 Hi guys, this is Dr. Ahmet Ergen. Today I'm going to talk to you about how to lose weight fast. But, remember, this is not going to be just another classic talk. This is not just going to be another YouTube talk. This is going to be a doctor talk, but also it's going to be a motivational and maybe a life-changing talk. If at the end of the talk, you like this video, please like us, please subscribe, and please share. So everybody can enjoy this video. Let's get started. Now, I get a lot of patients in my clinic. I'm an endocrinologist. I treat a lot of diabetes. I treat a lot of thyroid patients. And of course, a lot of patients come to me for hormonal evaluation of, you know, obesity or being overweight. A lot of people complain about rapid weight gain or not being able to lose weight, etc. Everybody believes that there's a hormonal problem with them. And we work them up and they get frustrated when there's nothing comes up on the workup. And we do pretty detailed workup. Now, one thing in common I see again and again, people are negative about the weight loss process or they are so negative about their weight. So I tell them, first question is, why do you want to lose weight? They give me that weird look. Like, what do you mean? Of course, you know, I want to lose weight. I want to look good. I want to be healthy, etc. But then they have a wrong idea to begin with most of the time and I'll tell you what these wrong ideas are. Now, we're going to talk about not just your exercising your body, but also exercising your brain. That is extremely important. You have to exercise your brain about positivity, but positive thoughts. You have to look into your relationship with food, your relationship with your own body. You need to love your body. That's the most important thing. And you have to start your journey in a positive direction. You can even meditate. You can basically increase your awareness, your self-awareness about how you are going to lose weight and how you are managing the condition. We will talk about affirmations. So we have to have positive affirmations about ourselves before we can really achieve something. Or if once we start achieving something, we have to continue to have these positive affirmations about ourselves so we can stay motivated. Now that sounds like a mambo jumbo for now, but I'll explain to you and give you examples of what exactly I'm talking about. And if you follow these simple rules, I think you will do much better in your weight loss journey. Some of you already kind of figured out what I'm talking about here. Love of attraction, right? Yes, love of attraction. The secret. That is the main secret in a lot of things we do. In our love life, in our business life, in our personal life, in our health, everything we do goes by love of attraction. Let's dive into it a little bit more. So love of attraction says you have to bring your thoughts and actions in alignment. So basically you have to have a positive thought and you have to surround yourself with this positive thought and you have to align your actions around that positive thought. So you should not start exactly why, for example, when I ask you the question why you want to lose weight, your weight loss reason should not be because my roommate or my classmate or my neighbor looks skinny, she looks sexy, she looks that, she looks that, or he looks strong, whatever. These are not your reasons. You're comparing yourself in a negative way to someone else is not a good place to start. You have to love your body first and you should think about losing weight as a health benefit and you have to have a reasonable expectation. So a lot of people think that they will just lose 30-40% of their body weight very quickly. That's just not going to happen. You have to have a positive thinking but also you have to have a reasonable expectation. You should, yes, you should tell yourself I can lose 40% of my body weight but I'm going to lose the first 5% within let's say one to two months, three months, whatever you think is reasonable and you should think about that all the time. Yes, it could be obsession in a way but you have to think about it. You have to surround yourself with the idea. You have to talk about it not in a negative way, in a positive way. Everything you do for example about weight loss, discuss with your friends, tell them how proud you are. So talking about weight should not be a shame. So you have to change your relationship with the weight management. So being overweight should not be something shameful to you. You have to love your body, temper yourself, go take a massage, go take a hot bath and think about what you are able to achieve with your current body. Think about how of a great body you have. Think about people who actually do not have arms or legs, people who are totally immobile, people are paralyzed. So think about everything you have achieved so far and the things you can do. So affirm yourself that how actually how many things do you have in your life positive in your body that you can do right now and also think about how you can improve this, how you can grow from current situation. And when you put yourself in a frame of mind of weight loss then you can basically instead of a negative thought every time something positive comes to your mind, dwell on it. Think about it like okay hey you have seen just something on the TV that you have been seeing but this time hey this support actually sounds very interesting. Let me do something about it. Pick up the phone and call them. Say I want to sign up right now. Don't wait on it. If an opportunity comes to you, if something tells inside of you that hey you know you can do this why don't you look into this. Don't say oh I can't do this or I'm too fat or I'm too old, I'm too slow. No. Look I'm a kite surfer. I'm a kiteboarder. Everybody says oh you know you have to have a good upper body strength, you have to have good abs. I'm like no no no no I see a lot of people who are not that fit and they do it. It's not about like it's not about you know what others can do. It's about what you can do. No matter how intimidating it may look to you. If you tell yourself you can do it yes you will do it and you can do it and you have to make this in an enjoyable way. That is the only way we can start thinking about weight loss. You have to also change your relationship with food. So if you think that food makes you fat, guess what? The food will make you fat. So yeah occasionally having a piece of pizza or having a dessert is not going to make you fat. So you should enjoy it. You should enjoy it. I'm not saying that you know just go eat pizza every day and eat dessert every day but I think you should still like what you like but you have to think yourself okay well how good is that for me. Don't think in a negative way