Myths, Misconceptions and Special Circumstances | Nutrition For Fat Loss- Lecture 8

[@DavidandtheQueen]

How is Mike so articulate while not sounding professoral at the same time ?! I'm always amazed at how he delivers those lectures. Bravo 👏🏾👏🏾

[@JustMe-999a]

Vocabulary, obviously.

[@brittimusmaximus7298]

Such a dude aye 😂🙌🏼

[@springsteen-games5134]

That's called being a great college professor

[@johnbeeler25]

He’s just a great speaker.

[@BorisK296]

Dr. Isratel is a hair shape-shifter, every video of his has a different combination of head and facial hair. But his info and analogies are consistently awesome!

[@KenanTurkiye]

lol

[@grayson0916]

I remember when I first started watching this channel I thought there were two guys that looked and sounded really similar lmao

[@johnkerr762]

Came for the 8 fantastic lectures, stayed for the hilarious anecdotes and metaphors. As someone who has had incredible success on crazy diets but put the weight back on every time, this has been a revelation of pure, refined, premium-grade awesomeness. And it cost me nothing! Nothing! Thank you sincerely sir.

[@LiaCooper]

the concept of maintenance phases between diets was a revelation. id just hit the 10% weight loss mark on my diet and since it was a week before christmas i decided to go ahead and do a 10 week maintenance based on the info in one your previous lectures on the topic and it has been such a good decision. i hadnt even realized i was starting to fatigue on my diet until i eased back. now i'm eating at maintenance and putting that extra energy into my training and feeling great. ty for these lectures, for someone really new to the science side of fitness and nutrition like myself they are gold!

[@varunkamal91]

Did you reverse diet to find your new maintenance ? Or did you just take a number like 15x your bodyweight in pounds as daily maintenance calories? (Or whatever multiplier that works for you specifically)

[@Emil-sh6sq]

@@varunkamal91 Just gradually increase calories until your weight stabilises slightly over what it was at the end of you fat loss phase.

[@bjorn9486]

Literally the first person ive ever heard talk about how to maintain fat loss with maintenence periods. Thank you!

[@tazahsan]

What an amazing course and fully relevant 3 years later. Learned more in this set of videos than I have in the last 10 years of learning about learning and nutrition 🙏💪

[@jamesbarber6375]

Working my through this series, it is absolutely fantastic.

[@Frissdas1207]

Working my what?

[@k8nduke]

I could not have found you at a better time in my life. I realized listening to you I've lost about 12% of my bodyweight the last 3 months, so it's time to let my body adjust to this new weight. I'm learning so much with you and it all makes so much sense. Thank you so much!! Sending a big hug from Québec 🥰🤗

[@a1de2o3silva]

I just had the most personal, absolutely mindblowing connection to him describing the slow and steady process of losing weight. It felt like we were having a conversation, this was peak youtube, which i have never experienced before

[@theoneandonly1158]

Congratulations

[@ah_keeem]

great lecture series. I have learned more during these 8 lectures about fat loss than I did while studying for 4 months to become a personal trainer!!! Thank you so much Mike!!!

[@brennenj]

I’m wanting to be a coach soon and I learn SOOO much from these. I’m just surprised RP never put this stuff out as a paid course… this info is A1. Thank you for all the hard work y’all do!

[@heatherqualy9143]

I love you so much for these videos. I’ve had so many people around me that follow the wackiest diets, insisting that they’re the way humans MEANT to be eating! Fad diet after fad diet, touting scientific “facts” that don’t hold up to basic common sense scrutiny. I’ve lost noticeable weight twice in my life. 15 years ago, I lost 33 pounds. Then this past spring I lost 20 pounds, because I had gained back 20 pounds over the intervening years. Everyone asks what magic trick I used. Calorie deficit. But did you cut out this or this or that? Calorie deficit. Did you change when you ate? Calorie deficit. Are you working out more? No, I’m already active. Calorie. Deficit. No one believes that that will do it. And no one believes me when I tell them how many calories they are eating. They insist they eat 500-1000 calories less than I see them eating! I was just now getting frustrated, because I lost the weight by March, then maintained it until a month ago (July). Then 3-4 pounds crept back on. But, I feel better hearing you explain the “lose weight, maintain weight, lose a little more”. So, I was subconsciously doing that. I had maintained for a few months, but got complacent and started to creep back up. Instead, now is when I should be working on that last 5-10 pounds, and then maintain THAT long term. Thank you for explaining that so well!

