Does losing fat make you happier?
Hello. I am back. September. I'm turning 30 this month. I'm not panicking about it all again.
Speaker 1:I'm oh, I'm turning 30. End of the world. I haven't done everything. So I'm man. It's fine.
Speaker 1:Happy days. Impression on me. I should have bought a I should have had I should have had bought seven kids, two houses, mid millions. What else? I should have traveled the world by now, shouldn't I?
Speaker 1:Something along those lines. What are doing to do by 30? I'm wanna do everything that you can do in life by 13 if not it's over. Oh my god. What a trick.
Speaker 1:What a when you just waste your twenties worrying about your thirties. Nuts, man. But today, I got some important things to talk about today. There's a few look, going through the Facebook groups, I love seeing the wins and the posts. So everybody posting, you know, what happened on the weekend, big days, just please do it.
Speaker 1:When I read them, got a smile on my face. Big smile on face. One year from Louise Bennett, she posted on the weekend. She said this. Another big win for me.
Speaker 1:I went for I went to watch Leeds Rhinos March with my dad at my parents' house, my mom said, so you want what do wanna stay for pizza? I stayed for pizza, which I enjoyed. I rejigged my calories and to eat my chocolate bar that I pre tracked would take me slightly over, which would be fine, but this time, I don't actually want to. Who even am I? Also, my weight went up slightly this morning for the first time.
Speaker 1:Not sure why. Had a good day yesterday. It doesn't you know, your weight would go up and down regardless of how good the day was. Trust me. It's nuts.
Speaker 1:I don't know. We we don't know exactly why, but various things, but I was okay with it. And maybe my weight will be up tomorrow due to the heavy car pizza and low water intake today. But that's okay too. I know it happened, and I can adapt going forward.
Speaker 1:And I smashed the worker this morning and enjoyed it. Really enjoying the first week of the fourteen day masterclass. Thank you. You know what, like, those wins are the important ones. Being able to have a pizza with your family and not panic about it, not feel terrible, sweating and stress.
Speaker 1:Oh, can't eat a pizza. So I mean, the that's a that's a huge win. Like, being able to do these little things in life that we don't feel bad about doing. We're told you can't have, you can't, you shouldn't eat pizza, shouldn't eat chocolate, this and that because to me you're fine. Can't have Coke Zero's really bad for you, know sweeteners, you can't have full fat Coke either because the sugar's really bad for you.
Speaker 1:All this stuff, everything you do you fucking judge yourself on it because everyone's told you it's bad. So you never actually enjoy these moments which is what life is. That pizza with your parents when you are 60, 70 years old, you look by your life, those are the moments you're gonna cherish the most. But these huge things you did, those small moments you had out on a pizza with your parents, having a having a pint with your best mate, chatting about life, you know, those are the moments that matter. And we can't let those bromance be ruined by diet culture conditioning or conditioning in general by society telling us that we shouldn't be able to eat those things because it's bad for us.
Speaker 1:If we know the fundamental truth like Louise has learned now, calorie deficit equal fat loss, optimize our macros if possible to make sure we lose mostly fat not muscle, we got energy, got muscle, we're building muscle or retaining muscle, where satiety response to food is better with higher protein diets, all this stuff. So not only we losing weight, we're generally feeling healthier as well. Right? When we know that, we can manipulate it. We're like gods.
Speaker 1:Oh my god. That's the truth there. And basically now I'm free to eat wherever I want as long as I come in around those targets or on average. That's all that matters. Nothing else.
Speaker 1:All the shit on social media over the last thirty, forty years about dieting and looking at the small things. They focus on the small things and make them out to be massive things that don't actually matter. You should eat six times a day because if you eat three times a day, it's gonna cause a decent amount. Doesn't matter how many times a day, how many meals you have a day. It's total calories that matter.
Speaker 1:Or you shouldn't eat before you train. You shouldn't eat before bed because you pull up. Doesn't matter. If you eat before bed and it ruins your sleep, then you can change it, but it doesn't make you more fat on. Right?
