Thanks Dr Cywes, my bridge is coffee and tea with a bit of heavy cream, and sparkling water. ☺️❤️ The basics NEVER get boring! Sugar is everywhere so any education, basic or advanced is always needed to keep us all on track.
It’s funny with fasting , I didn’t eat yesterday and went to bed feeling hungry and you wake up in the morning not hungry at all. Rob Cywwes keeps it simple.
“And I’ve never met a fat person who had a rough day and rushed home to pig out on Brussels sprouts.” I freaken love that line! Thank you for your work doc and for speaking the truth! 👍👍
Have to say, he’s never met me. I would get from from bad day of work and pig out on broccoli, zucchini, carrot and celery sticks. I weighted my usual amount one day after doc said that and it was more 70 TOTAL not net carbs.
There’s a Japanese word, loosely translated, that means “lonely mouth”....that’s a perfect description for why we snack..started using the Redmond’s electrolytes to keep my mouth company..it definitely helps.
I’m so glad you simplified all the crazy rules that seemed to have developed these last 2 years around the LC/Keto plans. When I switched to a Keto plan in 2017 there was no keto anything you could buy. Want a bread like food?: cloud bread was the only thing you could make. Fat bombs were your treat as well as 90 second mug cake. My keto journey has morphed drastically since 2017 and because I got cocky and thought I “could handle it”, I got sugar/carb addicted again and seriously have been struggling since Nov 2019. This time around, thanks to you Dr Cywes, I’m going to come at it in a totally different way: as a carb addict. Because I totally am! The high I get off carbs/sugar totally obliterates any logical thinking. I totally fall into the category of “I can handle it”, “it’s only one meal”, “it won’t matter”. My addicted brain takes over every evening. With your support and advice I know I can do it. Thank you for explaining addiction because until I found you and @kendberry I had no idea how addicted I truly was/am! ❤️
Dr. ROCKSTAR Rob, you're changing & improving the lives of so many people. I'm inspired, motivated and uttering impressed with your concise, no bullshit approach! 💪👏
Praise God for your information! I was ready to give up. However, I am being too strict on myself. Eating only carnivore, only 2 meals, and fasting for 18-20 hours. It's hard to do all that when you're very busy.
Hey, Doctor? I’m calling because I almost died of anorexia. I was a whopping 73 pounds in my hand knit socks… but it’s better now. I escaped the hospital, because they were force feeding me corn syrup and soy oil. Without the toxic crud, my reactive hypoglycemia became stable. I started eating yogurt and eggs, and plenty of gelatin, and a month later, I laid my daughter’s bridal shawl on her shoulders just before she walked down the aisle. I weighed 94 pounds that day, and I’m that now, but I’m still not five feet tall, so it works. I’m sure that carbohydrates are at least equivalent in dangerous, addictive substance abuse potential as alcohol. And all I can do is stay clear. I’m obviously allergic, and I’ve got two grand babies who need to learn to eat meat and cheese and bacon and eggs.
@@davidsalvador6031 Thank you. My doctors were convinced it was anorexia nervosa. Fat chance that in a woman that had tipped the scales beyond 16 stone (more than 225 pounds) a year before. When I changed my diet after surgery, all the toxic sludge in my fat began overtaxing my liver. I sure as had anorexia, but it was from a valid (billable, even) medical condition. Twenty years of donuts and black licorice, precisely. Funny, my new doctor actually respects my experience. He thinks it’s incredible I feed babies pork rinds with butter for dipping. And I teach them by eating it with them.
Your suggestion of a 0 calorie drink is great. When I feel hungry now, I drink some herbal tea. Maybe it is just me, but when I have cooked carrots or cooked corn, my blood sugar spikes and stays up for days, so I have to much more restrictive than you suggested. I look forward to day that I can eat vegetable freely again.
Low carb for 4 years and never counted carb, calories and any macros. Yet lost 40 lbs and keeping it off by eating 4 eggs almost every day, lots of avocado, bacon, steak.
I am one of those folks that overeats broccoli, cauliflower and Brussel Sprouts. I can't lose weight if I overeat them so I have to switch to carnivore when I need to lose weight. It's a volume issue I haven't been able to mentally overcome. Can you speak about why some of us struggle with "needing " large volume? Thanks for your videos!
@@randallwhite5947 thanks for the suggestion. I have seen it and he's right to start with what is filling but my challenge isn't about actual fullness. It's an emotional "need" for large quantities and since I don't want to gain my weight back I tend to use vegetables.
I new before starting my keto journey that I was addicted to veggies. I’d get home from stressful shift at home and pig out on broccoli, zucchini, carrots, etc. Thus when I started my journey I chose to weight ALL my veggies, greens and salad dressing. I usually keep under 15 TOTAL carbs a day. Doubt I’ll ever allow myself unlimited veggies.