[@awsomeshadowdude11]

Dr Mike you are the real professional I have always needed in my weighloss journey. The concise, logic and science based as well as psychological approach to weight loss has really revolutionized my journey and put to shame all the fit-fluencers I really didn’t care for already. I wish everybody could be able to hear all the stuff you talk about and be so much more educated as well as entertained. Maybe they’ll be confused but I’ll be laughing at all the analogies that really do the job of painting the picture of what you’re explaining. Thank you Dr Mike

[@Slinkwater]

Fun fact, that Greek runner's name was Phidippides! Also I've lost a ton of weight using this method. Currently in my maintenance phase. Energy and training performance and recovery has been phenomenal! And I'm growing muscle in this phase as well! Start dieting again in a couple weeks!

[@patrickaustin3009]

WE LOVE YOU DR. MIKE. The piece on dieting around holidays and trips, it shows me that aside from just presenting information you are such a down to earth guy teaching us not only how to optimize our results in the gym but live the best life possible. So when people at the gym bow down to me because of the size of my triceps I can fully enjoy that sensation

[@tomwaitsfornoone1182]

He's right, I over dieted and had insane cravings I did rebound but only 12/64lbs that i lost. took a 6month maintenance and now cutting the last 20, very little cravings and actually looking forward to eating clean again. Thanks Mike.

[@jongrotrian5067]

Dr. Mike is excellent. There is no way around it.

[@krankin88]

Was waiting for the mention of "had a kid or several" in the stress section. Great vid as always Dr Mike.

[@jaygee5546]

2 years late to the vid, but discovered it at the perfect time. I just spent 5 months unemployed, living off my severance package while I studied. In that time, my only active hours were spend weight lifting, so my diet was catered nicely to that. But as my finances started to dwindle, it was time for a new job. And this job is incredibly cardio-centric, loading and unloading delivery lorries with furniture, beds, mattresses, etc, trying to meet deadlines and quotas. It goes without saying that my calorie intake needed to increase to sustain my energy levels, but the convenient food and drinks are in the form of pepsi, redbull, crisps and chocolate from the vending machines (the warehouse is in the middle of nowhere), or the bakery food van that comes by at lunch. Not only are they not ideal foods and drinks to choose, but they're fucking expensive too.... So I've started to bring rice and chicken and gfuel to get me through the shift... This video is exactly what I've been mulling over these past few weeks, and it's a great feeling knowing I'm intuitively living by RP doctrine. Big love

[@Gbonejohn1974]

that mentality of maintenance feeling like spinning your wheels is a tough one to break ....unless im visibly slimmer somewhere week after week or going the other way and getting stronger /bigger/adding muscle i sort of get no pleasure and my motivation wains ,unless I have a goal to strive for its not the same ....if you are already lean or muscular and happy with your physique ,its very difficult to purposely not try and change the look you are unhappy with

[@kaganas_edits7551]

You should do a video about you approach to cheat meals / holidays& extra.what is the best way to eat during holiday? Count calories? What to do after holiday dinner?&so on

[@mohammadumar5217]

Portion control. Mostly you cant carry a food scale everywhere

[@andrzejszczepanski9992]

This content is absolute gold. Thanks Mike for bringing it to the world! Keep it up!

[@TCAPRecipes]

I love maintenance calories. I'll do that for a while. Went from 300 to 200 lbs in 6 months. I don't want to go back to 300.

