Dining In with Mike and Stacie

Reviewed the importance of sharing your success with others, teaching others and building community of low sugar, low flour and intermittent fasting lifestyle.  

Today's episode discusses how we store fat and how insulin is responsible for about 70% of our fat storage.  The episode that goes through how Sugar and Flour are the main culprits in raising blood sugar and then leads to the release of insulin.  When blood sugar (glucose) is elevated the body releases insulin to:

1) Tell us to stop eating (stupid) you are full / you have consumed enough energy (as we pass through our 20s the brain stops listening to this role because we have been too exposed)

2) Directs body to move blood sugar / glucose into storage in our fat cells

3) Directs body to block access to our body fat because we do not want more energy available - we want less.  

The combination of the above lead to fat stacking, meaning we have fat that we are blocking access and now stacking new fat on top.  

We have to be insulin neutral to allow access to our fat.  2 main things are needed to get access to our fat or be insulin neutral:

1) Limit sugar and flour (limits release of insulin) OR don't eat (fasting) where no insulin is released

2) An energy deficit, meaning our body requires more energy than we are taking in.  When this is present, then the body will begin eating your fat. 

We also discuss roles of stress (cortisol), Leptin and Ghrelin in hunger and related issues of fat. 

Discuss the cognitive behavioral model and begin to build the mindset for success.  Understand how to start managing your thoughts.

Mike and Stacie get the podcast restarted after a 9-month COVID related hiatus.  We focus on the Process of success model, review the cognitive behavioral model, discuss habits, discuss willpower and review many other enjoyable things in our fireside chat. 

The podcast returns to get people back on track.  Review the basic principles to get our process of success back.  Stacie's assignment is to review all the previous podcasts and critique our performance. 

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Mike was posed the question "did I really gain 7 pounds of fat in 1 week?"  Mike works through the math of how we gain fat and how we lose fat.  

Given many of us are stuck at home and off work due to COVID-19 or the coronavirus, we discuss how to not eat when you are at home.  Many of us setup a protocol that focused on the workweek and then something different for the weekends, what if every day is a technically now a weekend?  Stacie and Mike discuss options.

Review how to manage your thoughts in times of chaos.  Review some of the things we can do during times where our routines will change and we need to manage those changes.  Will discuss "survivor mode" and how to manage that. 

This is a solo Mike podcast as Stacie is on a Mother / Daughter spring break.  Today we review everything about willpower.  How do we manage it, enhance it, deplete it, or preserve it.  If we build structure in our mind to manage willpower, it will be there when we need it!

Review some different way to talk to yourself and make a tape.  This is Mike doing a solo podcast about how to manage your mind and build a good narrative for you.  Talk about many different things about how to interact with your brain.  Fun to do the podcast but would be more enjoyable if Stacie were here!