@mayte m you might want to look into steak and butter gal group coaching level one which is priming for 2 weeks. It’s carnivore and 3 meals plus snacks…all carnivore. You gain but it’s very healing and gets you on track to start your desired plan.
Great timing of this video. Hubs and I started moving into Keto last Friday. My morning bridge drink is coffee but I am putting heavy cream into it because I just don’t like black. Headache from hell today so I actually drank some warm salt water tonight but I feel like an addict in withdrawal. I like your basic and simple instructions because I am struggling with the emotional side of this far more than the food, particularly wanting snacks. Considering the consult because I do have Graves in remission and don’t find a lot of internet info on Hyper as opposed to Hypo thyroid and Keto.
I went through the same thing when I started Carnivore. The "Keto Flu" is carb withdrawal. it can last between 1-2 weeks. With me it was a week and a half. as far as snacking goes up the fat in your meals some as well as protein. You will stay fuller for longer. Dr Cywes has a video about long ter high fat diet that I recommend you watch as it has a lot of good information. For me the best advice I got from Dr Cywes was to slow down when eating. It gives your body time to register the food you are eating and trigger the satiety hormones when you have had enough, He calls it not eating like a Rottweiler. Good luck and much success on you and your husband's Keto journey. It is worth it even if all you get out of it is getting rid of inflammation. Best of luck to you.
Something that helped me with the snack cravings was eating a small pat of cold, grassfed butter whenever the cravings appeared. If I was really craving sweets, I would put a tiny amount of cinnamon and Splenda on the butter. The cravings went away after 2 weeks.
@@jewelsbarbie I also do a pat or 2 of butter when I have a sweet craving. Ive been at this almost 2 years. I'm guessing they'll just pop up randomly and never truly go away. (The cravings)
A good reminder of the addiction model. I'm three years into this journey. I'm no longer no carb, but instead I'm no sugar/low grain. Once my bodyfat got to a normal level I started slowly adding grains back in. The point is that grains were not my trigger, it was sugar. I can eat small amounts of grain and stop. What I can't do is eat a small amount of chocolate or a cookie and stop. I'm also completely with you on 2MAD, that is critical for me.
Excellent. That's what I hated about keto when I first tried it a few years back and went on a lot of forums etc... it was all about weighing, measuring, counting and mealtimes turned from recipes to Einsteinesque formulae. I love keto/carnivore now as it really is so simple.
Dear Dr. Cywes My case, I am a 48 year old male, athlete, I do intermittent fasting 18:6 every day of the week (with some exceptions) and my diet is low carb, eating mostly nuts, fish (salmon), avocados, salads, chicken, eggs and dairy (cheese). My BMI is 23.5, my body fat is 13% and my visceral fat is excellent according to impedecia meters. In my last blood test (the previous one was 2 years ago and I was not fasting), my total cholesterol was 290 mg/dL (they did not differentiate between HDL, LDL and VLDL) and triglycerides at 180 mg/dL. I feel better than ever, energetically. I play beach volleyball and I have a lot of energy. In the analysis I observed that the Acetone in urine was 10mg/dL so I was in ketosis since I had been fasting for 20 hours when I did the analysis. Also the Urea was slightly high at 54 mg/dL. I believe that my triglycerides are elevated because my body is in ketogenic mode and uses them as its main source of energy and that is why they are elevated. The liver will be exporting VLDL and my adipocytes will be releasing triglycerides to the liver. I would like to know your opinion about this situation (High Total Cholesterol, TG, and Urea), but the truth is that my condition is better than ever. Thank you very much
My bridge drink is black tea with full fat coconut cream/milk. It’s so satisfying. Carb addiction is bloody awful. I’m doing carnivore now for about 3 weeks. I’m feeling like total crap. I have a lot of healing to do. Been sick with Hashimoto’s, now T2D. It’s time to stop the insanity. Everything you say is true. I worked in D&A rehab and abstinence is so necessary for us carb addicted. We can do this!
