I was talking to a subscriber and she asked me what I thought about Dr. Berg's recent
video about eating breakfast again and I hadn't actually watched the video and as a matter of fact
right now I still haven't watched the video Even though I've seen it in my feed a few times the
reason that I didn't watch the video is because it doesn't actually matter see for a little while I
was actually being a hypocrite because I was overeating nuts I'm not talking about over
indulging I'm talking about actually overeating them but I wasn't talking about it with you guys
and it really did seem to everybody watching like violet has her [ __ ] together she knows exactly
what she's doing she's on top of things but in fact I was giving you guys the wrong impression
and I say I'm giving you the wrong impression because I was knowingly not talking about it
even though I was struggling with it now was I embarrassed was I was I trying to find the
solution before I shared it with you I I don't know all I know is that it was something that I
wasn't talking openly about now Pat knew about it right like we talked about it I know that I was
giving you guys the wrong impression because I was getting comments that say that I'm some kind of
special snowflake that I have great resolve that I was able to resist eating all the wrong foods
and that I was so good at resisting eating the junk that I was able to eat healthy all the time
now granted I was able to resist eating junk so that wasn't where I was being misleading
the fact is I was able to eat healthy all the time because the food that I was overeating
was a healthy food but then as soon as I over ate it it actually had an impact on my health
overeating nuts caused me to feel bloated and gassy and eventually if I did it enough days
in a row I have bathrooming issues so why did I keep overeating them
why'd I keep doing it I think I kept doing it because somehow I convinced myself that I could
get it under control and also because well nuts are healthier right the difference for me between
eating nuts and eating nightshades was only the severity of the pain I was living
right that painful reaction that my body was giving me
well it's twofold it was in a different part of my body so for nuts it was more in digestion issues
for nightshades it's more like inflammation pain and I feel like the inflammation pain
is so painful it's so intense that as soon as it comes back I I'm I'm looking for the answer
and I'm trying to figure it out you know the initial bathrooming issues that you get when
you eat when I eat nuts a little bit of gas and if I'm paying attention some bloating it's not until
I was running to the bathroom that I started to realize like wow something I'm eating isn't going
well for me so I I shouldn't need to wait until my insides feel like they're being pulled out
to do what's healthy for me and I'm not encouraging you guys to wait until
your situation is that painful or that problem and this is another part of what I want to talk
about today with you why is it that we only look at the changes that we might need to make
when the thing that's happening is putting us in some kind of danger when I eat healthy
and I'm only eating foods that are healthy protein and fat and very low carb foods I don't have gas
and I'm not bloated and I'm not uncomfortably going to the washroom but when I eat the wrong
thing so that's exactly what happens to me and the question is why do I need to be in pain
to stop it right why don't I stop as soon as I notice the gas why don't I stop as soon as I
notice the bloating you know I haven't watched Dr. Berg's video because he realized that he
needed more energy and brought breakfast back into his life and his routine and his I'm gonna
believe that he did that because he was hungry or or he need more energy or something so I didn't
feel they need to watch that video I'm also very conscious of the fact that every time that I eat
I will have an insulin rise and so my decision of when I'm going to eat is always going to be
around am I hungry rather than whether it's time for breakfast lunch or like the clock
has nothing to do with when I eat a meal am I hungry as usual as per most of these
videos I'm sitting here in front of you I've been up since eight o'clock it is
now 11 almost 11 30 and I haven't had anything not even coffee not not even a glass of water
I haven't had anything this morning because I'm not hungry now usually I would have had a glass
of water but I wasn't thirsty either so I didn't have a glass of water I only put things in me when
my body tells me to over the last two years has it happened that I've woken up
and felt hungry I remember because I had to think about this yesterday
and I remember that I woke up and I was hungry one morning and I had breakfast I had to think about
it but it did happen I had breakfast once in the last two years because of hunger and what happened
I ate it and it went on with my life and the next day I wasn't hungry the next morning it wasn't
a big deal to me at the time because I follow my Hunger but I think I learned through this process
is that over time our routines are gonna change and it's dependent on what's happening in your
life are you being more active for some reason are you being less active for some reason are you
sick and your body needs to repair something and heal or maybe you're sick and so you don't feel
like eating because your body needs to repair and heal what's happening in your world do you
have more stress do you are you are you meeting new people and it's taking more energy to be out
there and active and the more things change in life the more our body will either ask for food
or tell us that it doesn't need food that's normal it's part of the process right so
if it should happen again that I wake up and I'm hungry and have breakfast I'll I will be
fine with that and if I have several days in a row where every morning I'm waking up and I'm hungry
and I have breath I will do it because of my body's telling me that at this moment Violet this
is what you need as long as you're making your decision based on following your hunger rather
than trying to force your body to follow a clock I think we're all gonna be okay now I don't watch
what I eat in a day videos because I know what I'm gonna eat if it's breakfast it's probably going
to be eggs bacon or sausage or a combination of something of those three foods if it's lunch and
I can't remember the last time I had lunch but if it would be a lunch again it'd probably be
some kind of meat beside a vegetable if I'm gonna have a vegetable or it might just be the meat and
for supper it's the same thing some kind of meat beside a vegetable if I'm gonna have a vegetable
or maybe a salad beside a salad I don't eat just salad without me being accompanying it because I
don't eat just carb for me Dr. Berg's I'm back to eating breakfast was seen as a what I eat in
the day video and I didn't feel the need to watch it and that being said I'm a big fan of Dr. Berg
and I'm a fan of the information that he shares across the internet about keto and about healthy
eating and I'm sure that there's good and and physical health and I'm sure that there's going
to be another video that he puts out that I'm going to want to watch that is going to be about
health and improving myself and I'm going to want to watch it and the fact that I get comments
from you Wellness Warriors letting me know that you've healed your body and your mental health
through food helps me to worry so much less about the number of meals that you guys are
eating from day to day but it does remind me to keep focusing on what's really important
and that's making sure that we understand that no matter how many meals we eat per day the amount
of carbohydrate that our body can manage in a day is 20 grams or less right and we need to
try to keep that or less top of mind it's not 20 25 30. it's 20 grams or less if you're concerned
about the foods you're eating and want to get healthy what you need to focus on is getting
your Cravings under control which is what I wasn't doing when I was letting myself eat all those nuts
you can check out the video that I'm going to link and I have on the screen here and I'm a
link in the description below so that you can really get your eating under control and have
a healthier and more just a healthier life that's just what we need we need to have healthier lives