Since we started the Data-Driven Fasting Facebook Group in May 2020, and throughout six previous Data-Driven Fasting 30-Day Challenge, we have received a LOT of questions from people trying to make sense of their blood glucose. As people hesitantly began learning the hows? and whys? of blood sugar testing, we fielded the same questions so …
Purpose of DDF Validate your hunger using your blood glucose as a fuel gauge. Retrain hunger signals to align with your need for fuel. Baselining Test glucose before every meal and snack you usually eat. Your Current Trigger is the average of pre-meal glucose during baselining. Hunger Training In Hunger Training, you will play a …
If you try keto, you love it, and it’s working for you, then more power to you! I’m not about to try to stop you. However, the typical advice when people run into roadblocks with their keto diet is to ‘eat more fat to raise ketones’ and ‘keep calm and keto on’. Oxidative priority To …
Read moreKeto Lie #12: If in doubt, ‘keep calm and keto on’.
If there was anything I thought I knew for sure when I was an insulin-fearing keto zealot, it was that: the blood sugar roller coaster is bad, and stable blood sugars were good. According to the keto gurus that I was following, if you want to lose fat and optimise your metabolic health, the most …
Read moreKeto Lie #10: Stable blood sugars will lead to fat loss
Many find low carb or keto almost magical in the early days. As they move away from the most hyper-palatable fat+carb combo foods, they experience greater satiety, their blood sugars and insulin levels drop, and they feel great. High-fat foods can also feel satiating, but this may be simply because they give you a lot …
Over the past few years, people in the fasting/low-carb/keto communities have been told that: insulin toxicity is the root cause of the majority of our western diseases, insulin is public enemy number one, and reversing ‘insulin toxicity’ is the key to weight loss and health. Is fat really a ‘free food’ because of insulin? However, …
It’s cool to see how well Data-Driven Fasting works, regardless of where people are in their health and fitness journey or what they choose to eat. Clark is a nutritionist, soon to be doctor and future endocrinologist who used the Data-Driven Fasting 30-Day Challenge to lean out after a bulking phase, dropping from 200.2 lbs …
Congratulations to Jane, who topped the weight loss leaderboard in our January 2021, 30 Day Data-Driven Fasting Challenge with 17 lbs weight loss at a phenomenal rate of 2.5% per week! 61-year-old Jane had struggled with her weight off and on for years. Before starting DDF, she had been on Weight Watchers for decades. Everyone …
If you’ve read the previous chapters of Big Fat Keto Lies, it should not be surprising to learn that I also got into the fasting craze when it was booming in Ketoland. I was such a super fan that both Jason Fung and Jimmy Moore asked me to write a review of their book, The …
People in Ketoland like to point out that ‘there is no such thing as an essential carbohydrate‘. However, while this is technically true, it’s irrelevant when you understand that the amount of essential dietary fats that you require is tiny (i.e. 1.6 g of omega-3 and 4.6 g of omega 6 PUFAs or less than …