Ep:130 WHAT YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT YOURSELF BEFORE YOU START KETO OR RECOVER FROM A RELAPSE - R. Cywes
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The statement Dr. Cywes has made that resonated with me is that a snack is always an emotional event. Powerful.
Me too Bonni!!!
I've lost 160 pounds and have kept it off for over 10 years. I remember looking at my huge tummy and thinking, "Something could be growing in there and I'd never know." The first thing I did was to quit eating fast food and "junk" food. That, alone, enabled me to lose 40 pounds. Then I quit sodas, then cut down on portion size, then cut way back on carbs. Finally, I went full Keto. Yes, I've had relapses--mostly due to extreme stress, but always have gotten back on track. I also remember when I first realized I was an emotional eater, something I had denied all my life. It was the Sunday after the Twin Towers attack in N.Y. I had gone to dinner with some friends, came home, turned on the TV, and watched the reporting on all the horrible news. All I wanted to do was eat. But I stopped and thought, "You can't possibly be hungry. You just ate a big dinner." So I went out to a local park, watched people playing soccer, having picnics, couples holding hands. By the time I went home, the urge to eat was gone. That taught me to work with my emotions rather than numb them with food.I didn't always succeed, but I did more often than not. The fact that I feel so much better when I eat properly is what gets me over my relapses and keeps the weight off. People tell me I have amazing will power; I tell them it's not will power--I just like to feel good.
What you said works for most people, but not everyone.
Hooked on health,, well done
When I watch Dr. Cywes, I feel like he's talking directly to me. He is brutally honest and tells it like it really is. Finally a doctor that really understands. He doesn't say that carb addiction is the problem and not give ideas to fix it, he has video after video going into detail on how to change it. This was long overdue...thanks Dr. Cywes...
Talk about an “ah-hah” moment. I’ve been thinking I was following the KETO diet for the past six years. Yes, I should be calling it the carb addiction diet. I cannot stop eating just one Atkins fat bombs. I was in a trance last night and probably consumed 8-9 w/o stopping. I just cannot take one bite of sugar and stop though I’ve told myself hundreds of times I could. No more “one bite or just one.” From now on it’s the sugar carb addiction diet. Thanks for the flood light on top of my brain!🙋♀️🙏🏻😷☕️
Omg, I could have written this myself! I've tried to convince myself I could control my eating sweets...keto or not but I CANNOT! Let's do this!!
@@marywright3870 Same here, I could've written it myself. It was an eye opener. I'm with you, let's do it!! 👍♥️🤗
Check out Brightline Eating also
@@dagneytaggart407 That diet would never work for me. In the past before Keto I could easily consume an entire bag of apples over 2 hours after supper. No, I know myself. And any amount of carbs over 7 at one time, makes me overeat.
Same here Joyce. I can eat an entire box of SlimFast keto fat bombs or bars. Best to stay away from it.
Dr Cywes is definitely in my lineup now! He, Dr Berry, Dr Berg and Thomas DeLauer round out my team! Good stuff!
Dr Boz & Perlmutter also are fab
Dr. Eric Westman
And Ben Bikman
Dont forget Dr. John Bergman! All doc listed here are awesome! Dont forget Dr. Robert Lustig too.
And Dr Boz!
Its true...The worst thing to overcome is the LUST to eat. If we are bored, we like to eat and so on.
Dr C dropping the truth bombs.
The hardest part is living in a house with people who eat pizza, cookies, brownies, fried chicken, etc...so hard!
Me too!
Eventually, they will follow you if they see your progress and decide to change their way of eating! If it’s your kids you are talking about, than it’s on you! Good luck on your keto journey! ❤️
INDEED!
When I heard the words "you're a1c is 6.6 so you're now diabetic" over the phone, it killed my emotional relationship with food. I don't want to ever hear those words again.
Oh, this really hit home for me.
I'm doing very well on keto and even managed to incorporate some fasting...but if I'm entirely honest...I still self medicate with food. I drink (way too much) coffee with cream and will snack (against my will/resolutions on cheese or dark chocolate in the evenings).
And while that doesn't exactly cause me harm, other than maybe reaching my desired goal of +/- 20% body fat (which I'm now closing in to, thanks to occasional fasting days), I do no like having what feels like addictive behavior. I basically can not stick to my self imposed restrictions, unless I ban food my house completely and only purchase whatever I plan to eat each day individually. That even goes for meat and veggies. They're the only things I won't downright binge on, but I can't keep myself from eating enough to not be in a caloric deficit even with them. It really sucks. And hunger is definitely not the problem. I'm so deep in ketosis, I'm not even very hungry. I just want to eat, because it makes me feel less bored and frustrated.
