Hi, I'm Chris James. You're watching a healthy alternative. And today we're going to be talking about the slow and steady route to weight loss.
Let's go. All right. I want you guys to think about something.
Think about your childhood. Think about some of the nursery rhymes and the different concepts that were repeated throughout your life. And I think we can all agree one of those concepts was slow and steady wins the race.
You remember the story of the tortoise and the hair? A very early story we would hear. It was a book.
It was in in programming TV. It was all over the place and people repeated it. It sounds good for those who don't know the story, right?
The to it's a turtle. Turtles are slow. They're known to be slow.
They're actually not that slow in real life, but they're they're typically not as fast as a rabbit, right? So, it's a race between this turtle and a rabbit. And of course, everybody thinks the rabbit's going to win.
The rabbit thinks the rabbit's going to win. The tor the turtle thinks the rabbit's going to win, I think, for the most part. But the turtle is very determined.
And the problem and the reason why the the rabbit ends up losing the race um is because he decides to take breaks and goof off because he's got all the time in the world. He's way faster than the turtle. There's no way the turtle can beat him.
So, what does that story tell us? uh perseverance, consistency, um uh just because something looked bleak, don't don't automatically assume that you you can't do it or whatever the case may be. There's different things that you could get from it.
But I often hear it used in different worlds like with weight loss. Hey, you know, slow and steady wins the race. You know what I mean?
We just repeat it across we we no matter what the situation is, it just sounds good. slow and steady. Just now I'm a big fan of consistency.
I really am. Um I don't really like slow as much. I I I don't think slow is as beneficial holistically.
I think slow has its there's a time and a place for slow. But let me let me give this example. Let's assume that a person's house is on fire.
Would you want to try to put the fire out with little cups of water? Splash, splash, splash. Or would you call the fire department so they can rapidly extinguish the fire?
I think we would all choose calling the fire department to come hook up their hose and shoot 50 gallons of water per second. I think that would probably be the option we'd choose, right? That's not slow and steady.
So, we already understand that slow and steady doesn't work in everything. It's not a blanket statement that we should use everywhere. By the way, in the story with the tortoise and the hair, the only reason why the hair lost is because he was goofing off and fooling around.
Had the had the hair been as consistent and had the hair been um as focused as the tortoise, he would have blazed that turtle. So, the reality is the hair should have won. He had the skill, he had the technique, he had the talent, he had the speed.
He literally just threw away his opportunity. That's not the same as, oh, just you can't be successful if you do things fast. And that's kind of the narrative that I see trending, especially when it comes to weight loss.
We've talked about this in the past. There is a narrative that says if you lose weight slow and steady, you won't have to worry about loose skin. Well, we have seen with our own eyes that that is not true.
We have seen people take a year, two years to lose large amounts of weight and they still have loose skin, okay? And we have debunked why it happens. It has nothing to do with the speed.
So, being able to get rid of that. Why else would you want to do it slow and steady? Well, because it's extreme weight loss and it's dangerous.
What does that mean? Where's the proof? And and also, by the way, does it matter how you approach your weight loss?
Does that play a role? Because how you do things matter? It's it's not just simply as easy as saying do it slow or do it fast.
How are you doing it? Back in the day, you know, people would ask me, Chris, what's the quickest way to lose weight? I said, well, cutting your arm off would probably net you about a 5 10 lb loss in real time fast.
But that's not something you probably want to do, right? That's not that's not a route. That's not a good course of action.
So, we want to approach things quickly and efficiently. Now, quickly may look different for different people. Everybody's not going to move at the same pace, and that's not what I'm saying.
Everyone has a slow mode or tortoise mode and a rabbit mode. And and those speeds, even though they're two different speeds, they're different for every person. So what we like to do is help people understand customized plans and how they can be successful in their life.
But why slow roll it? We are we're going to we're only going to limit the the our progress by how consistent we can be. So as we continue to build our consistency, why not ramp it up?
If you have a goal of losing 100 pounds in 2026, right? you you just you you're like, "I'm tired of this weight. I need to get it off.
There's there's a world of hurt waiting for me on the other side of of 2026 if I don't get this weight off. " Hey, listen. I'm here.
