Do THIS Every Day to Lose Belly Fat & Faster Weight Loss

Hello Health Champions. Today I want to talk  about the little things that can make the biggest  

difference when it comes to losing belly fat and  losing weight. And once you understand how they  

work then you'll see that maybe they're not such  little things after all. And then you can really  

take it to the next level and get lasting results  as well as some nice health bonuses along the way.  

Perhaps the most important thing you can do is  to eat shorter. So I know you've heard you're  

supposed to eat less and we'll get to that. And  I'm also not talking about eating faster. I'm not  

talking about rushing through your meals. Eating  shorter means that you eat your foods in a shorter  

time period and a shorter window of time. And why  does that matter? Well let's say that you have  

your first meal at seven a.m then as soon as that  food hits your taste buds your insulin goes up  

your body has insulin just standing by  ready to go and what does insulin do  

it is a storage hormone its purpose primarily is  to take glucose blood sugar from the bloodstream  

and into the cell and indirectly therefore  because it's pushing sugar into the cell  

it also promotes the conversion of glucose into  fat because your body can only store a tiny amount  

of glucose as glycogen and then any excess is  going to be turned into fat we therefore want to  

think of insulin as a storage hormone as a fat  storing hormone even though it primarily acts  

on glucose and any time that insulin is high it  prevents fat burning so if you're trying to lose  

weight you can't really do that while insulin  levels stay high now let's say that you have  

your last meal of the day at 9 00 pm and you have  several meals in between again at 9 00 pm as soon  

as you eat your insulin goes up a little bit but  it's also going to stay up for a couple of hours  

until you have digested and processed  through that food so from 7 to 11 or so  

your insulin stays mostly elevated meaning you are  mostly in fat storage mode and if you have those  

hours for your meals that means for 16 hours  you're primarily in fat storage and for only eight  

hours you're primarily in fat burning so that's  why it's so hard to burn fat and lose weight if  

most of the time you're in a state in a hormonal  state where your body is storing more than burning  

so there in this example you would be twice as  long in fat storing with elevated insulin as you  

would be in fat burning, or 67 % of the time fat  storing 33 % fat burning. Now let's say that all  

you do is you skip that last evening meal you have  your last meal is dinner at five or six o'clock  

now you're basically going to be 12 and 12. You  cut four hours or so off your feeding time you  

extend your fasting time now that means you're in  a one to one ratio. Before your two to one ratio  

but just skipping one meal already gets you in a  one to one between fat storing and fat burning or  

50 % of each and then as your body gets used to  that you'll find it's pretty easy to also skip  

breakfast and you eat both your meals within a few  hours now you have reversed that two to one ratio  

so now you're fasting for 16 hours you're allowing  insulin to drop for a much longer period of time  

and you're only in fat storing about eight hours  so now instead of a two to one you have a one to  

two you have improved the relative ratio four  fold and let's say you go a little further now  

and you eat one meal a day and because that's  a little bit bigger meal it takes you full  

four hours to digest it before insulin comes back  down but now you're in a one to five ratio instead  

of the two to one you had now you have improved  the ratio between fat storing and fat burning  

tenfold and you're in fat storing 17 and fat  burning 83 percent so this is much more important  

in losing weight and burning belly fat than  calories alone because this allows you to get on a  

steady state of fat burning and it will stabilize  your metabolism and it will stabilize your hunger  

and now some people are going to say i agree with  that that makes perfect sense but others are going  

to say i disagree i'm not sure that's how it works  because i've heard other people say different  

things so here's the problem with humans that we  pick and choose we hear something we say yeah that  

sounds right and then we say no that doesn't sound  right and and that's still okay but most of that  

is based on preconceptions that we filter our  new experience based on our old experiences and  

that keeps us from letting in new information  so a lot of people say oh I agree with this  

and I'll do that because it makes sense but  I want you to take it one step further and I  

don't want you to do it because you believe it. I  want you to do it because you understand it and I  

want you to be open-minded to listen a little bit  broader to the things that you haven't adopted yet  

so that once you understand them maybe you'll  be more apt to incorporate them. Also, a lot of  

people and a lot of teachers and a lot of books  and a lot of videos they have a very narrow focus  

and that's good to a point but it's a problem  to a large extent. Some people would say,  

I believe in nutrition. I read a book or I heard  about someone who changed something and they felt  

a whole lot better so that is what I'm going to do  I'm going to stop eating junk food and processed  

food I'm going to eat better food and that'll  be it. So is that person going to be better off?  

