Questions To Ask Before Quitting on Keto Diet While there are many diets out there, no one can deny that the keto diet works for weight loss. While there might not be conclusive scientific evidence to declare its benefits and drawbacks, a significant number of people have dedicated their time to prove its effectiveness in losing body fat. However, this doesn’t necessarily mean that everybody’s getting the same results. A lot of people have posted reviews about how their efforts have been wasted along with weeks’ worth of time that they’re not getting back. It’s plausible that the weight loss benefits…

What follows is what most people, most of the time, probably outta concentrate on in order to see results with their health & fitness goals. 1. Stop Chasing Optimal There are so many detail rabbit holes that you could run down: What’s the optimal number of days per week to train? What’s the optimal set and rep scheme to follow? What about optimal exercise order and which exercises to includes? Etc. The list could go on ad nauseam.  Many many people get bogged down in what's optimal that they’re paralyzed to start. Optimal is can be synonymous with “perfect” and that’s pressure you DON'T…

Fasting is not always the most fun or easiest thing to do so I'm going to share with you 4 more tips on how to make it more enjoyable. So let's delve into these 4 intermittent fasting tips to help make the entire experience that much more enjoyable. Click the video below to watch:     1. Find a support group     As with other things in life, things are much easier when done in a group. We are social beings and we need that support so I encourage you to find the people you resonate with who you can talk to, problem solve…

Guest blog post from Amy Berger at Tuit Nutrition (www.tuitnutrition.com). It’s time to talk about scales, and the role they should or shouldn’t play in your low-carb/keto life. The dreaded scale. S-C-A-L-E. (Can a 5-letter word be a 4-letter word?) It’s downright tragic how a simple measuring device has come to dominate so many people’s emotions. Does the number you see there determine your mood for the day? Down a pound or two and all is well in your world, but up three ounces and all hope is lost? Don’t let an inanimate object control your mental health! Like any tool, a scale can…

Intermittent fasting is one of THE best strategies you can implement in improving your health hands down. I encourage it with all my clients whether their goal is weight loss, improving health, or reversing chronic disease. So let's delve into the top 3 intermittent fasting tips.  Watch the video below: Ok let's get into the top 3 intermittent fasting tips.     1. Stay hydrated     Even though you are fasting and can't technically eat, you CAN still drink water. A classic fast is water only, which you can do if you like. Staying hydrated helps the hungry to go down. However there are other…

I want to share with you the top 5 health tips…EVER!  Yes that’s dramatic and a bold statement but stick with me. I'm actually going to share with you the top WORST tips of all time and thereby share with you the top 5 tips.  So what are the MOST important health tips you should focus on?  Let’s find out.  Watch the video below: 1. Keep insulin normal This is probably THE most important of all the 5 tips as it has so many downstream advantages and benefits such as preventing a whole host of metabolic dysfunctions such as type 2 diabetes, insulin…

You were designed to eat a low sugar diet.  Eating too much sugar causes all sorts of damage (and aging) to the cells, tissues and organs in your body.  Your body has signs and symptoms to let you know you are eating too much sugar.  In this video I will share with you 11 signs your body is telling you you are eating too much sugar. Click the video below to watch: I want you to cut the sugar out so let's jump into this list of 11 signs you are eating too much sugar.     1. Weight gain     Now you most likely…

So the holidays are finally over (or at least for the most part) and you completely dropped the ball on your keto (psst so did I).  But it’s ok. I'm going to give you 7 simple steps to get back on track and pick up right where you left off with minimal damage.  Click the video below to watch:   Let’s discover the 7 steps to get you back on the keto wagon. 1. Forgive yourself We all did it so don't beat yourself up for one more minute.  Remember as I said earlier, I did it too.  I had cheesecake and more carbs than…

A month ago I shared the importance of lowering your blood sugar because high blood sugar is the major problem in type 2 diabetes and fat gain. BUT what if I told you that eating too many carbs could be causing your health problems even if your blood sugar is normal? It’s true! This is where insulin enters the picture. You’re probably used to hearing about insulin as a hormone that helps to lower your blood sugar. In fact, if you use insulin injections for type 2 diabetes, your doctor prescribed these for you for exactly this purpose because if he didn't, you could have…

Have you ever been told that you have to consume a lot of fat in general, and include coconut and MCT oils, specifically, in order to do a keto diet the “right way" and get into ketosis to burn fat? The truth is, in my practice and in those of my mentors, one of the most common reasons for people not losing weight on keto is adding lots of extra fat to foods, and eating more fat than they even have a taste for simply to fulfill whatever number a tracking app is telling them to get to.  A biggest mistake. …

