Dr. Annette Bosworth

So I use some other steps if that's how severe that is.

But let's just take the average person.

That's like they're not 100 pounds overweight.

They're hitting menopause and they've put on 25 pounds.

When they drop their carbs to 20, they're peeing a ketone by the end of the week and they are missing their first meal by day 10.

Yeah.

So then we start to use time-restricted eating where your body will adapt.

People say you can't stay on the keto diet because they go to step four and then they think that that's all they needed to do.

There are several steps to reversing this problem.

And you'll know you have the right step if the ketones are still present in your blood.

Your body will adapt, though.

So we start to say, all right, we're going to learn some new behaviors.

We're going to learn what the nothing burger looks like, at least for 16 hours out of the day.

You do not eat a thing in those 16 hours.

Now, I give them a little hedge because most people come in like you.

They don't start eating until 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and then they eat until 10 o'clock.

And I want them fat forward.

I want lots of fat going in because insulin resistance, that high insulin state, means they've locked or they've insulated their fat on their body.

And there's a little bitty line between 16-8 and 23-1, but there's a whole bunch of life there.

Meaning we don't actually have patients go from 16 hours of fasting to 23.