How to Lose Weight Part 3

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Body Confidence Now

Todays episode gives us an Overiew on the most important food rules for losing weight.

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Hello and welcome to the Empowered Body Method Podcast. And you're still host, Greg Faron, with part three of the How to Lose Weight Guide for professionals, business owners who are tried everything, they've tried everything to lose weight and just don't understand why it's not happening. So in today's episode part three, we're going to talk about nutrition. Now, nutrition is such a nuanced topic that it's confusing, right? It's so confusing because there are so many people out there telling you absolutes and stuff. And I'm going to leave you walking with kind of the three things to understand about nutrition. And then next week, um, in the next episode, we'll talk about a bit more nutrition because I think it's going to be at least a two-parter. So, number one, calories matter. And it's it's really interesting as a man who works with women to help them get in the best shape of their lives. I would say 90, 80 to 90 percent of the women come to me with the first line being, Greg, it's my hormones, I can't lose weight. And normally I can tell within two to three minutes of asking the right questions to see where it's probably not your hormones, it's probably nutrition that's going wrong. And I think that the word calories and that kind of thing, it carries it a lot of women have some shame around it, some shame, you know, because often you get, well, it's not about calories, I'm not lazy, and all of this kind of stuff. And I get it, but calories are just the way that we measure energies, energy from food. And people will say, Oh, it's archaic, it's this, it's that, but so are meters and miles. But yet you still look at the meters and miles on your car. So here's the thing calories matter, and the big mistake people do make with calories, and this is why you hate calories, is because we've all tried diet strategies that mean super low calorie diets, which then feels like massive restriction, which obviously then leads to binging, giving up, all of that kind of stuff. So the first rule of thumb is not to overnourish and not to undernourish. Okay. If you had a pet, you wouldn't give it too much food and you would give it too little food. So we are mammals just like all others, and it's that we have the same laws that govern us that if we have an excess of energy, calories, coming in, we gain weight. Very simple. Um now I can talk about insulin and all that stuff, but that's not for this episode today. Um, so yeah, if you're eating too much, then you're gonna struggle. Number two, the big one, there are no good and bad foods. I really want you to embrace that, you know, this whole guilt we feel about having a chocolate bar. If you're hitting rule number one in most cases, then you can still lose body fat, i.e., you need to be in a calorie deficit, and you can include all sorts of foods. Number two, as number number three, sorry, you're gonna then need to make sure you hit your protein. On the next episode, I'll talk in a bit more detail about protein and the type of foods you should be eating, etc. etc. Number four, carbs are not the devil. There are plenty of studies, plenty of evidence to suggest that as long as you hit your calories, you can have a high carb, high fat, low fat, high carb, whatever combination you want, and you'll still lose weight. And then the next one after that, really, then is fats. Um, fats are important for hormonal health, they're part of your cells, they do all sorts of things. There again, not to be demonized in a low. If you're around the age that I am, um, you would have been growing up in the low-fat food era. So that's another thing to just be aware of. So there are no good and bad foods, and you want to make sure you have mainly 80 to 90 percent of your calorie intake coming in from single ingredient foods that either grew in the ground, flew in the sky, or swum um in the river or lake or sea, um, or walked on the earth. Okay, so most of your food should come from those foods, and then maybe you know, 10-20% is gonna be new, is gonna be what I call soul food. Soul food is gonna be, you know, some chocolates and donuts. You know, when this episode goes out, we would have just had Thanksgiving for my US of A listeners, and yeah, you're gonna have some nice stuff, it's gonna happen. But if you're gonna if you're on a journey to lose body fat, you gotta hit your calories, as simple as that. Now, I am going to be hosting a masterclass very shortly. Um, and I will put the notes, I will put the link to that masterclass. It's called Body Confidence Now, and it's gonna be three things you need to get body confidence now, very simple. Um, it's gonna be about an hour and a half sometime in the first week of December. I will put the link for you to sign up in the show notes of this podcast, and I'd love to see you there. And then in part four, we're gonna talk about how to make sure your meals are um correct, how to stay on track, um, how to eat the right foods that help you get leaner, meaner, whatever you want. So that's it for today's episode. Calories matter and look out for the link to my next masterclass. Talk soon. Bye for now.