[@BrianMax]

Re: losing 50 lbs in six months and rebounding: Last year I went from 34% bodyfat at 232lbs to 28% body fat at 192lbs, a loss of 40 lbs mass: 24lbs fat and 9.79lb muscle. I gained back 30 lbs, mostly fat. This year I'm losing fat more slowly, maintaining muscle better. Dr. Mike is my favorite 'fitness influencer' because he knows what he's talking about.

[@nukesploder]

hows it going now?

[@ianpier16]

it's always encouraging to know im not the only one being crushed by lonliness

[@boshirahmed]

Everyone is bro. Weight loss is a lonely journey. U have to love your loneliness

[@varunkamal91]

Excellent lesson. All the things I ve known through the years. But it was a thorough revision.

[@jamesporter2431]

I'm 6'4" Ive dropped from 285 to 245 in 3 months then ate a maintenance for a month then dropped to 235 then maintenance for 3 months then dropped to 225 and maintained another 3 months I dropped yet another 10lbs to 215 but over by birthday week I rebounded to 226 so I went back into small deficit and have got to 220 this rebound scared me so I plan to maintain for at least 6 months it sucks I'm at about 18-20% I really wanna get to 200-205 or 10-12%

[@CharlieLiuPhotography]

Love watching/listening in on your stuff while I'm working out my jaws by eating this boring anchovies and lettuce salad.

[@w4j33h8]

Thank you Dr.Mike, I plan to help so many people with this information.

[@dawnelle88]

This brought so much clarity!! Thank you!

[@xxlgorillanorgaming8499]

Thank you for all the 8 lectures! This was very very good! I will forsure see it a few more times!

[@gnomenorthofthewall1982]

Great video! Time lose some sustainably. But I need to comment about the "mistaking thirst for hunger"-myth, because there is a hint of truth in it. But it's not the hunger people mistake thirst for, but it's desire to eat for pleasure. I myself have experienced this often. I wander around my apartment and end up opening fridge and eating something small. Actually just nibbling something. But not because I'm hungry but because of the desire to taste something good. And here it helps to drink something instead of nibbling. I always keep water bottle in the fridge and if I catch my self opening the fridge and I'm not hungry or it is not time to eat, I drink some water. And the urge goes away for a while.

[@TheBbturtle]

I went from 280 to 155 in 7 months. Been between 155 and 165 for the past year, currently at 161.

[@y2kvaporwave]

good job! honestly fat loss is more like alcoholism; you have to want to keep the weight off and if you have the right mindset, you're golden

[@markellaswelt9099]

A little correction on the battle of Marathon: the Greeks did win against the Persians. One person, Phidippides, run from Marathon to Athens (approx. 42 km) to tell the Athenians (not the King, Athens was already a democracy!) about the victory and to warn them that the Persian battleships were heading towards Piraeus (port of Athens). He died because of the fatigue from the battle combined with the running to Athens afterwards.

[@Magic_beans_]

Also, the distance we know today (26.219 miles/42.195 km) was set at the 1908 London Olympics and didn’t become the standard until the 1924 Games. Prior marathons varied according to the lay of the land and were just meant to be somewhere in the 40-ish kilometer (25-ish mile) range.

[@ItsZeppelinPVP]

nothing like a fat loss video at 3am

[@Bobventk]

Sleep helps fat loss

[@mangymetal]

@@Bobventk Fat helps loss sleep

[@Bobventk]

@@mangymetal good one?

[@rananapier8424]

I love these so much~ feel like a sponge soaking up these knowledge tidbits 😁😁😁

[@priscillabahaw5673]

The tips here are so true. Thanks Dr Mike

[@Daniel_Zalman]

This information is so logical and helpful.

[@Jwam94]

This Free content is amazing Mike Thank you!

[@dreamlanddentalorthodontic8175]

Amazing stuff! Thank you for your love and passion!

