Why Having a Weight Loss Goal Is A Bad Idea? – Dr. Berg | DrEricBergDC

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hey I’m back and I wanted to do a video

on a very important topic for those

people that are struggling losing weight

okay that are frustrated especially if

you’re menopausal okay so your weight

loss school is actually setting you up

for failure

let me explain now there’s several

concepts that I’m going to cover so make

notes if you want the first concept I

want to talk about is the difference

between muscle and fat okay if we take

one pound of muscle and we compare it to

one pound of fat with fat you have more

volume than muscle ok so fat takes up

more space in your body got it muscle

takes up smaller space so that’s the

first concept just remember that alright

second concept overweight people have

less muscle than fat all right concept

number two now when you start a keto and

in a minute fasting program and by the

way if you don’t know what that means

pause the video go down below and watch

the videos that I have linked down there

so you can understand what I’m talking

about because this program won’t solve

this issue that you’re running into this

stubborn weight metabolism issue but

here’s the point when you start keto in

a minute fasting what’s gonna happen

you’re gonna get in the fat burning okay

so you’re gonna lose fat but you’re also

going to increase muscle why because

you’re gonna trigger certain hormones

that will build the muscle okay so we

got two things going on we have a loss

of fat increased muscle and a loss of

water weight that is because we’re

switching our body to fat-burning and

we’re no longer running our body on this

stored glucose it’s called glycogen and

glycogen is like a sponge it’s like a

water-filled fluid-filled sponge so

we’re not doing that anymore so you’re

gonna lose a lot of water weight in fact

when most people start any program they

lose water weight for one to two weeks

and when you see these claims that

people will tell you like you can

use five pounds in the first week or ten

pounds in the first week that’s only for

the first week in the second week but

after that you’re not going to continue

to do that so anyone that says that is

telling you a lie because the most

actual fat you can lose per week is two

pounds and that’s a real healthy body

okay all right so that’s another concept

that you need to understand the next

concept when you start this program and

you’re losing fat and you’re gaining

muscle you may or may not lose actual

overall weight why not because you’re

gaining muscle muscle has some weight

okay so you might plateau for a week or

so that doesn’t mean it’s not working so

if you only wanted to focus on losing

fat and not gaining muscle then you

would end up thinner but flabby with

loss of tone loss of muscle tone and

weakness is that what you want no I

don’t think so

you want a strong body okay so when you

start to do this program you’re gonna

gain muscle so you may or may not lose

actual pounds now you also may or may

not lose inches most the time you will

but there’s a point where you’re gonna

plateau because you’re gaining muscle

again so if your muscle is getting

bigger

you’re not going to continue to lose

inches you’re just going to lose the fat

does that make sense so what I’m

basically saying is when you lose weight

it’s not going to be consistent it’s not

going to be one or two pounds a week one

or two pounds a week one or two pounds a

week simply because we’re not just

talking about fat we’re talking about

this muscle right here okay

and that’s what you want you want to

actually develop your muscles you want

it to be strong you don’t want loss of

muscle tone that’s called atrophy so

many people have it especially if

they’re going through menopause okay now

the next concept the more muscle that

you do develop the better the metabolism

it is true that more muscles will help

increase calorie burning so that’s a

concept that it’s true

because it’s more metabolic but here’s

the confusion that people have if the

muscle is burning more calories

what type of calories is it burning is

it burning actual fat calories or is it

burning actual sugar calories and this

is where people that are doing a higher

carbohydrate diet are really frustrated

because they’re just burning up their

sugar calories they’re exercising at the

gym developing more muscles and then

burning more calories but they’re

burning off their sugar calories but no

actual fat so what we want to do is we

want to switch this better metabolic

machine that you’re developing more

muscle to to mainly burn off fat

calories okay what determines what you

burn is the amount of carbohydrates in

the diet that’s all explained in the

keto program down below okay so if you

cut your carbs down then your body will

be forced to burn fat and it won’t burn

sugar anymore okay so anyway the cool

thing is that when you build more

muscles you have a better metabolism

okay now the last concept hormonal II

the difference between men and women are

really two different hormones women have

way more estrogen than men and men have

way more testosterone than women

estrogen gives the fat layer around a

female body that’s why women have a

different composition than men okay and

this is why your husband your boyfriend

tends to lose weight faster because

they’re not dealing with this estrogen

problem right here now I know it’s

frustrating but my only point is that

the better you understand what you’re up

against the less frustrated you will be

but basically it’s really the estrogen

that’s slowing things down okay so

here’s what I would recommend weight

loss school you can have weight loss

school but don’t make that as your main

goal have several goals have an inches

loss goal a weight loss goal a health

goal a muscle goal of making you

stronger so over time you should be able

to do more

more and more with your body and having

stronger muscles so those are the three

goals that I would recommend in addition

to just having more energy better sleep

etc because my philosophy is not lose

weight to get healthy it’s to get

healthy to be able to lose to weight

make sense alright thanks for watching

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