If I eat Breakfast, I eat MORE OFTEN that day! Eating breakfast triggers me to hunger more throughout that day!!! I am eating KETOGENIC mostly fatty meats diet. Postponing the first meal… helps me eat less often. God Bless You!
@JanJazTI've found always have cooked meat handy really helped with the binging. If a desert my roommate has is easier to eat than something filling, I'm going to fail that day if I get a snack attack.
I can't watch DeLauer anymore. I learned so much from him when he was Keto and such, but his opinion changes with every study he reads anymore. This is true, but this is true, now this is true, but this is the real truth. It's actually quite frustrating. I have a hard time getting even 5 minutes into any of his videos anymore, which is why I've pretty much stopped watching him unless he's interviewing Chaffee or somebody like that.
Can't agree with you more! His views change as frequently as the weather; He also cannot interpret the studies - he has NO training in statistical inference, so he just reads the abstract and conclusions and accepts them as gospel. When new studies come out, I watch Prof. Bart Kay, because he IS trained in statistical inference, and he analyses the RAW data. Guess what they almost NEVER align with the study conclusion, and almost all of the time, the data is RUBBISH! I stopped following him almost two years ago.
Eating later in the evening can prolong blood sugar spikes and therefore increased insulin levels. Check out Dr. Ben Bickmans new book "how not to get sick" It's all about insulin resistance and dietary scheduling. You might enjoy it.
Your first meal of the day is your breakfast no matter the time. In fact, fasting means "not eating." But the sake of this conversation, your last meal of the day is your dinner whether is at 12 PM, 3 PM, 7 PM, OR 10 PM.
@@CristianDiaz-p5gmy understanding is there are very real time related reasons for eating when the sun is up or when sun is down. I think everyone is different in terms of habit and even biology, but I think evolutionarily there is something to the time of day we eat. Having said that, most people cannot tell when they are hungry….I dont like to eat before 10 each day, prefer to eat only twice a day and have last meal by 7 when my metabolism naturally begins to slow down.
first of all I'm really glad to see that you have gotten sponsorships it's about time because it's well deserved because you are truly one of the few totally trustworthy doctors out there
For the past 20 years, I've only had one meal aday. I have no idea why I got into this routine, maybe just laziness on my part. I was always ill in and out of the doctors. Last November, I saw a video on UA-cam about carnivores. I've been on carnivore since last November, and I've lost 3 stone. All my ailments have gone, and I'm putting on muscle mass. I'm still eating one meal aday but now I'm eating the right food, fatty meat diary and fish. I'm 57 and thought my life was over. Now it's just beginning.
The fatty meat is the part that a lot of people don't understand about these diets. They are still living under the "eat lean meat to be healthy" mantra of yesteryear when they should be eating the fattiest meat they can find. I eat some turkey hot dogs to break my fast at around 12PM, and I add a bunch of beef tallow on top to make them even more fatty. Delicious, nutritious, and it packs so much fat that I remain in ketosis with ease until around dinner time. Sometimes I eat carbs around dinner time, so only eating a fatty breakfast helps to keep me in that fasted state as long as possible.(preferably to just consume fatty meat for dinner though!)
I eat a low carb diet with 2 meals a day in an eating window between 8a.m. and 4p.m. It works beautifully for me. On the few occasions that I’ve eaten later, I found that I didn’t sleep as well as I usually do.
Mine is 06.30 a.m. and anywhere from 12.30 p.m. to 02.30 p.m. Very rarely I eat dinner around 9.00 p.m. just before lab blood draw for glucose test annually. My sleep is not affected even if I eat late.
I find it is different for me. If I go too long before bed without eating, I have acid reflux and stomach pains. I need to eat about two hours before bed, but it needs to be something small in the ballpark of about 100 to 150 calories.
If I eat first thing in the morning, I am ravenous all day. Fasting works for me. I’ve been doing this all my life. My mom would try and force me to eat before I went to school, but I just refused. I wasn’t hungry until lunch. I was fit and healthy. I am 70 years young.
I've been on OMAD for about a month, and while I agree it has health benefits, what I really like is the logistics: Who wants to do the dishes, clean the kitchen, and decide what to eat 3 times per day? OMAD saves SO much time.
Now that I know fructose in fruit is bad for your liver like alcohol, I eat even less of it. Veggies have oxcilates in them causing oxcilate dumping when starting carnivore we cut back on veggies. Obviously your body doesn’t like oxcilates from green veggies and salad or it wouldn’t dump it. Now we eat 5 times more eggs and bacon than we did before. Of course we eat more beef, pork, and seafood. The extra fat fills you up and is good for you, much better than carbs. Sometimes we just have meat for dinner and no sides or just one side. We eat 1 to 2 meals a day skipping breakfast except on the weekends. Less sides, cooking eggs, and since there isn’t a need for variety, lunch and dinner is easy to prepare. We have fewer leftovers and much less wasted food. It takes less time to prepare and clean up, plus since meat fills you up more than veggies, our grocery bill is less eating 4 times more meat than we did before. Most of me and my wife’s health issues have healed in 4 months. Stopped eating sugar/cokes and use xylitol. Yea, fewer dishes, easier to cook, cheaper, and our health issues way better and we feel great!
I don't do OMAD anymore, I found that it had many great effects but it also slowly accumulated stress. I love it when I love it, I hate it when I hate it. I only cook 2-3 times a day but eat 2-3x a day. I don't get the loggistical benefits of OMAD. I actually find it less practical because of the time constraints.
*cook 2-3 times a WEEK I have a total of roughly 3 years of OMAD experience and 6 or more with deliberate intermittent fasting. As dr cywes says, get your metabolism to the point where you instinctively do intermittent fasting, rather than enforcing intermittent fasting. Heard him say that yesterday and I couldn't agree more, it's how I've been doing it without even thinking about it.
I do eat breakfast, but I call it my first meal of the day. It depends on how I feel. Sometimes I eat at 10:00 am, but some days I might not eat until 1:00 pm. I just listen to my body.
Here's a ChatGPT summary: - Dr. Eric Westman discusses a recent study comparing intermittent fasting and caloric restriction, noting that both yield similar results. - The study in question was the first clinically supervised controlled feeding trial in humans, focusing on time-restricted feeding with a six-hour eating window. - Participants were given enough calories to maintain their weight, with a diet consisting of 50% carbohydrates, 30% fat, and 20% protein. - The study found improvements in insulin sensitivity, beta cell function, and pancreatic function over a five-week period. - A decrease in reactive oxygen species, which are linked to aging, was observed, suggesting potential longevity benefits. - Appetite decreased among participants, even though they were consuming the same amount of calories needed to maintain their weight. - The study demonstrated that more aggressive fasting (e.g., a six-hour eating window) yields more significant benefits than shorter fasting periods (e.g., 14-hour fasts). - Dr. Westman emphasizes the importance of considering macronutrient breakdown in studies and suggests that a low-carb diet could enhance the benefits of intermittent fasting. - Main message: The study highlights the potential health benefits of more aggressive intermittent fasting, such as improved insulin sensitivity and reduced oxidative stress, while maintaining weight with a balanced macronutrient intake.
I found that Thomas Delauer has followed the same path as others in the Keto/Low Carb space "influencer" space. They have to keep shifting their positions to keep up with the news cycle and generate traffic. The sponsorship and affiliate money dries up if they don't keep producing new videos. That means a never ending need for new content and revising previous positions. Dr. Westman is an exception and his positions have remained consistent and clinicial outcome experience based. But also why Delauer has 3.75M followers.
