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All right, in this video, I want to clarify carbs from sugar.

Do you just avoid carbs? Do you worry about sugar on keto? It's a little confusing.

All right, so when we do keto, we're talking about net carbs, not total carbs. What are net carbs? Basically take the total and minus the

fiber. Okay? Now fiber is carbohydrate but it doesn't have any response on insulin.

So this is why we deduct the fiber because it's not going to raise the insulin.

The less fiber we have, the more that carbohydrate is going to spike blood

sugars okay and it's then going to raise insulin. So we're always focusing on

the net carb and making sure it's between 20 and 50 grams or less.

Okay, so with keto you don't want to go above 50 grams.

If you have a slow metabolism and you want to lose more weight, just go down this way, cut the

carbs even more, but we're operating off of net carbs, not total carbs.

You don't want to count or even have vegetables in your equation at all, okay?

And I'm talking about leafy greens and other vegetables. So I'm not talking about like tomatoes,

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