Weight Loss Plateau 101 for a Slow Metabolism – Dr.Berg

Hi , guys .

I wanna do another video to recap what happens when you plateau with your weight loss .

I have a lot of videos on this , so I'll put some other links down below if you want more information .

I wanted to do this video in a new unit of time to kinda give you some of the updated information in the sequence of importance .

Okay ?

Just based on people's successes and failures and what I'm running into when I'm , talking to people and trying to debug cases .

The first thing you're gonna look at when you're plateauing is make sure that you're doing it correctly and you're implementing correctly .

So many people are not getting in the basics .

So they're doing something partially and they're wondering why it's not working .

The most important thing is , especially if you have a slow metabolism , is to keep your carbs below 20 grams .

Okay ?

Yeah .

You can go up to 50 , but 20 grams or less , very important , because there's that can actually completely stop your progress .

Some people can't get away with even 30 , let alone 40 or 50 , so they go down to 20 and , man , they start losing like crazy .

Now , also the no snacking thing between the meals .

So if you're doing this , yet you're eating a lot of peanuts late at night or you're , having an extra snack , that's gonna be a meal , and that's gonna bump you out of fat burning .

So we wanna do intermittent fasting correctly and not cheat .

You may find that you're eating when you're not even hungry .

That would be a mistake .

You don't wanna eat when you're not hungry .

So go as long as you can and then eat .

Okay ?

So we have that .

And also just kind of , when if you have insulin resistance or hypoglycemia and blood sugar issues , just make sure you adjust the fat at the end of the meal so you can go comfortably to the next meal so you're not adding more stress to the body .

Then we have , keeping your vegetables very high .

If you're trying to do this without vegetables , it's not gonna work because you're gonna create a lot of strain on the liver .

You're not gonna have the vitamins and the potassium to really make this thing work .

Let alone all the benefits from , feeding your gut all the fiber .

You you need the vegetables .

Number 2 , the hidden carbs .

Alcohol is a hidden carb .

It's going to stop your weight loss .

So if you're doing it all week long and you're going off on the weekends and doing wine , alcohol , that could be the reason why it's not working .

Or if you're consuming fruit , apples , things like that .

You can have little berries , but fruit will easily bump you out of ketosis .

Stress is a big one .

If you're , a stress bucket where you have your so much stress around your in your environment , your family , this and that , you're gonna just have to do whatever you have to do to reduce that stress or change your environment because this could completely stop your ability to lose weight because it spikes cortisol .

In the presence of cortisol , all 6 fapening hormones are shut down .

Now if you can't avoid the stress , you can go on long walks each day , like an hour and a half just to get the stress out .

That would be important .

Sleep is really really key .

I've had people just add another hour of sleep and then finally lose weight .

So this is really key .

If you can't sleep , watch my videos , techniques to help you sleep .

Very important .

The quality of sleep , especially if you're tired during the day .

Next one is other health problems .

If you're trying to lose weight on top of other health problems , you're violating the whole , getting healthy to lose weight , not lose weight to get healthy .

So the goal is to get healthy and that means get rid of the other health problems that you have .

That would be improving your thyroid function .

You might need to add selenium or iodine to that .

I have a lot of videos on that .

Constipation , well , if you're only going once a week , that could be a situation that's gonna stop you from losing weight .

I've had people , even increase some of the sugar alcohols like xylitol , erythritol , and that created a nice laxative effect , and so they were finally able to go .

But we need to fix this .

I have videos on this as well .

Or if your menstrual cycle is really heavy and kind of messed up , like , for a week or 2 weeks some some women have , like , 2 weeks out of the month , it's it's some serious discomfort with their menstrual cycle , and that , hormonally , will , block weight loss .

And then we have people that have inflammatory conditions , arthritis , fibromyalgia , all this inflammation .

Again , what's going on in the body is that you might have to , do something to improve this .

Not take steroids , but again I have a lot of techniques on how to get rid of inflammation .

Ultimately , the intermittent fasting should clear a lot of this up .

Then we have , supplementing .

Some people , need to add or enhance their diet with more minerals , more potassium , more manganese , more trace minerals and b vitamins .

Okay ?

So this is another thing that will actually help tweak and enhance your ability to lose weight .

And then , of course , adding the exercise is the icing on the cake .

Again , work up to it .

Make sure you don't over train .

The goal is to do a full body , high intensity , short duration , long rest , not very frequent to let your body to recover a 100% to maximize the benefit of that fat burning effect .

Alright ?

So see which one you need to apply and see if that doesn't help you debug that plateau .

Thanks for watching .

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