Same. Even as a schoolkid (in the '60s), if I had a boiled egg for breakfast - pretty much no carbs - I wasn't really hungry at lunchtime. But if I had the usual cornflakes, I'd be ravenous by lunchtime. Having learned about autophagy, I happily skip breakfast now!
I came across your channel today Dr. Westman and I really like your opinion and easy way of explaining low carb. I first heard of low carb diets from Dr. Atkins years ago. My difficulty was yo-yo dieting with low carb diets. I hope to do the keto/intermittent plan now. I seem to struggle with 20 lbs ! I subscribed today and will follow you so that should motivate me. Thank you for your help.
I am 76 I started IF 4 years ago, 18/6, at the same time I started cold water and breath work. Today, I am without knee pain, I have dropped 3 dress sizes, my body is incredible not only for my age but for a much younger age. I have looked after myself since I was a teenager but honestly, this is a game changer. I don’t eat until late afternoon and usually have 1 meal a day. Very low carb and absolutely no low fat anything. I also make L. Reuteri and yogurt. Look after the microbiom 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧❤❤
Keto's superpower is controlling the hunger hormones. Enjoying one meal a day plus a monthly 72 or 96 hour fast is my current working strategy. Trying to fast without ketones was a huge struggle but the benefits of keto and fasting far outweigh any temporary discomfort.
Back when I was carb adapted, eating breakfast did make me hungrier all day but now that I eat mostly fat and protein, I am more satisfied during the day and rarely think about food.
Yes, eating breakfast makes me noticeably more hungry and leads me to eat more all.day.long. Recent move from long-term ketovore to meat-only carnivore.
Thank you Dr Westman. I didn't take breakfast from my youth because I didn't have appetite the morning till lunch time, BUT when for a very rare and special occasion I was eating a breakfast it was triggered my appetite and I was eating way more those days.Thanks God, I'm on keto/carni now and OMD; it's wonderful (58 yo W, weight loss 21kg, pain of arthrosis finished, better memory, better sleep, rarely fatigue in the day and so on) Love from France.
As a lifelong emotional eater I'd like to share my plan and experience that helped me to be successful. First and foremost you have to redefine the word diet to mean this is what I eat. I have incorporated 16/8 fasting which has been integral because the challenge for me has always been nighttime snacking. 5 days a week I fast dinner and weekends I fast breakfast. The key in my opinion is to make your "diet" repeatable. Ask yourself, can I do this for a lifetime? My basic fitness approach has been low carb with daily exercise and regular weight lifting. It's not the getting fit that matters most it's the staying fit.
I've been doing intermittent fasting seriously for about 8 weeks! I aim for 23 to 24 hours then eat for one hour and repeat! So far I've lost about 20 lbs and feeling so much lighter! I think intermittent fasting is good for one's health mentally and physically! Godspeed to all on their health journey!
I follow low carb (Dr Robert C. Atkins) for many years and I/F 16/8. During my 8 hour window I have breakfast, lunch and dinner. I'm at my goal weight and maintaining.
When I was a carb burner breakfast used to make me hungrier all day long. I used to buck the science and skip breakfast to avoid this annoying problem. Now that I am a fat burner I only get hungry after a 72 hour fast. They say don't eat unless you are hungry but I eat because the food is going to taste wonderful and make me feel happy
Eating breakfast makes me hungrier the rest of the day. I practice 16/8 time restricted eating and try to stay under 50 total grams carbs a day. I eat mostly meat, certain vegetables and low carb fruits.
I eat in the morning. Sometimes I have a second meal around noon or 1pm. I don't like eating in the afternoon or evening. I don't find that morning meals make me hungrier. It's so nice not to have to spend so much time eating multiple meals every day.
I'm mostly carnivore with a bit of veggies. I started with a Berg style keto with lots of salad and have toned down to where I am now. the Intermittent fasting only worked when I kicked carbs to the curb. Now, I only eat after I exercise for the most part. Days off from working out I only eat once a day.
@@kenswanston820for me, even non “prepared” carbs, high starch like potatoes, rice, corn, etc, can gradually make me want more. Doesn’t happen instantly, but once I allow them back in my diet more, I start slipping & gradually eating more and gaining more
I've been 18/6 for about 3 weeks now. I'm waiting to weigh but I've lost almost 4 inches on my waist and my arthritis is responding positively. I can't wait to see the big picture in the future
I not only get hangry and annoyed by lunch time if I eat breakfast, it also makes me feel like crap. Especially if I'm performing physical tasks. All I want to do is go home and nap.
Good news about fasting. Good for folks who want to eat more healthful carbs. Apparently they could still improve Insulin resistance & reduce appetite even at 50% carbohydrate 👍
Same, I unsubscribed from him, not because he didn't have some quality information at one time, but I feel he has now fully embraced the quality of content over quality and some sort of unified presentation of information. Then, I changed my life with IF. So now I am supposed to believe that it is useless and, "over?" I haven't missed him. edit: Also, I keep my carbohydrates quite low. I feel most IF people have come to understand the need for this.
Can you explain how to read a Cleveland Heart Lab report to determine if ldl is small dense or large fluffy? Had to fire my cardio doc because he would not explain it and wanted me on a PCSK9 med 👎🏼👎🏼
@@jamesphasman3922 I read (actually listened to, as it was an audiobook) an amazing explanation by Robert Lustig in his book Metabolical. It was one of the two sections that he said he understood if people skip due to its level of technicality. The other one was the deepest levels of biochemistry in the cells, down the the mitochondria. One of the most amazing books I have ever experienced. Anyway, I obviously can't replicate it here, but there's a start, anyway. He does a lot of UA-cam interviews, maybe he has described it there? There is also Paul Mason with Low Carb Down Under. Now there's an underrated doctor.
This is a great & interesting topic and thanks to Dr Westman. I've listened half way in & haven't learned much. If the host would avoid using ambiguous words like "this" or 'that" and summarize either at the beginning or at the end would be very helpful for the audience. Thanks again.
Love your analysis! I'm 78, very youthful, no gray, been told I appear to be in my 40's. I eat one small piece of meat at 5 a.m. Then at 9 am I eat a protein with a very large salad or veg. From time to time at 9am I will trat myself to a protein and potatoes and gravy or two small pieces of pizza. I Wii have homemade stir fry with a bit of rice. In this manner I do not feel deprived . Icon everything at home It is not often that I feel hungry, but Ivam ready to enjoy my second meal. I have been taking food supplements 3xs per day since I was 18. No facial wrinkles!!!
I was dirty carnivore for about 9 months but for the last 3 months been 100% carnivore usjng the 16/8 regime.. my blood pressure is now approaching normal, glucose level always around 90 (5.0) weight down 9kg, no more aches and pains, gout gone.. no idea about my bloods but sure do feel soooo much better..
After spending nearly 6 months so far eating keto in a 6 hour window ( I choose to eat from Noon to 6PM) and OMAD once per week, I'm shocked that anyone would want to eat 50% carbs in one day. I limit my carbs to 20 grams per day and sometimes daydream about eating 50 or 100 carbs one day when all this body fat is gone.
If I eat a high carb breakfast, I want to eat more. If I skip breakfast all together, I want to eat more throughout the day. So, I do eat a low carb breakfast. I have 2 scrambled eggs, 1 slice of turkey bacon on a low carb bagel, and this keeps me satisfied until lunch. Which sometimes I am not even that hungry.
I find I'm not hungry until late afternoon, that is IF I don't put the first bite in my mouth. If I have just a bite of something at noon, then I am hungry, if I just drink coffee or tea or water I can easily go to 2 or 4 before feeling hungry.
