Stop trying to lose weight. Do this instead. (Secrets from a Biochemist) | Episode 16 of 18

the reason that fat burning is important is not because it's going to make you lose weight it's because if you're able to burn fat for fuel it means that you are metabolically [Music] flexible hello angels and welcome to the glucose goddess show I'm just inate a biochemist obsessed with helping you understand your body steady your glucose levels so that you can feel amazing so today's episode is going to focus on how glucose levels and weight loss are connected so let's get to it weight loss is a big topic and it sells for the little story

when I wrote my first book in 2022 even though my focus was never to help people lose weight my Publishers wanted me to put weight loss or lose weight on the cover because they know that it sells and that's because the diet industry is massive and many companies make billions of dollars every year selling your products to make you lose weight now for me helping you understand your glucose levels and steadying your glucose levels is 100% for Health First it's so that your organs work well your cells are full of energy so that your brain

is clear you don't have any Cravings you feel amazing and your long-term health is also protected but I often get the question Jesse if I follow the hacks will I lose weight and the answer is probably actually so let me explain to you why that is the case I teach you things that are going to help you flatten your glucose levels so keep your blood sugar nice and steady now a few things happen when we keep our blood sugar nice and steady firstly our Cravings reduce and that's because when we are on a glucose roller

coaster after every glucose by there is a glucose dip and this dip activates the craving Center in our brain that tells us to go find some cookies some chocolate some chips and to eat them so when we stady our glucose levels those Cravings diminish second when we study our glucose levels our hunger reduces that's because we're eating nice sating protein in the morning because our hunger hormones gin and leptin are nice and steady and not doing crazy crazy swings all the time so we tend to be just less hungry generally and we feel like we're

less victims to all the food around us so we can go for hours without eating and this doesn't cause too much of an issue and that's because of Reason number three so reason number three that steadying your glucose levels can often lead to weight loss is because when we steady our glucose levels we are also reducing the amount of insulin in our body insulin is a hormone that gets sent out by our pancreas to grab any excess glucose during a glucose bike and store it away and this is very good and very helpful but there's

a little bit of a catch when there's a lot of insulin in our body our body is told to not burn fat so when there's High insulin there's no fat burning and this fat burning thing which you probably have seen on the cover of dozens of magazine the reason that fat burning is important is not because it's going to make you lose weight it's because if you're able to burn fat for fuel it means that you are metabolically flexible that means that you can easily switch between burning glucose for fuel glucose from a recent meal

you just had to burning fat for fuel and it is very important that your body can do both and can switch between one and the other people who are not very metabolically flexible so who rely mostly on glucose for fuel all the time they are hungry every 2 hours they get what's called low blood sugar and if their meals are delayed or if they don't have a snack with them in their car they can get really shaky and nauseous that's because their body does not know does not have the muscle the memory The Habit the

capacity to switch to burning fat for fuel so when we study our glucose levels we also reduce how much insulin is present in the body this allows us to burn more fat for fuel to be more metabolically flexible and it helps us just feel better and go about our day without thinking every 2 hours what am I going to eat next before I get too shaky so in that sense being able to burn fat is incredibly incredibly helpful and important and healthy now if you take those three things combined the reduction in Cravings the reduction

in hunger and the increase in burning fat for fuel yes when we flatten our glucose curves that often also leads to some fat loss on the body but this fat loss is something that is a consequence of all of these other health promoting situations going on hey really quickly if you can't always do my food hacks and you want to eat the carbs that you love with less impact on your glucose levels I created a capsule just for that it's called anti-spike formula you take two before a meal it cuts the glucose Spike of carbs

by up to 40% 100% made out of plants and tested by over 25 clinical trials link is in the description okay back to the episode so what I see in my readers is that they tell me you know they've been on diets their whole life and then they've done all the crazy extreme stuff they gain all the weight back they're miserable they tried cutting out entire food groups at a time and that's diet culture that's not where we want to go that is absolutely not what I would ever recommend and I think if your main

