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Class OverviewCreating a metabolic blueprint is a systematic, step-wise procedure that puts you in the driver’s seat and prioritizes your new diet, Let’s explore your new personalized lifestyle.Your ProfessorDr. Schuler is a Chiropractor, Nutritionist, author, speaker, and is a nationally recognized expert in the field of natural health, metabolism and the Paleo lifestyle.How to Draft a Personalized metabolic BlueprintCreating a metabolic blueprint is a systematic, step-wise procedure that puts you in the driver’s seat and prioritizes your new diet and lifestyle.It is easy to get confused, overwhelmed, and frustrated. While many of us are on the look-out for diets, foods, and supplements that boost metabolism, there’s a secret that you should understand before embarking upon this journey. It is much easier to remove something that is slowing your metabolism than it is to boost your metabolism. It is a matter of letting off the brakes rather than stepping harder on the accelerator. Those who have previously developed their personalized metabolic blueprint are empowered, educated, and ever-conscious of the effect of lifestyle choices on their metabolism.The Top 10 Big Ideas    1    Be Your Own metabolic Architect    Many of us approach our own health from a consumer perspective. We consume programs, advice, products, and expect a result from something or someone doing something for us or to us. Think about your metabolism like a new house you’re going to build. Everything is up to you and that’s great! The problem is that everything is up to you. You are the client, but you are also the architect. You’re smart! You know tons of good stuff. Think like a producer, like a service provider rather than a consumer and how you would coach yourself and how you think strategically will fundamentally shift.    2    Differentiate Must-Haves and Nice-to-Haves    Any great architect…scratch that. Even the most minimally competent architect helping you with your new home blueprints will spend a fair amount of time getting to know your goals. Usually health plans have one or two big goals like “lose 20 pounds” or “improve my energy.” Unfortunately, that’s like telling your architect you “want a house” and that’s it. No one has a single goal. We have the “dream big” goals and we have basic minimally acceptable needs. Knowing your deepest, most primal needs and shedding the skin of what others will think will be key. What needs to happen for you to be satisfied with the result and what would thrill you?    3    Be Loyal to Your Vision    The decisions you make when building a house or building a body will have long-standing implications that you may need to live with.    You see, most people approach fat loss and improving dietary patterns only on a short term basis. Or worse, in an all-or-nothing fashion. If you can’t do it perfectly or you can’t see results fast enough, you bounce from technique to technique with no overarching strategy and your metabolism suffers. Even if this has been your pattern, it no longer needs to be.    4    Sketch a Schematic Design    Architects, and yes, you are a metabolic architect now, first work out matching the home to the plot of land, determining number of bedrooms and bathrooms and general layout. In the grand design of metabolism, the big rocks are food tolerances and macronutrient ratios. Food allergies, food sensitivities, food intolerances, and foods that disgust you to even picture in your head have to be avoided. In regards to the foods that you should eat, is your physiology hanker for a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet or a high-protein, high-fat?    Protein and carbohydrates get all the press, but all three macronutrients – fat, protein, and carbohydrates can be changed to provide an optimal framework for your metabolism. This requires experimentation.    5    The Big Fat Experiment Everyone Needs to Try    Calorie counting is so last season. However, if you were to jump into my Delorean and we talked in terms of calories, I’d offer a starting point for macronutrient ratio experimentation. Half of your calories from fat for 21 days alongside moderate protein and moderate carbohydrate (excluding intolerances, of course). If this sounds like something you would never do, it is probably something you should do!    Minimally and unprocessed fat and lipid sources have a myriad of benefits. This is just one of many experiments to try. Because I typically don’t talk in terms of calories, this translates, roughly, into two or three servings of fat at your first two meals and one to two servings in your third meal of the day. One example of a serving of fat is a tablespoon of olive oil.    6    Experimentation is Like Brainstorming – Design Development    Beyond the big fat experiment, other ratios should be tested. Please understand that I’m suggesting you systematically test your physiology using all of these different plans. Just like an architect will deepen the questioning of the client and leave no stone unturned, this phase is the time to uncover all stones as it comes to the major dietary components. During design development, it becomes apparent that some wants are inconsistent. Planned experiments of the diet help us determine what the physiology craves. Like a good scientist, or service provider, you can compare your diligent notes from one experiment to the next.    7    Visualizing the Project    Once you set your plan, it is going to be inflexible for a while. Take what you believe are the best options from design development and think about how/ when those will be difficult to implement; how do you overcome it? One thing that makes any architect pull out their hair and age quickly is the client who cannot visualize what the result will look like.    Those who need to see it to believe it (or feel it) cannot conceptualize the blueprints into three dimensions. As your own architect, you’ll challenge yourself.    Why do I want to improve my health? What will the results I’m expecting provide me in other areas of my life? How will the changes affect my relationships?    8    Construction Documents – Executing the Plan    In architecture, construction documents are what inform the building of your home. Once these are finalized, given the previous steps, changes are often expensive and increase build time. For your metabolism, this typically means that for 6-8 months, stick to the plan. Based on the set of experiments you’ve accomplished, the choice should be painfully obvious. Do whatever it takes to stick to the plan. Avoid the temptation of further reading and researching about metabolism and diet and focus on implementation strategies.    Hire a coach. During the construction documents phase, the most important organ for changing your metabolism rests squarely between your ears.    9    Be Patient with Curb Appeal    Your destiny is in the hands of your plans. You still have to follow the plan, but you’re just doing what you’ve told yourself to do, like a soldier following orders. As your vision begins to take shape, your optimal living space may need some sprucing up once all the heavy machinery leave the lot. Construction is messy and when the majority of work is done there will still be some landscaping and decorating to do. With your food plan in place, having an objective observer evaluate potential options for supplementation may be helpful. Supplementation is likely necessary given the current food quality, but starting with supplementation and then fitting in foods around it isn’t optimal. Nutrition assessment is an art and not simply the ordering and robot-like processing of laboratory specimens. Your medical and nutrition history, body composition, and the diet that best fits your physiology in addition to any available laboratory data will inform your supplement needs.    10    Plan for Remodels    You are bound to come across an interesting article while in your implementation phase. Don’t change course but rather tuck it away for re-evaluation. Changes in diet should be like remodels rather than bulldozing, torching, and starting over.