Why Having a Weight Loss Goal Is A Bad Idea – Dr. Berg

Is your weight loss goal setting you up for failure? Find out why weight loss isn’t always the best measure of your success.

hey I’m back and I wanted to do a video on a very important topic for those people that are struggling losing weight okay that are frustrated uh especially if you’re menopausal okay so your weight loss goal is actually setting you up for failure let me explain now there’s several Concepts that I’m going to cover so make notes if you want the first concept I want to talk about is the difference between muscle and fat okay if we take one pound of muscle and we compare it to one pound of fat with fat you have more volume than muscle okay so fat takes up more space in your body got it muscle takes up smaller space so that’s the first concept just remember that all right second concept overweight people have less muscle than fat all right concept number two now now when you start a keto an in minute fasting program and by the way if you don’t know what that means pause the video go down below and watch the videos that I have linked down there so you can understand what I’m talking about because this program will solve this issue that you’re running into this stubborn weight metabolism issue but here’s the point when you start keto in in of fasting what’s going to happen you’re going to get in the fat burning okay so you’re going to lose fat but you’re also going to increase muscle why because you’re going to trigger certain hormones that will build the muscle okay so we got two things going on we have a loss of fat increased muscle and a loss of water weight that is because we’re switching our body to fat burning and we’re no longer running our body on this stored glucose it’s called glycogen and glycogen is like a sponge it’s like a water filled fluid filled sponge so we’re not doing that anymore so you’re going to lose a lot of water weight in fact um when most people start any program they lose water weight for one to two weeks and when you see these claims that people will tell you like you can lose five pounds in the first week or 10 pounds in the first week that’s only for the first week and the second week but after that you’re not going to continue to do that so anyone that says that is telling you a lie because the most actual fat you can lose per week is two pounds and that’s a real healthy body okay all right so that’s another concept that you need to understand the next concept when you start this program and you’re losing fat and you’re gaining muscle you may or may not lose actual overall weight why not because you’re gaining muscle muscle has some weight okay so you might Plateau for a week or so that doesn’t mean it’s not working so if you only wanted to focus on losing fat and not gaining muscle then you would end up thinner but flabby with loss of tone loss of muscle tone and weakness is that what you want no I don’t think so you want a strong body okay so when you start to do this program you’re going to gain muscle so you may or may not lose actual pounds now you also may or may not lose inches most of the time you will but there’s a point where you’re going to Plateau because you’re gaining muscle again so if your muscle is getting bigger you’re not going to continue to lose inches you’re just going to lose the fat does that make sense so what I’m basically saying is when you lose weight it’s not going to be consistent it’s not going to be one or two pounds a week one or two pounds a week one or two pounds a week simply because we’re not just talking about fat we’re talking about this muscle right here okay and that’s what you want you want to actually develop your muscles you want it to be strong you don’t want loss of muscle tone that’s called atrophy so many people have that especially if they’re going through menopause okay now the next concept the more muscle that you do develop the better the metabolism it is true that more muscles will help increase calorie burning so that’s a concept that is true because it’s more metabolic but here’s the confusion that people have have if the muscle is burning more calories what type of calories is it burning is it burning actual fat calories or is it burning actual sugar calories and this is where people that are doing a higher carbohydrate diet are really frustrated because they’re just burning up their sugar calories they’re exercising at the gym developing more muscles and then burning more calories but they’re burning off their sugar calories but no actual fat so so what we want to do is we want to switch this better metabolic machine that you’re developing more muscle to to mainly burn off fat calories okay what determines what you burn is the amount of carbohydrates in the diet that’s all explained in the keto uh program down below okay so if you cut your carbs down then your body will be forced to burn fat and it won’t burn sugar anymore okay so anyway the cool thing is that when you build more muscles you have a better metabolism okay now the last concept hormonally the difference between men and women are really two different hormones women have way more estrogen than men and men have way more testosterone than women estrogen gives the fat layer around a female body that’s why women have a different composition than men okay and this is why your husband your boyfriend tends to lose weight faster because they’re not dealing with this estrogen problem right here now I know it’s frustrating but my only point is that it the better you understand what you’re up against the less frustrated you will be um but basically it’s really the estrogen that’s slowing things down okay so here’s what I would recommend um weight loss goal you can have a weight loss goal but don’t make that as your main goal have several goals have an loss goal a weight loss goal a health goal uh a muscle goal of making you stronger so over time you should be able to do more and more and more with your body and having stronger muscles so those are the three goals that I would recommend in addition to just having more energy better sleep Etc because my philosophy is not lose weight to get healthy it’s to get healthy to be able to lose the weight make sense all right thanks for watching hey guys a lot of you already have my book some of you don’t but this new edition called the new body type guide is an upgrade for my last Edition called the seven principles of fat burning it has 156 images 378 Pages full glossery I talk about keto intermittent fasting the body types in detail I have a new stress chapter I’m going to show you exactly what to eat and a comprehensive FAQ I put a link down below check it out