 It's been said that carving out when you're doing a low-carb diet, i.e. Eating like spiking your blood sugar with carbohydrates is a good thing. Is it? Let's talk about it Hey there, NJRoot22.com here. I'm testing out my mic because Swear to God, I have no luck with my technology here. Anyway, I need to get some better equipment Like a road mic. Anybody wants to like send a PayPal donation NJRoot22.com at gmail.com. Please help me out We're on a limited budget here. Anyway Back when I started low-carb Long long time ago over ten years ago I Read many articles that said that oh, yeah every week or two You should spike your blood sugar by carving out, you know eating junk food bread whatever it may be to And and the whole concept was to Shock your system and it would reset and you didn't do even better Now over the decade that I've been low-carb, you know with my hits and misses Uh, I have to tell you I don't believe that at all I don't think it's good to shock your system into having carbs Or at least spiking your blood sugar to the point where you get out of ketosis or Every time I've done it let me let me just put it this way every time I've done it Let's say where I cheated. I remember like early in my Low-carb days, maybe three years in I had some white bread Italian hero, you know with those fluffy You know hero roles. I had I had a big hero and I was so Hungry and I ate it and I was like uh like in love. I was like in bliss What happened for the next three days? I was in pain. I felt like crap like my whole eating Schedule was screwed up It was just unpleasant and then every other time I've done like a little cheat here and there like in the last Two or three years For example, I had some popcorn I don't feel good the next day. I've had uh, I forget a couple other other things that I've cheated on um Especially when the family brings in these god damn Tasty-looking Italian dishes and I don't go for the like bready things. I've never had a slice of pizza I peel the cheese off the pizza sometimes and I get a little wheat on there by mistake And I can tell like I can tell when I've eaten it. I don't even do that anymore, but I don't think carving. I mean like I think a lot of these other people you said Oh carving out carving out and spiking your blood sugar and then going back down again is Quote unquote good for your body and it reminds your body that you had carbs You know, I honestly don't don't agree with that. I don't care what they say or what the reports or studies have said It Let me give you an example one time I had like a week where I like this was early in my low carb days where I was making great progress And I had a week or a few days three or four days where I I carved out and I was like screw this It took me months Literally months to get back on track again It's such a roadblock to do something like that I wouldn't recommend anybody say oh, I can have a cheat once a week You're basically just I truly think you're just setting yourself back And and and slowing your progress tremendously. You're like you're like undoing the work that you've done So I highly recommend that I have to say one thing I I had a video a few weeks ago about alcohol and I don't think alcohol makes a difference And that still is open for interpretation Especially depending on the alcohol if you're drinking beer forget about it A watered down wine like I drink It's it's Like two carbs An hour or every two hours. So that that's so insignificant on our blood sugar. It doesn't ever it never puts us into Out of ketosis Although alcohol impedes fat burning It doesn't make you go into fat storing mode either So that's it. What do you think if you like this video? Please hit the like The bell or whatever the subscribe ding ding ding whatever And please help me get to a thousand subscribers. I'm at like 50 subscribers right now. So have a good day