 We're gonna go live in a second. Hold tight. I'm about ready to launch this into Facebook. There we go, we're up, we're up. Why people are failing on the Cuban diet? I was at Costco today. And yes, I'll be doing some videos about this stuff, but this is my live and I was absolutely blown away as I started looking into the numbers. And I gotta do me a favor, I gotta tell you a story about my wife. Hey, as you come on, do me a huge favor. As you come on, where are you from? I just did a cool live out in the UK. As we're doing some cool things over there, we did. So where in the world are you at? Where are you from? And then if you've done a diet before, and you feel like you've failed at a diet, I want you to just put down below that you've done that before. But I have a story, my wife and I got in a fight. I should probably start it out with that as the main line. We got Ireland in the house, rumbling and doubling. So my wife and I got in a little dispatch, a little disagreement. She's like, why am I not losing anymore? She lost 17 pounds on the initial 4-4 challenge when the core 4 challenge ended, she plateaued. And she's literally like, I'm doing everything the same. I'm blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Have you ever heard this before? She's literally, I mean, you know my wife, we can get, we're gonna eat it, we're gonna eat it. And so it's interesting, because I know for a fact, I knew for a fact, let me say it again, I knew for a fact that she wasn't doing the same thing she was doing for the first 28 days when she lost 70 pounds, it had changed. Not a lot, but it had changed. All of these little things started like kind of sneaking in. Little, little, oh, this is keto, this is good. Oh, these are keto, these are good. Oh my goodness, these are keto, these are good. And they started sneaking in, little by little. And she plateaued, and she's like, nothing matters. Well, it wasn't a good, it was not a good discussion, we literally were kind of like at each other, right? And if you, if you can relate to me, oh, I got a secret here, I'm gonna show you my secret. But about a week later, she didn't tell me right away. She went and actually went and just analyzed her calories. And she was three to 400 more calories per day than she thought she was. Then what her brain had told her, she was convinced she was doing it exactly the same way. She was convinced she was doing exactly the same thing. But she wasn't, I knew she wasn't. Not that I overanalyzed it, but for 20 plus years when you study people's diets and nutritional habits, you recognize things and they just, and I know what, I know where it comes from. So I wanna give you an experience here. Hopefully you guys all appreciate this. These are, I was at Costco today and I saw these keto snacks, just so you guys all know, I actually don't eat any of these personally. So I'm full, full transparent. But my brother-in-law who is strict ketogenic diet, I will have him use these. I don't. They have too many things in them that I don't normally eat. They have almonds in them I don't eat. They have dairy in them I don't eat. They have eggs in them I don't eat. So there's always something in them I don't eat. If I make my own keto snacks, this is what I eat. Anybody wanna know, hey really quick, does anybody wanna know what I eat for keto snack? I'll show you what I eat for keto snacks. Anybody wanna know? You can eat as much of this as you probably want to. As probably as you're gonna, I eat salivary. So that's the keto snack. And my, this is my other keto snack, you know. So this is what I eat to my wife eats. All right, I'm gonna prove you something. Watch this, stay tuned, watch this. You gotta check this out. This is unbelievable, you gotta check this out. Truth is I don't eat those things for snacks. I eat those as a meal. But if you, we're gonna talk about this in a second. If you add up, I'm just gonna use calories. And if you get to know me, I know calorie and calorie out is a big debate for people. But they do matter. Calories matter, let's just be honest. They do matter. And it's quite often I find that people tend to eat more than they think they're eating. And they don't realize it. Cause this shit sneaks up on you. So if you add up, how many calories per serving of this product? And let me ask you a question. How many people get something like a keto dessert? I was looking on the web and they're like, the biggest questions out there, keto snacks, keto desserts, what can I have for keto? What can I do to snack on? This is the reason why people fail on all diets. It's not the keto, this is all diets. Two pieces. Oh, it says three pieces. Three pieces of this. Now, look at the sizes of them. They're all not the same size. So you three of these, I would have told myself, it's three of these. So this is only gonna be one piece, right? These two are gonna be one piece. These are all the same size, right? So three pieces of this is 120 calories. And only two grams of protein, okay? I want you to keep this in mind, 120 calories. Okay, here we get seven cookies. Seven cookies is actually a pretty good amount. I mass consumption of almond flour, not my fan. I think that's also a problem that people have that's set them back. So it's three grams of protein, 130 calories. And then this delicious snack here is 180 calories and it's two of them and they're individually wrapped. So it's a little bit more convenient all portion control when they're individually wrapped but it does help. But if you're motivated to eat a lot, you'll figure it out, you'll find a way. So total calories, can anybody add this up? I need help, I need help, I need help. Anybody add this up for me? How many calories? 