How to Lose Belly Fat in 1 Night With This Diet: Doctor Reacts

hello health champions today we're going to take  a look at a video that talks about how to lose  

belly fat in one night if this works it would be  a dream come true for billions of people how to  

lose belly fat in a single night wow did you see  that the transformation from one to the other in  

a single night now this video got over 40 million  views and it comes from a channel that has over 10  

billion channel views so i'm expecting for  this to be some really high quality information  

belly fat is more than just an irritant that  makes your clothes feel tight how can it bring  

health problems you might ask here is the answer  some fat is there right under your skin [Music]  

while other is deep inside around your organs  liver heart lungs this type of fat is called  

visceral fat and this is the very  type which is bad even for slim people  

now that was a little disappointing i had been  hoping for a real explanation but all they really  

said is that this fat is bad because it's deep  inside and because it's called visceral fat now  

the thing they did get right is that this is also  bad for slim people because it's not only about  

your belly fat thin people can get this too and  here's how that works when we have things like  

stress then we make stress hormones when we  have a poor diet now we make other hormones  

especially one called insulin the stress hormones  called cortisol and the combination of cortisol  

and insulin lead to hormone imbalances  and when we have hormone imbalances  

over a period of time now we start to develop  diseases so we do get diseases from these  

hormone imbalances because any imbalance in  the body means something isn't working right  

and this is what gives rise to these different  things and these hormone imbalances in this  

poor diet and stress is also what gives rise to  this visceral fat but this doesn't make the fat  

bad it's the circumstances that give rise to  the fat that is bad but again you should know  

the measure because too much of it can cause high  blood pressure heart diseases and even some types  

of cancers when they say that visceral fat causes  high blood pressure and heart disease and certain  

types of cancers they're falling prey to a common  misconception where we confuse the association of  

something with the cause of something the  people who do the research on these things  

they understand the difference between a cause and  association so in their papers they always write  

associated with but then the people who write  about the research who are laymen or science  

writers they always call it a cause because it  sounds more dramatic but it isn't a cause and it's  

really important that we understand the difference  between cause and association because otherwise we  

don't know how to address it we don't know how to  reverse it if we don't have that clear so what are  

the actual causes well we have body stress which  is just a very general way of saying imbalances  

and hormone imbalances and so forth like we talked  about when we have body stress meaning we have  

hormone imbalances we have toxicity there's  things interfering when we have deficiencies  

the body needs certain things that it's not  getting that is a body burden or a body stress  

and then to that we add inflammation and we add  insulin resistance and when we have these together  

then these are the things that cause  disease so here we have the actual cause  

not the visceral fat or anything like that so  now we get visceral fat and we get cardiovascular  

disease we even get some types of cancer and  we get high blood pressure so these result  

from having these but then these things also cause  visceral fat so here's where the confusion is that  

a cause is a one-way street it goes  from the causative factor to the problem  

but visceral fat is not the cause of this that the  arrow goes both ways and when we don't understand  

this now we start attacking the wrong thing now  how to know if you have too much of belly fat  

there is a straightforward way to do it get  a measuring tape and put it around your waist  

now if you are a woman and your waist size is less  than 35 inches relax everything is fine however if  

it is more than 35 inches then you definitely  should consider this diet and if you're a man  

then the waist size less than 40 inches sounds  pretty okay while more than 40 inches should  

alarm you now while it is true that your waist  circumference your belly size is a very strong  

indicator of visceral fat and metabolic problems  it is not the only indicator and as they just  

pointed out a little bit before slim people  can get this too so you could be super skinny  

and just have a tiny little belly pouch and that  is a result of visceral fat even though the rest  

of you is just super skinny and to say that as  a female if your waist is less than 35 inches  

you have nothing to worry about or the same  thing for a male if your waist is less than 40  

that's a bit simplistic too and when i keep in  mind that a lot of people watching this particular  

video are actually kids so it's going to depend  on your size and your age so what if you're 12  

or 14 years old and you are 4 foot 8 or 4 foot 10  then that 35 or 40 inch waist is not going to be  

a very good marker so rather than that we want  to take a look at just a few pieces of blood work  

