Reset Your Metabolism in 14 Days (After 40)

If you feel like your metabolism has completely stalled, the good news is you can reset it in just 14 days. Most people think metabolism is just about age, but the truth is you can have more control over it than you realize. Let's break down how to fire it up fast. By the way, I'm Dr. Tabitha, your Christian physician. I am a triple board certified OB gyn. I specialize in menopause and functional medicine for women. And I am here to help you understand your body. Let's get into it. Do you feel like your metabolism has slowed down since you turned 40? I know it did for me. And that was a wake up call. I needed to figure out why was my metabolism just tanking. And here's the deal. Your ovaries naturally run out of their lifespan. They live till you're about 45 or 50 years old and during that time of transition into menopause, you produce less progesterone. So though you might not ovulate every month and you might not produce progesterone consistently if you are stressed out and you're making too much cortisol. Cortisol actually uses progesterone as an ingredient to make more cortisol. That is the quickest way to shift into estrogen dominance and weight gain. I see it all the time in my medical practice. I experienced it myself. It looked like heavy periods, painful periods, periods coming every two weeks, migraines before periods. And then the weight gain, the weight gain on the hips, weight gain on the belly, no libido. Like all of a sudden you just don't even want to participate in life anymore. Or you're biting your partner's heads off. And then I don't even want to get into it yet. But alcohol can make that problem even worse because your liver needs to get rid of that excess estrogen and then the weight creeps on even more. So it's this slippery slope, this vicious cycle that starts around age 40. But you can do something about it, I promise you. All right, let's go over some of the biggest metabolism killers and how to fix them. But before get into that, I've put together a simple step by step plan to reset your metabolism and start seeing results fast. Click the link in the description to get started today. The most common mistakes women make that actually slow their metabolism is that they don't eat enough amazing healthy foods. They over exercise and then they try to go it alone. They don't rely on their friends, they don't rely on God, they don't rely on anybody. They think Enough willpower will get them through to make those choices, to make those changes. And the truth is, as soon as you're stressed out, as soon as you've had a bad day, or as soon as you miss a workout because you were too tired to get up, it all goes out the window. And then you're feeling defeated and you give up. This is a cycle I see over and over and over again with women. Like I'm going to start my diet Sunday night and by Monday at 3 o', clock, they've already quote, unquote failed. You don't have to struggle like that, I promise you. Getting to a point where you're just handing it over to, to God, Asking him for the willpower, asking him for the strength and letting the people know in your life that you need them. That can be one of the most powerful things you can do. Extreme dieting and over exercising is the quickest way to kill your metabolism. I see it every single day. Women are exercising too much, they're not eating enough healthy, nourishing foods and their metabolism goes down the drain. When. Why does that happen, especially for women? What happens? There's two things and they're related to your thyroid and your adrenal glands. When you are over exercising, you're producing too much cortisol. You're pumping out cortisol non stop. It feels like you're in this fight or flight state. Women say, I'm just, I'm wired but I'm tired. That's what's happening. And so that excess cortisol really packs on the weight because every time your body thinks you're stressed, it actually triggers a mechanism to make glucose, that is sugar. Your liver makes sugar and puts it in your bloodstream because your body thinks you're either going to fight or you're going to run. That is a natural response. And you can have elevated blood sugars even without eating just from excess cortisol from exercising too much. So then you go and top it off with not eating enough. You're starving yourself, you're thinking, let me just eat 1500 calories every single day. Calories in, calories out, that'll help me deplete. That is not what happens again. Your liver will make its own glucose and put it into your bloodstream and even more, your pancreas then has to make insulin to go manage that blood sugar. And insulin is a fat storage hormone. So cortisol is a fat storage hormone and insulin are. Those two processes are driving the worst fat storage hormones your body makes in Excess amounts on an ongoing basis. Please stop over exercising. Please stop calorie restricting. That is not how you lose weight, especially over 40. In less than 14 days you can kick start your metabolism. Here's what I teach women in my Fast to Faith programs. It's time to eat real food. Faith foods from God. Lots of good healthy fats, protein and complex carbohydrates. I use a meal plan called the 2, 10, 20, 30 and it's how you prepare your plate. Two dashes of sea salt, 10 grams of carbs, 20 grams of protein and 30 grams of fat. That will get you into fat burning mode so that you can start burning your own fat for fuel. That is step one. You're going to create that food plate. Then you're going to break up with sugar. Stop eating snacks all day. Eat three healthy meals with the 2, 10, 20, 30. You will feel satisfied. You will not be hungry, you will not be looking for snacks. I promise you it's the quickest way to break up with sugar. Then we're going to shrink your eating window and you're going to eat those three meals in an eight hour time period. After a few days, we're going to do a dinner to dinner fast. And I know it sounds crazy, but you are fat adapted. At that point. You're feeling amazing, you're nourishing your body. You will easily be able to go from dinner to dinner without food. And here's the key, ladies. You have to do a feast the next day. The next day you are going to eat 150 to 200 grams of carbohydrates, eat it, enjoy it and continue this process. That is phase one of Fast to Faith program. And women lose an average of two to three pounds just in that quick little phase. There's four phases total, but that will kickstart your metabolism, take you from being a sugar burner into a fat burner and you will feel amazing. Food isn't the only thing that matters. Let's talk about some lifestyle shifts that are super important to metabolism that most women overlook. There are a few lifestyle choices that if you just tweaked a little bit, you would have different results. And I'm here to tell you that it starts in the morning. It starts with your intention for the day and setting yourself up for success. So in my Fast to Faith program, we start each day with five to ten minutes of lectio divina. That is an ancient practice of meditating on one scripture. We read the scripture, we ask God, what are you saying to me God, what do you want from me today? And the cool thing is, scripture is the living, nourishing word. God wants to talk to you and be involved in your day. So all of that is a beautiful way to start your day. You start your day with healthy fats, scripture, and believing that for better. That is going to be a setup for success. Now that you know how to reset your metabolism, let's take it to the next level. In this next video, I want to discuss hormones and how you can fix your body if you're feeling sluggish. Click here. Watch it now.