Dr. Mindy here and in this video we're going to talk about carb cravings because this is huge for
those of you that are building a fasting lifestyle I want you to master those carb cravings and I'm
going to show you the secret on this video and those of you that are new to my channel welcome
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your blood sugar going up and down we're in it together
okay carb cravings here's the first thing I want you to know it's not your fault and it's
your responsibility to change it so we've got a little bit of both of those things going on here
when you are craving carbs the first thing I want you to realize is that you can retrain
your body to not crave carbs and you're gonna do that by implementing three key
things and but these key things these three things may be easy and they may be difficult
depending on what's going on in your body so like all of my videos what I'm focused on
is giving you a formula that you can step into to change some of these behaviors like craving carbs
but also make sure that you know that each one of these things may have 10 or 15
different tasks or tools that you're going to need to implement to be able to overcome the
hurdles that can happen with a body that craves carbs let me simplify it here are the three things
first, you might need to stabilize your blood sugar so let's take the donut, for example, I love to go
after the donut because nothing is going to give you more continued insulin resistance and carb
craving like a flippin donut it's got the wrong oils it's got sugars and it's got flours what
happens when you put that wicked combination together is you get this huge spike of blood sugar
because the oils are so bad in a donut what will happen is that it'll make those
your cells more insulin resistant which is going to take some time for your blood sugar
to actually start to come back down when your blood sugar starts to come down it's going to go
down to a new low and when it hits that low you're going your body's going to say hey
danger what we've got going on here is the blood sugar drop too low you might want to eat a carb to
get it back up so the what ends up happening is you end up on this high low high low high low a
lot of you that are having a sugary cereal in the morning you're having a doughnut in the morning
you'll notice you start to become hungry around 10 a.m and maybe even again then at noon because
your blood sugar is doing this up and down all the time so we want to end that we want to stop that
and here's how you do it you got to take those refined flours and sugars out of your diet try
it just for a couple of weeks if you can do it for 30 days great and take all the toxic
oils out of your diet take those two things out and all of a sudden you are off this
roller coaster of up down and your blood sugar is going to stay more stable throughout the day
the second thing you guys know I'm the fasting queen here and what I want you to do when
you've after you've made those food changes is start to compress your eating window
make sure you're going your intermittent fasting 13 to 15 hours every day
that also is going to help stabilize your blood sugar so it's the food changes on this one and
it also is the making sure that you're building yourself a fasting lifestyle now I'm going to put
a couple asterisks on this one because there's too much to say on stabilizing your blood sugar
and that is remember protein and fat are going to give you the most stable blood sugar possible
so what I do clinically a lot of times with patients is that if they're struggling to fast
the next morning they're craving a carby breakfast is we look at dinner the night before and we start
to put protein and fat into dinner that makes the carb cravings the next day much easier
so just a little side bonus there for you okay second thing balance stress okay i know like
this is one of those ones that I when somebody tells me to stop stressing out it just makes me
stress more stressed so but let's talk about what happens when you're in a stress state
you should be constantly throughout a day going into your sympathetic nervous system which is
your fight or flight and then there should be a relaxation where you go into your parasympathetic
nervous system which is rest and digest just like we're meant to go from sugar burner to fat burner
in and out all the time I want to make sure that your nervous system is able to go in
and out of sympathetic parasympathetic if you have a highly stressed life if you are driving that
fight or flight all the time what your body's going to do is it's going to say we need more
sugar so that we can start to use it to handle all of this stress and run this fight or flight
system so if you can't stop the stress what I want you to do is look at what do something what I call
practicing parasympathetic this is training of the parasympathetic nervous system it is your rest and
digest this is where meditation breath work down time even walking a gentle walk getting out nature
making sure you're prioritizing sleep in each one of those things you are practicing parasympathetic
and you are building that nervous system up so that you can go in and out of sympathetic and
parasympathetic when you're able to balance that nervous system you stop craving carbs because your
brain doesn't need as much glucose to be able to drive that fight-or-flight system so stress is
huge I can't tell you how many times I've been with a patient who's struggled to lose weight
struggled to overcome carb cravings and what we find is there's in such a stressed life that we
have to go after the parasympathetic system first in order to get those cravings to go away so food
for thought okay third one this is also huge you gotta repair your gut and there is specifically
a bacteria or fungus in the gut that will make you crave carbs it's called candida very familiar with
candida I spent a lot of my 20s battling candida and candida is a fungus inside your gut that will
tell you hey we need food so what we thrive on are carbs now a lot of you guys I know you
know you have candida some of you might not have know that you have candida so let me give you some
ideas of how you would know carb cravings is the number one thing if you are craving carbs all the
time there's a good chance you've got some candida in you second is a lot of rashes so especially
an itchy rash you can also have like itchy ears vaginal itchiness can often happen for women
that can be signs of candida and then the third one that is really hard is brain fog incredible
brain fog can be a sign of candida so how do you deal with candida well I want to give you
the fasting lifestyle tool because I have thrown supplements at candida clinically in my practice
but also I've thrown supplements at candida for myself and found that they're always temporary
there is one lasting thing to kill candida and that's fasting you want to throw in more of
those 24-hour fasts because with the 24-hour fast you're rebooting your microbiome you're getting a
better mucosal lining in there hopefully you all know this if you don't know it go back and watch
some of the videos I've done on gut health so the longer fast will help and in that 24 hour
period what's going to happen is you are going to kill the candida there will be a die off reaction
now I want to give you a little trick that I don't talk about on every video I'm pretty excited to
share with you if you are not watching your tongue while you're fasting I'd start watching your
tongue especially if you have carb cravings and here's why as you start to fast you will often see
a yellow hue on the middle of your tongue sometimes it's the whole tongue some of you might
as you fast see a black line down the middle some of you might see a white furry coat this is all
signs of candida and the longer that you fast the more you will see the color changes on the tongue
those of you that do three day water fast this is an incredible time to watch your tongue because
you'll see it go from yellow black white and then you'll see it turn to pink as the fast goes on
the other trick you can do is you can go and look at your morning tongue before you brush your teeth
look at your morning tongue what is it doing what is on there because it should be pink if it's
white yellow or any black you've got candida and that can be contributing to carb chain
cravings so there you go those are literally the three things to look at I love creating checklists
for you so hopefully that gives you a checklist if you missed all those things go back I'm gonna wrap
and fire them right now so you've got them okay blood sugar we're off the refined flowers we're
off the refined sugar we're off of the toxic oils we're adding in protein we're adding in good fat
we're intermittent fasting balancing stress we are practicing parasympathetic we're meditating
breath work cold plunges doing things that are going to build up that parasympathetic and making
sure we're not staying and staying in fight or flight all the time and gut repair we are fasting
more so that we can kill any candida we are looking at our tongue to see if we have candida
and we are cut going back to the diets pulling the things that feed candida out of the picture
so that we can kill candida for good and the cravings can stop boom there you go that's your
list as always I hope that helps what I'd love in your comments I'd love to know if you've been
building a fasting lifestyle if you've seen your carb cravings go away I want you guys to I want
our community to see that because I'll tell you I spent years treating candida with supplements
I don't treat it with supplements anymore my tongue doesn't turn yellow anymore because of
fasting that's how powerful it is and if you need more help with this this is what we're doing in my
reset academy just put reset academy in your no or in your comments and my team will send you a link
we're helping you master this fasting lifestyle there this is not your fault you've just trained
yourself to be your body to crave this you can untrain it as well as always I hope that helps