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let’s talk about the best trick or or

way or method of finding out if someone

is cheating on their diet now there’s a

lot of weight loss programs out there

that have cheat days built into the

program and I think that’s a mistake

because it’s going to severely affect

the results because once you start it’s

really hard to stop that being said I

was the worst of the worst okay as far

as cheating on my diet it took me years

before I started to be consistent and

have discipline now I have very good

discipline but in the past it was

terrible I would sort of do it go off go

on go on until I basically really hit

bottom I think it’s good sometimes to

experiment to go off the program just to

see how your body responds so you

finally hopefully sooner than later can

be convinced that being on the program

is the best thing I just like how I feel

when I’m on the program consistently

versus off the program now when I have

my clinic there’s a had a lot of people

coming in that would would cheat on the

program they would initially come in

saying well the program’s not working

I’m not getting results so I had to kind

of pull out of them

you know maybe potentially cheating on

the diet but without making him feel

guilty or bad about it so I would very

gently ask them

is there anything that you’re eating

that maybe you shouldn’t be eating and

initially they would just say no I’m on

the program exactly well I did have a

little bit of potato chips but they’re

organic or I did have some wine but it

was only a little bit I remember there

was a Whole Foods uh right next to my

office for a period of years and I would

shop in there a lot and one time I was

at the salad bar and I was looking

through the glass at a

patient um in the bakery section and I’m

just watching her she kept going past

these free samples these free brownie

samples

until finally she was looking to the

left looking to the right and grabbed

one and ate one and then we happened to

connect our eyes connected and she

quickly her face turned red she turned

around and started bolting

in a different direction so I had to run

after her and say listen it’s totally

okay don’t worry about it I think uh the

goal is to create enough Health in your

body

be out of the danger zone to the point

where you can go off the program when

you want to temporarily and go right

back on because you have control over it

I think that would be the goal but

there’s a really good scientific way to

know if someone has gone off the program

and by going off the program on talking

about eating carbs and sugar testing

your blood sugars is not the best way

because it only tells you what’s

happened the day before or the day of

but checking the A1C can give you an

average of three months of ingestion of

carbohydrate or the absence of eating

carbohydrates

what does A1C it’s a test that measures

how much glucose is stuck to the protein

in your blood and so the more sugar that

you have in your body the higher

percentage of your hemoglobin is

affected or exposed to glucose so we

really want this A1c

percentage to be below

5.7 because if it’s even like 4.4 your

blood sugars are like roughly around 79

or 80 which is really good but if your

A1C is like 4.0 your blood glucose

levels are running around 65. now you

might say that well that’s hypoglycemia

abnormal well when you cut out sugar

from the diet your blood sugar levels

will start going down and down and down

in the 60s and that’s normal because you

don’t feel bad from that but the bottom

line is you want your A1c to be below at

least 5.7 when they start getting above

5.7 you go into what’s called a

pre-diabetic range or your blood sugar

is oscillate between like 117 and up to

like 124 137 and then when the blood

sugars get like in the 140s your A1C is

going to be around 6.5 that’s diabetes

and I’ve seen people have A1C like 11.