I've always compensated negative feelings with food and even almost complete abstinence from carbs hasn't fixed that - it has just made it easier to control.
Yes, that's how I knew I was an addict. Still bingeing from time to time although on the right food. Have to take it day by day. Definitely better then before but still have work to do.
Yes eating out of boredom mostly.
I decided to learn the piano and it has helped me stay occupied and out of the kitchen with something that is fun and creative - and effort based just like Dr Cywes recommends. Building a life away from food. Thanks for the good advice doc!
Well said - same here
Eats like a smoker..... you nailed it on the head. Craving carbs has a purpose a few thousand years ago... now it's exploited by the food companies.
For not being a psychiatrist/psychologist, you are brilliant with this understanding and explanation. While I'm still a work-in-progress with success in diverting my triggers, I am now much more in tune. You're right, if you can't identify them, you can't resolve them. Your suggestion of a bridge has had me adding diet pop in the afternoon, especially when work stress is the highest. I've added a very short walk, mostly to see sunshine, get away from the house/work (working from home with an elderly parent), than for exercise. And I dance rigorously (in my bedroom! 🤣) for exercise, plus the positive, upbeat music also helps me mentally. Is my desire for snacks completely cured? Nope, but I'm better. When super stressed do I really, really want 2 glasses of wine? Am I 100% perfect on avoiding? Nope. But I'm better. Without your regular counsel, I don't know where I would be both mentally and physically after a year home due to the pandemic. Thank you so much! (Sorry for such a long post.)
One of the greatest skills you have to build in all of this is the ability to distract yourself. To move your mind onto something else than the drive to eat carbs. When I run out of distractions is when I am most vulnerable.
Wow, the honest, naked truth! This is, in great detail, the perspective that I and those like me need to have. I am 76 years old, obese, T2 diabetic, and I know my eating habits are not for hunger, but for comfort. I remember telling my doctor that I just cannot stop eating. I finish dinner and immediately open of bag of chips or whatever. Six weeks ago, at 250 pounds and tired of all the ills that being at that weight brings me, I started keto. I also discovered that even a few carbs were keeping me from getting a start. The answer for me was to dial the carbs down to zero. Six weeks later, I am at 230 pounds, and eating a carnivore diet, and for the last week, I am eating just once a day. At this very point in time, I cannot say that I really enjoy the diet, the smell of cooking meat is almost nausiating as is the prospect of eating fat. Perhaps that is a good thing, since I am no longer fixated on my next meal. I am finding it relatively easy to fast nearly 24 hours between meals, which I never thought I would be able to do. Also on the positive side, my blood sugar level is in 80s without medication, my blood pressure is 128 over 79 without medication, GERD is somewhat moderated, as I still get an acid stomach a fair amount of the time. Perhaps the most remarkable difference is that about two weeks ago, a brain fog that I did not know I had, lifted. At first I attributed it to something my addiction to carbs had created, but about two weeks before starting my keto, I stopped taking a statin I was prescibed. It turns out that statins are infamous for brain fog, so it might have been that - regardless, I am not going back to carbs or statins; I like having a clear mind and a mental acuity that allows me to play with calculus and physics.
I'd also suggest people look at their potential childhood trauma to help with the mental aspects of change and how we treat ourselves.
Expressive writing and journaling is helpful when processing trauma
Still waiting for your book, Doc.😁😁😁
Love this video!
My name is Melanie and I am a carb addict- Thank you for your videos🙏🏻
71 years old, never get sick and never take meds. I was 248 , 60 pounds overweight . I failed at Keto 2 years ago after a quick 20 pound loss. I don't remember exactly why but I remember my wife baking some delicious carrot cakes. Like 3 of them in a week. I wasn't mentally prepared but this time I am.
I started carnivore a week ago and have dropped a pound a day and I'm at 240 this morning. Good energy and no hunger of carb cravings.
Eating once a day is fine with me. For the last 2 days I ate 4 eggs at 4PM and I feel good. Skipping breakfast was simple for me so I had an advantage.
