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Hey guys, today I want to share with you my tips on how I stay skinny. Now, first of all,
I think it's so much more important to be healthy than to be skinny, and healthy comes
in lots of different shapes and sizes. However, I am skinny, and I do a lot of different things
that I feel contribute to my thinness, and if you're looking to lose weight or maintain
your weight, maybe some of these things will work for you.
Staying skinny is all about developing habits and kind of structuring your whole life around
healthy habits that do not necessarily become pervasive thoughts. So, you're not obsessing
about staying skinny, it's not all your thinking about, but your whole life is structured in
a way that will keep you thin.
So, tip #1 is I eat when I'm hungry and I don't eat when I'm full. And those things
sound really obvious, but it is so important to listen to your body's natural signals when
it comes to hunger, and believe it or not, your body wants to be thin and it wants to
keep you thin and healthy, so it's going to give you appropriate signals that you should
listen to. So, some days I'm hungry all day, I will eat the whole day, and I make sure
to stay hydrated as well, but I don't ever skip meals in order to try to lose weight
or maintain a low weight. I think skipping meals is one of the worst things that you
can do because it throws off your metabolism and it makes your body think that you're starving
and it's just generally really unhealthy. The other part of this is I stop eating when
I'm full, so even if I have a few bites of food left on my plate, if I feel full, I listen
to that natural signal from my body. I think it's so important, again, to not try to override
those signals that your body is giving you. Also, if I've just eaten a meal and someone
offers me a dessert and I feel really full, and they come by and they say, "hey, my wife
baked these cookies, do you want one?", even if it's a little bit rude, I say no, because
I'm already full.
Tip #2 is I don't look at the scale every day. In fact, I look at it very infrequently.
But I think when you get into looking at the scale every day, you get kind of obsessive.
If you see one number, that you're not happy with, it can kind of change your mood, it
can change the way you think about yourself and it can change your behaviors. Also, the
scale can lie, you know, you can have a higher weight but have more water and muscle, which
are things that you want. You could have a lower weight but have more fat, so use things
like the way your clothes fit and the way you just feel overall as a better guide.
#3 is I limit processed foods, I don't eat foods with a long ingredient list, I don't
eat foods that have ingredients that I can't pronounce, I try to eat foods in their whole,
natural state.
#4 is grocery shopping habits. I tend to buy healthy foods, so that's what I have in the
house. If I don't buy junk food, it's not in the house and I can't eat it, it's just
that simple.
Tip #5 is I allow myself treats. I don't have a super strict diet. If there's something
I crave, I allow myself to eat it. But I treat treats as treats. I don't just mindlessly
eat a bowl of ice cream in front of the TV. If I'm going to have sweets or something like
that, I'll have a small amount, I'll savor every bite, I'll eat with friends so it becomes
a social thing.
#6 is no foods are off limits. I really believe anything can be part of a healthy diet if
you eat it in small enough quantities and infrequently. Again, I'm not super strict
about my diet, I do have a casual, kind of relaxed attitude towards food, which I feel
like is the healthiest way to be, however I have two exceptions to that rule, and the
first is #7, which is no fast food or no chain restaurant food ever, except I do eat Chipotle
once in a while, and I will have Dunkin' Donuts once in a great while, I'm talking like every
three or four months, but generally fast food like McDonald's, Burger King, or chain restaurant
food like Chili's, Outback, things like that, they're really packed with salt, fat, they
tend to be very high in calorie foods, just way in excess of what you need and not have
any nutrient value, so rule #7 is no fast food.
Tip #8 is no soda, EVER! Soda is one of the worst things that you can put in your body,
it's basically completely sugar, and it spikes your blood sugar, it causes an insulin rush,
it makes you super hungry, and it's liquid calories, which are the easiest to pack on.
The next three things might be a little bit controversial, and they might not work for
everybody but they do work for me. The first is, I don't drink caffeine or coffee at all.
I've found that I've been addicted to it in the past, and it's really hard to get off
of, but I feel like it's so worth it. In relation to your diet, coffee makes you feel full even
when you're not, when you should be eating, so it messes with your metabolism, and then
when the coffee kind of wears off, you find yourself more hungry than you would have been
if you hadn't had the coffee and you'd been eating normally, so I feel like from a weight
loss perspective it's a good idea to avoid caffeine.
#10 is I don't eat dairy. I will have a little bit here and there, but I'm lactose intolerant
so I don't typically have dairy in my diet. Again, this isn't going to work for everybody,
but for me, I feel like it keeps me from eating a lot of foods that are high in saturated
fat, which a lot of dairy foods are, and I think it's just kind of a healthy thing to
leave all those things out of your diet.
#11, also not going to work for everybody, I don't drink alcohol. Now, a lot of people
have a few drinks socially here and there, that's not a big deal, but when you drink
every day, you're consuming a lot of extra calories. One drink can have about 150 calories
in it, so if you think about it, you need to do a lot more exercise to compensate for
that. Plus, the calories in alcohol are completely non-nutrient and they are empty calories,
and I think if you're trying to maintain a low weight it's a good thing to avoid.
Tip #12 is stay hydrated. A lot of times your body mistakes thirst for hunger, so you'll
actually eat when really all that you needed to do was have some water. So definitely staying
hydrated, drinking as much water, chugging water throughout the day is a great thing.
So my second to last tip is get used to working out a lot. And that may seem very obvious
from a weight loss or a weight maintenance perspective and it may sound harder than it
really is, but once you develop that habit, and it may take six weeks or for some people
it may take six months to develop that habit, it's going to be easier to work out a lot
than it is to sit around a lot. Once you develop that habit, you're going to be able to prioritize
it into your daily schedule and your going to just make it part of your life and part
of your identity. And what I mean by exercising a lot is I would say an average of 60 minutes
a day, most days of the week. So you're probably looking at about 300 to 400 minutes per week.
And everything ranging from easy exercise like walking to vigorous exercise like running
and everything in between. My final tip is to walk as much as you can. Fitting in five
or ten minutes here and there throughout the day can make such a big difference, even parking
your car at the far end of the parking lot can make a big difference when you add it
up cumulatively over a lot of days of doing that. Walking is the best for burning fat,
I mean, hands down. If you do a lot of heavy cardio, like running or bootcamp classes or
things like that, you're not actually going to be burning fat, you're going to be mostly
burning glycogen, which is carbohydrates stored in your muscle. But if you want to lose fat,
you need to do low-level cardio, like walking. A great way to get in more walking is at the
end of your workout, if you work out in the gym, just hop on the treadmill for ten minutes
and make it a habit, make it a routine that you follow.
Okay so those are my tips for how I stay skinny. And if you have any tips I would LOVE to hear
them in the comments below, if there's anything I left out. And, if you liked this video,
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