The $300 Billion Lie: Why 90% of Women
Over 35 Fail at Dieting - 231
If you're over 35 and have struggled with diets that worked temporarily, only to leave you feeling worse, you’re not alone. The truth is, most diets aren’t designed for long-term success, especially for women dealing with hormonal shifts.
In today’s episode, we dive into the truth behind the diet industry, which, despite its $150 billion annual revenue and 90% failure rate, continues to grow. The industry’s genius marketing convinces us it’s our fault when we fail, but the reality is that these diets were never meant to sustain us.
I’ll explain why focusing on health—not just weight loss—creates lasting results. When we prioritize blood sugar regulation and nutritional balance, we stop the yo-yo dieting cycle and finally allow our bodies to thrive.
It’s not about depriving yourself—it’s about feeding your body in a way that promotes optimal health and energy, without the guilt or restriction.
If you're ready to break free from the endless dieting cycle and truly feel your best, tune in now and take control of your health journey! Do not forget to download the free blood sugar guide. It’s your first step toward creating lasting change.
Conclusion:
You don’t need another quick-fix diet. You need a lifestyle shift that honors your body and its needs.
The diet industry may try to sell you perfection, but real health is about balance, consistency, and listening to your body’s signals. When you focus on nourishment, not restriction, you can finally break free from the cycle and embrace lasting change.
Ready to make the change? Let’s do this together!
In This Episode:
00:00 Why diets fail and what a 'working' diet means?
07:19 The impact of the yo-yo dieting cycle on health
12:18 Three key questions to ask for a sustainable dietary approach
20:57 What are the “check engine” signs of dysregulated blood sugar levels?
23:16 The six spinning plates that affect our blood sugar and health
25:28 Eating in threes: a nutritional strategy for sustainable health
30:30 Final thoughts on how to embrace a sustainable, healthy lifestyle
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00:00:00:03 - 00:00:28:09 Carrie Lupoli If you're over 35 and you have been blaming yourself for failing diet after diet, you can stop right now. It was never your fault. The truth is, most diets were never designed for long term success, especially not for women that are navigating all those hormonal shifts. If you've got tons of stress going on and real life in this episode, I will break down why traditional diets backfire and what actually works instead. 00:00:28:14 - 00:00:50:16 Carrie Lupoli Without restriction, without guilt or calorie deprivation. I'm Kari Lapsley, a nutritionist and behavior specialist, and I am over the BS of the diet industry and instead teach my clients a B.S. of a totally different kind. And in today's episode, we're going to dig into exactly the B.S. you should be following. 00:00:53:14 - 00:01:00:23 Carrie Lupoli Now let's first get into the concept of what it means when something works. 00:01:01:00 - 00:01:26:22 Carrie Lupoli Because I hear all the time, well, the diets worked until they did it, but we got to get on the same page about what working means. If working is all around weight loss and not around health. Well then think about it this way. If your goal is to lose weight, forget anything else that's going on. Your goal is to lose weight. 00:01:26:24 - 00:01:41:15 Carrie Lupoli Then diets actually worked because they allowed you to lose a little bit of weight, right? And while you may have gained the weight back, and as you're getting older, as a woman in 00:01:41:15 - 00:01:51:24 Carrie Lupoli either perimenopause and menopause and postmenopausal even post menopause myself, then you feel like, okay, wait, it was working before and why is it suddenly not working? 00:01:52:00 - 00:02:21:19 Carrie Lupoli Well, we are going to get to the root of the matter. But before I do, I just really want you to think about what the definition of working means. Because with a 90% failure rate, I mean, that's what the diet industry has. It is a 90% failure rate for a long term success. If success is measured by weight loss, the diet industry has a 90% failure rate for long term success. 