and then match the two together and when they  do blood work the very first thing they look at  

is blood sugar and it's not a terribly good or  bad marker i would measure it because it's so  

simple but it fluctuates too much and it takes 15  20 years before it really gets out of control so  

a much better marker we want to look at is called  a1c which is a three-month average that can start  

telling us if we have some metabolic issues  then another one that i talk a lot about is  

insulin because that shows us more of  the underlying problem which is insulin  

resistance even if your blood sugar is well  controlled if it takes five times more insulin  

than normal to do it you're still very insulin  resistant even though your blood sugar and your  

a1c are still looking normal and two more markers  i like to look at are triglycerides and vldl  

very low density lipoproteins and they are  triglyceride carriers so these two markers  

go hand in hand but it's good to have two ways of  looking at it to confirm so you don't have to get  

super complicated about these but make sure that  you get these on a blood test and get them on your  

kids too because as we eat worse and worse and we  eat more and more sugar and we move less and less  

these problems start happening to people who are  12 13 14 years old as well there are two types of  

shapes a pair size when the hips and thighs  are bigger than your waistline and an apple  

size when your waistline is wider than your hips  and thighs so you want to be the size of a pear  

or the size of an apple well hopefully neither  and i'm sure this was just the slip of the tongue  

they said size when they actually mean shape  because they talk about pear shape and apple  

shape where the apple shape where you have your  weight higher up is usually associated with more  

visceral fat and that wouldn't be such a great  thing so if your measurements show that you have  

too much of extra fat around your waistline even  if you are not obese or heavy then you should  

consider some ways to say goodbye to it sounds  like an uphill task huh don't give up that fast  

you'll be surprised know that this  task can be accomplished within one day  

now that's so exciting i don't know about you i'm  on the edge of my seat i can't wait to see what  

this is going to be so are you ready to hear the  most amazing diet ever here's how you can do it  

you should start right in the morning 8 am drink  a glass of warm water with some lemon juice in it  

good start after a couple of hours take another  glass of warm water with apple or orange juice  

in it all right so let's talk about what's  happening here and why this might actually work  

so if we wake up in the morning and instead of  having breakfast we just have something to drink  

that has no calories or no sugar or so little that  it doesn't matter now we're going to basically  

continue fasting so during the night when we don't  eat we are fasting and then if we wake up in the  

morning and we have a big breakfast we're going to  raise blood sugar and this blood sugar is going to  

require insulin and insulin is going to take that  sugar into the cell and part of that is going to  

be converted to fat and as long as insulin is high  it's going to be very difficult for us to burn  

the body fat which is the purpose of this whole  diet and by only squeezing a tiny bit of lemon  

into the water let's say it's a teaspoon or two  that's less than half a gram of sugar and in your  

bloodstream is already circulating three to four  grams of sugar so another half a gram is not going  

to make a difference it's going to be a blip that  doesn't even register so then we go another couple  

hours but next time we drink something according  to the diet now we mix in some fruit juice we have  

apple juice or orange juice and they don't tell  us how much but if we have 5 or 10 grams that is  

pretty significant so now we get a blood sugar  spike we get an insulin spike and we break this  

nice momentum that we have it's still going to  work because we're eating so few calories there's  

so little fuel coming into the body so it's still  going to work but this little spike here is rather  

unnecessary it's just to satisfy the sweet tooth  and it's a little defeating because we're trying  

to teach the body to burn fat instead of  carbohydrate and sugar but the body when  

it gets the sugar it's less likely to continue  burning fat then at noon get yourself a cup of  

green tea not bad after an hour you should drink  a glass of cold water with carrot juice in it at 3  

pm take a cup of your favorite tea do you like it  so far at 5 pm have a glass of your favorite juice  

so we're still on a pretty good track the almost  fasting continues and we have some more tea and  

while we're having tea or water or coffee with no  calories or sugar this line keeps going down the  

blood sugar and the insulin keeps going down and  then we have water with carrot juice again and we  

have another little spike like we did before and  then we have some more tea and we're back on track  

but then for some reason they tell you to have  your big meal of the day if you will and you drink  

a glass of your favorite juice and what happens  now is they again don't tell us how big that glass  