I'm going on a vacation next week and I'm already preparing myself for the temptations awaiting me. At home, I can just hang out and go nowhere. Vacations typically involve a lot of dining so this one will have to be different. It's a beach vacation and we do a lot of walking, at least a mile a day, up to 3 or 4, so that will help. I
I'm committed and prepared for the mental challenge. I've ALWAYS known I was an emotional eater so everything Dr Cywes says on the subject makes perfect sense.
Thanks for letting me blog :) It helps
So appreciated this talk. It's been two years since I changed lifestyles. This was such a great reminder as I've been visiting family and much of each visit centers around food. "You can't live with an abusive spouse and expect to not be abused." Good reminder that emotional eating is an abusive spouse. Also good to hear again the first step of documenting every carbohydrate that goes into my mouth to be aware of how often "eating events" happen. First step to any cure is proper diagnosis. Thanks Dr C and staff. Basics are, well, basic!
Found your videos in November when I was thinking of doing a whole 30 throughout the holidays to avoid carbs. In the past I found that grueling and barely sustainable for the 30 days. Then I saw your vid on liver function and your thoughts on carnivore/keto/veggies. I'm down 30lbs and still going strong 3 months later.
Totally true! Treat keto or carnivore like an addiction, like a way of life and you will have amazing results. I'm already in the second year in keto together with my lovely wife and we feel younger and fitter than ever. Our daughter is on LCHF and she's doing excellent too!
I relapsed when I gave myself the right to have cheat days, bad move for me. On day 67 of second attempt, now using a log book to note times and what I eat has been beneficial for me, Using the free My Fitness Pal app to monitor and adjust my macros as the day progresses. lost 16 lbs and 4" of visceral belly fat so far being this strict less than 20gr of carbs a day on keto.
I relapsed thinking I’d have one cookie. A month and a half later and I’m finally in control again. So for me, I just need to realize that I can have what I want, but I can’t want health and cheating. It’s one or the other. Stay strong, friend!
@@schroekate Thank you Kate, lol we have the same last name, what were the odds? facebook.com/norbert.schroeder.7
@@schroekate wow I like that. I can do what I want but can't have health and cheating! Thanks ❤
Cheating is only cheating yourself and you are worth more than being cheated.
@@dawnsummers3754 Yes, we all know this, I guess you missed the addiction part lol.
What you describe doctor, is precisely me on a psychological/physiological basis... When I'm going into the kitchen to grab a crunchy carbohydrate I'm skipping and know I'll feel in "love" soon. if I'm going to prepare meat, there's no franticness to it...
Robert Wells Oh, just wait until you go skipping into the kitchen for a ribeye. It'll happen at some point, when looking at the carbage in the store just looks like clutter on the shelves.
@@dawnsummers3754 I agree. I've been reading labels with awhile, getting rid of the "bad oils", and most of the "stuff" in the supermarket is useless.
Thanks for this video ! No one approaches keto the way you do which has definitely brought light to my addition. Going on my keto journey now and want it to be a permanent habit ! Will be posting a video soon on my journey . I definitely use eating for managing my emotions !!
CarbaddictionDoc, when you have the opportunity can you please produce a video on what hunger should actually feel like? Many times people eat because we think we are hungry. What are the actual feelings we need to feel to NEED to consume food? Please and thank you.
That’s a good question. I only realized what true hunger is when I tried fasting and going down to one or two meals a day.
Yes. I second this. I have been becoming adapted to 16-24 hour fasting and can not tell the difference between my ritual of coming home for dinner and true hunger
You, sir, are such an incredible resource for so many of us out here. Thank you..
Thanks doc! I needed this kick in the pants today. Been struggling for months and have put 20 pounds back on. I know I'm a carb and sugar addict! I was prediabetic with NAFLD at 44 years old. I've been an active landscaper and designer and not someone who sits on the couch so I never thought I'd follow my father's footsteps to diabetes. I dropped it all, started fasting and dropped 60 pounds in a year. I got comfortable and started to cheat. I haven't quit since. I needed to hear this to remind me why I did it in the first place and that I CAN! No more cheating when you have an addiction! Thank you!
GUILTY! haha I allowed myself to eat tiny amounts of (dark) chocolate chips to help stop eating Lily's chocolate which was killing my gut....haha of course I was eating them all day after 2 weeks....now I'm sad since eating none for 48 hours... increasing my fat & salt now - this psychological info is extremely helpful - Thanks!
