But why do they tell women going through menopause to cut calories down to 1200 if it is just a myth? They don't state age bc some females can go through this in their 30s and still it is suggested to cut your calories.
I find it really hard to believe he didn't realise he was adding loads of calories by putting cream on his cereal. For a start the calories are printed right on the side of the container, so it's not hard to find out if you have any interest at all. And he must have known the pizza etc he was hiding from his wife were adding to the problem, or why hide it in the first place. Maybe these people just want to be on TV. Cream on cereal is not normal, I'm in the UK and I've never heard of anyone doing that.
With Murray, everything clicked when they said he was an ex-marathoner. The diets of regular marathon runners can get INSANE, largely because they need and INSANE amount of calories during training. The cereal was likely his pre-race/training meal, and he didn't think to adjust when he stopped running as much. Basically, imagine if Michael Phelps retired but didn't change his diet.
Yup. I know right now, at probably around 20% BF, I can be lower calorie (which at 185 lbs for a man is still around 2400) and marathon train, as long as the training HR is around 125 and not challenging. Because my body will just use fat. But weirdly, the more weight I lose, the more I’ll have to eat
My cousin up until final year ~ 18 months of uni use to do competitive swimming, even in winter. Really thin, lean etc. Literally a few months of a break and he piled on the weight. Once the cramming of uni was done, he got his eating in line/exercised again, but it really didn't take much
This relates back to my theory on one of the reasons why so many Australians are overweight (I live in Australia): there’s a huge (actually too big IMO) emphasis on physical activity during childhood, but very few people can maintain such an intensity and frequency once they’re adults, with work (unless it’s physical work), family duties etc. And undoing the eating habits of your childhood can be really challenging.
When Mexico implemented the Chilean “warning label” system for processed food (instead of just nutrition info on the back, they put a black stamp on the front of the product saying: excess calories, excess sugar, etc) people where shocked to find out special K and all-bran cereals had the “excess sugar” and “excess calories” stamps, some brands even reformulated their products to avoid the dreaded stamps so, I agree education is essential.
yes! i'm in canada and our mexico-imported products (sangria, marzapan, and lots of my favourite candy) have those black octagons with the "excess ___" label. of course, they're in spanish, but most canadians can figure it out with our french knowledge
Yeah... I work at Starbucks. It's always funny to hear customers complain about how hard it is to lose weight while I'm making their venti iced vanilla latte and bacon gouda sandwich for the 5th day in a row. A scary number of people get their drinks made with heavy cream or half and half cream, too.
I always have half and half and sugar in my coffee but I reserve having a coffee with syrup as a treat, I have not had any issue with my weight; I usually make my coffee at home including instant coffee, and because I have a bladder condition that means I can only have one coffee a day unless I want to torture myself. Same condition means I can't have artificial sugar or have coffee-milkshake with a concentrate or espresso (iced latte or frozen mocha). It's not that you aren't drinking low calorie coffee that's the problem, its how often and how careless you get with it.
The biggest downfall is that a lot of foods are very calories dense, so you genuinly are eating small portions and feeling hungry, but are still eating in a surplus
@@Incomudro1963 Most are more dense than they used to be. For example meats are becoming fattier in general as animals are raised and bred for better marbling, and fruits contain higher sugar concentrations compared to fiber. You are correct though that this isn't the core of the problem. Most people just end up eating more ultra-processed food where this problem is magnified.
a lot of it is down to what you're eating. 2000 calories of protein would be SUPER hard to do all at once for most people, but 2000 calories of mostly refined carbohydrate will be gone before you know it. I can pack away tons of calories with chocolate or fast food, which is why I have to be SO careful about it, but with my regular meals of lean proteins like chicken breast, etc., veggies, and a sweet potato, I get naturally full after the 500 calories or so I portion out for the meal. Some foods just don't generate that satiety sensation like others!
My freshman year college roommate was struggling with her weight so she would buy a pallet of slim fast drinks every week or two. She would drink them with every meal and snack- she believed that the slim fast was like, subtracting calories from her food. I tried to explain that it was a meal *replacement* and not a meal *supplement*. She didn't buy it and continued to drink her slim fast with every meal and snack. 😭They made a ton of money off her while she watched her weight go up. People really aren't educated about nutrition!
Same happened to me, they were some cookies that I though they where light and I liked to eat... oh the shock when I realized 2 of this cookies were meant to replace a meal... never bought them again
I eat sugary food and im on my mid 20s and i lost weight from 68kg to 50kg at 165cm I just walk in threadmills nowadays for half an hour some days and still eating sugars and my weight still same and i wear size S asian sizing Its all genetics too tbh
Secret eaters had such a great concept imho! Not only did they show the participants that they were „secretly eating“ but they also educated them as to how they‘ve tricked themselves. Like that one lady, that ate close nothing all week and then ‚binged‘ on the weekend without even realizing it. Or the other one who thought that one hour after working out you could eat whatever you wanted and it wouldn’t count. The show educated them on their errors but without shaming them - the host always had a very kind and humane aura. It felt like they really wanted to help the people behaving healthy
The 1,400 calories that guy added from cream alone is something all people need to see. It's like how there are so many people who eat salads all the time yet wonder why they can't lose weight-- and it's because they are smothering their salads in dressing.
Ahhh the middle aged woman’s favourite brag “I often skip meals” Another favourite of mine, always from middle aged women, “I think the reason I’m not losing weight is that I’m just not eating enough” I assure you ladies. That’s not it. You aren’t losing weight because you’re eating TOO MUCH
It’s amazing how people will buy the “starvation mode” crap like it makes any sense. You’re in a calorie deficit and don’t have enough energy readily available in the form of carbohydrates. So your body…takes the energy it is actually receiving and turns it into fat for later? That makes no sense. Like you said, it’s simple. If you’re gaining weight, you need to eat less or move more. That simple
It’s shocking when you start out thin and gradually put on the fat. When the scale started going up, my thought wasn’t “I’m eating too much”, it was “Hmm, that’s strange!” LMAO
SAME. Thankfully, I know the reason for that "strange" change is that I must be eating too much... so now I'm forcing myself to be more mindful hahahah
there was a time i (accidentally) starved myself for a few months and gained 8 lbs. i tried to eat healthier, wasn't counting my calories but when i did i was actually eating under 1000 calories consistently AND I GAINED WEIGHT. i still havent lost it but thats because the experience has left me still fucking starving 2 years later so i binge on a near daily basis now...and somehow haven't gained more than the initial 8 lbs !?!?!? edit to say that when i was counting i did weigh the food, i didn't snack because i used to never eat outside of mealtimes
I’m 5’10” and I was always hovering at 120lbs or so. Then I suddenly gained 20lbs over the course of a year. Was very strange. I’ve never gained weight unless I gained height really. Then suddenly bam: 20 new pounds. Not complaining too much since I was always on the upper end of underweight, but it definitely made me think the scale was lying to me until I tried a different scale 😂
Despite everything, Iactually love both Helena and Murray's attitude, once all problems with their diets are exposed, they seem very receptive and even laughs at themselves. Just needed some guidance.
I enjoy british weightloss shows because of how lighthearted they tend to be. In the US, the pathos is so strong, like it's impossible to showcase an obese person who isn't totally miserable 100% of the time. In the UK, people are able to take a joke and everything's not as dramatic. They look like actual real people. It's kind of refreshing.
I don't know what is more iconic, the cream in Murray's cereal alone being more calories than a medium whopper meal or Murray's breakfast cereal alone having more calories than his recommended total daily caloric intake. Murray truly is the most secret of eaters. 🤣
I know this is off topic but I recently had to take an english exam (im not a native speaker) i was terrified of because it had a large essay portion which you had to do completely unprepared. The topic ended up being "how can people change their eating habbits". Coincidentally ive been listening to a lot of your videos while doing homework and could recite lots of your advice of the top of my head. Your videos really motivated me to be more aware of what I eat and now they saved my grade, so thank you very much Kiana!
Because eating junk food is satisfying and palatable and we view the road to weight loss where we have to exercise and eat healthy as long, arderous, and painful. We want the easy way out.
The secret eater show to me also shows how bad the scientific studies based on a food question can be. The amount of food people eat and then just forget about it.
Serious studies involve the patient being hospitalised for a set amount of time. But pilote studies could be done based on food questions. Sometimes when people quote studies you look it up and it’s a pilote study and the authors write black on white they need to do further research to check the validity of the results. But a lot of people only read the title :/
Those are the worst most unscientific studies and yet they are the ones that get the headlines. And they are one of the many reasons why people are so darn clueless about nutrition.
Scientists do have ways of compensating for the limitations in self reporting. As this lady says: self reporting is really predictably flawed. People underreport the unhealthy stuff they eat and overreport the healthy stuff they eat. Since it's predictable, you can adjust accordingly.
@@Chck314He literally got fat bc he was putting double cream in his cereal which caused it to be nearly 2000 calories. Carbs are not the issue, empty calories are.
Special K advertising in the 80s had a tag line “can you pinch an inch?” However, they didn’t specify which direction. I thought it meant horizontally. I recently realised they meant vertically! I remember feeling upset as a kid about it but was just pulling skin! In the 1990s, Special K also had drop a dress size challenge where you were meant to eat the product for breakfast and lunch and a “healthy meal” for dinner. Special K marketing can get in the bin!
I was obese (class 3, aka morbidly obese) 8 months ago. Since watching your content and a few others on YT, I’ve lost 70lbs. Who knew that all it took was actual knowledge about calories. My parents taught me the best they could but it just wasn’t enough. Thanks for the content you make! I’m always looking forward to learning something new from you
Aside from this, my favourite Secret Eaters moment was that family who was pouring copious amounts of cheese sauce into their boiled broccoli and cauliflower and wondering why they're gaining weight because they eat vegetables all the time. 🤦♀
It wasn’t a family. That was a very bitter middle-aged woman who loved to eat unhealthily-and thought nothing of drowning steamed veggies in 1,000 calories of melted fat-free cheese-and then blaming her gastric-bypass husband for her gluttony. She never took responsibility for anything she did, constantly throwing her husband under the bus for her love of fatty, processed foods. She was one of the worse people I’ve ever seen on TV, shrill, nasty, angry and without a shred of remorse or decency.
