How To Lose Fat Easily Without Counting Calories
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0:00 Feeling icky
4:23 Obsessed with the number
8:25 Work around
12:28 Consistency & Positivity
16:00 Celebrate victories
17:18 Is trackig better? - กีฬา
Perfect timing. It had been 18 hours since the last RP video so I was about to go on a hunger strike.
You should cuz we dieting
My soul brotha lol
I only eat during new uploads. The Algorithmic diet.
Same here brotha 🫡
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I have a piece of 12x12 plywood in my bathroom that I wrote "FAT" on it. Every morning I stand on it to see how I'm progressing.
Lol iconic comment
Holy shit 😂
You mean "Phat"
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My note with the last 4 years of weigh-ins is titled "Fatty." Whether I'm on a bulk or a cut, it's always accurate.
My wife had a weight number fixation, and by having her change the scale to kilograms, it *completely* changed her outlook. Now she was no longer fixated on some number, because as an American she had this Freedom unit lb number burnt into her brain by 17 magazine or cozmo or whatever, but by just switching from pounds to kilograms, she was able to just be like "okay, I'm trying to lose 250 g every 5 days" or whatever, and the number on the scale wasn't really a goal she was shooting for anymore. She started finally just looking for momentum until she looked the way she liked.
Small tip, may work for some people that have number fixations to switch to a different measurement system
The rest of the world welcomes you to the sense system, Brother 💪🏻
May try this
That's one good reason to get off the medieval system.
I actually did this on my bench- Partly by accident, but not knowing the exact weights I used to lift with made me properly reset my expectations and now I enjoy going on my calculator dozens of times a session 😝
I also switched to kg (although I can easily do the conversion in my head), I like that I just look at 2 digits and then the minor fluctuations are ignored (e.g. 85kg could be 85.0 or 85.9, which is a couple lbs margin)
I’m from a psychology background. I have always thought the psychology of losing weight is 100X harder than the actual science or method. Losing weight is easy. Overcoming the mind games of losing weight is almost all of the actual work. I didn’t lose weight until I spent real time trying to understand my emotional issues around food and weight first. Took me a year. Once I got the crap out of the way, it was pretty easy.
Yeah, and it's not even necessarily limited to the psychology of the individual actually doing the diet. If you have a partner who doesn't understand how everything works and wants you to give up or thinks you messed up just because your body is holding on to extra water it's worse.
@@sevionmelidan1682 Yes, totally true. Thankfully I have a supportive partner. What you’re talking about is a second psychological minefield all by itself.
1000%. The idea of willpower is outdated, the more we understand what makes us tick, the more we can make ourselves 'tick' in the right direction
@@dangallagher6176 Willpower exists, it’s just an incredibly finite resource. You can’t use it to keep up a diet for long periods of time. It burns out. You use it to for building habits or thought patterns you can leverage into new systems, expecting it to get used up fast. But yes, the old fashioned idea about how it works is terrible. People who tell others to just use willpower already had something about their personal context which meant they didn’t need willpower to get results-something else made it easy or provided the energy.
As someone who doesn't really struggle with weight loss and never had big emotional issues around weight, I would agree. To me, losing weight is pretty easy. I follow a calorie deficit, and yeah I get a bit hungry, sometimes I get impatient about results, but ultimately it's no big deal, I can mostly stick to the diet and get results over a few weeks or months. But I see so many other people really struggle with dieting. But why is it hard for them? It's certainly not that complicated: Eat a bit less than normal, and tolerate some hunger while you keep doing that. It's not the most fun, but it's so simple. Maybe some part of the problem is fad diets confusing people about what actually causes weight loss, but I think the bigger problem is with the psychological issues, which some people have way more of than others.