I'm I'm I'm with you. Let's get the weight off. Does that mean you got to get it off in 3 MONTHS?
NO. YOU DON'T have to get it off in 3 months. Does it mean that you got to wait and do 10 pounds a a month to get it off and and take a year?
No, you don't have to do it that slow. Why can't we look at a hybrid approach? Maybe where we do, you know, we maybe we jumpst start your your wellness process and we get maybe 20 or 30 pounds off really quick and then we sandwich maybe some slower time in there.
You know, make sure we avoid fasting fatigue and make sure that you're still motivated while still losing weight loss, but also focusing on something like dietary strategy. It's very important that when you lose the 100 pounds, you're able to maintain it. So, as you're building out your strategy, you can say, "All right, let's let's let's do a spark plug.
Let's get, you know, that that initial spark, maybe lose 20, 30 lbs. " Boom. Now, we're now we've got 70 lbs to go.
The next 20 lbs. Let's lose the next 20 lbs by eating right. Can you challenge yourself to do that?
Like, fasting is the easy way out, y'all. That is the easy way out. You can lose tons of weight very quickly.
You can lose 100 pounds in 90 days. We've seen it. It's been duplicated.
We know that's possible. But sustainability definitely becomes a problem. So, okay, pick a pick a starting amount that you want to knock off with fasting.
Then after that, you in introduce dietary strategy. Do you want to eat raw? Do you want to eat alkaline?
Do you want to do portion control? Do you want to do OMAD? Right?
Maybe you want to just cut out refined sugars or stop drinking soda or stop eating ice cream. There's lots of different things you could do. There's simple things you can do to help you move that needle forward.
You will drop weight very quickly because look, the reality is a lot of your weight is inflammation. We talked about this. So, when you're looking at your dietary strategy, if you're getting rid of foods that cause you inflammation, you're going to drop that next 20 pounds or whatever is going to drop pretty quick.
And you're going to learn a valuable lesson. those foods. When I eat this cheese, when I eat this ice cream, when I drink sodas, when I eat this that that, whatever, it inflames me.
It makes me swell up. It makes me feel sick. When I take these drugs, those medications will will swell you up quick because you you got to remember when you're taking drugs, you're putting toxins in the system directly.
And the drugs work by irritating the system. What's an irritant? You guys ever have a friend or a family member or somebody who just nang nang talk talk talk kick kick punch punch.
They just can't stop. They can't stand still. They're irritating.
Right? We understand irritating is not a good thing. So the drugs are designed to irritate the system and they're very specific.
They're going to irritate a very specific thing in your system. And because it irritates that thing, the body, there's a reaction. Shut up.
Right? the drug's going to irritate the system. The body's going to be like, "Shut up.
" And then you're going to get some kind of result from that. And so it it works, but very crudely. And when it when the body shuts you up, it's constantly doing that.
You're dam it also has like a um there's a recourse to it that there's recoil. It's it's damaging as well. And that's why you see new issues pop up other places because there's a there's a recoil when you use an irritant like that.
Now, herbs are irritants as well, but they're gentle irritants, or at least they can be. You know, it depends on how you use them. You can overuse the the herbs as well, but they're all irritants.
That's all that's all they're doing is they're irritating the body. They're stimulating a response from the body. Okay?
So the approach matters. So you you lose your 30 pounds up front, you lose another 20 pounds through proper dietary strategy. You're going to learn a lot about yourself.
You're going to develop new lifestyle habits. You're going to be able to maintain your weight loss. And then so now we're down 50 lbs.
We're halfway there. Now you can ramp up your detoxification if you want. Right?
So the next phase is do some heavy detox cleanses. Cleanse the liver. get a caster pack or do liver clint flushes.
Start taking maybe some some some binders and things to to clean your system up. You know, one of my favorite binders is clean slate. Clean slate is is something you have to take with water.
It's it uses water as a as a dispersement mechanism. That's how the how that's how the clean slate and the um the clapillite the minerals get into the body. It uses water.
So, that's a great option for binding and moving heavy metals out of the system. And and why is that important? Because when you go to do your next round of fasting, you really want to hit it hard.
