body because your body has all this wood to
access all this all this stored carbohydrates to access do you feel
amazing you look amazing everybody's asking you what you're doing and then
all of a sudden one day the ketogenic diet stops working for you and you're
like wait a second I'm not losing weight in fact some of you start gaining weight
I'm seeing this in my resetter group right now we are getting a lot of people
who've been fasting with us every single month and what they're telling me is how
come my ketone numbers aren't higher why am I not having the same experience on
this fast as I did last month well part of that is if you've been doing keto for
a long time your wood pile is really really really low so your your fire your
metabolism starts to slow down it doesn't have the
same reserved that it had when you first started the ketogenic diet so what can
you do to make that stop and this is exactly why we do diet variation this is
exactly why we do feast days you have to pull yourself out in the
ketogenic life and you actually have to start eating carbs so that you can fill
this woodpile back up so you can tell your metabolism hey you can start
revving up again because I'm going to give you some
reserves that you can pull from so it's it's probably the biggest mistake I
see with people is that they get so that becomes such a zealots for one way
to do keto and they get on that path and they're just doing it over and over and
over again and you have to vary it you have to have feast days so this is
why those of you that are doing my Ketobiotic Reset for Women this is why I
have you for two weeks you're depleting your stores and then the two weeks
before your cycle you're filling those stores back up I had a patient this
morning say to me why I'm getting in deeper ketosis now and and I'm eating
more carbs why is that it's because we've restarted that metabolism by
reminding the body that it's not in starvation it is coming
carbohydrates and glucose are coming back but they're coming back in short
spurts they're not coming back for massive storage anymore so you want to
be metabolically flexible you want to have this ability to click into keto and
click out of keto and that's how this ketogenic lifestyle becomes long term so
I hope that helps because I get this question all the time and I really want
you to gather that just because he knows working for you is so well right now it
doesn't mean that you're gonna shy away from carbs for the rest of your life you
need to have the variation so if that's helpful just put helpful in there if you
want more information on this just join me in my resetter just put resetter I'm
coaching people over there on how to do this diet variation it is is absolutely
a missing peace in nutrition right now and for
sure as it meant it's missing in the ketogenic world so hope that helps!