Absolutely. Every time. Because if you give the  body more of quality things it's looking for  

and you give it less of what it doesn't need and  that interferes, you will always be better off.  

You will always be moving toward health. If you do  that would you have visible results? Well, maybe,  

maybe not? Maybe you haven't done enough? Maybe  you haven't done it long enough? Maybe it'll show  

up six months later. And it's kind of irrelevant  if you get any results yet. If you understand that  

you're doing something that your body is being  helped with then you will always be better off.  

It's like a plant. It's always going to be  better off with some water than no water,  

but water may not be enough because it also needs  some sunshine. So other people might say I believe  

in exercise that I don't buy into all this  nutrition I think you can eat whatever you want  

I'm just gonna exercise as much as possible and  is that person gonna be better off? Yes. Not  

if they do it to excess but in moderation. The  body has to have movement. It is not optional.  

It is a human requirement. Your physiology cannot  be expressed optimally without regular movement so  

if you move as opposed to don't move you will  always be better off. You will always be moving  

toward health. Will you have visible results  yet? Same thing. Maybe, maybe not? Maybe it takes  

longer? Maybe it'll show up down the road? Maybe  you need to do something else also. And a third  

person might read a book on meditation and say I  believe in meditation that's what I'm going to do  

I'm going to focus all my effort on that because  I believe in mind body interactions and that's  

how I'm going to fix it will they be better off  yes because they will help their body move toward  

balance and toward better health but what we have  to start understanding is the difference between  

necessary and sufficient. The body has emotional  requirements. It has nutritional / chemical  

requirements. It has structural / mechanical  requirements. Those are necessary. So doing one is  

a good thing but doing one may not be sufficient.  And you may also need to do it for a longer  

period of time. This is why it's so important to  understand what the body is looking for because  

too many people they try one thing for a week and  even though they're moving in the right direction,  

they didn't understand why they were doing it so  they lost interest before it ever had any effect.  

So I want to show you the bigger picture of what  you can do every day that's what the video is  

about. Do this every day to lose weight fast and  to lose belly fat fast, but then we also have to  

understand and remember that what does fast mean?  Well it just means faster than no change, because  

a lot of people have done yo-yo dieting for so  many years they lost some weight they gained some  

weight and they've done this for 10, 20, 30 years  and it worked while they were in their 30s and 40s  

but then their bodies just became so clogged up  and so stubborn that nothing happened anymore. So  

in their 50s and 60s now it seems like it doesn't  matter what they do. Nothing happens so any change  

is faster than the no change and also we want to  keep in mind that we want to sustain it long term  

and we want the body to be healthy. So we can  always stress the body we can always do extreme  

things for a short period of time and there may  be some reason for that like a longer fast is fine  

but we have to find a lifestyle that we can  sustain so losing weight fast means as fast  

as possible to sustain long-term healthy changes.  So I don't care if someone else loses 60 pounds in  

three months that's totally irrelevant for what's  going to happen to you. You have to relate it to  

yourself and understand the variables and play  around with them. But what I do want to show you  

is how you can take it to the next level because  these different aspects of health are synergistic  

that if someone can get benefit by meditating  working on their emotional aspect and another  

person can get some improvement by working  on their diet and another person can get  

improvement with exercise what if you did all  of them because they are all requirements.  

Now here's the big one. Are you ready? Here is  the cause of everything as it relates to health.  