00:02:21:21 - 00:02:57:09 Carrie Lupoli Yet the diet industry is growing and growing and growing. It's like $150 billion industry right now in five years is projected to be a $300 billion industry. So how is it an industry with such abysmal results is growing at such a rapid pace? Well, the answer is because they are marketing geniuses. Think about it. If you've ever lost weight on a diet before and that is your definition of working and you weren't able to sustain it because as you will learn, diets are not sustainable. 00:02:57:11 - 00:03:27:10 Carrie Lupoli But you believe because of the way that the whole thing is structured, that it was your lack of willpower because it worked until you fell off. It worked until you had the pizza. It worked until you decided you were going to have a cheat meal. And so you blame yourself. It is the most genius marketing design ever. We are going to fail our customers, but we're going to have you believe it was your fault. 00:03:27:11 - 00:03:58:16 Carrie Lupoli So you keep coming back year after year after year. All right, so that my tangent on the whole diet industry and then we'll keep coming back to that in this episode because it's a really important one to recognize that when we keep doing something over and over again, that is getting worse and worse results over time. Are we at all thinking about whether or not this is allowing us to thrive, or is it actually hurting us? 00:03:58:18 - 00:04:24:03 Carrie Lupoli I think of one of my clients, Jen, who's 55 years old right now, and when she was in her 40s, she had been dieting for 25 years. She was diabetic and weighed over 300 pounds. How is it that if she was diagnosed literally not giving up, she counted more than 40 diets that she had been on in the past 25 years? 00:04:24:05 - 00:04:52:10 Carrie Lupoli This isn't a lack of trying, but when we're seeing results, not even like it's not working, we're actually regressing, right? We're gaining more and more weight, but even more so we're getting more and more unhealthy. She literally had metabolic disease, but she hadn't stopped dieting now. She was doing different diets. And so one of the downfalls that we believe is that each diet is actually different. 00:04:52:12 - 00:05:14:04 Carrie Lupoli We have to get on the same page about what a diet means, because a diet, even though they may be called different things, you can call it keto, you can call it intermittent fasting. You can call it calorie counting. Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, whatever you want to call it. It's always around deprivation, putting your body in some sort of a restriction and deficit. 00:05:14:06 - 00:05:43:10 Carrie Lupoli Now, do I think we need to be discipline? And in our nutrition? Of course we do. But putting our body at a deficit year after year after year, whether it's a caloric deficit or it's a macronutrient deficit, think about macros. There's only three macronutrients protein, fat, and carbs. Macro. To me means big important. And when we just say, like we did in the early 90s, we have to get rid of fat. 00:05:43:16 - 00:06:06:21 Carrie Lupoli What happened? Well, we put a whole lot of garbage in our food and people started gaining more and more weight, getting more and more unhealthy. Well, now we're cutting out carbs and we are seeing the impact of that. Not only are we like 93% of people right now are metabolically unhealthy, but yet they don't eat carbs. We mean, carbs can't give us energy. 00:06:06:23 - 00:06:26:10 Carrie Lupoli The problem is, we don't know enough about food. We don't know enough about our body, and we keep sitting in the passenger seat of our own airplane. And instead we need to be the pilot. We keep listening to what all these diet trends are telling us, and we are wondering why by the time we hit menopause, we are in such a bad state. 00:06:26:12 - 00:06:44:13 Carrie Lupoli And what's amazing is Jen, who I was just telling you about when she actually implemented the same exact things that I'm going to teach you today in this episode. She is now literally she will say this all day long. I am at my optimal health and therefore I am at my optimal weight. She doesn't even know what that weight is. 00:06:44:15 - 00:07:08:08 Carrie Lupoli But if you could see Jen, she is at the gym at 430 every morning. She is eating all day, every day, doesn't count calories and has a great relationship with food in her body. If you look at a picture of Jen, she looks 20 years younger than she did when she was in her 30s. It is absolutely crazy because diets have us believing that if we take in less than we burn, we will lose weight. 