Diet Variation For Weight Loss
“Better Health Begins At The Cell.” -Dr. Bill Cole
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Hey guys, I wanted to talk about another thing that we utilize when it comes to weight loss resistance. And remember, that weight loss resistance is the inability to lose weight no matter what you do. No matter how few calories you consume. No matter how much you’re exercising. You simply metabolically, hormonally have lost the capacity to tap into your fat stores. That is an underlying hormone problem. We’ve talked about it when it comes to weight loss resistance, it’s your fat burning hormone, leptin. You probably have a resistance to it. Your thyroid hormones, testosterone, growth hormone, these are also fat burning hormones. They’re just not able to work in your body.
One thing that we utilize (in addition to the intermittent fasting that I’ve talked about) is diet variation. Diet variation is a simple strategy that we utilize with great success. In essence, what we do is we have our patients eat less than 30 (and in some cases even down to 20) grams of carbohydrates a day. Depending on whether it works. If it doesn’t start working at under 30 grams, you might need to bump it down to under 20 grams a day.
You also want to have ample quantities of healthy fat. That’s going to be extra virgin olive oil, virgin coconut oil, the fats that are in the proteins that you want to eat in moderate amounts, grass fed beef, free range chicken, wild fish, things of that nature, free range eggs. It’s actually a little bit more fat, a moderate amount of protein, and a low carbohydrate diet.
You do that five days a week. That would be, as an example, it would be every day but Monday and Thursday, let’s say. You’re going to eat less than 30, maybe even 20 grams of carbohydrates a day, making sure that you’re getting enough healthy fat and you’re getting adequate amounts, moderate amounts of healthy protein. Then on Monday and Thursday, what you’re going to do is you’re going to boost your carbohydrate level way up to between 100 and even 150 grams of carbs a day. That diet variation takes you in and out of this ketosis type of situation where you have low carbs and then you bump it up with more carbs, you’ll find that the body will accelerate fat loss and keep you in a fat burning mode more effectively.
The thing about low carb for some of your thyroid patients is you don’t want to stay in low carbs because T4 has to convert to T3. If you’re in a low carb mode all the time, you very well may be impairing your ability to convert T4 to T3. That’s going to have a negative impact on you, too, in terms of energy and fat loss because the thyroid hormones are fat burning hormones, too.
This diet variation, low carb five days a week and higher carb two days a week, really does well for a lot of our patients. They’ll lose a lot of weight on those low carb days. You’re going to gain some water back on those higher carb days. Don’t freak out about that. That’s just your body latching onto water when you have carbohydrates, but it’ll go away in another day or two.
This is all about really just trying to reset your metabolism. This is one really effective way to do that. You have to make sure that you’re eating clean, though. You can’t be eating garbage on your high carb days. Let me take that back. Some of you actually could, but I’m not recommending that. We want to try to keep your carbs clean. Things like yams, sweet potatoes, and fruit. Those are the things that you can boost up on your higher carb days.
Give that a shot though. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised if you’re having trouble losing weight. Even throwing in the intermittent fasting with that right to where you are not eating after dinnertime until lunchtime the next time, trying to get 18 hours. If you can condense all of these things into a six-hour window, that’s even going to be a bigger boost for you. Combining the intermittent fasting with the diet variation. That’ll tend to jack up the results even more. Let us know how things go. We’d like to hear from you. If you liked this, pass this on to other people. We want to try to spread the message. We need your help in that regard.
I hope this helps.
Take care, guys. God Bless.
