Today we're going to talk about the biggest lie about weight loss, dieting, and trying to lose your belly fat.

This lie has been going around for decades. You may have accepted this mainstream lie because it's taught in all the different universities and continue to use it over and over again.

What is this lie? It's this. Weight loss is just a matter of eating fewer calories than you're burning.

There is no one bad food. Everything in moderation. Have you ever heard that?

A lot of this has been perpetuated by the junk food industry.

And one of the big problems with eating something in moderation is all it takes

is a little bit of the wrong foods to keep you wanting more. Today I'm going to

completely dissect or actually demolish this theory that a calorie is a calorie. Let's first

dissect this on the area of hormones. There's a hormone called insulin. And insulin has a very

specific job. It tells the calorie where to go. If your insulin is high,

the carbohydrates that you eat will be stored. If insulin is low, those calories will be burned.

What triggers insulin? It's carbohydrates. If someone tells you that there's no difference

between 100 calories of this

meat versus 100 calories of this soda in relationship to your hormones, they really are lying to you.

Because if we compare these two different types of calories, insulin is going to be triggered with this

much, much more than this. And I remember in practice working with lots of people and they would come in and say, you know, I'm not losing weight, Dr. Burke. And then I would do a food log and I would ask them, what did you just eat? And they said, well, I just had a little bit of carbs. Come to find out, there was a glass of wine, a little bread, but they said it wasn't that much. What they

didn't know, which I eventually told them, is that all it takes is a little bit of carbohydrate

to raise that insulin to then prevent the burning of fat. That fat loss is shut off for a period of time.

The other hormone that's related to this is cortisol. That's a stress hormone.

Cortisol will indirectly raise your insulin. It's coming from your own body. It's coming from

the liver. Now to mention the cortisol prevents you sleeping. And by the way, most of the fat burning

that your body does is during the deep sleep. The other fact I want to mention is fiber.

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