so it can go really high and the higher

it goes the more complications you have

from diabetes and I’m talking about the

the four big ones are complications to

your eye

complications to the inside of the

arteries around the heart complications

to your kidneys and complications to

your brain and nerves okay at the bottom

of your feet become a problem like numb

pain burning things like that and then

you start getting uh what is that um

memory problems dementia and the other

thing to know is that if you’re anemic

or you’re on certain medications or you

have other body problems like organ

problems kidney liver that can make your

A1c

higher than it is despite not eating

sugar so it can alter the results the

other thing to know is that if you’re a

diabetic okay it’s initially harder to

bring this A1C in blood glucose level

down to normal why because the pancreas

has been working really really hard and

chances are you only have like 50

percent of the cells that make insulin

look at the beta cells and so if you

can’t make enough insulin on top of

having insulin resistance which is

basically a deficiency of insulin in the

cells you don’t have that full magnitude

of that push down blood sugar effect

from insulin so the glucose level kind

of stays a little bit High because of

that on top of that your liver is making

a lot of new sugar and that’s what

happens in diabetes

it’s one of the reasons why the blood

sugar level is so high if you’re not

eating sugar because the body is making

sugar and you’ll see it higher in the

morning and it’s called a dawn phenomena

and that’s because of this thing called

gluconeogenesis the production of new

sugar so just realize that if you’re

diabetic and it’s not coming down to

normal right away just give it more time

keep working on it it’s just going to

take some time it could take weeks

months

usually not a year but I’m going to show

you at the end of this video how to

speed things up that being said one of

the best indicators to know if if the

program is working if you’re in ketosis

by lowering your carbs if you’re not

cheating and you’re keeping your blood

sugars really level for a longer period

of time loss of appetite basically means

you’re burning fat is the best like

indicator to know that you’re doing the

right things if someone were to come

into my office when I was in I practiced

and say it’s not working and I have

cravings and I’m still hungry then I

know their sugar levels are too high so

I don’t even need to do the A1C but a

common confusion I think with a lot of

people is this all it takes is a little

bit of carb

okay or sugar to bump you out of ketosis

for a good amount of time for a couple

days two or even three days and I’m

talking about even a half a glass of

wine or a couple pieces of bread now why

is that

because you don’t just go out of ketosis

and go back in real fast it’s easy to go

out of ketosis but it takes especially

in the beginning

period of two days or longer to get into

ketosis

so

this cheat day

kind of really knocks you out of the

program

for a good amount of time

so you can imagine if someone’s cheating

every other day or every third day

the progress they’re going to make not

that great especially if someone is a

diabetic or pre-diabetic or has bad

insulin resistance

and they’re having a hard time losing

weight which is the great majority of

the population if someone is a diabetic

they should also know

this is important if they’re struggling

keeping this blood sugars down having a

lower A1C lower blood glucose and coming

off carbs and sugar

they should also at the same time

consume a good amount of nutrient-dense

foods

foods with phytonutrients

um supplements that come from natural

sources like a natural B1 or natural

sources of vitamin C things like a

turmeric nutrient dense vegetables the

phytonutrients in these Foods all can

help reduce the complications of

diabetes so even now their blood glucose

is high they can at least protect

themselves against all the side effects

of diabetes and hopefully over time use

less of the medication which sometimes

has more side effects than the actual

disease itself and also a blood glucose

test

measures the effect of glucose on the

blood okay most sugars like table sugar

honey even high fructose corn syrup

has about a 50 50 split between 50

glucose and 50

fructose and just a small amount of that

fructose affects your blood sugars

it destroys the liver and it acts like

alcohol

but as far as your blood sugars it won’t

increase it very much it’s the glucose

in that table sugar so I just wanted to

point that out because certain sugars

have more fructose than others of course

high fructose corn syrup is kind of a

synthetic processed type of sugar

without all the phytonutrients it’s the

most deadly but there is one more sugar

that’s even more deadly than that and

that would be this agave syrup which is

a refined product because it has 85

percent of it is fructose and that’s

going to go right to the liver it’s not

going to affect your blood sugars too

much but it’s going to grow to your

liver and really uh create a fatty liver

and the liver deals with fructose the

same as alcohol now when someone comes

off sugar completely okay and they’re

not eating hardly any carbs at all why

is it that your blood sugars will always

be a certain level why don’t they just

come down to zero well you need certain

sugar for certain functions any of that

Sugar can be easily made by the liver

okay from other sources it doesn’t have

to come from the body so your body will

always have a certain amount of sugar in

the blood the problem is realizing that

the average person consumes way way way

too much sugar in fact if we take a look

at normal sugar which is roughly about

80 milligrams per deciliter that’s like

one teaspoon of sugar which is like four

grams of sugar and all of your blood at

one time so if you don’t have any sugar

your body makes it if you have too much

and you test your sugar and it’s normal

what that means is the background is

insulin is working really hard to yank

that Sugar out and putting in its

storage it can actually it’s raising

your bad cholesterol it’s making your

liver fatty so testing your blood

glucose doesn’t really tell you anything

about what’s happening with insulin too

much okay at least initially and it also

doesn’t tell you about those cheat days

in the weekend because if you do really

good during the weekday and then you go

off on the weekends and you only test in

the weekday you’re not going to see the

whole picture one point I want to make

about hypoglycemia low blood sugar when

you think about low blood sugar you

might think it could be caused by not

eating sugar

no it’s caused by eating sugar because

what control sugar is insulin and

insulin is too high and it’s pushing

your blood sugars down in summary number

one start consuming a good amount of

phytonutrients or nutrient dense foods

from your existing diet we call that the

healthy version of the ketogenic diet to

decrease the complications of these

blood sugars okay number two apple cider

vinegar is really good to take in water

diluted through the day to speed up the

process of correcting this insulin

resistance another really good remedy

would be berberine it’s equivalent to

like taking metformin but without the

side effects so start to be more strict

if you want to go off the program go

right ahead just use it as an experiment

to see how you feel and hopefully you

won’t take as long as I did to

eventually have discipline but give it

time to work because it will happen now

if you haven’t seen my very popular

video

on blood sugars

that has gotten millions of views you

should check that one out I put it up

right here