If you're doing high fat/low carb, cheese on broccoli is fine (provided you don't have a bunch of sugar in the cheese), but people don't understand how diets work.
People are so dumb. If the cereal is made of ultra processed starchy cereal grains, it's high calorie, even if it doesn't have added sugar, which it probably does. And of course that's not even counting the calories in the milk.
This is exactly what happened to my Dad: Former distance runner & athlete who never updated his eating habits when he was forced to stop his athletic activities due to injuries. As He grew older, His appetite was still enormous. Like Murray, He was consuming over 5000cal./day well into his 70's, when He was living a far more sedintary lifestyle for almost a decade when he retired. He absolutely HATED the feeling of hunger. And hated seeing leftovers in the fridge, so even if he felt full, he'd still force himself to finish everything on the table. Which was an issue b/c we always served our dinners family style. And when He inevetibly became diabetic, He was so angry that he couldn't eat his favorite snacks. Seeing him suffer with his weight was heartbreaking, & frustrating b/c he was so stubborn & set in his ways. He hated the smaller portion sizes I served him when we stopped serving dinner family style. And despite stern warnings from the Drs., He was always sneaking snacks & booze. We even had to hide the car keys so he coukdn't go to the store! I love my dad, but witnessing all of this really opened my eyes in many ways. Thank You, for all the content, Kiana! It has been immensely helpful
I’m literally at my wits end with people like this. I’m a weight management coach for a council funded scheme, but when I ask people what they eat they come out with the healthiest lowest calorie diet you could imagine. Like they eat one spoonful of yogurt and two apples per day but weigh twenty stones. I can’t help them because they’re so far in denial…
I think its very admirable that a pair of middle-aged/older people were interested in changing their lifestyle in the first place, as it's often not the case! Im obsessed with this show, it's very raw yet supportive in its delivery. Really highlights how unaware we often are about what we consume.
People over 40 love that excuse. It's an excuse! If they tracked their food intake they'd realise. I've lost 10 kgs in my early 40's and I've maintained into my late 40's.
As a lifelong skinny who never had to worry about her weight, let me tell you the secret: I do not care about food as much as others. I get less of a dopamine hit from food, so it is easy to only eat when I am hungry. The problem is that I stress starve, which can be as dangerous as stress eating
Ugh I used to be like that and I kinda miss it. I was always on the edge of being underweight, now it's the opposite. I did what these people are doing but the other way around. I told everyone I was eating enough but looking back I think I was eating too little for the amount of exercise. I blame antidepressant for changing something in my brain. Now I have to make sure I don't eat too much...
This makes me feel grateful that my mom taught me, ever since I was very young, to read nutrition labels, not just calories but also ingredients and the amount of each nutrient
And that's why the food industry tries very hard to categorize this as "eating disorder behavior" when it is not. Because if everyone did this they would make less money.
LMAO I had to teach my mom that when I was a teenager. She just assumed that a can of something, or a bag of frozen whatever, was made the same way as she would have made it. The food industry is all about making profit, not about keeping us well-fed and healthy.
@@JP-ve7or Well, high fat/low carb diets do work; I'd know, I've been loosing weight on one. You don't have to think carbs are the devil to think that humans are better adapted to processing fat than carbs. Further, if you like any kind of typical fatty cream in your coffee, heavy cream is at least the better choice because of the lower calorie due to complete lack of sugar. If you want it sweetened, add an alternative low-calorie natural sugar, or perhaps a small amount of honey if you're not a fan of those. Low carb diets are one of the best ways to fight diabetes, and heavy cream can help with that, so don't knock it. What I don't get is why carnivores will add butter to their coffee (probably shouldn't be drinking coffee on that diet anyway, but whatever...) instead of heavy cream, which tastes much better.
@@WhatIsMisophonia”Dietary saturated fat intake has been shown to increase low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, and therefore has been associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD).” Fat is good in moderation. Healthy fats are fine, but the type of fat in heavy cream is mostly saturated fat. A bowl of that is bound to go beyond the daily recommended intake of saturated fat.
@@WhatIsMisophonia Why would there be sugar in cream? Or is it an american thing? Cream that I bought has always contained milk, lactic acid bacteria and that's it. Whipping cream is (at least in my country) 166 to 196 calories depending on the fat percentage. Double cream is 257, from what I see. Heavy cream reaches 301 at 30%! Also, had never heard about the butter in coffee thing... sounds like an assault against both butter and coffee.
@@voxellor6229 if you’d like to suggest a healthier alternative to him - splitting the amount with milk doesn’t change the taste at all and it’s still very very rich!
Murray's delivery of "this is very healthy * pause for suspense* jalapeños" sent me 😂 I'm cheering for both of them, lovely couple! They got what it takes to make healthy choices.
It's so easy to overdo it with cereal! I absolutely love breakfast cereal. Doesn't matter what kind, whether it's healthy or not, I will eat half a box in one sitting if I buy it. I've had people say, "just exercise self control!" But I do! By not buying it!
been excited to see you cover secret eaters again, this made my day! keep up the great work kiana, i'm down 190 lbs from 350 lbs to 160 lbs and still have another 30 to lose, and i find your content so helpful and motivating.
@@KianaDocherty thank you so much! it's been a lot of hard work but i started my health journey young (i'm 22 currently) so i've been pretty lucky in not letting my health spiral out of control before losing. even so, your content has helped remind me to not only think about my portion sizes, but what types of foods i'm eating as well. thank you for all the work you do to spread knowledge!
I had a roommate that would swear on her life that she “pretty much” counted every calorie. She’s take notes of every bite that she ate and show me how she was actually having a hard time getting enough calories and only eating 800-850 calories a day and wondered if that was the problem. However, we would spend entire days together and the list of food she ate blindly was just endless (and when I called her on it, she swore it was rare and couldn’t amount to much more than 50 extra calories….). We’d pick a bag full of oranges and when we couldn’t eat anymore, we’d make a little orange juice with the rest and drink it right on the spot. I lost count on how many times she’d grab “just one Oreo” throughout the day. Sure, the veggies are healthy, and the oil is too…but at 100 cal a Tblsp, she’d pour oil and never counted it. We both loved hot chocolate, and made it with whole milk and whipped cream. She’d also use whipped cream in her coffee and teas. And she’d say that when you’re craving chocolate, you can save a lot of calories by just grabbing a handful from the chip bag instead of buying a whole candy bar. Add to this the marinades/sauces, and the butter she’d use on eggs and mashed potatoes, and she’d insist that because salad is healthy, “there’s no need to measure the dressing, you just have to be careful about it”. She loved a coup,e glasses of wine a day. Popcorn is very healthy, esp if you pop it yourself, because then you can control the butter! Listen, if you struggle with your weight and aren’t measuring or weighing your foods to get realistic calories counts, then you aren’t controlling anything. This is no judgement on her…I ate as much as her and we both struggled with our weight, but there was no question for me…I always knew why I was overweight, while she seemed sincerely mystified as she clung to her belief that she ate 800 calories a day.
@@chandansimms9167 Yes, as she had children, those added foods would impact her in different ways (nausea and heartburn) making it more obvious, so she got her act together way before I did. It took me a decades to finally heal my broken food relationship, but I always knew I was overeating, and today we both weigh far less. ☺️
I used to be a Gym instructor/Personal Trainer and it was ALWAYS upon further investigation into diet with journaling and other methods that the people who would say "I eat healthy" really discovered that yes they were indeed not eating healthily or at least eating far more than they thought (or wanted me to believe). Even then when the truth would start to reveal itself they often didn't want to reveal the full extent of their diets and lifestyle. It always had to be something other than their diet that was causing their weight woes. I was not there to judge them, but I guess they felt like they were being judged if they were honest. If they were just honest with me (and to themselves) from the very beginning then it would have cut out a lot of unnecessary time and effort.
Frankly if they were honest with themselves they would’ve caught their bad diet years ago and not needed your services as a personal trainer. Your career depended on their very stubborn delusions about themselves. 😂
@@pdruiz2005 A good point. But I do think it takes more than just recognising the problem to make serious changes. It's a big step in the right direction though.
@@JamesCarmichael I tend to think it's the biggest step. Because if they don't destroy those delusions about how "virtuous" and "good" they are with their diets, the old habits will come back as soon as the intervention (you) leave the picture. A change in thinking is so necessary to make a change in habit that will stick around for the long term.
eating "healthy" is just a stupid way to gauge if your diet is good. Just like how that guy puts a banana in his cereal because he thinks it gives him some magical health benefits when really it's just adding another 90 calories to his already huge breakfast
@@elobiretv But that's ultimately the problem--because the dumb guy thinks he's "virtuous" and "good" in his head, and adds the banana to make himself think that, he doesn't even bother to read the calorie content of the cereal, the jam and the double-cream he's pouring into his pig trough....errrr...I mean, large bowl. Breaking the habit of thinking one is "virtuous" and "good" is the first and most crucial step because then it makes you question everything you put into your mouth.
I've been counting calories and weighing food for about 3 years now, and yeah, you really do develop a great "radar" for how many calories something has. I've gotten to where I even know when my food scale needs new batteries because I can tell it's not giving me accurate results anymore. I was weighing out my serving of croutons for my salad earlier and I was like "...okay I know that I've already put 21g of croutons in here, there's no way 15g is right." And those little things really add up quickly!
Really enjoyed this video. They seem like nice people and they were willing to admit their problems and do something about it. Good for them for being open to new ideas.
My fiancé used to be like this man. He had gained weight so I started working hard to help, focusing on making us healthy meals and going for walks more- nothing was working. Turns out he was secretly getting donuts, bubble tea, teriyaki etc with a coworker while at work and then would come home and eat what I made as well. My dad has been a good example for me that you can maintain fitness as you age. He turned 60 this year- about 10 years ago he lost almost 100 lbs and he has mostly kept it off, he has no mobility issues and is in excellent shape- he works as a prison guard and is part of the special response teams so he has to be agile and fit. It’s inspiring to know that in 30 years that level of fitness could be possible for me, too.
