7 Lessons I’ve Learned From Weight Loss Failures - Dr.Berg

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hey guys in this video we’re gonna talk about the 7 lessons that I’ve learned from many weight loss failures now I’ve been a practice for 29 years worked on about 40,000 different people so I had a lot of interaction with people and you learned so much from your clients it’s incredible so I guess that’s why you call it a practice so you’re practicing and they’re a patient so they have to have patience and we have a waiting room but at a great opportunity to find out what works and what doesn’t work ok so I’m gonna go through the seven lessons that I’ve learned ok so let’s start with number 1 fruit okay so here’s the lesson that I learned about fruit you don’t want to use fruit if you’re trying to help people lose weight now I’m talking about someone with a slow metabolism I pretty much approach everyone from the viewpoint that have a slow metabolism why don’t we do that because we’re gonna get results with every type of case ok but if you’re operating off this idea that everyone has a good metabolism and they don’t have insulin resistance your results are going to be very very poor ok so tiny bit of fruit could block a lot of fat burning for a day or two ok lesson number two snacks now I used to recommend so-called healthy snacks I used to consume healthy snacks between meals was indefinitely at night at the time I thought it was ok because it was healthy it wasn’t junk food but I found out through trial and error that that’s really bad advice because the snacking increases insulin just because anytime you eat you trigger insulin okay and this data is right in Guyton’s physiology I must have missed it when I originally studied that but the point is that if you cut out the snacks that one action creates huge benefits so it’s a very important lesson that I learned if you want to get results with stubborn weight especially if you have a slow metabolism or a thyroid issue or whatever ok so even if it’s healthy you want to do everything to avoid the snacking between the meals that’s why we do intermittent fasting all right number three I used to recommend it’s called a liver enhancement and it was in my first book that you would go very low protein you know even like no protein for first two weeks bad advice I was thinking that that would be toxic to the body and we’re gonna detoxify the body by not giving protein but people crash and burn they had a lot of blood sugar issues because our bodies need amino acids to rebuild and repair so if you cut it out too low or not enough you’re gonna actually cause a lot of problems with hair loss loss of muscle especially for two weeks so we want to have a moderate amount of protein okay we don’t want to do it a protein detox we don’t want to do a no protein anything number four they used to recommend that your breakfast was the most important meal of the day it was in my first book and I learned that it’s actually bad advice why would you want to screw up the fast all night long then you break the fast with the breakfast okay and then you’re gonna be hungry an hour later push yourself closer and closer to lunch and not eat until you’re hungry and eventually skip the breakfast I find that a lot of people do very very very well not just with their weight but further with their health because you want to go a longer period of time with fasting because you’re coming out of sleeping okay you’re already in this fast ride the way if you have momentum you don’t want to screw it up with a breakfast okay you want to go as long as you can without eating very very important so the lesson I learned is the breakfast is not the most important meal of the day okay and number five I know I would I was recommending low fat or lean protein bad advice very bad advice I just pretty much picked it up from what I was taught but I never personally evaluated to see if it actually worked or not and you want to go a little bit higher fat not crazy but you want to go a little bit higher because fat is very very important to satisfy you to go from one meal to the next so you can do in a minute fasting to provide the fat side with vitamins essential fatty acids this is very very important especially for losing weight and also looking good and being healthy okay and fat is the only two macronutrient that doesn’t trigger insulin now you’ve heard of the glycemic index which are all the foods that will spike insulin and they rate those on a scale but there’s also something called the insulin index okay which is all the non carbohydrate foods that have an influence over insolent okay which is a little bit different and it just so happens that fat is very low on the list the more pure the fat is the lower influence it has over insulin and this is why fat is actually okay to consume especially if you’re trying to lose weight okay that’s number five now number six was this I was not focusing on the history of the patient I wasn’t focusing enough on diving in and getting clues from a stubborn case whether it’s weight loss or some other problem and a good lesson to learn was is to take a good history especially asking the client when did you start having this problem when did you exactly start gaining weight and or having a stubborn metabolism and then what happened just before that that is such an important question that I don’t know a lot of doctors don’t ask that question you’re gonna get all sorts of incredible valuable data that’s going to actually help you solve the case now whether it was a pregnancy a trauma a stress event you a change of something changing your diet you can get valuable data to actually revert that or change something or alter something and I’ll just give you an example so someone came in and they they tried everything it couldn’t lose weight and they’ve done every diet they can’t even actually lose weight on a 500 calorie diet right and this person’s been everywhere they’re very frustrated so I asked them when did you start gaining weight and she said I was always overweight okay well always yes my whole life even when you’re an infant she said well no I said okay what at what age did you start getting weight and she said when I was five I go thank you so you were skinny when you were four she goes yes okay we’re getting somewhere I said now what happened right before you started gaining weight like when you’re four or five and she started looking and reflecting and she does you know I had really bad asthma I said oh okay and they gave me steroids hello that’s the clue right there it was the steroids steroids will really induce a spike of cortisol and make you fat especially at early age so then we started focusing on the adrenal glands and trying to do things to undo that so unfortunately there’s not enough doctors that dig into what happens just before you had this symptom and then using that data they just go right for the remedy very very important lesson that I learned from that ok so number seven omitting the getting healthy first so it’s not lose weight to get healthy it’s getting healthy first then lose the weight ok so let me tell you when I kind of stumbled on that concept which is an important lesson I had a person come in to my office choose the daughter of one of my staff and she was 320 pounds she was young girl early 20s and she basically has tried everything to lose weight nothing’s working of course she went back to her old habits which is basically she didn’t even eat in the morning but then she pigged out in the at night and just ate a ton of junk food like massive amounts so she was very very large so I put her in my program she’s totally willing the first month she loses zero weight ok now I went into a severe depression I was very frustrated I’m like you lost nothing I felt like a failure but she didn’t seem to be upset she was actually ok with it and I’m I was very surprised and I sai