 Whether it's Thanksgiving, your weekly cheat day, other holidays, perhaps even your birthday, I'm going to let you know the best diet to follow after a cheat as well as some tips and tricks that may help with cheating on your diet. It's important to make the distinction of adherence to the diet. Someone cheating on a weekly or even monthly basis will accumulate dozens of meals outside of their ideal eating scenario. If you think about it, 50 cheat meals over the course of a year is quite a bit. You can't compare having a piece of cake on your birthday or a wedding to stuffing your face with pizza and beer every Friday night. A lot of people think they can fast for a few days or do an extreme amount of exercise. Although each of those things has their purpose, they're not the best and only course of action. You don't want to fast because you have three pounds of low quality dead food in your stomach and exercise is just going to burn calories. But one day of cheating won't cause considerable weight gain. There is definitely a you are what you eat concern. The cells in your body, the lipids, become composed of what you're eating. So long term cell damage four or five, six years down the line of eating clean is what takes to fix that. That's not something we're addressing in this video and that's not a level of adherence most people can stick to. I think it goes without saying that what we're referring to here is a full blown cheat meal, junk food, processed food, absolutely stuffing your face. Obviously, if you're carnivore and have a steak at a restaurant with some Porta Lea sauce, there might be some plant who is in that Porta Lea sauce, or if you're keto and have a small piece of bread with your meal, it's likely not going to cause a significant enough of a deviation to have long term issues in your diet. Those are totally different things to address. First, what are the downsides, the negative consequences of a cheat meal? Obviously, inflammation, oxidative stress in various systems in your body, perhaps from the preservatives in the food, the high omega-6 fatty acid content, every restaurant food is fried in vegetable seed oils, which are incredibly high in little like acid, which damages your body. The worst thing for your cells, possibly stress on pancreatic enzymes to digest carbohydrates, stress on stomach enzymes to break down cooked foods, gut bacteria having a field day, certain strains like candida going crazy, resulting in a microbiome imbalance. Not to mention allergic reactions, whether it's because of leaky gut caused by certain grains, processed dairy, or some type of modern agrochemical concoction. There's dozens, probably even hundreds, perhaps thousands of hypothetical scenarios and reactions to a specific cheat food that all occur in different mechanisms and metabolic processes in the body, not necessarily affecting everyone the same way. One person might just need to take a nap and then they're good to go the next day. Others might feel these stressors and consequences over days, perhaps even long-term weeks or months in people with certain gut issues or immune disorders. It's critical to understand what your past experiences were when having cheat meals and how far you can really go on enjoying yourself. Most people are experiencing low amounts of these stressors every day, drinking coffee, eating chocolate, having a few drinks once a week. Those people might not feel as good as they should all the time and therefore, when having said cheat meal or celebrating, won't suffer as much if they go overboard. Combination of their gut microbiome being used to the stress and also them not knowing how good they should feel because they've never had a 100% clean diet. Since all of this has to do with the gut, that is the starting point for getting back to optimal. This is actually a similar protocol to what you would want to do before fasting. You know, replenish your body with the nutrients it needs as well as filling up the digestive tract with healthy, low inflammatory, nutrient dense foods in addition to certain probiotic foods. It doesn't have to be a carnivore diet, keto diet, paleo diet, but it has to contain all high quality, naturally prepared foods. And that is very difficult to do outside of those specific diets. A raw carnivore diet with foods like pasteurized eggs, high quality grass-fed fats, bone marrow, grass-fed meats, probiotic dairy like yogurt and kefir made with the right strains is my preferred option. It puts minimal stress on the digestive system, gives you all of the nutrients your body needs, minerals, elements, fatty acids, and the dairy gives you additional vitamin K2 as well as probiotic bacteria, which is what we really need here to replenish the gut microbiome. One drawback to raw carnivore is that raw meat digests slower and it isn't practical for most as they're not willing to go 100% raw carnivore. I don't even follow a strict raw carnivore diet. I usually eat raw in the earlier part of the day and then have a cooked meal later to promote that digestive motility. So my main recommendation is to follow either of those diets, keto, carnivore, paleo with as many high quality animal foods as possible over the course of three or four days. At that point, you can fast if you'd like to, the main benefits of fasting being weight loss through caloric restriction. If you think about it by eating these high quality foods over several days, you're pushing that crap cheat meal out of your digestive system and replacing it with what you should have been eating. Fasting or restricting calories before a cheat meal, if anything is worse, you're probably just going to end up eating more food. The best thing you can do with that specific cheat meal is to incorporate digestive supplements, whether it's enzymes or stomach acid promoting stuff, various herbs. We mentioned earlier that a high volume of cooked dead food puts stress on various organ systems. But by consuming what our organs produce in the form of enzymes, in the form of digestive juices, there will be notable improvements. Especially the enzymes used to digest gluten and lactose for those people that are intolerant. Thing is, this has to be done preferably before the meal and it can be done after the meal as well. Digestive enzymes in general can be very helpful even outside of cheat meals. So ideal circumstance, you prep your stomach with digestive enzymes and the stomach acid promoting stuff, you have the cheat meal, you take more stomach acid promoting stuff, you take more enzymes, really helps break down the food, less stress on your body, get everything digested and move that stuff out. But Frank, it's the day after Thanksgiving, it's too late to do that. I know, I know, but you guys are probably still eating leftovers. You might be cheating some more over the course of these next few days when the holidays are coming around. And even the day after the next few days after you have that cheat meal, taking digestive enzymes, promoting stomach acidity, increasing the food quality of your diet, promoting digestive motility, getting all that food through, incredibly important things that, I mean, everyone should be analyzing and doing in their lifestyle. We didn't really mention the importance of exercise for digestive motility, of course being active, being out in the sun, exercising, doing things that are inherent to natural human behavior are all going to benefit you in this way. But most importantly, the mechanistic stuff, what we want to do is push that crap food out of our system, clear it out as quickly as possible, and get healthy stuff in there. And the two main things to promote that are digestive enzyme stuff, whether it's supplements or natural stuff, as well as incorporating high quality foods. So if you guys could please share the video, hey, drop me a like, subscribe if you haven't, definitely hit that bell icon. If you guys want to support me further, hey, go to Frankie's Syringe Meet, sign up for our newsletter. We're sending out free info, PDFs on why free range meat is so important. Just an interesting read if you guys want to check it out. 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