We have normalised unhealthy eating and we don't educate people on how damaging so much of the food we buy from the supermarket is. Foods that we think of as healthy, such as cereals, are actually ultra processed. And that's before you consider the calorie content of the quantities we put away.
I can't hardly believe the next level sleazy marketing that convinced people to stop eating bacon and eggs, and start eating empty calorie baked flour in milk. I mean, minus the added sugars and milk, that's what you'd do for war rations ffs... Busted up hardtack in boiled water.
@@randomprotag9329 I'm not understanding why adding peanut butter would make them healthier or less fattening, based on the Randle Cycle, that's probably not a good thing to do
@@defeqel6537 1) it makes it more filling 2) it makes it less nutritionally one note. using oats as a cerial is ok but its still got the one note issue most cereal has.
It’s so disheartening to know people are damaging their health because they don’t know any better, everybody has the right to good health and that includes proper education in nutrition and exercise!
Yeah, but it's also lack of basic research on their part, so I can't feel too sorry for them. Everyone is going to tell you this or that competing diet is the best, so it's up to you to dig deeper and learn the basics.
@@WhatIsMisophonia But notice this couple didn’t say “I lack knowledge” they said “we actually talk a lot about health” or something to that effect, essentially they *thought* they knew about a healthy diet, and that’s the case for most people, they think they know, or at least know enough, and that’s what impedes them of digging deeper, the thing about ignorance is that you don’t know you are ignorant, until you are proven otherwise, I’m actually the type who seeks answers online, and even with me a lot of valuable things I have learned I stumbled onto them, we don’t know what we don’t know. Plus, we are talking about nutrition, one of the most muddled topics online, you said it yourself, there are contracting opinions, with different people in different walks of life championing different diets, promoting and shunning different things, the information is not so clear cut. So don’t you think you are maybe judging too soon?
@@EmyN It's because of all the confusion that I know I have to dig deeper. People want to be part of a collective band wagon, and they want easy answers with as much convenience as possible. Deep down, I think these people know that they didn't really know, they just didn't care enough until it was shoved in their faces. I just wish people's complacency and excuses didn't screw over the whole of society. Yes, I don't actually blame them for being who they are; I don't believe in "free will" in the traditional sense. We can alter our opinions and feelings, but only within the narrow framework allowed by our physical brain and individual genetics. That's why we'll always be different people, reacting to things in different ways, even if we had the exact same experiences. I may not blame them per se, but they do still represent a great weakness in humanity that it would be nice if we could fix. The greedy people who poisoned the food supply bear responsibility, but people reeeeally need to take more responsibility for their health.
@@MrStinkels lol, I watch more non fitness videos by a lot. That said, while not a traditional yt fitness channel, Kiana's content hits a lot of fitness related material and in a non meat head way that we're used to. Cool to see some of our typical subjects from a different perspective.
@@freakied0550 yeah i dont know her channel but this video was fairly reasonable. She says mostly what fitness guys say but just in a more soft, less agressive way.
Your sleepy dog in the background is adorable❤ I had to rewind multiple times in the video because I missed what you were doing and just focused on the dog 😂
I really appreciate the new direction your channel is going (less commentary / reaction, more scientific orientated stuff about behaviour change), it helps me a LOT. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I'll go and rewatch the video on behaviour change :)
In my english exam the teacher told us that he would ask about our idol so i grabbed my phone in secret during recess and researched about you and wrote you in the exam 😭😭
Thank you for talking about Secret Eaters. After seeing one of your videos, I started watching the show and ended up losing 20lbs. Now my mother is getting into the show and starting to do the same. Thank you!
Video topic I would love to see you cover : gaining weight during a "honeymoon phase" of relationships, people you live with affecting your choices, and cultural influence on weight gain.
@@Owlet101Same. I've never eaten dinner when living in my own. My guy eats every night 1-2k meals. It's gotten to point where I have to screech "Stop offering me food!!"
Older women need so few calories when they're sedentary it's almost impossible to lose weight with diet alone, unless you are VERY conscious of what you're eating. I'm going through this with my mom right now. She doesn't overeat by that much but 10-15 years of extra calories really adds up. But she's in her 60s and doesn't want to change anything.
I'm 5' and dread menopause because my caloric requirement already is quite low now, and imagining eating even less is a bit scary. And even if you do lots of sports, as a super short woman you burn less calories (because moving less weight equals less energy). But well, life is not fair.
between birth control, my thyroid being suicidal, being a gymrat and then a vegetable that never moves i never gained a lot of weight. i eat when im hungry and nothing more, and dont force myself to finish a plate. parents need to stop pushing kids into ignoring their bodys signals. if youre full youre full! the food wont run away you can eat it later. accept when your kid only wants a small portion.
@@nriamond8010This is why I’m dedicating my 30s to putting on more muscle. Menopause is gonna be a bitch, but at least I can see it coming and plan accordingly.
We can only try to change the narrative of weight gain for ourselves and future generations of women. Weight gain shouldn't be feared to the point that we diet from our teenage years on often for decades. Instead we should build muscle (which mostly comes with weight gain and also a bit of frame-width when you're not constantly dieting), so we won't suffer from so much fat gain and frailty in our later years. We still will have to adjust our eating after menopause but it wouldn't be SO hard bc we build caloric wiggle room with our muscle and bone density
I had this idea for a show where people would live somewhere with cameras and demonstrate that, "no, you're not fan because of hormones, you're fat because you eat too much". I'm so tickled to see that somebody had that idea and actually implemented it. It's wild how somebody's self assessment can be so at odds with what they're actually eating.
this remind me about when after joining several gym and fitness tips communities in facebook I notice how a lot of people were asking why they were not losing weight of how to lose weight while claiming that they were eating super healthy everyday.
I love secret eaters - you should do a video talking about the psychological experiments they do in every episode!! Always found those parts so interesting!
oof I remember my "Murray moment" - when I first thought to 'go on a diet' and 'lose weight' I bought a giant container of cashews and would eat them by the handful lol 😅
I am a 61 year old Englishman. I put a fair bit of weight during the Covid lockdown, because I was working on a laptop in my armchair while eating three full meals a day. Now, I eat two smaller meals and a nutrient drink, and I exercise plenty. All that excess bulk has gone and I am at a stable BMI with well-defined muscles (e.g., what were moobs are now just pectoral muscles). And I feel great.
Nicely done! Losing fat and adding muscle becomes increasingly difficult - but doable - as we age, so your accomplishment is particularly inspiring and aspirational. I think what trips people up is the pain of making a change. Once you’re in the maintenance phase, it becomes automatic, but changing your eating habits when you’re hooked on sugar and processed foods can be very painful, especially as the latter are intentionally designed to be low-satiety and addictive.
I'm glad you said to not necessarily count calories forever. I've counted on and off for ten years and this past year I tried my best to count but then I felt it took away from me actually keeping in touch with my hunger cues. Because sometimes even if I wasn't hungry I would say "well I have calories leftover so I might as well fill them!" I stopped counting a month ago to focus on increasing vegetable intake and focus more on how hungry I actually feel instead of mindlessly filling the bar because I can.
@@cuteface88 I'm a big liver evangelist. I've never had issues with weight, but once I started eating liver, I noticed my food intake went down 15% or so. Junk food that I used to like just looks gross now.
as someone who's exercising everyday and my 30s I'm losing more weight not gaining it . the whole argument of it's because I'm ageing makes absolutely no sense . I was really fat in my 20s now I'm just losing it running all the time
I loved this. In weight loss, as you say, the margins are so fine. A few hundreds calories, or an extra snack or drink of beer, can be the difference between losing and gaining weight. Hence, discipline is so important. And when that fails, as it does for everyone, tracking is crucial to call us out on our own BS.
I was FAR into the morbidly obese category, shows like this even helped me rethink my OWN situation and make healthy decisions Going from constant snacking and extremely sedative lifestyle to light daily exercise and conscious eating and I’m only 10-20lbs (roughly one stone) from a healthy BMI!
I know you did it like a year ago already, but I love the light blue repaint/makeover of your office - the whole set up behind you always looks so nice, I think about it every time!
For one, it's cause there's a lot of movements today that try to convince people that health conditions that make losing weight are common. Not only that but they convince those people that it's okay to be fat because you "can't help it" meanwhile people are dying young and struggling with daily pains and health issues caused by their excessive weight. It's predatory and probably just to sell products. Just like it was shown in the video also, advertisements can be extremely misleading
Oh Kiana, you hit the nail on the head with cereal. When you start measuring the cereal as their recommended serving size - you get a tiny amount, which means it isn't satiating physically or mentally. Food diaries are hands down one of the best tools (free, you can use your phone notes or any notebook). As Kiana said, just to learn about food energy & to help identify what foods are caloric dense, what your fav foods are & how things add up. Oh & move your body too! Knowledge truly is power! Another great vid 💖
I realized I was a secret eater recently and super vulnerable around food when I was alone. I’ve started using a fasting app where I record everything I eat and I think it’s helping!
I’m going through my own journey of escaping secret eating. I’ve been tracking my food and the amount over what I should be eating truly smacked me up the side of the head. Especially when snacking. It is so easy for it to sneak up on you and you to just lie to yourself about how much it is.
in order to stop secret eating i think its important to see how those behaviors crept into our lives and how we turned them into routines. another great video, thanks kiana.
speaking of getting excited to move, my summer job perfectly allows me to do that. I'm a sailing instructor and am always sailing a boat with kids and getting to move a lot and around the boat. It's really the perfect job and I enjoy it so much! The pay feels like a bonus 😂
Here’s the thing. It’s incredibly hard to stay low calorie when everything around you is easy and available. I have a food addiction. I know that everyone has to eat to stay alive but I’m talking about real addiction that’s not about how full I am. I have to make choices about the food that’s available to me and I have to choose the holiday or celebration that I want to attend. I’m not talking about crazy restrictions or diets but I have to choose the foods that I’m going to spend my money on. So I haven’t yet gotten a good handle on portions yet but I’m trying
Can't wait to watch. I've been hooked on your content for the last 2 weeks and I honestly can't emphasise the turnaround you've helped me go through in my habits and behaviour!❤
So true! At age 67 next week, I've dropped from 380# to 210# in the last 2 years; my goal is 190#. I've changed my diet to reduce "white food" (bread, rice, potatoes, noodles) and fried food to a minimum, and have added a lot of vegetables, fruit and clear soups,. I keep fruit/veggies/protein in my office refrigerator so I can eat low-calorie foods at lunch and not skip lunch or buy fast food. I've been using the NOOM app for the last 8 months to track everything I eat, which is a great assist in avoiding high-calorie foods and large portions. The NOOM app costs $100 for 6 months, and I save that every 10 days of not eating fast food. It's a commitment and a lifestyle change, for sure.