Mike pretending he didn't want to read his sisters teen girls magazines... yeah right, dude was waiting by the mailbox for them each month
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I read them a couple of times. One had a section where teenagers could ask a doctor questions. One question was "can I get pregnant from swallowing" and mfer replied "no, just make sure you swallow a condom"
Dude 😂😂😂
One of my exes told me he read his sisters to get better segg advice lmao
This was pre-internet days.... he didn't *read* them exactly
This is exactly what I needed. I cannot keep up with religiously tracking my calories. It makes me too food obsessed and I feel like I can't live my own life.
keto/carnivore if U wanna lose fat and be healthy. Don't know why they pushing any other diet s.
@@mhead81 because the overwhelming body of scientific literature and the real world experience of tens of thousands of competent Bodybuilders, Athletes, Fitness Models, PT's, Nutritionists and Dietitians for decades suggests people can get great results while eating SHOCK! HORROR! Rice and Broccoli along side their Chicken Breast. Wild I know.
@@mhead81because any diet that creates a calorie deficit works.. carbs and plants aren’t evil. This is coming from a guy who eats 1.5-2 lbs of meat a day.
@@mhead81keto isn’t sustainable for the rest of your life imo. So if u lose a lot of weight on keto you havent learned how to eat balanced including all food groups and are bound to returning to your old eating habits after the diet.
@@mhead81 keto is indeed great for fat loss, but eating carbs with protein is superior for muscle growth, which is generally better for long term health and even weight loss (if you're putting in the work for muscle growth). So yes keto is imo the gold standard for actually just burning fat and losing weight, but if you want to gain a bunch of muscle and tone up, eating carbs will be much more efficient and effective (and you'll likely feel a lot better and happier).
You’re a good dude. Aside from all the jokes and lightheartedness in your videos you always show an incredible amount empathy and understanding of what you’re talking about
Fun fact my PhD supervisor (rest in peace Steve) was originally a journalist before retraining as a scientist. He worked at teen magazines (they just have a couple of guys that write all the same group of interest magazines saves on cost). All of the quizzes, reader questions and articles were made up by a bunch of middle aged guys.... the more you know!!!
Bet the weight of celebrities was too.
So few comments on this … 😂 cus y’all dudes would have to admit… nevermind 😅😂
You don’t surprise me 😅. I’ve heard it’s the same for s** lines. Ugly people or grannies sounding breathy and young on the other end of the line. 😬😅😅😅.
"unless it's Orlando Bloom from Lord of the Rings" Doc truly embracing the Gimli memes
Thanks Dr. Mike, for understanding us 1.5 females in a way that 17 magazine never could!
I still remember reading drew Barrymore was 5’4” and 120 lbs. you’re spot on about that affecting young girls.
And she’s a retard
As far as dieting without counting, somone once told me:
Think of hunger as a scale from 1 to 10.
1 being hunger pains, dying from hunger, and 10 being loosening your belt and feeling sick that your so full.
If you can keep your hunger at a 7, your golden.
Stacey is my favorite character Dr Mike ever plays 😂
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Watching a Dr. Mike video is like watching a combo SNL/Mad Magazine skit. You just don't know how it's going to turn out. I like his Stacey character sooooooo muchhhhh!
I’m more of a Kelsey - “The Android Girl” typa guy.
Dr Mikes valley girl accent is wild 😂. WTF
That got me rollin 😂😂😂😂😂😂
That got me acting up
Came out of nowhere with that side story. I needed the break from the edumacating.
Did you make this video for me specifically? You made this for me specifically.
When the switch flipped for me and my head got in the right space I just started with portion control, cut out the beers, and started one of Dr Mike's dumbbell routines. It all started to gel about 4 weeks in for me. I'm a little past the two month mark and clocking about 224lb down from 255lb. I listen to the good doctor in the background while getting work done and tweak my workout based on what I learn that fits me and my goals. To make it more crazy I'm 47, have broken my back within 3 years, have an unrelated L1 compression fracture, an ileostomy going on a decade, and yes my GP and all of my specialists are on board with what I am doing. If my old beat-to-crap ass can do this, you can to my friends.