Personally, what I have noticed, in regards to weight loss specifically, is there is almost a parabolic effect of the amount of weight lost, with the longer the fast is. I'm talking that a 23 hr fast gave me massively better results than a 16 hour fast.
@@LNCMD2023 I trade stocks every day, so I was loosely using it in that manner with this definition (from Wikipedia)." In commodities and stock markets: Parabolic SAR - a chart pattern in which prices rise or fall with an increasingly steeper slope." So basically what I meant was the longer I fast, the more weight I lose at an increasingly faster rate.
I attended a presentation that promoted three meals and two snacks per day. I told the facilitator that was too much for me, that I am rarely hungry. She told me it was a defense mechanism of my liver because my liver thinks I am starving. I thought I would give it a try. The first few days were hard because it seemed like I always had to eat. Ten o’clock already? Ugh. Noon? Have to eat again? Ugh! The next few days were easier. I was starting to gain unwanted weight. It then got to the point I was always hungry. Come on ten o’clock, I am starving! Come on noon, I need to eat! With some effort I was able to revert to eating as before, and I like it that way.
Took you class. Studied a lot (Taubes, Bikman, Lustig, et al) Never eat before noon - just not hungry. The biggest issue is a small amount of food craving in the evening. Otherwise, just not hungry. Live in the Raleigh area and about to suggest to a friend that he makes an appt with you.
It seems that every keto/carnivore influencer is promoting lmnt, getting nauseous. I salt my food with Redmonds, or Himalayan or fleur de sel and alternate with NU salt for potassium and supplement with magnesium glycinate 2x a day.
Does support Jason Fung’s contentions that time restricted eating (better term for this) does work. But, I agree that low carb with fasting or time restricted eating is better. My wife and I had a busy day, today and simply didn’t have time to eat until 4pm. Low carb, high fat and protein diet makes that easier.
i am surrounded with sugar. when i am eating low carbs, i am not interested in all the baked, blended, boiled , creamed or purchased deserts. when i go off my program and eat sweet food ,i want more and all the time. sickening keto makes me normal, not hungry and happy, thank you dr. westmam. i trust you the most.
Regarding breakfast, it does not affect my appetite whether I have breakfast after I wake up or later in the day. I typically eat keto and sometimes I do intentional prolonged fasting (1-5 days depending on how I feel). No processed foods at all, very important. No stimulating foods, activities, or thoughts. In my case I think that keeping a calm mind is what keeps the body calm. Praying every day a few times and attending the church services helps a lot with that in my case. Hope it helps somebody.
Too often I find that seniors get lumped together when everyone else when we have different requirements, especially concerning protein. Don Layman, protein researcher and expert says that seniors should not fast because of their greater need to consume protein to increase lean muscle mass.
I'm 64 and do 18:6 IF while consuming plenty of protein, in the range of 150g, during my 2 meals. I also do strength training. If some seniors can't eat enough doing IF, then of course they should eat multiple small meals throughout the day. But don't lump all seniors together as being old and frail and lacking protein.
11:30 there is a difference between eating early in the morning after sleep and breaking fast (named breakfast in some countries, in Germany we call early morning meal "Frühstück"). Since decades i do not eat early in the morning, my "break fast" is at 10 or 11 am or so.
When I eat carnivore or keto and eat breakfast, I am not hungry until later and sometimes I don’t want another meal. I follow if you are not hungry then don’t eat. The problem is I haven’t really lost weight on keto and wonder if I have decreased my metabolism.
For several years my eating window has been 10 to 4:00 p.m. over the last two years I've gained 10 lbs. So 3 weeks ago I changed my eating window 7 to 2:00 p.m. I lost 6 lb. Who knew? I'm going to stick with this protocol as long as it's working.
4:01 OMAD is not 24h fasting like you say in the video. It's more like 20-23h fasting, because your "one meal" takes from 1h to 4h, depending on your meal duration. Usually you call it 20-4 or 22-2 or 23-1. Noone ever says they do 24-0 OMAD.
Thank you for mentioning the long human history of fasting. If I could reduce some of our modern problems, it would be that we somehow think we can design our food, environment and bodies better than nature has over the past 1.5 million years. If we are talking about industrialized food, what is that, 300 years in the human race? How about farming, maybe 10,000 years in the human race? When talking about the time humans have been literally just living in nature as nature intended, even my son understands those numbers. Here is what he said, "10,000 years out of 1.5 million? That's pretty much 1.5 million years." Exactly, son. Human genetic and body evolution doesn't happen much, if at all, in that small flash of time.
I'm disappointed that Dr. Westman is hawking LMNT. Everyone needs to make a buck, but IMO it tarnishes his message. I just salt my eggs/meat and take a multivitamin/mineral and don't have cramps or other signs of electrolyte deficiency. I eat eggs scrambled in butter 11-Noon, and meat and small veg at 5 p.m. Blood numbers are great. Also walk 3.5 - 5 miles a day.
Not a fan of DeLauer nor LMNT. Tom's videos are all over the place depending on which product he is advertising in his videos. LMNT is a scam. It is just 90% expensive refined sea salt
I do not listen to these corporate backed trials, Tom DeLauer interested me for awhile but he kept contradicting what he was pushing and I am not real hot on confusion.
I don't trust the gov't, either. They're the ones who pushed the food pyramid, low saturated fat & cholesterol diets, etc. They've invested too much money and reputation into being right about those things.
I've done 6/18 IF for over 6 years, and generally try to eat low carbs. Although I am a "N=1 Study", the results appear to be excellent. All biomarkers have been consistently in the normal range with slightly elevated HDL cholesterol. Energy levels are generally good and I do aerobic exercise about 150 minutes/week plus resistance 3 times a week. I think we're only just beginning to understand the benefits of IF, since autophagy was recently discovered (2016). Early indications (studies and personal accounts) show tremendous promise in terms of disease prevention/treatment and longevity. I have also began doing prolonged fasting (water and coffee only, 7-20 days) about twice a year.
I was shocked by the LMNT segment of the video especially where Dr. Westman said he uses it "pretty much every day in his own life" why would one do such a thing? Is it great and often necessary for people starting their fat-adaptation? Absolutely, as Dr. Westman has also pointed that out. Should anyone take electrolytes after being adapted to a well formulated proper human diet? Absolutely not. Eat enough protein in one sitting to avoid any potential electrolyte imbalance issues.
Intermittent fasting has ALWAYS been helpful and part is of my weight loss regimens, even before keto/carnivore. I will remain on that path. It has always worked for me.
I've noticed that during the week, while working, I don't get hungry until lunch or later. Sometimes I don't feel the need to eat until dinner at 5 or 6ish. On the weekends, I eat breakfast with my family. I get HUNGRY HUNGRY again just a few hours later. I just figured it was because I was busy at work and didn't think about eating. I guess that could be a small part of it though.
If I eat a proper breakfast, I often don't feel like eating the rest of the day. For me, that means a high fat, moderate protein and low to zero carb breakfast.
It depends on what I eat for breakfast, and it is rather logical why. Lots of sugar and carbohydrates and I get hungry again quickly. Lots of fat and protein and I may not even be hungry at lunchtime.
My whole adult life my breakfast was at tea time (10:30) and i then had supper before 18:00 and that was it. Tea with a drop of milk, no sugar as a wake up drink.
Every body, while having similarities, is different. I limit eating between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm as a general rule. Some days I'll eat breakfast later as I'm not hungry. Some days it's 9:00 as my brain is screaming for food. My wife cannot eat as I do or eat what I eat. I like hearing about the conceptual functionality and then examining if and how it might apply in my or my wife's physical situation.