I was just barely in the overweight range and decided to make a change last year. I ended up losing 32 pounds in 8 months. I went from 167 to 135 as a 5’7 female. I tracked calories, but I also added a lot of activity to my life, so that I could still eat a decent amount. I have a pretty big appetite. I started taking walks and doing yoga (difficult yoga classes) regularly. I managed to lose the weight eating around 1700-2200 calories. I maintain my current weight range (135-145ish) eating anywhere from 2000-3000 calories. Most days I eat over 2000. I travel for work every other week (fly out, then drive long hours every day). So I have no choice but to eat on the road or at restaurants. I also work 10-14 hour days on average, so I don’t get nearly as much physical activity those days. I’m pretty sure it’s the reason I even fluctuate back up to 145 sometimes. But it’s in the healthy bmi range anyways, and I’m happy with how I feel and look now, so that’s what matters. I just wanted to share my story to let people know they don’t have to starve in order to lose weight. Height of course makes a difference, and I’m not super short for a woman. But I genuinely think finding physical activity that I enjoy, and prioritizing moving my body more when I can, was a huge part of the puzzle for me being successful. I do highly suggest people try tracking their calories too; it’s very eye opening and helps you to be more mindful with what you consume.
I wanted a crumbl cookie as a treat one day and looked at the nutritional information before I bought. It scared my away from ever really eating out “as a treat” outside of special events with friends of family. Absolutely wild
Special k almost gave me an eating disorder! I did the "diet" (1 bowl of cereal for bfast, one of their gross snacks, a bowl for lunch, another snack, and then a salad for dinner!) I was 12/13 trying to fit into a dress for my middle school graduation. Thankfully my mom jumped in after 3 weeks
I set goal for myself to be mostly healthy and fit at the start of April and have so far dropped 18kg or 40lbs (43 bmi to 38 bmi) and I'm on my way to becoming normal body fat (
Loved the video, feels like it really nailed every major point I've been seeing from your channel lately! With the food environment being as bad as it is, the food marketing being more deceptive than ever, and the food education being so poor, I'm with you in thinking the situation will probably get worse in the near future before it gets better. We're so lucky to have people like you counteracting it!
Jason Fung’s book the Obesity Code has changed my life. I was basically pumping my body with sugar so much that my body didn’t stand a chance. Intermittent fasting and cutting out sugar is a game changer ✨
200 extra calories on average is the difference between me being a healthy weight of 130lbs vs obese at 170lbs. That is less than one bag of chips, one 20oz drink, or one candy bar. Most of those on average are at least 250 calories. Shit is wild. It truly does not take much, especially when you're sedentary.
That's why I prefer being physically active (lifting+cardio+a LOT of walking and standing) rather than dieting alone. I actually eat quite a lot with a very protein rich diet that makes me feel very full, yet I've been losing 1-2 kgs every week for months. All my clothes are baggy on me now :D
I’ve had family members who were severely obese. Not only did they have no idea as to how badly they were actually eating, they would also lie about what they ate. Obesity is honestly a problem we as a society will likely never defeat.
You hit the nail on the head: I hate when "old" people think they look the way they do because they're not 19 anymore and their metabolism has stopped. The human body stops growing around 21 and everyone needs to have a good understanding of correct exercise, building muscle tone and nutrition. No wonder people burn out by 40. I was one of those people who could eat anything and not exercise and still be slim. Then at 22 I got up to 100kg and realised I had to do something about it, so I learnt about counting calories and learnt how to run (walk/run/walk/run until you can run solidly for 30 mins). This kept me really slim for years but I wasn't building muscle so I did Crossfit for 7 years and now I do bodybuilding and at age 41 I'm in the best shape of my life.
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Inspiring video as always, thank you Kiana
you got a mention from oompaville!
But why do they tell women going through menopause to cut calories down to 1200 if it is just a myth? They don't state age bc some females can go through this in their 30s and still it is suggested to cut your calories.
@@tuliprose314 and Jamie French and Michelle McDaniel 🙌🙌🙌🙌
@@lauraanne5175 👀 i love jamie
When I was a kid in the '70s I thought eating strawberry Pop-Tarts counted as my fruit intake
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I mean America counts pizza as a vegetable because of the tomato sauce lol so sounds fair to me 😅
@@TheoEclipse yet tomato is a fruit lol
@@TheoEclipse it counts towards the recommended daily servings of veggies*, it was never “pizza is a vegetable” as funny as it would be lol
Eating cereal with CREAM is the most insane thing I've ever seen 😭😂
Yeah, I never heard someone doing this. As a skinny person trying to gain weight, I'm intrigued..
I know a guy who eats salad with sugar added on top of it.
I find it really hard to believe he didn't realise he was adding loads of calories by putting cream on his cereal. For a start the calories are printed right on the side of the container, so it's not hard to find out if you have any interest at all. And he must have known the pizza etc he was hiding from his wife were adding to the problem, or why hide it in the first place. Maybe these people just want to be on TV. Cream on cereal is not normal, I'm in the UK and I've never heard of anyone doing that.
@@respectfulgamer7232 you need to be careful - u should be eating foods with nutrients not just lots of junk just to gian weight
Bulking hack
With Murray, everything clicked when they said he was an ex-marathoner. The diets of regular marathon runners can get INSANE, largely because they need and INSANE amount of calories during training. The cereal was likely his pre-race/training meal, and he didn't think to adjust when he stopped running as much. Basically, imagine if Michael Phelps retired but didn't change his diet.
Yup. I know right now, at probably around 20% BF, I can be lower calorie (which at 185 lbs for a man is still around 2400) and marathon train, as long as the training HR is around 125 and not challenging. Because my body will just use fat.
But weirdly, the more weight I lose, the more I’ll have to eat
My cousin up until final year ~ 18 months of uni use to do competitive swimming, even in winter.
Really thin, lean etc. Literally a few months of a break and he piled on the weight. Once the cramming of uni was done, he got his eating in line/exercised again, but it really didn't take much
I’ve been training again and absolutely loving the diet freedom. I can eat big ole steaks and eggs again!
He cant run for 10 seconds nowdays..
This relates back to my theory on one of the reasons why so many Australians are overweight (I live in Australia): there’s a huge (actually too big IMO) emphasis on physical activity during childhood, but very few people can maintain such an intensity and frequency once they’re adults, with work (unless it’s physical work), family duties etc. And undoing the eating habits of your childhood can be really challenging.
When Mexico implemented the Chilean “warning label” system for processed food (instead of just nutrition info on the back, they put a black stamp on the front of the product saying: excess calories, excess sugar, etc) people where shocked to find out special K and all-bran cereals had the “excess sugar” and “excess calories” stamps, some brands even reformulated their products to avoid the dreaded stamps so, I agree education is essential.
We have that in Brasil too!! It helped me have a better notion of what I was eating.
Fabulous idea!
Israel has a similar system but the stamps are red & white.
They got excess sugar, excess sodium, & excess fat labels.
yes! i'm in canada and our mexico-imported products (sangria, marzapan, and lots of my favourite candy) have those black octagons with the "excess ___" label. of course, they're in spanish, but most canadians can figure it out with our french knowledge
Good on Mexico. Two birds with one stone. Educating consumers as well as changing behavior of fast food companies 😂
Yeah... I work at Starbucks. It's always funny to hear customers complain about how hard it is to lose weight while I'm making their venti iced vanilla latte and bacon gouda sandwich for the 5th day in a row. A scary number of people get their drinks made with heavy cream or half and half cream, too.
I always have half and half and sugar in my coffee but I reserve having a coffee with syrup as a treat, I have not had any issue with my weight; I usually make my coffee at home including instant coffee, and because I have a bladder condition that means I can only have one coffee a day unless I want to torture myself. Same condition means I can't have artificial sugar or have coffee-milkshake with a concentrate or espresso (iced latte or frozen mocha). It's not that you aren't drinking low calorie coffee that's the problem, its how often and how careless you get with it.
lmao while me being contented with water and green tea
The biggest downfall is that a lot of foods are very calories dense, so you genuinly are eating small portions and feeling hungry, but are still eating in a surplus
Exactly! It doesn’t “feel” like you’re eating a lot because volume wise, you’re not. But calorie dense foods add up so so fast
this is it in a nutshell, but unfortunately so many people do not understand this.
Most real food is not calorically dense.
@@Incomudro1963 Most are more dense than they used to be. For example meats are becoming fattier in general as animals are raised and bred for better marbling, and fruits contain higher sugar concentrations compared to fiber. You are correct though that this isn't the core of the problem. Most people just end up eating more ultra-processed food where this problem is magnified.
Eat more veggies, especially raw veggies.
Problem solved.
i love how people STRUGGLE to do the 10,000 calorie challenge but this dude casually has a two thousand calorie bowl of cereal 💀
a lot of it is down to what you're eating. 2000 calories of protein would be SUPER hard to do all at once for most people, but 2000 calories of mostly refined carbohydrate will be gone before you know it. I can pack away tons of calories with chocolate or fast food, which is why I have to be SO careful about it, but with my regular meals of lean proteins like chicken breast, etc., veggies, and a sweet potato, I get naturally full after the 500 calories or so I portion out for the meal. Some foods just don't generate that satiety sensation like others!
2500kcal! More than I eat in a day
@@estebanodyou sure??? You could be eating twice that amount and not even notice.
