Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

Hey guys, in this video we're going to talk about the 10 reasons why your belly might

not be shrinking on a ketogenic plan. Now, it would be nice just to give you a simple plan that

you can do and it would work 100% the time, but each body is different and there are very specific

reasons why you might not be losing your belly. Let's start with number one, not doing it correctly.

So many people that I talked to, I listened to what they're doing and they haven't read the book,

they're kind of just they saw a video and they're just trying it halfway and they're doing it

partially and they're not doing it correctly. So you want to bring your carbs down to 20 grams per

day, maybe even less, okay? If your metabolism is really slow and you're going through menopause

and you've done many diets in the past, you're going to probably have to bring your carbs down

to 10 grams per day. That's just what it's going to take because we have to counter that slow

metabolism. Protein have a moderate amount of protein between three and six ounces per day.

Large quantities of vegetables and as far as the fat in the very beginning, you're going to consume

more fat to allow yourself to go from one meal to the next, but as you start getting into it,

you have to cut that fat back because what we don't want is your body to turn the dietary fat

in the ketones and not your own body fat in the ketones. We want to rely on your own body fat.

So we want to cut that down. I have a ton of videos on that, I'll put some links down below.

So this is number one. Number two, you're not doing intermittent fasting. You're only doing keto.

Well, that's not going to work because every time you eat, you trigger insulin.

And so by doing intermittent fasting, you can greatly accelerate the results and decrease insulin

big time. So the combination is really essential. There are so many therapeutic reasons why

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