Weight Loss (My Best Tip and 3 Hacks) | Jason Fung

Unfortunately Jason Fung is mistaken dieting to lose weight began prior to the 70s and in fact the Atkins diet evolved in late 1970s that was huge. Dieting in the 20th century was very popular you had the Grapefruit diet: 1930s
Cabbage soup diet: 1950s
Macrobiotic diet: 1960s
Weight Watchers: 1963
Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution: 1972 and Beverly Hills Diet: 1980s etc.

I remember when diet drinks came out. That’s about when weight gains started. I knew literally two girls in school that were overweight in the 70’s/80’s.

Smoking? Lol

In the 1970s many moms were overweight (matronly). They smoked and took diet pills (Aids candies) if they were average to slim. My mom stayed tiny by bulimia.

We ate lots of potatoes 🥔 but the meat was fatty, we had butter 🧈 not margarine. You ate your vegetables or else!

Nabisco admitted to putting in addictive ingredients into oreos!!!
Pet food... I'd bet they do the same thang...
Food companies all do this...to stay in Business.
We've become a nation of addicts to our food.

We were poor...50s...hot dogs was like filet mignon...remember secretly making sugar sandwiches on white bread ...or having to eat only apples that my father bought by the bushel. I was allowed to drink tea.
My parents really struggled. I couldn't ask them...for something they didn't have.
When we got a tv...and more available food...9th grade...i gained a lot of weight. I wasn't lumpy fat but just box like. Struggled with dieting for over 50 years...
Also became
hypothyroid!!!
Exercising now...because if I don't I will die!!!!
Trying to outrun lymphoma etc....fatty liver, gall stones.

Discarded the poison sacchrine...after 50 plus years of use!!!! ....
eat only what I can cook.
138 lbs... abdomen has shrunk😂 people remark on my weight loss...
Butt!!!!!!
I'm eating to survive, to live....
I'm 72....great thighs, good abd, Russian like ballerina arms, great ankles...yes i have wrinkles....
Tragic that only when I developed a deadly disease I was forced to make changes.
Immunotherapy caused some problematic changes with which I struggle...
But.... I'm having an improved life...of what time I have left...
..

In the 70s we didn't use or know what snack was. Seriously we ate breakfast lunch and tea. Often skipping breakfast as rushing to school, college or work.

I grew up on a farm. Snacks were apples and nuts and other things we found outside in the garden or on the farm while playing or doing chores. I was 14 before I ever had a potato chip. And it made me sick!! Same with pop. We got a chocolate bar at Christmas and it would last a couple weeks as we would just eat a tiny bit a day. My mother would make our deserts and it was all whole food and healthy.
Now, as I try to loose weight, I think back to those days ans try to mimic them. I like that Dr. Fung has recognized this and shows research that proves it. We are WAY too occupied with food. And staying busy helps with hunger. There might be something to that saying “Idle hands…”

There was no government programme telling you whatto eat, your mom told you " haha good one !!

Thereis a difference between your body craving crbs and sugr vs your body craving food.

I am in my seventies. We certainly did not eat all the time. Snacks and treats were few and far between, I mean months! We didn’t drink sodas but sometimes we did have cool-aid, but not all the time. My mom was a single mom and our grandma lived with us. She fixed “poor people food”. We had Bologna sandwiches and other lunch meat. We ate beans and cornbread. We did not eat salads at all. We did have sliced tomatoes sometimes, boiled cabbage sometimes, fried okra, turnip and mustard greens. Bacon grease was the major “seasoning” we had. I don’t think grandma had any spices just salt, pepper, bacon grease. Sometimes (rarely) we had chicken and dumplings, fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, chipped beef and gravy. Sometimes grandma made fried pies! Those were awesome. We had jello sometimes for dessert, jello with bananas. Once in awhile we had peach or berry cobbler! And homemade banana pudding once in awhile!
We did not exercise as an exercise but we did walk to school. We played at recess at school. We might have had cereal for breakfast, oatmeal, corn meal mush or nothing! I don’t remember much about having breakfast. We ate the school lunch, usually. We definitely did not eat after dinner, period. We ate what we were served at dinner and that’s it.
I think I’m teaching myself by writing down these memories!

I have begun to carry a small canister (pill vial) of one of two things in my pocket; either straight cinnamon powder or a spicy mix of chili powder, garlic powder, and onion powder—-when I hanker for a taste of something, I take a small dip on my fingertip and the desire is satiated.

They have changed our food. It isn't the same food. It has much more corn syrup and sugar and higher carbs. The crap that passes as food today is a joke. All processed foods now. I ate the sam amount as i did in the 70s and 80s and was a size 2 up until my mid 50s and being put in a wheelchair. I eat twice a day, that's it. I've never eaten 6 times a day. Or even 4 times a day. I disagree with the bland, same stuff all the time. It just makes you crave other foods. I am less likely to eat the bad stuff if i vary my food. I eat alot of raw, organic veggies and fruits, but i make them differently so i don't get tired of them and binge on garbage. I'd rather fill up on natural foods. Exercise makes you feel better and have more energy so you aren't sitting around all the time. I do well losing weight with exercise.

The hacks are priceless🙏🏻💕I do recall saying to myself "Food is overrated" to control my eyes and brain to want more food! This would help to just feed myself to live... and not live to eat!