If you are eating carbs the fasting dynamic will be different than that of an keto eater. It takes time to get fat adapted. That will defeat short fasts for the glucose eaters. They get some benefit but they won't use much stored fat.
There is a division here into two groups, those wanting diets to lose weight, and those looking to keto or fasting for ongoing health. Un fortunately those trying and failing to lose weigh blame the diets, whatever they are. The excess weight is the problem and most of it is in the mind. Having lost 30 kg, I can now fast for 24 hours daily , and 60 hours weekly, regularly. My body on low carb after 4 years can be fed at will and feast and famine is ideal.....for me.
One problem I had was at first was knowing the difference between physiologic versus psychological hunger. One sure sign that my hunger was NOT physiologic was how rapidly the 'hunger' vanished after eating. Sometimes even before my first mouthful, I felt less hungry. That's not unlike how the drug addict in early withdrawal may feel better even before the narcotic is injected. If hunger is physiologic, it shouldn't resolve until well into digestion. IF helped me to recognize the difference and overcome psychological hunger. Eating an early breakfast for me was giving into psychological hunger. That made it easier to do the same later and consume more food.
Been doing 16/8 for several months now. Not much weight loss, but as a T2 I have seen substantial lowering of blood sugar. Not in normal range yet, but getting there. I am adding a weekly 36 hour fast to see if it improves weight loss.
I started off with intermittent fasting, but then I learned about keto and carnivore. I am not full carnivore, but I basically combine intermittent fasting with carnivore with some carbs added in once in a while. The goal is to remain in ketosis as much as possible, and to keep sugar levels as flat as possible.
Yes. Breakfast makes me want to eat more but more importantly - morning coffee makes me want to eat more. I try to keep a 6 hr eating window so I break my fast at around 11 am and finish dinner around 5 pm.
I eat at 4 pm and eat during a 4 hour window. I make sure I eat 100-120 grams of protein (beef, sockeye salmon, eggs, sardines) daily and I eat a raw, multi vegetable salad with extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar. I also eat sauerkraut and kimchi daily and a handful of pecans to satiate hunger. I fast 20 hours. I started eating this way January 2022. Additionally, I walked 8 miles every other day. In October 2022, I had lost 60 lbs, stopped 7 medications I had been taking for 20+ years (my doctor guided me as I titrated off my prescriptions) and kept him posted on how I was doing. I also had the best blood test results ever. Two years, nine months later I still follow this same lifestyle. I had another blood test and it was better than the best from two years ago.
Actually, if I don't eat I feel less energetic. Harder to concentrate. After breakfast (almost always bacon n eggs) I get energy until afternoon. 35th day on Carnivore.
What happened to the following (that’s still in the description of this LMNT-sponsored video)? “We do not promote or endorse affiliate links and/or products unless they are our own.”
@@ianstuart5660 No, that is a very standard form of potassium. And with all things, follow your doctor's recommendations for dosage. Even too much of a good thing, can be bad.
I eat breakfast between 1pm and 2pm then have supper between 6pm and 7pm. It works for me and maintains my weight at 11st 10lbs. I’m 65 and 6’2”. I don’t eat carbs.
I find that Heavy Cream with my coffee is all I really need in the morning. If I eat breakfast I am just as hungry after noon as when I don't so, why do it and end up eating more....
Yes, I don’t normally eat breakfast. I like to change it up and have egg for breakfast sometime(though not that often) Indeed, I get hungry and eat early lunch around noon instead of my usual 1300(without breakfast). I’ve been living keto lifestyle since 2019.
IM and OMAD is working for me. 55M, obese, HBP, T2 diabetes, sciatica, retired military, etc-etc. I needed a serious life change. So, in TWO months, I have lost 31 lbs. My one meal? Usually, high carb, high fat, high protein. Started walking/lifting five weeks ago. The results? No need for BP meds (I take a reading every day -- normal!), off diabetes meds, and feeling stronger, able to walk, think, smile, and have crazy awesome "alertness". IM and OMAD works and I enjoy eating once a day! Lastly, gotten into non-American processed foods -- Italian olive oils, hard boiled farm raised eggs, etc. I have surmised that it isn't "what" you eat as much as "when" you eat. The American diet (eating all the time, high sugar, fast foods, packaged chemicals, and prescribed drugs, etc) is slowly killing/rotting us. Just my 2-cents FWIW...
Eric, in the strictest sense, break-fast IS the most important meal of the day. If we never had it, we'd starve to death. It's just that some of us have breakfast in the afternoon, or evening (2MAD, OMAD).
Eating breakfast that includes eggs after a 16 hour fast makes me feel satisfied all day until around 4:00 pm . I have supper at 5:00 and then don’t find the need to eat anything in the evening. It works every time for me.
I very much value Dr. Westman's calm, open-minded and knowledgable approach.
Went keto, gave up breakfast. Saves on cooking and washing up. Lost 35kg and stopped snoring. Win win!
How long did it take to lose that weight?
If I eat Breakfast, I eat MORE OFTEN that day! Eating breakfast triggers me to hunger more throughout that day!!! I am eating KETOGENIC mostly fatty meats diet. Postponing the first meal… helps me eat less often. God Bless You!
...yup - haven't eaten anything before 2pm for a few years now.
I have never ate breakfast, did eat a lot of carbs however which did hurt me.
Same here
I've found the same to be true.
@JanJazTI've found always have cooked meat handy really helped with the binging. If a desert my roommate has is easier to eat than something filling, I'm going to fail that day if I get a snack attack.
I can't watch DeLauer anymore. I learned so much from him when he was Keto and such, but his opinion changes with every study he reads anymore. This is true, but this is true, now this is true, but this is the real truth. It's actually quite frustrating. I have a hard time getting even 5 minutes into any of his videos anymore, which is why I've pretty much stopped watching him unless he's interviewing Chaffee or somebody like that.
Ditto
I feel the same way. He loses me in the technical stuff
Agreed, unwatchable!
Can't agree with you more! His views change as frequently as the weather; He also cannot interpret the studies - he has NO training in statistical inference, so he just reads the abstract and conclusions and accepts them as gospel. When new studies come out, I watch Prof. Bart Kay, because he IS trained in statistical inference, and he analyses the RAW data. Guess what they almost NEVER align with the study conclusion, and almost all of the time, the data is RUBBISH!
I stopped following him almost two years ago.
This.
If I don't eat dinner, I want breakfast. I am trying to eat when I feel hungry, not because of what time it is.
Eating later in the evening can prolong blood sugar spikes and therefore increased insulin levels. Check out Dr. Ben Bickmans new book "how not to get sick" It's all about insulin resistance and dietary scheduling. You might enjoy it.
Me too
Your first meal of the day is your breakfast no matter the time. In fact, fasting means "not eating." But the sake of this conversation, your last meal of the day is your dinner whether is at 12 PM, 3 PM, 7 PM, OR 10 PM.
@@CristianDiaz-p5gmy understanding is there are very real time related reasons for eating when the sun is up or when sun is down. I think everyone is different in terms of habit and even biology, but I think evolutionarily there is something to the time of day we eat. Having said that, most people cannot tell when they are hungry….I dont like to eat before 10 each day, prefer to eat only twice a day and have last meal by 7 when my metabolism naturally begins to slow down.
If i eat to satiety for breakfast I do not get hungry till 4-5.
first of all I'm really glad to see that you have gotten sponsorships it's about time because it's well deserved because you are truly one of the few totally trustworthy doctors out there
For the past 20 years, I've only had one meal aday. I have no idea why I got into this routine, maybe just laziness on my part. I was always ill in and out of the doctors. Last November, I saw a video on UA-cam about carnivores. I've been on carnivore since last November, and I've lost 3 stone. All my ailments have gone, and I'm putting on muscle mass.