you know yes it's an enjoyable thing you can enjoy but know that enjoying this every day actually is going to turn out to be negative for your health. So if since your reasoning for weight loss is keeping yourself healthy as a result you are going to surround yourself with healthy food right? So when you go to grocery store you have to always and always there are rules like never go to grocery store hungry you know make a list that a lot of things that you can change the way you're thinking do not get you know get caught into temptations. So if you can make some rules for yourself for a good reason and stick to it and your thinking and your actions are in alignment always occasionally having a dessert or a pizza can be a reward for you but that's not necessarily you're not really punishing yourself for not eating pizza. You are saying yourself that I'm not eating this I'm actually eating that because I want to stay healthy and I'm losing weight and I feel better my clothes are fitting better my diabetes is getting better my sugars are better and constantly tell yourself your achievements hey look you know weigh yourself every day that's not wrong with that there's people say oh no don't do that no do it do it you see your progress and say oh wow I lost 0.2 pounds good for me I'm gonna do it again tomorrow I'm gonna lose 0.4 pounds and put it into your brain and make this a regular exercise and make this a lifestyle so don't put yourself a goal I'm gonna lose 20 pounds no not that's not a good goal your goal should be I'm gonna lose a weight that's going to make me healthy and I'm going to stay on that weight and I'm going to do everything so I'm going to monitor myself every day on that scale if I'm going up I am gonna take immediate action I'm gonna say hey that I've gained weight that's not good that's not good for me that's not good for my health I'm not doing a favor for myself turn turn the switch back on and start doing what you were doing before so this is if your reasoning is good and if you are thinking good about yourself giving yourself positive affirmations all the time hey if you need a coach if you need somebody to push you that's okay look there are a lot of programs like this you can sign up we have our own programs at Sugar MDs for coaches that will help you you can send pictures of what you're eating to get some guidance from dietitians you can also basically have a cheat chat you have to find ways to distract yourself sometimes and tell yourself every time I'm emotionally upset I'm going to go take a bike ride I'm gonna go take a walk I'm gonna go do this and if you need help take somebody to talk to you talk talk about this so sometimes that also helps so if you if you can achieve yourself that's great if you need a helper if you need a body that's great you can surround yourself with the like-minded people you know like you're going to the gym talking to the people people about your journey and how things are getting better for you you know you feel good about yourself talk about how good you feel good about yourself exercise your brain about how good you're doing and also exercising your brain remember we talked about this let's talk about this for a second a lot of people are a victim of habits so exercising your brain means that always always challenging yourself like you can do things differently so you can for example change your bath routine instead of you know taking a hot shower try to take a cold shower and and you know instead of trying to check out from a machine at the grocery store try to talk to somebody you know anything that's that that changes in your life will stimulate your brain always look for different things to stimulate your brain and to make your life interesting because if you're a habitual and if you're always like hey you know hey this is what I do I get up I I drink my coffee I eat a piece of toast and then then you don't have you don't have any openings for new things in your life so as a result if nothing is going to change another part of exercising your brain think about exercising if you think that you're exercising that you're exercising more than other people believe me you are going to lose weight even if thinking about it is going to make you because if you think about it your brain will automatically make you do it your brain will bring opportunities follow the law of attraction make sure you have a good image of your body make sure you have a good reason to lose weight make sure you exercise your brain make sure you surround yourself with positive thinking about food positive thinking about your body about your health and that change in the frame of mind will allow you not only to lose weight today but also to maintain weight loss that's the reason a lot of diet fails a lot of different diets fail I have a lot of patients who will tell me I tried keto so a lot of keto people out there they'll say oh keto is a lifestyle they don't understand but what they're actually changing is their thinking process not necessarily what they're eating right so they believe they believe that the keto will help them to lose weight because this there's a whole keto thing if you look at the internet there's keto everywhere so so as a result they're influenced by it they see it everywhere they believe in it and as a result it helps them so whatever you believe in about weight loss it will help you no matter what diet and that's why studies show that when you're double blind or when you when you follow people in the long term none of the studies actually none of the diets are superior to another that's because it's about people's thought process you can lose weight a lot of weight with any diet it could be low low carb it could be low fat it could be low whatever protein you will lose weight if your mindset is not set right you will end up gaining that weight right back on bottom line think positive make sure you understand why you want to lose weight and make sure you are on the right track and you are always affirming yourself with positive thoughts you have to say things like i'm very happy and i feel strong today you should say oh i have lost weight i'm i'm doing great i'm gonna continue to do that i'm gonna release myself from the guilt and i'm going to enjoy my today i'm gonna have great healthy foods today you can say there's no reason to overeat i can manage my health by using portion control you can say i feel love and gratitude towards my body i'm very thankful for what i have you can say i can do anything that i can set my mind to i already feel happier and healthier i'm healing my body and i'm healing my mind all these positive affirmations will make you do things and will help you to align your actions with your thoughts and guys that is the end of 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