[@rosemarypec158]

Thank you for this series you answered questions I didn’t think to ask

[@nesterzhzhot]

Thank you for your lectures! ❤

[@jayconley9413]

Dr. Mike is Fucking Great!!!

[@christopheralanmoore315]

Hit up 15:00 for how to understand all of life. Shot Mike you’re an absolute g

[@Daniel_Zalman]

I've noticed that when I go really low on fats that my skin gets dry.

[@metalheadblues]

No real reason to go low fat , just eat good fats

[@bodnarism]

Me too, I feel as though skin elasticity was effected. I’m a climber, skin between joint on finger skin would split often.

[@funkecorinna5510]

OMG he looks so much younger in this video. Only three years ago! 😢

[@kapitankapow]

Love the lecture love the music selection

[@davidlakes5087]

Watch out with the salad dressing! Many restaurant entree salads have well over 1,000 calories due to the high-calorie dressings.

[@nilo7727]

Another great video from Dr Mike!!💪👍👌👏😎

[@lulutzkeloo]

Yeah, why is his wife happy with him and not me? 🤣 I love your analogies 😁

[@Failurefirst123]

Love them aggressive blinks

[@rsoobo9150]

Another great video. Please keep them coming. I’d like to hear more about macros/ calories during sports seasons. Also, what contacts are you using? Your eyes are so dry it makes my eyes dry lol.

[@vasilzhiliev6057]

Caught me off guard with that early upload

[@bai_qi]

Food variety is my main problem cuz of money. Carbs usually are cheaper and has more, unlike protein sources, esp meats.

[@Wilya5499]

So what if you did it the wrong way before you learned better? I've lost 200lbs and maintained it since 2019, but I dieted 2 years straight. Any tips on making sure I don't go off the rails?

[@Reddles37]

If you've been maintaining for over a year you should be fine.

[@crzyces1693]

Can being on TRT eliminate the need for diet breaks or alter their frequency/duration? If someone is losing weight steadily at 1% of their body weight per week has calculated their caloric intake correctly, or very very close as shown by the weight loss and is still energetic, happy, sexually functional, doing well with the exercise regimen and sleeping great, should they force themselves to *stop?* If they were not on TRT and all of those other things were true, again, should they be told _"OK, you've been at this for 3 months, you've done fantastic. I know you still feel good and the weight is still falling off while your lifts are going up or maintaining, but we are still going to take an August-October break."_ Would it be better to hold off and wait to see if they do start to stall? If they do start having lower energy/libido or going through any of the things that are so common when dieting for an extended period of time? Or perhaps hold off until the holidays if everything stays the way it is then suggest they take Thanksgiving through New Years off? And...what if they just want to pause for a few days on Thanksgiving and the few days that follow, maybe to get a couple of extra turkey and stuffing sandwiches down without having to worry about walking for an axtra 3 hours to account for the extra calories in one sandwich? Then They also only want to break from Christmas Eve through New Years Eve? What if they are doing incredibly well, again, 1% per week, nailing everything, and they say _"Nah, I can just fit my Thanksgiving season meals in with my regular calories. I'm good. Maybe I'll take New Year's Eve and New Year's off so I can get a trashed with the Mrs's and act like a high school kid then have a hangover breakfast the next day. Other than that, I feel really good and sincerely do not want to call this off for; *months?!?* Now if I were the client, I would feel like I was doing something wrong *OR* that there was a big disconnect between my dietician and myself. I am well aware that 95%+ of people who lose over 20lbs on a diet keep that weight off for 5 years, but that is on *ANY* calorically restrictive diet regardless of duration. I'm also aware that only 5% of the people who join a gym every year are still going 3 months later. I believe only 15% of Americans, in total, go to the gym once a week or more on a yearly basis, so simply going to the gym and getting in 2 or 3 solid days per week is already showing the discipline that 95% of US residents who signed up for the gym could not maintain. Staying on a diet for 3 months without going over on calories *once* or taking a _cheat day_ also shows some abnormal control *_imo._* Now I am bringing this up because I am obviously going through it as we speak and am not sure what to do. DO I say _"Yep, you got 2 extra reps with 205 past your previous best, lost another 1.8lbs last week for a total of 75.3lbs, but you have to take some time off even though you seem very unhappy about it and it is obvious it is putting you in a kinda shitty place. Man up and deal with it, and up your calories by 900/day."_

[@brookegazy2096]

Amazing! Thank you!!!!