I told my husband about how I now know this is really an addiciton, because the day I accepted a piece of cake, I couldn't stop myself anymore. Happened the second time now. Sometimes it is as if I was standing beside me and watching me in my addiction. I know it all, but cannot stop. Good thing is, I feel I'm mentally returning to being able to start over again.
@ Jo Si OMG yes I did it with Christmas cookies! And I’m still trying to get back on track! I gave in after 10 months of no carbs to trying a cookie then the next thing I knew I was eating more cookies, cake, and even all the traditional carbs at dinner! I kept hearing myself I’ll just start again Monday🥺😭 and I’m now hearing...I’ll start tomorrow! I really needed this today thank you for Responding!!!! I wish you success in your journey!
Get back up on the horse. You’ll go farther this time with that new knowledge under your belt. Over the holidays I fell into overdoing dairy - yogurt- kefir sour cream- whipping cream and it really got out of hand. Was eating dairy instead of anything else! Getting back on track now.
@@sherrimilller4722 don't worry, you've been there and you'll get back there. As for me and my journey, which is ongoing for nearly 6 years now, I now know that I'll get back there again eventually. I've been literally feeling the mood approaching for a couple of days and I quitted carbs again on Saturday night. So don't beat yourself up, but trust that you'll make it once again. Just because you want to 😊
@@Patricia-qg6bd I love dairy, especially milk in coffee. And I'm basically a coffee-based life form...😂
Thank you Dr. Cywes! Your videos always help to refresh my way of thinking about food.
THANK YOU!!! THIS IS GREAT!!! Because of YOU Dr Cywes (and Carnivore Doctor Lisa Wiedeman,) I've finally gotten my addiction under control after being an "expert on failing." THANK YOU!!
Thank you for your frank and technical information. You disseminate in a non-condescending way, but still give details about metabolic processes and real life strategies. Thank you for not being afraid to speak the truth.
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Even after 3 years of this way of life, I still got great advice from this vid. Good reminders doc! Thanks!!!
Wonderful video. Very practical steps of contemplation and self observation. I love the wisdom : "I want to be happy, healthy then dead," Yes, we all do. Thanks, Rob.
Thank you for this video - I am a total carb addict and try to watch your videos when I’m tempted. It’s the day in and day out temptations that are hard - I know a lot of it is emotional. I do wish there were AA type meetings for us carbies.
@Julie, I am finding, armed w the knowledge the Doc is feeding us w, I can make only 1 decision at a time...will this feed me, nutrition(?), or do I want to continue hurting myself? I only have to make this 1 decision! And since it’s the only thing I have to decide on, at that moment, I am able to make a good choice! And it’s working! So I don’t feel overwhelmed by thinking ALL the changes I need to make...since I have a lifetime of bad eating habits.
I only have to make that 1decision, at that moment. And it’s not overwhelming and it helps me get through to the next time or decision that comes round. Eventually, I’m starting to see positive changes in weight, health and mindsets!!!
Don’t give up on yourself!
Dr. Cywes, love the statement on “ not capable of controlling the relationship “ whether it’s food , alcohol or tobacco really it’s true on any addiction . I have a family member that has a alcohol addiction and one that has a food/ carb addiction ... it saddens my heart to see them suffer ... this video was very RAW and pointed , going to pass it on ... thanks
Really enjoyed this video! Carb addition is real!!! I really enjoy the Keto lifestyle but allowed carbs & sugar at Xmas 2019. It took me a whole year to break the cycle of caving to carbs again. Started fresh Jan 1/21 and I have been consistent because I have finally acknowledged the trigger foods, the Keto bars, and starchier veggies that send me searching for more. I just don't buy them anymore and do my best to only eat once or twice a day, as you have recommended here. Love your no nonsense approach!
I am carb addicted . Now I know I am. In the past, I’ve lost hundreds of pounds over and over again, but never kept it off . Keto was good for 2 years , till COVID came, I’d lost 22 kilos over 3 years, then put it all back on in 6 months. Plus some. Now, as I am carb addicted, I’m going to go carnivore, it’s easier than trying to replace foods, meat, eggs , butter and some cream in coffee, that’s it. I’ll keep listening to your wonderful channel, as you are honest and a big help. Doctors only keep pushing me to have a stomach by pass, that goes against my wishes as it doesn’t stop the problem of comfort eating. I am addicted!! Thank you for making me see that dr Cywes.
