today I want to talk about when we should eat why we should eat this idea
of talking to ourselves about eating hello everyone welcome to Mind Blowing
reason that I make these videos is because I want people to understand how
mental health and physical health work together to help us to live our best and
happiest life the ketogenic lifestyle teaches us something about food and
hunger that we really just can't learn on the standard American diet you see on
the standard American diet we are used to being hungry every two to three hours
and so therefore we're used to thinking about food every two or three hours
we're used to seeking food every two to three hours it becomes part of our habit
to constantly be in a search for food when you begin a ketogenic lifestyle
what you notice is that you can go longer between meals you can feel
satiated even though you ate less and you feel hungry much less often we
continue to believe that we need to go on a diet to lose weight and when we go
on a diet to lose weight we have this expectation that we will be hungry we
don't think about the part where we can change our diet rather than be on a diet
so we can change the way we're eating be satiated and lose weight because of this
our our fear of being hungry causes us to continue to focus on cues that give
us the perception that we're hungry one of the things that the ketogenic
lifestyle helps us to do is understand when we are psychologically hungry
versus when we are physically hungry and one of the things that I notice is
reported often is that for example at lunchtime we will have the feeling of
wanting to eat at lunchtime we will want to go socialize with our colleagues
we'll want to have a social meal when you sit down to eat at lunchtime most
people will find that they're not hungry for lunch so what happens is you start
to eat lunch because socially this is what I do
and then somewhere through that process we don't eat as much we don't complete
we don't barely touch what we have in front of us or if we do eat it we end up
feeling overly full and uncomfortable it's often reported back to me that
there's this understanding all of a sudden that maybe I shouldn't have had
lunch but then there's the problem of what what do i do at lunchtime what do I
do when all my friends or colleagues are eating so it creates a bit of an issue
and I will be honest with you about that that if we don't know how to manage
ourselves in that kind of a situation if we feel uncomfortable to sit with our
colleagues who are eating and not eat then we might miss out on the social
aspects of work now this comes back to you because can you be comfortable to
sit with your colleagues who are eating and not eat and feel comfortable to say
I'm just not hungry today it opens up that door to checking am I getting up to
go eat right now because it's lunchtime or because I'm actually hungry I believe
that on a ketogenic lifestyle especially at the beginning we fall into this often
because we are so used to eating at a certain time or we are so used to eating
in response to social cues or commercials or feeling happy and
celebrating we're so used to eating at those times that then when we get that
cue to eat we have trouble checking with ourselves because we never thought to
check with ourselves am i hungry right now when we asked this question and we
realize that sometimes the answer is no we start to see where some of those
psychological cues to eat are coming from if we miss these cues
unfortunately I mean we do miss it often because on the standard American diet we
weren't asking this question because we didn't need to because every two to
three hours we were hungry so if we miss to ask the question then we miss the
cues that are tricking us into thinking that we're hungry when maybe we really
aren't and what could end up happening is that
we end up eating a meal but then being uncomfortable afterwards and so this is
something I want you to pay attention to because you eat your meal but then
afterwards you feel uncomfortable you feel like you shouldn't have eaten
that's just another sign look at say you know what tomorrow I'm
gonna check with myself all of these things can impact the results that
you're having so if you feel like you're not having these results that you want
you might want to verify with yourself am i accidentally eating when I'm not
actually hungry what's really great is that when you do check with yourself
when you do verify if you're hungry and realize on those few occasions that you
might realize that you weren't actually hungry then what happens those are the
scenarios where your body now has the opportunity to continue doing what it
was doing because what it was doing was using the
onboard fat so here's the thing eating when you're not hungry is not
necessarily gonna kick you out of ketosis for the day either especially if
you're eating within the key to get genic lifestyle guidelines so that means
that you're eating low carb to keeping our carbs under fifty grams total per
day that you are eating high-quality protein the fat that comes along with it
if you're doing that chances are very good that you're not gonna kick yourself