Mike is the perfect example of not judging a ripped guy by his cover. I think a lot of people might look at Mike and first assume he's just a meathead, but once he starts talking it's obvious he has genius intellect. He also looks like he'd be super stern and drill sergeant-like, when he's actually one of the funniest people I've ever seen anywhere, not just the fitness sphere
Props for calling out the lack of icons as a contributing factor to problematic beliefs a person may have about themselves.
Personally, another reason tracking all of this can feel "icky" is because it can kind of feel like you're treating yourself like a computer or a robot and food as simply a resource, which can feel inhumane and kind of like a disservice. A lot of people treat food as something that brings people together, something that has a lot of nostalgia and emotion and connection tied to it, so tracking and aligning yourself with statistics around nutrients can feel like a threat to that.
"We don`t need perfection, we need consistency!" That´s the key. Awesome, great video.
Counting calories has been my most consistent means of losing fat. I don't track most of my macros, just calories and protein.
It can be quite tedious and especially difficult if you want to eat out occasionally so I understand why it's not something others are keen on.
Same, Only calories & protein, currently 4 weeks in on a 12 week cut. But on a bulk I only count protein.
@@dadfatherfigure372 nice good job.
I'm regularly shocked how calorific meals are when eating out. Seems like most meals are 800-1300 calories here in the UK, and very easy to eat. I imagine it's even more in the US
@@dangallagher6176 pretty much yea. American food portions are a bit nuts compared to the rest of the world.
Cool video doc, and good timing.
My partner recently decided to lose weight. Previously she tried fads (to my annoyance) and she could do it. It was always temporary. Over years she has steadily gained weight. Nothing extreme, but recently she was quite upset by it. She was upset by the weight also!
Tracking macros is off the cards. She actually is too busy, and it's an unnecessary hurdle.
I started her off with breakfast. I made her two types of breakfast. Finely balanced, nutritious and filling. She snapped it up, and after a month, it was the absolute standard. A habit she doesn't even have to think about. The best part? She is less hungry throughout the day, and no longer snacks in the evening and afternoon. Bonus: she was losing (on average, scales didn't really appear until recently) 1lb a week, by eating a hearty breakfast!
So, she mentions food again, talking about weight loss. Next step, lunch. To be fair, I only discussed options with her, and she came up with some easy lunch ideas that both feed her, and maintain her hunger levels. She did it herself. After a couple of weeks, and up until recently she was dropping 1.5 to 2lb a week. She hasn't been hungry, eating solid meals. Losing weight.
Now she has seen that she can in actual fact control her bodyweight, she has been bolting on other things. Everything is sugar free - easy win. She doesn't touch alcohol or wine at all in the week, has a glass or two on the weekend or events - easy win.
The biggest thing I saw, was that she adopted a mindset of small but long term changes. Changes that will last a lifetime, and be easy. New habits. Not drinking low calorie soup as lunch and dinner for weeks on a time.
I actually put it down to one of your videos that you posted at the beginning of the year, where you basically slammed "new year new me" and resolutions. You warned heavily against dramatic sudden changes, or excessive amounts of change. So I bided my time, then paraphrased your video (mainly by removing the stuff that would offend her or weird her out).
Not sure where this is going, but thanks Mike 👍
Man it-'s easy to get obsessive with calorie counting especially if you've ever had eating disorders.😢It's like a trauma that comes back when you have to rely on numbers instead of your hunger cues
The dieting videos are my favorite amongst the RP content. The nutrition series is some of the best diet content on youtube imo
thanks Dr. Mike for being so understanding on this topic. People who haven't had to undo years of bad habits and rebuild their relationship with food/themselves don't understand the struggle of it all. As someone who has lost 80+ lbs, I really hate the "negative reinforcement" people put on themselves or onto others. Calling yourself/someone a "fat slob" or "fat piece of shit" is 1) cringe, have some (self) respect and 2) builds a terrible relationship with food/ skews healthy habits. Positivity is possibly the best thing you can do to lose weight. In my experience, it made me feel like i could finally climb out of the hell I had made for myself and gave me the confidence to persist. It made me want to eat healthier so I could improve my lifts/runs. It no longer felt like an endless cycle of failure and embarassment.
