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- 0:00I believe when you truly know the root causes of your symptoms, disease, illness, you heal your body and break free from the conventional medicine rollercoaster, which is only providing a pill and a bandage solution, keeping you stuck and sick.
- 0:14And to me, that is unacceptable.
- 0:17Welcome to Find the Root Cause podcast.
- 0:20I'm Dr.
- 0:20Jennifer Jente.
- 0:21My patients call me Dr.
- 0:23J.
- 0:23Functional medicine and root cause doctor and on this podcast each week I will be diving deeper on a health topic with the intention of helping you get a clear understanding of why your symptoms do not have to be a mystery anymore and a plan to help you reduce the need for medications, reduce the frustration, the confusion, the anxiety in order to achieve health and well being.
- 0:48wellness, happiness, to feel your very best and improve the quality of your life.
- 0:53If you are ready to take your health, stamina, and life to the next level and stop struggling, keep listening.
- 1:00I got something amazing to tell you.
- 1:03Hello warriors.
- 1:04Hello healers.
- 1:05Welcome back to the podcast.
- 1:06If you're listening to this on the podcast or welcome back to my YouTube channel, thank you so much for subscribing, for sharing, for liking, for commenting.
- 1:16Thank you so much.
- 1:17That gives me the energy, motivation.
- 1:20And be empowered to do more episodes, knowing that you guys are liking this type of content.
- 1:25So therefore I can bring the education to you.
- 1:28So today is going to be a quickie.
- 1:31since I released my weight loss and fat loss ebook, which is my proven step by step method, I call it a roadmap for you to lose the weight and keep it off.
- 1:43These are the steps that I implement With my patients, in my weight loss programs, my practice, to help them lose the weight, get off medications, improve energy, improve cognitive function, improve mobility, like literally addressing many of the symptoms, and do it with energy, and able to maintain and sustain this type of lifestyle.
- 2:07So, if you haven't got your hands on the weight loss ebook, it is free.
- 2:13It is completely free.
- 2:14Again, it is my proven method and the stuff that I'm discussing, the steps and the phases and the processes that I'm discussing in the ebook, if you implement them with the help of your doctor or by yourself, you will lose the weight.
- 2:28Because these are not the things that you hear.
- 2:30Often out there in the world, I'm not telling you to, stop eating and go kill yourself at the gym.
- 2:36These are the things that we need to address at the cellular level to finally lose the weight.
- 2:41So if you need a copy, you haven't got your copy yet.
- 2:44You see the link in the comment section below.
- 2:46This is my roadmap.
- 2:47This is what I exactly do.
- 2:50That get people results, get your hands on it, read it.
- 2:53There's also video that comes with it.
- 2:55at the end of the ebook, you will also see a few recipes, that I lay out for you to get you started, there'll be some recommendations for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, because I want to give you something that has everything that you need, To take actions, but also to see results.
- 3:12So this ebook is unique, if I may say so myself, it is one that will literally get you to start thinking about what do I need to do to lose the weight or for you to see whatever you're doing now that's not working, how you need to change.
- 3:27And take a different action so that you can lose the weight.
- 3:29So the e book is below.
- 3:31Thank you so much for all of you that have already get your hands on the e book.
- 3:34I'm getting some great feedback on it, which I'm super excited.
- 3:38Thank you.
- 3:38Thank you.
- 3:39And if you need any help with implementing any of the steps outlined in the e book, I would love to assist you.
- 3:45I would love, love, love to assist you again.
- 3:48I get results.
- 3:49I will help you lose the weight and do it in a way that you enjoy the process, We're not going to lose the weight and be fatigued and not feeling our best.
- 3:58That is not how weight loss happens.
- 4:00You're losing muscle.
- 4:02You're literally creating more damage than good and you are increasing the inflammation.
- 4:06So the ebook is in the comment section below.
- 4:08Today, I'm going to talk to you about five things I did not do to lose the weight.
- 4:16Because I released this ebook, I've been getting tons of questions about how did you lose the weight?