The cause of every health problem is toxicity  deficiency stress and degeneration so we'll  

expand on those in a second here but basically  whenever you suffer from some of this  

when some of this compromises your health you  have a reduction in homeostasis you have a  

lessened ability of your body to process  information correctly and to return all metabolic  

processes and every homeostatic variable back to  balance right so this is homeostasis is health  

your body always tries to return to homeostasis  and this is just another word for imbalance  

okay balance is good imbalance is bad harmony is  good peace and harmony is good disharmony is bad  

function is when everything is working the  way it's supposed to dysfunction means it's  

not working and this ease ease is when you have  peace and harmony and dis-ease when you lost it so  

these are different words for the exact same thing  but i wanted to elaborate on that to really give  

you an idea of what health is and then when you  no longer have ease and it turns to disease now  

you start having symptoms and you have suffering  and you have things like metabolic poor health  

and visceral fat as well so think about this for  a second the only thing that people suffer from  

is that something isn't working right whether you  have a shoulder pain or a headache or low energy  

or you can't sleep or you can't digest food it  means something isn't working right and why isn't  

it working right because some degree of toxicity  deficiency stress and degeneration toxicity means  

that there's too much of something your body  can't handle metals chemicals pesticides sugar  

fructose food additives stress etc. Deficiency  means that there's something your body has to  

have it's required for your body to function but  you're not providing it in sufficient quantity so  

those are essential fatty acids essential amino  acids vitamins minerals enzymes and so forth  

stress is when your body is in a different state  so when you're relaxed your body is in homeostasis  

it's balancing its resources but when you're  stressed when you have a stress response your  

body focuses less on your vital organs and more on  the external environment so when you're focusing  

your resources on vital organs now you can work on  digestion and immune function and reproduction and  

DNA repair and healing but when you have a stress  response your body shifts its priorities it shifts  

the resources away from those vital organs and it  puts it on the outside world to defend you against  

a real or imagined danger that's why stress is  so devastating because you no longer have access  

to your healing power and degeneration simply  means use it or lose it every cell in your body  

is there for a reason it has a purpose if  you do something that puts that cell to work  

you're fulfilling the purpose of that cell and the  cell lives another day and when it wears out the  

body makes another one but if you don't use it  there's no reason for the body to make another  

one and that cell is going to wear out and not be  replaced that's called degeneration or atrophy so  

most of the questions I get is for people asking  can you do a video on turmeric or can you do a  

video on ashwagandha or is garlic good for this  those are the wrong questions because what we  

need to ask is questions about toxicity are we  toxic with something are we deficient in something  

are we stressed are we degenerating so when people  ask about turmeric or ashwagandha they're asking  

can I take this for something and there are some  benefits to thousands of different substances  

but the question to ask is does this provide  something that my body needs to have in the  

long run or in the short term can it help maybe  dampen some inflammation or something like that  

but in that sense it's more of a safe drug it's  not really a nutrient it's not something the body  

is looking for so we want to focus more and  more on the basics of handling the root cause  

so what do we need to do to lose  that belly fat and that weight  

once and for all what is it so we need to reduce  insulin resistance and cortisol and fatty liver  

we need to reduce stress and we need to increase  brain activation because a strong brain makes  

everything work better so basically we want  to stack the deck just like i hinted before  

you don't want to do just one thing you want to  address the problem you want to hit the issue with  

as many things as you have in your artillery  so you want to eat better feel better and  

move better not one or the other and this is how  your body can get to homeostasis can get to health  

and harmony in the long run and most people just  ask the question what do I need to do give me the  

quick list and that list is useless because if  you don't understand what it means if you don't  

own the concept and the context to put that in it  is useless because in five minutes you're going to  

find someone who says something different and now  you're all confused and you do nothing so first  

we want to ask what but then we want to understand  the mechanism and get the why and the how and once  

we're armed with all of those that's when we're  going to make some changes and stick to them  

so first you want to eat shorter and then you want  to eat less now here's the problem people focus on  

this only and they associate it with deprivation  and when they hear eat less now they think oh  

