Keto Made Simple - Learn With Doctor Westman

Send us a textShould you check your blood sugar (a.k.a. blood glucose) at home? You can use a fingerstick glucometer for a one-time measurement of your blood sugar, and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) that measure it 24/7 are increasingly available, too. Do you need to use one of these? They can be helpful, but they’re not necessary for most people. (Remember, people have been using low-carb diets for over two hundred years to lose weight and reverse type 2 diabetes.) If you take insulin for type 2 or type 1 diabetes, then measuring your blood sugar is extremely important so that you can adjust your insulin doses safely. Apart from that, though, Dr. Westman has been helping patients reverse type 2 diabetes long before CGMs even existed – and if you don’t have diabetes, then measuring your glucose really isn’t necessary. Watch Dr. Westman’s latest video for his thoughts on these glucose-measuring technologies.FREE BONUS: The 6 Biggest Obstacles A Sugar Addict Faces …And What To Do About Them https://adaptyourlifeacademy.com/6-bi...

Send us a textIt’s normal for your blood sugar to rise a lot after a meal, right?Not necessarily! A small rise is pretty normal, but you don’t want it to go up substantially. People with healthy metabolisms will see only a relatively small rise in blood glucose after a meal. The more sensitive you are to carbohydrates – the more insulin resistant you are – the more your glucose will rise. (But for some people, the rise in glucose will be minimal because a very large rise in insulin is keeping it in check.) It might be that a larger rise in glucose is only considered “normal” because it happens so often – in people on high-carb diets! Watch Dr. Westman’s latest video to learn more about your blood sugar after a meal.FREE BONUS: The 6 Biggest Obstacles A Sugar Addict Faces …And What To Do About Them https://adaptyourlifeacademy.com/6-bi...

Send us a textOne of the best things you can do to control your blood sugar is to avoid beverages sweetened with sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, and other caloric sweeteners. Even for people not following low-carb or keto diets, ditching these can go a long way toward improving health. And that doesn’t mean you can never drink anything that tastes sweet. The way that Dr. Westman has been teaching keto for twenty years, you can use diet soda and other artificially sweetened drinks.This is a controversial issue, but diet and sugar-free drinks haven’t stood in the way of his patients getting great results in weight loss, reversing type 2 diabetes, and more. Learn more in our latest video.Sign up for our start keto right challenge here 👇https://adaptyourlifeacademy.com/start-keto-right-challenge/

Send us a textLots of keto programs out there focus on following “macros” and recording your food in an app so you can make sure you’re getting enough micronutrients (vitamins and minerals). It’s not “wrong” to do this, but the method Dr. Westman has been using for more than two decades keeps things ultra-simple and helps people get great results without focusing on specific numbers with regard to macros and micronutrients. (Except for keeping your carbs to 20 total grams or fewer per day, of course!)Check out our latest video, where Dr. Westman explains how you can get great results from keto without thinking too much about the details.Get your free guide here:https://adaptyourlifeacademy.com/start-keto-right-bonus/

Send us a textHow much protein should you eat? It’s a controversial topic! Ask twenty different doctors and dietitians and you’ll get twenty different answers. The way Dr. Westman teaches people to do keto, the only things people need to control are the total carbs they eat and the amount of fats and oils they add to their food. For most people, protein is self-limiting because it’s filling and satiating (it helps you stay full for a while), so it’s pretty rare that anyone would “overeat” protein foods like beef, pork, poultry, lamb, seafood, and eggs.  You don’t need to worry about calculating the exact grams or ounces of protein you should get every day, or worry about linking it to your muscle mass or body weight. Watch Dr. Westman’s latest video for his thoughts on protein on keto diets. FREE GUIDE 👇Start Keto Right: https://adaptyourlifeacademy.com/star...

Send us a textDon’t inadvertently sabotage your results on a keto diet!  Food manufacturers are getting more savvy. With the growing popularity of low-carb and keto diets, they know consumers are on the lookout for products that are low in carbs. So, if a food product says “no added sugar” on the package, can you include it in a low-carb diet?Not always! Be sure to look at the total carbohydrate on a food label. Just because there’s no added sugar doesn’t mean there isn’t a large amount of naturally occurring sugar in it – like in a fruit smoothie or a cup of granola. Check out Dr. Westman’s latest video to learn more.FREE BONUS: The 6 Biggest Obstacles A Sugar Addict Faces …And What To Do About Them https://adaptyourlifeacademy.com/6-bi...

Send us a textIf you avoid candy, pastries, and other sweets, you might think you don’t eat much sugar.  But what about high-carb foods that get digested into sugar?  What about sweet or starchy things like bananas, potatoes, rice, crackers, granola, or pretzels?  Even when things don’t taste sweet, if they’re high in carbs, they can still raise your blood sugar – sometimes even more than a very small amount of something sweet.  That doesn’t mean all these foods are “bad for you.”  But it does mean that if you’re trying to lose weight or reverse type 2 diabetes or another condition related to high blood sugar or insulin, it’s best to avoid all of them, even if they’re not obviously sweet.  Learn more in Dr. Westman’s latest video.FREE BONUS: The 6 Biggest Obstacles A Sugar Addict Faces …And What To Do About Themhttps://adaptyourlifeacademy.com/6-bi...

Send us a textPeople are very surprised when they see the food list Dr. Westman uses—there’s no fruit! With other ways of eating, it often seems like the more fruits & vegetables, the better. But keto diets are different.Fruit isn’t “bad” for you, but when you need to keep your total carbohydrate intake very low in order to lose weight or reverse chronic issues like type 2 diabetes or metabolic syndrome, you need to limit all sources of sugar and starch, and that includes the sugar in fruit. If your carb tolerance is a bit higher, you might have room for berries and other lower-glycemic fruits, but some folks need to avoid fruit altogether for a while. Learn more in this week's video.FREE BONUS: The 6 Biggest Obstacles A Sugar Addict Faces …And What To Do About Themhttps://adaptyourlifeacademy.com/6-bi...

Send us a textLet’s face it: most people eat too much sugar. Whether we’re talking about the refined sugar found in things like candy, cookies, pastries, and other sweets, or the complex carbs that get digested into sugar (like pasta, rice, bread, and crackers), to your body, ultimately it’s all just sugar. How do you know if you’re eating more of these than your body can handle? Watch Dr. Westman's latest video to learn 5 signs that you’re eating too much sugar.FREE BONUS: The 6 Biggest Obstacles A Sugar Addict Faces …And What To Do About Themhttps://adaptyourlifeacademy.com/6-bi...

Send us a textIf you want to lose weight, “everyone knows” that you have to burn more calories than you take in. This means all you need to do is eat less and move more, right? Not quite.If it were that straightforward, then millions of people worldwide wouldn’t be struggling with weight loss, and my clinic wouldn’t have a 6-month waiting list because nobody would need any help! The simplistic thinking of “calories in, calories out” has been failing for decades. Watch my latest video to hear about a paper I co-authored with several other low-carb & keto-oriented doctors and researchers helping to spread the message that there’s more to obesity and weight loss than calories: the conventional energy balance model versus our carbohydrate-insulin model.Citation 👇https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34515...