- 4:22If you meet me in person, I'm, I guess I'm pretty skinny, but healthy, skinny with tons of energy with beautiful skin.
- 4:30My hair's growing back.
- 4:31I mean, everything is just happening.
- 4:33so people, patients and also family members and others are asking me, what did you do?
- 4:39To lose the weight.
- 4:40So I told them, what did I tell you?
- 4:41What I didn't do to lose the weight.
- 4:43So I'm going to do, this episode about what I did not do to lose the weight.
- 4:47And then the next episode will be about the five things I did to lose the weight.
- 4:51And it's going to be mind blowing.
- 4:53So first on my weight loss journey, I had to sit with myself and find my own definition of weight loss.
- 5:00Now what the world is telling me, other people's telling me is like, what is weight loss to me?
- 5:06How do I view weight loss?
- 5:07So I had to really journal on that.
- 5:09Like, what do I want if I'm going to lose weight?
- 5:11Because I've seen people lose weight and they look so unhealthy, they are tired, they have shortness of breath, they have saggy skin all over.
- 5:19They don't look well at all.
- 5:20They can't even walk from one end to another end without, stopping and taking a break.
- 5:25So what is weight loss to me?
- 5:26I don't want that type of weight loss.
- 5:28Losing weight means the energy that I will wake up with every morning.
- 5:33The fact that I felt great internally and externally.
- 5:36The fact that I can look at myself in the mirror and see how my body's transformed.
- 5:41Every single part of my body.
- 5:42So I'm not losing weight up here and then have a whole bunch of weight down here.
- 5:46It's like a nice, beautiful transformation with my shape coming out.
- 5:50Like it's just, it's the vitality that I'm feeling I feel vibrant.
- 5:55my brain is sharper.
- 5:57I have a pep in my step and, my stomach is working properly.
- 6:00My gut is working properly.
- 6:02My stomach is flatter.
- 6:03My joints are more mobile and my heart is functioning.
- 6:08My blood pressure is decreasing.
- 6:10My cholesterol.
- 6:11Yes, I have cholesterol also decrease.
- 6:13So it's just a transformation that takes place internally and externally.
- 6:19Oh, wow.
- 6:19You look good today.
- 6:20What are you doing?
- 6:21You look different.
- 6:22Your skin is brighter.
- 6:24Your hair is growing.
- 6:25You're happier.
- 6:27So that is the definition of weight loss to me.
- 6:29It's not just losing pounds, I don't want to lose pounds.
- 6:32I want to be transformed.
- 6:34I want every single aspect of my life, of my health to be transformed.
- 6:39I want the happiness.
- 6:40I want the motivation.
- 6:41I want the focus.
- 6:42I want the concentration.
- 6:43I want my brain to be so sharp that like I can literally be productive without relying on coffee.
- 6:49That is weight loss.
- 6:50And then, yes, that happens when you lose weight.
- 6:53what is the significance of losing weight for me, is preventing diseases.
- 6:57If you take medications, your blood pressure medications, diabetic medications, autoimmune medications, you losing a few pounds can literally decrease the use of medications and that can also lead, in stopping the medication because you are shifting your health at the cellular level internally, so whatever That was diseased and then flame will be shift as well.
- 7:24So the significance is proper heart health, Like not having high blood pressure, heart disease, not having plaque in your arteries, atherosclerosis, decrease in the cholesterol, decrease in the risk of diabetes, decrease in your insulin, your glucose.
- 7:38decreasing your A& E titer and pattern, which is the autoimmune marker, just like getting rid of gas and bloat.
- 7:45So your health will be changed.
- 7:48Your body will be changed and you feel better overall.
- 7:52Again, not just pounds.
- 7:53So that's my significance.
- 7:55I always wanted to lose weight.
- 7:56Because I've seen how I was prescribing medications to patients.
- 8:01Sometimes the patient will start with one medication, end up with five and knowing the side effects of the medications, that's scary to me.
