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This is Optimal Health Daily. Why am I not losing weight? The answer may surprise you.

Part 1 by Andy Thuson of AndyThuson.com, and I'm your host and personal narrator Dr. Niel.

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Why am I not losing weight? The answer may surprise you. Part 1 by Andy Thuson of AndyThuson.com.

Losing weight can be tough. We've all been there. We're watching what we eat and we're working

out hard, but that dang scale just won't budge. It can be seriously frustrating, but I'm here to

help with some common and not-so-common missteps that we all make. Before we dive into the science of

weight loss, I want to touch briefly on the energetics of weight loss and our foundational beliefs

around losing weight in the first place. Our subconscious mind freaks out at the word loss,

because everything it knows about the word is a negative connotation and scary. So this next little

bit of information I'm going to lay out for you is the most important thing to grasp in this

entire article. First, let's be real careful of our wording around the word weight loss.

Remove this term from your vocabulary immediately. You're not losing anything,

only becoming a healthier version of yourself. I also need you to know that you're being in

existence is enough. The belief you need to look a certain way to earn your worth is garbage.

Instead, change your thoughts to something more like this. Wouldn't it be super fun to have a

smoking-hot body to match my awesomeness? Yes, it would. So instead of needing or wanting to lose

weight, let's reframe this too. I am already sexy enough as I am, but it would be so fun to step into

an even sexier, healthier version of myself. Doesn't that just feel better in your soul? I know it

doesn't mind. Another energetic concept I want to introduce is that your food intake has very

little to do with the resulting number on the scale. What vibration are you in when you eat food?

Are you in shame? Are you in guilt? Are you in joy? Are you in duty? For example, I have to eat

food I hate to look a certain way. Or are you in restriction? We ingest way more than the food

we eat. We ingest the emotions we attach to the food we eat, and the belief embedded within

that food we ingest. If we believe that M&Ms are shaming and bad and will make us fat, guess what

message our body gets? What if we had the audacity to flip the script and had a belief that M&Ms

are a fun and joyful food that our body loves, and that this fun little treat that would benefit

our bodies? I am a living tester of my theories, and when I shifted how I felt about the food I

ate and released the morality of my food, my weight was no longer an issue. I stayed a healthy weight

without very much effort at all, and that has never been my experience until I changed my

relationships around my thoughts and weight loss in general. Our bodies are made up of energy.

We are energy beings, and our food is energy. Knowing this is so important. Remember that we are

so incredibly powerful, we get to choose what we believe about food. So take some time and dive

deep into what your beliefs around food and weight loss are. If you believe that losing weight is

hard, and difficult, and that you are stuck, then that right there may be the block that's keeping

you from a slimmer image of yourself. Okay, I am now getting off my manifesting and energetic soap

box, and now putting on my personal trainer and nutrition specialist hat. But I believe we do need

a higher energetic understanding so we can overlay it with the tactical, real world advice

that's applicable to helping us understand the physicality of our bodies, because we are both

energetic and physical beings. Here are the 10 most common reasons physically, while you're not

losing weight. One, office sedation. Do you work at a desk all day? If you work hard and are zoned

in all day in front of a computer, try getting up at least once an hour, since this will help

increase your metabolism by around 18%. Or just become a fidgeter and increase your metabolism by

54%. Our bodies need motion and physical activity. That's how we thrive. So get up and move more

during your day. Two, not getting enough sleep. Lack of sleep is a big one. Have you ever noticed

that after a rough night with little sleep, the next day your willpower is zilch, and you keep

reaching for sugar and other carbohydrates. There are actually scientific tests that show that

sleep deprivation will put your body into a carb and fat craving survival mode and can increase

your overall cortisol levels and stress levels. Yikes. So shoot for eight or more hours of quality

sleep each night. Three, eating too quickly. Slow down. You're not racing and there are no awards

for finishing first. Take the time to savor and enjoy every bite of your food. This will help

your body send signals to your brain that you are full sooner before you have already consumed too

much food. This ties right back to the energetic component. Take time to have a moment of connection

and gratitude with the food you eat. Always check in with your emotions when you're eating.

Four, hear that on tomorrow's episode.

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Dr. Neil here with my commentary. During my commentary on a different episode,

I was talking about getting leaner and one of the ways I said we can start the weight loss

process is to cut 100 calories from our daily calorie totals each day. Now 100 calories may

sound like a lot, but I put it in perspective. For example, if we swap one can of a typical regular

soda with one can of zero calorie sparkling water, we just cut anywhere from 100 to 150 calories.

Does this mean we can never enjoy a regular soda ever again? Of course not. You can have a

regular soda, but say we usually consume two sodas every day. If we swap just one of those for

sparkling water, we've saved at least 100 calories. And then I gave another example. If we swap

one Snickers bar, which is 250 calories with the 100 calorie version of a Snickers bar,

that's 150 calories saved. Notice I have not said that we can never again eat Snickers bars

because just as today's author Andy Thuson said, we don't need to believe that certain foods

are shameful and bad and will make us fat. We can think of these treats as pleasurable and not

the enemy. We can enjoy all foods, even if we're trying to get lean. All right, that'll do it for

today. Thank you so much for listening and don't forget we're going to finish up this post

tomorrow. So hopefully I'll see you there with your optimal life awaits.