All right. Hello, everybody. This is Dr. Ray Hainish and I'm joined here in the virtual studio with Blythe Alberg. Hey, Blythe. Hey, guys. How's it going?

How's it going? How are you, Ray? I'm doing wonderful, doing wonderful. How about yourself? It's great. Actually, it's really good to hear your voice. I have to say I was kind of missing it. I know and I was missing yours too. I text you remember about how it gives a little bit awkward when it's just me and then I start commenting on what jokes you'll find funny. I love it though. You've got me there and my heart is in the studio. You're definitely there in spirit and you're definitely missed when you know when I'm doing

a podcast alone, but it's good to hear you. I'm sure everybody's happy to have you on. In today's podcast, what's our topic? We are talking about the top five questions that I get from people about weight loss. And I'm going to generalize and say weight loss because it's not always just about that loss, but it really is about losing weight. Right. Because that's what's on people's minds. You know, you've got to speak to what people think the problem is. Yes. And then you've got to give them

what they want. And in between that, you sprinkle in what they need. You know, we call that the pill in the meat, like how you get a dog to take a pill. You can either try to stuff it down the throat or you can give them a piece of meat with a pill stuffed inside. You know, you can disguise it just a little bit. Right. So let's, let's, let's disguise what people need through answers of questions about what they want. How does that sound? Okay. Hey, that sounds great to me. And I think most of these questions, or maybe even all of these questions,

our listeners can relate to. You want me to start? Should I go start with number one? Let's do it. Let's jump right in. Okay. So question number one. And this is by far the most common question I get. And I'm going to guess you probably hear this quite often and pretty much any

personal trainer out there would get this question. How? Okay, picture somebody sitting in a chair. And you say, what can I help you with today? And they look up at you and they say, how do I get rid of this? And as they say,

this they've got their two index fingers pointing at their stomach or pointing at their hips, pointing at their rear end, pointing at their bingo wings. They're

triceps. They're, you know, they're pointing at all those things saying, how do I get rid of this? Right. And I usually rephrase that by saying, do you mean what can you do to start losing that?

Because the idea is you're never going to get rid of it. I mean, if you've got, you know, a really large belly, we got to focus on the goal of shrinking that not getting rid of it because reality is the

result is not going to happen in the time frame that you want it to happen in. Okay. Most people are unrealistic when going for a goal like that. So my answer to them is usually, well, it's another

question. What is your eating like and the same scenario? I mean, this goes down the same way every time. People will look at me and say, my eating is horrible. I know it's not good. And I'll say, well, what if I told you that losing weight is 80% diet and 20% exercise. And I, and I really stick to, I adhere to that 80% 20% because it really, you are what you eat. It really does unfold that way.

So people look at me and they say, well, I just, I desert every night after dinner. So they already know what they can do to cut it out. So reality is they're answering their own question. That's how I like to start the conversation anyway of how do I get rid of this right now. Let's go back to the issue or the problem that people think they have. They will point to that certain area of their body that they that they feel uncomfortable with. Okay, let's say it's it's it's been goings

the bingo wings or the guy. Okay, let's the bingo wings are actually a good example because first thing people believe and they're they believe this because they're told this by a lot of companies that promote products and services that they're, you know, if they've got the bingo wings, so to speak, then they've got it because they're eating a certain way. And the truth is, they got the bingo wings because from a genetic perspective, that's where their body has a tendency to store.

Fat. Yes. And so it's always when you take in too much or too many calories and they're the wrong kinds of calories and your body stores and deposits that fat, it's going to deposit it in an unfair fashion. It's going to distribute more of that fat into those bingo wings for that particular person. Right. Yeah. What we're trying to do is we're trying to change your body's fat storing versus fat burning product.

Your body's either in a fat storing mode or it's in a fat burning mode. You're either metabolically storing energy or conserving energy. And so when we talk about the changes that we're going to make, we're talking about changing the chemistry or the function of the body from an energy storing fashion to an energy burning fashion and it's going to burn that fat from all over the body.

That's exactly right. There's not, you can't spot reduce. So quite often in the follow up from that, you'll get something like, well, no, but I do 500 crunches a day. How come, how come my stomach isn't getting smaller? How come it's not shrinking? There's no such thing as spot reducing, which is kind of what you're talking about. You know, when you lose it, you lose it from all over.

But I'll tell you this. There is such thing as as spot storing. Yes. That's the problem is from a genetic perspective. We store more fat in certain areas. Women have a tendency to store it more in the hips. Then guys, guys have a tendency to store it more in the abdomen section. That's from that's a genetic perspective, a genetic perspective. And it's not. It doesn't apply to everybody. There certainly are some women who who will store more in other areas of the body and guys that will store more in other areas of the body.

From a general perspective, most men will store more in the stomach and most women will store more in the hips. So why is that happening? It's happening because there are differences in the receptors of the cells of that local region.

And they are sensitive. They have various levels of sensitivity to certain things like insulin, for example, the fat in the bingo wings may be more insulin sensitive, meaning that when insulin levels are high, more fat will be deposited in there.

And it's going to be harder for you to access those fats. So people think that if they if they change their eating habits, that that's going to be the area that's going to improve.

And they're oftentimes wrong. That's usually the last area to improve. Right. Right. That's exactly right. If that's your quote-unquote worst area, it is going to be the last to go. So it's important to keep that in mind, you know, that you're losing fat from all over. So the key is to be able to stay in the fat burning zone or the fat burning process more often than you are in the fat storing process.

And well, this kind of leads into one of my other questions. I do want to say that when I answer the first question, how do I lose this?

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