Cheat Meal After Building Your Health Reserve, Not Before
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 10 November 2020
⏱️ 4 minutes
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People ask me over and over about eating a cheat meal on keto. Here are the points to consider. When you’re first starting keto, and you’re not yet fully adapted to fat-burning, I don’t recommend a cheat meal. It could take you 20 hours or more to get back into ketosis, and that’s from just one meal! But after a few months when you’re fully adapted, you’ll be able to bounce back a lot quicker.
If you feel the need to go off the program, ask yourself what problem you’re trying to solve, and then see if you can solve it. Is it a blood sugar issue? Sometimes people cheat to try to bring their mood up.
Once you start cheating, it’s really hard to stop. I know from personal experience many years ago. I would cheat and then the next day craves the very food I’d cheated by eating. Nowadays, I feel so good when I’m on the program that I don’t need to go off it. I know how lousy I’ll feel if I do, and it’s not worth it.
Your important goal is to build up so much health in your body and develop so much health reserve, that going off the program won’t create a dent in your health. But if you go off it in the beginning, that’s not good, because you haven’t created your health yet.
If you find it challenging to stick to keto in the beginning, it’s okay to do the best you can and work your way up to one hundred percent keto. Having a cheat meal early on will prevent you from creating the health you want.
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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting, |
| 0:04.4 | whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product. |
| 0:10.5 | Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and over and over. |
| 0:48.4 | I wanted to create a video on some other aspects of it, so I have all these points in one video. Okay, so |
| 0:54.6 | number one, when you're first starting keto and you're not fully adapted into |
| 1:01.0 | fat burning, I don't recommend that you cheat, okay? |
| 1:07.0 | Because it's going to take a lot longer to get back on track. |
| 1:11.0 | It could take 20 hours or more just from one meal because it takes a while to get in |
| 1:17.8 | ketosis but once you're fully adapted after a few months you'll be able to bounce back a lot quicker. |
| 1:25.8 | And of course you'll make up the damage. |
| 1:29.0 | So that's one thing. |
| 1:29.8 | And number two, if you feel the need to go off the program, |
| 1:33.6 | ask yourself what problem am I trying to solve |
| 1:37.2 | and try to solve the deeper problem, |
| 1:39.6 | whatever that is. |
| 1:40.4 | Is it a blood sugar problem? |
| 1:42.0 | Is it something else because a lot of times people cheat just to feel better |
| 1:47.8 | to bring their mood up you know okay next point is once you start it's really |
| 1:51.9 | hard to stop. |
| 1:54.5 | I'll give you my own example. |
| 1:56.3 | In my 20s, I was addicted to sugar. |
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