Hey I bought the book you recommended, End your Keto Confusion. It's excellent!!!- thanks for the tip.
End your Carb confusion?
@@angelaposton6878 ah yes sorry, turns out I was confused- its an excellent book.
Thanks! Love both of the Authors, followed them on RUclips for quite some time.
This Dr shoots from the hip...thank you.
Amazing lecture ! I have been doing keto for almost 3 years .. basically carnivore last 6 months .. I still struggle with my carb addiction... but the relationship with food has evolved for me into exactly what you are saying ... thank you for your help in my journey!
That first question absolutely worked for me to help me change my way of eating for life.
This is like listening to someone that is ultra smart ,that really wants you to have a better life , Thanks Dr. If I could cross the border I'd go spend some time in his care, im 1/3 of the way through my journy ,a year and 50 lbs , another year to go and this phyc lesson helped me .
Thank you- I needed this resetting mindset today 🌸
Wow! I so needed to hear this today. I think this one has resonated with me most of all. Thank you, I am going to listen to this ever day that I feel like giving in to my addiction...thank you
Thank you Dr Cywes. It has been the replacement component missing before discovering your videos. I got rid of my best friend and learned to replace it with writing, meditation, watching comedy, walking in nature. Thank you SOO much!
I had gastric bypass RNY in 2008 at 328 lbs and 5'4". I started a low carb lifestyle in September 2020 at 265 lbs. Went through some stressful times and ate carbs. I am right back in the addiction cycle. I am trying to claw my way out. I want to visit with you @Robert Cywes but you have become so popular, it will be January 2022 before you have an opening but I'm getting booked now. I quit smoking years ago, quit drinking and would never consider picking up a cigarette or a drink. I have GOT to treat this the same way - stress or no stress!!!
I'm currently at 228.
It felt like you were talking directly to me. As an ex smoker (10 + years) , you hit the nail on the head, carbs have replaced my smokes. I treat food like I treated my cigarettes, Instant pleasure.
Thank you so much ,a true eye opener.
I needed this. Still struggling after Christmas.
Thank you Dr. Cywes!! I needed this today. So thankful to have met you and Jane!!
Really like this guy . He is brutally honest !
Thank you Dr. Cywes I love your perspective on our relationship with food. I needed to hear it. I've been on Keto for 6 months and have lost 40 lbs. It's always in the back of my head of what will I do when I reach my goal? Will I stay with it? But, now I know that I can never go back to sugar and a high carb diet. Your explanations about the damage that sugar does to your body biochemically in other videos has been alarming and now this video confirms my love affair with carbs. The test will be when I eventually get back together with friends and family over meals this year when there's peach cobbler, peaches and cream corn and root beer floats on a hot summer evening.
I have never felt like a sugar crack head until now.
Kinda hits home doesn’t he?
Me too darlin'!
That book and Motivational Interviewing are great to help yourself and others.
I love the cold hard factual approach! Give me the tools and teach me. Thank you Dr. Cywes!
On the money doc. I'm a food addict, but since I started fasting (mostly OMAD) I feel I can control much better my cravings, the only think I still do is have something sweet with my coffee when I finish my meal(ketovore), but then I go 23 hours without eating anything, just drinking water and coffee twice a day! I feel good and lost weight, but I know I'd feel even better if I stopped sweets completely! That's my next goal. Thanks for this video. Amazing. 💙🙏
I was very good on the keto diet when i was treating it like an addiction, I got my first tooth cavity and it scared me. I am also on the diet to help with my moods with bipolar disorder 1, keto brought me out of severe depression. This has to be my lifestyle.
Video on BPD coming up. Great job
Love your messages...people need to hear truth!
Fantastic...need to share this with my Canadian Keto FB support group; Let'sKetoCanada.
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@@robertcywes2966 , most of us are grads of Eric Westmans Keto Masterclass...we talk the same talk. Community is soooo important.
Always a successful dieter, never a successful maintainer. You get me. No diet has ever taught me how to change my relationship with what I put in my mouth. While I have followed a low carb diet for the past year, I am not one of the people who has had fast, dramatic results. The results have been slow with "bumps" in the road but I'm hopeful that slow progress will create more of a lifestyle change. This latest bump feels more like a roadblock. The idea to "protect myself from myself" resonates with me. I intend to stop and ask myself those questions but before I remember to do that, something is already in my mouth. Please speak to ways to break that cycle. Your videos always give me a shot in the arm. Thank you for giving your time to make these videos.