out of ketosis but you could create the story where you're not necessarily
losing what you would like to lose if that's what your goal is so here's the
thing if I eat more than my body needs whether I'm eating a ketogenic lifestyle
or not I create the plate the story where I have too much energy and if I
have too much energy so more energy that my body can use in the day of course
some of it will be stored that doesn't mean I'm not in ketosis it just means
some forget stored now at the same time so back it up if I let's say I don't eat
enough to store I still might be eating enough that I stay stable because I'm
eating enough to fuel my day and I think I think that's where most people end up
falling where they just stay stable because it's actually quite difficult to
eat with that much fat that you eat enough to store but it isn't hard to eat
enough to feel your day it's also isn't hard to eat less than what you need to
feel your day because you always have some onboard energy that you can use and
so you won't feel hungry but it's getting to that point of recognizing
that I do occasionally eat out of queues that are not related
to hunger and I do occasionally eat because what I'm eating is fun rather
than eating because I was hungry and when we start to pay attention to that
we can change what we're doing there's an assumption that we need to deprive
ourselves to lose weight and the ketogenic lifestyle has definitely
proven that that's not true one of the things that I talk about
often is the fact that I eat so much more now than I did ten twelve months
ago and yet I weigh less now than I did back then and the question becomes how's
that possible and the reason it's possible is because it's not about how
many calories you eat as much as it is how many calories you're eating from
where so one of the things that the key to getting left out teaches us is that
it's excessive carbohydrates that creates a problem in our system and so
therefore diminishing the amount of carbohydrate calories that we intake an
increase in the amount of fat calories that we intake allows us then to eat to
satiation and yet still lose weight so we don't have to be deprived to lose
weight we don't have to suffer to lose weight as a matter of fact you can lose
weight while feeling satiated and even maintain that weight goal long into the
future sometimes struggling to eat as much as
you need to lose to keep your weight up which is the issue that I had for a
little while trying to figure out wow how much we'll actually need to eat to
stay at this weight because it seemed excessive but at the same time that's a
good problem to have it's amazing to me that by choosing
nutrient-dense foods with low carbohydrates I've been able to eat well
be happy and absolutely love every moment of my weight loss journey and it
wasn't a journey that started with weight loss I was able to enjoy the
journey to better health because that's what I now have I have better health
so the ketogenic lifestyle not only teaches us about understanding your food
understanding your hunger and working those things together it's also taught
us that better health and food are
connected and we need to be a poor of that right we need to know what we're
doing to help ourselves to feel our best the food companies have really done a
good job of getting us to believe that processed foods are healthy convenient
and allow us the time to go out there and enjoy life but the reality is I
think that because they're unhealthy that convenience comes with a heavy
price because we might be able to eat those foods and fuel ourselves but we're
not being healthy and in the end we lose precious time time that we could be
enjoying our lives time that we could be enjoying our friends and family time
that we could be doing our hobbies it's often times wasted trying to recover and
be ready for the next workday because we're so inflamed and we're so exhausted
I will venture to say that although I admit that processed foods are faster to
prepare and so yes because if you throw something in the microwave or can just
toss it in the oven and walk away and come back when it's done yes that takes
less time and energy from you but I feel like the time that we gain in those
moments are not even useful to us because we don't feel well and as and
the more that we engage in that kind of eating so that kind of food prep towards
that kind of eating the worse and worse we feel so in the end is it really more
convenient for me to eat processed foods if my body then turns around and feels
horrible and I can't do the things that I want to do it's not even about
retirement at this point I was in my early 40s when I started to I was
actually in my early my mid-30s when I started to feel the repercussions of the
ways that I've been eating and some of these repercussions I was feeling when I
was in my 20s my knee issues began when I was in my 20s we don't even realize
how much the carbohydrates are affecting us and pay attention because our young
people today are young people our little kids are feeling the repercussions of
the amount of carbs in their diets how many obese children do we have how
