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hey guys dr. Berg here in this video I want to  talk about the three extremely stupid weight loss  

tips okay number one is the eat less calorie tip  that everyone is pushing out there first of all  

you know one of things that you’ll be told is  that one pound of fat equals 3500 calories right  

so if you just eat 500 calories less per day at  the end of week you’ll lose a pound right sounds  

good and theory but what they’re not factoring in  is what the hormone system does to those calories  

not all calories are treated the same fat has the  most calories but it has the least effect on the  

negative hormones so let’s just take insulin  for example in the presence of insulin you’re  

not going to lose weight I’m sorry it’s just  not going to happen well fat is almost neutral  

but carbohydrates really spike that insulin so  the point is it really depends on what calories  

you’re talking about it sounds good in theory but  in actual fact it doesn’t really work okay all  

right number two everything in moderation this is  another piece of bad information bad tip because  

you don’t you know you like it for you to consume  a little bit of junk food in moderation here’s the  

day here’s the true data did all it takes is a  little bit of junk a little bit of sugar to pump  

you out of fat-burning for at least 48 to 72 hours  especially if your metabolism is slow and this is  

what people don’t realize is just they’re thinking  the calorie model they’re not looking at hormonal  

e what’s happening to those calories this this  advice allowing people to consume alcohol to lose  

weight it’s not good advice like I think even in  that some of the USDA food pyramid recommendations  

they say you women can drink one glass of alcohol  per day men can drink two glasses of alcohol per  

day and that’s really under the weight loss  that’s bad information they’re saying you can  

have a moderation or a diet that you might see  that oh yeah our diet works because we let you  

eat the food that you really need to enjoy but  in less amounts still that doesn’t work it’s bad  

advice okay so you want to consume certain things  in large quantities and other things in very small  

quantities or zero quantities specifically sugar  you don’t want it any sugar in the diet now number  

three your metabolism is slow because you’re  not eating enough that’s the stupidest a tip  

that I’ve ever heard in my life because if you’re  not eating because you’re not hungry and you start  

eating what’s going to happen is you’re going to  spike insulin okay insulin is going to take that  

food and that sugar or that you know store the  glucose whatever is going to take it out of the  

blood and it’s going to drop your blood sugars  now you can end up with low blood sugars guess  

what you’re going to be hungry your metabolism is  not going to increase there’s going to decrease  

because you spike insulin so now you’re going  to eat again and now you’re going to spike it  

up now you’re actually hungry all the time  so eating promotes more eating okay eating  

promotes more insulin so the rule of thumb is  you never want to eat if you’re not hungry okay  

so it’s not true that your metabolism is slow  because you’re not eating enough that’s false  

information metabolism is slow because you’re  probably eating too frequently or eating the wrong  

thing all right so if also I have a really amazing  quiz in the description box that you can take to  

evaluate the real reason why you might have a  slow metabolism check it out thanks for watching