Time to Stop Counting Calories? | Weight Loss Q&A with Dr. Vanita Rahman
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 29 April 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
You may not need to count calories in order to lose weight! That's great news for those of us who get frustrated by tediously entering each meal in an app or adding everything up on a calculator!
Dr. Vanita Rahman joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll for a special weight loss Q&A on The Exam Room™ Live! Learn how calorie counting can become a thing of the past when eating a plant based diet and the vegan foods that can still pack on pounds!
Plus, Dr. Rahman unlocks other secrets to weight loss when Chuck opens The Doctor's Mailbag to answer your questions!
- What foods help stop junk food cravings?
- Can juice and soda cause weight gain?
- How does the fat in nuts and seeds compare to the fat in meat and dairy?
- What is the best way to keep weight off for good and stop yo-yo dieting?
If you have a question you'd like to ask the experts on the show, tweet it to @ChuckCarrollWLC using #ExamRoomLive.
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| 0:00.0 | It's a little bit confusing, I know for people because you hear so many different types of dietary |
| 0:05.2 | advice and what works, what doesn't, when you can't carbs, when you count calories. So let's |
| 0:10.7 | really simplify this. I tell people if you're looking to lose weight or keep it off or improve |
| 0:16.8 | your health, think of this large basket of food on your kitchen table and you're going to select |
| 0:22.4 | food from there. So what goes in that basket is the key. Where the confusion does come in is with |
| 0:28.2 | some of these higher-facts foods that are plant-based like avocados or nuts and seeds or olives. |
| 0:40.7 | Welcome to the Exam Room Live, brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:44.8 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. Thank you so very much for giving the show a listen, |
| 0:50.6 | or a view, or a download, wherever it is in the world that you are. We appreciate you raising |
| 0:56.7 | your health IQ with us. This is episode 35 of season 4, number 230, overall. And today's show, |
| 1:07.7 | it is all about helping you lose weight. It's about helping you drop those excess pounds and |
| 1:14.7 | picking up a healthier you. Dr. Venita Ramon is here to answer your questions when we open up the |
| 1:21.6 | doctor's mailbag on this special edition of the Exam Room Live, including a great question |
| 1:27.7 | about calorie counting. Do we still need to do it if we're eating a plant-based diet? |
| 1:34.8 | We're going to find out when calories still count in just a little bit. Other great questions |
| 1:39.7 | in the mailbag today, how is the fat that's found in nuts different from the fat that's found in |
| 1:44.8 | meat and in dairy? And what are the best breakfast foods when it comes to weight loss? What should we |
| 1:51.0 | be turning to first thing in the morning? And what foods can help end those junk food cravings? |
| 1:56.9 | We all get those when we try to improve our health, right? The junk food cravings, how can we deal |
| 2:01.5 | with that? And then what is the best way to lose weight and to keep it off for good? So you never |
| 2:09.1 | have to worry about those pounds coming back. We're going to get into that as well, answer those |
| 2:14.3 | questions and so many others. As we unlock the secrets to weight loss right here on the Exam Room. |
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