Speaker 1:There's like loads of stuff we've we've been programmed to worry about that don't flipping matter. If we focus on the thing that does matter, the actual thing, the 99% of the thing that calorie deficit plus macros over time, so we can eat more today, less tomorrow doesn't matter. Overtime is what matters. We've got a lot of power like Thanos with the infinity gauntlet. We can look at this and we can play with it.
Speaker 1:We can smile like Louise has done. I had a pizza. I had a chocolate bar put put in put the pizza in and went over, but I didn't really want the chocolate bar then. That's me. I'm playing the game.
Speaker 1:I'm playing Tetris, and I'm winning all the time because I control the game. I am in the control of these numbers. I can see the numbers. I play with them. Done.
Speaker 1:Job done. And I'm not gonna let those numbers, this game, ruin my day to day moments because I'll focus on doing that. And then the rest of it, like Louise has done there, which is great, out of my control. My weight's been went up when I had a good day yesterday. Don't know why, but it's fine.
Speaker 1:It's the weekly average of my weight I should be looking at, not the day to day weight. But looking at my day to day weight going up and down all the time, isn't that crazy? Yeah. Because the body is 60% water. Of course, it's going up and down up and down.
Speaker 1:Doesn't mean you're gaining and losing fat. You're likely losing fat on a kind of consistent basis, but your total body weight is going up and down due to water retention. Retention. And for women you got a mental cycle. Another thing in fact that are playing with the water retention of the hormones going up and down.
Speaker 1:So we start living without the stress that used to be hard come we're trying to lose weight. Isn't that nice? Isn't that nice? And I think once that clicks for you, that you can actually live your life and you can use this tool, this piece of technology that you can just, like, put the auto adjuster on even or you can just jiggle about, I'll have more today and I'll have less tomorrow. That's fine.
Speaker 1:Job job done. Full tick you know, full stop. You know, once you realize you got a super powerful tool that you spend ten minutes a day using maximum that gives you back this huge ROI, return on investment of using ten minutes of tracking your macros in your mental health, your sleep, and stuff in the app. Guys, I can't think of a better thing that brings back a better return on investment than ten minutes of tracking a day for your body, for your mind, for your targets, you know, for your weight loss goals and all this stuff. All of that's covered from ten minutes a day.
Speaker 1:Find me something that gives you that much benefit in ten minutes. I'll wait. I don't think you can. I've been thinking about it. I don't think there is.
Speaker 1:Ten minutes. It's nothing. It's no time. You spend hours on your phone on social media, no doubt. Check your screen time.
Speaker 1:Not like you understand. So it's nuts that we've got this powerful tool for ten minutes a day, but we make it a slog. Oh, do I have to track this and that? Why not? It's ten minutes.
Speaker 1:Let's let's stop looking at it as a fight every day. Oh, should I do it? And look at the absolute fantastic amazing benefit it's gonna bring us. Right? Awareness, body targets, all if everything.
Speaker 1:But no, people on social media say it's obsessive to track your food for ten minutes a day. That's why I'm really obsessive to do that. And it's not obsessive to be on social media for three, four hours. It's not obsessive to the oral is going on with this on social media all the time. It's not obsessive to brush my teeth twice a day.
Speaker 1:Day I brush my teeth twice a day. Is that obsessive? It's only obsessive, but people want to label it bad. They don't like gas. I don't like gas, so I'm going to say it's obsessive.
Speaker 1:Right? It's absolute nonsense. With people who've got eating disorders and stuff like that come from that background, it needs to be a more a delicate approach. Right? Is it possible that you can look at your weight as just a set of data and don't add a story to it?
Speaker 1:Of course it's possible. Is it harder for people who have had eaten so hard stuff? Of course it's harder. Does it mean they need one to one help? Likely through a therapist or whatever?
Speaker 1:Probably. We're dismissing this part of the process. But can all of us look at our data like a scientist objectively looking at our weight, our macros and all this stuff. And with the objective view, we don't get sucked in into us fight emotional turmoil when we just look at it. Plain and simple data, you see the truth clearly because you haven't got this filter, subjective filter on causing all the chaos.
