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Energized with Dr. Mariza

006: Why Food Intolerance is the Real Cause of Weight Gain with JJ Virgin

Energized with Dr. Mariza

Dr. Mariza Snyder

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8999 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

What We’re Talking About In This Episode! How she realized the popular advice wasn’t working for her clients The importance of simplicity and having your system set up Success stories from people who have solved more than weight loss issues Her opinions on snacking and fruit   Episode Summary: If you’re struggling with weight loss resistance even though you’re following all the “rules” you keep hearing, food intolerances might be the culprit. In today’s episode, we talk to fitness and nutrition expert JJ Virgin about food intolerances and the myriad of symptoms they can cause, as well as how simple it is to fix. JJ Virgin is a celebrity nutrition and fitness expert who helps eliminate food and carb intolerances to help transform your health and life. She appears on PBS, the Dr. Oz Show, Rachel Ray, Access Hollywood, and the Today Show. She also has four New York Times best-selling books, as well as the host of the popular JJ Virgin Lifestyle Podcast. We talk about some of the common causes of food intolerances, as well as how to find out if you have one. We discuss the importance of gut health, and how losing weight is often as much about healing your body and reducing inflammation caused by intolerances as anything else. She emphasizes how simple it is to make the changes you need, and is giving us a free gift to make it as easy as possible for us! Do you have brain fog, fatigue, bloating, or cravings regularly that you think might be caused by food intolerances? Are you struggling with weight loss resistance no matter what you try? Let us know in the comments on the episode page!   Resources Mentioned: JJ’s Website Follow JJ Virgin on Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube Check out JJ’s podcast, The JJ Virgin Lifestyle Show Her free gift for us: 7 Day Stop Drop & Swap Challenge   Check out the full show notes page Keep up with everything Dr. Mariza Follow Dr. Mariza on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Youtube Please review us on iTunes. And, if you haven’t already, SUBSCRIBE!

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0:00.0

I was obsessed with weight loss I went off to college and became one of the first

0:06.3

personal trainers in the country and I was in grad school and they were teaching us

0:09.9

that in order to lose weight you had to eat less and exercise more right I mean that

0:14.9

was all the popular culture back then and so I'm studying this and I'm applying it to

0:19.7

my clients and I'm noticing that my women especially 40 plus this was not working and in order to be a successful personal trainer you can't make people worse

0:31.5

They're not going to go gosh you know this is awesome

0:34.0

I'm gaining weight around my waistline could you come more often?

0:38.4

Welcome back to the essentially you podcast all about reinventing your health with safer, cheaper, more effective

0:45.4

natural solutions and powerful lifestyle changes. I am your host Dr. Marissa

0:50.5

Snyder. Ever wondered what the root cause to weight gain actually is?

0:56.0

We are going to get into the root of that answer with my dear friend and celebrity nutritionist

1:00.7

J.J. Virgin.

1:02.3

We are digging deep into a topic that affects millions of people,

1:05.9

and that is why food intolerance is the real cause of weight gain. I learned a long time ago that food is information and medicine. Food communicates with our body.

1:17.0

Each of us have experienced this, especially when our body communicates to us that what we ate just really isn't working.

1:24.4

From gluten to dairy to sugar, these foods and many more can have adverse effects on our

1:29.4

gut and our bodies.

1:31.5

Several years ago, I personally cut out a lot of foods

1:34.6

from my diet in a detox and then reintroduced them slowly back in.

1:39.7

I was blown away at the way that I felt when I reintroduced certain grains, dairy, it was just, I felt bloated, tired, irritable,

1:50.6

I knew something wasn't right when I ate these foods and don't even get me

1:55.2

started on sugar. It has rarely been a friend to my waistline and my energy levels.

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