00:07:08:09 - 00:07:29:07 Carrie Lupoli And if our goal is simply weight loss and it quote unquote worked when we were in our 20s, but we weren't able to stick with it. We believe it was our fault. So we keep doing it over and over and over again. The cycle of yo yo dieting is really where a massive problem lies. So let's talk about that cycle because here's what ends up happening. 00:07:29:09 - 00:07:50:16 Carrie Lupoli So we decide we're going to go on a diet. We cut out macronutrients like carbs, we cut calories, all of that kind of stuff. And then what happens next? Well our blood sugar ends up dropping, especially when we are restricting. When our blood sugar drops. It's amazing what happens with our body. Our body burns muscles. 00:07:50:16 - 00:07:53:10 Carrie Lupoli our hunger and cravings intensify, and 00:07:53:10 - 00:07:57:03 Carrie Lupoli our hormones start to get out of whack. 00:07:57:05 - 00:08:07:19 Carrie Lupoli Our energy crashes. So then we feel like we don't have enough willpower, but our body's actually talking to us. I need us to think of those symptoms and check engine lights. Not just 00:08:07:19 - 00:08:15:10 Carrie Lupoli nuisances. Like it's actually things that are telling us, hey, we're holding you accountable right now. It's your body's way of holding yourself accountable. 00:08:15:11 - 00:08:34:03 Carrie Lupoli But what we what do we do? We literally like put the tape on the dashboard. When the check engine light is on, we ignore it. We try to power through it. Hunger is our body's way of saying, hey, are my blood sugars low? We need nutrients. But in the dieting world, we just believe we have to muscle through hunger 00:08:34:03 - 00:08:37:06 Carrie Lupoli and then our body is going to burn fat. 00:08:37:07 - 00:08:55:09 Carrie Lupoli it doesn't work that way. And and you know that. Right? Because it may have quote unquote felt like that worked when you were younger, but suddenly it doesn't anymore because it wasn't designed for our body to thrive when we did that. And so we have to stop like we would never drive our car for a year with the check engine light on. 00:08:55:09 - 00:09:10:02 Carrie Lupoli But yet we do that with our bodies, so we have cravings that we have all this stuff going on. Then we end up feeling like we just don't have enough willpower. We add back in carbs, we go off the wagon, we have a cheat meal, whatever it is, we're off the diet. Because let's be honest, a diet you're on or you're off, right? 00:09:10:04 - 00:09:28:22 Carrie Lupoli And then when you overeat, you add carbs back and you just stop counting calories. You just, like, go off your blood sugar, then spikes, right? And when your blood sugar spikes, something called glycation happens. And when your body glycated, that means your blood sugar is spiking up. Well, all sorts of things happen. First of all, we store fat. 00:09:28:22 - 00:09:48:12 Carrie Lupoli Our body can only use so much glucose and the excess gets stored is that it's actually quite amazing. Our bodies, our best friend. And it's just doing that to protect us. Because if you had all of those like, oh, if you glycated like that and all those free radicals were hanging out in your system, 00:09:48:12 - 00:09:49:21 Carrie Lupoli it would be toxic for you. 00:09:49:21 - 00:10:08:17 Carrie Lupoli So our body's like, hey, we're going to store those in some nice little fat cells for us. But in addition, because we're like hating because our body is kind of going on this like roller coaster, it starts to slow down our metabolism and we start to age faster every time we go, like Kate, we're actually spiking our blood sugar. 00:10:08:17 - 00:10:36:05 Carrie Lupoli We're actually aging faster, which then causes I think it's like every time we like it where our body can't handle that much glucose at once. It's like little lightning bolts in our system that are zapping. All of our cells are healthy cells. The weak cells, all the cells and that puts our body into cellular dysfunction, oxidative stress. And that causes us so many issues. 00:10:36:07 - 00:11:10:04 Carrie Lupoli Metabolic dysfunction, metabolic dysfunction like high cholesterol, high blood pressure, metabolic disease from there turns into diabetes, pre-diabetes, even stroke and cancer, depression, Alzheimer's, dementia. All of that is related to this up and down spiking of our blood sugar. Because we keep putting ourselves on this yoyo, and diets are causing so much stress to our body. So then what happens, right? 