two years ago I was unable to sit in my office for more than 40 minutes at a
time and each session that I do with the client is 50 minutes so we're doing that
quick math you know that the last 10 minutes of each session for me were
extremely difficult we add to this that I often had two to three sessions
back-to-back so I would get an approximate 10 ish minute break if I was
lucky sometimes two minutes between clients where I could stand up and then
I have to sit back down and do another 45 - 50 minutes that was not a very fun
time for me I want to help you guys understand how dr. Burke's channel
helped me to make a huge change in my life and what we can learn from what I
learned that I'm hoping is gonna help you to make a huge change in your life
it's kind of my way of paying things forward hello everyone welcome to
that I make these videos is I want people to understand that your mental
health and physical health come together to create that overall sense of
well-being if you find this kind of video helpful please consider
subscribing so two years ago I had hip problem I went through a winter with
this problem and what I initially thought was that it was a weight problem
and I was really focused my attention on trying to lose weight I did a lot of
walking and I was eating super healthy for what I understood healthy to be at
that point in time lots of vegetables and you know just keeping my fat really
low and right this eating super what I thought was clean at the time and I
managed to lose zero pounds over a six month period and still live in a
tremendous amount of pain so eventually I went online and I did some research
and I figured out that I had an inflammation problem so that was step
one and so step two for me was figuring out okay well what causes inflammation
and what I ended up figuring out was that inflammation is
by excessive carbohydrate intake and poor quality oils so over the next month
and a half two months because I got that information in February the beginning of
February and I didn't do anything about it till April 20th so it's about a month
and a half and over the course of that period of time I was doing a lot of
research that first of all make sure that this was true information but
second of all to understand how could I solve this problem because when I did
some research about what carbohydrates were I learned that it was all sugars so
starch regular sugar and fiber like they're all it's all they're all part
and parcel of what's considered carbohydrates and I'm like well how will
I not eat those things I was extremely scared because I was then in that
situation where I was figuring out that apparently I have a condition of
inflammation that's being caused by the normal foods that I'm eating trying to
be healthy and this freaked me out so I found the ketogenic diet and when I was
looking at the ketogenic diet what I learned was that if I keep my
carbohydrate intake to 20 grams of carbs then my body would be able to manage the
food that I was eating and if my body could manage the food that I was eating
my inflammation would subside so I embarked on this journey scared as I was
because my number one thought was okay I can't eat bread because two slices of
bread I'm already over I can't eat rice or pasta I was like super worried about
how could I do this and then I fell on dr. Burks videos and honestly with
everything that I was watching and all the different bits of advice I was
getting dr. Byrd was the only one that said you could eat as much above the
ground vegetables as you want and as much salad as you want as long as
everything else you keep 220 grams or less I don't recommend including your
vegetable carbohydrates in the formula for the carbs so we don't want to put a
restriction on vegetables because they're a carbohydrate so instead we
want to put a requirement that you need to do vegetables 7 and 10 cups and that
way it can make keto healthy now being the person that I am I heard that
information and what I did with it was I said well what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna
eat I'm gonna see how much above the ground vegetables could I actually eat
before I got to 20 grams of carbs because I was super scared to go past
the 20 grams because the reason for me to need to be able to sit was so severe
you know I went to back up a minute because I want to say something going to
work is important right you need to work to be able to afford to live in the home
you live in and to purchase food and clothing and all the things so the idea
that I couldn't sit and do my job scared me a lot it scared me a lot but
you kind of the other side of that was there was a possibility and I I knew
this going into this at that there would be some kind of medication I could
probably take that would have taken the pain away I hate taking medication this
is start with that headaches if I if I have an injury like I really always try
to go natural route before I will take anything but it was in my head that if I
needed to take something I could what scared me more than need to take a
medication to sit in my office was the idea that I would not be able to
continue to snowboard ski longboard ride my bike rollerblade that like all the
things that I love to do because I was convinced that what I actually had
starting was arthritis so there are people in my family who have it and I
was feeling like you know my fingers and hands were also starting to her bother
me so I was feeling like this is what was happening all that to say that when
I found dr. Burke's channel and he's saying that if I eat this way I'm gonna
fall within the ketogenic lifestyle and I would be able to move forward it gave
me a sense calm knowing that I would have enough
food to eat you know it's really weird to think but because I'm not a foodie
and I'm not that person that cares about like eating and I've said that on this
channel multiple times food was never a priority for me however I've also said
on this channel a bunch of times that snacking was like that big thing like I
would eat chocolate or you know like a chocolate actually was my my downfall
but even at this point I had cut out chocolate because I was trying to lose
weight because I thought that you know this was a weight issue initially so one
of the things that I'm trying to help people to understand is that when I
learn from dr. Berg that I could eat as much vegetables as I wanted and then
when I double-checked oh how much vegetables would that actually turn out
to be and saw that it was really a lot of vegetables that I can easily split
that between two meals and like have no problem for my day everything changed
for me now I know there's a lot of people that are frustrated with the fact
that dr. Berg sells products and there's a lot of idea that you know is it is he
like really on keto and pushing keto because of health or does he push keto
because he's able to sell products I really I don't I don't think that that's what it
is because every time he mentions a product he also gives you the natural
way to do it he gives you options and I think this is just my personal opinion
but I think there's always going to be people who want an easier option and if