I'm going on a diet I'm going to do something  for 30 days or 60 days or six months and they  

think their meals are going to look like this and  this is called deprivation it's called suffering  

it's not sustainable in the long run and that's  why people fail so yes you absolutely have to eat  

less but it doesn't have to feel like you're  eating less and there are macros that stands for  

macronutrients that's where you get your calories  the fat protein and carbohydrate and assuming  

you get about 20 percent from protein because  they're going to serve mostly as building blocks  

then the rest is 80 that means the fuel from fat  and carbohydrate should make up 80 percent now  

some people think that you should eat low fat  other people say you should eat low carb and  

here's the interesting thing either way works  pretty well at least short term here's the problem  

if you eat low fat that means you're going to  eat high carb so if you eat 10 calories from fat  

you're going to eat 70 percent from carbohydrate  and then what happens is you're going to have  

very high insulin levels you're going to have  chronically high insulin levels and you get  

hungry because insulin is a storage hormone and as  soon as the insulin is done stashing away the food  

now you're ready to eat again whereas if you eat  10 percent carb and 70 fat you get the same 80  

for fuel but the fat does not trigger insulin so  now you have a much more even blood sugar level  

you have a much more even fuel supply it's like  you throw a log on the fire instead of throwing  

gasoline on the fire it burns slower and it  lasts longer as a result you have less hunger  

so it's your choice right you have to eat  less but do you want to be more hungry  

or less hungry the other thing a lot of these  low-fat proponents don't realize is that  

carbohydrates turn to fat they have a fat phobia  they've heard all these things about fat that  

it's bad in some way and they look at their bodies  and they don't want the fat on their bodies and  

they hear about blood fats and they don't want it  in their blood but they don't realize that when  

you eat carbohydrate you can store a little bit  and all the rest has to be turned into fat because  

it can't stay in the bloodstream blood sugar is  dangerous and you can only store so much so if  

you keep piling on the carbohydrates it will turn  to fat but before it turns to fat it has triggered  

a bunch of insulin that makes you hungry and  creates all sorts of metabolic health issues so  

if you do the low carb high fat also called LCHF  and the strictest version of that is called keto  

where you eat very very low carbohydrates so low  carb to me is maybe 10 - 15 percent of calories  

from carbohydrates and with keto you probably want  to get down to like five percent of calories from  

carbohydrate but what that does like we said is  fat does not trigger insulin so if you eat 10%  

carbs and 70% fat there's very little in that  food to trigger insulin and if insulin stays down  

your energy production is much much more  steady and you don't get hungry that is the  

difference too many people focus on eating less  and the calories and how many meals and all that  

but what really matters is what is your feeding  window and how much insulin are you producing  

because long term that's going to determine  your hunger levels so you do have to eat less  

there is no argument there but you want to  make it easy for yourself because the easier  

it is the more sustainable it is and that  is like improving the odds in your favor  

I even have people telling me that  no you're wrong you don't have to eat  

less because I don't think I do I'm eating keto  and I'm losing all this weight and I'm always full  

but the whole point is that they are eating less  but it's so easy because they're stabilizing their  

whole metabolism that it's so easy they don't  even realize they're eating less and that is how  

it's sustainable now as humans we like to label  things we like to categorize things we like to  

put some things in the emotional box and some  in the structural box and some in the chemical  

but that's just for us to be able to  converse about it to have a conversation  

in reality there is so much overlap that all  of these affect each other that we can't really  

separate them out that's in stark contrast to  when they do research when they do research  

they have kind of a sequential linear way of  thinking and what they're thinking is let's try  

to change one variable let's try to control as  much as we can of the variables and change one  

and that's the one that we're studying and that  makes sense in that kind of thinking and I'm  

not opposed to that that's great however when  it comes to you when it comes to your reality  

and how things work in biology in living  systems then things are different because we are  

multi-factorial there's nothing about us that's  linear you can change the emotional in a thousand  

different ways and that's going to affect the  structural and that's going to affect the chemical  

so these are all interrelated and that's why you  want to let the researchers change one variable  

at a time but if you want the most and the best  possible impact on your situation then you do  

it all you start working on the emotional the  structural and the chemical all together that's  

how you're going to get out of that plateau and  that's how you're going to start moving your body  

