Top Highlights

• Fasting enhances health and leads to weight loss in ways that are unrelated to a calorie deficit. Instead, fasting triggers shifts in metabolic and hormonal pathways that bring balance back to the body and allow it to maintain a healthy weight more easily, naturally. In short, you can get healthy so that you can lose weight, instead of trying to lo...
• So, why is this a problem? Well, because fasting is literally encoded in our genes, our bodies have evolved to perform certain functions in times of feast and times of famine. For example, autophagy—which is when your body cleans house and recycles dead and damaged cells and proteins—is triggered during periods of time without food. After about 8 t...
• Metabolic flexibility is the body’s ability to adapt and use whatever fuel is available to it. If you’ve eaten recently, that fuel is glucose (the sugar that’s in your blood). If it’s been a while since your last meal (or all your blood glucose has been used up), that fuel is stored fat.
• Week 1 = Reset: In Week 1, I’ll introduce you to a basic beginner fasting plan that helps you reset your body so you begin to rely on fat for fuel and establish a foundation for metabolic flexibility. Week 2 = Recharge: In Week 2, you’ll be doing moderate fasts with a focus on recharging your metabolism to start regaining the metabolic flexibility ...
• In short: When you are eating non-starchy vegetables, avocados, low-fructose fruits, nuts and seeds on the Ketotarian plan, count net carbs. If you eat processed, boxed foods (even the healthy ones) or any foods other than real whole food, count total carbohydrates.