Need to lose weight or to encourage your body to get itself into a better, less inflamed cellular and metabolic healing state? To do that, we want to encourage a metabolic process called autophagy. And to do that, we usually need to fast and go full-on ketogenic diet. No more!
For many years, I have given weight loss patients my Lose Your Belly Fat Plan. It is based on a low GL, highish protein, lowish carb programme which removes the most common gluten and dairy allergens. It works for most people because it helps control insulin, the ‘fat hormone’ as well as bloating and inflammation weight gain caused by food reactions.
Since then, we’ve also learned that intermittent fasting (eg. 16:8) and keto diets are also effective. More than weight loss, though, they trigger a process called ‘autophagy’, which can help the body re-set itself, control insulin, inflammation and put the body back into a healing state rather than a disease one. You can read a good overview on autophagy here from Dr Carnahan and watch a good Facebook video on it from Patrick Holford (more on him below..).
For me, keto diets are too meat-heavy. Meat and dairy block autophagy, and not everyone can do keto or intermittent fasting for long periods. But, it seems we don’t have to fast for ages or go full-keto for months to trigger the healing process and weight loss – yay!
How great if we had a combo of all three approaches?
Enter: Patrick Holford. He invented the 5 Day Diet which does exactly that. I’ve been recommending it to patients effectively for quite a while now. But many people find it confusing and overwhelming – and they give up before they’ve even started, which seems a shame, given its potential huge benefits. Plus, some of you needed a TGF version of it.
Enter: Micki! I have written a kind of ‘simplified’ companion for you – with a few tweaks of my own, of course! I’ve added TGF diet and supplement options – because a lot of people who need this kind of autophagy effect are gluten, grain and dairy sensitive, plus I’ve given you 50 TGF recipes so you can have alternatives to the main diet if needed.
You’ll get two PDFs – one with my 15 page TGF-compliant companion guide and the other with 50 keto, TGF recipes.
The idea is to do it once a month for weight loss and once every 3 months or so for health and healing; it’s not something you do all the time. The process is very specific and needs to be followed to the letter to work, which is why I thought I’d simplify it for you. It’s taken quite a lot of work to work out TGF options and make it useable for more of you, so I truly hope it helps.
Download both the guide and recipes here. Let me know how you get on!
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