It's important you have a smooth interaction. And one of the ways you could do that is by doing some preliminary work, clean up some of the mess that's already there, right? So, now you do a little cleanup.
You've you've already kind of locked in some new dietary habits. You've already been successful with some fasting. You've got 50 lbs left.
Maybe you're, you know, 4 months into the year now. Okay, cool. Guess what?
In the next 2 months, you can knock off that next 50 lbs and just be done with it. So, literally, in half a year, you can knock off the 100 pounds. You don't have to wait a year or two years to do it.
You just need to be you need a plan. You need to be concise. That's it.
As long as you have a concise plan and you're willing to follow those steps, you could see very rapid results. Most people will tell you losing 100 pounds in a year is extreme weight loss and it's not good. Of course, they're going to curse you if you do it in 6 months.
They're going to tell you you got surgery. They're going to tell you that you're using AI. Um, they're going to tell you all kinds of crazy stuff.
They're going to say it's not really you. Maybe you got a twin brother that was 100 pounds lighter. A lot of people can't fathom being able to lose that much weight, have no loose skin, look better, look healthier.
I mean, just overall be uplifted. A lot of people think that's impossible. And why is that, by the way?
Why? Why do people think that that's impossible? It's because we have been conditioned to believe that our bodies are limited.
Well, my belief is we live in a supernatural world, and impossible is only just uh maybe something that hasn't been done yet. Impossible is something that might take a little extra time and energy, but there's nothing that's impossible. The only impossible isn't here.
You're the only person or the only thing that can put limitations on yourself. So, if you want to accomplish something, forget about the noise. The noise is not going to benefit you at all.
It's just there to drown out your thoughts. Personally, I find it very difficult to think, to teach, to learn, to to do when there's a lot of noise. Learn to go to a quiet place.
Okay? Get away. Get to a private place.
Get to a quiet place, somewhere peaceful, somewhere in nature, a beach or a cabin or, you know, somewhere your prayer closet. Create your plan. What do you want to accomplish?
What timeline do you want to do it in? And be aggressive. Not aggressive to the point where it's like, I want to lose 100 pounds in a month.
No, I'm saying be aggressive like if your normal timeline would be 2 years to lose 100 pounds, at least cut that in half. At least have a plan to do it in a year. That would be aggressive.
Right now, one thing that I've learned when you start creating timelines, and this is one of the reasons why I had you guys, you know, get these journals. I created the AHA wellness journals as a companion to help you create these steps. The AHA wellness journal is a wellness companion.
There's guides in there. There's things to help you with lifestyle. There's places for you to doodle and have fun and be creative.
And there's also places to, you know, for you to write your your whatever strategy out. So, write your strategy out. Grab yourself a AHA journal.
Write your strategy out. Okay? Make sure that you be a little aggressive.
Erase the idea that ex that rapid weight loss is bad. Okay? Rapid weight loss is good as long as you do it right the right way.
And once you understand that, you can you can move on with your life. Because look, here's the thing. For every day, for every moment that you are 100 pounds overweight or you're dealing with heart disease or you're you you you have u you're not getting proper sleep, you're not you're snoring and you're you're you're illrested.
For every moment, every day, every every week, every month, every year that you are in that state, you are eating away at your life force. Do you guys understand that on the on the back end of your life, all of the choices that you're making today are going to compound? And that is the reason why, just look at your elders, look at the time that they're passing.
There was a time when it was very weird for someone to to pass away at 55. There was a time when that was not normal. It wasn't it was it was it wasn't like oh yeah you know it happens.
There was a time when it's like that was shocking. He was so young. People would say now in this day and age yeah you know it happens.
I could be next. People joke about that. It's it's it's bro like you're 50 years.
That's all we get is 50 years. They're trying to make us comfortable with 50 years. I say, "Oh, Chris, well, you know, the average the average time a man and woman live in America is, you know, 70 72 76 years.
" Okay. And I'm supposed to be excited about that. Is the average time people are living going down, though?
Is it declining or is it increasing? And people argue with me all the time. I say, "Chris, we're living longer than we ever have.
" No, we are not. Why do you guys think that? Like your your aunts, your your great aunts, your great did like so I know so many people.