- 8:08Like, if you were to take a medication you're taking right now, today, and you Google it and see all the side effects that comes with that medication, I was like, no, I don't want nausea, I don't want my kidneys to fail, I don't want my liver to be out of commission, for it not to work properly, I don't want any of the side effects, so that's scary.
- 8:26So that prompted me to really evaluate my health, evaluate my desire, and just get on that healthy weight loss journey that's going to give me the desired weight, like the way I feel my body, my dream body, my dream health.
- 8:38It is a work in progress.
- 8:39I'm not going to tell you I just lost the weight and then everything falls into place.
- 8:43Not only you have to lose the weight, but you also have to maintain the weight.
- 8:47And I did an episode about the three phases of, going on your health journey.
- 8:51So the first phase is discovery phase.
- 8:53That's the root cause.
- 8:54If you haven't seen that episode, it's somewhere here on the podcast and also on the YouTube.
- 8:59and also the active phase, that's when you're actually working on eliminating your symptoms, decreasing your symptoms.
- 9:06And then the third phase is maintenance phase.
- 9:08That's how you maintain the result that you acquired, you attend so far.
- 9:12To me, I had to really get clear why I want to lose weight because society is telling me a different thing and I don't like what the world is telling me.
- 9:20Society is telling me I want something that's going to feel good.
- 9:24That's going to resonate with me.
- 9:25That's going to be into alignment with me So that's the first thing I had to get clear, like, what do I want this?
- 9:30And how do I want to go about it?
- 9:32And like, what is the journey is going to look like?
- 9:34And then five things I did not do to lose weight.
- 9:38The first one is I did not use any commercialized products.
- 9:44Okay.
- 9:44I'm talking about those pre packaged meals that I can ship to your house or the one that you can walk into the store and buy those shakes that are, you know, like weight loss shakes.
- 9:53And I'm talking about those things.
- 9:55There's companies that are promising you, you can eat this food, you can eat cookies and cheesecake and lose weight.
- 10:02You can just go to your grocery store in the refrigerator area and just pick your breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
- 10:08And you can eat whatever you want and you lose weight.
- 10:10Now, what is wrong with these things is that not only there are some hidden ingredients and products that are literally creating damage at the cellular level, tricking your body and thinking of your full.
- 10:23So you're not eating to feed yourselves because weight loss happens when you eat food, my friend.
- 10:29You got to feed yourselves, you got to restart your metabolism.
- 10:33So if you're drinking those things, and you're eating those food, and you're not making them at home, you have no control over what you put into your body.
- 10:41if you look at the ingredients, and you can literally tell, there's like a whole paragraph of ingredients.
- 10:48if I make Kale and steamed potatoes myself.
- 10:50I'm only gonna have two or three ingredients, but if I purchase it from those well known companies, there's so many things in it.
- 10:58I'm like, wow, it's only two things I'm putting into my body.
- 11:01Why do I have a laundry list of ingredients?
- 11:04Then not only that, because you're not eating to feed your body, you are not gonna lose the weight.
- 11:11You're not gonna lose the weight.
- 11:13You're gonna hold onto weight because your body is sensing there's some starvation going on and you're gonna hold onto weight.
- 11:19Yes, you might have some rapid weight loss, but it is a false weight loss system it's not the way to lose the weight.
- 11:26the side effects.
- 11:27You have to think about the side effects that comes with it, Stomach issues.
- 11:30I have a patient right now who going through a whole commercialized product and she's having stomach pain now, there's so much gastritis going on with her stomach because these ingredients, these chemicals, those toxins are literally irritated in her stomach.
- 11:44She lost a few pounds, but she was constantly tired.
- 11:48For someone that lose pounds, she looks tired.
- 11:50she looks sick.
- 11:51Her body's weak.
- 11:52And then it's a struggle for her to go to her day to day life.
- 11:55But again, she's losing weight.
- 11:57That is the unhealthy way and the dangerous way of losing the weight.
- 12:01We don't want to do that.
- 12:02So I didn't use any commercialized product.