many children with autoimmune issues do we have our kids are feeling this
because they are starting off on these foods
from the get-go I want us to understand that we don't even make it to retirement
before we see the the the lack of convenience of these foods we see them
in our early ages because I started to see them at 20 in my 20s I just didn't
know and I really understood it in my 40s when I was able to get rid of all
these issues looking back if I would have known that cutting carbohydrates
out of my life would have led me to live I'd much healthier feeling body's life
going into my future what I would have done in a heartbeat I would have done
this when I was 20 but we did but I didn't know and I'm assuming a lot of
you don't know and so this is why I'm sharing this information it's important
for you to know so that time that I spent in the kitchen cooking even though
it's more than what I was doing when I was throwing something in the microwave
or the oven it's better time for me because I'm preparing foods that are
healthy and here's interesting thing there's ways to make whole food
preparation faster i meal prep now and that saves me time and I also only eat
one meal a day on most days and so that saves me time so the reality that rather
than having to do three meals I can just do one meal in the end if I'm not
gaining time I'm just around the same amount of time that I was doing when I
wait for something in the oven we don't realize that it's much easier than we
think to make a healthy meal and to live a healthy lifestyle because the more
healthy you are the more you invest in your food the more that you've read
through the benefits of that food and for me what that means is that I'm in a
scenario where I'm eating one meal a day so a lot of my time is not actually
devoted to meal prep although again there is meal prep time and I do invest
in it and now I love it because I recognize the value that it brings to me
so the convenience of processed foods I no longer see as convenient what we need
to understand is that food is nourishment for our bodies it is not
entertainment and when we actually allow ourselves to choose foods that are
nutrient dense that are going to fuel us our bodies become extremely efficient
the food companies would have us believe that flavor is everything what I need
you to understand is this carbohydrates are highly a
and because they're highly addictive because they do affect that part of our
brain where dopamine receptors are and they have a similar reaction as cocaine
and other harsh drugs because carbohydrates are so addictive we end up
chasing carbohydrate Laden foods but when we allow ourselves to get out of
that system and really just pull back from that but we start to realize is
that our body changes what it's doing and because it's focused on nourishing
itself again and not worrying about the excessive amounts of carbs in our blood
it's even more efficient and it's actually in a position where it can
start to heal other issues that might be happening in your in your body eating a
nutrient-dense low-carb lifestyle is just healthier what's incredible is that
we're so focused on the flavor of food the carbee flavor of food that we've
lost track of what food is really there to do which is to fuel us I'll have you
know that I hated avocado I mean I'm not even just saying dislike I hated avocado
because I was so carb focused and it was in my opinion bland and didn't taste
great and interestingly enough fast forward to today
avocado with salt on it is one of my favorite things to eat what changed I
took carbs out of my life and when you don't have carbohydrates pushing you
towards carb heavy foods what you start to understand and appreciate are the
nutrient-dense foods that you also have available to you you will be surprised
how much you will love nutrient-dense proteins nutrient dense low carb foods
nutrient-dense fats how you're going to be surprised how much you're gonna love
them when you allow yourself the possibility of eating them and leaving
off the high carb foods and what do you do when you're hungry
do you nibble on snacks or do you go and get a plate of food
and choose to eat when you're hungry have a meal because if you do that and
what you're doing is you're keeping in line with what keto is all about I
really want you to enjoy your life and part of enjoying your life means
that you feel good in your body you feel good living your life doing the
activities that you want to do so that means being able to play with your
children that means being able to hang out with your friends that means be able
to do your activities whether it's play the guitar or climb a mountain or
whatever it is you want to do that means having energy for work and still having
energy at the end of the day for your family I want to thank you for watching
Mind Blowing Health and Wellness with Violet I really can't wait to talk to
you guys in the next video because I love making these videos for you guys
because it's my pleasure to know that I've helped even one person to do better
and I hope I have today I hope that I said something that's gonna help you to
understand why you should ask the question am i hungry before you take