Dr. Tabatha Barber explains how to restore metabolic flexibility, the ability to switch between burning carbs and fat. She recommends women eat a higher-fat, ketogenic-style diet first to teach their bodies to burn fat before attempting fasting, which stabilizes weight and improves hunger signals.
Many of us have lost our metabolic flexibility. We don't have the ease with which to go from being a sugar burner to being a fat burner, and back and forth. When you have that ease, that flexibility, your weight stays stable, no matter, like, what food choices you make, and you get really back in tune with what your body needs to eat. And so that's what we teach women is the way to regain your metabolic flexibility. And it has to do with how you approach fasting. For women, it's really important to remind your body how to burn fat for fuel before you try and go into a fasting mode and burn your own fat for fuel. So you want to eat fat, you want to eat more of a ketogenic diet.
