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What I've done is I've created a plan people like Brooke Burke, Steve Harvey are following this. Oh, gotcha. Where I call it cruise control fasting. Okay. Where it takes, it's a spin of intermittent fasting so you never feel hungry during your fasting window, during the 16 hours. Because what we do is we cheat the fast, Rachel, with healthy fats like avocado oil, coconut oil, butter, heavy cream. In the mornings, I call them the bumper zones, you know, before you have your first meal, or late at night, even chocolate mousse pudding made with all heavy fats. So we cheat the fast so you get to not be deprived. So. And you're never hungry. So I have 3 ways to do the Prime, where if you're an early riser, a midday person, most people have their lunch around 12, and then dinner maybe around 5 or 6, and those are your 2 windows. And you think, "Oh, that's not a lot of food," but I'm gonna show you the macros, and I'm gonna show you a little something on insulin here, because insulin is really what drives weight gain. If you wanna see this, guys. 'Cause we've all been told it's calories, calories, calories, but the truth is, this is glucose, guys, which is blood sugar, right? And this is the key to weight loss in my opinion, and what a lot of the science says, it's all insulin, not so much calories, but insulin. So when insulin is too high, guess what happens? Too much energy, then all this glucose, sugar, goes into the cells of your body and makes the worst kind of weight gain at all, which is belly fat. How many people love belly fat, right? No, no.

And it's actually quite dangerous. Yes, it is connected. Belly fat is what is—

Well, Dr. Oz talks about it's connected to heart disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes. It's the worst kind. So this is where most of us are in America, because we're eating, and it's just carbs and proteins that usually do this. Okay. Some vegetable fats, but the good oils like avocado oil or olive oil, we'll talk about that in a second. So if that's too much insulin, And this is where the weight gain happens. You guys get that, right?

Right.

So now balanced insulin is better. So now insulin is a little less. This is where you eat, you know, maybe 3 meals and you really cut it off, say at 6 or 7. You have your breakfast and you do that what most people do. So you have some insulin coming over here, which is fine, you know, and that's not bad. And this is where most people plateau. They have like 10 or 20 pounds. They're not like severely overweight, but they're feeling, ah, whatever. But here's the trick, and this is how you can lose— we say this in the book— up to 28 pounds in 28 days. Now the trick is though, during that 16 hours, to not have insulin go up at all. And if insulin doesn't go up and it stays just away from your body, if insulin is not in your body, guess what doesn't come? Because the key pulls in the glucose. So if you don't have insulin here, guess what happens? You use now energy from the healthy fats, stored belly fat as well, and now with no insulin, guess what happens to belly fat? You lose belly fat. You can lose up to a pound a day.

Wow.

28 pounds in 28 days by doing that. Doesn't that sound good?

Amazing.

I'll show you some foods that I like. Sure. This is, I did not have this today, but it looks good, right? So my trick though is the healthy fats. So I love heavy cream. There's butter, where's my butter?

So this is what you put in your coffee?

Yeah, I'll do heavy cream.

Some people actually put butter in their coffee as well.

Well, not half and half though. Half and half has sugar. Has to be heavy cream. If you go to a coffee shop, ask for it. It's usually behind the counter, because they'll put half and half in milk.

Right, because they just put half and half in milk out.

Yeah, because it's sweeter. But the trick is using healthy sugar. So these are the kind of fats I like, or coconut oil. That's what you use to cheat the fast. This is what you can make the puddings with. I have this chocolate pudding that you can do with the healthy fats and sugar-free type of stuff. Now, obviously that's during your fasting window. Now, avocados have— avocado oil is fine, but avocados are healthier during your 8-hour window. And you want to do that during your window because they do have carbs and proteins. So do nuts. So you avoid these during your fasting window. It's more these.

I've been not fasting and eating all of these nuts every time we went to commercial for the last—

well, but you're in your eating window, right? In theory, right?

Right.

Now, cheese is great.

Cheese you can actually have.

It depends on kind of cheese, you can have it during your fasting window. Olives have carbs and proteins, but it's more the straight oils. These are fine. Avocado oil you could actually do, or olive oil.

Olive oil, because I—

olive oil, I love that, but it's hard to use it in coffee. You— it's hard at night.

Olive oil in coffee.

So when I eat though during the 8-hour window, guys, this is what we will eat.

So during your 8-hour window, is this an example? Can you have bread?

Yes.

Yes.

So here's the ratios, the macros, guys. Shot these down. 50% healthy fats. So we're at 100% fat when we fast, right, guys?

Okay.

50% of the fats now can come from these other fats like the the nuts, the avocados during your eating window. That's okay. Olives are great too. Olive oil is of course great. But the great thing is then you have 30% healthy carbs. Now that can even be a glass of wine at night. It can be bread, pasta. You know, I love spiralizing. Brooke Burke loves spiralized noodles or fried rice made from cauliflower, cauliflower pizza. Rice cauliflower. Yeah, so you can do all these, but any carbs will do, even traditional pasta and bread. So you can do that, but that's only 30% of our diet during our eating window. And then the protein for the most part is lower than most. A lot of people do high protein, but we stick it to 20%. Because protein, traditionally, if you eat too much of it, can be hard on your kidneys. So, especially if we're older, and I have a lot of clients that are going through perimenopause, a lot of 40+ women, and a lot of baby boomers, and so the healthy fats, actually, they're anti-inflammatory, and they keep us young.