Anyways great video, love what you do man.
11days left on my 10week weight cut. Using the RP app ! I hit my goal weight today. I’m going to smash my goal , do my photoshoot and enjoy my rewards . Flip to maintenance / clean bulk for the summer and then mini cut again for Christmas vacation.
Thank you RP You are legends
In 2019, I weighed 210-215 lb and I decided it was time to lose it. Getting obsessed with that number was what fueled me. The more I saw it decrease, the harder I worked to see it decrease more. Once I hit about 175-180, I even started running 5 miles every single day. I hate running. But I got down to my goal weight of 150. Then when I stopped running (bc 5 miles/day isn’t exactly sustainable for most people), I had PERPETUAL anxiety that I was going to gain weight. It never went away. I did start to gain weight about a year ago, and the deep wounding i feel when I see the scale now is insane, esp because there’s the added feeling that I “failed.” That plus the fact that I hate running has made getting back in shape some insurmountable goal. The fact that you address this in this video gives me hope again. 😭
Hey I feel you ! I know you can do this ! Sometimes we are asking ourself to do it a way that is not really aligned we what we truly want because we think it’s better and we « should » do this but it’s actually better to find something that we can sustain as you mentionned
Concerning cardio Mike has released a video recently where advise among other things to vary types of cardio in order to make it more enjoyable thus sustainable, I think it could be interesting content for you !
Anyway, wish you the best ! You got this !
Wish you good luck!
Wow. Running to lose weight is pure torture. Running for 1 hour only burns a couple hundred calories at best. Who in their right mind can do that? Walking on the other hand is way more sustainable. Sure. It takes way longer to burn calories compared to running. But I can walk for 8 hours and burn a good chuck of calories whereas no human alive can run for 8 hours.
Try a martial art like bjj or muay that you don't even realize you're doing cardio because it's all so you don't die lol
@@jono601…. Plenty of people run that long
I actually used to have an ED and have been wanting to cut after fully recovering the weight I lost and more without triggering myself, I really appreciate this video. Thank you Dr. Mike!
I track nothing that goes into my mouth, except for keeping a rough mental count on protein to make sure I'm over 150g a day. It's just too tiresome to constantly try to figure out all the nutritional info for all home cooked meals I eat. Instead I weigh myself every single day and log it into excel. That way I can see what the trend line is doing over the last month or two. It's not hard to just adjust my eating accordingly from there. It's not like my calories have to be perfect daily, just good enough over time. I'm currently on a 12-week cut and planned to loose about 400-500g a week. I can do that without counting calories so long as I know my weight. Looking at my spreadsheet right now, it tells me I've lost an average of 541g a week over the last 6 weeks, so I'm a little ahead at the moment, but I know that'll slow down over the next 6 weeks as my body fat goes down. So long as you can accept reality on an ongoing basis, it's not rocket science.
I do the same and it works long run
If I swallowed that many dicks on a daily basis I wouldn't track what comes into my mouth either lol
Very many people cannot accept reality on an ongoing basis.
Exactly the same thing I do, except I weigh myself weekly, every Monday before food. Losing somewhere between 0.3 and 0.7 kg per week, which is very sustainable. Also satisfying to see the trend line go down once you put the data into a chart
@@darkroomxvii cool, whatever works! :) there's two reasons I do it daily; 1) I'm impatient! 2) it smooths out the random weight fluctuations. My weight is fairly consistent, but some days I am kilogram heavier than yesterday and if that was my weekly weigh-in it'd piss me off lol
This hits home so fiercely. I just went through all of this and have struggled my whole life with disordered eating, on and off. Tracking calories makes me slowly descend into terrible mental health and obsessive practices. Thank you for the helpful advice, Dr Mike.
Calories keeping you big as hell.
A.....um... You're not wrong.
Nah. My appetite keeping me big. I can control it by training but when for what ever reason i stop training i instantly turn into a fatblob. Its a give and take but thanks to it im big.
