Lose weight; how do I lose weight? It's the
number one question that people Google; it's the number one question that
people ask their doctor. It's the number one question that people ask when they
go to the gym, or they see a personal trainer.
Do you Wonder how we get Stressed thinking about Food and Exercise?
Do you think that we are getting a little
bit stressed about the whole thing? I have to lose weight. I have to be a
specific size. I have to have a certain body fat percentage. I have to wear
clothes that look a certain way.
And then we stress about what percentage of
macronutrients. Do I eat lots of protein? Am I having too much carbohydrate? Are
carbohydrates going to make me fat? Should I be on the ketosis diet and my
brain is running on ketones? Should I be fasting intermittently? Have I left
enough time between the last time I ate food and now? What time of the day
should I be exercising? What time of the day should I be eating?
Should I be exercising first thing in the
morning? Should I be exercising every five minutes? Should I be exercising at
the gym seven days a week or three days a week? Should I be doing high-intensity
interval training or should I be doing long distance, slow distance training,
so I burn fat faster? What should I be doing? I am getting stressed.
Oh, and then there is this stimulating
hormone called cortisol. It's the stress hormone. So when we get stressed about
anything, our unique human body is designed to get rid of stress. It's the
hormone that gets us ready for fight and flight. It gets us prepared to run
away from the dragon that is trying to kill us or gets us ready to fight it. And
then we kill it, eat it, and we feel fantastic.
And then we have happy drugs pumping
through our brain like dopamine, serotonin and brain-derived neurotrophic
factors because we either went for a run or we did some fighting, and we feel
fantastic. The small challenge here is that cortisol - fight and flight drug -
is produced when we are under stress.
Did you find out How Stress Kills us?
If you did not fight or fly or run or punch
or jump or do an exercise class or lift heavy things, it's not so great. When we
get stressed, then cortisol just keeps floating through our body. Our body
produces glucose in the bloodstream. The catecholamines get the glucose out of
blood, out of the cell, moves it into the bloodstream, so we are ready to run.
Unfortunately, those big glucose molecules
of glucose, when they are not stored and used, they bash around in your arteries
and veins and cause damage. That is how we get type two diabetes.
Can you Kill Stress rather than being Killed by it?
All of that can be sorted when you produce
cortisol, and when you produce catecholamines that takes fat and sugar out of
your cells when you go for a run or jump or fight the dragon, punch the bag or
do something active.
But here is our challenge. We tend not to
do active things. We get stressed. Then we eat more food, or we sit on the
couch and watch a scary movie. Then we get more stressed because we are not
doing anything. After that, again, we get more stressed when we stand on the
scale and check our weight.
We are not the weight that we should be, or
we are not the body fat percentage that we should be or our clothes don't fit.
So I keep getting stressed, and we become diseased. We are not at ease
anymore. We are dis eased. Consequently, we get sick. We get coronary heart
disease, type two diabetes; we have a stroke; we feel sick.
Then we go to the doctor, and they give us
anti-depressants. They tell us that we are anxious and our body is completely
dis-eased because we are not doing the things with our body that it is designed
to do. Could it be possible that the human body is meant to move? Isn't it
meant to be stressed? Aren't challenges awesome? If you have that headspace, won't
that be fantastic! I have got some stress today. I have got a challenge to
overcome. I have got my own dragon to kill. I have got this big report to write
or this exam to take or this interview to attend.
Instead of being stressed, if we get
excited about it, then we produce cortisol, which makes us get ready to fight
and flight. And we exercise with passion and excitement rather than I have to
burn calories, I have to lose weight, I have to fit into my clothes. I'm sure
you have seen people exercising who look absolutely miserable. They're running
on the road, or they're working out at the gym.
And you think you've got happy drugs
pumping through your brain. Where are they? Is it possible that the stress
hormone takes control rather than the happy drugs? Because I'm stressing about
my eating the right number of calories, my eating the right percentage of
macronutrients, is my body fat percentage the way it should be? Will I weigh
the right way? Will I look good on stage in my bikini? Will I look good when I
go out on my hot date? My stress is dress now! How will I fit in that dress to
look in great shape? We're not even able to produce those happy drugs because
we're not focusing on the happiness they can create.
How can you pump in Happy Drugs in your Head and be Excited?
When you exercise with positivity, live
your life with positivity; when you dance, sing or learn; when you eat your
food with a positive attitude, you will pop happy drugs through your brain.
So when you sit down to eat a fantastic
meal of yummy food - rather than thinking about "how many calories, what's
the percentage of micronutrients I shouldn't be eating at this time of the day,
I haven't left enough time between my last meal because I'm intermittent
fasting." What if we enjoy our food? Wow, this is yummy. This is the best
chocolate cake I've ever eaten!
Neuroscience scientists understand what
happens with the hormones in the brain - the happy drugs and the cortisol. They
suggest that you are better off eating more nutritious food and high-calorie
food with a positive attitude than you are eating healthy food with a negative
attitude. I'm sure you've experienced that there have been healthy people who
have a low body fat percentage, high fitness levels, great muscles, and they
die early. They die of the stress that I've got to keep this perfect body in
perfect shape. They are always diseased and end up being diseased. What if we
eat High-Performance nutritious food, and we exercise with a positive attitude?
Do you wonder you could have a life full of Energy and Happiness?
Imagine what our life would be like if
you're the person who's jumping out of bed with energy, enthusiasm and
excitement because you had a great sleep. You had a stack of energy to make love
to your partner the night before or in the morning. You are excited to go to make
the career that you love because you're doing what you love. You only put high-performance
fuel into your body so you can exercise with energy, enthusiasm and excitement.
When you exercise, you have a focus on I'm
loving this, I'm loving my food, I'm loving my exercise, I'm loving that my
exercise is going to give me a healthy, fit and strong. It's going to stop me
from getting osteoporosis, coronary heart disease, type two diabetes.
I'm not going to be depressed or anxious or
feel bad because I'm doing the best things for my body. I have the purpose of
my life because I wake up every day doing what I love. I love the people in my
life.
The psychologists say that one of the
reasons people feel depressed and anxious is that they don't have a purpose.
They don't have a reason to get up. What happens then? The downward spiral. If
you feel grumpy and tired, you end up eating more. How do you feel when you eat a meal full of high
calories, low nutrition, and you don't do anything? Don't you end up feeling
worse? You either eat more, or you do less or both and you go into a downward
spiral. We don't have to do that.
How you control your Hormones and Lose Weight?
Suppose you exercise and eat food with
passion, enthusiasm and excitement. In that case, you control your own hormonal
system by pumping happy drugs through your brain, rather than letting that
cortisol distribute itself through your body - the stress drug that you're not
getting rid of because you're not exercising.
So if you exercise and eat to be healthy,
fit and strong, is it possible that the side effect of that will be weight
loss? Is it possible that if you eat healthy food and you exercise regularly
with a positive attitude, your body will also be in great shape? You won't have squidgy bits or chubby bits.
Won't you wake up in the morning feeling enthusiastic and full of energy?
Let's be happy, healthy and strong for a
lifetime. Yes.