focus is losing weight at all cost as quickly as possible that often leads to very unhealthy habits that are not sustainable and that can actually be worse for your health and cause damage so do not succumb to any of the crazy diets promising you fast 10 pound in two day weight loss etc etc that's not what we're here for we're here to learn how to keep our glucose levels steady how to build the healthy foundation in the house that is our body and as a result so many things will fall into place what's also important

is that in diet culture most crazy diets ask you because they're crazy to do crazy things and I don't want you to do any crazy things the hacks that I share are sustainable easy partners that you take along with your days and your weeks and your months and your years and do whenever you can they're not restrictive they don't ask you to count any calories they don't ask you to cut out any food groups they just teach you about what molecules are in your food and when how and what combination to eat your food so

that you help your body be as healthy as you can while still eating all of the things that you love so some examples are when it's easy start your meal with vegetables or if you're going to eat something sweet make sure it's as dessert after main meal not first thing in the morning or between meals as a snack go for a walk after eating Etc so I see the hacks as being additive to your life not things that take away any foods that take away any Joy we're just here to build and create these good

easy habits and I like to say that they're a little bit like drink water and brush your teeth if you can't do them one day one week one month it's not a big deal My Method the glucose guus method is not a diet it's a series of key principles that you should do whenever it's easy and if you cannot do them that's totally fine I have entire weeks where I can't do a hack and I don't even worry about it the point is not you do everything right or you're not doing it at all it's

purely take the principles with you and do them when it is easy and that's going to help your body a lot if you want to see all of my 10 key hacks in one page there's in the description of this episode a link to a PDF that you can download to do so and one more thing I want to mention so let's to have a look this is my second book this is the glucose godess method and I want to have a look at this with you guys so in my second book the glucose godess

method what I did is I took the four most powerful and important glucose to start with that is Savory breakfast vinegar veggie starter and moving after eating and in this method you add one hack a week for four weeks and the rest of the time you do exactly whatever you want there are no restrictions you can eat and drink whatever you want you're just adding these four hacks into your life and not changing anything else and because the hacks are like gentle Giants or fairy godmothers by just just sprinkling them into your days and not

changing anything else slowly your health improves you crave less sugar vegetables start becoming your friends you feel great after your meals you wake up with energy you're no longer controlled by looking for a chocolate bar at 3 p.m. and as I was writing this book I also really wanted to U do an experiment and test the method with a bunch of people from the gasgas community so I recruited 2,700 people uh from Instagram actually who tested the method before the book even came out so they were the pilot group and as they were going through

the method and following all the easy recipes and adding the hacks into their lives I also asked them for feedback and for data on how things were going and I want to show you the results and of course as they pertain to weight loss as well so you can see that a lot of people lost weight doing this method as a consequence of their body becoming healthier so here are the results of the experiment on 2,700 people as you can see after four weeks 90% of participants were less hungry 89% of participants reduced their Cravings

77% of participants had more energy lots of other really cool stats and importantly 38% of people who wanted to lose weight did in fact lose weight in those of four weeks this goes to show you that if your objective is weight loss if that's something that you really care a lot about and you want to do doing a restrictive diet that is not sustainable is not the answer you're going to probably not be able to sustain it for very long and it's going to cause some issues if you instead focus on steadying your glucose levels

if you do the hacks the easy hacks if you add them into your life you will most likely natur naturally also burn fat and lose fat on your body as a consequence of the rest of your health improving what I like to hear the most is stories from some of my readers who had been really trapped by diet culture for decades who had done all the diets who were super stressed out and what they find in these hacks is actual Science teaching them about their body easy principles that don't ask you to cut out any

foods count any calories or do anything czy crazy and Real Results and they realized that what they had been after for a very long time was not necessarily weight loss it was actually just to feel good in their body to have a clear brain to be happy to wake up in the morning with energy to not feel so addicted to sugar all the time and as a consequence they often lose weight as well but that becomes almost secondary so if this resonates with you I hope you'll check out this science because it's been truly life-changing

for many many people and you can have a look at my 10 core hacks in the the description of this episode and of course if you want to have a look at my four-week method which is the four most important hacks with 100 super easy recipes to do them it's out everywhere in many languages there's also a link in the description of this episode for the page that is about throughly ghost goddess method and that is all we have time for today my dear thank you for being here and I will see you next time

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