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🗓️ 22 December 2025
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If you’re not losing weight, dangerous diet advice may be the reason. Discover the worst weight loss mistakes and how to lose weight fast with these 13 effective weight loss tips.
0:00 Introduction: weight loss lies
1:01 The worst weight loss advice
1:49 Low-calorie diets
2:30 Weight loss mistakes
6:01 13 weight loss tips
14:08 Periodic prolonged fasting to lose weight fast
Surprisingly, the most common weight loss tips given by mainstream dietitians and medical professionals are the worst diet advice! Calorie counting and portion control will leave you feeling hungry and constantly craving carbs. The body adapts to a low-calorie diet, leading to a slower metabolism. A low-calorie, high-carbohydrate diet raises insulin levels.
I’m sure you’ve heard these other bad weight loss tips:
• Eat 6 small meals per day
• Count calories
• Increase fiber
• Drink more water to help you feel full
• Chew gum
• Take Ozempic
These tips will not boost fat loss!
Your body can use fat or glucose for fuel. Although stored fat is potential energy, you must lower your insulin to utilize it.
Insulin resistance is at the root of many chronic illnesses and can negatively affect the liver, nervous system, immune system, and more. Low-calorie diets that don’t lower insulin are not sustainable. You won’t be able to achieve your goals if you're hungry, craving carbs, dealing with brain fog, high blood pressure, or other related issues.
If you really want to lose weight, stop calorie counting! Try these 13 weight loss tips instead:
1 Don’t use pre-workout, sugary drinks, or protein bars.
2. Keep your carbs at around 10 to 20 grams per day.
3. No bright lights at night.
4. Get early morning sun.
5. Avoid late-night snacking.
6. Never buy junk food at the grocery store. Don’t shop while hungry!
7. Be cautious around social situations.
8. Walk after meals.
9. Don’t eat unless you’re hungry.
10. Prioritize healthy animal protein.
11. Consume apple cider vinegar before meals.
12. Avoid diets that keep you bloated.
13. Do periodic prolonged fasting.
Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:
Dr. Berg, age 60, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals and author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.
Disclaimer:
Dr. Eric Berg received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1988. His use of “doctor” or “Dr.” in relation to himself solely refers to that degree. Dr. Berg is a licensed chiropractor in Virginia, California, and Louisiana, but he no longer practices chiropractic in any state and does not see patients, so he can focus on educating people as a full-time activity, yet he maintains an active license. This video is for general informational purposes only. It should not be used to self-diagnose, and it is not a substitute for a medical exam, cure, treatment, diagnosis, prescription, or recommendation. It does not create a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Berg and you. You should not make any change in your health regimen or diet before first consulting a physician and obtaining a medical exam, diagnosis, and recommendation. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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| 0:00.0 | Dr. Berg here again. Today we're going to talk about the number one worst weight loss advice in the |
| 0:06.2 | world, which ironically just happens to be the number one advice given by mainstream conventional |
| 0:14.3 | dietitians, medical professionals. Now the big question is, who am I to give you advice? |
| 0:20.2 | I have over 8700 success stories. Now, I question is, who am I to give you advice? I have over 8,700 success stories. |
| 0:24.3 | Now, I know some people are going to say, well, that's not real science. It's not a study. It's |
| 0:28.1 | just anecdotal. But these are not fake. They're real before and afters. You can also look at my |
| 0:34.3 | Google reviews. I have over 5,000 of them with an average of 4.9 stars out of 5. And if you read those, you'll see a lot of them are related to weight loss and other health things. And those are not fake. They're real. Also, I've been in practice for 30 years and I've worked one-on-one with over 40,000 people. That being said, I do have some experience in this area. |
| 0:55.1 | All I want you to do is listen to this next part and look at it from a viewpoint of common sense. |
| 1:01.6 | Here's the worst advice. Lower your calories. Portion control. And here's the big problem. |
| 1:09.3 | When you do that, especially repetitively, you're going to be hungry, |
| 1:12.8 | you're going to be craving. I do know thousands of people that tried that in their late 20s, |
| 1:17.9 | in their early 30s. And what happened is their body keeps adapting to these lower calories |
| 1:24.3 | and they start developing a slower metabolism to the point when |
| 1:28.8 | they're 45 or 50, trying to lose weight is next to impossible. |
| 1:34.0 | So the body is dynamic. |
| 1:35.5 | When you lower your calories, the body adjusts to it and it slows down. |
| 1:39.8 | But it doesn't actually really slow down. |
| 1:42.3 | It becomes more efficient. Not necessarily in a good way, |
| 1:46.9 | in a bad way. And I'm going to explain that. But there's two types of low calorie diets I need |
| 1:52.2 | to differentiate. You have the low calorie diet where someone's also doing low carbs. And then you |
| 1:58.8 | have this one, low calorie high carb dieting when you do it you end up raising |
| 2:05.6 | insulin okay because of the high carbs what is insulin insulin insulin is the hormone that changes |
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