00:11:10:06 - 00:11:37:18 Carrie Lupoli We end up gaining weight, feeling like garbage. So we gotta start another diet. But every time we go around that cycle where we cook carbs, our blood sugars low, we add stuff back in, our blood sugars high. We go over and over and over this cycle, think about all the years that our body is actually trying to constantly comp and say, now add that to the mix of stress and toxins that are environment in processed foods and all of that. 00:11:37:20 - 00:12:06:07 Carrie Lupoli It wreaks havoc on everything. So by the time you're 35, first of all, your body has been releasing insulin and trying to balance its own blood sugar because we don't know how to help it like that. And insulin is a horrible and one hormone is off. Oh, your hormones are off. So by the time you're 35 and you're walking into the Perimenopausal years, like pre menopausal years, and that's actually starting like ten years sometimes before you're even going through menopause. 00:12:06:09 - 00:12:28:21 Carrie Lupoli Well, you can understand how the hormonal imbalance, which has been adding up year after year after year. So what do we have to be doing instead? Because that is clearly not working well. The first thing I always say is there's got to be three questions we ask ourselves before starting any nutritional approach. Anything. And if you can say yes to all three of these things, bam! 00:12:28:21 - 00:12:56:18 Carrie Lupoli You are on your way to hormonal bliss to being a post 35 year old and being able to live, live with freedom, live without restriction. Because answering yes to these three questions is total gold. If you can find the approach ready, one is what I'm about to do. Based in science, designed for my body to thrive, a diet to all based in science. 00:12:56:20 - 00:13:16:20 Carrie Lupoli It's working exactly the way it's designed to work. You lose a little bit of weight at first, especially when you're younger and your set point is lower, your metabolism is higher, you can restrict a bit and you're going to lose weight. Is it allowing your body to thrive? No. And that's my biggest issue with the weight loss industry. 00:13:16:23 - 00:13:55:02 Carrie Lupoli It's like we just focus on weight loss. And this is what I say constantly. If we just focus on weight loss, we get nothing. Because with a 90% failure rate, we don't get any results over time. But if we actually focus on health and what our body needs, we get both weight loss and health. And if you ask yourself, is what I'm doing designed and science designed for my body to thrive, that's going to eliminate just about every single restrictive diet out there. 00:13:55:04 - 00:14:17:13 Carrie Lupoli Because since when? What? Name one thing that thrives in the deficit. They know one thing. Nothing. So you can tell that if you have been on the dieting thing since you were 20, by the time you're 35, that's been 15 years. My average client in my private practice is about 55 years old, and she will admit that she has been on diets doing that yo yo for 40 years. 00:14:17:15 - 00:14:38:17 Carrie Lupoli The average is 32 years. So 32 years of doing something, you're going to get pretty good at it, and you're going to get pretty good at your body having to adjust over and over and over and over and over again. All right. Question number two. Can I do what I'm doing for the rest of my life? The relationship with your body is like any other relationship. 00:14:38:19 - 00:15:05:11 Carrie Lupoli It thrives on consistency, not perfection. Think about a relationship that you have that is really strong a relationship with your child, your spouse, your best friend, your parents. There is no way you have been perfect, but yet that relationship is strong. My husband and I have been married 25 years and we are both far from perfect, but we absolutely know that our marriage is strong. 00:15:05:17 - 00:15:32:23 Carrie Lupoli If we get in an argument, we're not getting divorced tomorrow. We don't have to be perfect. Why though? What allowed us to build that strength? It was trust. And trust comes from positive interactions consistently over time. To be honest with yourself, how consistent have you been with your body? And if you're 35 or older? My bet is you probably haven't been very do not your fault. 