- 12:04If it says from a company, it is made in a factory in somebody else's kitchen, and it's being shipped to my house, and I have no control of what's in it.
- 12:12And the things that are in it are not the only things that are in it.
- 12:16I don't want it.
- 12:17So I didn't use any commercialized product.
- 12:19The second thing I did not do to lose weight, I did not take any medications or supplements at all.
- 12:25No medications, no injections, no, appetite suppressant supplements.
- 12:31No, I didn't take any pills at all.
- 12:33I didn't do that.
- 12:34Again, why?
- 12:35Because whenever you take something, not only you have to continue taking that something forever.
- 12:40Because when you stop taking that something, the weight will come back.
- 12:43But you're not losing the weight the most sustainable way.
- 12:46You're not learning how to lose weight.
- 12:49Losing weight is a learning process.
- 12:52You have to acquire the knowledge about your body.
- 12:54The way I lose weight might be different the way you lose weight, We all have different real causes of weight loss, which I mentioned in my weight loss e books.
- 13:02Some people might have hormonal imbalance.
- 13:04Other people might have gut infections.
- 13:06Other people might have more toxicity.
- 13:08Other people might have thyroid issues, and there are so many root causes.
- 13:13Stress could make you gain weight, so many root causes to losing weight.
- 13:17So for you, taking the medications, promising to lose weight, and now we've seen there's like a trend right now with semi glutide where you're actually not losing the weight, you're losing a pound.
- 13:28If I'm injecting myself, I better be losing the weight and feeling amazing.
- 13:32And that is not what's happening.
- 13:34That's not what's happening.
- 13:35I promise you that's not what's happening right now.
- 13:37So no, I did not take any medications, any supplements to lose weight.
- 13:41No.
- 13:42I took supplements for other issues to address the root causes of my weight gain, of my obesity, Of my chronic fatigue, my brain fog, my headaches, my hair falling out, my alopecia that I experienced, my fibromyalgia, my digestive issues, but they were not for weight loss.
- 13:58As a matter of fact, I avoided anything that says weight loss, instant weight loss, rapid weight loss, quick weight loss.
- 14:03We didn't do any of that stuff.
- 14:04So that's the second thing that that thing I didn't do to lose weight.
- 14:08I did not exercise.
- 14:10Oh my God, Dr.
- 14:11Gentile, what?
- 14:12Yes.
- 14:13I did not exercise.
- 14:14I didn't have the energy to exercise.
- 14:16I didn't have the energy, the motivation.
- 14:18I had a gym membership that I was paying.
- 14:21they took the money automatically from my bank account, but I never showed up at the gym.
- 14:27I felt unhealthy.
- 14:28I felt sick in my body.
- 14:30I detest my body.
- 14:32I did not want to go to the gym, walk on the treadmill, knowing that I wasn't going to lose a pound.
- 14:37And I see patients do that.
- 14:38They invest in personal trainer, And they go to the gym every day.
- 14:43They are believing they're doing something good for themselves.
- 14:47And they are not.
- 14:48I did not exercise.
- 14:51exercise for me was making me more tired.
- 14:54My cells were exhausted.
- 14:56I was exhausted.
- 14:58I didn't have the energy.
- 14:59And now I'm going to put myself on a treadmill, forcing myself to exercise.
- 15:03No, that's not the vibe.
- 15:05So I did not exercise.
- 15:07The fourth thing I didn't do to lose weight.
- 15:10I did not skip a meal.
- 15:12I did not practice starvation diet.
- 15:15No quick fix diet.
- 15:17I ate.
- 15:17That's right, because I needed the energy.
- 15:20I needed to use food as medicine.
- 15:23I know by eating and putting good food in my body, the weight will come off.
- 15:28Cause I am taking care of my vessel.
- 15:31I'm loving on my cells.
- 15:33They're going to work for me.
- 15:34I did not calorie counting.
- 15:37six small meals a day.
- 15:39To me, that's overwhelming.
- 15:40That is confusing.
- 15:41And I didn't have time for that.
- 15:43I was a busy practitioner working in an emergency room.