I'm still eating one meal aday but now I'm eating the right food, fatty meat diary and fish.
I'm 57 and thought my life was over.
Now it's just beginning.
Congratulations on the change ! Enjoy it !
I love your story! It’s just the beginning! ❤
The fatty meat is the part that a lot of people don't understand about these diets. They are still living under the "eat lean meat to be healthy" mantra of yesteryear when they should be eating the fattiest meat they can find.
I eat some turkey hot dogs to break my fast at around 12PM, and I add a bunch of beef tallow on top to make them even more fatty. Delicious, nutritious, and it packs so much fat that I remain in ketosis with ease until around dinner time. Sometimes I eat carbs around dinner time, so only eating a fatty breakfast helps to keep me in that fasted state as long as possible.(preferably to just consume fatty meat for dinner though!)
I'm sorry but I have absolutely no idea how much is three stone
@@svietka202 6.3 kgs or 14 lb to 1 stone. Stones are an old English measurement
I eat a low carb diet with 2 meals a day in an eating window between 8a.m. and 4p.m. It works beautifully for me. On the few occasions that I’ve eaten later, I found that I didn’t sleep as well as I usually do.
Mine is 06.30 a.m. and anywhere from 12.30 p.m. to 02.30 p.m. Very rarely I eat dinner around 9.00 p.m. just before lab blood draw for glucose test annually. My sleep is not affected even if I eat late.
I find it is different for me. If I go too long before bed without eating, I have acid reflux and stomach pains. I need to eat about two hours before bed, but it needs to be something small in the ballpark of about 100 to 150 calories.
If I eat first thing in the morning, I am ravenous all day. Fasting works for me. I’ve been doing this all my life. My mom would try and force me to eat before I went to school, but I just refused. I wasn’t hungry until lunch. I was fit and healthy. I am 70 years young.
If I eat breakfast I snack all day. Thank You Dr Westman for all you do 🙏❤️
I've been on OMAD for about a month, and while I agree it has health benefits, what I really like is the logistics: Who wants to do the dishes, clean the kitchen, and decide what to eat 3 times per day? OMAD saves SO much time.
I have been two weeks into OMAD I share the same it so simple eating just once a day
Now that I know fructose in fruit is bad for your liver like alcohol, I eat even less of it. Veggies have oxcilates in them causing oxcilate dumping when starting carnivore we cut back on veggies. Obviously your body doesn’t like oxcilates from green veggies and salad or it wouldn’t dump it. Now we eat 5 times more eggs and bacon than we did before. Of course we eat more beef, pork, and seafood. The extra fat fills you up and is good for you, much better than carbs. Sometimes we just have meat for dinner and no sides or just one side. We eat 1 to 2 meals a day skipping breakfast except on the weekends. Less sides, cooking eggs, and since there isn’t a need for variety, lunch and dinner is easy to prepare. We have fewer leftovers and much less wasted food. It takes less time to prepare and clean up, plus since meat fills you up more than veggies, our grocery bill is less eating 4 times more meat than we did before. Most of me and my wife’s health issues have healed in 4 months. Stopped eating sugar/cokes and use xylitol. Yea, fewer dishes, easier to cook, cheaper, and our health issues way better and we feel great!
I don't do OMAD anymore, I found that it had many great effects but it also slowly accumulated stress. I love it when I love it, I hate it when I hate it.
I only cook 2-3 times a day but eat 2-3x a day. I don't get the loggistical benefits of OMAD. I actually find it less practical because of the time constraints.
*cook 2-3 times a WEEK
I have a total of roughly 3 years of OMAD experience and 6 or more with deliberate intermittent fasting. As dr cywes says, get your metabolism to the point where you instinctively do intermittent fasting, rather than enforcing intermittent fasting. Heard him say that yesterday and I couldn't agree more, it's how I've been doing it without even thinking about it.
I do eat breakfast, but I call it my first meal of the day. It depends on how I feel. Sometimes I eat at 10:00 am, but some days I might not eat until 1:00 pm. I just listen to my body.
Me too.
To be fair, whenever you eat your first meal you are breaking your fast, hence the name break/fast. 🤷🏻♀️ 😂
Here's a ChatGPT summary:
- Dr. Eric Westman discusses a recent study comparing intermittent fasting and caloric restriction, noting that both yield similar results.
- The study in question was the first clinically supervised controlled feeding trial in humans, focusing on time-restricted feeding with a six-hour eating window.
- Participants were given enough calories to maintain their weight, with a diet consisting of 50% carbohydrates, 30% fat, and 20% protein.
- The study found improvements in insulin sensitivity, beta cell function, and pancreatic function over a five-week period.
- A decrease in reactive oxygen species, which are linked to aging, was observed, suggesting potential longevity benefits.
- Appetite decreased among participants, even though they were consuming the same amount of calories needed to maintain their weight.
- The study demonstrated that more aggressive fasting (e.g., a six-hour eating window) yields more significant benefits than shorter fasting periods (e.g., 14-hour fasts).
- Dr. Westman emphasizes the importance of considering macronutrient breakdown in studies and suggests that a low-carb diet could enhance the benefits of intermittent fasting.
- Main message: The study highlights the potential health benefits of more aggressive intermittent fasting, such as improved insulin sensitivity and reduced oxidative stress, while maintaining weight with a balanced macronutrient intake.
I found that Thomas Delauer has followed the same path as others in the Keto/Low Carb space "influencer" space. They have to keep shifting their positions to keep up with the news cycle and generate traffic. The sponsorship and affiliate money dries up if they don't keep producing new videos. That means a never ending need for new content and revising previous positions. Dr. Westman is an exception and his positions have remained consistent and clinicial outcome experience based. But also why Delauer has 3.75M followers.
Eating before 12/1pm always increases my hunger throughout the rest of the day 🤦♀️🤦♀️
Same. Even as a schoolkid (in the '60s), if I had a boiled egg for breakfast - pretty much no carbs - I wasn't really hungry at lunchtime. But if I had the usual cornflakes, I'd be ravenous by lunchtime. Having learned about autophagy, I happily skip breakfast now!
Skipping supper has been FANTASTIC for my IBS. I fast for 18 hrs every day. I’ll never go back. 😊
I came across your channel today Dr. Westman and I really like your opinion and easy way of explaining low carb. I first heard of low carb diets from Dr. Atkins years ago. My difficulty was yo-yo dieting with low carb diets. I hope to do the keto/intermittent plan now. I seem to struggle with 20 lbs ! I subscribed today and will follow you so that should motivate me. Thank you for your help.
Low carb is the key along with intermittent fasting
I am 76 I started IF 4 years ago, 18/6, at the same time I started cold water and breath work. Today, I am without knee pain, I have dropped 3 dress sizes, my body is incredible not only for my age but for a much younger age. I have looked after myself since I was a teenager but honestly, this is a game changer. I don’t eat until late afternoon and usually have 1 meal a day. Very low carb and absolutely no low fat anything. I also make L. Reuteri and yogurt. Look after the microbiom 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧❤❤
Keto's superpower is controlling the hunger hormones. Enjoying one meal a day plus a monthly 72 or 96 hour fast is my current working strategy. Trying to fast without ketones was a huge struggle but the benefits of keto and fasting far outweigh any temporary discomfort.
When you do your 72 hour fast is it water only? Or do you supplement with electrolytes?
Back when I was carb adapted, eating breakfast did make me hungrier all day but now that I eat mostly fat and protein, I am more satisfied during the day and rarely think about food.
well put thats how I am.