00:15:33:00 - 00:15:59:00 Carrie Lupoli And I'm tired of the diet industry blaming us for not having enough willpower to be able to stick with stuff. The diets are not designed for our body to be able to do it, but more than that, a diet requires you to be perfect. And the minute you're not, you gain the weight back. Well, wait a minute. A body that's thriving shouldn't just boom, gain the weight back that fits quickly. 00:15:59:02 - 00:16:27:16 Carrie Lupoli It's like the whole thing with weight loss drugs, like the red flag that I feel like everybody should be waving is the minute you stop taking it. Everything goes back to the regressive state it was in. If your body is healing and thriving, you shouldn't get into one argument. Change one thing and bam, be done like that doesn't make sense to me. 00:16:27:18 - 00:16:43:06 Carrie Lupoli And so is it. Based on science designed for your body to thrive in, to can you do it for the rest of your life? You need to be able to do what you're doing for the rest of your life, how you lose weight, how you get healthy, how you show up for yourself. It's not like a one and done. 00:16:43:06 - 00:16:57:01 Carrie Lupoli It's not a 30 day challenge. It's not like hard 75 or whatever. That is. It's a lifestyle that you can do consistently, so you can build trust over time with your body. And the third question 00:16:57:01 - 00:17:11:11 Carrie Lupoli would you let your kids do what you're doing? I, I just watched the video of this woman who has like 150,000 followers. I think she got like a million views on this one video. 00:17:11:13 - 00:17:40:01 Carrie Lupoli And it was about the 20 hour fasting window, and she had chart paper, and she was going through all the quote unquote science behind 20 hour fasting. I will argue all day long. She was talking about actually she was talking about insulin resistance. And I get why she's saying what she's saying, because when we don't understand how to eat in a way that fuels our body and allows our blood sugar to be balanced, the answer is we'll just don't eat. 00:17:40:03 - 00:17:58:06 Carrie Lupoli I mean, and then when your body is, it's blood sugar is really low. Your body will start to adjust to try to balance it on its own when you're in that fasting state and said, you know where it goes to be able to balance its undertone, it has to go to the most nutrient dense part of your body. 00:17:58:08 - 00:18:24:00 Carrie Lupoli It goes to your muscles. It is unfathomable to me as a woman, as she's aging, to suggest that we do a 20 hour fast when we know what it's doing to our muscles and our muscles are our literal miracle drug, our longevity drug, the muscle we have to preserve, not use because we're not eating and our body's got to grab from it. 00:18:24:02 - 00:18:44:08 Carrie Lupoli It drives me crazy when I see it, but I understand what they're saying is a science around it. Because of insulin. But I eat all day, every day, and I eat carbs, and I have all the data from a continuous glucose monitor to show that I can keep my blood sugar stabilized all day long and still eat it. 00:18:44:08 - 00:19:01:18 Carrie Lupoli All of the clients I work with in my private practice can do so. To all of the health pros that I train that are certified to be able to teach the the approach that I teach them. They're all seeing it too. It's it's just so basic science. But here's the biggest thing. Would you let your kids do a 20 hour fast? 00:19:01:22 - 00:19:26:19 Carrie Lupoli Would you let your kids do keto? Would you let your kids count calories? My daughters were five and six years old when they started talking about calories. Why? Because I was talking about calories. Because I had a horrible relationship with food. Because I looked at food as good or bad. Healthy, unhealthy, too many calories. And when I would look at food that I thought was bad, I would say, oh, I can't eat that. 00:19:26:19 - 00:19:49:09 Carrie Lupoli Oh, I'm being bad. The guilt and the shame. I swear to you, I never taught my kids how to count calories, but yet they were talking about calories at five and six years old. And here's the kicker everybody doctors, nutritionists, personal trainers. Whenever I tell that story about my kids at five and six years old talking about calories, they're all appalled. 00:19:49:09 - 00:20:15:05 Carrie Lupoli They're like, oh my gosh, that's terrible. I can see why that would be your kind of like wake up moment. And I look at all now and I'm like, you're teaching women that caloric deprivation counting and tracking your calories is the answer. Why is it if it's not okay for our kids to do at what age is it suddenly okay for us to obsess and restrict? 