- 15:46I had a single mom.
- 15:48I had a baby and then the little time I had, I wanted to be in bed because I was exhausted and tired.
- 15:54Simplicity is my thing.
- 15:56I'm like, okay, I'm going to eat.
- 15:58I'm going to eat and then we're just going to take it from there.
- 16:01So that's it., so I ate breakfast.
- 16:03I ate lunch and I ate dinner.
- 16:05And sometimes I would snack because my metabolism started, increasing and I find myself being hungry more.
- 16:12So I ate a lot.
- 16:14So I did not starve myself.
- 16:16I did not calorie count.
- 16:18I didn't do any starvation diet.
- 16:20I like eating spinach all day.
- 16:23I didn't do any of that stuff.
- 16:25I ate.
- 16:25And then the fifth thing that I didn't do to lose weight.
- 16:30I did not look at the scale.
- 16:32I didn't step on the scale.
- 16:33I didn't use the scale at all.
- 16:34I detest the scale.
- 16:36I didn't weigh myself at all the whole process even now.
- 16:40I don't weigh myself I listened to my body and I felt how my clothes was feeling looser.
- 16:46That's what I went by When I step on the scale, knowing that that number can literally affect my mindset, my mental health, like my emotional health.
- 16:54I was like, Oh no, we're not doing that.
- 16:57I am literally very emotional right now, knowing that I'm doing all this hard work and then I lost a pound yesterday and I gained it today.
- 17:05Because things change in your body.
- 17:07If you are a menstruating female, when you get your period, your bleed, your menses, you will gain weight.
- 17:13if you are going through certain stress and your cortisol has been released, you also will gain weight.
- 17:18If you ate something that was heavier today, and you didn't really chew your food, And you don't have enough digestive enzymes to digest the food, you will gain weight.
- 17:28So there are so many factors at play when it comes to gaining weight.
- 17:32So with me putting the intention of losing the weight and putting the work and implementing the stuff that I did, and for me to step on the scale and look at the scale and be like, Oh my God, I gained a few pounds.
- 17:43I might as well finish eating the cookie, I might as well go get an ice cream cake.
- 17:46Like, why did I do all this work for?
- 17:48So I did not weigh myself at all.
- 17:51And that is one thing that I constantly talk to my patients about not getting on the scale.
- 17:55And all scales are not created equal.
- 17:58My scale might be calibrated differently than somebody else's scale.
- 18:02No, I didn't hit with myself.
- 18:03I didn't want to know.
- 18:04So I'm just going to trust and believe that I'm on the right path.
- 18:08And then whatever I'm doing to my body will come out and demonstrate differently.
- 18:14I'm going to feel lighter in my clothes.
- 18:15I'm going to get more energy.
- 18:17My belly is going to be flatter.
- 18:19I'm going to build muscle.
- 18:21That is happening intracellular first internal before you can see it external and life is like this ups and down ups and down right like everything's are changing.
- 18:31Everything is changing constantly.
- 18:33So getting on the scale expecting for the skull to go down every day and then you seeing yourself it's going up most of the days.
- 18:40That's to me it's like it's a discourage.
- 18:43That is a frustration.
- 18:45I will give up.
- 18:46So I didn't get on this girl.
- 18:47So again, five things I did not do to lose the weight safely, effectively, sustainably with energy and feeling amazing and great in my body and well being in control of everything and being empowered and motivated are the first thing I didn't use any commercialized product.
- 19:06I didn't trust them.
- 19:07I think they are toxic.
- 19:08They are chemicals that I don't know, men make chemicals that will make me feel full when, if I got to eat a meal, I can't even finish eating the meal.
- 19:17I stay away from all things, weight loss, products, weight loss, medications, weight loss, injections, supplements that says appetite, this, like I stay away from all these things because of the side effects, I didn't want to lose my hair.
- 19:30I didn't want to feel nauseous and have stomach issues.
- 19:33I didn't want, to affect my kidneys and my liver.