@@zachariaholmsted7862500kcal is A LOT of food. I even struggle to hit that sometimes when I’m lean bulking and I maintain a fairly strict diet 😭
I would chow down 1600 calories in one sitting at Panda Express.
I didn't know that until my nutritionist taught me how 1850 for a day looks like
My freshman year college roommate was struggling with her weight so she would buy a pallet of slim fast drinks every week or two. She would drink them with every meal and snack- she believed that the slim fast was like, subtracting calories from her food. I tried to explain that it was a meal *replacement* and not a meal *supplement*. She didn't buy it and continued to drink her slim fast with every meal and snack. 😭They made a ton of money off her while she watched her weight go up. People really aren't educated about nutrition!
I thought that too! But I was a teen and would watch my obese gma do that exact same thing and that was my only exposure to that drink
Same happened to me, they were some cookies that I though they where light and I liked to eat... oh the shock when I realized 2 of this cookies were meant to replace a meal... never bought them again
I gained the most weight ever when I would snack on sugar-coated 'high-protein nutrition bars.' 😅
I eat sugary food and im on my mid 20s and i lost weight from 68kg to 50kg at 165cm
I just walk in threadmills nowadays for half an hour some days and still eating sugars and my weight still same and i wear size S asian sizing
Its all genetics too tbh
@@starward0997 It's not genetics, jfc
Secret eaters had such a great concept imho!
Not only did they show the participants that they were „secretly eating“ but they also educated them as to how they‘ve tricked themselves. Like that one lady, that ate close nothing all week and then ‚binged‘ on the weekend without even realizing it. Or the other one who thought that one hour after working out you could eat whatever you wanted and it wouldn’t count.
The show educated them on their errors but without shaming them - the host always had a very kind and humane aura. It felt like they really wanted to help the people behaving healthy
The 1,400 calories that guy added from cream alone is something all people need to see. It's like how there are so many people who eat salads all the time yet wonder why they can't lose weight-- and it's because they are smothering their salads in dressing.
And croutons, bacon bits and cheese.
Ahhh the middle aged woman’s favourite brag “I often skip meals”
Another favourite of mine, always from middle aged women, “I think the reason I’m not losing weight is that I’m just not eating enough” I assure you ladies. That’s not it. You aren’t losing weight because you’re eating TOO MUCH
It’s amazing how people will buy the “starvation mode” crap like it makes any sense.
You’re in a calorie deficit and don’t have enough energy readily available in the form of carbohydrates. So your body…takes the energy it is actually receiving and turns it into fat for later? That makes no sense.
Like you said, it’s simple. If you’re gaining weight, you need to eat less or move more. That simple
Also "But I'm drinking a lot of water!"
Always see people claiming "I can't afford to eat three meals a day." and they are always at least overweight and usually morbidly obese.
So I think what happens is that when they skip meals, ghrellin punches them in the face later.
That's what happened to me anyways.
Skipping meals don't mean sh*t when you compensate your lost meal with a 5 000 kcals feast....
It’s shocking when you start out thin and gradually put on the fat. When the scale started going up, my thought wasn’t “I’m eating too much”, it was “Hmm, that’s strange!” LMAO
SAME. Thankfully, I know the reason for that "strange" change is that I must be eating too much... so now I'm forcing myself to be more mindful hahahah
there was a time i (accidentally) starved myself for a few months and gained 8 lbs. i tried to eat healthier, wasn't counting my calories but when i did i was actually eating under 1000 calories consistently AND I GAINED WEIGHT. i still havent lost it but thats because the experience has left me still fucking starving 2 years later so i binge on a near daily basis now...and somehow haven't gained more than the initial 8 lbs !?!?!?
edit to say that when i was counting i did weigh the food, i didn't snack because i used to never eat outside of mealtimes
@@selenite3890 Did you talk about it with your physician? There’s a lot of medical conditions that can cause that. First in mind is hypothyroidism.
I was thankful to get to mid 160’s. I’m tall so being 145-155 made me look like a bean pole.
Now I’m trying to get back to being 165
I’m 5’10” and I was always hovering at 120lbs or so. Then I suddenly gained 20lbs over the course of a year. Was very strange. I’ve never gained weight unless I gained height really. Then suddenly bam: 20 new pounds. Not complaining too much since I was always on the upper end of underweight, but it definitely made me think the scale was lying to me until I tried a different scale 😂
Despite everything, Iactually love both Helena and Murray's attitude, once all problems with their diets are exposed, they seem very receptive and even laughs at themselves. Just needed some guidance.
I enjoy british weightloss shows because of how lighthearted they tend to be. In the US, the pathos is so strong, like it's impossible to showcase an obese person who isn't totally miserable 100% of the time. In the UK, people are able to take a joke and everything's not as dramatic. They look like actual real people. It's kind of refreshing.
@@hypnoteapotAgreed! I also like the UK show Supersize vs Superskinny, most of the people on that show are sweethearts.
im glad kiana picked a good positive example i love to see people who are willing to change and improve
Is your pfp a ghost? Gorgeous
Yeah they were real sweethearts
I don't know what is more iconic, the cream in Murray's cereal alone being more calories than a medium whopper meal or Murray's breakfast cereal alone having more calories than his recommended total daily caloric intake. Murray truly is the most secret of eaters. 🤣
I know this is off topic but I recently had to take an english exam (im not a native speaker) i was terrified of because it had a large essay portion which you had to do completely unprepared. The topic ended up being "how can people change their eating habbits". Coincidentally ive been listening to a lot of your videos while doing homework and could recite lots of your advice of the top of my head.
Your videos really motivated me to be more aware of what I eat and now they saved my grade, so thank you very much Kiana!
Should have eaten the exam paper.
Lots of fiber in that sawdust.
You failed the secret test.
I was in denial when I was morbidly obese.
I was in morbidly obese when I was denial,
@@rakhatthenut3815 Ha! Good one!
Operative word is "WAS" if you made the necessary changes. And, if so, good for you.
Most are in places like America
Because eating junk food is satisfying and palatable and we view the road to weight loss where we have to exercise and eat healthy as long, arderous, and painful. We want the easy way out.
The secret eater show to me also shows how bad the scientific studies based on a food question can be. The amount of food people eat and then just forget about it.
Serious studies involve the patient being hospitalised for a set amount of time. But pilote studies could be done based on food questions. Sometimes when people quote studies you look it up and it’s a pilote study and the authors write black on white they need to do further research to check the validity of the results. But a lot of people only read the title :/
Self reporting is full of holes
Those are the worst most unscientific studies and yet they are the ones that get the headlines. And they are one of the many reasons why people are so darn clueless about nutrition.
Scientists do have ways of compensating for the limitations in self reporting. As this lady says: self reporting is really predictably flawed. People underreport the unhealthy stuff they eat and overreport the healthy stuff they eat. Since it's predictable, you can adjust accordingly.
This is why calorie/nutrient counting especially in the beginning of a lifestyle change is so helpfull
Carbs are the beginning and end to all these issues
@@Chck314LOL no
@@JP-ve7or yes, carbs is why they are fat
@@Chck314 too much and the wrong kind of carbs do play a big role
@@Chck314He literally got fat bc he was putting double cream in his cereal which caused it to be nearly 2000 calories. Carbs are not the issue, empty calories are.
Its hard for me to believe he didn't know pouring cream over his cereal was a bad choice
Special K advertising in the 80s had a tag line “can you pinch an inch?” However, they didn’t specify which direction. I thought it meant horizontally. I recently realised they meant vertically! I remember feeling upset as a kid about it but was just pulling skin! In the 1990s, Special K also had drop a dress size challenge where you were meant to eat the product for breakfast and lunch and a “healthy meal” for dinner. Special K marketing can get in the bin!
Special K is worthless processed garbage like most cereals. Worthless carbs. Just ditch the processed cereals altogether and eat real food.
I was obese (class 3, aka morbidly obese) 8 months ago. Since watching your content and a few others on YT, I’ve lost 70lbs. Who knew that all it took was actual knowledge about calories. My parents taught me the best they could but it just wasn’t enough. Thanks for the content you make! I’m always looking forward to learning something new from you
👏 👏 knowledge is power 👏👏
WOW congrats that is incredible
Great stuff! Keep it up 😸👍
I'm 55lbs down, myself. We've got this!💪😎
Down 170lbs, a life changing amount of weight
Congratulations! 🎉
Aside from this, my favourite Secret Eaters moment was that family who was pouring copious amounts of cheese sauce into their boiled broccoli and cauliflower and wondering why they're gaining weight because they eat vegetables all the time. 🤦♀
It wasn’t a family. That was a very bitter middle-aged woman who loved to eat unhealthily-and thought nothing of drowning steamed veggies in 1,000 calories of melted fat-free cheese-and then blaming her gastric-bypass husband for her gluttony. She never took responsibility for anything she did, constantly throwing her husband under the bus for her love of fatty, processed foods. She was one of the worse people I’ve ever seen on TV, shrill, nasty, angry and without a shred of remorse or decency.
@@pdruiz2005 lol a nasty bitter middle aged woman with a "victim" husband 🤡🤡.
If you're doing high fat/low carb, cheese on broccoli is fine (provided you don't have a bunch of sugar in the cheese), but people don't understand how diets work.
@@pdruiz2005Thanks for the detailed explanation, it's been so long since I've seen it!
Think that was a couple lol he lied so she would drown it in cheese sauce 😂
“It’s low calorie cereal, in it” literally made me burst in laughter.
People are so dumb. If the cereal is made of ultra processed starchy cereal grains, it's high calorie, even if it doesn't have added sugar, which it probably does. And of course that's not even counting the calories in the milk.
@WhatIsMisophonia They are even dumber than that though because all they have to do is measure and add. There is no logic needed.
@WhatIsMisophonia Ur dumb. That “cereal” is literally saw dust. That’s why it’s low calorie.
