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The WHOLESTIC Method 30-Day Program is designed to help you shift from a sugar burner to a fat burner in three phases.
The first phase is our 5-Day Jumpstart Challenge to jump into a lower carbohydrate, moderate protein and higher healthy fat food plan to burn fat.
During the program, we also want to optimize the health by improving the function of the overloaded liver and improve performance in daily life by intermittant fasting.
What is our main nutritional goal?
The main nutritional goal is not necessarily get into ketosis but to focus on becoming metabolically flexible – burn fat as main fuel but burn sugar as need.
As a Nutritional Therapist, we coach clients to eat real, nutrient dense whole foods in the right macronutrient ratio (fat, protein and carbs) to balance the blood sugar. We want to avoid the insulin surges that come with eating a high carbohydrate body and teach your body to depend on burning quick energy (kindling vs. logs for fueling the fire), put you on the blood sugar roller coaster and create addictions (dopamine high). We want to burn fat and cause less stress on our body (liver, pancreas and liver) by eating more healthy fats along with clean grass-fed, wild caught protein and colorful, organic non-starchy carbohydrates
We want to eat more healthy fats, opposite as we were taught growing up, to feel full and satiated for hours. When we eat more fat, moderate protein (as protein can be converted into glucose) and lots of organic vegetables, we can balance our blood sugar and metabolize fat for fuel. How do you know if you are eating right for your metabolic type to burn fat and not sugar?
Well we want to measure our blood glucose and ketones for the 30-day program (or longer if needed) to learn about our metabolism and carb tolerance. Everyone is a bio-individual, so what I can eat to burn fat and ketones will vary. As I keep sharing in my podcast, THE WHOLE TRI-ATHLETE each week. we need to address the other elements of THE WHOLESTIC METHOD when striving to become a fat burner, lose weight, balance hormones, improve the aging process and performance gains in our fitness level.
What does that include?
Well we dive into each of the eight elements in my group and individual coaching plan to learn different tricks to improve each element (“bio-hacks”) or you can read more in The WHOLESTIC Method Manual and Workbook.
While you are testing your blood glucose and ketones each morning fasted and after your main meal (OMAD in the 5-day Jumpstart!) using a meter as KETO MOJO seen here.
1. Digestion
We need to work on improving and prioritizing our health from the inside out as eating good nutrient dense foods is essential (“you are what you eat”) but we need to be able to DIGEST and ABSORB our foods. Especially if you are switching to adding lots of good fats into your meals, well you may need to add a digestive aid to help breakdown the fats.
2. Stress
Every stress response is a blood sugar response. Even though I am doing the intermittent fasting to help my blood sugar levels and teach my body to burn fat along with eating a high fat, moderate protein and low-carb food plan… if I continue to have emergency “threats” ongoing or chronically (inside and outside the body) leading to HPA Axis dysregulation, I will continue to increase my blood sugar levels without eating sugar/carbs! STRESSORS must be addressed and managed.
Some stress is good as we know by creating the hormetic stress response but as I say in my LIFE IS NOT A RACE book: TOO MUCH OF ANYTHING leads to chronic and toxicity and TOO LITTLE OF ANYTHING leads to deficiencies. Find your tipping point of how much stress is good stress for you without overloading the beaker of stress that will lead to a domino effect of internal dysfunction of the body systems.
Learn from my story and my experiences.
You can reduce one main stressor now by switching to a food plan that balances your macronutrients to avoid the insulin surges (overloading/stressing the liver, pancreas and adrenals from excess carbohydrates) and breakdown stored body fat for fuel. Lose weight- feel better on the inside and out by eating right for your metabolic type.
Start by ordering a KETO MOJO testing kit to do your own self study or “bio-hack” to become a fat burner.
“Carbohydrates are neither “good” nor “bad,” they are just a class of molecule where carbon is attached to water. They can be used as an effective source of energy or become a toxic substance, if abused. Throughout most of human history, they were a luxury item only available in warmer months. Something most people fail to realize is that in history, carbs helped us gain valuable body fat in preparation for times of lower carbohydrate availability. We’ve known for generations that high carbohydrate intake increases insulin response and causes our fat cells to store fat. This means excess sugar and highly processed carbs cause fatness.” (Dr. Anthony Gustin)
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