Speaker 1:Right? You can start seeing stuff clear as day. And when you start seeing your data clear as day, your macros like Tetris, your weight is just data, give it to the app, let the app worry about it. Collect my data, collect my sleep data, my mental cycle or emotional health, all this. Let's just collect this data, put it into the app.
Speaker 1:The app's gonna do all its magic, work all numbers out. I don't know if to care about that. The app will tell me if there's any changes. And actually, it's gonna tell show me some visuals as well. And the visuals I can see.
Speaker 1:If I look at my visuals objectively, can say, ah, I see it makes sense. My stress levels are high when my steps are low. Maybe it is direct slow stress high low steps high stress. Maybe there is a direct link there for you. Maybe it's a correlation.
Speaker 1:Maybe it's not. But you go, well, that's interesting. Maybe I should walk more. Maybe it does make sense actually. Because when I don't walk, and I'm in the indoors all day, I feel terrible.
Speaker 1:I don't know I don't walk and listen to podcasts. I don't walk and listen to nice music. I don't walk on fresh air, get a smile on my face. It makes sense I'm more stressed because I'm just sitting inside all day. Do know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1:Look at our data this way, we find a lot of stuff out. But at the end, coming back to Louise's comment where I'm going off here is that I want them turtles in a fat loss club. That you know, fat loss clubs only. Oh, shit. It's terrible.
Speaker 1:All of us only worry about fat loss. This doesn't work. We have to look at total human development, total health. Fat loss is a small part of this. Of course, we all want to go down to a healthy body weight for ourselves and we'll able to maintain this.
Speaker 1:We're gonna be able to eat healthier foods, of course. If you're overweight, it's gonna improve your health to lose weight, full stop. Body positive tonic stuff's great, but they say, well, you don't have to lose weight to be healthy. Well, you don't have to lose weight to be healthy. But if you are overweight and you lose 10% of your body weight, you will become healthier in terms of those health markers.
Speaker 1:Does it mean you're gonna be happier? No. It doesn't. Doesn't necessarily mean you're going be happier. Doesn't mean you're going be a better human being?
Speaker 1:No. Doesn't mean anything beyond. Your body will be healthier in tests if you lose if you go from overweight to moderate weight. Right? And the trick is to understand that there's separation between losing weight and becoming a happier, healthier person.
Speaker 1:A lot of people lose weight and they do not become happier and healthier. They actually get worse. They actually get less healthy because they rebound and they get less happy and more frustrated. That's why if you only focus on fat loss is the only metric ever ever thing that matters and you will do rush diets all this stuff, you're never gonna be happy and healthier. This is only one metric you're not optimizing for.
Speaker 1:We're optimizing not for the metric itself. Right? We're optimizing for to be nicer, better, happier human beings who want to look back at our lives and go, you know what, thank God I joined Turtle at that time of my life because it stopped me wasting the next five years worrying about every single thing I ate, fighting food every single day. It stopped me doing that and actually enjoying those pizza with my parents. I lost weight over a few years.
Speaker 1:I got to my goal weight and I got there slower but I was happier. Enjoyed those holidays. I went out and I wore colorful clothes and not just black. I met a group of friends. I met people online.
Speaker 1:I met them in events and they're amazing people. I looked into mindset stuff. I've got introduced to these types of mindset techniques, and I looked into the things challenging my core beliefs. So like this over five years, I completely came a different person. I understood myself more.
Speaker 1:I actually became different, but I became who I always was. That to me is the goal of doing all this. It's not fucking our turtles help someone lose weight. Right? Have we made them have we helped them in the mindset?
Speaker 1:Are they actually happier? Oh, no, no, no, it doesn't matter. They're not happier. They've lost weight. Oh, we failed.
Speaker 1:I mean, we lost weight. We made you worse. We've made you unhappy because you've all you can was losing weight. That's a massive failure on our half behalf. See what I'm saying?
