Hi, everybody, welcome to week two. This recording, we're going to talk about intermittent fasting and weight loss. So I wanted to start with with talking to you about how the body processes calories. The problem with low calorie caloric restriction diets and the reason that they don't work is that they assume that that all calories are created equal. And they don't really take into account how the body processes and stores different types of calories. So let's start.

I'm going to draw some things for you because you really exciting. So let's say that this is our house. And in our house, we've got a refrigerator upstairs in our kitchen. Here's our fridge. And so when we take in so we take in food into into our little system here. We've got three types of macronutrients, we've got carbs, we've got protein, and then we've got that okay.

So, carbs are converted immediately to glucose and that goes into the bloodstream and the body uses that the glucose immediately So, whatever energy needs you have immediately fat goes directly into the bloodstream and it is also used immediately as his as his protein. So, now, protein cannot be stored, okay. So, we use whatever protein we have is used immediately for whatever the energy needs are, and then excess protein is converted to glucose, just like carbs, fat is just either used immediately or stored as fat. Okay, so, so what happens is are these two things Things are, are in the form of glucose to carbs and an excess protein, anything that you can't use right away and then they are sent to our little refrigerator here. And this is our liver and they are stored in the liver as glycogen. Okay, so taking the food, we use what we need for our immediate needs for our energy.

And then what we don't use get sent to our liver and it is stored there's glycogen. Now our livers only got so much space like full fridge or kitchen it's only got so many shelves and so much room. So what happens then is, is whatever can't fit here in the fridge and the liver gets set downstairs to the basement. In the basement. We've got some deep freezers. These are my freezers.

And the thing about our basement is It's really big. And our basement can fit as many freezers as we need. It can just keep stacking the freezers and adding them in any freezers we need and what is in the freezers is fat. Okay, buddy uses what we need immediately what's coming in you are eating excess goes to the liver stores glycogen except for fat which goes straight down here the excess and then all the excess goes into the fat. And our body likes to use these things sequentially. So burn this first than the liver and then the meat goes to the fat.

But there's an added little hitch in the giddyap here, okay, and that is that our basement has a lock it the other way. Anyway, that's the lock on the basement. door, and this lock is insulin. So when we have insulin in our system, the lock, the basement stays locked. So the body can't get to the fat can't burn it. So even if you are eating a smaller amount of food and you get through everything in your fridge, if there's still insulin in your system, you still can't burn the fat.

So that's one of the reasons why a lot of times low calorie diets don't work because your body never gets to the fat because so many people are suffering from metabolic disorders that involve levels of insulin. So how does insulin play a role in our in our bodies, so the when we eat and We get the glucose in our bloodstream, our body. So we've got the, here's a cell, this cell, and here's our insulin. So the blood, it's got the glucose in it, our body creates insulin and says, Hey, so I'm sending you the signal, this hormonal signal that you need to open up and take some of this glucose because you're gonna I'm sending you this for energy. Okay? So open up, take some glucose, and then you got your immediate energy.

Well, when there's too much sugar in the blood, because we too many carbs, you can even know overeat protein, you're just over eating in general, constantly eating. Um, then what happens is, is you got too much blood sugar, so the body keeps sending insulin, sends more insulin sends more insulin tells the cells Hey, take more, take more, take more, take more, take more in yourself. Like, I can't do that. It's like we're getting full. It's like it's too much, too much. So what happens is cell start ignoring the signal, they start ignoring the insulin.

And so the body keeps sending more. Oh wait, the cells are ignoring us, we're gonna send more insulin more insulin. Okay, so now you have what is referred to as insulin resistance. And that is when you stop when your cells are completely ignoring the signal and your body keeps making more and more insulin. So now you've got probably high blood sugar, you've got too much insulin in your blood as well, which is keeping the basement door locked, so your body can't burn fat. So even if you're eating at only 800 calories a day and your fridge is getting empty, you're not taking any food.

Your insulin levels are still jacked up, and so your body can't get into the basement and burn fat. So that is my simplistic explanation of why low calorie diets don't work. Before I started the the recording I was trying to look up to see how many Biggest Loser contestants actually keep the weight off. And I think that the the number is actually pretty low. Most people who go on that sort of extreme low caloric diet, they they gain the weight back. And the reason is because long periods of low calorie of calorie restriction, lower your metabolism, okay, because your body, your body strives to have homeostasis, which is balanced, and it wants to keep things the way that they are.

And so when you have a long term period of caloric restriction, the body says, Oh my god, we're starving, and it slows down the metabolism to maintain homeostasis. The reason that this doesn't happen with intermittent fasting is for one thing because it's intermittent, because you have this period of fasting during which the body the body increases certain hormones so it increases adrenaline and energy. increases human growth hormone. And the reason it does that is to give you more energy, which increases the metabolism so that you can go out and look for food. Because again, the human body is designed for periods of feast and famine. I mean, that's just basically the way we are because again, we had to be able to survive winters and things like that were designed for it.

So it's used to going without, without food, still giving us energy, and then increasing the metabolism. So we have the energy to go out and get the food and that's what happens. That's what you simulate when you're doing the intermittent fasting. And so what happens is, you lower your insulin, okay, because you're not taking any food. You have emptied out the fridge, there's no insulin, and you completely open up this trapdoor and get in there and get to the fat stores. So that's how it works.

So That is the reason why these these constant low calorie diets like you know, Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig or I have a whole nother issue with Jenny Craig because I'm sorry, that's not real food that's just don't don't eat that crap. I'm sorry. Why these don't work for long term because you are eventually going to keep lowering and lowering and lowering your metabolism you have to get less and less calories. And because you keep plateauing and but eventually when you go back to eating the way that you were eating before you are going to gain the weight back. And I know I've done them all over my life. I'm 53 I don't know how many times I've done Weight Watchers I've done Jenny Craig a couple of times I lost weight initially and then again it all back because it it doesn't work long term.

And I had same thing I had insulin resistance. I mean, it took a while to get my body straightened out to where I was able to burn the fat. So let's see what was the other thing I was going to say about those The real food Okay, so in this week's handout, I talks a little bit about, you know, the importance of the quality of the food, right? So if you read the handout I talked about how, you know, carbs from from vegetables or you know, root vegetables are not the same as having, you know, a half a loaf of bread, okay? It's not all carbohydrates are not made the same. All proteins don't make the same all fast made the same.

It's really important that you eat high quality food and because your body your body doesn't recognize fake foods, okay, it doesn't. We are made of the same materials that natural foods from the earth are made up and our body knows what to do with those foods that are made in a laboratory. Our body doesn't recognize and so it doesn't know how to use them or what to do with them. So we're going to talk next week though a little bit more about clean eating and how to improve your diet and eat clean and I will give you some Some recipes and some tips and tricks on how I you know, make dinnertime healthy and easy and things that you can take for lunches or breakfasts. So we'll go into a lot of a lot of that next week on next week's video. So I hope you're all doing great.

I hope that you've gotten over some of those initial humps and if you have any questions or anything you want to discuss about this, please, please give me a call or send me a message on the Facebook group or an email. Okay, take care. Bye