@@WhatIsMisophonia Or cream lol
Innit*
This is exactly what happened to my Dad: Former distance runner & athlete who never updated his eating habits when he was forced to stop his athletic activities due to injuries. As He grew older, His appetite was still enormous. Like Murray, He was consuming over 5000cal./day well into his 70's, when He was living a far more sedintary lifestyle for almost a decade when he retired. He absolutely HATED the feeling of hunger. And hated seeing leftovers in the fridge, so even if he felt full, he'd still force himself to finish everything on the table. Which was an issue b/c we always served our dinners family style. And when He inevetibly became diabetic, He was so angry that he couldn't eat his favorite snacks. Seeing him suffer with his weight was heartbreaking, & frustrating b/c he was so stubborn & set in his ways. He hated the smaller portion sizes I served him when we stopped serving dinner family style. And despite stern warnings from the Drs., He was always sneaking snacks & booze. We even had to hide the car keys so he coukdn't go to the store! I love my dad, but witnessing all of this really opened my eyes in many ways. Thank You, for all the content, Kiana! It has been immensely helpful
I’m literally at my wits end with people like this. I’m a weight management coach for a council funded scheme, but when I ask people what they eat they come out with the healthiest lowest calorie diet you could imagine. Like they eat one spoonful of yogurt and two apples per day but weigh twenty stones. I can’t help them because they’re so far in denial…
Let them do a food diary and make sure to mention that snacks should be included.
Take your money and smile.
I think its very admirable that a pair of middle-aged/older people were interested in changing their lifestyle in the first place, as it's often not the case! Im obsessed with this show, it's very raw yet supportive in its delivery. Really highlights how unaware we often are about what we consume.
I had a woman complain that 'It's impossible to lose weight after 40." I tried not to laugh when I told her I lost 100lbs at 42.
Congratulations!!! That's a big accomplishment 👏🏻
@dragoflame9434 Thanks. I appreciate that. Now I'm dealing with maintenance, which is it's own challenge. I am a few years on and still doing well.
People over 40 love that excuse. It's an excuse! If they tracked their food intake they'd realise. I've lost 10 kgs in my early 40's and I've maintained into my late 40's.
Lol a lot of people use the word impossible incorrectly, it isn't IMPOSSIBLE it's just a little harder.
I had a coworker tell me she was fat because she was 44. I just just lost 85lb from 43-44 and when I told her she was shocked.
As a lifelong skinny who never had to worry about her weight, let me tell you the secret: I do not care about food as much as others. I get less of a dopamine hit from food, so it is easy to only eat when I am hungry. The problem is that I stress starve, which can be as dangerous as stress eating
It's the same thing with me and alcohol. I'm not addicted to alcoholic drinks because I don't get that same dopamine hit that many people do.
I get bored after a few bites. I like variety
The opposite problem. Yet they are the same. Eat too much or eat too little
Ugh I used to be like that and I kinda miss it. I was always on the edge of being underweight, now it's the opposite. I did what these people are doing but the other way around. I told everyone I was eating enough but looking back I think I was eating too little for the amount of exercise. I blame antidepressant for changing something in my brain. Now I have to make sure I don't eat too much...
same, i just don’t want to waste my time on food but i need to eat to stay healthy and gain muscle 🥲
This makes me feel grateful that my mom taught me, ever since I was very young, to read nutrition labels, not just calories but also ingredients and the amount of each nutrient
And that's why the food industry tries very hard to categorize this as "eating disorder behavior" when it is not. Because if everyone did this they would make less money.
LMAO I had to teach my mom that when I was a teenager. She just assumed that a can of something, or a bag of frozen whatever, was made the same way as she would have made it.
The food industry is all about making profit, not about keeping us well-fed and healthy.
People forget that the human body is built for an environment with food that normally takes incredible effort to accquire.
What most people don't understand is that eating healthy doesn't really mean eating low calorie meals.
Exactly. You can lose weight eating burgers every day. Just not 10 burgers, but 2, for example
This is more about weight loss than eating as healthy as possible.
@@amphibian.abominationit’s not, if you make burgers at home they can be decently healthy & there are a multitude of ways to lower the calories.
There is nothing really unhealthy, it's just a matter of quantity and variety. On burgers I would say 2 per month, not per day.
@@holger_p Why, though? There's nothing inherently unhealthy with "burgers" as a dish. It depends entirely how they're prepared.
Instantly recognized the thumbnail. Guy thought double cream was a low fat alternative to milk. Cannae make it up.
I don't know, man. I know people who think carbs are the devil and so they put heavy cream in their coffee because "calories from fat are ok."
@@JP-ve7or Well, high fat/low carb diets do work; I'd know, I've been loosing weight on one. You don't have to think carbs are the devil to think that humans are better adapted to processing fat than carbs. Further, if you like any kind of typical fatty cream in your coffee, heavy cream is at least the better choice because of the lower calorie due to complete lack of sugar. If you want it sweetened, add an alternative low-calorie natural sugar, or perhaps a small amount of honey if you're not a fan of those. Low carb diets are one of the best ways to fight diabetes, and heavy cream can help with that, so don't knock it. What I don't get is why carnivores will add butter to their coffee (probably shouldn't be drinking coffee on that diet anyway, but whatever...) instead of heavy cream, which tastes much better.
Did he say "low fat"? It's a low carb alternative, sure.
@@WhatIsMisophonia”Dietary saturated fat intake has been shown to increase low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, and therefore has been associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD).”
Fat is good in moderation. Healthy fats are fine, but the type of fat in heavy cream is mostly saturated fat. A bowl of that is bound to go beyond the daily recommended intake of saturated fat.
@@WhatIsMisophonia Why would there be sugar in cream? Or is it an american thing? Cream that I bought has always contained milk, lactic acid bacteria and that's it. Whipping cream is (at least in my country) 166 to 196 calories depending on the fat percentage. Double cream is 257, from what I see. Heavy cream reaches 301 at 30%!
Also, had never heard about the butter in coffee thing... sounds like an assault against both butter and coffee.
Wow. I'm British but I have literally NEVER heard of anyone putting double cream on cereal!
A drizzle is great in porridge 🤤 not half a pot though lol
Yeah y'all too busy have some processed ass beans and sausage for breakfast
my dad puts double cream in his porrige 💀
In Canada we have table cream (18% fat) and as a kid I loved it on my oatmeal.
@@voxellor6229 if you’d like to suggest a healthier alternative to him - splitting the amount with milk doesn’t change the taste at all and it’s still very very rich!
Murray's delivery of "this is very healthy * pause for suspense* jalapeños" sent me 😂
I'm cheering for both of them, lovely couple! They got what it takes to make healthy choices.
I read the labels on a variety of cereals and Special K has MORE SUGAR than Fruit Loops! Insane!
I have Dr. Nowzaradan's quote on my office wall. "The scale does not lie. People do." I demand only one thing from my nutrition clients - honesty.
I have his "YOU NOT GONNA STARVE" on my fridge 😄
You're demanding the hardest thing of all.
"You've eaten 800 pounds of food in you!"
It's so easy to overdo it with cereal! I absolutely love breakfast cereal. Doesn't matter what kind, whether it's healthy or not, I will eat half a box in one sitting if I buy it. I've had people say, "just exercise self control!" But I do! By not buying it!
Same for me. I have certain foods banned from my house. Cereal, share bags of crisps and jars of Nutella are all triggering for me.
No cereal is healthy, processed carbs.
Èat one cookie. It's exactly the same as cereal.
been excited to see you cover secret eaters again, this made my day! keep up the great work kiana, i'm down 190 lbs from 350 lbs to 160 lbs and still have another 30 to lose, and i find your content so helpful and motivating.
Thats amazing! 🎉 well done!
Down 190? That’s insane! Way to go
💪💪 (& I’m so glad! ❤️)
@@3brosinwinter781 thank you so much!!!
@@KianaDocherty thank you so much! it's been a lot of hard work but i started my health journey young (i'm 22 currently) so i've been pretty lucky in not letting my health spiral out of control before losing. even so, your content has helped remind me to not only think about my portion sizes, but what types of foods i'm eating as well. thank you for all the work you do to spread knowledge!
I had a roommate that would swear on her life that she “pretty much” counted every calorie. She’s take notes of every bite that she ate and show me how she was actually having a hard time getting enough calories and only eating 800-850 calories a day and wondered if that was the problem. However, we would spend entire days together and the list of food she ate blindly was just endless (and when I called her on it, she swore it was rare and couldn’t amount to much more than 50 extra calories….). We’d pick a bag full of oranges and when we couldn’t eat anymore, we’d make a little orange juice with the rest and drink it right on the spot. I lost count on how many times she’d grab “just one Oreo” throughout the day. Sure, the veggies are healthy, and the oil is too…but at 100 cal a Tblsp, she’d pour oil and never counted it. We both loved hot chocolate, and made it with whole milk and whipped cream. She’d also use whipped cream in her coffee and teas. And she’d say that when you’re craving chocolate, you can save a lot of calories by just grabbing a handful from the chip bag instead of buying a whole candy bar. Add to this the marinades/sauces, and the butter she’d use on eggs and mashed potatoes, and she’d insist that because salad is healthy, “there’s no need to measure the dressing, you just have to be careful about it”. She loved a coup,e glasses of wine a day. Popcorn is very healthy, esp if you pop it yourself, because then you can control the butter! Listen, if you struggle with your weight and aren’t measuring or weighing your foods to get realistic calories counts, then you aren’t controlling anything. This is no judgement on her…I ate as much as her and we both struggled with our weight, but there was no question for me…I always knew why I was overweight, while she seemed sincerely mystified as she clung to her belief that she ate 800 calories a day.
Did she eventually loose the weight or come too her senses 😂
@@chandansimms9167 Yes, as she had children, those added foods would impact her in different ways (nausea and heartburn) making it more obvious, so she got her act together way before I did. It took me a decades to finally heal my broken food relationship, but I always knew I was overeating, and today we both weigh far less. ☺️
@@fannyfreckle that’s great too hear and congrats on your weight loss journey
I used to be a Gym instructor/Personal Trainer and it was ALWAYS upon further investigation into diet with journaling and other methods that the people who would say "I eat healthy" really discovered that yes they were indeed not eating healthily or at least eating far more than they thought (or wanted me to believe). Even then when the truth would start to reveal itself they often didn't want to reveal the full extent of their diets and lifestyle. It always had to be something other than their diet that was causing their weight woes. I was not there to judge them, but I guess they felt like they were being judged if they were honest. If they were just honest with me (and to themselves) from the very beginning then it would have cut out a lot of unnecessary time and effort.