is but it's pretty easy to get 30 or 40 grams of  sugar in a glass of juice and you're gonna get a  

pretty significant blood sugar spike and insulin  spike so this still works because the calories are  

so few but it's unnecessary to fluctuate to create  this blood sugar roller coaster you'd be much  

better off actually just having water and maybe  having an avocado or something that's very very  

low sugar and it's still going to give you a  little bit of satisfaction after another couple  

of hours take one more cup of green tea at 9 pm  grab a glass of water with grapefruit juice in it  

we are almost there finally after another hour  at 10 p.m you should finish the diet the way you  

started it have a glass of warm water with some  lemon juice in it and then after this you continue  

drinking tea and then you have a little bit more  of the water with some juice and then you have the  

water with just some lemon juice just a tiny spike  insignificant blip so overall you're basically not  

eating anything it's so close to fasting that you  might as well just fast throughout the whole day  

and if you did that you wouldn't have these  small spikes of blood sugar and you'd probably be  

much better off because the sugar just makes  you hungry and gives you cravings for things  

it is probably hard to believe but your tummy will  become flat in just 24 hours moreover your body  

will get rid of all the toxins wow a flat belly  and get rid of all the toxins in your body in 24  

hours that's pretty amazing so it just makes me  wonder why am i spending so much time explaining  

these things on my videos and why did i waste all  that time going to school when there are brilliant  

pioneers like this just paving the way  for revolutionary breakthroughs but  

in the end it's all about results right so did  they get any results what are people saying  

so here's one that says i tried it and i  lost two and a half pounds so it worked  

right that must be proof that it's working the  next one says i can't believe it actually works  

i did this diet yesterday with high hopes and  today i stood on the scale and i lost three pounds  

so with those fantastic testimonials it seems  like this is really the thing right but let's  

talk about what actually happened so when you fast  which this diet is pretty much just pure fasting  

you're not really eating much of anything your  body still needs energy it's going to use up about  

2 000 calories and we'll just use that number some  people are going to be 1500 some are going to be a  

lot more depending on size and activity and some  of that is going to come from fat and some is  

going to come from carbohydrate if you usually eat  very low carb it's going to be a little bit more  

calories from fat but if you eat like most people  like a standard average diet with bread and pasta  

and a little bit of everything you're probably  going to burn about 50 percent of your calories  

from fat and 50 from carbohydrate so a thousand  calories of carbohydrate is about 250 grams it's a  

little more than half a pound and where does that  carbohydrate come from if you're not eating any or  

if you're just eating a little bit of sugar you  did get a few grams through the juice but you're  

still going to need a lot more energy from some  place else and the body stores glycogen it takes  

these glucose molecules and it links them together  and it kind of builds a tree and it puts that in  

the liver so you have a little bit for backup  and you have enough glycogen to last you for  

24 hours or even a little bit more as you start  running out your body will start conserving that  

and burning more fat but let's say that you use  up 250 grams which again it's a little more than  

half a pound of glycogen so first of all that  is where some of your weight loss is coming from  

but then what we need to understand and this  is the key and this is why you're going to  

lose weight on the scale every time you  restrict something for a short period of time  

this glycogen which is the first backup fuel for  the body every gram of glycogen holds on to about  

three to four grams of water all right so one  gram of glycogen holds on to three four grams  

of water that means 250 grams of glycogen is  going to hold on to three to four times that much  

so right now we're talking two to three pounds  of water plus the glycogen and this is exactly  

where the weight loss is coming from and then  furthermore you're going to breathe out several  

ounces maybe half a pound of water you're going  to breathe out during the night as you're sleeping  

and then usually first thing you go to the  bathroom and you void your bladder so two to three  

to four pounds is typical any time you cut back  in any way and what about the fat then did we burn  

any fat at all absolutely so half the calories  came from carbohydrate and half came from fat  

so if you're burning thousand calories of  fat there's nine calories per gram of fat  

so roughly 100 grams or 110 grams which translates  to about three and a half ounces of fat so some  

people might say now well that's a total waste  of time i wanted to lose three pounds well we  

have to realize that's not possible it's just not  the way it works so 100 grams of weight loss from  