@@Premium_Water True. When I first got fat-adapted, I'd forget to eat, then wonder why I couldn't remember what I had for lunch. A confusing time 😅
LMNT has Maltodextrin in the flavored versions and they do not list it!
Yes, eating breakfast makes me noticeably more hungry and leads me to eat more all.day.long. Recent move from long-term ketovore to meat-only carnivore.
Thank you Dr Westman. I didn't take breakfast from my youth because I didn't have appetite the morning till lunch time, BUT when for a very rare and special occasion I was eating a breakfast it was triggered my appetite and I was eating way more those days.Thanks God, I'm on keto/carni now and OMD; it's wonderful (58 yo W, weight loss 21kg, pain of arthrosis finished, better memory, better sleep, rarely fatigue in the day and so on) Love from France.
As a lifelong emotional eater I'd like to share my plan and experience that helped me to be successful. First and foremost you have to redefine the word diet to mean this is what I eat.
I have incorporated 16/8 fasting which has been integral because the challenge for me has always been nighttime snacking. 5 days a week I fast dinner and weekends I fast breakfast. The key in my opinion is to make your "diet" repeatable. Ask yourself, can I do this for a lifetime?
My basic fitness approach has been low carb with daily exercise and regular weight lifting.
It's not the getting fit that matters most it's the staying fit.
I fasted 18 to 20 hours per day for almost 3 years now.
Great but learn English: I have been fasting.....
Dr. Jason Fung referred to a study that they gave insulin to people who were eating 200 or 300 calories under maintenance level. All gained weight.
I've been doing intermittent fasting seriously for about 8 weeks!
I aim for 23 to 24 hours then eat for one hour and repeat!
So far I've lost about 20 lbs and feeling so much lighter!
I think intermittent fasting is good for one's health mentally and physically!
Godspeed to all on their health journey!
I follow low carb (Dr Robert C. Atkins) for many years and I/F 16/8. During my 8 hour window I have breakfast, lunch and dinner. I'm at my goal weight and maintaining.
When I was a carb burner breakfast used to make me hungrier all day long. I used to buck the science and skip breakfast to avoid this annoying problem. Now that I am a fat burner I only get hungry after a 72 hour fast. They say don't eat unless you are hungry but I eat because the food is going to taste wonderful and make me feel happy
I don't care for Tom Delauer.
he's been grifting for like 10 years now
Didn't he quit keto some years ago?
A big ditto from me on that. I had enough of him a few years ago.
@@levitastic ....just like Dr Gundry.
He flip flops too much for me. @@levitastic
I didn't expect to see a commercial in a Dr W video. Maybe professor Bikman laid his charm on him and he couldn't resist! 😅
Eating breakfast makes me hungrier the rest of the day. I practice 16/8 time restricted eating and try to stay under 50 total grams carbs a day. I eat mostly meat, certain vegetables and low carb fruits.
I eat in the morning. Sometimes I have a second meal around noon or 1pm. I don't like eating in the afternoon or evening. I don't find that morning meals make me hungrier. It's so nice not to have to spend so much time eating multiple meals every day.
I'm mostly carnivore with a bit of veggies. I started with a Berg style keto with lots of salad and have toned down to where I am now. the Intermittent fasting only worked when I kicked carbs to the curb. Now, I only eat after I exercise for the most part. Days off from working out I only eat once a day.
Any sense of negative effects since reducing most of the veggies?
@@ianstuart5660 nope. I've gone months without any plants and no issues. I drink coffee/tea, and eat a few green veggies but that is it.
@@MrRabiddogg
Excellent! That's what I was hoping to hear as I've experienced much the same!
I’ve intermittently fasted for 3 years. Im one of those that stay hungry if I eat breakfast.
Amazing!
Video time comes in at 16:08!!!
I’m a carb “addict”.. the more I eat the more I want to.. so carb restriction is essential to control craving
...almost all 'prepared/processed food' has been built to make you want MORE! It IS addictive!
@@kenswanston820for me, even non “prepared” carbs, high starch like potatoes, rice, corn, etc, can gradually make me want more. Doesn’t happen instantly, but once I allow them back in my diet more, I start slipping & gradually eating more and gaining more
I've been 18/6 for about 3 weeks now. I'm waiting to weigh but I've lost almost 4 inches on my waist and my arthritis is responding positively. I can't wait to see the big picture in the future
I not only get hangry and annoyed by lunch time if I eat breakfast, it also makes me feel like crap. Especially if I'm performing physical tasks. All I want to do is go home and nap.
Good news about fasting. Good for folks who want to eat more healthful carbs. Apparently they could still improve Insulin resistance & reduce appetite even at 50% carbohydrate 👍
I love DeLauer, but the mans content is nothing but a series of contradictions.
Same, I unsubscribed from him, not because he didn't have some quality information at one time, but I feel he has now fully embraced the quality of content over quality and some sort of unified presentation of information. Then, I changed my life with IF. So now I am supposed to believe that it is useless and, "over?" I haven't missed him.
edit: Also, I keep my carbohydrates quite low. I feel most IF people have come to understand the need for this.
Can you explain how to read a Cleveland Heart Lab report to determine if ldl is small dense or large fluffy? Had to fire my cardio doc because he would not explain it and wanted me on a PCSK9 med 👎🏼👎🏼
@@jamesphasman3922 I honestly don't know. I eat low-carb/zero carb, so I don't worry about LDL.
I hope you find the answers you're looking for!
@@jamesphasman3922 I read (actually listened to, as it was an audiobook) an amazing explanation by Robert Lustig in his book Metabolical.
It was one of the two sections that he said he understood if people skip due to its level of technicality. The other one was the deepest levels of biochemistry in the cells, down the the mitochondria. One of the most amazing books I have ever experienced.
Anyway, I obviously can't replicate it here, but there's a start, anyway. He does a lot of UA-cam interviews, maybe he has described it there? There is also Paul Mason with Low Carb Down Under. Now there's an underrated doctor.
@@Mhantrax thank you. I am amazed the a cardiologist could not explain this to me. I will search Lustig info
This is a great & interesting topic and thanks to Dr Westman.
I've listened half way in & haven't learned much. If the host would avoid using ambiguous words like "this" or 'that" and summarize either at the beginning or at the end would be very helpful for the audience. Thanks again.
Love your analysis! I'm 78, very youthful, no gray, been told I appear to be in my 40's. I eat one small piece of meat at 5 a.m. Then at 9 am I eat a protein with a very large salad or veg. From time to time at 9am I will trat myself to a protein and potatoes and gravy or two small pieces of pizza. I Wii have homemade stir fry with a bit of rice. In this manner I do not feel deprived . Icon everything at home It is not often that I feel hungry, but Ivam ready to enjoy my second meal. I have been taking food supplements 3xs per day since I was 18. No facial wrinkles!!!
I was dirty carnivore for about 9 months but for the last 3 months been 100% carnivore usjng the 16/8 regime.. my blood pressure is now approaching normal, glucose level always around 90 (5.0) weight down 9kg, no more aches and pains, gout gone.. no idea about my bloods but sure do feel soooo much better..
After spending nearly 6 months so far eating keto in a 6 hour window ( I choose to eat from Noon to 6PM) and OMAD once per week, I'm shocked that anyone would want to eat 50% carbs in one day. I limit my carbs to 20 grams per day and sometimes daydream about eating 50 or 100 carbs one day when all this body fat is gone.