Frankly if they were honest with themselves they would’ve caught their bad diet years ago and not needed your services as a personal trainer. Your career depended on their very stubborn delusions about themselves. 😂
@@pdruiz2005 A good point. But I do think it takes more than just recognising the problem to make serious changes. It's a big step in the right direction though.
@@JamesCarmichael I tend to think it's the biggest step. Because if they don't destroy those delusions about how "virtuous" and "good" they are with their diets, the old habits will come back as soon as the intervention (you) leave the picture. A change in thinking is so necessary to make a change in habit that will stick around for the long term.
eating "healthy" is just a stupid way to gauge if your diet is good. Just like how that guy puts a banana in his cereal because he thinks it gives him some magical health benefits when really it's just adding another 90 calories to his already huge breakfast
@@elobiretv But that's ultimately the problem--because the dumb guy thinks he's "virtuous" and "good" in his head, and adds the banana to make himself think that, he doesn't even bother to read the calorie content of the cereal, the jam and the double-cream he's pouring into his pig trough....errrr...I mean, large bowl. Breaking the habit of thinking one is "virtuous" and "good" is the first and most crucial step because then it makes you question everything you put into your mouth.
I am a simple man, I see a Kiana Docherty video, I click. I LOVE these kinds of videos. Keep up the slay work!!! :)
I've been counting calories and weighing food for about 3 years now, and yeah, you really do develop a great "radar" for how many calories something has. I've gotten to where I even know when my food scale needs new batteries because I can tell it's not giving me accurate results anymore. I was weighing out my serving of croutons for my salad earlier and I was like "...okay I know that I've already put 21g of croutons in here, there's no way 15g is right." And those little things really add up quickly!
Damn, Kiana, from morbidly obese to morbidly good looking! You gotta tell us your skin care routine, girl!
Yes please! We need a makeup and skin care routine!
You have no idea about the skin when caked in makeup.
Not saying a woman should turn up on YT without makeup.. it would be rough!
Really enjoyed this video. They seem like nice people and they were willing to admit their problems and do something about it. Good for them for being open to new ideas.
My fiancé used to be like this man. He had gained weight so I started working hard to help, focusing on making us healthy meals and going for walks more- nothing was working. Turns out he was secretly getting donuts, bubble tea, teriyaki etc with a coworker while at work and then would come home and eat what I made as well.
My dad has been a good example for me that you can maintain fitness as you age. He turned 60 this year- about 10 years ago he lost almost 100 lbs and he has mostly kept it off, he has no mobility issues and is in excellent shape- he works as a prison guard and is part of the special response teams so he has to be agile and fit. It’s inspiring to know that in 30 years that level of fitness could be possible for me, too.
We have normalised unhealthy eating and we don't educate people on how damaging so much of the food we buy from the supermarket is. Foods that we think of as healthy, such as cereals, are actually ultra processed. And that's before you consider the calorie content of the quantities we put away.
even non-UPF cerals are not that good with them being pure carbs. at bare minimum I add peaut butter to add to it.
I can't hardly believe the next level sleazy marketing that convinced people to stop eating bacon and eggs, and start eating empty calorie baked flour in milk. I mean, minus the added sugars and milk, that's what you'd do for war rations ffs... Busted up hardtack in boiled water.
@@randomprotag9329 I'm not understanding why adding peanut butter would make them healthier or less fattening, based on the Randle Cycle, that's probably not a good thing to do
@@defeqel6537 1) it makes it more filling 2) it makes it less nutritionally one note. using oats as a cerial is ok but its still got the one note issue most cereal has.
@@randomprotag9329 same could be said of jam, heavy cream, or probably a Snickers bar
It’s so disheartening to know people are damaging their health because they don’t know any better, everybody has the right to good health and that includes proper education in nutrition and exercise!
Yeah, but it's also lack of basic research on their part, so I can't feel too sorry for them. Everyone is going to tell you this or that competing diet is the best, so it's up to you to dig deeper and learn the basics.
@@WhatIsMisophonia But notice this couple didn’t say “I lack knowledge” they said “we actually talk a lot about health” or something to that effect, essentially they *thought* they knew about a healthy diet, and that’s the case for most people, they think they know, or at least know enough, and that’s what impedes them of digging deeper, the thing about ignorance is that you don’t know you are ignorant, until you are proven otherwise, I’m actually the type who seeks answers online, and even with me a lot of valuable things I have learned I stumbled onto them, we don’t know what we don’t know. Plus, we are talking about nutrition, one of the most muddled topics online, you said it yourself, there are contracting opinions, with different people in different walks of life championing different diets, promoting and shunning different things, the information is not so clear cut. So don’t you think you are maybe judging too soon?
@@EmyN It's because of all the confusion that I know I have to dig deeper. People want to be part of a collective band wagon, and they want easy answers with as much convenience as possible. Deep down, I think these people know that they didn't really know, they just didn't care enough until it was shoved in their faces. I just wish people's complacency and excuses didn't screw over the whole of society. Yes, I don't actually blame them for being who they are; I don't believe in "free will" in the traditional sense. We can alter our opinions and feelings, but only within the narrow framework allowed by our physical brain and individual genetics. That's why we'll always be different people, reacting to things in different ways, even if we had the exact same experiences. I may not blame them per se, but they do still represent a great weakness in humanity that it would be nice if we could fix. The greedy people who poisoned the food supply bear responsibility, but people reeeeally need to take more responsibility for their health.
They can read.
They know better. They don't care
The first time measuring a serving of peanut butter was heart breaking 😅
😂
Damn its freakied outside of yt fitness
@@MrStinkels lol, I watch more non fitness videos by a lot. That said, while not a traditional yt fitness channel, Kiana's content hits a lot of fitness related material and in a non meat head way that we're used to. Cool to see some of our typical subjects from a different perspective.
@@freakied0550 yeah i dont know her channel but this video was fairly reasonable. She says mostly what fitness guys say but just in a more soft, less agressive way.
Your sleepy dog in the background is adorable❤
I had to rewind multiple times in the video because I missed what you were doing and just focused on the dog 😂
I really appreciate the new direction your channel is going (less commentary / reaction, more scientific orientated stuff about behaviour change), it helps me a LOT. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I'll go and rewatch the video on behaviour change :)
In my english exam the teacher told us that he would ask about our idol so i grabbed my phone in secret during recess and researched about you and wrote you in the exam 😭😭
That’s so sweet!
That’s nice
This is adorable. I hope you scored well!!
@@miaa7968 Thanks, since my english is at C1, i got 100 from all the 12 exams we had this year (listening, talking and regular exam)
Thank you for talking about Secret Eaters. After seeing one of your videos, I started watching the show and ended up losing 20lbs. Now my mother is getting into the show and starting to do the same. Thank you!
Self awareness is the key. It's how I got back to the size I was at 18.
I really think this is one of the best weight/health centric channels I've come across. Very helpful tips!
That double cream in the cereal is genius. I'm gonna try that out. lol
Video topic I would love to see you cover : gaining weight during a "honeymoon phase" of relationships, people you live with affecting your choices, and cultural influence on weight gain.
I gained so much weight after meeting my now husband 🥲 happy weight is REAL
I'm trying to start fixing this. Happened after I moved in with my SO.
@@Owlet101Same. I've never eaten dinner when living in my own. My guy eats every night 1-2k meals. It's gotten to point where I have to screech "Stop offering me food!!"
Older women need so few calories when they're sedentary it's almost impossible to lose weight with diet alone, unless you are VERY conscious of what you're eating.
I'm going through this with my mom right now. She doesn't overeat by that much but 10-15 years of extra calories really adds up. But she's in her 60s and doesn't want to change anything.
I'm 5' and dread menopause because my caloric requirement already is quite low now, and imagining eating even less is a bit scary. And even if you do lots of sports, as a super short woman you burn less calories (because moving less weight equals less energy). But well, life is not fair.
between birth control, my thyroid being suicidal, being a gymrat and then a vegetable that never moves i never gained a lot of weight.
i eat when im hungry and nothing more, and dont force myself to finish a plate. parents need to stop pushing kids into ignoring their bodys signals. if youre full youre full! the food wont run away you can eat it later. accept when your kid only wants a small portion.
@@nriamond8010i love being tall in theory but id hate to spend even more money on food in this economy so ill be a happy 5"4
@@nriamond8010This is why I’m dedicating my 30s to putting on more muscle. Menopause is gonna be a bitch, but at least I can see it coming and plan accordingly.
We can only try to change the narrative of weight gain for ourselves and future generations of women. Weight gain shouldn't be feared to the point that we diet from our teenage years on often for decades. Instead we should build muscle (which mostly comes with weight gain and also a bit of frame-width when you're not constantly dieting), so we won't suffer from so much fat gain and frailty in our later years. We still will have to adjust our eating after menopause but it wouldn't be SO hard bc we build caloric wiggle room with our muscle and bone density
Cereal in general had such good advertising I'm sure most people would never guess how bad it really can be.
Been watching you for a few days now and you’ve really helped motivate me to start journaling what I’m eating. Thanks for your great content! :)
I had this idea for a show where people would live somewhere with cameras and demonstrate that, "no, you're not fan because of hormones, you're fat because you eat too much". I'm so tickled to see that somebody had that idea and actually implemented it.
It's wild how somebody's self assessment can be so at odds with what they're actually eating.
this remind me about when after joining several gym and fitness tips communities in facebook I notice how a lot of people were asking why they were not losing weight of how to lose weight while claiming that they were eating super healthy everyday.
I love when you do commentary on these shows!
