i'm not the type of person that never eats pizza that never eats sweets but
95 of the time when i choose the foods that i eat i'm
eating things where i can make the smart choices and where i can upgrade
what's going on everybody schuyler diehm here men's weight loss coach and in today's video
we are diving into five specific foods that i believe everyone out there should upgrade
i'm a firm believer that one of the best strategies to lose weight and to improve
your health especially if you struggle with the consistency motivation and discipline aspect is
to just make those small simple shifts that allow you to eat the same foods but that basically allow
you to avoid the ingredients that are slowing your metabolism that are boosting your cravings
your hunger and really just making your taste buds addicted and then also just breaking the
motivation centers in your brain and making it more difficult for you to stay consistent
and so this philosophy alone allows you to eat the same foods that you've always been eating but just
make those smarter choices that allow your body over time to respond and of course one thing once
a week isn't going to make a massive difference but if you're eating something every single day
and let's say it has an ingredient in there that you have no idea is spiking your blood sugar
causing you to crave foods basically just putting your body in that state of stress you're leaving
a lot on the table and let's say you make five or ten shifts the difference that you could
see is huge you could be providing your body more nutrients you could be avoiding these ingredients
and all in all you could really see massive results with weight loss with cravings with just
the way your mind and your body works just from these small shifts and so obviously when it comes
to weight loss it's always going to be calories in calories out so if you make these shifts and you
still are eating a ton you're not going to lose weight but really what i believe is my philosophy
that most people when they eat this style and when they upgrade the right types of foods and
upgrading to the right types of ingredients their body responds in a way that makes it easier for
them to not overeat and so if you're interested in learning more about this philosophy and how
we've used it to help our clients drop weight really really fast even if they've struggled
for years and years and years make sure you check the description of this video for god
we put together on how to use this awareness this mindfulness as well as fasting and fitness to see
incredible incredible results with that being said let's get into these five things so number one is
something that has been really really demonized by a lot of people and that is salt now when most
people think of salt they think of the white table salt that you find at a restaurant right very very
small flakes very grainy very very tasty and unfortunately this salt has been processed
nowadays to the point where most salts don't even have just salt in them most salts have thickening
agents that just can cause some issues in the body in the long term but more importantly they have
ingredients in there like dextrose which basically responds and reacts in your body like a sugar so
if you're having salt on every meal or maybe your doctor told you to cut back on the salt because of
blood pressure making a small shift from table salt to himalayan sea salt or to something more
nutritious along those lines is going to be huge and so if you're having this regular table salt
usually what you'll find is that it's completely lacking nutrients that there's no nutritious value
but if you switch to something like pink himalayan sea salt there's literally over 80 extra nutrients
in that salt so if you're fasting you know putting salt in your water is one of the best things you
can do for electrolytes for nutrients for minerals but whether you're fasting or not making this
small shift and taking this salt and switching it to himalayan sea salt can provide your body
with a lot more nutrients in the long term so what i would recommend you do right now is pause this
video go to your kitchen cabinet turn the salt to the ingredients and see what else is in there
besides salt my guess is if it's a generic brand you're going to have things like thickening agents
in there you're going to have things like dextrose which again don't respond well in the body long
term so that's ingredient number one ingredient number two would be any inflammatory oils and when
i say inflammatory oils i mean the corn oil the vegetable oil the soybean oil the canola oil these
are oils that over time have been highly highly processed and create a lot of inflammation in the
body so this inflammation can cause weight gain it can cause more hunger it can cause sluggishness it
can cause brain damage and so just by shifting from this oil to more healthy oils not only can
your food potentially taste even better once your taste buds get adjusted but at the same
time you're going to get a lot more healthy fats right canola oil is more of an omega-6 fat which
is more pro-inflammation whereas the oils like the olive oil the avocado oil the coconut oil
these have healthy omega-3 fats in them that are really really good for anti-inflammatory impacts
and so one of my biggest shifts for people if they're cooking with a lot of vegetable oil if
you switch that over to coconut oil not only are you going to notice more energy over time
but you potentially may drop a lot of weight it's not because you're consuming less calories but
it's because the impact that it has on your body you're actually going to be burning more calories
naturally throughout the day so especially if you cook a lot at home get rid of all the vegetable
oils all the inflammatory oils and go for more pro olive oil avocado oil coconut oil same thing
goes with sauces and all these things that you buy pre-packaged if there's canola oil in the
ingredients swap it out for something with coconut oil or avocado oil or olive oil that's number two
the third ingredient i would really recommend swapping out is the enriched bleached wheat flour
now wheat flour in itself i'm iffy about i'll have it organic every single once in a while but the
gluten in there can have negative effects on your body especially because gluten nowadays is very
very processed and so when it comes specifically to baking and to any recipes that you'd use flour
in i would swap out a regular whole wheat flour or even just you know white flour for something
