What if I told you diets that make you miserable were a thing of the past?
What if you could enjoy your favorite carbs, proteins, and fats and still achieve your body goals? In our latest episode, we confront the common misconceptions about traditional diets, and why they often lead to frustration rather than success.
We propose a fresh approach to eating that involves savoring the food you genuinely love, in the correct proportions, and making manageable sacrifices.
Plus, we're ready to share some clever hacks to find your perfect, delicious, and healthy food options.
We dig into the significance of intentional dietary choices and the formation of new habits that can help sculpt your body to its ideal weight. Embrace our distinctive dietary methodology: mindful eating, replacing junk food with healthier alternatives, and eating in the right proportions.
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https://blog.dirobi.com
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None of the information in this podcast should be construed as dispensing medical advice.
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
What if I told you diets that make you miserable were a thing of the past?
What if you could enjoy your favorite carbs, proteins, and fats and still achieve your body goals? In our latest episode, we confront the common misconceptions about traditional diets, and why they often lead to frustration rather than success.
We propose a fresh approach to eating that involves savoring the food you genuinely love, in the correct proportions, and making manageable sacrifices.
Plus, we're ready to share some clever hacks to find your perfect, delicious, and healthy food options.
We dig into the significance of intentional dietary choices and the formation of new habits that can help sculpt your body to its ideal weight. Embrace our distinctive dietary methodology: mindful eating, replacing junk food with healthier alternatives, and eating in the right proportions.
Find episode links, notes and artwork at:
https://blog.dirobi.com
This show is for informational purposes only.
None of the information in this podcast should be construed as dispensing medical advice.
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Welcome to the Dirobi Health Show. You ever wonder why most diets don't work and literally I mean most. I don't know if you know the stats, but the vast majority upwards of 80% of people who go on a diet can succeed in losing weight. Many do lose weight. However, the vast majority put it right back on. Why is that? Well, there's a variety of reasons and there are a variety of factors that all are important, but I think a really, really big one that's worth talking about is that traditional diets require you to eat in a way that's completely different from your normal routine. Once the diet ends, it's back to the old habits and often the weight returns. This is not that complex.
Dave Sherwin:The problem with diets is they're outcome based, not behavior based. So you may hit your weight goal, but you've been doing something that's not sustainable. Either those fancy shakes, or you paid someone a bunch of money for some sort of program, some special foods that you're not going to eat. As a matter of fact, ask yourself this question as you think back to some of the diets that you've done recently Did you buy stuff to eat or drink that you will continue to eat in 10 years? Will you still be eating or drinking that food in 10 years? If the answer is no, my contention is that is not a good diet, and worse when that period is over. Chances are it wasn't even delicious food or shakes or whatever. So you had to make sacrifices. You sacrificed to do the diet, you lost some weight, put it all back on and all you did is have a temporary period of life where you probably spent too much money on your nutrition and ate food you didn't really like. So I am strongly for this concept of finding delicious carbs, fats and proteins that you love, eat them in the right ratios and the right amount, so that when you go on this diet, yes, you're going to make some small sacrifices, but not with the food and not with the drink. Okay.
Dave Sherwin:So here's how this works. Most people eat too many of the wrong kinds of carbs, not enough of the right types of protein and too many unhealthy fats. This is the cause, nutritionally, for the vast majority of weight gain. In addition, most weight is gained during the winter season, in North America and first world countries at least. So what happens is for many, many people, even if they're relatively healthy, there's a certain cycle where, let's say, they were fit and healthy and at their ideal body weight till approximately age 20. Oftentimes they will gain about two pounds a year, most of them in the winter, and not lose it. Two times 20 is 40, hence 40 pounds overweight at the age of 40. This story is incredibly common, and so all we're trying to do is really combat that. For most people people that kind of fit that criteria okay. So we want to do is kind of get back to those healthier habits that we had in the beginning and lose that 40 pounds.
