Did Your Body Forget How to Burn Fat? Eat These 7 Foods to Trigger Visceral Fat Loss

Do you feel like your body just forgot how to burn fat? Well, I've got good news for you because it's not your fault. It's the modern food is not giving your body the information it needs to be able to burn fat. And we know that this isn't a you problem. This is a we problem. Because when we look at the statistics, we have 115 million Americans with prediabetes. That's two in five. And another 40 million Americans with full-blown diabetes. And so while everybody is concerned and working on the weight loss drugs, really what we have to address is the signal. And you can do that with food. So in this video, I'm going to show you exactly how you can use food and lifestyles and very specific food. I want to make sure you leave this video with like a shopping list where you actually can go and get those that food that will change the signal in your body. And I want to show you what not to do what's crossing those signals up. And I want to actually give you what I'm calling a seven-day reset. How can I give you something that takes you from this video and moves you into action is something that I think about all the time. So I've come up with a seven-day reset. You can follow immediately after this video. Are you ready? Okay, let's dive in. So why do your signals get crossed? Well, the first thing that I want you to understand is that your plate, when you put a plate together, it's actually missing one thing. This is a master switch for hunger. And that one thing is fiber. So a large study in the journal, a British Journal of Nutrition looked at dietary intake from over 14,000 American adults and fewer than one in 10 of us are actually hitting the required levels of fiber. Fiber slows down your blood sugar spike and it feeds the microbes that make GLP-1 hormone that tells your brain to shut hunger off. I am not joking when I say that we could get off the weight loss drugs. You could get the same effect of these weight loss drugs if you just increase fiber. And I'm going to show you specifically what type of fiber. Second driver of the miss signaling that's going on your body is your blood sugar. We've talked about this a lot here. So if you think about it, it's the blood sugar going up and down and up and down. And so the pancreas is like insulin, no insulin. The hormones like leptin and ghrelin, which are your hunger hormones, they're like on, off, on, off. We've got to stabilize your blood sugar because it's every time that blood sugar crashes, whether it's 10 in the morning or three in the afternoon, what's happening is it's firing off. We need food into the system. And it's making you more hungry than your body actually needs to be. It's a miss firing of that signal. Okay, driver number three. This is a new one. And I really want you to dive into this one. Your gut bacteria are under fed. So you make GLP-1 hormone. GLP-1 hormone is an appetite suppressant. And you make it through the microbes in your gut. And when you don't feed your gut the right types of fiber and the right types of food, there's no signal to tell your brain to shut off hunger. So we're going to fix that. Driver number four is you are eating foods in the wrong order. Now, I'm a big fan of intuitive eating. Like, can I just eat? Now, I used to count calories. Then I counted macros. And now I got to eat it in the right order. This is actually the easiest one. Because when you go to eat, I want you to start eating for your microbes, those little bugs in your gut that may have completely been demolished by antibiotics, by birth control, by stress. We got to bring them back to life because they coordinate the hunger signals. And one of the reasons we have so many people rushing to these drugs is because they've destroyed these microbes, these little living bugs inside your gut that want to improve your metabolic health and turn off hunger. And you can do that. Now, what I don't want you to do, because it's really important that we get the don't do this out of the way so we can get into the do, because some of you are actually harming these gut microbes and your daily living is actually causing all the wires to be mixed up. So here's what I don't want you to do, is to eat less so that you can force fat loss. Cutting calories and skimping meals to make a bigger change in weight loss is insanity. We try to think about it as a culture. We've been trying it for decades. And we are getting more and more obese. The diabetes levels are going up. This is not your strategy for losing weight. And it's definitely not your strategy for getting the signals back on track. Number two, stop grabbing the diet food, diet drinks and the low fat foods. They are packed with chemicals and they are packed with sugar. It is a well known fact that the sweeteners that are in products like NutraSweet and Splenda actually stimulate your appetite. This video is about this hunger signal. So I want to make sure that you are not mixing the signal up. When you eat those artificial sweeteners, you are sending a message to your body that it is, or to your brain, that it is more hungry. So let's get off the low fat chemical ridden foods and the diet foods. And let's start eating whole food. Number three is detox drinks, appetite suppressant pills. I got to tell you, I'm watching a whole new trend in people educating you all on these GLP-1 drugs. And they're giving you natural solutions that are not food based. I really want to encourage you to go to food first. That is where you start to change the signal. Number four challenge that is mixing these signals up is you are fearing carbs completely. When we look at the nutritional trends that we have been enduring for the last several decades, one of the ones that we know worked so well was the ketogenic diet. Now, I wrote about a version of the ketogenic diet in all my books. But I started with Fast Like a Girl. And in that, I created a diet called Ketobiotic. And the reason I put the biotic there is because I wanted people to understand the goal was to cut down the carbs like the pastas and the breads and the desserts, but don't move away from the fruits and the vegetables. We need the fiber there. So we want to make sure you are getting nature's carbs, not man-made carbs. So when you are completely in carb restriction, over time, it gets harder and harder to lose weight. All of my books have been about cycling carbs, even nature's carbs, because that is how you can get carbs into your diet. And so the signals start to come back on track and you can lose weight eating carbs. Okay, number five, this is a biggie too, is avoiding fermented foods. Fermented foods are your friends. They go directly to the microbes and that make you GLP-1 hormone. So even if you don't like fermented foods, and I'm going to show you here exactly which ones that you want