@@Sulamanjansulttaaniyou just proved his point
@@Sulamanjansulttaani I can relate all too well.
These comments gotta stop
Thanks for addressing this topic. I lost 120 pounds strictly from dieting, but picked up a nasty binge-restrict eating disorder along the way that made me gain about 40 of those pounds back. It's something I actively went and seeked treatment for with a therapist for, which helped a lot and I'm still navigating trying to lose not just the weight I regained but a little bit more while knowing I have the freedom to have treats or enjoy meals out without feeling guilty.
I love the way you bake in stories into your videos, pretty much all of them have funny scenarios where the thing you’re talking about plays out
14:30-14:51 is the greatest clip Dr Mike has ever released. 😂😂😂
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frfr this had me in stitches, spot on
yeah this definitely is his all time greatest
Sounds like the fat blonde from big mouth!
Sounded like Bob's Burgers characters
The part where you're counting calories and you're "extra good" made me feel seen. Dr. Mike knows how I be.
Same here, I’ve got myself at 700 cal daily deficit, but I’ve caught myself feeling absolutely awful about myself if I don’t have like 300 or more calories left at the end of the day. I have to make an active effort to tell myself, that hitting that calorie count is okay.
Feel you
@@sebastianblake6119 If it helps I'm in the same boat, I'm already at a 1000 ish calorie deficit but subconsciously don't want to hit my 2000 calories per day so I often fall short.
Here's the thing I learned this month that was HUGE.
It's not sustainable when you're at 1000 calorie deficit, you need every calorie out of that 2000 set for the day.
10 out of 14 days I'll be anywhere up to 200 calories short of the 2000 and I get really hungry, and after a week I have no energy at all and my partner tells me my mood is changing or my energy is low.
Now this is just what works for me so take it with a pinch of salt, but I do and will continue to struggle to hit whatever number of calories I'm allowed per day so my solution is this:
(Maintenance is 3000 calories, goal is 2000 calories)
I actually eat around 1800 per day - that's a weekly deficit of 1400 calories FROM MY 1000 calorie daily deficit, it's not healthy.
To fix this I've added a refeed twice per week where I can have an additional 700 calories and this removes the phycological issue I have of daily calorie targets.
When my brain knows it's a refeed to catch up on calories, there's something about that my brain understands and is okay with.
So I'm 2000 calories daily except twice per week, on any day, where I can have 2700.
This works amazingly well because I can either reintroduce foods I can't currently eat like cereal or toast, because 2000 calories isn't enough to have those foods as snacks whilst eating proper meals, or I can continue as normal but have a REFEED meal, not a cheat meal, there's a difference.
I've been clean eating for 3 months now but yesterday I had a pizza from Papa Johns which I easily fit in to the 2700 calories, it was dinner and then a few slices for breakfast the next day.
Obviously the better answer is - if I'm already at 1000 calorie deficit, which is around the maximum safe/healthy amount for 1-2lbs per week loss, I should be eating 2000 calories per day (for me and my body based on BMR and TDEE).
But because I can't seem to do that these refeed meals level me back out to 2000 calories per day over the week, there's no cheat meals because the calories are accounted for and are a part of my planned deficit.
I hope this helps anyone else who has a similar problem to me, I could set a calorie goal of 3000 per day and I still wouldn't eat it😂 Refeed is definitely the best way I've found to keep me going, keep my hormones in check, mood up, energy levels good. If you think this might be for you, just remember you can't leave too many days between your refeeds because 5 days at 1200 calorie deficit is too long and you will start having mood swings, low energy, you'll stop exercising and all sorts.
2 refeeds works for me, but you may need more - so instead of having two 700 extra calorie days, try 3 days with an extra 466 calories if your energy is too low or your mood is affected.
Good luck everyone!
Mike if you're reading this, thank you for everything you do - and I'd LOVE to hear your opinion on how I'm dealing with this and if it's good advice for those in a similar position to me.