If I eat a high carb breakfast, I want to eat more. If I skip breakfast all together, I want to eat more throughout the day. So, I do eat a low carb breakfast. I have 2 scrambled eggs, 1 slice of turkey bacon on a low carb bagel, and this keeps me satisfied until lunch. Which sometimes I am not even that hungry.
When I quit breakfast,I wanted to eat less.That got me interested on intermittent fasting.Works for me.
I find I'm not hungry until late afternoon, that is IF I don't put the first bite in my mouth. If I have just a bite of something at noon, then I am hungry, if I just drink coffee or tea or water I can easily go to 2 or 4 before feeling hungry.
Me too. Also I find eating that way is a very simple way to not want anything after that meal. No hunger,no cravings
Personally, what I have noticed, in regards to weight loss specifically, is there is almost a parabolic effect of the amount of weight lost, with the longer the fast is. I'm talking that a 23 hr fast gave me massively better results than a 16 hour fast.
Parabola reaches the maximum value in the middle of the X axis values. Please explain what you meant by parabolic effect.
@@LNCMD2023 I trade stocks every day, so I was loosely using it in that manner with this definition (from Wikipedia)." In commodities and stock markets: Parabolic SAR - a chart pattern in which prices rise or fall with an increasingly steeper slope." So basically what I meant was the longer I fast, the more weight I lose at an increasingly faster rate.
I'm on hour 38 of an undetermined length fast.😊
I attended a presentation that promoted three meals and two snacks per day. I told the facilitator that was too much for me, that I am rarely hungry. She told me it was a defense mechanism of my liver because my liver thinks I am starving. I thought I would give it a try. The first few days were hard because it seemed like I always had to eat. Ten o’clock already? Ugh. Noon? Have to eat again? Ugh! The next few days were easier. I was starting to gain unwanted weight. It then got to the point I was always hungry. Come on ten o’clock, I am starving! Come on noon, I need to eat! With some effort I was able to revert to eating as before, and I like it that way.
Took you class.
Studied a lot (Taubes, Bikman, Lustig, et al)
Never eat before noon - just not hungry.
The biggest issue is a small amount of food craving in the evening.
Otherwise, just not hungry.
Live in the Raleigh area and about to suggest to a friend that he makes an appt with you.
I was going to say that I never fast . Then I found that they were talking about 14 hours. I want to change my answer. I fast most days !
Oh no, Dr Westman is hawking LMNT. Never thought he'd do anything like that. Wonder why?
It seems that every keto/carnivore influencer is promoting lmnt, getting nauseous.
I salt my food with Redmonds, or Himalayan or fleur de sel and alternate with NU salt for potassium and supplement with magnesium glycinate 2x a day.
@@engc4953what’s wrong with LMNT? In your opinion
@@Kualabear02 Way too overpriced for something that does the same thing as Himalayan salt.
@@excalibro8365 ok, thank you.
@@Kualabear02Nothing to me. I use when perspiring a lot, yard work, cycling an hour or more. Just a convenience product, not daily. Works great.
Does support Jason Fung’s contentions that time restricted eating (better term for this) does work. But, I agree that low carb with fasting or time restricted eating is better.
My wife and I had a busy day, today and simply didn’t have time to eat until 4pm. Low carb, high fat and protein diet makes that easier.
i am surrounded with sugar. when i am eating low carbs, i am not interested in all the baked, blended, boiled , creamed or purchased deserts. when i go off my program and eat sweet food ,i want more and all the time. sickening keto makes me normal, not hungry and happy, thank you dr. westmam. i trust you the most.
So many qualified people with conflicting opinions!!
Yes, but I trust Dr Westman. Tom DeLaurer is a Flip Flopper.
Regarding breakfast, it does not affect my appetite whether I have breakfast after I wake up or later in the day. I typically eat keto and sometimes I do intentional prolonged fasting (1-5 days depending on how I feel). No processed foods at all, very important. No stimulating foods, activities, or thoughts. In my case I think that keeping a calm mind is what keeps the body calm. Praying every day a few times and attending the church services helps a lot with that in my case. Hope it helps somebody.
Too often I find that seniors get lumped together when everyone else when we have different requirements, especially concerning protein. Don Layman, protein researcher and expert says that seniors should not fast because of their greater need to consume protein to increase lean muscle mass.
I'm 64 and do 18:6 IF while consuming plenty of protein, in the range of 150g, during my 2 meals. I also do strength training. If some seniors can't eat enough doing IF, then of course they should eat multiple small meals throughout the day. But don't lump all seniors together as being old and frail and lacking protein.
11:30 there is a difference between eating early in the morning after sleep and breaking fast (named breakfast in some countries, in Germany we call early morning meal "Frühstück").
Since decades i do not eat early in the morning, my "break fast" is at 10 or 11 am or so.
I like to skip the most important meal of the day everyday lol. Breakfast makes me want to eat everything in sight all day for some reason.
When I eat carnivore or keto and eat breakfast, I am not hungry until later and sometimes I don’t want another meal. I follow if you are not hungry then don’t eat. The problem is I haven’t really lost weight on keto and wonder if I have decreased my metabolism.
I appreciate any one who tells me a piece of the truth! No one is perfect, be kind
It would be helpful if you could link to the studies discussed in these videos. Or at least give the complete title and authors so we can find it.
Yes! Eating early in the day make me more hungry later in the day!
For several years my eating window has been 10 to 4:00 p.m. over the last two years I've gained 10 lbs. So 3 weeks ago I changed my eating window 7 to 2:00 p.m. I lost 6 lb. Who knew? I'm going to stick with this protocol as long as it's working.
4:01 OMAD is not 24h fasting like you say in the video. It's more like 20-23h fasting, because your "one meal" takes from 1h to 4h, depending on your meal duration. Usually you call it 20-4 or 22-2 or 23-1. Noone ever says they do 24-0 OMAD.
Thank you for mentioning the long human history of fasting. If I could reduce some of our modern problems, it would be that we somehow think we can design our food, environment and bodies better than nature has over the past 1.5 million years.
If we are talking about industrialized food, what is that, 300 years in the human race? How about farming, maybe 10,000 years in the human race? When talking about the time humans have been literally just living in nature as nature intended, even my son understands those numbers. Here is what he said, "10,000 years out of 1.5 million? That's pretty much 1.5 million years."
Exactly, son. Human genetic and body evolution doesn't happen much, if at all, in that small flash of time.
I'm disappointed that Dr. Westman is hawking LMNT. Everyone needs to make a buck, but IMO it tarnishes his message. I just salt my eggs/meat and take a multivitamin/mineral and don't have cramps or other signs of electrolyte deficiency. I eat eggs scrambled in butter 11-Noon, and meat and small veg at 5 p.m. Blood numbers are great. Also walk 3.5 - 5 miles a day.
Not a fan of DeLauer nor LMNT. Tom's videos are all over the place depending on which product he is advertising in his videos. LMNT is a scam. It is just 90% expensive refined sea salt
Well said Tom is more about impressing folks with big words and selling folks lmnt or other some such.
Very surprised Dr Westman agreed to be sponsored by LMNT. Not something I ever imagined he'd do.
@@terised The amount of sponsor money he got for it must've been too sweet to turn away
I do not listen to these corporate backed trials, Tom DeLauer interested me for awhile but he kept contradicting what he was pushing and I am not real hot on confusion.
I don't trust the gov't, either. They're the ones who pushed the food pyramid, low saturated fat & cholesterol diets, etc. They've invested too much money and reputation into being right about those things.
