In this episode we talk about whether diet or exercise is more important to see results for weight loss.
For lasting results to lose weight what should we focus on and does mindset come into play?
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Hey friends, hope everybody’s having a wonderful day. So between now and Christmas, I’m going to be coming on quite a bit, just answering questions. So we’re do five minute quick questions. All right. So if you have a question I would love for you to go on over to the free community on Facebook, and you can go to Bitly forward slash wellbeing group.
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I love to connect with you guys. And so today, our quick question is what is better for weight loss, diet, or exercise? All right. A lot of people ask this question, right? I get it but first I want to say mindset is the best one. So if you are looking at it in that way, it’s always good to focus on having a positive mindset because of that.
Isn’t right. A lot of times it can set you up for failure. And then also all the time, whenever you’re working on something, whether it’s your weight loss, whether it’s business, all the things, it’s not exactly a straight line. Okay. So whenever you’re having a down moment, you want to be have also, first of all, a positive mindset and just set, it’ll help set you up for success.
Right? It’ll make it more harder and more difficult if you’re just thinking negatively and you wouldn’t try to be realistic about it. So, like for example, fad diets, fad diets can sometimes set you up for failure, so to speak because you might see these gimmicks out there where it might be like lose all this weight in three days
that’s not going to happen. And if it does, it’s just going to be water weight in order for you to lose real fat is what you want. It’s going to take longer than that. Think about how long it took for the weight to come on. Your body is going to take that to come off. Okay. So those fad diets and ult, sometimes they’re just not healthy, right?
If they’re telling you to any time, a red flag by me, when they’re telling you to eliminate food groups, okay, they’d be like, don’t eat your carbs. Don’t eat your fat. There’s good in everything. There’s good fat and there’s bad fat. There’s good carbs and there’s bad carbs. Right? So it’s just, it’s all about the quality of food back to the quality of food.
So just being aware. So for your mindset, you know, just trying to work on having a good relationship with food. Sometimes we develop bad relationships with our food over the years. Right. You ever see that? And so just knowing that it is okay to eat food is nourishment is good for you. Food loves you, just like you want to love food back, trying to create smaller goals, being more positive and smaller chunks are good.
Like appreciating those little wins. So this life is about our journey, right? Life is a journey we take one day at a time and weight loss is also a journey taking one day at a time. So every little thing that happens, give yourself congratulations for that. So to help put you in that positive mindset, because if you have to lose 20, 30 pounds, it might take you two months and that’s okay.
Two months is good compared to being the same where you are for two more years, you see. So that’s good. So allow yourself that space, give yourself that grace in order for that to happen. Okay. So give yourself a small goal. Be like, I want to go to the gym three times a week where I want to walk outside or I want to lift weights.
You don’t, you don’t have to go all in, you know, just try something small. And I’m just using that as an example, you know, or I just want to go for a walk one day. Do you know what, depending on where you are. You want to push yourself, but you don’t want to make it too hard. Right. So allow yourself to take those steps.
So don’t do the comparison game. Don’t be like, well, my friend over here she in the gym every day for like two hours. And she over there got her plate filled out with vegetables and grains and all these things. And you’re not used to being like that. So don’t compare yourself to her. That’s just going to set you up.
Then you’re going to start feeling bad. So you don’t want that. So just think about all those little wins and give yourself that grace and set those small goals. Right? You could do it a little bit at a time. Be like, I want to do these morning workouts or night workouts, three days a week. You can start with that.
Bam. Write it down, put it somewhere where you can see it doesn’t need to be a screensaver. What does it got to do? Right. And being healthy is not a punishment. Sometimes people be like, well, do I have to do this? And do that being healthy is good. You feel so good about yourself. Whenever you’re taking care of yourself, your energy is up.
You’re naturally happy. Your dopamine is kicking in, you know, all these things. So it is a good, good feeling. All right. So just thinking about it in the more positive mindset, so being healthy, isn’t a punishment. And so eating these vegetables. or a salad . I don’t usually talk about salad, but people just think it’s some iceberg lettuce, any, a salad can be healthy or unhealthy real quick, depending on what you put on it, you know what I’m talking about?