- Luke
I love how approach’s these types of videos from an actual trainers perspective
Second! For my 1st fat loss phase I could only weigh myself 1x a week because the scale impacted my emotions too much. After 8 weeks I was down 5 kg & building muscles. Am now doing maintenance and weighing myself every other day.
Thank you Dr. Mike for the information!
Found this channel this week and have been binging it honestly my new favorite youtuber
I love ya Mike your training advice is the best the internet has ever had
Nice to see you talking about growth mindset with clients
Dr. Mike, before university I was a Jiu Jitsu competitor. Gained a lot of weight sitting at home in 2020 and 2021 and then first year of college, I discovered your channel last year around November and stuck to weight training and dieting, ever since I come back to these videos less for the diet advice itself but more because the psychology aspect you talk about is spot on. It's so reassuring to hear both negative and positive aspects of the psychological stuff you go through in the process and realize you've been through them and is on the right path, thanks for all the good work.
Thanks doc, you’ve helped me lose 75lbs in the last year and a half while putting on some nice muscle
The big change to the fear of stepping on the scale came when i decided not to care about daily weights and only care about the weekly average. So what if i gained 2 pounds one day, so long as my average on sunday is lower than last week, I'm happy.
Managing water weight gain around my cycle is super tough mentally for me. I know it’s water weight and that it will come off but it is so hard in early stages of a diet to see the weight come back after I’ve been cruising along in a down trend for a few weeks. Another thing I struggle with is the ultimate strong/skinny body I want and my current healthy body. I’m pretty lean, but I store fat in my stomach area. Made worse by having 2 kids and some looser skin now. To get to my ideal, I have to be really thin which is hard to maintain. Puts me in a constant diet cycle. Oof. I’m currently just focusing on staying consistent making good choices as I go through my day and believing in myself that I’m worth feeding good food. This shit is real and it’s hard. Thanks Dr. Mike for tackling the tough issues that we all think about on the daily.
Wonderful video with loads of compassion and empathy
This channel grew so damn fast. Been an RP follower since 2018. I think they got over 1 mil followers within 2 years
Dr. Mike you are so good, this is meta-coaching, awesome stuff ❤!
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This video, the info you’re sharing and the mindset (especially toward the end) is sooo timely for me. Thank you soo much!
I absolutely love your narrative style, it's so informative, positive and funny!
This “no tracking” approach worked for me and eventually I did get comfortable with measuring. In the past, getting on the scale was too harsh of a reality check if I knew I had “let myself go”. I didn’t want to know how far I’d gone as that would further demotivate me at the time. The extra effort to track macros, steps, weight, and change your diet can be so overwhelming, especially given you haven’t built up the habits (if you had, you likely wouldn’t be in the position you’re in). The lack of tracking was helpful in getting started with one small change at a time. Eventually, I grew to track macros, steps, and weight but it was when I felt I could handle each thing.
Awesome stuff!
Love this content I’m a 5”8” female in the 215 range. I have dieted all my life have lost and gained over the years. I do train in the gym and eat fairly healthy but the consistency with my eating falls off during the evenings binge eating is my issue. I’m still a work in progress. ❤
Here's hoping you can fix inconsistencies & reach your goals!
Loved this! So many things ring true with me 💪
In my opinion, this is one of your best. Please do more on the psychology aspects!
I’ve lost almost 100lbs from my max. Never wrote down a thing, just kept up with a rough estimate. Cut out all the high calorie processed stuff, got better alternatives, and if I do have them make sure I don’t overdo it.
Yes currently sitting at 101 pounds lost
Respect!!!👍
No, i dont like tracking calories because its so much work and math. Lets say at dinner i take 600g of stew that is made of 5 ingredients. Thats fuck load of math to figure what im eating there. 😬 And if my wife have made that food, how in the hell i can know how much she have used each ingredients to make that food. 🤷
You can estimate, I counted calories for 3 months straight and after a while, estimating gets really easy. Try to figure the ratio of fat vs carbs vs protein in food and use the usual 9,4,4
As a 47yo woman who recently lost 20 lbs following a body building program, I needed this.