@@moxy9198 In comparison to all the people who are trying to figure out what’s healthy and what’s not, not to mention all of the health PROFESSIONALS who are overweight and either pre diabetic or diabetic also the dietitians who got it all wrong. I’m part of the few
I feel called out in regards to the snacking 😆 No issues sticking to a meat based diet, but not eating outside of lunch and dinner...yeah. Guilty as charged. Btw: if those brussel sprouts are oven roasted with bacon pieces....I will absolutely binge on them in the middle of the night, I'm that person. Not having anything in the house I shouldn't eat, for me includes even keto approved whole foods, if they're highly palatable. Like roasted meat. Can't ever cook meat for two days ...I'll eat that second portion late at night, more likely than not. And it's not, because I undereat at meals, I swear. I eat it because it's there and it tastes good and I'm possessed by demons or something. That's what it feels like, anyway. How people can do this, while living with carb eaters is beyond me. I would fail miserably, if I was constantly tempted like that. I tried using sugar free drinks and such as replacement, but it's hit and miss. Sometimes the distraction works, but often my obsession with food wins 🥴
He talks about process addiction and how addiction to carbs is both addiction to a substance and to a process, which drives snacking, even if on 'keto approved' foods. It's episode 168 (part of a series that starts in episode 167 if you have the time to watch both). As someone who can plow through a pound of broccoli without a thought, I empathize totally.
Decaffeinated coffee is the best. If caffeine is the goal, pill form is best as the person will have control over the amount of caffeine. Many coffee brands do not tightly control the caffeine levels in the product. Restaurants no don't offer caffeine labels as to the levels of caffeine.
Thanks Doc, for simplyfing the whole deal. Surfing for Gurus only makes me feel crap and bombarded with do not do this , but do this and btw here is a Keto bomb you should bye with my discount code. Keeping it simple makes clear choices, and if you need to tweak things a bit, your body will tell you❤️
Thank you for all the Information!!!!! Since 4,5 years ketogenlifestyle, since 4 months carnivore...... Feel good, but now.....since 2 days goat... Please could you make a Video how dont get this painful sh.t? Greatings from Germany northseaside 🍃
Please explain how something like squash, with the significant amount of carbohydrates and often considered a fruit, is ok to eat in your nutrition paradigm
How to support teen who using milk based drinks as an emotional bridge? 1/2 hot choc in the morn, berry smoothy after lunch, 1/2 hot choc after dinner. Not overweight. Wondering if I should cut them back and shift them to a herbal tea? This is the eldest child who seems most addicted to carbs, will bake low carb goodies. Which i allow to ‘normalise’ things for them. Don’t want to force them, so have been offering alternatives. Lunch and dinner are meat snd veg. Breakfast full fat greek yogurt and nuts. The eldest child won’t eat eggs. I hide them in keto waffles. Can you make a video for teens?
Love your video. Amén. YES, Keep it simple. Inspires me to start making videos. Very important to explain to the audience this video series is for the obese or metabolicly unhealthy patients. Context and content important. I have many patients that are required to eat 5,000 to 8,000 calories a day to grow or to sustain weight. Hard to eat all of that in two meals, they use 5 meals to get in all the food.
@@candaceion9622 well honestly a long list of men. Dr. Baker for example. Examples: look up Brian Shaw 10,000 calories a day diet. Eddie Hall 10- 12,000 calories a day diet when he was competing. Many guys try to put on mass for powerlifting. Check out 15 to 24 yr olds men who race pro motocross. 5,000 to 6,000 calories a day or they will loose too much weight. Many male off season bodybuilders eating 4,500 to 6,000 a day bulking diets. Carnivore Dr. Baker claims he eats 5 pounds of steak a day plus eggs. Therefore he would be eating in the range of 4,500 to 5,500 calories a day depending on the cut of meats. Dr. Baker is very well known in the carnivore / keto world. These are just a few examples of many. Hope that helps. Eat meat it does the body good : )
I always thought the hard part would be not to eat ice cream or cheese. They are my favorites. However, my cravings seem to be for French fries which is odd because I never really ate them. I see a picture of them and that's all it takes.
Have some already prepared bacon bits or pork rinds or something in your fridge, for these type of situations. Or a 'salami stick' thingy in your bag, as it may. If you're still flailing about, what you eat is much more important then when/how often/how much. In all likelyhood, your brain will quite readily accept a different highly palatable, salty food as substitute for the fries. For me, cheese works too, but I find I'm more likely to eat ridiculous amounts of that then of a meat based snack. And make sure to generally eat enough salt and maybe even take an electrolyte drink or something. More salt is often the answer to food cravings.
I’m in Australia. I have stopped taking statins due to their side effects. How do I find a cardiologist who will work with me and who will understand my bloodwork as I progress on Keto?
Sooooooo what I know as my truth. Doc had a video on starting. Weaning off carbs so not to have horrific keto flu. Anyone k ow what that video was. I can’t find it. Got to continue to work etc. ?????
Shout out to Six Miles to Supper. I will walk more than six miles at an easy pace on coffee and electrolytes, watching birds, sunset keeping cortisol low and then feel better about going over 20g carbs i.e. Super Bowl All things in moderation, even moderation....
