4 Things That Are Stopping Your Weight Loss (Besides Diet) | CWM EP 512

There's major cons- health risks and consequences to choosing any of those paths, and there's a very small percentage of people that have benefited from those paths, and most of the people had short-term benefit and then problems long-term.

So firstly, we don't wanna lose weight super fast.

That's unhealthy, unnatural, and a danger to your health in, in many ways.

Um, and sure, if you disagree, that's fine.

Happy to have a debate with you on a podcast.

Um, but there are four different areas that I wanna talk to you about.

So firstly, um, as we've discussed in many ways on the podcast as well, calorie counting is basically not really a helpful model, especially if you're not 25 and perfectly healthy with no stress, right? Um, there, there's a few different parts of the equation that really contribute to weight loss and the speed at which it happens and the, you know...

And your body's gonna lose weight at a healthy rate if you give it the nutrition it needs.

We should not be starving the body.

Uh, that's not what we wanna do.

And if you've tried calorie counting many times and nothing's happening, the final thing on our list today will absolutely help with that.

The first thing, though, is sleep.

Not getting enough sleep is a major contributor to weight gain and also blood sugar and insulin instability, uh, cravings, uh, things that drive emotional binge and overeating.

You end up eating more calories the more you are awake.

Usually, those calories are of poorer quality.

You're, you're choosing shittier foods, so you end up overeating.

Um, it's just simply because the more energy is required to stay awake for longer, which makes pretty basic sense, right? It's like if the engine needs to go for a longer period of time, it needs more fuel.

So similar to this particular client that I'm referring to, is that she was getting five to six hours of sleep every night.

Major contributor to an inability to lose weight.

Your body is, uh, extremely stressed in that scenario and is gonna conserve its resources because there's danger survival threats going on.

Speaking of, the next one is stress, like actual stress.

High-pressure jobs, kids, you know, never having enough time to do anything for you.

Just go, go, go, go, go, go.

Um, and it, it sends your system into this constant cortisol adrenaline shit storm, right? Um, and this cortisol hormone really, it burns up energy, uh, focusing on survival.

That fight, flight, or freeze response, when really we wanna spend a lot of the time in rest, digest, and repair.