My first Dr. Mike video was hilarious….but also very helpful and encouraging. Thank you!
Last April I was drinking at least 14 beers a night and over 300 pounds. Today I'm sober a year and at 190 pounds. I didn't count calories at all.. I did keto keeping under 30 grams of carbs a day and lift 3 times a week and do moderate cardio like walking. This channel helped me a lot, I appreciate you, the information given helped me change my life.
I have lost 10 pounds over this last two weeks. All I have done is cut the carbs to no more than 50 grams daily, and increased my daily walks. Still eating plenty of meat protein and I am not counting caleries. Basically cut out Potatoes and Breads and Sweets. I have had to cut back on some of my weight training because of Tendinitis . So this is a good time to walk and cut back on the foods. 60 years of age and starting weight was 270 now today 260 and feeling great.Target weight 225.
Thank you dr. New plan that I'm going to work with my clients.
You did great with this video! So smart, gentle, and makes perfect sense. I love this approach and honest view of what actually matters! ❤well done and well said!!
Scott the video guy needs to do a super cut starting with Dr Mike saying he's not into guys followed by clips all the guys Dr Mike has drooled over on the channel. 😂
I was at 173 for like 3 weeks in a row weighing in every day. Trusted the process and pretty much overnight dropped to 170.5
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Pooping is wild, yo
@@LukePighetti I always thought my poops looked so small compared to how much I ate throughout the day
@LukePighetti and it wasn't really overnight but like 2-3 days.
But I agree. My morning poops are an adventute
I still weigh the same but my clothes fit better my waist and arms got smaller. My legs and butt got tighter which I wanted I don’t focus on the scale
@@Bunny11344 nice!
i've been having convos with my coworkers recently about diet and exercise and this is exactly what they're concerned about
Great information!!! Thank you !! Right on time
I'm 5'3 and I was 165lbs when I had fat rolls, saggy arse and a double chin. Im now 175lbs....but with a small waist, glutes and boulder shoulders.. Ive learnt to ignore the scales 💪
5'3 175 puts you at a BMI of over 30 which is classified as obese. I find it extremely hard to believe that you're carrying enough muscle to reach that BMI..
BMI is not an accurate measurement for muscular people. Most bodybuilders would come at an overweight or obese number. Hip to waist ratio is a better measure.
Yes!!!!!! Exactly this. It’s a little weird at first but you get over it.
@mattwakeman6167 Yep, that is what my BMI says, which is wild.. pictures of me before, I look like a right fatty but now I have defined legs, back, shoulders etc... I don't know how it works. I'm obviously not 5% body fat or anything, definitely have some stubborn fat on my arms and hips but I have visible muscles everywhere else. I workout hard (2hrs, 5 days a week) and I'm getting pretty strong... I can rep out clean pull ups (as a nearly 80kg lass, I don't think is too bad). So my point was I don't care what the scales say as I look 20x better and feel better 10lbs heavier
Get it girl! I also gained 10 lbs by lifting and ended up looking a lot better! BMI doesn't account for muscle or overall hotness lol.
Stacey is a funny bit. Also, I hear Stacey's Mom has got it going on.
I've also heard this curious fact 😂
It might be wrong, I know... but I'm in love with her.
amazing video!! Good empathy and understanding. Respect man
Such a good video, you explained it very well!
how do i loose weight? coffee. gonna have lunch? coffee. dinner some decaf will do. hate me 😂
It's spelled "lose".
@@BestLifeMD good for you have a cookie.
Get your butler to make your food 😂
Great video, Mike. A lot of people can't bring themselves to count calories and use a scale. Healthy habits can always be the first thing to strive for.
Thanks for this video Dr. Mike. I've been having a hard time tracking my maintainence calories exactly lately in preparation for an 8-12 week cut and hearing this helped. It's easy to be hard on yourself for not being as exact with a diet as you might want to be but I should at least celebrate the fact that I've been roughly hitting my protein, eating healthy foods, and staying within a rough maintainence calorie range for a few weeks now. I'll just keep chugging along until my tracking is solid and then start that cut. Slow and steady wins the race. Thanks for all the great advice you put out here for free.