00:20:15:07 - 00:20:46:21 Carrie Lupoli It never is, especially when we know there's another way my five year old nephew eats to be able to balance his blood sugar. He doesn't know how to count calories. He just understands food and how to listen to his body. At five years old by 75 year old, father doesn't know how to count a dang calorie, but he reversed his pre-diabetes diagnosis by simply understanding about his body and what food does for it, not against it. 00:20:46:23 - 00:21:19:19 Carrie Lupoli So if you are over 35, I hope you were realizing, okay, this makes sense as to why I've been struggling for so long, and I have these check engine light that are crazy right now. Let's talk about some of the check engine life that you may have. Cravings, weight gain, fatigue, energy crashes, bloat. Hormonal imbalances, sinus issues, hair loss, mood swings, UTIs, painful periods, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, thyroid issues, immune issues, getting sick a lot. 00:21:19:19 - 00:21:51:13 Carrie Lupoli Acne, inflammation, anxiety, depression, joint pain. Brain fog. Trouble falling asleep or staying asleep. Hot flashes. Reflux. Migraines. Dementia. Alzheimer's. Waist size. Like if your waist size is more than 35in or 40 for men, that's a check engine light. High cholesterol, high blood pressure, insulin resistance, prediabetes, diabetes. I put that into the same category, by the way, prediabetes does not mean you are okay. 00:21:51:15 - 00:22:15:23 Carrie Lupoli It means it's just basically you're diabetic. Chronic pain, PCOS, infertility, IBS, arthritis, heart disease, cancer, stroke, all of those can all be attributed to a dysregulated blood sugar. And if you have two or more of those, then you absolutely do. And if you are over 35, I guarantee you you have been on a blood sugar rollercoaster for most of your life. 00:22:15:23 - 00:22:31:00 Carrie Lupoli Because we are not taught this in the diet industry. What are we not taught? We are not taught how to fuel our body. We are not taught how to move our body. We are not taught about the pieces of the puzzle that all need to come together. People will say to me, Carrie, just give me a meal plan. 00:22:31:00 - 00:22:47:11 Carrie Lupoli I'm like, I cannot just give you a meal plan because if I just give you a meal plan, you are not going to follow it. It's not going to work in your life. It's not going to work on vacation. Like, remember, can you do this for the rest of your life? It can't be a time when life is perfect because when is life ever perfect and a day you can only do when life is perfect. 00:22:47:13 - 00:23:11:13 Carrie Lupoli But you wouldn't let your kids do it. And it's not designed for your body to thrive. So we can't do any more dieting. So, and this is where I talk about how dieting is just a bunch of B.S., but the best that we actually need to be focusing on is blood sugar. Now there's also the concept of what we believe our belief systems and our behaviors, our behavioral science. 00:23:11:13 - 00:23:21:15 Carrie Lupoli Those are the other two BS is that we have to focus on. But today I just want to focus on blood sugar. There is something called six spinning plates that we need to keep spinning. Think about like, you know like played 00:23:21:15 - 00:23:25:15 Carrie Lupoli on a rod like in a carnival. Think about those six spinning plates, okay? 00:23:25:18 - 00:23:51:03 Carrie Lupoli All of them impact our blood sugar every single one of that nutrition. We need to be thinking about what we're putting in our body. Obviously, we need to talk about that in one second movement. Movement exercise like strength training. No, orange theory is not strength training. Walking is not strength training. Do we need to walk? Yes. Do we need to move our body? 00:23:51:03 - 00:24:07:15 Carrie Lupoli Yes. Do I want you to do what feels good to you? Yes. But strength training has to be a non-negotiable for women. Has to do. And it's so interesting because your body responds so much better to the food and all of your check engine light. When you're strength training. It's just this one thing. It's like this longevity drug. 00:24:07:19 - 00:24:37:18 Carrie Lupoli It's like the drug that we actually should be focused on, and it's so much better than a manufactured medication. And yet we like I can't get people to all do it. So we have nutrition, movement, sleep. You realize that one night of dysregulated sleep can impact your body like that of a type two diabetic. So if we aren't sleeping well, yeah, that's that is totally impacting our glucose response stress. 