How Can You Achieve Sustainable Weight Loss? Dr. K's 3 Proven Strategies That Actually Work

And so you guys were able to pose several questions.

And so we're just going to get right into it.

And if you have more questions for sure, just throw them in the chat and we'll do our best to address them immediately or as soon as we can.

All right, so one of the first questions that came up What are the three proven methods for sustainable weight loss? And what I try to avoid when it comes to weight loss is to have a cookie cutter formula for it.

Because a lot of people, it's depending on where you are in your journey.

So one of the methodologies we've established is we call it the PRESS method.

So P is for what is your why? What's your purpose? Why do you want to get healthy? And the nice thing about that is it's a nice anchor for when you don't feel like going to the gym or you don't feel like eating as well as you need to be or avoiding some of the foods that we should be avoiding.

R is for restoration and stress management.

E is for eating slash nutrition.

S is for strength and exercise.

And the last S is for social connection.

So when we see a question like what are the proven ways for sustainable weight loss, it depends on what you're struggling with.

So, for example, if you're somebody that is going to the gym regularly but aren't sleeping well, that's going to be the lever that we need to focus on.

If you're somebody that is going to the gym regularly but is having pizza post-workout, we know what area we need to be focusing on.

But I will say what I find is the most common ways to sustain weight or lose weight.

Number one is nutrition.

That's the 80-20 of your health, to be honest with you.

Even if you exercise like a fiend, it's hard to out-exercise a bad diet.

And the best lever from my perspective is And the evidence is catching up to this.

But if we focus on your protein intake, you are going to be miles ahead.

So the great things about focusing on protein is that you're going to put on more lean muscle.

And when you have more lean muscle, you burn more calories in general.

you are going to feel fuller.

You are going to have less cravings.

Your blood sugar levels are going to be more stable compared to if you're not having enough protein.