Not losing weight? Mistakes you are making and how to FIX it!

Are you eating too little, dieting or eating healthier, and exercising but still struggling to lose weight? You are probably wondering what mistakes you are making in your diet. Let’s fix that right now!

Tip 1: Avoid sugar
My mother-in-law came over last night and she made a chocolate cake BUT I don’t eat it because if I did, I would not be able to stop eating sugar for two reasons, one is I would be on that blood sugar roller coaster where you eat sugar and then your pancreas secretes insulin to bring that blood sugar back down and drive it into the cell. The other thing is thebrain chemistry. When you eat sugar, you get a hit in all the pleasure centers of your brain and they light up like a pinball machine, and then you keep wanting another hit. So ditch the sugar completely.

Tip 2: Do not snack. Snacking gets you in trouble unless it is a planned snack and it is part of your setup for the day. I’ll tell you why…even though nuts are healthy people say, “oh I just had a handful of nuts” Well, I did this with a client once where i measured out a handful of nuts and calculated it to be about 400 calories.

How long do you think it takes you to eat that handful of nuts? Probably about a minute. But do you know how long it takes you to burn it off? About running four miles or walking four miles. Is it worth it for a minute of pleasure? No!

Snacking usually adds extra calories and if you eat when you’re not hungry, how do you know when you’re full?

Tip  3: Don’tskip meals.
Many of our clients do intermittent fasting which means they do not eat breakfast but that is not what we consider skipping a meal because you are letting your body burn fat for fuel and save your energy to do other healing things like human growth hormone and stem cells, and repairing and replacing cells in your body. However, many of my clients want to lose faster so they start skipping lunch, but no, it doesn’t work. It will backfire because your body’s job is to keep you alive and when you like to go really calorie-restricted, your body is going to start holding on to the fat for safety purposes so we could just keep you alive.

Think of a bear in hibernation.

Your metabolism slows way down and you will not lose fat.

Tip 4: Don’t over-exercise
I can’t tell you how many people myself included back in the day decided to sign up for a marathon because I wanted to lose a little bit of weight and beat up my body in the process – give me a break!

Do you know what happens? It backfires. Because it leaves you hungry, you are starving your face off when you train that much. Too much cardio can lead to too much cortisol secretion which can lead to fat storage cortisol along with insulin is a fat-storage hormone.

You want balanced exercise. You want to do mobility, flexibility, strength training, or cardio.

Tip 5: Moderation
Be good all week and then just blow it on the weekend.
And it’s a slippery slope. We know how that goes. You have a little bit of ice cream because you’ve had a little too much
wine and next thing you know you’re snowballing down the hill, you wake up on Monday with a sugar hangover.

If you have a special event that you want to kind of go all out, then what we do is OMAD.  You just save all your calories for
that one special event or maybe you have two special events so then maybe on Friday and Monday you eat really clean and really low calories so that you can save your calories for the weekend.

My clients do a special little cleanse so oftentimes and I advise them to cleanse on Friday  or cleanse on Monday and then they
can have more fun on the weekend.

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