- 19:36I didn't want to feel tired and weak and fatigue, the headaches.
- 19:39I didn't want any of that stuff.
- 19:41what is the purpose of going on a weight loss journey if I'm going to feel terrible on it?
- 19:46That takes the joy and that will literally keep you stuck and sick and discouraged.
- 19:52And you're going to go back to old habits, right?
- 19:54And the third one is no exercise.
- 19:57Nope.
- 19:57I did not exercise.
- 19:58As a matter of fact, I started exercising after I lost the weight.
- 20:01Not before the weight loss or doing the weight loss when I start getting energy and I'm like, okay, great.
- 20:07Let me go build muscle.
- 20:09So I went to exercise.
- 20:11I exercise now because it makes me feel super good.
- 20:14It increases my health, right?
- 20:16My brain function, but I'm not tired and exercising.
- 20:20I have to have the energy to exercise.
- 20:22If I don't have energy, I will not exercise.
- 20:25So I have to have energy to get on the treadmill, to work with a personal trainer, to do the gym classes.
- 20:31I have to have energy I'm gaining weight exercising because I'm building muscle.
- 20:35The fourth one is that I did not skip a meal.
- 20:39I didn't do micro counting calorie counting six more meals per day.
- 20:43I didn't, Like, what am I doing, like going, overboard with what I'm eating and obsessed with what I put into my body.
- 20:50Oh my God, is it the right food?
- 20:51Like I didn't do any of that stuff.
- 20:53And then the fifth one I didn't do to lose the weight.
- 20:57I did not weigh myself at all.
- 21:00Didn't get on the scale at all I don't have a scale in my house.
- 21:04If you come into my practice, you won't see one either because those numbers can literally affect your mind negatively.
- 21:10It's great when you see the number going down, but how do you feel?
- 21:13I have to feel amazing.
- 21:14So the way I feel with what I'm seeing has to correlate, And many people are losing weight and they're feeling crappy and, and just blah and terrible.
- 21:23And they're losing weight.
- 21:24And they keep thinking about the food they are given and they run to eat that food.
- 21:28The cravings are humongous.
- 21:31So I didn't do any of that stuff to lose the weight.
- 21:32And that's the things that counsel my patients are not doing either.
- 21:36We're not doing any of that stuff either.
- 21:37You want to lose the weight, let's do it the most effective way, but let's have fun doing it.
- 21:43Let's love your body again, doing it.
- 21:46Let's enjoy the process.
- 21:47Let's learn how to do it.
- 21:49Because when you learn how to do something, you can rinse and repeat.
- 21:52You can do it forever and ever.
- 21:54But if you pop in a product in your mouth, you inject in yourself, there's no learning.
- 21:59It's like, I woke up today, I take my Ozempic and then I go eat the same food.
- 22:03I woke up today, I take my any semi glutide or I take my manjaro or like, and then I go eat.
- 22:10No, I think my metformin.
- 22:13No, you're not learning.
- 22:14You're actually blocking the signals and the information the universe is sending to you.
- 22:19You need to learn about yourself, your body.
- 22:22How do you lose weight?
- 22:24What do you need to address to lose the weight?
- 22:26Who do you need to be to lose the weight?
- 22:28So five things.
- 22:29I would love for you to subscribe, subscribe to the channel, subscribe to our podcast and share and comment, And if you have not get your hands on my free ebook, weight loss and fat loss roadmap, my proven step by step, step by step system to lose the weight and keep it off.
- 22:47These are the things you need to do step by step.
- 22:50There's some mindset components on it.
- 22:52There's also the step that you need to take things you need to consider to lose the weight.
- 22:56The link is in the comment section below, show note below, get your hands on it, share with all the people.
- 23:02And then I can't wait to see what, your results.
- 23:05And I can't wait to communicate with you if you had a schedule consultation so we can actually get you going and losing the way.
- 23:11But again, keeping it off and doing it with energy, with vitality, with joy and happiness and enjoying the process.
- 23:20All right.
- 23:21I'll see you on the next episode.
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