i'm convinced that in North America we're using a drug deficiency health care system
meaning that the only reason we don't feel good is because we haven't taken
the right drug i feel like this because when i have a headache right away someone offers me
aspirin acetaminophen ibuprofen if i have a cold right away someone offers me a cough suppressant
or a medicated lozenge if i'm not feeling well in any way i'm encouraged to go to the doctor
where i'm going to tell the doctor my list of symptoms and the doctor is going to offer me
some kind of medication to clear up my symptoms and if you're obese clearly there's going to be
a prescription that your doctor can give you to manage your weight i know i was astounded
to learn that there's actually medication that the doctor is going to prescribe to help people
to manage their weight now to be fair i haven't done a lot of research into how these medications
work i have a little bit of an idea but the one question that came to my mind is doesn't taking a
medication for my weight imply that i will have to take that medication forever luckily before
you get to the step of medication doctors will ask you to lose the weight by modifying your diet and
your exercise so i went online to see what kind of information i could find i went to the mayo clinic
website because that's a reputable source to find out what are they telling people to help them
in this not just a journey but this struggle to get their weight under control so on the website
the first suggestion is eat fewer calories i kind of expected that one
no surprise there but there were four others so let's just dive into the other ones the second
one was make healthier choices and they gave some examples eat fruit and vegetables and whole grains
so wellness words if you've heard me talk about fruit before you know that
fruit causes damage to the liver and helps us to gain fat so their first example of a healthy food
is the food that's going to help you to gain fat the quickest they go on to say eat lean sources of
protein so they give the example of lentils beans and soy lean meat fish if you like it they also
tell you to have heart-healthy oils like canola olive and nut oils so when they say beans lentils
and soy i'm assuming they mean soybeans these are all veg that will give us high carb alongside of
this protein and we know that carbohydrates cause us also to gain weight and have inflammation and
calling canola oil heart healthy is scary to me that they're still advertising canola
oil as something that is safe for humans to consume the third one is feeling full on less
and i was a little bit excited as i started to read this one but then i got disappointed
they suggest that rather than eating desserts candies fats and processed foods which contain
a lot of calories in a very small package you should focus on fruits and vegetables in order
to help you to feel full obviously i have the same concern i had in the first tip which is that
focusing on fruit allows my liver to become fatty and allows me to have health problems that are
much bigger than a little bit of extra weight that i might be carrying i'm also concerned because
they don't tell you what fruit or vegetables are healthy to eat it's just a blanket statement eat
fruits and vegetables bananas mangoes have such high carb count there's so much sugar in them that
they're almost equivalent to eating a chocolate bar so again there's a lot of question marks for
me as to how they're encouraging high carbohydrate foods in a diet that's supposed to help us to lose
weight they're telling you that these foods are going to help you to feel full because of all this
accompanying fiber but in fact even though you might feel full while you're eating the food
most of us who have eaten mangoes and bananas and you know like these foods that are like
watermelon foods that have low calorie counts and are filling in the moment we know that after a few
maybe even an hour or two we feel hungry again so it doesn't actually stop us from having the
hunger pangs it does allow us to eat more food and consume less calories but can we keep in mind
the body doesn't understand calories the body understands carbohydrates
unfortunately what that means for us is that when we eat a lot of carbohydrates
and the body realizes wow that was a lot of sugar that just came into the system
insulin is deployed the body grabs all that sugar and stores it away as fat so the very food that
i'm trying to eat to lose weight then helps me to gain weight the fourth one i actually did like
because it's talking about restricting certain foods and although they encouraged me to talk
to my doctor about whether i should restrict fat or carbohydrates they did suggest that across the
board we could all eliminate sweet drinks to have less calories in our diet which i do think was a
great idea and they also did mention that when we drink sweet drinks we don't realize how many
calories we're actually in taking because sweet drinks are easy to consume and the fifth one
was meal replacements i like this one too because they made sure to point out that even though meal
replacements might help you to lose weight because what you're doing is you're eating a bar or a
shake instead of a meal and of course it has less calories again that idea they cautioned you to
understand that by using meal replacements you're not learning to change your eating habits you're
not learning to adjust your foods you're not learning to increase your activity you're not
doing anything that will allow you to lose keep the weight off long term without these meal
replacements and so their caution was that you'll then have to eat these meal replacements for the
rest of your life to maintain any gains that you possibly have gotten when these suggestions
fail because what they're really doing is they're ignoring the fact that you're overweight because
you're overeating carbohydrates and all of these suggestions point you towards eating carbohydrates
then eventually if you keep gaining weight you will at some point be 27 bmi
now if you're 27 bmi with medical issues you qualify for weight loss drugs if you're
27 28 29 with no medical issues you don't but when you hit 30 bmi with no medical issues you now
qualify for weight loss drugs here's the problem weight loss drugs just like meal replacements
bypass your ability to learn why the foods that you're eating are causing your weight gain to
learn to modify your habits your cooking the foods you choose weight loss drugs do not help you to
engage in the action of improving your health actively it's a passive take this pill magically
i lose weight that is a huge problem because now it means that you would have to take these pills
forever and some of them cannot be taken forever these medications that block my appetite
or block my body from absorbing the food although they're allowing me to lose the
weight they're still allowing me to eat the wrong foods one problem that i see with this
wellness warriors is that i'm one of those people that when i'm extremely upset and stressed and
anxious i can't eat and what was the one thing that i used to do back then when i
used to get all stressed out to make sure that i ate something is i would eat fun junky foods
because the fun of it allowed me to eat it even though i wasn't hungry because i was so stressed
pizza and chocolate were the thing i could get down but they were also the thing that ruined
my health rather than suppress your appetite or block your body from getting those nutrients
while continuing to eat junky carbage let food be thy medicine because in fact if you eat foods that
are lower in carb and therefore do not trigger such a high release of insulin which starts your
body storing fat you will lose weight what are those foods they are low carb foods and
healthy protein sources and the fat that comes along with those healthy protein
sources when i started eating keto four years ago it was to solve my sore hip i had no idea that
i was going to lose 70 pounds i lost the weight because i actually stopped eating all those sugars
that were causing my pain but also causing my body to store fat away every single day unnecessarily
because i didn't need more fat storage if you want to know more about that story you can check the
video that i'm going to link here my body wasn't fat because i was lazy i was constantly doing all
kinds of activities rollerblading long boarding bike riding snowboarding tubing i had a child
and we were out every day doing some activity together i had to keep up with her i wasn't
overweight because i was eating mountains of food as a matter of fact a lot of the time i
was eating stupid little pre-portioned frozen meals i was overweight because the foods that i
was eating were high in sugar carbohydrate starch three words that all come out to the same thing
eating less carb allowed me to solve my inflammation solve my weight problem
have more energy sleep better think clearer and realize that the foods that i eat are my choice
i no longer feel compelled to eat pizza chocolate or any other garbage food
i eat healthy because i love the way that eating healthy makes me feel if you want to feel as
great as i do i suggest you make some changes to your diet click the video on the screen right
here i'm going to meet you over there and we'll talk about how you can change your diet today