Algorithm.
Counting calories keeping you big as hell
Wrong Chanel 😊😅
@@OriginalPripp Right channel
This was a great video, thank you!
Your videos rock. Very practical strategies in a digestible (no pun intended) format. Super informative and hilarious! Thanks!
Such a good video, I would have needed this at some point in time
This was an amazing and insightful video.
This is validating as I’ve been doing the always slightly hungry technique the last few days.
As a sports medicine physician that works with my patients closely for weight loss I really like the message Dr. Mike is spreading here. Positivity, consistency and being supportive to help develop good core eating habits really is the key to success. Keep up the great work, really enjoying a lot of these videos.
Perfect time for this video! I'm a 33 year old woman, I just ran my first half-marathon this past Sunday, and now I want to lose weight and build more muscle (I have a history of leg injuries because I slack on hip and core workouts). I want to keep my body strong so I can continue to run half-marathons, but I also know that losing weight should allow me to run faster. I'm very happy with my 2 hour 25 min time for my first half. My next goal is to run a half-marathon with 10:30 min/mi average pace. My problem is that I don't think I'm tracking my macros correctly, and I'm struggling to lose weight.
Perfect timing, seven weeks out from my first show as a natty (17 years training 😂). Always great to hear Dr. Mike’s perspectives on dieting efficacy
This video is such awesome advice!
I track my calories. I like the assurance it gives me. Cannot imagine not doing it. Even when I don't put stuff into an app like MFP, I guesstimate in my head and keep a running tally of calories / protein.
Timely video. I'm doing it all myself exactly as you've described. Making good progress. Only weighing myself every couple months.
to be honest this is like the perfect video and explanation for weight and people big up doctor Mike love your work
Great advice , thank you .
Celebrate Victories is actually a real theory behind it. It‘s often used by professional social worker and it‘s proven to work in coaching or brining up people / children / youths.
Thx Dr. Mike for the enlightenment ^^
One of your best videos.
Thanks for posting this dr Mike - I think folks who are also busy with other jobs and obligations need to remember that a lot of the gymfluencers they look up to literally have 6 or 7 days per week to focus solely on shaping their physiques.
As an example, I did a full recomp starting in Oct 2022 and since then I’ve gone from about 25% bf to around where I am at 15%. I actually used the Renaissance Periodization videos when I was starting out. I’ve tried and failed many times at weight loss before but this was the first attempt that stuck, and I think it had much to do with the crazy surplus of time I suddenly found myself having.
So while I feel on top of my game and am enjoying my new body, I need to tone down my own expectations - when grad school inevitably ends and real life continues, I need to be content with not being at this optimal condition because the underlying scenario is just a temporary aberration.
All I gotta say is that the diet stuff gets easier if you stick to it - I’m at the point where I’m asking for the side salad instead of the fries not because it’s healthy, but because I genuinely prefer the bright flavours of veggies, and the heartiness of fibrous foods, lean meats, & brown carbs. Mediterranean diet worked well for me!
Dr mike this video is so dang good
Hi there! New to fitness, and enjoying your content. Any tips on what type/brand of creatine I should try out? Thank you in advance
Just what I needed
This is just great. I think everyone trying to loose fat needs to see this. So much is phycological.
This is probably one of the best videos anyone trying to lose weight can watch! Followed Dr Mikes advice before- he’s said something similar in other videos just not as detailed. In about 9 months lost 30 lbs. always loved lifting but hated dieting. Went from 220 to now at 188-190. Just 4 meals a day basic Whole Foods mostly protein 1 shake. No snacking. And getting some steps in- something I wasn’t doing before.
That was great. I love the weird sketches you made too hahaha thanks doc, i needed that!
This great. Ive been on a bulk for 11 years, so maybe this will help start the cutting phase