there's a lot of confusion about net carb versus total carb like can you lose weight doing either
one is one better than the other i know for myself i did my entire weight loss journey net
carb and still to today i use net carb whenever you hear me give numbers of how many carbs i eat
i'm talking net so does it really matter to answer this question i want you to think about two people
who have a broken arm in the hospital does it mean that they're gonna have the exact same treatment
not necessarily if one of them has a hairline fracture while the other person has a complete
break gosh i hope pat doesn't make too much of an image there but but will they get the same
treatment very likely no the level of damage that you have from sugar consumption is gonna vary from
person to person and that's because the way that we eat is different from household to household
take my house for example growing up my mom wasn't about junk food she made breakfast lunch and
supper for us from scratch now we did have rice potatoes pasta bread in our meals but we didn't do
dessert that wasn't a thing in our house we had a few snacks around that were for occasional treats
not daily consumption so actually the amount of sugar that we ate as kids was less than the amount
of sugar that i ate later in my life now as time went by my parents did eventually get influenced
by the Canadian culture and so occasionally they would let us have fast food but my freedom really
came from being a teenager and having money and being able to go to the store and buy some of the
treats that weren't actually in the house so my big downfall was how much chocolate i was buying
if we dig a little deeper i already had damage from eating rice pasta potatoes bread on almost
every meal but adding daily chocolate to the story from the age of 15 to 22 23
that ramped up what was happening in me in a really the pain that i started to live by age 22.
ridiculous my body was reacting to all this sugar that i was eating i didn't know that's what was
happening in all fairness i was over eating my sugar and then turning around and blaming sports
that i barely did for the pain that i was living every day my knees my back eventually my elbow my
i was in pain more than i would say i was relaxed and comfortable we need to pay attention to
how food is impacting our body so coming back to should i do net carb or should i do total carb
whether or not you do net carb or total carb as a way to manage your sugar
isn't necessarily the important starting point what's most important is understanding
to pay attention to how your body is reacting to what you're eating if i fast forward to 23
years later when i was 46 and started to do keto i didn't know there was a difference between net
carb and total carb i did what the calculator on my phone told me to do which was net carb
and i lost the weight and i solved my inflammation issues and my body recovered
today although i still use net carb because i only eat healthy vegetables because i rarely go back
past 10 grams of carb per day because i'm focused on my body feeling good i'm still able to do net
carb and i haven't had a reason to change that that being said i love the way that Dr Westman
puts this information because what he says is net carb is like over-the-counter medication versus
total carb is like prescription strength and why i love that is that it focuses on how much
damage are you trying to overcome we understand that if i'm taking the prescription strength
that means that the damage internal is more than if i can take something over the counter
the more internal damage i have the more likely it is that i will need prescription strength with all
of that being said with my knowledge of how much damage that i had i still had success on that car
but and this is the big butt i also adjusted myself down to even lower carb because my focus is
get healthy stay healthy i want to add one more thing if you eliminate processed foods
junk food high glycemic vegetables and pay attention to how the foods you are eating
make you feel you're naturally going to find your carb count and what i mean by this is in fact
if i eat carbs on like just regularly what i notice is that at 18 grams or more i can't manage
so 18 net or more i can't manage like that's my actual barrier at that point now what that turns
out to be total i don't know i've never actually checked but for the veg that i eat i would have
to put that in the calculator and see what it is but i know that if i'm eating my typical veg which
my veg are very low carb when i hit around 18 so i get 18 and a half my body starts to feel it
this is why i've decided to keep myself at 10 or less because i'm not interested in pushing the
envelope i'm not interested to see how much veg can i get on my plate i want to eat healthy food
that builds my body properly and fuels my body well wellness warrior i'm encouraging you to
aim at optimal health rather than trying to ride the edge of how much carbohydrate can i get on my
plate how much fun food can i have it's not worth it building your healthy body is going to take you
seven to ten years because that's how long it takes to completely rebuild one of these
right so what you need to think about is the body that you are walking around in today
is based on the food that you ate in the last 10 years can you honestly say that in the last
10 years everything that you ate was healthy or was there a lot of junk in there put it in the
comments where do you stand on that going forward do you want your body developed built on healthy
food or junk food that's leaving holes in your health most of us allow those junk foods because
we don't have time where we rush we're busy i don't have time to cook you always have time
to prioritize your health even if prioritizing my health means i just don't eat today better for
me not to eat than to eat something junky that's putting a hole in my health the goal is to choose
healthy protein healthy fat to build and fuel you the carbohydrates are just for fun
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