I've done 6/18 IF for over 6 years, and generally try to eat low carbs. Although I am a "N=1 Study", the results appear to be excellent. All biomarkers have been consistently in the normal range with slightly elevated HDL cholesterol. Energy levels are generally good and I do aerobic exercise about 150 minutes/week plus resistance 3 times a week. I think we're only just beginning to understand the benefits of IF, since autophagy was recently discovered (2016). Early indications (studies and personal accounts) show tremendous promise in terms of disease prevention/treatment and longevity. I have also began doing prolonged fasting (water and coffee only, 7-20 days) about twice a year.
I was shocked by the LMNT segment of the video especially where Dr. Westman said he uses it "pretty much every day in his own life" why would one do such a thing? Is it great and often necessary for people starting their fat-adaptation? Absolutely, as Dr. Westman has also pointed that out. Should anyone take electrolytes after being adapted to a well formulated proper human diet? Absolutely not. Eat enough protein in one sitting to avoid any potential electrolyte imbalance issues.
Intermittent fasting has ALWAYS been helpful and part is of my weight loss regimens, even before keto/carnivore. I will remain on that path. It has always worked for me.
Great analysis, thanks!
I've noticed that during the week, while working, I don't get hungry until lunch or later. Sometimes I don't feel the need to eat until dinner at 5 or 6ish. On the weekends, I eat breakfast with my family. I get HUNGRY HUNGRY again just a few hours later. I just figured it was because I was busy at work and didn't think about eating. I guess that could be a small part of it though.
If I eat a proper breakfast, I often don't feel like eating the rest of the day. For me, that means a high fat, moderate protein and low to zero carb breakfast.
It depends on what I eat for breakfast, and it is rather logical why. Lots of sugar and carbohydrates and I get hungry again quickly. Lots of fat and protein and I may not even be hungry at lunchtime.
My whole adult life my breakfast was at tea time (10:30) and i then had supper before 18:00 and that was it. Tea with a drop of milk, no sugar as a wake up drink.
Every body, while having similarities, is different. I limit eating between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm as a general rule. Some days I'll eat breakfast later as I'm not hungry. Some days it's 9:00 as my brain is screaming for food. My wife cannot eat as I do or eat what I eat. I like hearing about the conceptual functionality and then examining if and how it might apply in my or my wife's physical situation.
If you are eating carbs the fasting dynamic will be different than that of an keto eater. It takes time to get fat adapted. That will defeat short fasts for the glucose eaters. They get some benefit but they won't use much stored fat.
There is a division here into two groups, those wanting diets to lose weight, and those looking to keto or fasting for ongoing health. Un fortunately those trying and failing to lose weigh blame the diets, whatever they are. The excess weight is the problem and most of it is in the mind.
Having lost 30 kg, I can now fast for 24 hours daily , and 60 hours weekly, regularly. My body on low carb after 4 years can be fed at will and feast and famine is ideal.....for me.
One problem I had was at first was knowing the difference between physiologic versus psychological hunger. One sure sign that my hunger was NOT physiologic was how rapidly the 'hunger' vanished after eating. Sometimes even before my first mouthful, I felt less hungry. That's not unlike how the drug addict in early withdrawal may feel better even before the narcotic is injected.
If hunger is physiologic, it shouldn't resolve until well into digestion. IF helped me to recognize the difference and overcome psychological hunger. Eating an early breakfast for me was giving into psychological hunger. That made it easier to do the same later and consume more food.
Been doing 16/8 for several months now. Not much weight loss, but as a T2 I have seen substantial lowering of blood sugar. Not in normal range yet, but getting there. I am adding a weekly 36 hour fast to see if it improves weight loss.
I started off with intermittent fasting, but then I learned about keto and carnivore. I am not full carnivore, but I basically combine intermittent fasting with carnivore with some carbs added in once in a while. The goal is to remain in ketosis as much as possible, and to keep sugar levels as flat as possible.
Love you, Dr. Westman
Yes. Breakfast makes me want to eat more but more importantly - morning coffee makes me want to eat more. I try to keep a 6 hr eating window so I break my fast at around 11 am and finish dinner around 5 pm.
I eat at 4 pm and eat during a 4 hour window. I make sure I eat 100-120 grams of protein (beef, sockeye salmon, eggs, sardines) daily and I eat a raw, multi vegetable salad with extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar. I also eat sauerkraut and kimchi daily and a handful of pecans to satiate hunger. I fast 20 hours. I started eating this way January 2022. Additionally, I walked 8 miles every other day. In October 2022, I had lost 60 lbs, stopped 7 medications I had been taking for 20+ years (my doctor guided me as I titrated off my prescriptions) and kept him posted on how I was doing. I also had the best blood test results ever. Two years, nine months later I still follow this same lifestyle. I had another blood test and it was better than the best from two years ago.
Actually, if I don't eat I feel less energetic. Harder to concentrate. After breakfast (almost always bacon n eggs) I get energy until afternoon.
35th day on Carnivore.
What happened to the following (that’s still in the description of this LMNT-sponsored video)?
“We do not promote or endorse affiliate links and/or products unless they are our own.”
Love the Redmond Re-lyte electrolytes over LMNT for a better electrolyte profile
Adding a packet or two of true lime, with your preferred electrolyte mix, is delicious!
@@MrNoucfeanor here in Colombia I have a lime tree in the back yard. Fresh squeezed lime is awesome
Dr. AJ, is potassium chloride a harsh supplement to use in your experience?
@@DrAJ_LatinAmerica Now you're just bragging...
Cheers from Texas!
@@ianstuart5660 No, that is a very standard form of potassium. And with all things, follow your doctor's recommendations for dosage. Even too much of a good thing, can be bad.
Hate breakfast- never did it!so happy for it!
I eat breakfast between 1pm and 2pm then have supper between 6pm and 7pm. It works for me and maintains my weight at 11st 10lbs. I’m 65 and 6’2”. I don’t eat carbs.
I find that Heavy Cream with my coffee is all I really need in the morning. If I eat breakfast I am just as hungry after noon as when I don't so, why do it and end up eating more....
Yes, I don’t normally eat breakfast. I like to change it up and have egg for breakfast sometime(though not that often) Indeed, I get hungry and eat early lunch around noon instead of my usual 1300(without breakfast). I’ve been living keto lifestyle since 2019.
IM and OMAD is working for me. 55M, obese, HBP, T2 diabetes, sciatica, retired military, etc-etc. I needed a serious life change. So, in TWO months, I have lost 31 lbs. My one meal? Usually, high carb, high fat, high protein. Started walking/lifting five weeks ago. The results? No need for BP meds (I take a reading every day -- normal!), off diabetes meds, and feeling stronger, able to walk, think, smile, and have crazy awesome "alertness". IM and OMAD works and I enjoy eating once a day! Lastly, gotten into non-American processed foods -- Italian olive oils, hard boiled farm raised eggs, etc. I have surmised that it isn't "what" you eat as much as "when" you eat. The American diet (eating all the time, high sugar, fast foods, packaged chemicals, and prescribed drugs, etc) is slowly killing/rotting us. Just my 2-cents FWIW...
Eric, in the strictest sense, break-fast IS the most important meal of the day. If we never had it, we'd starve to death. It's just that some of us have breakfast in the afternoon, or evening (2MAD, OMAD).
Nice point :)
What counts is what you eat for breakfast. If one sees the first meal of the day as the most important, it just as important what one eats.
That is a very good point. Those are golden words for those that can understand
BS
Eating breakfast that includes eggs after a 16 hour fast makes me feel satisfied all day until around 4:00 pm . I have supper at 5:00 and then don’t find the need to eat anything in the evening. It works every time for me.
Dr Eric Westman very much valuaed colleague at American Bariatric Society days. Thank you Dr . Rescue me from OMAD.