fat is still pretty good that's how you can lose  a pound a pound and a half maybe even two pounds  

a week and if you can continue doing that steadily  you have a solid weight loss plan now the problem  

is that the plan promoted in this video is nothing  like a solid weight loss plan it's a one day plan  

and furthermore it even though you're just burning  a hundred grams of fat it suggests that you can go  

from this to this in one day and it says you can  go from this to this in one day or from this to  

this in one day by losing 100 grams of fat let's  look at a couple more testimonials or comments  

here so someone else says i'm happy for you it's  commenting on one of the people who lost weight  

i've always tried to lose weight because the  kids in my school bullied me and so did my dad  

and my brother i'm trying this diet tomorrow and  i wish everyone else the best of luck with their  

weight goals so this really got to me this is a  real thing there are millions of kids out there  

this video got 40 million views there are millions  of kids out there who are trying to lose weight  

they're insecure they have emotional problems they  get bullied and then there are videos that suggest  

that you can transform yourself by burning a  hundred grams of fat over one night and the  

problem is that the people who make these videos  they don't have a license to lose they don't have  

any expertise they don't have anyone to be  accountable for they just have to put up a crazy  

video with some crazy claims and therefore they  can get away with outright lies in doing so they  

distort everyone's expectation they feed into this  idea that we have through every magazine stand and  

all the rumors and all the diets that somehow  you're going to create these miraculous results  

if you just find this one little secret and then  the kids try this and they lose three pounds and  

then as soon as they start eating they gain all  that water right back and now they're wondering  

what's wrong with me because apparently it  worked on somebody else and now we feed into  

the idea that one day diets are okay that they  can create results they get away with promoting  

weight loss that isn't fat loss and of course  everyone realizes because they think this is just  

one day they think they're going to get results  they don't expect to ever having to do this again  

but this is not sustainable because this doesn't  add any nutrients there's no plan in here for how  

you're going to sustain this so basically what  they're training people to do is to get on this  

eternal yo-yo path that everyone has tried and  everyone has failed and i know someone's going to  

compare this to intermittent fasting and say that  they're the same thing so let's just look at them  

a little bit side by side here that this diet that  they've been promoting here is the best thing that  

you can say about it is that it's almost a day of  fasting but other than that it pretty much fits  

every other useless diet out there in that it's  all about just eat less and they think that if  

you eat less then you're going to burn calories  but they don't understand that the body adapts  

that you lose a little weight initially and then  it comes back and you gain it back and then some  

and in doing that you set yourself up for an  eternal yo-yo pattern of dieting and these facts  

combined with the fact that people don't  understand what they're doing this is what sets  

people up for eating disorders so if we ever want  to get past this we have to start understanding  

how does the body work what happens when i do  this or that and what i talk a lot about is  

intermittent fasting which is time restricted you  still eat food but because you focus on certain  

windows you end up eating less food overall but  the whole focus is on real food on eating nutrient  

dense foods when you eat so that you get all of  your nutrients in but in a shorter time frame and  

when you also start understanding the mechanism  when you do something and you know what's going  

to happen to the body and why then you can have  realistic expectations that you know that a  

hundred grams of fat loss per day is okay because  it translates into a pound a half a week and then  

as you learn about blood sugar and insulin  and you combine this time restricted eating  

with low carbohydrate or limited carbohydrate  higher fat now you're stimulating less insulin  

you're eating real food that keeps you full longer  and here's the biggest difference of all when we  

understand these things now we can turn it in to  a lifestyle we can do something that's sustainable  

not a one day almost one day of fasting and then  have no idea why all the weight came back the next  

day and we tried again and we yo-yo and we get  frustrated and this next comment really got to  

me she says seeing most of the comments remind  me of when i was 13 and how i felt about my body  

i'm now 22 and i still feel the same she still  feels the same because nine years later she hasn't  

found any solid solutions and then she ends with  a positive phrase and she says we'll get through  

this one day but the only way that we're gonna get  through this the only way that there's going to  

be some change is for people to stop watching  these stupid lies and for the people who know  

to start spreading the truth if you enjoyed this  video you're going to love that one and if you  

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