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There's five reasons why you may not be losing weight when you're fasting.

Now, I want to clarify what this video is about.

I'm not talking about intermittent fasting.

I'm talking about just fasting for a longer period of time.

But since we're on the topic of intermittent fasting,

if you're doing intermittent fasting in keto and you're not losing weight,

usually it's because you're doing too many carbs. Okay, I've done a lot of it is on this.

You just have to really lower your carbs, sometimes down to 10 grams per day or less.

It could also be that you're just not fasting long enough.

Your metabolism is slow and you're fasting, let's say, 16 hours or 18 hours, you may need to do longer. Or you're just consuming too much fat and your body's turning the dietary fat into ketones not

your own fat into ketones so these are the three things to pay attention to but what this video's

about is let's say you're fasting for a longer period of time two days three days and you're not losing weight

why how can that be, there's a couple

reasons for this. Being in practice for 29 years, I've ran into certain individuals that

fasted for quite a period of time with hardly any weight loss. And I'm just going to tell you what we found with those people.

They usually always had an extremely slow metabolism. So let's say at birth, you just were

overweight. Sometimes kids have an infection and then they are given steroids or medication

or antibiotics that then mess

up their metabolism early on and then their parents might put them on diets after diet after

diet that slows down the metabolism that could be one reason so number one number two

constipation if you're constip, you could be walking around with five to

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