So it's December, 17 2019, and I've lost about 5 pounds over the past month
before getting ready for Christmas. Maybe I can eat more, I don't
know. Maybe I'll even lose a little bit more weight. I'd love to get down to 150.
Now, that's despite going to New York and going out with family to a lot of nice
restaurants.
I've shared with you, number one, I've had my own losing 30 pounds weight or 30
pound weight loss experience that was when I was in college. I got up about 185,
190 pounds. My healthiest weight it appears to be like 150 to 155.
And again, I've shared some of my thoughts about weight loss. First you
have to know your insulin resistance status. And if you can't metabolize carbs,
don't eat them, don't eat a lot of them Anyway, don't live on carbs. Understand
the importance of BMI. For example, if you say, well, my BMI is big because I'm
big-boned. Well, look, you know this is Arnold Schwarzenegger, BMI of 30 in 1970.
So if your BMI is in the high 20s or 30s and you look like that, okay but that's
not usually the case. BMI is important. Why? Because of fat mass. Fat is not an
inert storage material. It is an endocrine tissue. It releases
inflammatory and insulin-resistant hormones. Now, couple of other things. Be
careful with exercise during weight loss periods. I just overdid my hill runs
recently and was wiped out last night. But overall, I'm feeling really good and
enjoying the holidays and celebrating with my family. But let me go back.
Portion control is a big deal. Now, I sound like you know maybe I'm a
lightweight in terms of weight loss. Let me just give you another perspective on
my family of origin. My dad was weighed mine or he was my
height 5'10". He weighed over 350 pounds at one point in his life so I learned some
bad habits. One of the worst ones was the one with portion control. So I'll do this
over and over and over again. I'll get set up with a good set of
eating rules, like I cut my carbs or I'll do my two-day fast for a week or I'll do
my intermittent... you know... closing the window, intermittent
fasting, skipping breakfast, whatever you want to call it. But then I'll start
slipping more and more calories back in more bigger and bigger portions when I
can eat. And I got back up over 160. Actually, I got to like 163, and my blood
pressure starts hitting up around the 130s systolic when I did that. So I
needed to do a little something, and yes, I'm going to talk about something that
that pushes this issue of the limits of the calories in, calories out theory in
the harmonic theories. There's no question that it's more than just
calories in, calories out. Gary Taubes, David Ludwig, Robert Lustig, they were all
correct when they're talking about the hormonal theory of weight loss. In other
words, as we get middle-aged and we get that middle-age spread, maybe we're not
getting fat because we're eating more. Maybe we're eating more because we're
getting fat. In other words, that insulin, it continues to creep up because our
blood sugar is creeping up and our bodies getting insulin resistant. That
insulin is cutting, shutting down our fat burning so that fat continues to stay
there instead of burning away like it did when we were in our 20s. But here's
the thing. A hundred percent agree with the hormonal theory of weight loss, but
it does have its limits. You know this urban myth that you can eat 6,000
calories a day instead staying keto and stay safe? It's just not true, unless
you're burning a whole lot of calories. David Ludwig, head of the obesity unit at
Harvard and a great researcher in this area and a big believer in the hormonal
theory, has demonstrated a lot of science around this space. And he says, you know,
look, there is evidence that you decrease your efficiency of calorie burn. But not
most people, and even those that do.. we're talking about 20%. If your basal
metabolic rate is like 2,000, 2,500, something like that, you can't eat 6,000
calories and depend on staying keto to keep your weight down. So the point is
we've got to remember that there's a balanced approach that we need to have.
There's the hormonal theory versus the bank account theory, and there's
something even bigger than either one of those things. And that is behavior. We
have to have rules that we can fit within our behavior. Somebody gave me a
lot of grief for giving airtime to Penn Jillette's potato mono diet. This is Penn
in front of the green background a hundred pounds heavier than Penn in
front of the blue background. The difference was he switched to eating
nothing but potatoes for a very long time. Now, I have every suspicion
that the heavier Penn was insulin resistant. So you'd say, eating nothing
but carbs for somebody that's insulin resistant, you know what, that's not my
go-to diet. But what happened was, and he said it very clearly, he said, look, once I
started eating nothing but potatoes, you know they tasted okay sometimes. But it
was really clear I only ate when I was hungry. I quit all of this other eating.
And he dropped a hundred pounds. And here's the other bottom line. Penn
Jillette in front of the blue a hundred pounds less is a heck of a lot healthier
than that Penn, the other Penn Jillette. And he's kept it off for well
over a year. So somebody suggested to me that I try this diet. I don't know if you
remember the last time I did a Prolon diet,
Valter Longo's fasting mimicking diet. I had blood sugar spikes of up to around
180 when I would try this soup. Now, this other person said to me, look, I've got
another diet. We're gonna call it the "mystery diet." I've got another diet, and
it's low carb. It has a whole set of coaching and everything else around it.
And try it and see what you think. Well, I did some comparison, and I tried it. And
sure enough, the big thing on this diet, yes, it's low carb. If you look at the
comparison here, each of these diets is about
40% carbs, 40% calories and fats, and maybe 10% in the Valter Longo's 5 to
10% whereas maybe 10 to 20% in this mystery diet. Both of the diets are
looking at 800 to 1,200. Well, a little bit fewer calories on the Longo diet, 700,
days 2 through 5 and 1,050 day 1. On this mystery diet, it's
800 to 1,250. And actually, what you do is you only have 4 of these 4 or 5
of these types of things add a tiny little things but you also get with a
lean meal with some sort of protein. And so you get a real meal each day along
with it. And you can stay on it, you lose weight. It's very effective. That's what
I've done. And like I said, it's been there. I've had trips to New York. I've
been out celebrating with my family and didn't feel bad except a couple of times,
usually about the same thing with Prolon. So I'm actually starting to
offer that now. If you have an interest in joining me for this, why don't you
think about unwrapping a healthier you for the holidays. Thank you very much for
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