12:52 cryingggg at Murray’s colleague snitching on him lmfaooo didn’t even try to mind his business
please do more videos with secret eaters! it’s so motivating to make sure what i’m eating is healthy
I love secret eaters - you should do a video talking about the psychological experiments they do in every episode!! Always found those parts so interesting!
oof I remember my "Murray moment" - when I first thought to 'go on a diet' and 'lose weight' I bought a giant container of cashews and would eat them by the handful lol 😅
Murray’s cut is gonna go crazyyyyy
Your doggo relaxing in the back of the video is the cutest thing ever
I am a 61 year old Englishman. I put a fair bit of weight during the Covid lockdown, because I was working on a laptop in my armchair while eating three full meals a day. Now, I eat two smaller meals and a nutrient drink, and I exercise plenty. All that excess bulk has gone and I am at a stable BMI with well-defined muscles (e.g., what were moobs are now just pectoral muscles). And I feel great.
Nicely done! Losing fat and adding muscle becomes increasingly difficult - but doable - as we age, so your accomplishment is particularly inspiring and aspirational.
I think what trips people up is the pain of making a change. Once you’re in the maintenance phase, it becomes automatic, but changing your eating habits when you’re hooked on sugar and processed foods can be very painful, especially as the latter are intentionally designed to be low-satiety and addictive.
I'm glad you said to not necessarily count calories forever. I've counted on and off for ten years and this past year I tried my best to count but then I felt it took away from me actually keeping in touch with my hunger cues. Because sometimes even if I wasn't hungry I would say "well I have calories leftover so I might as well fill them!" I stopped counting a month ago to focus on increasing vegetable intake and focus more on how hungry I actually feel instead of mindlessly filling the bar because I can.
Once you start getting actual nutrients, your body doesn't crave junk as much.
This is very true. Once I started eating almost exclusively meat and some animal organs I've never felt so alive.
@@cuteface88 I'm a big liver evangelist. I've never had issues with weight, but once I started eating liver, I noticed my food intake went down 15% or so. Junk food that I used to like just looks gross now.
@@MrMoridinalthor Yea liver is so ridiculously good, probably about the best food on the planet.
@@cuteface88 cough gout
liver is good, but can also be overeaten
as someone who's exercising everyday and my 30s I'm losing more weight not gaining it . the whole argument of it's because I'm ageing makes absolutely no sense . I was really fat in my 20s now I'm just losing it running all the time
I loved this. In weight loss, as you say, the margins are so fine. A few hundreds calories, or an extra snack or drink of beer, can be the difference between losing and gaining weight. Hence, discipline is so important. And when that fails, as it does for everyone, tracking is crucial to call us out on our own BS.
I was FAR into the morbidly obese category, shows like this even helped me rethink my OWN situation and make healthy decisions
Going from constant snacking and extremely sedative lifestyle to light daily exercise and conscious eating and I’m only 10-20lbs (roughly one stone) from a healthy BMI!
I know you did it like a year ago already, but I love the light blue repaint/makeover of your office - the whole set up behind you always looks so nice, I think about it every time!
It's easy to underestimate what you eat, and it can also be easy to overestimate. We're all really bad at knowing what we put in our mouths
It's so weird to me how much people can delude themselves, can put on ~150 lbs and still think to themselves "yes, I eat healthy."
For one, it's cause there's a lot of movements today that try to convince people that health conditions that make losing weight are common. Not only that but they convince those people that it's okay to be fat because you "can't help it" meanwhile people are dying young and struggling with daily pains and health issues caused by their excessive weight. It's predatory and probably just to sell products. Just like it was shown in the video also, advertisements can be extremely misleading
Oh Kiana, you hit the nail on the head with cereal. When you start measuring the cereal as their recommended serving size - you get a tiny amount, which means it isn't satiating physically or mentally.
Food diaries are hands down one of the best tools (free, you can use your phone notes or any notebook).
As Kiana said, just to learn about food energy & to help identify what foods are caloric dense, what your fav foods are & how things add up. Oh & move your body too!
Knowledge truly is power! Another great vid 💖
I realized I was a secret eater recently and super vulnerable around food when I was alone. I’ve started using a fasting app where I record everything I eat and I think it’s helping!
I’m going through my own journey of escaping secret eating. I’ve been tracking my food and the amount over what I should be eating truly smacked me up the side of the head. Especially when snacking. It is so easy for it to sneak up on you and you to just lie to yourself about how much it is.
in order to stop secret eating i think its important to see how those behaviors crept into our lives and how we turned them into routines. another great video, thanks kiana.
speaking of getting excited to move, my summer job perfectly allows me to do that. I'm a sailing instructor and am always sailing a boat with kids and getting to move a lot and around the boat. It's really the perfect job and I enjoy it so much! The pay feels like a bonus 😂
14:01 You omitted the best part. His 2500 calorie bowl of breakfast cereal! Heavy cream, jam, two candy bars on top.
It’s at 11:58!
Pulled out my laptop to check it wasn’t deleted hahah
@@KianaDocherty Sorry, missed that. Now THAT is a bowl of cereal!
More than a days worth of calories right there.
Here’s the thing. It’s incredibly hard to stay low calorie when everything around you is easy and available. I have a food addiction. I know that everyone has to eat to stay alive but I’m talking about real addiction that’s not about how full I am. I have to make choices about the food that’s available to me and I have to choose the holiday or celebration that I want to attend. I’m not talking about crazy restrictions or diets but I have to choose the foods that I’m going to spend my money on. So I haven’t yet gotten a good handle on portions yet but I’m trying
I loved Secret Eaters and binged them all a few summers ago! They're so eye opening to our own unconscious habits!
"Low calorie cereal" hahaha omg I'm dead
Can't wait to watch. I've been hooked on your content for the last 2 weeks and I honestly can't emphasise the turnaround you've helped me go through in my habits and behaviour!❤
So true! At age 67 next week, I've dropped from 380# to 210# in the last 2 years; my goal is 190#. I've changed my diet to reduce "white food" (bread, rice, potatoes, noodles) and fried food to a minimum, and have added a lot of vegetables, fruit and clear soups,. I keep fruit/veggies/protein in my office refrigerator so I can eat low-calorie foods at lunch and not skip lunch or buy fast food. I've been using the NOOM app for the last 8 months to track everything I eat, which is a great assist in avoiding high-calorie foods and large portions. The NOOM app costs $100 for 6 months, and I save that every 10 days of not eating fast food. It's a commitment and a lifestyle change, for sure.
I was just barely in the overweight range and decided to make a change last year. I ended up losing 32 pounds in 8 months. I went from 167 to 135 as a 5’7 female. I tracked calories, but I also added a lot of activity to my life, so that I could still eat a decent amount. I have a pretty big appetite. I started taking walks and doing yoga (difficult yoga classes) regularly. I managed to lose the weight eating around 1700-2200 calories. I maintain my current weight range (135-145ish) eating anywhere from 2000-3000 calories. Most days I eat over 2000. I travel for work every other week (fly out, then drive long hours every day). So I have no choice but to eat on the road or at restaurants. I also work 10-14 hour days on average, so I don’t get nearly as much physical activity those days. I’m pretty sure it’s the reason I even fluctuate back up to 145 sometimes. But it’s in the healthy bmi range anyways, and I’m happy with how I feel and look now, so that’s what matters. I just wanted to share my story to let people know they don’t have to starve in order to lose weight. Height of course makes a difference, and I’m not super short for a woman. But I genuinely think finding physical activity that I enjoy, and prioritizing moving my body more when I can, was a huge part of the puzzle for me being successful. I do highly suggest people try tracking their calories too; it’s very eye opening and helps you to be more mindful with what you consume.
19:57 I like you magician dog (disappearing and reappearing) 😂😂😂
I wanted a crumbl cookie as a treat one day and looked at the nutritional information before I bought. It scared my away from ever really eating out “as a treat” outside of special events with friends of family. Absolutely wild
Lol yeah they say the serving size is 1/4 of a cookie
Special k almost gave me an eating disorder! I did the "diet" (1 bowl of cereal for bfast, one of their gross snacks, a bowl for lunch, another snack, and then a salad for dinner!) I was 12/13 trying to fit into a dress for my middle school graduation. Thankfully my mom jumped in after 3 weeks
I set goal for myself to be mostly healthy and fit at the start of April and have so far dropped 18kg or 40lbs (43 bmi to 38 bmi) and I'm on my way to becoming normal body fat (
Dude cooking food makes a hell of a difference. I stopped eating has much sugar and now I can taste sugar in condiments. It's gross lol
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Loved the video, feels like it really nailed every major point I've been seeing from your channel lately! With the food environment being as bad as it is, the food marketing being more deceptive than ever, and the food education being so poor, I'm with you in thinking the situation will probably get worse in the near future before it gets better. We're so lucky to have people like you counteracting it!
Jason Fung’s book the Obesity Code has changed my life. I was basically pumping my body with sugar so much that my body didn’t stand a chance. Intermittent fasting and cutting out sugar is a game changer ✨
Just got to the clip showing mayo and in my room just shouting justice for Dawn 😅
200 extra calories on average is the difference between me being a healthy weight of 130lbs vs obese at 170lbs. That is less than one bag of chips, one 20oz drink, or one candy bar. Most of those on average are at least 250 calories.
Shit is wild. It truly does not take much, especially when you're sedentary.
That's why I prefer being physically active (lifting+cardio+a LOT of walking and standing) rather than dieting alone.
I actually eat quite a lot with a very protein rich diet that makes me feel very full, yet I've been losing 1-2 kgs every week for months. All my clothes are baggy on me now :D
I’ve had family members who were severely obese. Not only did they have no idea as to how badly they were actually eating, they would also lie about what they ate.
Obesity is honestly a problem we as a society will likely never defeat.
You hit the nail on the head: I hate when "old" people think they look the way they do because they're not 19 anymore and their metabolism has stopped. The human body stops growing around 21 and everyone needs to have a good understanding of correct exercise, building muscle tone and nutrition. No wonder people burn out by 40. I was one of those people who could eat anything and not exercise and still be slim. Then at 22 I got up to 100kg and realised I had to do something about it, so I learnt about counting calories and learnt how to run (walk/run/walk/run until you can run solidly for 30 mins). This kept me really slim for years but I wasn't building muscle so I did Crossfit for 7 years and now I do bodybuilding and at age 41 I'm in the best shape of my life.