toward homeostasis in every way next thing you  want to do every day to lose belly fat and weight  

is exercise and it's not what you hear all the  time it's not about burning calories so let's  

talk about this does exercise help with insulin  resistance it is pretty effective in preventing  

type 2 diabetes from developing it is not very  effective in reversing it once it's established  

and here's why most of type 2 diabetes and insulin  resistance is about the liver and a fatty liver  

so NAFLD stands for non-alcoholic fatty  liver disease because traditionally most  

fatty liver was caused by alcohol but in  recent years and especially in young people  

the vast majority of fatty liver is from sugar  and fructose so they call that non-alcoholic  

fatty liver so when you exercise you're  not really going to affect that fatty liver  

because you have two compartments where you store  energy in the body you have the liver that has its  

stores of fat and glucose and you have the muscles  that has its stores of fat and glucose and then of  

course you have all the fat the adipose tissue  in the body but when you exercise you primarily  

start using up the glucose and the fat in the  muscle you're not really going to touch the fat  

or glucose in the liver and the liver is holding  on it's ear marking this glucose primarily  

for the brain because the brain has to have  a certain amount of glucose when we fast  

and go keto it can use a lot of ketones but it  always has to have some glucose and when that  

runs low then it's the liver that disperses that  blood sugar on a regular basis so exercise is not  

very powerful in reversing a fatty liver but it's  not completely useless either because it will use  

up some energy so you're using up some substrate  from the energy pool in the body if you will and  

if you're activating the muscles and they use up  some of the glucose and fat then the muscles will  

be available to absorb some of the fuel from the  rest of the body and that will make it less likely  

that the things you eat turn into fat in the  liver but it's not going to do much to reverse  

it and when you do exercise you want to make  sure that it burns as much fat as possible and  

as little carbohydrate as possible so how do you  do that it's called aerobic exercise aerobic means  

with air and then you're going to keep your  cortisol levels low cortisol is a stress hormone  

that raises blood sugar and therefore also raises  insulin so cortisol promotes insulin resistance  

and belly fat and a fatty liver so we want to  burn fat and we want to keep cortisol to a minimum  

any time that we get into an aerobic meaning  without air now cortisol goes up and why is this  

because just like a fire when you're burning logs  in a fire it's the oxygen that's fueling that  

fire and if you can get more oxygen  into the fire it's going to burn hotter  

your cells are the same way you have your  bloodstream deliver oxygen to the cells and  

in the cells you have mitochondria that fully  burn that fuel the fat and the carbohydrate  

into energy and water and carbon dioxide and as  you breathe and as you breathe a little faster  

you're providing more oxygen for the fire in your  cells and you still breathe nice and calm you  

breathe slow steady breaths and they go a little  bit faster up to your aerobic threshold that is  

when you're supplying as much oxygen  as your cells can use to fully oxidize  

the fuel the carb and the fat but once you go a  little bit higher once your energy requirements  

are just a little bit higher than that aerobic  threshold now you've moved into an aerobic so  

that means your body is demanding more energy than  you can provide oxygen for and now what happens  

is you go into air hunger you start huffing and  puffing you start panting you start breathing  

significantly faster it's not a controlled steady  breath anymore and now once you start huffing and  

puffing once you have air hunger now your cortisol  levels go up why is that because the only thing  

that you can derive energy from without oxygen  is glucose so now you start splitting glucose  

molecules straight down the middle to get some  emergency energy as long as you're breathing  

nice and slow even if they're deep breaths  you are in aerobic metabolism and you can burn  

fat or carbohydrate but once you start huffing  and puffing you can only burn carbohydrate so  

what that means is you want to spend as much time  as you can in aerobic training because not only  

are you burning mostly fat there but what happens  once you go into anaerobic and your muscles use up  

all that glucose now you get a shortage of glucose  you used it all up and what happens is you're  

going to have to replace those lost carbs later on  because if you used up a bunch of carbs and you're  

trying to eat low carb then you're actually going  to get cravings and you get more hunger to make up  

for it but even though exercise has a limited  benefit for reversing fatty liver I am still  

