Mindy Pelz I’m sure would beg to differ regarding fasting, she’s an expert in menopause. Many menopausal women are fasting and don’t need to snack late at night - I just don’t know what you’re talking about! Fasting is easy if you train yourself to do it, i.e. if you don’t eat carbs for a couple of days prior, and start with small fasts. You seem to be making a lot of assumptions that it’s inevitable if you skip breakfast, you will gorge yourself at night - I just find this so bizarre! Low carb eating and fasting have really improved my health as a peri menopausal/menopausal woman. I’m no longer overweight or pre diabetic, I have reversed symptoms of PCOS. I am not always very strict, and am not always low carb, but if I gain a little weight, I reduce the carbs again and I fast sometimes, but only on appropriate days in my menstrual cycle. Your insistence on breakfast and not fasting ignores our ancestral design of fasting/feasting and the well studied and proven healing benefits of fasting for a myriad of illnesses from mild to serious. You speak like fasting is a fad, when the healing benefits are undeniable and it has been practiced forever. Three square meals a day is the fad, surely! We weren’t doing that for millennia! I’m sorry about your mother’s diagnosis, which is devastating and heartbreaking. But that also brings to mind how studies have shown that dementia is “diabetes type 3” at least I’ve heard this repeatedly - and of course the best proven diet for diabetes is….low carb!! I agree with you about varying the exercise types, you’ve got to surprise your body, but I also believe that goes for feeding it - mix it up! Also, the circadian clock is important, and if you get up in the dark and break your fast you’re working against that, right? I agree with you about protein, we don’t get enough and it’s a tricky one. I don’t normally comment on videos but your video came up as a suggestion for me, I guess because I’m your target audience- but because I have been reading books and listening to a lot of podcasts for some time on this stuff, a lot of what you said goes against both what I’ve learned and what I’ve experienced and I was taken aback by some of it. Anyway, that’s my two cents. I hope you aren’t offended and can understand my point of view, and I wish you luck in your enterprise.
Thanks for sharing your experience. And clarifying that you don’t want to offend me because most people do 😆 I’m glad this has all been great for you and I don’t necessarily disagree that it works for people. But that’s just the issue with different diets and ways of eating is that everyone has a different experience that may or may not work for them. I could also find a study showing literally any diet working it just depends on what you are looking for. I coach like this because it is, in my opinion and *experience*, the best way to approach fat loss and health long term. Mainly because I don’t have my clients cut things out and restrict themselves - but I teach them how everything affects their body, how to eat for them, and how to keep the weight off without ever having to do anything like a diet again. It just turns into their new lifestyle. If it really gets down to the nitty gritty of it and the client I have needs low carb or fasting I’ll happily prescribe it. To say I am making assumptions, and that any specific way of dieting is THE best way - is just wrong. I read the studies, I understand everything you brought up, I understand the nuance from person to person. I’m super happy fasting and low carb works for you 🙌 all I want is for the world to fight back against obesity and disease - however that gets done.
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Really sorry to hear the news about your mum. Thank you for this video, what you are doing is amazing
Thank you for the kind message 🙌
Mindy Pelz I’m sure would beg to differ regarding fasting, she’s an expert in menopause. Many menopausal women are fasting and don’t need to snack late at night - I just don’t know what you’re talking about! Fasting is easy if you train yourself to do it, i.e. if you don’t eat carbs for a couple of days prior, and start with small fasts. You seem to be making a lot of assumptions that it’s inevitable if you skip breakfast, you will gorge yourself at night - I just find this so bizarre!
Low carb eating and fasting have really improved my health as a peri menopausal/menopausal woman. I’m no longer overweight or pre diabetic, I have reversed symptoms of PCOS. I am not always very strict, and am not always low carb, but if I gain a little weight, I reduce the carbs again and I fast sometimes, but only on appropriate days in my menstrual cycle. Your insistence on breakfast and not fasting ignores our ancestral design of fasting/feasting and the well studied and proven healing benefits of fasting for a myriad of illnesses from mild to serious. You speak like fasting is a fad, when the healing benefits are undeniable and it has been practiced forever. Three square meals a day is the fad, surely! We weren’t doing that for millennia!
I’m sorry about your mother’s diagnosis, which is devastating and heartbreaking. But that also brings to mind how studies have shown that dementia is “diabetes type 3” at least I’ve heard this repeatedly - and of course the best proven diet for diabetes is….low carb!!
I agree with you about varying the exercise types, you’ve got to surprise your body, but I also believe that goes for feeding it - mix it up! Also, the circadian clock is important, and if you get up in the dark and break your fast you’re working against that, right?
I agree with you about protein, we don’t get enough and it’s a tricky one.
I don’t normally comment on videos but your video came up as a suggestion for me, I guess because I’m your target audience- but because I have been reading books and listening to a lot of podcasts for some time on this stuff, a lot of what you said goes against both what I’ve learned and what I’ve experienced and I was taken aback by some of it.
Anyway, that’s my two cents. I hope you aren’t offended and can understand my point of view, and I wish you luck in your enterprise.
Thanks for sharing your experience. And clarifying that you don’t want to offend me because most people do 😆 I’m glad this has all been great for you and I don’t necessarily disagree that it works for people. But that’s just the issue with different diets and ways of eating is that everyone has a different experience that may or may not work for them. I could also find a study showing literally any diet working it just depends on what you are looking for.
I coach like this because it is, in my opinion and *experience*, the best way to approach fat loss and health long term. Mainly because I don’t have my clients cut things out and restrict themselves - but I teach them how everything affects their body, how to eat for them, and how to keep the weight off without ever having to do anything like a diet again. It just turns into their new lifestyle. If it really gets down to the nitty gritty of it and the client I have needs low carb or fasting I’ll happily prescribe it.
To say I am making assumptions, and that any specific way of dieting is THE best way - is just wrong. I read the studies, I understand everything you brought up, I understand the nuance from person to person.
I’m super happy fasting and low carb works for you 🙌 all I want is for the world to fight back against obesity and disease - however that gets done.