00:24:37:20 - 00:24:52:08 Carrie Lupoli When I wear a continuous glucose monitor, I could be eating absolutely on point. And the spike my blood sugar when I am stressed. So stress plays a big part of this. So what did I say? Nutrition movement. And 00:24:52:08 - 00:25:02:17 Carrie Lupoli managing our stress, sleep, hydration and supplementation and supplementation isn't just about like vitamins and minerals, although those are important. 00:25:02:17 - 00:25:28:17 Carrie Lupoli I call it supplements and supplementation like sauna or sweating. Huge. I put walking in this category because we need to be doing it every single day, like 8 to 10,000 steps a day, or like every 30 minutes doing like two minutes of movement. That helps regulate our glucose response. It's so incredible. People always ask me that, okay, what about the food that let's talk about the food. 00:25:28:17 - 00:25:53:22 Carrie Lupoli So nutrition we do something we call eating in threes. In fact it's called the would you name it PFC three PFC protein fat and carb every three hours. What carbs. Yes. Protein fat and carb. Yes. Those are the macronutrients that we need. If you've ever, like, counted macros for the day, it makes me maybe a little less mad than the calorie counting, but it still doesn't take into consideration blood sugar stabilization. 00:25:54:01 - 00:26:16:15 Carrie Lupoli You could eat like 350 calories of oatmeal, and you're going to like your blood sugar. Or you could eat 3050 calories of turkey, almonds, and an apple just for an example, and have a protein, fat, and carb and you are going to keep your blood sugar stabilized. Plus getting the nutrients that your body needs, including the amino acids from the protein carbs make your blood sugar. 00:26:16:17 - 00:26:35:11 Carrie Lupoli Yes, we know that because also give us energy. But when we spike our blood sugar, our body needs to over release insulin to be able to mitigate that spike. Because our body is amazing at trying to balance his blood sugar on its own. That if you keep putting your body on the blood sugar rollercoaster, that insulin has to keep going after the blood sugar spikes to try to mitigate it. 00:26:35:13 - 00:26:52:23 Carrie Lupoli And after a while, say after 35, you're going to be tired, your body is going to be tired. It's like a joke. It's like, let's say you're a single mom with ten kids and you're trying to raise ten kids and you're just exhausted. And if somebody just spills water on the floor, you're like, oh my God, I can do this, right? 00:26:53:01 - 00:27:11:07 Carrie Lupoli That's how your body's been feeling for all these years. But let's say, like your husband, was it like some sort of a jerk and just left you? He was a soldier and he was out for whoring back, and he's going to help. That's like what happens when you actually fuel your body correctly with food in a way that makes it sing and thrive. 00:27:11:13 - 00:27:28:00 Carrie Lupoli And so your husband's like, I am here to help you with these ten kids. And so it may take a minute before you guys get in a rhythm, but once you do, somebody can spill milk or ice cream or whatever it is, and you're just like, you know what? It's okay, I got it because you're not as tired anymore. 00:27:28:02 - 00:27:50:16 Carrie Lupoli That's what happens when you come alongside your body and work to eat in a way that actually helps to balance its blood sugar, that you live in a way that actually supports blood sugar regulation, and suddenly your body's in balance. You don't have to over release insulin, which again, is a hormone which impacts all other movement. You actually can live in homeostasis. 00:27:50:18 - 00:28:08:24 Carrie Lupoli So when you have your carbs, it's going to spike your blood sugar. But you know what happens when you eat a protein and a fat. It actually results in that mitigation of that blood sugar spike. And your body doesn't have to over release that insulin. Your body is like, oh my gosh, thank you for giving me a break. 00:28:09:01 - 00:28:32:09 Carrie Lupoli That's why you can have soul fill in meals. We don't call them cheat meals, but call it like an appreciation. No, you can have an appreciation meal, serve your soul and not worry about it, because your body's not so tired of constantly trying to balance itself on its own. So when you have a carb and you eat first a protein and a fat, you literally you're getting all the amino acids to be able to fuel your muscle. 