 What's up everybody, it's your boy Noah. If it's your first time here, I make cool videos on tech and tips to help improve your health and creativity. And today is Q and A day where I basically put on my Instagram stories. I let everybody know, ask me whatever questions you want, whether it's on health, fitness, creativity, passion projects, side hustles, entrepreneurship, the whole nine yards, and I just answer them. So let's go ahead and get it started. First question, I have a high metabolism and have a hard time putting on weight. What things can I do? Eat, I am telling you right now, eating is your biggest problem, why you are not maintaining any type of muscle. These are like hard gainers. It's like the typical textbook term or somebody who just burns more calories just on a daily basis because they're typically a lot skinnier, they're a lot thinner framed, and they usually have the opposite problem of a lot of people where when they don't eat, they lose a lot of weight and they end up looking skinny and frail. And the biggest solution to this is actually eating more. And you might think that you eat a lot but you might just eat a lot in one meal. You don't eat a lot throughout the whole entire day. So the first thing I tell people is take a log of what you're eating throughout the day. You don't have to do this for like a month, just do it for like a week or two and just every single meal, log it. I use my fitness pal, it's a really good tracker or you can write it down, put notes in your phone but literally see how much that you eat in a day. And you'll be surprised how much is really not a lot of food that you're eating. And then once you do that, you can just kind of work from there. You just add maybe a snack or a meal at a time that you usually don't. I know a lot of people say eat every two to three hours but really just whenever you can get an extra meal in, try to get that extra meal and see how that changes your body frame and gaining muscle after that. But ideally you're just not eating enough food. Second question, what do you think is the biggest barrier that millennials face when starting a journey? This is a good question. I think the biggest barrier that millennials face is false expectations of what they think they should do. And I fall into this as well. Like you know, as millennials we feel like we have to achieve something great and we have to do it in such a short amount of time. So we expect quick successes and I found out the hard way that this is just not the case. I've had coaches, I've had mentors and it's funny I'm definitely nowhere near the success that I wish that I was at. But then that's the problem because we're focusing too much on the success rather than the journey. And I think that's the biggest barrier. Millennials are so focused on the end goal but they're not focused on that process from A to B to C. We just wanna get C, we just wanna get Z really. We just want Z but we don't wanna respect the rest of the alphabet to get there. So I think really that's the biggest barrier and that's what gets us into our own way is respecting the process, loving the journey and honestly just patience. Gary V says that a lot but I definitely think that's a big barrier. What are some foods or snacks that help with stomach fat loss? This seems to be like a big thing for a lot of people. It's just like how do I lose stomach fat? You either sit in one or two camps or really just both camps when you are trying to lose stomach fat. You're either eating way too much or you're not doing any type of activity throughout the day or you're doing both. So what ends up happening is the weight starts to pile on and the first place it goes is the stomach, is the gut and then it will follow through everywhere else. I think the best foods and snacks really are gonna be fruits and vegetables. The reason why I say that, they are low calories. You can eat a ton of them and they still won't probably equal like a cup of pasta and I'm not saying pasta is unhealthy but again if you're trying to think of healthy foods and snacks that kind of aid you in that process of losing that stomach fat, you need to eat lower calorie foods and then again you gotta move. You gotta keep doing activity whether it's working out on a consistent basis, going to a class, moving throughout the day, move, move, move, move, move and then also eat healthy. Again, the best foods I think are vegetables and fruits and that will kind of help you stay on the low calorie and next question, what motivated you to write your book? Ooh, I like this, one second, let me get it. So this right here is the book that I wrote I think in 2017. It's called Millennials No Excuses. I wrote this book because I really had just so much information and knowledge that I wanted to share but I wanted to do it in a very consumable way. So I created this book, I think it's like 70 something pages. I'm actually surprised that I did this and it went everything over like nutrition, everything about cars, proteins, fats, then I went to like tips to staying healthy when traveling. Basically everything that all my clients had asked me about I just put it in a book so it can make it easier. One, for me to hand it out to other people but then two, just a good way for me to kind of keep all my knowledge in one spot. So I actually haven't promoted that much. So if you're interested in it, I will be happy to send it to you. But yeah, this was a very fun project of mine and yeah, I wrote a book, so that felt cool. Is meat really bad for you? This is a tough subject again because again you have a ton of vegetarian you got a lot of vegans out there. I personally don't think meat is a unhealthy food or bad food for you. Now whatever values and whatever beliefs that you have whether you know it's about animals and all that like by all means I respect that. I just want to say in context of this question meat and animal proteins actually have the highest complete proteins that your body needs like the amino acids. I don't want to get too technical but basically the highest quality proteins that you need are in animal proteins and meats. So no, I would say meats are not unhealthy but again if it's something that whether it's religious beliefs or whether it's personal beliefs or personal choice if you can't eat meat there's a ton of plenty of other options that you can get protein you have beans you have tofu, nuts, seeds you have so many other ways that you can get protein in but in general I don't think meat proteins are naturally bad for you. I know there's a lot of things about red meat really anything is bad for you if you have it outside of moderation so just keep that in mind. I'd always tell people before I give them like dietary things see how it feels like for a lot of people like milk is a crazy thing like oh don't drink dairy, dairy's so unhealthy I don't drink dairy not because it's unhealthy it's because it messes with my stomach and messes with my digestive system that's why I don't drink milk so if you eat meat and it bothers your stomach or you know you don't feel so good afterwards don't eat meat find another substitute for that but in general meat is I would say is not unhealthy it's not bad for you. What to you is the hardest part about starting your own brand? I think it's two things I think one's really typical but I think the other is really important but I think the first hardest part about starting your brand is actually thinking of an idea this is a big thing because people want a piece of the pie now they see people are starting their own brands or whether it's fitness whether it's like I don't know traveling they just see all these people doing all these different things and they're like well I want to start a brand or I want to start a business what should I do? I tell people the hardest part is figuring out what it is that you should do and how you solve this is looking at one of two things look at what you're really good at or look at what you really love now typically the one that you really love is something that you'll be super passionate about but might take a little bit longer because you might not know too much about it from an expertise standpoint and then on the other end you might be really good and really knowledgeable about something but you might not be as passionate as if something that you love it's a hard balance to figure out between the two but I would say that would be the first steps to figuring out what it should be for me for example I liked fitness I was really good at it I ended up getting health coach certifications I ended up working with like 20 or 30 something clients and I got really really good at it so that's why I'm kind of doing what I'm doing now when it comes to like you know health coaching and putting on health of fitness content and stuff like that I think the second hardest part is starting so once you have an idea people think they need to have everything that they need to do to get started and it's so funny because I think about how when I started my journey I literally just bought like a little pointed shoot camera now I got like this whole setup where it's like I have like a reflector right here a light right here it's knowing that you just need to start if you want to podcast literally take your phone record your voice and go find a way to put it on like Apple iTunes if you want to start like a YouTube channel just take your phone talk to the video I mean talk to the camera and just riff and post that video on social media and just do it a lot of people try to make it perfect they try to plan it out you're afraid of how it's gonna be received so it just takes longer you feel like you're like oh I'm busy I'm working towards it I need a logo I need all this different stuff I need to get a top of the class video and you really don't you just need to start with the bare basics get started with the consistency comes the reps comes the quality and then that's how you get better I'm gonna end it right here I hope you guys really enjoy this Q&A if you have more questions for me go ahead and put them in the comment box below or if you're on Instagram make sure you go ahead and put those in the comments below the caption and ask away or DM me just ask me questions whether it's about fitness, health and I will be happy to answer them and put them on this Q&A for you so I hope this video was helpful I'll catch you later you already know embrace the hype woo