a little bit more nutritious like an almond flour or coconut flour or cassava flour and again what
you'll find here is that yes the ingredients may have to change especially when you bake and you
can easily look up new recipes but the composition once you find that new recipe is going to be a lot
more nutritious once again yes the calories may change you may potentially even consume a little
bit more calories than you normally would but in the process you're giving your body more nutrients
which is going to allow metabolism to speed up so you burn more calories naturally but then also
could potentially reduce hunger throughout the day you know enrich bleached flour has been shown
to massively spike blood sugar which is going to allow you to have an energy crash and then crave
more food and in the process of their creation they take out the nutritious part of the wheat
so even the good part that you would be normally getting from say a whole wheat flour is now
gone because the wheat has been stripped of its nutrients so again with this one if you're going
out you're going for packaged ingredients look for ones that have been made with other types of flour
and they don't have enriched bleach flour in it but on the other end if you're cooking just look
for new recipes right look for new ways to make these normal things with things like almond flour
coconut flour cassava flour that's number three the fourth ingredient i would really recommend
upgrading is plain sugar so whether you have white processed sugar in your kitchen cabinet or whether
you're consuming foods that have sugar in it you could start off by swapping it for something
with a little bit of a lower glycemic index like organic coconut sugar but you could also take it
a step further and go to a zero calorie natural sweetener such as stevia monk fruit or ali loves
now what a lot of people tend to do when they cut out sugar is they go to things labeled sugar-free
which usually have artificial sugars in them like sucralose or aspartame and these can potentially
spike your blood sugar in a negative way but they also damage the gut and your gut health is really
important for mental health for metabolism so if that gut health is damaged from these
artificial sweeteners again you may not be taking in more calories but you're probably burning less
calories throughout the day so a good example of this is when i bake you know we usually don't put
sugar in recipes we'll use things like all natural honey or we'll use real maple syrup something that
contains sugar but it's a much more natural form so it interacts with your bloodstream in
a much better way so that's number four and then the fifth type of food i would really recommend
upgrading is the fish that you consume now a lot of people tend to think that fish is very healthy
with omega fat which it can be okay but in our modern society most fish tends to be farm-raised
and in the process of being farm-raised they're not fed their natural diet they're fed other
farm-raised fish they're fed grains they're fed corn soy and in the process they lose the omega-3
healthy fats because they're not eating the algae that wild caught fish would normally eat and so
if you're going out to the store and you're just buying the cheapest fish what you're most likely
going to find is that fish is actually farm raised and so especially if you're having fish three four
five times a week you just make that swap to something that's wild caught now all of a sudden
your body's getting more healthy omega-3 fats which again is going to cause it to respond in a
more beneficial way so always look for wild caught right whether you're going to the grocery store
when you go out to eat ask if it's wild caught but this is really really important because if you're
eating this fish that's farm raised you really don't know what's in it now it's most salmon
that's farm-raised actually comes out gray because they're lacking the nutrients that makes it pink
and so companies actually dye it pink to make it look like salmon so to quick sum that up again
we've got number one salt upgrading to a himalayan sea salt that's actually filled with nutrients
number two is oil going for a more healthy fat oil avocado oil olive oil coconut oil number three
flour going for either an organic whole wheat flour or even better something like an almond
flour cassava flour coconut flour number four sugar so upgrading sugar to either natural sugar
like honey or maple syrup or go to something that has a little bit of a lower glycemic index
such as coconut sugar or even potentially a zero calorie natural sweetener such as stevia algalose
or monk fruit and then finally number five is upgrade the fish that you buy to wild caught
fish try to avoid that farm raised at all costs so those are five ingredients now with my clients
specifically we do a kitchen walkthrough where we take you through and we kind of go in the kitchen
and look at specific things that we can upgrade we've also got a more detailed list available of
specific ingredients and common upgrades but what i would recommend is start reading the ingredients
of the things that you buy start googling when you see an ingredient that you don't know what
is this ingredient how does it impact my body and that's really the way that you can do this on your
own of just starting to learn what you're putting in you and how it's impacting you but of course
if you're looking for the shortcut make sure to reach out grab that free guide below in it there's
going to be a way to get in touch with me in case you want to book a call but besides that make the
smart choices right this isn't about cutting out your favorite foods completely i'm not the type
of person that never eats pizza that never eats sweets but 95 of the time when i choose the foods
that i eat i'm eating things where i can make the smart choices and where i can upgrade and
the other five percent i just have fun i just let go right i really don't believe that having the
best set of six-pack abs is worth never eating your favorite foods again or i don't believe
that even counting every single calorie you put in your mouth is worth never enjoying foods again i
think this is really a game all about balance and longevity because if you actually enjoy it you're
going to be able to sustain it so that being said i'm curious which one of these five ingredients
stands out the most to you let me know in the comments and of course make sure to subscribe
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