What if I told you that steak or salmon. It could work like Ozempic, but without the side effects. In fact, what if I told you they actually had side benefits? Now, big pharma doesn’t want you to know this, but protein might be nature’s ultimate appetite hack. Let’s expose the truth. Now, whether you’re on Ozempic or some of those other weight loss drugs.

Or you’re looking for how to titrate off it or lower the dose, or you just would love to get control of your appetite or cravings. I gotcha. That is what I’m all about.

I’m kind of obsessed with it. All right. I’m sure you’ve heard about Ozempic Stark side, that extreme hunger drop, which causes rapid weight loss, which of course might sound great until you discover that 40% or more of this can come from lean mass, especially skeletal muscle mass. And what happens when you do that is you devastate your metabolism and then when you go off.

Guess what? You gain back fat, which is why you end up in a really big metabolic hole. You see, you actually don’t wanna shut off your hunger altogether. You just wanna get some control over it. You wanna reign it in, and that’s where protein comes in. Proteins superpower is threefold for how it controls hunger.

First of all. It slashes the hunger hormone ghrelin for three plus hours. This helps you slow down stomach emptying so that you can feel fuller longer. Now, in a bit, I’m gonna share the magic ingredient that you can pair with protein that’s just gonna amplify the effect of ghrelin, by the way. Protein impacts more than just ghrelin.

Protein also helps maintain healthy leptin levels, and this can help signal fullness to the brain. Now, this doesn’t happen right away because unlike ghrelin, leptin is more influenced by body fat. Than short term meals, but protein’s, fat loss effects over time can help improve leptin sensitivity. And then there’s another hormone called PYY, and protein sharply increases PYY.

This is a hormone that slows digestion and also helps promote fullness obese individuals. Often have blunted PYY responses, but a high protein diet can bring this back to normal. Plus protein provides those essential amino acids that you need to make neurotransmitters from, including dopamine and serotonin.

Now, dopamine and serotonin are super important, both for. Appetite and cravings. And just think about it. When you eat a big steak and then the dessert cart comes, you’re like, I’m full. I don’t want that. And it’s not just that you’re full, you just don’t have those cravings. So protein is more satiating than fatter carbs, and it also supports your overall metabolism.

And it does this in two critical ways. And these two critical ways can make. All of the difference in your long-term success, and I’m gonna go into that in a little bit, but I wanna also give you the Ozempic mimicking protein protocol because this is gonna set you up for success. First of all, you are gonna be eating one gram a protein per pound of your target or ideal.

Body weight. You wanna do this every single day. Now, I even push this a little bit more with caloric restriction because I wanna ensure that you can hold onto your muscle as you’re losing fat and make sure that you are getting in at least 40 grams of protein in your bumper meals. Those are your first.

And your last meals of the day, and why I want you to make sure you’re doing that is I wanna make sure you’re turning on your metabolic furnace in the morning and shutting down those cravings. When you eat in the morning, you’re really setting the metabolic tone for the day. And then in the evening, I want you to do it because I want you to shut the refrigerator, right?

So we’re stopping those evening refrigerates when you eat your protein at 40 grams or more. The evening. Now, next up, grab yourself some clean, lean animal sources so that you’re getting the most digestible and bioavailable sources with the best amino acid profile. So think of things like grass fed, grass finished lean beef.

I especially love this because it is rich in a fatty acid called CLA, and this has been shown to actually help you drop belly fat. It’s also rich in omega threes. Which are anti-inflammatory and of course grass fed, grass finished beef is nutrient dense. Think iron, think B12, think great minerals. And then I love wild salmon also has those great omega threes, which are anti-inflammatory.

Has great gut healing properties and rich in antioxidants. Now, important one to remember. You are what you eat. Eight. So be sure to choose clean, lean sources to avoid the toxins that could be in those factory-farmed animals. Now, if you’re trying to get all of your protein from minimally processed plant-based ingredients, this is likely gonna push you over the carbon fat levels you need to be able to be at in order to lose body fat, because just to get 40 grams of protein.

You’d have to eat more than two cups of lentils. That’s over 500 calories or five cups of quinoa. That’s over 1100 calories. And by the way, that’s not even getting in the balance of essential amino acids that you need, and that’s also not getting in the 150 grams or more protein you need. Let’s say if you’re 150 gram person, so you can see how quickly the calories and the carbs.

Add up before you even come close to your protein targets. Now, there is a role for these foods, and that’s part of that magic formula I talked about earlier. I want you to pair your clean, lean protein with fiber. It’s the perfect protocol as both of these work together to support the release of GLP one.

Plus, you get bonus points for fiber because fiber is so important for your microbiome and you gotta have. A healthy microbiome to produce GLP one plus. Of course, we know that fiber’s really important for blood sugar stability. So think chicken thighs and lentils, or salmon and quinoa for the win. And I want you to hit in fiber at least 30 grams or more a day.

You’ll be able to find out if you’re doing this because you’re gonna be tracking on an app, right? And I love. The Chronometer app because I’ll be able to track how much protein I’m eating and I’ll be able to track how much fiber I’m eating and be sure that you’re using a food scale so you’ll know exactly how much you’re getting.

Do not try to eyeball it. We are notoriously. Bad at that. Now, be sure to stay to the end of this video because I’m gonna share how you can get my exact protocol to get started the right way with the best protein choices and what else you can combine the protein with to create again, this magic combo that I just talked about.

So I mentioned. That there was even more that protein can do for your metabolism beyond helping with hunger and cravings, protein is the most thermic of the three macronutrients. And if you’ve listened to any of my videos, you’ve heard me talk about the thermic effect of food. It’s part of what impacts your daily energy expenditure.

Protein takes about 25% of its calories to be digested and assimilated on the body. Now carbohydrates, it’s only five or 10%, and fat’s pretty close to zero. So if you wanna boost your overall caloric expenditure, boost your protein up. You know it’s interesting. Bill Campbell, Dr. Bill Campbell, who runs a physique lab here in Tampa at the University of South Florida, he has found that when you eat more protein, you lose more fat.

Also higher protein intakes help you maintain. Or better yet, build skeletal muscle. And remember, muscle helps your metabolism. Muscle helps with insulin, insulin sensitivity. That’s why I call muscle your metabolic Spanx, because when you have more muscle, you’re gonna burn more calories all day long. And it also supports better metabolic flexibility and better fat burning.

The other thing that muscle is, is a sugar sponge. When you’re eating those carbohydrates. With the magic formula, it’s gonna give those carbohydrates a place to land in your muscles rather than getting converted to fat and getting stored on your belly. The reality is, and you know this, you do not build muscle by eating protein and sitting on the couch.

You have to add in resistance training as well. This is gonna ensure that you maintain, and ideally you build muscle while you’re losing fat. This is a process known as. Re comping. Now. Something else that can help you here is my product ine. This is a non bloating form of creatine that I put together with magnesium anding to help you work out harder and recover better.

So protein, fiber. She aine. All of this combined plus resistance training ensures that you don’t suffer the fate of most of these ozempic users with those higher big pharma doses that lead to muscle loss and metabolic crashing. Not on my watch. So here’s your plan. We talked resistance training. What I want you to do is lift heavy three times a week, big compound moves, things like squats and pushups, bent over rows.

And overhead presses. Make sure you’re getting in that protein. Remember, it’s 40 grams at your bumper meals, breakfast and dinner, and at least one gram per pound of target body weight overall. And add that fiber in too. 30 plus grams a day. To both support that GLP one raising and help your gut microbiome.

 

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