Let's go through all of the symptoms of insulin resistance which is probably one of the MOST common health problems in the world today.  A recent study showed that 88% of Americans have at least one marker of metabolic syndrome which is defined as having any 3 of the following 5 signs:      1. High abdominal obesity     2. High blood pressure     3. High fasting triglycerides     4. Low HDL     5. High fasting blood glucose   Click the video below to watch: Think of it, 88% of Americans have at least one of these signs of metabolic syndrome.  Crazy eh!  I bet other countries such…

There are two pathways: the pathway most people take—the one that leads to more medicine, more debilitation, and dangerous consequences from type 2 diabetes. And then there’s the path I want YOU to take: the one that leads to less medicine, more zest for life, and TOTAL REVERSAL OF TYPE 2 DIABETES as well as other chronic health conditions. That’s right: you don’t have to “control” your type 2 diabetes and all the conditions related to it. You can reverse it completely (and the conditions related to it) and NOT HAVE IT ANYMORE. And the amazing part is, there’s really only one thing you…

When your goal is weight loss, the most important thing a way of eating has to do is…CONTROL HUNGER! You can’t stick to a diet that keeps you hungry all the time.  No one can.  It goes against basic human biology.  No amount of willpower or discipline can make you stick to a way of eating that leaves you physically uncomfortable. If you ever dieted to lose weight in the past, did you: Power through hunger all day only to dive head-first into junk food at night? Deal with constant, intrusive thoughts of food? Ignore the nonstop rumbling of your empty-feeling stomach? Plan your next meal…

So you decided to get healthy, you stopped eating those chips and drinking all the soft drinks, and stopped eating all the sweets and you really cut back on the saturated fat.  You started eating lots of fruits and vegetables, drinking fruit-filled smoothies once or twice a day because those are magically full of phytonutrients and good things for you.  The problem is, over time you haven't really lost any fat, maybe you've even put on some belly fat.  Also maybe you notice your bowels aren't behaving the way they are supposed to, your skin is flaring up and your…

This is going to be unique because we are going to talk about things that are disrupting your fat loss through your resistance training by such things as timing mistakes, supplement consumption mistakes and different things that you may not have considered. So lets delve into the 7 resistance training mistakes that are getting in the way of your fat loss and if corrected, I think you'll see some progress.  1. Rest periods too long You may have thought that by resting longer you would be able to lift more weight and thereby burn more calories. The problem is you actually don't…

Gluten is a group of proteins, typically two major proteins: gliadin and glutenin with gliadin being the most harmful. These proteins occur in many grain products. Humans don’t have the intestines to deal with gluten like a ruminant does such as a cow. Most, if not all, humans are not genetically made up to tolerate gluten. Sometimes the impact can be subclinical and at other times it can have a massive clinical impact. With the current state of grains and how they are hybridized and grown, we are not designed to tolerate these products the way they are.  Watch the video…

There are sources out there that will tell you that eating too much protein is bad for you.  Bad for your kidneys, bad for your bones, increases your risk of cancer among other things. This is not the case. I’m going to share with you 11 signs you are not getting enough protein and that increasing your protein needs to be prioritized. For most people, they are eating far too many carbs and not enough protein to build and repair their tissues. Every single part of your body from your bones to your brain to your muscles and to your kidneys…

What is the personal fat threshold?  It comes out of the medical literature and it basically refers to how fat you are capable of getting.  We ingest most of our energy in our diets from carbs and fat and then store energy in the form of triglycerides in cells called adipocytes aka fat cells. All of this fat we are carrying around we can use to run our metabolism whenever we don’t have access to food.  Watch the video below: When you eat fat, most of it is stored in your fat cells as mentioned above however some is burned along the way…

I believe there’s a big difference between losing fat in the short term versus staying lean for life. When you’re focused on a short term goal with a deadline—the most important thing is to reach your target. Obviously you want to do that in the healthiest manner possible, but many times we overemphasize pushing ourselves as hard as possible, using our discipline to restrict ourselves and do whatever it takes to achieve the results. Here are a few of the differences between short term and long term fat loss. Use some of these strategies whether you're in a maintain phase or when you want short…

What do you need to know about non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and how you can treat it. It’s important to know what this condition is and that its NOT related to alcohol consumption.  Now years ago non-alcoholic fatty liver disease didn’t exist cause anyone that had a fatty liver had it from excessive alcohol consumption. But then in the last century this started showing up on non-alcoholic drinkers, it even started showing up in teenagers and kids. Now the non-alcoholic causes of liver disease is more common than the alcoholic one. Watch the video below: The main underlying cause of this is consuming…