100% for exercise you have to do it on a  regular basis several times a week because  

exercise does so much more and here's what  it really does exercise activates the brain  

exercise when you move you are stretching muscles  and you're moving mechanoreceptors in your joints  

and those two pieces of information is the vast  majority of signals that stimulate the brain that  

basically keep the brain alive when you go to the  gym and you work with a dumbbell you're putting  

tension on a muscle so you're stimulating  that muscle to stay healthy and to grow  

the brain gets stimulated by signals from  muscle spindles and joint mechanoreceptors so  

just like you work out a muscle you work  out your brain by moving your body through  

three dimensions against gravity and why is that  so significant because when you increase your  

brain activity it's like you're turning up the  dimmer on a light bulb and the brighter your brain  

burns the more it can inhibit things the more  it can control and balance out things that needs  

dampening so there's something called the IML  which stands for intermediolateral cell column.  

Don't worry about the name I just put this in  here so you don't think I'm making this stuff up  

there is this is your spinal cord and this is half  of your spinal cord right here in the green area  

is called the lateral horn and this is  where your stress response cell bodies  

live so anytime you have a stress response then  this area reacts before that information even  

gets to the brain because you have to have a  split second reaction time whenever something  

endangers you in your environment you  have to have a stress response first  

and then your brain is informed to see if it's  a real threat or if it's something that we can  

dampen a little bit so that's a lot of what  the brain does is to dampen to inhibit those  

stress responses and once we understand all the  steps we can see how important this would be  

because the IML is responsible for stress  responses for adrenal activation your adrenal  

glands make the stress hormones adrenaline and  cortisol but it also helps regulate minerals and  

things like that so as you your adrenals get tired  then you lose some of your ability to regulate  

minerals as well your adrenals are responsible  for cortisol and when cortisol goes up blood sugar  

goes up when blood sugar goes up insulin goes  up so simply by improving brain activation not  

burning calories not any other aspect of  exercise just the movement to activate the brain  

we are improving all of these different aspects  so that's a huge influence on stress responses on  

health and insulin resistance now if we're dealing  with belly fat we need to understand a few things  

it is strongly associated with a fatty  liver they pretty much go hand in hand  

and they also relate to insulin and cortisol  chronic elevated levels of insulin and cortisol  

and the reason that situation developed in the  first place is that we placed too much of a burden  

on the liver the liver is supposed to handle  certain things but excess of other things is just  

too much and these things are glucose fructose  and alcohol in that order alcohol is the worst  

so glucose is not nearly as terrible as the other  two glucose that's rice and potatoes and grain  

and so forth starchy things and the reason it's  not so bad is that glucose can be metabolized  

by every cell in the body so only about 15 20  percent or so goes through the liver when it comes  

to glucose and that's why you could eat rice and  bread if you're reasonably active and you only eat  

three meals a day and you have an active lifestyle  then you can probably go 30 40 50 years and never  

develop any metabolic problems some people  would but most would not however once you add  

fructose or alcohol to the equation fructose and  alcohol can only be processed through the liver  

so instead of 20 now we're talking a hundred  percent basically goes through the liver so  

a small amount still has the potential of  overwhelming the liver and that's why a lot  

of traditional populations who lived off a lot  of rice and grain did well as long as they stuck  

with starch with glucose but as soon as they  added sugar as long as they added glucose  

and fructose which is table sugar now those  problems the diabetes the metabolic problems  

started skyrocketing and most people know  not to overdo alcohol we don't give alcohol  

to our toddlers we restrict it in many different  ways but we haven't really restricted fructose  

we've had all sorts of warnings about fat but  fructose is the real killer and it really hurts  

me when i see pictures like this because  it is so common today with type 2 diabetes  

in preteens that used to be a disease called adult  onset type 2 diabetes or adult-onset diabetes  

and kids never got it because it took 40 50 60  years to develop but when you feed them like this  

now you can have a type 2 diabetic as a  five-year-old another thing worth mentioning is  

sleep because if you sleep well then you have less  stress and it's also associated with lower levels  

of cortisol when you don't sleep enough when  you have poor quality sleep you only sleep a few  

hours then stress levels go up and cortisol  levels go up and again that has a detrimental  

effect on your metabolic health and now for the  emotional aspects I think a lot of people sort of  

start with changing the way they eat and then some  people add some exercise to it but very few people  

