Yo, welcome back, today we are doing it old school, we are back in the house. I haven't done a video from the house for a little while. I have been out and about in the community, doing a lot of on locations stuff. I did an interview with the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation last week, did some work with Paul Chek Jr. from the Paul Chek LIVE YouTube page. Man, I have been out, just getting the word out there. Those videos are going to be up real soon, they are being edited, and they will be up on the page real soon, you guys are really going to dig those.
Today though we are talking about the three mistakes that people make when they are trying to lose weight. There is way more than three, I mean, you are not going to talk about 100 mistakes, but I don't have time for that so we are just going to keep it at three.
Mistake number one, is we tend to gravitate towards these weight loss foods, or what the companies tell us are weight loss foods. The two that I want to talk about the most are popcorn and rice cakes. People trying to lose weight on popcorn and rice cakes, that's just not going to work. It ain't that easy. People, they gravitate towards these foods because they say, well, they are lower in calories. It will be a good way to drop some calories out of my diet so I will lose weight. They are lighter foods, and so if I eat lighter foods, then they are going to make me lighter.
But I hate to burst your bubble, but here is what's really going down. When you puff or when you pop a grain, you are increasing the rate at which that food turns into sugar. So if you go back and you watch my Fat Loss 101 video, you are going to find out that those foods turn into blood sugar, they crank up your blood sugar, they crank up your insulin, they make your blood sugar crash, they make you insulin resistance, and they make you store fat. So those are not weight loss foods; rice cakes, popcorn, all those other low fat, high sugar foods are actually weight gain foods. This is why people can't take the weight off, or if they do, they only take it off temporarily.
So stay away from those foods. You want to eat foods that satisfy you, that keep you full for four to five hours or even more if possible. But if you are eating popcorn and those types of foods, you are hungry almost every hour, how do you expect to lose weight when you are eating every hour. So change that up.
Number two, people are drastically cutting their calories. I talk to people all the time, I say, well, what is your strategy for losing weight? They say, well, I cut my calories in half, I was eating 2,500 before, now I am eating 1,250. I go wow, this needs to stop. The reason why is because what does your body think when you cut your calories in half? Your body thinks that there is a famine coming. Your body goes into starvation mode. So is your body going to start cranking out all this energy when its starving, when it thinks that the famine is coming? No. Your body is going to tell your thyroid to turn down a little bit, turn down your metabolism. So it's going to turn down your metabolism when it was probably your slow metabolism that you blamed for your weight gain in the first place. So what would be the point of that?
So this is why people lose weight temporarily, and then when they start eating food again or when they fall off their diet, they end up heavier than they were in the first place because they slowed down the metabolism by way of dieting. You don't want to do that.
You always hear, well, the calorie is a calorie is a calorie. Was the calorie really a calorie? Does the law of thermodynamics really come into play when we are talking about weight loss and weight gain, because check this out, you can take somebody on the 2,500 calorie diet, and they are gaining weight, they are eating all the sugary, processed, low fat, good for you food, and they are gaining weight. Well, then you take out all of those bad weight gain foods and you replace those calories with quality fats, quality carbohydrates, quality protein, and they start to lose weight. But it's still 2,500 calories. So then how can a calorie really just be a calorie if that's what's happening. So think about that.
Thirdly and lastly, people are trying to cardio their way through weight loss. They are not changing their diet at all, they are just getting on that treadmill, for an hour, hour-and-a-half, however long, and it doesn't work. You are going to lose weight at first, and I see this every day. I am in the gym, people do their cardio, but what happens when they get sick, or what happens when they get a lot of homework, what happens when just something comes up in their life where they can't make it to the gym, they can't come in, they can't burn their calories, and so I have seen people who fall off their diet or their exercise program for three weeks, and they come back to the gym looking plump.
What's going on there? They are slowing down their metabolism, they are not weight training. When you weight train, you put on muscle, and muscle is going to increase your metabolism, but when you are doing this long steady cardio, you are cranking up your cortisol levels. Cortisol is a stress hormone. Cortisol is going to eat away at your muscle tissue, convert it into glucose to fuel you through your cardio, and so if you are eating away your muscle tissue, then you are slowing down your metabolism. If you are slowing down your metabolism, then it's going to make it much easier for you to gain weight once you stop doing your cardio. This is why people stop doing cardio, for like I said, two or three weeks, and they back ten or fifteen pounds heavier, then they are back on in again, it's like a vicious cycle.
So you are slowing down. you are making yourself store fat with the rice cakes and popcorn. You are slowing down your metabolism by cutting your calories drastically. Then you are slowing down your metabolism and breaking down muscle tissue and stressing out your body by doing way too much cardio.
My clients don't do anymore than 20 minutes of cardio. They do interval training, but they focus on weight training, they focus on putting on muscle, because when you put on muscle, you burn more fat throughout the day, and you don't need to be on the treadmill to do that.
I am out to some tips for you. Underground Wellness Radio is coming out real soon. Fred Hughes is coming on soon. He wrote a book called 'Am I Dead Yet', about breast cancer. The book will blow you away.
Reed Davis is coming on. Paul Chek Jr. I think is coming on as well. A good book, I want everybody to order, 'Breakthrough'. Suzanne Somers; don't laugh Suzanne Somers knows her stuff, seriously. People are like, she doesn't know anything. She knows some stuff. She got some interviews with some great doctors on here, we are doing things that will work. We are going to talk a lot, a lot about hormones. People are waiting on that Adrenal Fatigue video, its going to blow you away, because stress is making you fat. So stay tuned. I am out. Peace.
