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- 0:00losing fat it's tough right and I know you can probably appreciate this maybe you've been trying to do it for a long time I still struggle with a lot of things but I will tell you that right now it seems to be a lot easier than it has been because there are these weight loss drugs that they put out there that a lot of people are taking and they're touting some really big numbers as far as weight loss the problem is is a lot of that weight loss from what I gather from what I've read is actually muscle loss so today's video I'm going to talk about whether you're gonna take one of those whether you're gonna fast whether you're gonna caloric restrict which do your research because that whole caloric restriction thing hasn't worked in large numbers at all since it was started back in the day and do your research on this but it's because the body is very fast to reduce its metabolism to adjust itself to the new caloric intake so if you're a regular 3 or 4,000 calorie a day eater and that's what's gotten you fat over time or you binge once or twice a week and that's what's gotten you fat over time and then you go and you cut back your calories to 1,000 or 15 which a lot of the weight loss systems out there say to do your metabolism is going to follow suit and lower itself to that particular point so you're gonna be tired you're gonna be sluggish the problem is is once you lower it to get it back up to burning regular take some time so then if you get frustrated you're not dropping any more weight and you decide to go ahead and just kind of eat normally you're gonna be putting on a lot of fat so be careful with caloric restriction look into fasting I would also look into changing the types of food you're eating and getting into more of a ketosis type area or a carnivore paleo type thing but pay attention to what you're eating and I think really the solve all for everything is understanding that when you're eating sugar carbohydrates those sorts of things your insulin's high and I'll make it super simple Doctor Huberman if you don't watch him he's great to watch about these these sort of things he will tell you that he advises his closest people just to eat five things and the five things are beef eggs fish vegetables and fruits meat eggs fish vegetables fruits meats are gonna be your poultries right your beef your pork your chicken your vegetables you know vegetables fruits not too heavy on the fruits but again fruits that have themselves if you're not grinding them up or pulverizing them and extracting the juice whole fruits pretty good and I don't know if anybody that's ever gotten incredibly obese just eating fruit so you have those things the fish of course in the eggs so that's where you should be the condiments you use watch out for those because you got your ketchup it's loaded with sugar tomato paste tomato juice tomatoes again it's something you can eat but when they when they modify it from being a tomato into something you put on food it changes the dynamic and they add a whole bunch of stuff to it if you're gonna be drinking juices again that's not part of what I said to eat so I would stay away from that but when you are losing weight you want a majority of that weight to be fat you don't wanna lose the muscle muscle looks good especially when you're able to get it exposed over time because you've gotten the adipost tissue that's on your body that excess energy down to a lower level you start to see the muscle that's underneath now get yourself a couple dumbbells doesn't have to be huge you don't have to go out and get two 50 pound dumbbells which will be crazy but if you're a female maybe get a five a set or five or 10 pound dumbbells go spend a 30 or 40 bucks if you're a male get yourself a set of maybe 10 15 or 20 pound dumbbells just two and when you're sitting at your desk set a timer for every hour cause you should take a few minutes off you don't gotta take a long time take 2 or 3 minutes off per hour and do something with the dumbbells again you can do some curls with the dumbbells you can do some shoulder presses with the dumbbells you can do some lateral raises with the dumbbells you can do all sorts of things sitting at your chair with the dumbbells and then you can stand up and maybe do some air squats holding the dumbbells whatever it is you need that activity and you need to keep those muscles activated so if you were to do that and then take one of these weight loss drugs or start cutting back the amount of carbohydrates you're eating maybe eating more carnivore eating what I told you to eat those five things meat eggs fish vegetables and fruits and that's it nothing else nothing processed nothing out of a bag nothing with more than one ingredient that's a huge deal because when you're looking at a bag of I give an example they sell hamburger patties sometimes when you look at the hamburger patties there's not just beef there's beef and then all these other things and in some cases there's sugar in there that acts as a preservative so start being one of those label people that you're at the supermarket that you see that irritated the hell out of me back in the day be a label person look and see oh yeah it's got that's got something in and I don't understand and then you got your smartest person in your pocket you got the worldwide web on your phone just ask hey Siri or hey Jack GPT you know what is this ingredient it'll tell you and then ask is there a problem with it or is it going to cause an issue with my insulin or whatever it may be but you understand that so one ingredient stuff a bag of chips you look at chips lots of ingredients if you look at a monster drink or these other things there's a lot of ingredients in there so I would stick with water coffee well has coffee in it but those sweeteners you put into it also hear something else and this is kind of the thing with Diet Coke it does cause an insulin response because that sweetness hits your tongue and your body then thinking that there's gonna be some kind of sweet calories hitting here mobilizes the insulin it releases it and these are from the studies I've seen I'm not a doctor so before you go out there and do anything nuts make sure you talk to your medical professional especially if you're going to attack this by not eating for an extended period of time via fasting but that really is a great way to drop a maximum amount of weight in a very short period of time if when you start eating again you can honor that breakfast meal that refeed and not overdo it thinking that you were starving for so long oh my God I can't wait to eat again and then completely overdoing it you wanna make that next event that next meal you wanna honor yourself and eat it very carefully and make sure that when you do eat it it is made up of one of those ingredients singular ingredients from the 5 things I talked about beef meat disregard meats all meats fish eggs vegetables and fruits if you want to do this you can do this if you've tried so many times and failed each time you can do this it's going to just come down to you doing it and just like now you might eat on autopilot you might find yourself sticking stuff in your mouth without much preparation at all just because it was there if you have more good days than bad days you will do this so you have to develop that mind shift from eating all the time to looking at food as not this big Celebration but just something necessary to keep you moving on and in fact if you're carrying around a lot of fat food becomes a lot less necessary because you yourself if your get your doctor's blessing and you don't have any medications and that sort of thing can go as long as you have fat to burn without eating food cat named Angus Barberi did 382 days of memory serves not eating anything that's over a year he had a multivitamin black coffee and water and that was a year over a year he dropped a boatload of weight fat do yourselves a favor do some research wrap your mind around and I know when I started this and I was 365 pounds with a 65 inch waist I had to really absorb the fasting because I've been told all my life my metabolism is gonna shut down I'm gonna end up doing myself harm and then when I read about it and started studying fasting I actually realized oh my God these doctors say that your metabolism actually goes up in the studies that they've conducted because when your body thinks it's starving it ramps up energy so you get out there and wanna hunt and want to eat makes sense but if you reduce your calories your metabolism join suit and then you're stuck and you won't drop anything I'm Connor with honor we will see you in the next one reach out to me if I can help you well and thanks for watching