00:28:32:09 - 00:28:51:03 Carrie Lupoli You're mitigating that blood sugar spike, but yet you're getting the energy. The fat is cushioning your organs, fueling your brain and allowing your body to actually digest the proteins and the fat and the carbs in a way that it was meant to be. They were meant to be. And together, eating within an hour of waking up, eating a protein, fat, and carb every three hours so that you're ready to eat. 00:28:51:03 - 00:29:15:12 Carrie Lupoli Satisfied. Ready to eat. Satisfied. Never too hungry, never too full. Bam. That's literally it. And when you can start spinning that plate and then start to integrate your other plates just 1% at a time, over time your body will start to react. And when I say my five year old nephew, it's his way. It's so cool because he's like protein, fat and carb. 00:29:15:12 - 00:29:39:11 Carrie Lupoli Let's go. He knows food and he understands that he eats them all together. Now, is he going to be like, like legalistic about it? No, we never should be. But when you can actually see the data from a continuous glucose monitor and understand how this is actually helping your body. That's right. How I had a client named Gene who is 50 years old and her average blood sugar was 400 diabetics. 00:29:39:11 - 00:30:07:15 Carrie Lupoli She had tried Rugova and Ozempic. Our blood sugar should be around 80 to 120. She was sitting at 400 on almost a regular basis. That woman was not going to be alive in another year. Within two weeks, a spinning or six spinning plates focusing first on nutrition. Her average blood glucose level was 243 within two more weeks. A month after starting to eat this way, her blood glucose level was at 143, right within the normal range of somebody actually, that's diabetic. 00:30:07:17 - 00:30:38:22 Carrie Lupoli And her doctor could not believe that just with food and no medication. She was literally reversing her story. She is now off insulin, completely off almost all of her medication, including her high cholesterol medication, because it's all the same root cause. The check engine light goes on when you've been on that blood sugar rollercoaster for decades. So I hope that right now you can see why the diets haven't worked and how they were never actually designed to work 00:30:38:22 - 00:30:43:10 Carrie Lupoli in the way that you actually want something to work long term success. 00:30:43:10 - 00:31:02:08 Carrie Lupoli And I know we're not just focused on weight loss. We want to feel better. We want to live better. We want to be healthier. We want to have a better relationship with food and our body. It's not just about weight loss, but when we focus on weight loss, we get nothing. But when we focus on health and understanding what our body really needs, we get bullied. 00:31:02:10 - 00:31:22:09 Carrie Lupoli So I hope that this is allowing you a little bit of an insight as to what we need to be doing. I actually didn't get into all the B.S. right. Our behavioral science and our belief systems just focus on blood sugar right now. But that's why I put together this really cool guide that you can download after this episode. 00:31:22:09 - 00:31:24:02 Carrie Lupoli Sort of like a little bit of a, 00:31:24:02 - 00:31:35:21 Carrie Lupoli homework maybe, if you will, and becoming the healthiest version of yourself and focusing on the B.S. that you really need to be doing blood sugar, behavioral science and belief systems so you can download that now, 00:31:35:21 - 00:31:45:16 Carrie Lupoli we'll put a link below so that you can download that guide right now and actually get a little bit of a blueprint of what it means to be the healthiest version of yourself, and you get nothing else from this. 00:31:45:18 - 00:31:56:14 Carrie Lupoli You know, we are done with the dieting roller coaster. All right. I'm excited about this. And remember, wherever you are on your journey, all it takes is a 00:31:56:14 - 00:31:57:04 Carrie Lupoli 1% 00:31:57:04 - 00:32:02:16 Carrie Lupoli mindset of improving. We never stay the same. We're either regressing or progressing. 00:32:02:16 - 00:32:03:07 Carrie Lupoli But a 00:32:03:07 - 00:32:03:22 Carrie Lupoli 1% 00:32:03:22 - 00:32:10:08 Carrie Lupoli progression is all it takes to live a life of complete and total food freedom and optimal health. 00:32:10:10 - 00:32:10:24 Carrie Lupoli Let's go.
