hey you guys welcome back to my youtube
channel today i’m going to share with
you
how i purposely gained eight pounds over
the course of probably the last 10 days
or so and the experiment that i ran
to just prove uh the lifestyle that i
have been
living really does work and why
following
other nutritional guidelines that are
kind of deemed for the general public
aren’t necessarily the best for us
especially us women who are in menopause
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check it out um this is by
no means any sort of um
dis or discredit to the lumen device
that’s what i’m going to be talking
about today
i absolutely love the device i think it
is a very intelligent tool for us to use
to help us determine if our
lifestyle choices are actually going to
help us yield the result that we’re
hoping for
but what i’m going to take you through
is the experiment that i
just did using the lumen nutritional
guidelines and what that ended up
resulting for me
and i’m gonna also make sure that i link
i think it goes on this side
uh the video that i did just a week ago
where i shared how i use the lumen to
also
lose eight pounds and so my goal is to
come back here in about a week or two
and share with you again how i lost this
eight pounds that i just gained
by going back to what i know works for
my body so
let’s get started so the experiment that
i decided to do
over the course of this last 10 days or
so was to
utilize the nutritional guidelines that
were offered to me
based on the results that i was getting
with my lumen
prior to this little experiment i was
using
my own nutritional experience and
guidelines
along with the results that i was
getting from my lumen
and that’s what was dictating how i
would um
manage my nutritional intake based on
the results i was getting with the lumen
and what i knew worked for my body
that’s how i was able
to really utilize and tap into that fat
storage
and lose that eight pounds that was
primarily body fat just a few weeks ago
what i did over the course of this last
little test was i
used the suggested macros from my lumen
and i didn’t
use what i had been using in the past
because i felt
that as a coach for women and someone
who is helping women
get the results they want with illumine
i had to test both theories i had to
test what i was doing and what i know
about my own nutritional
suggestions and then i wanted to also
test
what was just given to me with my device
and so
this is what the device generally gave
me
over the course of the past week or so
when i was
utilizing it through the breath
analyzation of whether my body was
usually utilizing carbohydrates
or fat as energy sources i am an
avid exerciser so i work out every day
about
60 minutes a day um generally that’s
cardio
primarily and then i always make sure
that i get about a 10 or 15 minute
strength workout
so these macro guidelines were based not
only on
what my breath analyzation was but it
was also based on
the exercise of time frame that i pumped
into my lumen also
so on average my recommendation was
about 165
macros of carbohydrates about 140
macros or grams not macros grams of fat
so 165 grams of carbs about 140 grams of
fats and about 130
grams of protein so this was the average
daily macro recommendation for me based
on
what my uh breath analyzation was
and what my exercise minutes were
for the day so it generally worked out
to about
three meals a day and to get all of this
food in in the course of my day i had to
shorten my fast
to about 16 hours a day so if you’re
been following me for any length of time
you know i am really adamant about about
20 hours of fasting especially for women
who are trying to reverse a lot of the
sugar backup and sugar-related diseases
that a lot of us are dealing with
insulin resistance fat storage all of
those hormonal imbalances
and i also really really encourage or
what i
coach women on is not really managing
macros so much but really figuring out
what food works for you so that you can
tap
into a utilization type of atmosphere
for your body or what we like to call
here the energized sense of calm
when your body is internally uh
producing
energy and you’re not relying on your
food sources to kind of get you through
these type of experiences throughout the
day you have an energized
even sense of calm based on the
utilization opportunity you’re creating
in your body
so i followed these pretty closely i can
tell you
that the feelings that i had over the
course of the last you know week and a
half or so
were not fun i felt like i was
cramming food in my my body throughout
the day i felt
very preoccupied about calculating food
out and
measuring food and tracking food i felt
very thick is the best term that i can
use
i felt very weighed down and there was a
sense
of almost sadness that i felt
just by feeling like i was constantly in
a state
of feeding which is exactly the opposite
of the way
i generally feel with the lifestyle that
i’ve created that has allowed me to
become so healthy as a menopausal woman
so this was definitely an experience of
feeling like i was
forcing food in my body and the result
was not a good feeling
um throughout my workouts when i was
eating this much food and only fasting
for this amount of time
i was uh not able to
get like that internal energy and it was
really hard
for me to also manage my heart rate when
i was
in this phase of feeding
throughout the 10 day period so
it was not a good experience for me and
i did feel very
mentally and emotionally weighed down by
all the food decisions that i had to
make
so this is not a happy place for me to
live
and from what i can tell i did this
experiment with a group of women that
i’m coaching so there was i think about
six of us that did the same thing i said
hey
let’s just follow the suggested macros
on our lumen for a week and see what
happens
and everyone came back with the same
mental and emotional feelings
they thought they were going crazy
because they felt very weighed down they
felt very sluggish they felt very
fatigued and they started to get that
sense of almost like a sadness
about how it was they were showing up
and kind of
feeling how they were moving about their
day
so we all felt what i like to say food