to lean into, even if you don't like fermented foods, I want to make sure that you are bringing a daily dose of fermented foods in because that feeds those microbes. Okay, so now what do we do? We know what not to do. What should you do? First, when you are putting a meal together, I want you to build that meal around your protein. There has been a lot of talk in the health space lately about protein. And yes, protein is important. Protein breaks down into amino acids and those amino acids build muscle. They build hormones. They help with neuron, neuronal health in your brain. Amino acids are massively important. And you've got to have protein to be able to feed those muscles so that you have a storage area for glucose. So it could be as simple as for breakfast, you can do Greek yogurt. Greek yogurt's great. We love Greek yogurt. It's packed with a lot of protein. Eggs. Eggs are fantastic. They have a lot of choline in them that help with the brain, but they're also giving you a lot of these amino acids. Cottage cheese is my new favorite breakfast when I eat breakfast. I love this morning. But when you go to look at an actual plate, what I want you to do is put the darn protein on there first so that and build the meal around that. I'm going to show you what else goes on there, but the protein should go on first. Step number two, you put the protein there. What's the next thing you're going to put on there? You're going to start to put fiber in there. What we know about fiber is there was a 24 meta-analysis in the BMC Endocrine Disorders publication that looked at over 19 randomized controlled trials of over 1,000 people, and they found that just adding in something like psyllium husk significantly lowered fasting blood sugar, and it lowered hemoglobin A1c, and it improved insulin sensitivity when compared to the placebo. So one thing that we've got to start to look at is adding fiber in. If you're like, I don't love vegetables, maybe you do psyllium husks in a glass of water when you eat your meal, but we've got to start to double down on fiber, which is incredibly important for feeding those microbes. So we have our protein and we have our fiber, and the third thing that we are going to put in is drizzling it with fat. I am a huge fan of olive oil. It's easy if you get good olive oil, just drizzle it over your protein and your fiber, and now you're getting your healthy fat, and every single meal should have those three things. Okay, step number three. This is an important one. You want to eat a daily dose of fermented foods. Now fermented foods are like kimchi, sauerkraut, raw kefir, even miso, tempeh is a fermented type of soy. You look at your plate and you're like, I put my protein there and now I'm going to put my fiber around it. Where are your fermented foods? Fermented foods are the most effective food group for feeding the bacteria that make GLP-1s and shut down the food noise. So they create something called butyrate, which is a short chain fatty acid, and that butyrate causes the release of GLP-1 hormone. So if you don't want to take the shot, how about you make sure that you are always with every meal getting some sauerkraut, some kimchi. Even if you don't love it, eat it anyways. There was a study that looked at over 115,000 Korean adults. This was published in BMJ Open, and they showed that a moderate amount of kimchi every day, which is about one in three small serving sizes, was linked to a lower chance of carrying belly fat. How many videos have I done for you all here on belly fat? And you maybe have skipped the fermented food. Specifically, kimchi is quite magical because it has that spice in it. And that fermentation of the spice can really help improve your metabolism. Okay, step number four is the order in which you eat your food matters. So let's go back to this plate. We put our protein. We put our fiber. We drizzled our fat. We put our fermented food. I didn't say anything about carbohydrates. Carbohydrates come at the end. One of the carbohydrates I love more than anything is a sweet potato. So when I sit down to eat a dinner, I will do a salad first. Then I'll do the protein. I'll drizzle. I drizzle everything with olive oil. And then the sweet potato comes last. There was a 26 systemic review that looked, it was a meta-analysis. So it looked at several studies and it showed that meal order matters. And that everyone in the study that ate vegetables and protein first before their carbs, their post-meal glucose came down. And their GLP-1 hormone, what did it do? It went up. It's the same calories. It's the same food. You just want to make sure that you are doing it in the right order. So here is my challenge for you. Over the next seven days, here's what you're going to do. I want you to work on all seven foods. I want you to work on protein. I want you to work on fiber-rich vegetables, healthy fats. I want you to work on fermented foods. I'm adding in legumes like beans. You can add in herbs and spices. And I want you to look at eating as many colorful plants as possible. So what would this look like? Take a seven-day period and look at what you're eating that day. I'm going to go through the checklist again. And ask yourself, did I get my fiber? Did I get my protein? Did I get my fermented foods? Have I gotten legumes in here? What kind of fat am I eating? And has the color of the plants that I've been eating been diverse enough? Am I adding spices? Try it for just seven days, please. I watch your guys' comments. I understand your frustration. And it is chemistry. Weight loss is chemistry. And the problem is that nobody taught you this chemistry. So just for the next seven days, please. All I'm asking is that you are looking at protein, fiber, legumes, fats, color of your plate, good fats, fermented foods. You're diving into the foods that reset your metabolism. After a week, I want to know, how's your appetite? How did your appetite do? I want to know, do you feel lighter? Do you feel stronger? And if you feel good, keep going. Because I promise you, we could get people off these drugs if we just followed this metabolic reset. So here's what you can do now. So eat the foods that support proper messaging in the body. Protein first with fiber at every meal. You are going to drizzle fat, olive oil, on every meal. You are going to have fermented foods every single day. You're going to eat in the right order. And you can start your seven-day reset tomorrow. So let me know if you have any questions. I'm here to answer them. But more importantly, there's the formula to change the hunger signals, to get your metabolism working right for you. And most importantly, do not give up on yourself. Nobody taught you this strategy. And once you start to understand it, you're going to get momentum. And when you have momentum, your motivation is going to go up. So as always, I hope that helps.