130 plus 120 plus 180, come on. Come on, I'm with my, your wife, somebody's yelling at me. Somebody's yelling at me on Facebook right now. Come on, Facebook, I love you guys, but come on. Hey, Facebook, do me a favor, I'm using a new system. Give me some more comments over there so I know that you guys are still still with me. Somebody help me add this up. 180 plus 120 is 300 plus 130 is 430. It's a 430 calories. So if you do one serving of each, and let's be honest, how many of you only have one serving of each and do not have any more? But now I want you to think about this. That's 430 calories. Ladies, ladies, how many calories should you consume on average? How many calories should you consume per day? How many calories should you consume per day if you're on a, this is gonna be different for every size of people. But let's just say the average woman should eat 1,500 calories a day to maintain their weight and their health. 1,500 calories a day. Well, if you wanna lose weight, you need to have at least something less than that. And the amount less than that's gonna dictate, right? So if you had 1,000 or 1,200 calories a day, and on top of that, you're eating low carb or keto friendly and you're burning body fat really fast. But if you're consuming 400 calories or more, just buy this, you haven't even added real food to your diet yet. And y'all, this is not gonna get us healthy. Not to say it's not bad. And listen, I don't mind having these things around, but what happens is this is what messes everybody up. This is what screws everybody up. When I can go online, I go, what content do I wanna share about? As a social marketer, I'm sitting there, I can go on and talk to all the, I'll have, I'll show you guys. These are all questions that people ask about keto snacks. And they're just coming in. And the reality is that there should be one answer. Stop doing keto snacks if you wanna lose weight. They actually will screw you up. Now there's a small percentage of you go, okay, I can just have one. I just needed that edge off. And you can do that great, right? But here. So how many? 430 calories. This is a proven meal. This is a proven meal. 370 calories. How many grams of protein did I tell you that these all had together combined? So this is two grams of protein. This is three grams, we're up to five, and we hit eight grams of protein. So now you just consumed half your calories in snacks, only consuming eight grams of protein. So if you're consuming 1500 calories a day, and you're a woman, and as we get older we need more protein, and we should be prioritizing protein a little bit, we got a problem here. If you're doing this this way, the one concern about a really strict, high, high fat, ketogenic diet is over time it can actually impact muscle mass. So over time, now ketones will preserve that, but if you're not doing things like drinking ketones, if you're not making sure you're getting enough some protein in, you're gonna, you have a repercussion here coming. And this is the one I'm seeing people had the biggest problem people have. So we wanna prioritize protein. Ladies, you need protein too. Men, you need protein too. If you're not getting enough, you're gonna have more cravings. You're gonna not feel as good, and you're not gonna really work on the anti-aging longevity, right? So it's about elevating your ketone levels, right? So burning your body fat, eating low carb is gonna help you get there, but we still have to make sure protein's available. So if you consumed half your calories, that means pretty much the rest of your diet is gonna have to be protein for the rest of the day after your snacks, just to satisfy the amount of protein that you're probably gonna need long-term if you're gonna stay on a lifestyle journey that's gonna be suitable to you. Why? Before proven, before seven years ago, before this keto craze went, we never talked about snacks, y'all. The idea of a keto snack was, it was, no, eat some olives. Have a little bit of like a small eighth of a cup of nuts. Like that was about the most you'd ever talked about snack. You couldn't get more than that. You never were allowed more than that. Why? Because then the rest of your food was improvised. You had, the food is the foundation, right? Everything else is support. So, 370 grams, or 300 calories, 370 calories. This is 430. This is 370 with how many grams of protein? 