I never met any great aunts or great uncles. Like I had my grandparents, you know, for probably the first 12 years, 13 years of my life. I had my all my grandparents and after that they started passing away.
It's so rare to be able to see three and four generations of people together because people aren't living long enough. Okay. How many centurions did we have 100 years ago versus how many we have today?
How many do you know? How many centurions do you know? Because you know numbers lie.
I don't numbers get manipulated all the time to paint a narrative. So my observable reality is telling me people aren't living that long. They're not.
And so anyway, the reality is the quicker you get it off the better. But consist let consistency be your accelerator. As well as you can be consistent.
Increase the speed. Once you start getting inconsistent, slow it back down a little bit. Let that tell you, let that be your accelerometer.
Let that show you how quickly you could go. But don't just arbitrarily think that losing weight rapidly is bad because it's not. Okay?
And and what happens if you buy into that narrative? Well, the problem is you do a diet or you do a thing or whatever and you slow roll it and you see a little bit of results and then because you're slow rolling it, life happens quicker than your diet. Meaning, if you're doing something that's helping you lose two or three pounds a month, you're gaining five pounds in one night drinking and and eating pizza.
Life is going to happen much faster than your slow road dietary process. Again, if you're, you know, if you're super consistent, yes, but the problem is being consistent over long durations of time is is very challenging for people. And if you know you're not that type, if you know that you're not you have an issue with consistency, especially over long durations of time, why try to slow roll it?
You're setting yourself up for failure. And then what happens? The mental breakdown.
So now you've been doing this thing for x amount of time. Let's say 6 months. You've lost 10 pounds.
Even though that's good, because people typically will gain 5 lbs in a year. So, even though that's good mentally, you think about all the work you did to lose that 10 pounds, all of the things you said no to, all the the amount of energy that went into you being consistent to lose that 10 pounds. And what you're going to do is you're going to justify it in your head.
You're going to say, "It wasn't worth it. " Even though at that pace, you know, over the next five years, you get to your goal or whatever the case may be, you'd still justify it and say, "It's not worth it. It's too much work for that amount of result.
And I'm not here to say that that's right or wrong. I might agree with you, but the reality is why even set yourself up for that. Just go into it with the mindset, we're going to be smart about it.
We're not going to go crazy. We're going to have realistic expectations, but then we're going to really be aggressive about our timeline. If you create the timeline, create the plan, get the strategy to together, and then be consistent as consistent as you can as you increase speed or intensity, maintain that consistency, you're going to get the results much quicker than you ever imagined.
That much I can promise. We've seen that happen time and time again. The reality is nothing really takes that long when you understand how to do it.
You know, there's these little puzzles people sell. you get these these puzzles um just they one that I had was like it was like this solid ring uh it was like maybe like a oval shape or whatever and there's these there's these um these little uh nails there's these nails and these other little loops on it it's a contraption okay and for years I couldn't figure out the puzzle I refused to go on to YouTube I refused refused to cheat. But for years, I could not figure out the puzzle.
I mean, I never sat there and played with it for an hour. But, you know, get bored. I just play with it.
H, put it down. And then one day, somebody I showed them the puzzle and they solved it in like 4 minutes. Now, how come I've had this puzzle for years and I never solved it, but somebody was able to solve it in four minutes.
Is it because they're smarter than me? Is it because the puzzle was really hard, but it wasn't? Must couldn't have been that hard.
What's the reality? The reality is they knew how to solve the puzzle. That's all there is to it.
They knew how to solve the puzzle. So, because they knew how to solve the puzzle, they did it in record time. It was It's not about how difficult it is.
And everything can seem difficult when you don't know how to do it. The first time you tie your shoe, it's difficult, but when you know how to tie your shoe, it's nothing. You don't even remember the last time you tied your shoe because you just do it.
It's just a response. Shoe goes on the foot, shoes get tied, you're out of there, not even paying attention to it. So, we blow things up.
We turn mountains into mole hills. The reality is losing weight is easy if you know how to do it properly, if you understand how the body works. And what I want to do is give y'all the blueprint.
Okay, that's it. That's I'm just giving y'all the blueprint. So, check this out.
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