[@wakeupandsmellthelies7728]

Thank you for the knowledge 🙏

[@dailydoseofweightloss1450]

Great video. Keep up the good work.

[@Gbonejohn1974]

i think my body is broken at the minute lol i made the error of dieting for too long and stalled out even on low calories stuck at 230 for weeks on end (macros right calories dropped etc its not like i know nothing ) so decided to eat 3500 a day for a few weeks and really push carbs for a while and the scale still hasnt budged ,not even a few pounds of water weight bizarrely ...in fact i saw 229 once lol ....so weeks of 2000 and then weeks of 3500 has made zero difference ...if i could eat 3500 for weeks more then just start trimming away from there i would be more than happy but my weight loss or change either way only seems to kick in with high or low cals its like i have a band thats no mans land between maintennce and losing

[@mphughes256]

Some late night / early AM RP action yeeeee

[@brca89851]

Love this channel

[@bradenadams7511]

You Rock Mike!

[@radoskan]

Mike is fucking awesome

[@josephyunker7193]

Thanks!

[@logwind]

Another great one.

[@entyce66]

Great info

[@brucedonnelly5209]

FINE. I GUESS I NEED A MAINTENANCE PERIOD.

[@christophermikell7018]

Thank you

[@lukeclaydon6670]

Good stuff

[@Leonidas-eu9bb]

basically it's a period of action followed by a period of maintenance. Is this aos the best strategy for gaining weight (muscle)? I think so.

[@davidlakes5087]

Is a maintenance phase required or useful prior to a muscle gain phase, or is it simply best to jump straight from weight loss to muscle gain?

[@tonyyagiello1130]

lost 40 lbs on keto, once fat adapted i cut fat and did low carb to burn the boty fat not the fat your eating.

[@tonyyagiello1130]

with fasting and cal deficet

[@surgeb9150]

Spasibo !

[@thequantaleaper]

What about starting the process with s maintenance phase if you've made the decision to lose weight but it's right before the holidays?

[@palomaserrano7642]

And I just find it so difficult to lose 10 pounds sounds so little even in kilos but it's just hard!

[@vinman5432]

Can you put in chapters for these great videos/lectures that cover a certain topic but w/several categories that concern only some or one of the categories for some or most people?

[@KenanTurkiye]

Myths do cause misconceptions and vice-versa, you're not wrong there Doc :)

[@adonis22_75]

Amazing

[@deuteriumjones]

“Croissants are basically cookies”

[@Magic_beans_]

In terms of nutritional value, kinda yeah. Folks don’t realize how much butter goes into making a good croissant.

[@leolauria]

Laughing out loud as I'm actually listening to this while dieting on a trip to Italy 😂

[@chrisloker1851]

Transportation guy here. I pack all my meals on the road. Pretty easy to hit your calories that way.

[@jacksoncurrie528]

So you’re saying if you CAN continue eating healthy and slowly raise your maintenance then you can successfully cut out a lot of weight in one hit?

[@fgberge]

Yey! New video!