30 grams of protein versus eight. Just chew on that for a second. Just chew on that for a second. Then you add in eight grams of fiber, which is good, right? Now we're getting closer to our fiber intake for the day, which in here, I'm just throwing it out there. This is three. And typically, keto snacks have a lot of fiber. That's five. And oh, this one has a lot of fiber. They use like a corn fiber, I think, is what they use in here. What do they use? Yeah, soluble corn fiber. So they use the corn fiber in there. So this fiber is a little bit higher on the snack than it was in the meal. That's okay. That's okay. But this is the huge thing. And then of course, the fat intake that we utilize, I'm gonna just add those up for fun. And so in the snacks, we had more fat. We had 15, 25, 38 versus 19. Now, here's the difference. The fat that we used in here, and this, if you're cooking at home, eating really good high quality food, versus the fat that you use in here. Now some of these fats are good, but palm oil, corn oil fat, that's fine. It has some medium chain fatty acids in it. But the challenge with that fat and sunflower oil fats, and roasted almond, or almonds have fat in them, right? Which is fine, it has some good quality fat. We have coconut oil, which is good. We have milk fat, if you can tolerate dairy, fine. That's okay. I'm okay with that. Let's see what else. There's only thing in here right now. I see one fat that I have a problem with. Mass consumptions. And this one, I think we're good. So just the sunflower. So, but when you look at the fat in here, it is all bio-identically utilized by the human body. It is designed for humans to consume on a regular basis. No matter what it is, if we're using a lots of different oils and we're mass consuming those oils, that is not good for overall hormonal performance for the human body. I think that is another hidden secret that we're gonna hear a lot more about. I'm not gonna go into this too much, but there's a big, big, big thing around the over-consumption of certain types of vegetable fats out there that are causing problems. But which some of you guys know about it, some of you don't. So here's the deal. Snacks, 430 calories versus 370 calories, 30 grams of protein. Food, real food. This food is all natural, fresh. And I'm not trying to sell this. That's not what I actually do sell this. But that's not the point. The point was I was blown away when I looked at the numbers. The numbers don't lie. So if you're right now, can't buy any more keto from the snacks, they are a mistake. I, yes, I know we need to have Provid Meals in Canada. We're not there. Can you eat sweet potatoes once a week on keto? I love to answer that question. Anybody else want me to answer that question? I'll answer that question. But here's the reality is that when people plateau, I was talking to Dr. Lowe and she was saying that, she said the same thing. She goes, they basically think they're doing it right, but they're just, they're screwing up. They're making mistakes. They're adding other things. They're eating too much. They're eating, they're just eating too much. They didn't realize my wife was convinced she was following the ketogenic diet and following a low carb diet. She was, but she was also overeating. But when she had a control, when we had portion control her, she wasn't overeating. But as soon as she went to her own, she'd start to grab a little here and nitpick here. And next thing you know, the calorie started adding up. Well, she was on a maintenance program. No wonder why she plateaued at 17 pounds. She was on a maintenance program. But yet she's thinking she's doing this diet. You're not getting anywhere. So what does she want to do? She wants to quit the diet. She wants to say, oh, it's not working. It must not work for me anymore. She wants to quit. Well, that's the mistake. That's the biggest mistake. So with that said and done, I need to go. I'm going to answer her question. I do have a call coming in in like two minutes. So here's the deal. Sweet potatoes on a ketogenic diet. Short answer is probably not. Now it comes down to what your goals are. If you're drinking ketones, that's going to matter because you can get away with a little bit more carbohydrates. But to be a strict ketogenic diet, you have to be with low carbohydrate. Sweet potatoes are very high in carbohydrates. But it's sparingly from time to time. I do eat sweet potatoes from time to time. I'm not against them. I do drink ketones and I am very low carb the rest of the times. So you have to look at what your ultimate goals are and are you where you want to be. Some people use sweet potatoes pre-workout or as a workout tool or performance tool. So kind of up to you, depending on where you're at in your journey. But if you hit me privately, I can give you some more information on that to give you some more clarity on it. But it kind of really comes down to what your goals. What's good things to eat? Green leafy vegetables, vegetables and protein. That's the nut shell. That's it. I do have berries sparingly. I had some blueberries and raspberries earlier today. So those are the things that I would encourage you to eat the most of the time. That's the foundation. So I encourage you to exercise your proteins. Don't be afraid of fat, but you don't need to start adding all these additional fats out there. Just by eating proteins, you're going to get a high quality fats and use olive oil, use avocados. Avocados are great too. But that's the simple recipe and I actually have a six week keto guide. I probably can send it to you guys if you guys want it. Good night. Cheers. You ready? I thought you forgot about me. I think it's a good idea. Awesome. Absolutely. Hey guys, how are you? Very good.