there's a product that they can buy they're gonna buy it but then there's
like people like me who if they can go natural they're gonna want to go natural
but I'm super happy about when I found his YouTube channel was that he did
absolutely always tell the natural way to do things as far as I can see when
every time I watch a new video is he still does that so honestly like I said
I found his channel I was watching his videos everything he said made sense I
myself went and I weighed vegetables and I weighed salad and I made and I was
able to eat to the point that I wasn't hungry
sometimes even not being able to finish all of what I put it there so it took me
a little while to figure out how much they put on my plate but again it
changed my vision of can I actually do this I'm making this video because I
want to first of all I trust my gratitude towards dr. Burke for helping
me to see that there was a way to eat healthy and take-out bread pasta rice
rice I mean from the islands rice potatoes there was a way to take out all
these high carbohydrate foods out of my diet carrots and then eat good quality
vegetables good quality meats good quality solids fuel myself and not be
hungry with you know C of information that was saying ketogenic lifestyle is
not sustainable because there's no way that you can eat that way forever oh my
goodness is that so not true we absolutely can eat this way forever
because you just need to understand what foods to choose and then choose them
spice them the way those you're gonna love them and then just repeat to just
keep doing that the other thing I'm gonna say is that it's been my
experience that a lot of people complain that but you're eating the same thing
over and over and the one thing that I'm gonna put out there that frustrates me
when people say that how often do you see people have a side of fries no
matter what they're eating it's a side of fries a side of fries if I can have a
side of fries every time why can't I have a salad or broccoli or cauliflower
as a matter of fact there's so many different vegetables I can put there
rather than putting a side of fries we need to start being realistic with
ourselves and actually look at our week or month of food the truth is we usually
eat about seven or eight different meals and we're cooking at home and then we go
to the restaurant and okay we're gonna get some variety there but that side of
rice is usually there or side of rice what is the big deal if I put a side of
salad I want people to understand that being healthy is so much more important
than chasing flavors and you know I'm appreciative to dr.
Berg because he helped me to put my mind around eat vegetables focus on being
healthy and I want to push that forward you know there was Dr. Berg but there
was also Dr. Westman Dr. Cywes Dr. Berry Dr. Hyman Dr. Mason so many other
doctors that I follow that helped us to understand that if you really want to be
healthy the first thing you need to think about is fueling your body
building your body doing the things to reduce insulin resistance doing so
hyperinsulinemia doing the things to get your insulin to being your body to being
sensitive to insulin again and then like you're gonna have the healthy life that
you're trying to accomplish my life was starting to look bleak to me because the
truth per month or my life the truth for who violet is is that not being able to
snowboard not being able to longboard not being able to ride my bike or
rollerblade that to me is like a life of poverty I'm so much less interested in
finance and much more interested in doing things because all of my
entertainment is around doing things and the idea that I wouldn't be able to do
things was devastating I really encourage people to think about mobility
it's not usually something that hits us until we're much older but then when it
hits us wow it's so incredibly challenging to be able to go on in life
without being able to walk the distance you want to walk or even run at all our
mobility is everything my inflammation problem started when I was 22 I had knee
problems that started and you know what honestly I remember thinking to myself
that I need to do activities and live my life because if my knees are hurting me
now what's gonna happen when I'm 80 well I didn't even take me till I was 80
before things really started to kick in and be problematic but I'm very happy
first of all I learned to do all these things but I'm even more happy that I
decided to take an active role in figuring out
what was wrong with my hip and look for solutions that weren't about medication
because if I had to look for a solution that was about medication I'd still be
in the process of feeling horrible I'm certain of it versus where I am now
where I feel so much better after I started the ketogenic lifestyle
approximately two months later my hip was feeling better and that's amazing to
me but what's even more amazing is five months later I had lost 70 pounds and
was at a weight that I honestly wasn't even trying to get - when you eat
properly your body does what it's supposed to do and it gets you back to
where you're supposed to be you know I'm sitting here at this weight today
because I continued to eat properly I've continued to follow the principles from
all the doctors that I learned from I've continued because feeling good and
living a healthy happy life matters to me I wanted to matter to you guys too
because it really feels good to pass forward what I learned it feels good
that I know that there's people out there who watch my videos and they
decide actively to make a change taking your total grams of carbohydrates
down to 20 I'm not gonna say it's easy because it isn't because you actually
have to do a little bit of research to figure out how to do that what
vegetables can I actually eat what what foods how am I gonna spice these foods
but once you do it and you find a way to eat these foods that tastes good to you
they're the benefits of eating this way of feeling the energy that you get from
eating good quality food the ability to build muscle again and be strong is
worth so much so I'm happy to pay forward what I've learned and say things
in a way that I hope people can understand tackle the psychological
piece of the puzzle by understanding why sometimes we let ourselves down because
we stopped doing something that was giving us a good result and we don't
realize that we stopped doing it because maybe we're scared we're scared of not
being like everybody else we're scared that somehow we're going to make a
mistake and so better for me to to know that I did the wrong thing then to
make a mistake actually better for you to trust yourself and keep trying
I believe that sharing knowledge is what's going to help us all to improve
so like I said I'm paying it forward what I learned from all the doctors
online and I'm hoping that my Wellness Warriors will then pay it forward and
share this information with other people that they know so that together as we
share more and more of how to live a healthy life more people can be able to
get out there run around live a strong healthy body and engage life the way
that they want to engage life I hope you guys found this video helpful for
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