Speaker 1:So it's not about that. And if you are worrying going into this new week thinking, I I gotta lose weight. I'll lose weight. I'll lose weight. Slow down for a second.
Speaker 1:The fat loss will be a byproduct of a healthier lifestyle. Your weight will go up and down every single day. The weekly average is what matters. You can eat more today, less tomorrow. You can save your calories for the weekend.
Speaker 1:You can can have lower calories in the week, more on the weekend. You can turn the auto adjuster on. So it does this for you. Just track honestly. Be honest with your tracking.
Speaker 1:If you are honest with your tracking, guys, let the app do all the hard work. Listen, the app this is revolutionary stuff. The app is doing all the legwork. Don't worry, just track. Push it to the app.
Speaker 1:You do the work for me, machine. You're cleverer than me with numbers. You look at all of this as a picture and you tell me if I need to make changes, but I'm going to be honest with you. That's the that's the relationship we have. If I'm honest to you, you can tell me there are accurate changes and we're gonna get there.
Speaker 1:And then I will look at my mindset. I'll focus on my mindset in the meantime, I promise. I'm gonna speak to other people, meet people online, gonna meet people in events. I'm gonna start looking into the mind. I wanna learn.
Speaker 1:I wanna keep learning. I wanna see what it takes me. And that's what we get. That's what we do. And that's phenomenal.
Speaker 1:So that's it. That's for the week. So don't don't make everything but fat loss, please. It will come. I promise you.
Speaker 1:Just put the pressure off it. And for people like say, Scott, I've got 50 kgs to lose, I've got 70 pounds to lose. Say we've got members like Ali Fincham, she lost 50 pounds over a year, okay? But she did it that year was enjoyable for her. Obviously, there's some tough times where you when it comes to fat loss, we've got really bad habits.
Speaker 1:There's going be times that I really want to eat more. I'm starving, but you're not you're just craving. There's going be battles. But it can be enjoyable overall. And a year is not a long time when it comes to it when you look at the bigger picture.
Speaker 1:A lot of people have been trying to lose weight for thirty years, twenty years, that's a long time. You shouldn't be trying to lose weight for twenty years. If you lose one pound a week, and you need to lose 200 pounds, four years, 200 to lose is like huge amount, That's like biggest loser type scenario where there's like 200 pounds to lose if we go from four hundred to two hundred or for three fifty to one hundred fifty. You know, did pound a week, that would take four years. Right?
Speaker 1:Four years is nothing compared to battling for twenty to thirty years, which is what people do. And that's at the top scale, but you can lose a pound a week, lose 50 pounds a year, pounds 100 in two years. Most of you don't need to lose 50 pounds or 100 pounds. Some of you that do, I know it's a struggle, know it's annoying that you need it faster. Okay, and you've got access remember, you've got access to our nutritionist every day.
Speaker 1:If you're a member, you're a silver member or above nutritionturtlemeth.com, message us we can help you through it. We can talk you through it. We can talk you through the, you know, do you want to, we feel like you know those calories, I don't need to eat that much, I can eat less. And you eat less, you're gonna lose more weight if you've got a lot of weight to lose. But don't always try and rush things, it will happen I promise you.
Speaker 1:As long as you work on yourself as well through the time this week, don't just work on your fat loss, work on yourself, join the radio, join the mindset calls all this stuff. And I promise you because you're doing more than just fat loss you're gonna be a lot happier. And actually fat loss will come easier when you don't make it the sole objective. That's it for today. It'll be a good day to remember to live one day at a time get your one big thing down in the app get that done today and if you do more things happy days but remember focus one day in a time.
Speaker 1:So now is the only time we have obviously. There's no problem wondering about what we did in the weekend. It's gone. If you drank too much, spent too much money just feel a stop done. Don't worry about tomorrow or I'll do this for a full week.
Speaker 1:Just do what you can today, and tomorrow will come. And we'll look at focusing today again tomorrow. So have a good day. Speak to you soon.