You have to have a bridge. That's what keeps you from snacking. Dr Cywes uses coffee. I just use water. Only eat if you are hungry and can eat a meal.
True I smoked
Quit. Eating was same
But trying keto
Less eating I have to keep busy not to eat
Thank you so much for your insight into carb addiction!! You have helped so many people improve their health!! And thank you for not banning coffee!! 🤣☕️🙂
Followed a keto program. Did really well for the 8 weeks. Lost 1.5 stone. Program finished. Weight and carbs creeping back in!!!!
It has to become a way of life. And it does if you keep at it.
Lifelong
Absolutely love, love love coffee too!! Thank you for putting the truth out there the way it is!! If I want a straight answer, I know I can look you up. Thank you for sharing your wisdom, knowledge and encouragement.
It's good advise to count every time you put calories into your body. I say to people starting on Keto to stop snacking immediately and do that vigorously for about two months. You are totally unaware of your habits unless you break away from them. When you are used to not to snack, you'll register that you are actually putting something in your mouth and you can act upon it. It may not work for everybody, but it worked for me.
Also try to eat only when you are hungry and not just because it's customary. I've tested this myself (blood sugar) and for me this usually is in synchrony with lower sugar level, but the body will adapt by creating some sugar if needed. You don't have to put in your body. When your body really needs food it signaling is different and much harder to ignore.
I like what Dr. Cywes says albeit I don't like to admit what he says is true re: addiction.
I need professional, brutal honesty and THAT IS what I get each time I watch a video. Thank you Dr!!
I use to smoke after quitting I am
so much more aware of how I use food for feelings
How I wish there was more awareness and help in the medical community. I have searched and found nothing in my area. There are too few great Doctors like you. God bless you. Thanks Dr. Cywes.
All true. I have recently had to own carb addiction. I had been very successful with keto and fasting, but when starting antifibrotic treatment I gave myself permission to eat carbs. Once I began eating sugars I was soon out of control. Antifibrotic treatment was a failure in spite of relaxing my dietary restrictions so now I will begin keto again. It has NEVER been hard before, but I’m really struggling now.
Hey everybody, if this video helps you, send Dr C a few bucks on Patreon.
I’m a monthly Patreon supporter because Dr C has helped me so much with my emotional eating.
Agreed. Real health care!
Wow. Thanks so much. I'm embarrassed always to ask for donations. Thanks so much for ur support
Same here!
I don’t follow a keto or carnivore diet, but I really like Dr Cywes approach to diet. Rlly helps with keeping on track with whatever ur doing!
Eye opening for sure. Great way to look at it.
Amazing, absolutely amazing!!!
So appreciate your encouragement!.
Your words carry more factual truth than anyone else I have ever heard from. Thank you so much with deep admiration for my future health and wellness.
Wow! Just found you and it couldn’t have been at a better time. Honest and to the point...love this and I’m hooked!! Thank you!
Thank you thank you thank you!!!! Your words are genius! I am a carb addict and this is a safe place for me to be heard! As a nurse I applaud your approach!!!
Absolutely love your straightforward approach to your videos Dr. Cywes. I need a little tough love sometimes to keep me going in the right direction, and your videos do just that. They say it like it is, and are also very informational at the same time. I've shared this video to multiple people, and just hope you can maybe reach them the way you have reached me. Thank you!!
Thank you so much for this message today.
Good timing, since I’m feeling a sugar relapse in my near future
Stay carbsober
@@robertcywes2966 1 day at a time
If you slip just take note of how you feel and perform over the next 2 days, both physically and mentally, that always brings me home , I ate chocolate eggs first 2 then 5'then half the bag, finished them next day, I'm awake couldn't sleep right day 3 and a bad bowel episode, seems Cadbury Eggs, not a good Idea? , Tonight I will eat once and it will be meat and eggs for a good fat, and that's when I just run better.
Dr C, you would probably really enjoy the book, Rational Recovery, by Jack Timpey.
One of the things I have gotten from the book, so far, is that I need to make a PLAN to be abstinent if I want to be successful. So, this aligns with your plan to use a bridge (coffee) and to continue expanding your self-assessment and self-knowledge of how you are doing with avoiding your substance (carbs).
Timperr emphasizes how the limbic brain drives us toward pleasure, with no ability to consider our health or future well-being. Once we can recognize this drive, and basically tell if to f-off, resisting cravings becomes much easier.
