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So you're doing keto, but the weight's not coming off or it's very slow.

What can you do?

Now, I've done a ton of videos on Plateau.

I'm going to put some links down below.

But I want to give you a summary of three really important things, okay, related to slow weight loss. So number one, the goal is to get your ketones

from your own body fat, not necessarily your diet. I really want to make that distinction

because sometimes people think that keto is a high-fat

diet. No, it's a low-carb diet. Being on keto does not mean unlimited fat. It doesn't mean that

you can keep eating these fat-filled keto bombs all that long. That's not going to work. And drink

tons of MCT oil and take these exogenous ketone supplements

and thinking you're actually going to lose weight. No, that's not going to happen because if you provide

your body with dietary fat or ketones and we compare that to your own fat, the body is going to always

use the dietary fat in ketones first before it taps into your

own fat. And so if you're not losing weight, that could be the reason why you might need to

cut down on some of the extra fat. I would just consume the fat that normally comes with the

protein and also realize that dietary fat has more than doubled calories. So when we say the ketogenic diet is 70 or 75% fat, we're talking

about calories. That's a little different than the size or the volume of fat. And I think it's

confusing for people because they think they have to fill up half the plate with fat because it's 70%

fat. But what they're missing

is that if you take carbohydrates and protein and fat, the fat calories are more than double

as far as the density of calories versus these other two. All right, let's go to number two.

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