poison almost
we were just way down here’s what i
do normally and what i’m going to go
back to it started yesterday
actually to get me back into a
utilization
stage this these are the macros
that i ended up without even trying just
going off how i intuitively eat
um and how i am able to maintain you
know
no insulin resistance no diabetic states
and how i really put my body in a
utilization of food energy stage as
opposed to a storage
i generally consume less than 75 grams
of carbs a day
optimally i’m about 50 without even
trying or denying anything i’m between
50 and 75 grams of carbs a day
my fats is really where i get the most
amount of energy and um kind of
support throughout the day even through
my exercise and that’s
shooting for or just knowing that about
a hundred grams of fats
is where i actually feel my best and
then
less than 40 grams of protein now here’s
where the nutrition
and fitness industry absolutely loses
their mind
in this area and this area
because this is really the guidelines
that most people will tell you
you need to stay in to support your body
and
to support what it is you want to do in
your fitness
this left me in a weight gain
a storage of energy mode meaning i would
have to
exercise away this
in order to maintain what it is that i
want to maintain not only in my fitness
but my physique and that is a really
unhealthy mindset for me
around food so i don’t like to feel like
i’m eating to just
exercise away the food this is also one
of those areas that i just don’t have
the body chemistry or even the hormones
anymore
to properly utilize this
heavy of a day of food in a 16 hour
fasted state
even with exercise so this is really
what i
teach women in my intermittent fasting
course and what i
teach women about managing what
feels good to you and not letting other
people
dictate to you what they think is going
to work best
this is where i am at my prime this is
where i feel the energized sense of calm
this is where my workouts are their
absolute best even as a 55 year old
woman
i operate like a conditioned athlete
when i follow
this style of nutrition for myself
i do that within two meals in a day so
that means i
work out i usually put a little fat in
my coffee
post-workout just to kind of maintain my
energy
throughout the rest of the day and i
stay in
a fasted state until
i have one of my two meals later in the
day
now when you have a pure fat remember
you can stay in a fasted state as long
as you’re not
fasting for cellular recovery so when i
say
fasting i mean the opportunity for my
body to
tap in and utilize what i have in
storage
as energy so i’m in a utilization stage
when i add some fats to my coffee post
workout
and i generally fast between 18 and 20
hours
so the majority of my day is not
really concerned with this i have this
within my two meals
this is where i am burning fat as my
primary source of energy and i
am in that energized sense of calm this
is where i
am now and where i will stay uh
with using the lumen as my tool to prove
that this works for me the other thing i
wanted to say about the lumen is the
lumen tells us whether we are
metabolically flexible or how
metabolically flexible we are
and the improvements that we can make on
that through nutritional choices that
we’re making
how well we’re sleeping and what we’re
doing through our exercise
when i was following this my metabolic
flexibility was on the rise
and when i was following this my
metabolic flexibility declined
because i was always in a storage
mode my body and my lifestyle my
chemistry
my hormones don’t afford me the
opportunity to utilize
this much food within a 24 hour period
my body is in a utilization mode when i
provide an environment for my body to
take
in nutrients utilize them
put them where they need to go and then
tap into the things that i have
in storage to fuel me through the rest
of the day
so if you’re a who’s feeling frustrated
with
her body and you are perimenopausal
menopausal or post-menopausal and you’re
living
more of a lifestyle that looks like
this or looks like this and you’re not
happy with the results that you’re
getting i would
really really recommend experimenting
with a lifestyle like this this is what
i call the keto
like approach to nutrition higher
naturally occurring
fats moderate to low amounts of protein
and a very conscious carbohydrate
type of nutritional plan when you figure
out
what grouping of macro counts work for
you
then all you have to do is rinse and
repeat that
throughout the days that you’re
exercising or maybe pull back on days
that you’re not exercising
and then really know that you can get
enough nutrition
into meals with an 18 18 to 20 hour
uh fasting protocol giving yourself that
four hours to feast like i said i
exercise
every day i’m a runner i generally run
between 45 and 60 minutes a day
and i can do that very efficiently and
very effectively
on this type of macro plan so i hope
this helps i hope this encourages you to
do a little
digging around and a little research and
even some experimenting with
the food lifestyle that you have
incorporated for yourself
as we age we just don’t need as much
food
as we used to you’re not going to put
yourself
in starvation mode you’re going to allow
an opportunity for your body to utilize
the energy that you have available so
that you don’t put yourself
in storage mode i hope this encourages
you to do a little research and to do
some thinking for yourself about
what food makes sense for you what type
of fasting window will make sense for
you
so that you can tap into the utilization
of your energy
and not become a storage bank for it
please make sure that you leave me some
comments in the comment section below
ask me any questions
that you would like i will be sharing an
update like i said with the progress
that i’m going to make going back to
what i know
works for me it was a really fun
experience i don’t feel any
kind of emotional connection to the
weight that i’ve picked up or any of the
body fat that my
body has stored because i know exactly
what to do to reverse it and get me back
where i was before i started
so i hope that encourages you as well
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