Just wanted to share. Keep up with the great work, and hug that baby for me.
Thank you! You have opened my eyes to so much about myself. I have always recognized that I ate as an emotional response. It started when I was a young child and I used food to cope my parents divorce and those emotions. I just didn’t know how to stop doing it. I have slowly started to change my eating and now recognize even more that I still use vises that I put to my mouth and realize I need to stop and replace them with something positive and beneficial to my life. I am becoming more
Empowered each day. I have begun your lifestyle plan and exercise daily. I Thank you and I thank the Lord for putting you in my path.
Three great questions. I have written them down because it works for me to have a visual. Great starting point. Thank you
I gave up smoking almost 30 years ago, surprisingly successfully finally once I decided that I wanted to be a nonsmoker even more than I wanted the cigarette. Cold turkey, no tapering off. Tapering off doesn’t work for me. In order to help me not crave cigarettes I also gave up my evening cocktails, which I thought would be impossible. I was fairly convinced I was an alcoholic. On the contrary, surprisingly, foregoing alcohol was easy. Once I got through the first couple of weeks of not smoking it got much easier. Also, I started new behaviors to distract me. I began exercising to work off steam. Rather than gaining weight by quitting cigarettes I lost weight. HOWEVER, all of that said, I have NEVER had such a difficult time giving up anything as I have had with carbohydrate/sugar addiction. I always fall off the wagon. Always. It is hell. And I’m also convinced there is a correlation between alcohol and sugar/carb addiction. I drink more wine than I should. And I can’t seem to avoid sweets. There is always a holiday, a birthday, a family event, and I cave. I wish I could check myself into a carb addiction sanitarium for 6 months. People don’t believe that carb addiction is a real thing. But it is.
The most important video you have ever made ❤️
Thank you.
So much great information packed in this video! I think I listened to it several times! Dealing with the emotional why,of eating is one of the biggest hurdles I need to tackle! The ketogenic way of eating has definitely helped me lose and maintain better than any other way of eating. But failure to deal with the “whys” will foil even the success with keto. I’m going to check out that book you mentioned, too. Thank you for addressing these issues!
This makes so much sense!! How valuable it will be to stop and ask yourself...why am I eating this-something you know can bring you harm!!
As a former addict to opiates (or should I just say addict...because it is a life long fight even though I’ve been off the meds for almost 10 years) this makes total sense. I’ve definitely substituted opiates for sugar.
Wonderful talk. Thank you for sharing, Dr. C.
Shared!
Good thing I'm in this to get healthy. The weight loss is a bonus. I'm being gentle with myself because I've had a horrible diet for the majority of my life.
I stopped eating commercially produced deserts and candy in March. That's the same time I started keto. I don't count calories or carbs (should probably count carbs). I read every label on everything I eat and have not had seed oils (except for a couple times I had tortilla chips with Mexican food). I feel MUCH better. My family has lost weight (my oldest has lost enough that his pants were falling off - lol).
My biggest problem at the moment - that you helped me realize and come to terms with - is emotional eating. I'm eating healthy (no fruit) but I was frequently taking a bite of this here and a bite of that there. I'm working on that. Trying to find a no calorie drink I can substitute to help deal with that.
I never realized I had such a problem before. Thank you for making me aware of this.
Very good information and it does help someone understand a lot better I believe anyway on why they are eating so much... plus it’s so true how diabetics eat so much! Thank you Dr ... I agree with you!
Great insight. It's not a diet, it's a lifestyle, a great way of living.
This is the most plain and simple explanation I've heard. If you don't understand what he's saying watch this video over and over till it sinks in.
Grazie dottore!
These are my successful helpers: 1. Do not open the pantry or refrigerator. 2. Quickly skip past all online food recipes on social media, even the KETO ones, unless it is time to cook one of them to eat immediately . 3. When a hunger pang appears and it’s not time to eat, tell self that the feeling will pass within hours and drink salted lemon water. 4. Listen to a RUclips video such as this one.
Awesome video. Thanks. We can’t have your help in Australia but at least we can still get your videos :)
Such very true very good stuff.....
Watching this for the second time because I need to drill it into my head! I've made a lot of the changes and have come a loooong way, but still using my favorite drug in keto form (lily's chocolate) is keeping me stalled. Time to find some better emotion management strategies, build better habits, find new bridges and take the next step!