[@yacc636]

I am actually often not sure if i am thirsty or hungry, but i have pretty weak thirst and hunger signaling, i used to not drink for days and end up horribly dehydrated so i made drinking a habit by always having something to drink close by and just sip it even if i feel no need to. Hunger is similar, It takes atleast 24 hours between meals before i even get mildly hungry, so i often just eat because it is time to eat not because i feel hungry. So there are these times where i feel that vague physical discomfort and i am not sure is it thirst is it hunger? Then i eat a little bit and it turns out it wasn't that, so i drink and it was that and vice versa. Over time it got a little bit better by listening to my body better but the distinction and signaling is still not very good and precise.

[@boshirahmed]

Hunger u feel in your stomach. Thirst u feel in your throat. Hope this helps.

[@yacc636]

@@boshirahmed well usually i just can't locate it. I literally don't feel thirst in my throat. To feel hungry in my stomach i need to be EXTREMELY hungry. But thanks for trying to help.

[@adonis22_75]

Awesome

[@NiSE_Rafter]

The beard is unexpected but looks good :)

[@raiderz10mb]

I find that for holidays intermittent fasting works well(the only time i fast). A 300-500 cal lunch and then whatever I can eat in one sitting for dinner. Helps me pack on less pounds without feeling as limited.

[@felipeaguiar7213]

Will there be a video about water manipulation?

[@adeyaitchdee]

4:42 Dr Mike cheated in Italy confirmed?

[@csandy427]

How often should we weigh ourselves?

[@Magic_beans_]

He mentions this in a prior video, I think Rates & Durations. For best tracking, he suggests at least three times a week. It’s one of those diminishing-return things: three is way better than one or two, but five is only marginally better than three. Seven is maybe slightly better, but if it’s an inconvenience don’t worry about it. One thing I personally would advise is to be consistent; if you’re going to weigh on Saturdays weigh every Saturday. Sometimes folks will want to skip days when they feel heavier or assume their weight would be up. I can appreciate why people want to do that, but it’s kind of hiding from the problem. In the long run I think it’s healthier to face up to it, to see those weight fluctuations come and go so it really registers that they’re normal and temporary.

[@boshirahmed]

It depends on how much u r struggling. I do once a day. Easy to slip up if u love food.

[@SZamaneq]

What about someone who lose fat/recomp enchanced, do i wait till i lose acctualy 8-10% of body weight even thou i might lose 15%+ of bodyfat at that time or do i track my diet by estimated of fat %?

[@47bricklayer]

Write it down. Don't wing it. At least track your protein and total calories.

[@atefouf4869]

Love the beard

[@mcsteam236]

I have a question: does caffeine after a workout stop muscle growth? I asked this question because i found a research online that says something about caffeine inhibiting the effect of protein synthesis, and it kinda scares me. Is this true?

[@ThePainkiller9995]

Nah

[@d2ds17]

What if your app keeps cutting carbs for me?

[@JustenHarden]

Now this is how I like to start my mornings

[@SBavailablehandle]

Losing as much as I can as fast as I can is called the snake diet.

[@Rapunzel879]

I'm in a heavy caloric deficit (500-1500) and training daily. I've gained 2KG in two months.

[@boshirahmed]

That's nothing. Mostly possibly water. Be patient. Measure you're waist etc

[@juanitacoutcher9971]

This may be a dumb question but I'm asking anyway. I am down to my goal weight. I'm weight training to tone up and hopefully lose fat. Do I really need to increase my calorie intake to build muscle, or will the needed energy come from the excess fat?

[@BigDraco123]

you have to be in a calorie surplus to build muscle.

[@juanitacoutcher9971]

@@BigDraco123 I’ve been eating the calories indicated that I naturally burn at rest, plus those my Apple Watch tells me I burn in my weightlifting and cardio. Is that sufficient? I just really want to get off the excess fat and be sure that the loose skin is loose skin and not fat.

[@irisk934]

I would just eat at maintenance and then your body can go through recomposition. Building muscle while lowering fat

[@Iuxaries]

@@BigDraco123 wrong

[@juanitacoutcher9971]

@@irisk934 thanks. That’s actually what I’m trying to do. Losing is much easier than maintaining. 😜