Dave Sherwin:So, first of all, using our nine perfect meals concept is a great place to start, because simplicity helps. Right, if things are complex, we tend to not do them. They're difficult. Complexity Gives us analysis by paralysis, by analysis where there's just too much to think about. So simplifying down to a few meals based on healthy carbs we love, healthy proteins we love, and healthy fats that we enjoy. Then eat just two to three meals a day with protein the size of your palm, the starchy carbs the size of your closed fist and a side of low calorie vegetables.
Dave Sherwin:But the key is that you're going to be really intentional about each food type, making sure it's something you love. For example, I don't love salads and I finally realized I don't have to eat them and I don't have to feel guilty not getting the side salad at a restaurant or With my wife when she's made lunch and I've just decided I'm going to eat vegetables the way I like them. For example, I love roasted veggies. I can mix up a couple of plates, a couple sheets, I mean, of roasted vegetables, put them in the, put them in the convection oven with a little bit of oil on them, little bit of seasoning, and they're delicious. I just reheat them and voila, I'm getting my vegetables in a way that I enjoy, versus a raw crunchy salad that I just don't like. Now, think about that for yourself. What is your favorite way of getting vegetables? Have you ever been served vegetables in a way that they were just super delicious? Even soups Vegetable soups, you know take out the unhealthy carbs, like maybe you know there could be some enriched flour based pasta in there. You don't put that in there, but there's ways of making really delicious soups that are a fantastic way of getting your veggies, whatever it is for you.
Dave Sherwin:Same as protein. What are your favorite proteins? Well, mine is beef. I like beef. I prefer beef to chicken. I prefer beef to pork. I have found a place locally where I can buy grass fed grass finished meat. I buy in a 50 pound package. I just picked up one the other day, cut exactly how I want it. That, along with a bag of bones for my dog for was $276. That's a little bit over $5 a pound for everything from roasts to the ground beef healthy protein at a reasonable price. That's how I do it. I've now got 50 pounds of meat that's going to last me months for a decent price. If I was to buy the same amount of meat for my local grocery store, it'd be lower quality meat and I would pay more per pound. So that's just one little life hack that I've discovered.
Dave Sherwin:Now for you, if it's chicken, find a way to buy organic chicken locally. If you can locally raised chicken from a farm, that would be fantastic. Or maybe you're vegetarian and so you're finding plant based options. Whatever it is for you, just identify what you really really like in terms of carbs and fat and proteins, and then, when it comes to the starchy vegetables, this is an important part of our meal because it's where we're getting a lot of our energy.
Dave Sherwin:I like bananas, I like avocados, I like potatoes, I like sweet potatoes and I like rice and I try to have those in my house at all times and I don't need much more than that. As a matter of fact, there's some days where I have rice every single day. I buy, as a matter of fact, on Amazon. There's these sticky rice containers that come in a little round thing and you just peel up the side a little bit, you put it in the microwave for a minute and a half, peel off the plastic top. They're absolutely delicious. You purists who think that the microwave is dangerous or whatever, I could argue that with you all day long. It's just heat, it's just energy. But if you are against the microwave, fine, just make rice. Get yourself a rice maker If you like rice. This is the thing.
Dave Sherwin:If you don't like rice, then don't make rice a source of your starchy vegetables. And then, of course, once we portion our plate with a protein, we love the starch that we love we need some low calorie veggies on the side and between the starchy veg veggie and the low calorie veggie, five to nine per day, okay. So it takes a little bit of thinking through, but the key is to identify those ones that you really enjoy, prepared the way that you really enjoy, and then eat them in the ratios of the hand rules that we talk about. Where the protein is, about the size of your palm. If you make a fist, your starchy veg should be no bigger than that. For example, if you're having two potatoes a meal, that's too much, just do one and then on the side you can kind of have about as much as you want of the low calorie veggies, whether that's a salad or whatever choice that you've made for your low calorie veggies to fill up the veggies to the five to nine per day. So you're going to get three servings of starchy vegetables per day in this. Okay, if you're having three meals, if you want to pour gas on the fire of weight loss, just have two meals per day portioned out the way that I just described.