I think do enough consistently or understand how  profound the emotional aspects can be and the best  

way that I know to create relaxation and peace is  called meditation you can start with a breathing  

exercise and then sort of learn how to get a  little bit deeper and deeper but there's nothing  

strange or spiritual about it meditation is just  a way to start going deeper inside and turning off  

all that noise in the background finding a deeper  level within yourself and when you do that now  

you're activating your frontal lobe because in  order to get some peace in your head you have to  

turn off all of the distracting thoughts so you're  actually increasing frontal lobe activity when you  

meditate and what that does it reduces stress it  increases relaxation it can help improve sleep and  

it improves healing so we talked about stress and  a stress response being a sympathetic activation  

so your body tries to get balanced between  your sympathetic and your parasympathetic  

but anytime you have stress now you have  the stress response your sympathetic  

reallocates your resources so it takes them  away from your healing organs and it defends  

you against the outside world so the inside  that's the parasympathetic and that's things  

like digestion and immune system and reproductive  function and healing so basically anytime you have  

stress responses whether you're aware of them or  whether it's against something real or imagined  

anytime you have a stress response you get  tense of course you lose some relaxation  

but you're also interfering with digestion and  healing and immune function so by learning a  

method just to balance out your stress responses  if that's all you do you've already improved  

all of these different things and one more thing  that can create a stubborn weight situation  

is if you have a hypothyroid if you have a slow  thyroid and most thyroid problems especially in  

the western world are an autoimmune condition an  autoimmune has to do a lot with digestion and if  

your digestion is off that is usually because  your stress levels are too high so again we see  

the loop closing there's so many different things  that are related that these are all these bonuses  

that you get you're just setting out to lose some  belly fat and some weight but if you do it right  

and you do it long term and you address the root  causes you'll find all these different things get  

better along the way and then of course I wanted  to mention again the exercise because when you  

exercise you improve your brain function which can  help reduce stress so again we separate out the  

emotional and the chemical and the structural but  there's so much overlap and there's also obviously  

good nutrition if you stabilize your blood sugar  if you get enough essential fatty acids and good  

minerals that is also going to help your brain  function and your emotional state and therefore  

every day or at least most days you want to do  some movement and it doesn't have to be exercise  

or go into the gym you just have to move your body  and create some signals to stimulate your brain  

you also want to restrict your feeding  window you want to eat shorter also known as  

intermittent fasting so that you can be more in  fat burning and less in fat storing that also  

stabilizes your hunger and it has much greater  impact on weight loss than just counting calories  

you want to do some form of meditation and  again there's nothing mystical about it  

it's just finding a place or a situation or  a breathing pattern that gives you some peace  

because when you practice that now you're  reinforcing those pathways and your nervous  

system gets better and better at automatically  finding those relaxed states you want to get some  

exercise which means that in addition to just  moving you do something to get your heart rate  

up a little bit and the higher you get your  heart rate up the shorter the duration so that  

you don't create excess stress next you want  to eliminate processed foods up to 70 percent  

of the calories consumed in the united states  are white flour white sugar and processed seed  

oils you want to turn that down to zero or at  least under 10 percent because it's garbage  

and you want to get 90 percent or more from  real food from unprocessed things of a variety  

i recommend you stay away from grains as much  as possible so meat fish vegetables nuts and  

seeds are your your go-to and you want to allocate  enough time to get some proper sleep some people  

have trouble sleeping because they're stressed  they're inflamed for whatever reason but if you  

start applying all of these different things if  you do the movement if you stabilize your blood  

sugar if you reduce the stress if you eat real  food then you'll find that there's a trickle  

down effect also to sleep so if you just allocate  enough time then you'll probably find that you  

start sleeping better as well. If you enjoyed this  video you're going to love that one, and if you  

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