Movie Night: Weight of The Nation – Part 2

Time to watch part 2 of the Weight of the Nation series and delve into why people are gaining so much weight and how they are managing to lose the weight.

I never advise restriction. It’s not necessary to restrict in order to lose weight and we don’t want to slow down metabolism. Eating raw foods, due to its rich water content, fiber, and nutrient density, you can eat as much as you want and lose weight. You can feel satisfied and satisfy cravings with healthy foods, plant based foods. There is no need to do excessive exercise, especially when you are not eating saturated fat and cholesterol from animal sources. Killing yourself with exercises you don’t like will only work against your weight loss efforts because the unhappiness will not make you want to do it so you will have to force yourself which then becomes stressful and stress makes the body hold on to fat.

Don’t wait until you have to do something radical, like surgery. Take little achievable steps right now.

Stock your kitchen with the items on the shopping lists each week.

Having healthy items in your kitchen means you are setup for success. You can’t make the mistake of eating something bad because it won’t be in your kitchen at all.

Follow the free meal plans on RawFoodMealPlanner.com including the exercise suggestions.

If you don’t like a particular exercise, make it fun and turn it into something you do like or do something else you enjoy. For example, if it is HIIT on the plan that day and you don’t like HIIT too much but you love to dance, incorporate dancing into the exercise so in between moves, you are dancing and during movement you don’t like, you are dancing. This will give you a great workout and release dopamine (the feel good hormone) so you actually enjoy the workout and look forward to the next one.

Utilize my suggested playlists that I publish each month or play music that you love.

This is another technique to make your exercise routine more fun. Once it’s fun, you will stick with it because you will actually look forward to it each day.