Today I want to give you ten easy ways to lose weight so I
want to start out by asking you a question do you consume products like these
that have the word diet or have the word light on them do you think that
they're helping you lose weight. today I'm going to give you ten easy practical
tips that will help you lose weight and I'm going to tell you the truth about
products like these at the root of weight loss live hunger.
- My first tip is to learn how to control your hunger so that hunger stops controlling you it's going to be a lot easier to live our lives if we're just not feeling hungry all the time then if we're constantly hungry and we're constantly trying to resist eating foods. so I have a couple videos that talk about controlling hunger the primary thing is eating whole natural foods as long as you're eating a diet of processed foods you are always going to feel hungry you're never going to really feel satisfied eating a lot of refined carbohydrates and sugar is also going to contribute to you never really being able to satisfy your hunger but once you can actually satisfy your hunger and achieve that feeling of being full that's going to be the first step to really losing weight
- the calories that we drink are perhaps the most insidious calories that we consume because we don't associate sugary drinks with weight gain the way we associate candy bars and hamburgers with weight gain but you can just imagine that big gulp on your thighs because sugary drinks do turn into fat and do cause weight gain so giving up sugary drinks is a really good way to start losing weight because you're going to cut out a huge amount of sugar and calories that you may not even be realizing you're consuming. Another note about this mountain dew it contains 77 grams of sugar and carbohydrates which is actually more than a candy bar so replacing the soft drinks and even fruit juices which are also really high in sugar with healthier beverages is going to be a really good idea realize that water is the only beverage that's really going to satisfy your thirst if your feelings thirsty with the exception of coconut water which is also a healthy beverage. you can also drink tea.
- you can drink water that's flavored with fruit or flavored with cucumbers for instance and all of these beverages are going to be way healthier than your fruit juices or your soft drinks so let's talk about the sugar free and diet products that people often replace their sugary beverages and foods with so realize that the claims made on the front of the label like sugar free diet light healthy choice they're there for marketing purposes only but you're smarter than these marketing people so you actually want to look at the back of the food and what you'll see oftentimes is a really long ingredient list like this one and recognize that when you see that really long ingredient list you are about to eat toxic sludge and whether or not you really care about being healthy.
- if you are trying to lose weight then you eat a lot of fat-free and nonfat products like skim milk or margarine for instance and even though they demonized fats over the last couple decades they told us that fats cause heart disease fats are what make us fat after a couple of decades they're actually realizing that it's really the carbohydrates and sugar that are leading to obesity and leading to heart disease and the lack of fats and people's diet is leading to health problems so we need fats for the health of our brain for the health of our heart but also because fats are a big part of what helped us feel full and help us feel satisfied after we eat a meal so it kind of goes back to my first tip about controlling our hunger a key to controlling our hunger is actually eating some good healthy fats like olive oil coconut oil nuts avocados don't demonize fats realize that good healthy fats are good for you and that eating more fats is actually going to help you lose weight if you are starving yourself and counting calories then you just need to stop
- that if you are restricting your calories your body is thinking that it's going through a famine and it thinks that it needs to survive this period of time that food is not available so it's actually going to cling on to every bit of fat that you have because it's thinking that otherwise it might starve to death so limiting our calories it's kind of you know it's kind of backwards thinking we would think that we would lose weight but really limiting your calories is not going to help you lose weight it's also going to create a really stressful situation in your body that's gonna have a lot of other health implications as well so rather than counting calories and limiting our calories we want to focus on eating the right calories so if we stay away from these processed foods with a really long frankenfood ingredient list and focus on eating whole natural foods like the ones that I mentioned in basic nutrition what to eat then you're gonna know that every calorie you get is helping you.
- you want to focus on just improving the calories that you're consuming the weight-loss industry is a 60 billion dollar industry full of miracle products that are offering you a quick fix for weight loss so there's diet pills diet programs prepackaged meals fitness doodads and all of them will proclaim that they're gonna help you lose weight but if you look at the small print you'll see that almost every single one of them says results not typical diet and exercise are really important so it leaves you wondering is it the diet and exercise or is it the crazy doodad that the person purchased and I also have to point out that when you've got a celebrity endorsing a product that celebrity has a whole team of people helping them with Fitness helping them with their diet helping groom them there's not something that they've done on their own so just because this so-called pill or this so-called product worked for a celebrity doesn't mean it's gonna work for you so this tip is to save your money on weight loss pills prepackaged meals and fitness doodads and spend that money on healthy natural foods that are actually going to help you control your hunger
- we get off the diet we actually want to focus on creating healthy habits that we're gonna have for the long haul and most of us would say I'm a creature of habit. I know that I definitely feel that way and the good thing about being a creature of habit is that once you start building these healthy habits it'll become a habit that you won't even have to think about any more so rather than focusing on breaking the bad habits we're gonna focus on developing good new habits and I'm going to encourage you to start really really small so something like I'm going to replace one soda drink or one soft drink per week with a healthy beverage and the rest you can drink your sodas but onetime per week I'm gonna replace that soda drink with a healthier drink or I'm going to spend one minute per day doing some physical exercise or doing some stress relief and you can make those habits a little more habitual by doing them at the same time every day or doing them on the same day of the week.