So, you know, you could take that little bowl, put anything in your bowl and you could just, just cook it with love. That’s what I like to say. Cook would love season with love. So I like to post the recipes, right? So I have this blog I’m trying to do more consitently. And I post recipes on there. But when I listen to my spices, I always say, cook, what love and season to taste, you know, because it all depends on what you like now, as long as you’re using healthy ingredients, you good.
Right. So if you want to put extra tumeric on something and put out your turmeric on something, right, don’t go extra on the salt though. Okay. So if he’s in sea salt to a little bit at a time, if you have enough of the other seasonings. You’ll be fine. It’ll taste great. There are so many seasonings, so many herbs you can do it.
Right? So there’s that, um, and know what your triggers are, right? Figuring out what that is working on that, you know, so, and the stress eating the emotional eating, trying to figure out what these triggers are. Right. Cause they’re going to. And even with, so when you work on things and you get these tools, it’s not saying that they’re going to go away because we are human.
You just know what to do with them more. So when something happens, you’d be like, okay, I’m not gonna let this get to me. I’m not going to go run and eat that or not running and deal with the other thing, whatever that outlet for you is it, you just are able to deal with it more, you know? And so you might be like, okay.
So instead of me, when I would normally get. Eat this cake. I’m going to go for a walk. You know, I’m going to give myself a moment and pause and checking in with yourself. Be like, where’s this coming from? Just reevaluating your mind right there. Okay. So those are the little tips there. And then between the diet and the exercise, it’s going to be your nutrition, right?
Your diet at the end of the day, it goes down to your nutrition. Okay guys. So. If you are working out, boom, you’re doing the thing. That’s good. But if you not, if you’re eating is all off track, it’s not going to matter because if you’re working out every day, but then you go home and you put food into your body, that’s not nutritious and that’s loaded with junk or saturated fat and all these other things.
It’s going to be counter productive. Okay. It’s not really going to help as much, so it’s not gonna matter. So even though we don’t want to count calories, we wouldn’t look at the calorie density of the food, the quality of the food. So ultimately if you eating something and it’s, it’s not healthy, it’s not gonna matter that you’re working out.
So at the end of the day, it’s about your nutrition because it’s good to work out. But for. If you’re eating right. And you’re eating your quality food, your whole food plant-based diet. I just say, look, aim for 85% on your plate, 80%, something like that. So if you want your animal protein, you want some animal product that’s up to you.
Okay. Well make sure it’s lean, made sure the fat is gone. Just pay attention to the quality of what it is. Okay. Then your, then you will naturally lose the weight. It will come off. And also with your beverages, increasing your water intake, all of that’s considered your diet, right? The nutrients that you, so if you’re drinking soda pop a whole lot of alcohol, all of these things has unnecessary calories in it.
Swell, swap out something for some tea tastes good. It’s also relaxing. Okay. Like I used to go to happy hours. I don’t do that anymore, but at things like a relaxing thing, because where we live is super stressed out. But. It’s cool with me, tea is good. It relaxes me. I don’t need all that other stuff anymore.
You know, that was also, I was also very stressed out. I was super stressed, you know, always working on a project, always doing this, always doing that. I had to reevaluate my life, you know, I’m human too. And so it just happens. But so when you know better, you do better. And so the fact that you’re listening to this podcast shows that you care and you’re ready to change, and you have the strength to do it because you was led here.
Maybe God led you here to listen to this episode. And this is for you. So don’t be too hard on yourself. You got this and you can do whatever it is that you need to do. Okay. So mindset, one nutrition to then exercise, move your body. Super important. Good for your heart. Get you strong heart and ladies still lift your weights.
Okay. Cardio and weight lifting. Don’t do two hours of cardio and don’t touch no weights. Okay. Get in there. That gives you that sexy sleek body. All right. And it’s strong. Strong is sexy. Okay. So that is my five minute tip today, which kind of turned into. But it’s still good. All right guys. And don’t forget that.
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