Dave Sherwin:You might be thinking that's not enough food. Well, it is called a diet, right? So we are having to eat less food. There's no way to lose weight without creating a caloric deficit. But the life hack here is to eat all our food very, very slowly and mindfully, because when we do, we chew it to the consistency of apple sauce. We take longer to eat. The ghrelin in our stomach that determines that we're full has a chance to work properly when we scarf down food. The signals to our brain that we're full are delayed, so we may have eaten too much before we feel full. This is why we feel gassy and bloated sometimes after eating too much food. Eating slowly and mindfully overcomes that. Not only that, we'll feel more satiated. So I hope this is making sense to you.
Dave Sherwin:Eat slowly and mindfully. Cut back on condiments and sauces. Again, we're choosing delicious sources of food. Well, food tastes good all by itself when you have a protein that you love, a carb that you love, oils that you love. They have a wonderful taste all by themselves. But we've tended to smother them in sauces and condiments, which just is adding unnecessary calories for our food. So ideally, what we want to do is flavor these foods minimally. Just cut back slowly if you've kind of been overindulging in these things. But ideally, if you have just a little bit of sauce or just a little bit of flavoring, you'll find that you can really enjoy the food if you just get back to the basics of eating this food mindfully and enjoying the natural taste that it already has.
Dave Sherwin:In addition, if you do the other factors that we know are good lifestyle factors for health, like you know. Taking the right supplements, stopping eating after dinner, prioritizing sleep all these other things we talk about in the Derobi undiet these are some of the simple tricks of the trade that will support your healthy eating and you will lose weight quickly. Exercising every day, even if it's light all these little things support your new healthy eating habit. Each meal is something you look forward to, unlike the traditional diet where you're like, oh, I have to eat this way, but it's worth it because I'm going to lose weight. No, that's not going to work. If meals aren't delicious, no one is going to enjoy them long term.
Dave Sherwin:And what's happening is, when you eat this way and you do it in a diet format, meaning you don't drink calories, you eliminate some of the other healthy habits from your life. You don't eat treats right. That's what makes it a diet in this world. However, once you've lost the weight, you can keep eating this way. You can just eat a little bit more. You can add back in a couple of treats a week, ideally, just, you know, a few. We eat too much sugar, let's face it, in our country. But once you start eating these delicious meals, you feel more satiated, you feel better, you look forward to your meals and it's easier to cut way back on treats so that you don't regain the weight. So these principles have worked for thousands of people.
Dave Sherwin:I've been doing this since 2009. We've got so many testimonials of people that have eaten this way, taken our supplements and had tremendous success. If you want more on this subject, I did just create a new guide that I'm quite excited about. That has a lot more detail than I just shared. It's called how to lose 10 pounds in 10 days. You'll find that at dyrobecom and that's free. Just go ahead and grab that and that'll help you out with your quest and otherwise. I hope this is making sense to you guys and that you can kind of make these shifts about just eating a little bit more intentionally, shopping for foods you actually love, spending the quality time to determine what proteins, carbs and fats you really enjoy, getting rid of some of the junk that might be in your pantry, replacing it with these great foods you like, and then eating this way and these proportions so that you lose weight, enjoy your meals and are establishing new habits that you can do long term once you reach your ideal body weight. I hope you enjoy this podcast episode. Please share it with a friend if you did, and, as always, use the code podcast 10 to save 10% off of any supplements at dyrobecom.
Dave Sherwin:Pounds and inches drops is a perfect supplement to aid in this whole dietary methodology that I just talked about. If you've got enough money for it, I also highly recommend a multi minerals and omegas. That is just a perfect set right there. If you had the pounds and inches drops, the pure form omegas, mimi's Miracle Multi and Mimi's Miracle Minerals and you took those every day, it would fill in nutritional deficiencies, give you energy. It would help with cholesterol, with blood sugar management. It would perfectly help with eating this way that we describe and helping you lose that weight. So again, this is Dave Sherwin wishing you health and success.