How I know my mindset has shifted: seeing the healthy thumbnail with grilled chicken, broccoli and beans and thinking ‘oh nom!’ 😅

I see countless comments 'I grew up in the 70's and there were no snacks or cola etc' I am here to keep it real. I was born in 1969. I grew up in the real 1970's. Now it is true there were not many overweight people around but there were some and my grandma, aunt and father were...grandma obese. In fact i have pics from the 40's of relatives who also were not obese but not skinny either. I did not know anyone in the 1970s who had a juicebox. In my memory they did not come out until the 1980's. But hello yeah there was always snacking...esp after school. Just watch Leave it to Beaver(early 60's) or Hazel. And i am here to testify that as a child (who was not overweight and at age 6 was constantly nagged for not eating enough) i wanted a snack as a young child playing and received peanutbutter and crackers or apples. Even when I did start school we had a ''break' time and some kids brought snacks but our school sold snacks which is where i met TOm's hot fries. My mother couldnt cook. I was raised on mostly processed foods. My grandmother cooked but there was cola 24/7 in fact my aunt was addicted was all she drank and they gave it to me so much it made my teeth hurt(in fact i recall being given some strong sweet juice in my bottle when i was a toddler) and I didnt want it. Yet i also would get to snack on ice cream and jello there- usually like evening desert. Also when the fast food restaurants opened we started being able to get that every couple of weeks like Long John Silvers, KFC, McDonalds. This is all before first grade in 1976-1977. Also there were tiny mom and pop ''candy stores'' ever see the original WIllie Wonka movie? My fave thing were those dayglo ice pops etc Plus we had an icecream man who came buy with his truck and for some change you could buy a drumstick or icecream sandwich. I also snacked on white bread and would sneak spoonfuls of sugar out of the sugar bowl at my grandmother's and I recall there being pringles as well as funyons, doritos and cheetos in my life in the 1970's. In fact there was a song out in my child hood called "Junk Food Junkie'' i loved that song and it is from the 1970's. I remember my grandmother would yell at me because i wanted to put my pop tarts in her toaster and they had icing on them and she swore it would mess up her toaster. But because of the obesity of my grandmother when we did go out in public we got lots of 'looks' so no it was not as commonplace...but yes for some the lifestyle was not so healthy. Only as someone mentioned our food was not full of hfcs Tang was made with real sugar and Food was cooked in real lard there was not so much 'food ''science'' in our food then. Which came along to help with the rising sugar costs and to save the manufacturer's money aka greed. I remember the "Aspartame' scare in the late 70;s all about cancer or something yet they still sell it. I remember my grandma being 'scared' into switching to margarine from butter and bacon grease. I remember 'atkins' diet came out then too and them talking about it. Kool aid is made from paint but still on the market. Splenda/ sucralose is a pesticide but people still consume it. How many people even read the 'ingredients' of what they eat? And what is worse is when did raw meat start needing to have an ingredient label? WOW you can hardly really find true unadulterated meat that is just meat in the store without it being injected with stuff...found this out when having to make my dog's food who had cancer and was trying to buy chicken that did not have salt added.

Thanks!

Thank you

Yes!!!! Too much availability of food EVERYWHERE!! And in the 1960’s we ate three basic meals because that’s all our family’s could afford! No available biscuits cake crisp ! We weren’t allowed to eat between meal - simple !!

Wooow, I’m a Muslim , I recently learned a saying of profit Mohammedd.
He instructed people to dip bread in vinegar, and he said that the best dip is vinegar and all profits before him used to eat as a dip ( I believe at those days in that part of the world people knew wheat and they made bread out of it)
I am amazed

I think also today's culture of obsessing over food and mukbangs, food challenges contributes to this.

people smoked a lot back then, and that really helped as a hunger deterrent

I was born in the late 40s. I have never been overweight in my life. I eat now the way I used to eat then. Simple. Everything from scratch and very little sugar. I walk everywhere, as I did then. Occasionally I'm hungry, but hunger is when your body is sorting itself out. Ps. We didn't have the luxury of 3 meals a day.

Why would I wish to live la longer BORING life ?

So clear. Thank you.

❤

I think I was putting on weight, maybe not in the 70s, but certainly in the 80s. But it was only about a kilo a year. But that was enough for me to end up with an overweight problem 20 years later, and the associated metabolic problems. I see cutting out starchy foods as key to getting to a stable, lower weight.

Super sized. Fast food.

1971 from Canada here. In the 70's and 80's I can count on 2 hands how many times we went to a restaurant to eat in my entire childhood. And we weren't poor, it's just not something we did. And sodas came in little glass bottles that were properly proportioned AND were a candy-like treat that I got every once in awhile, like during the summer after a whole day at the beach playing for hours or a special party occasion. I could go on... I feel like my personal downfall was the 1990's low fat/high carb times with egg beaters and margerine. OMG. I ate naked carbs for breakfast thinking I was doing good. Became horribly hypoglycemic by the mid 90's. Took me 10 years to turn it around when I went paleo low carb by 2005 and lost all the "low fat" era weight I gained, never experienced hypoglycemic episodes again. I still have a propensity to gain weight and the minute I add carbs I am gaining and I don't feel well.

Your youth diet was very similar to mine. A snack would have been a treat( because my mom baked) 3 meals a day was the norm. I was born in 1954

Muchas. Gracias doctor! No sabe usted la historia de cada una de las personas que usted toca con lo que hace! Le aseguro que nos va dejar marcados a mas de uno de por vida. Le estaremos siempre agradecidos! Dios le bendiga, y cumpla todos los anhelos de su corazón!

i think mounjaro is way easier

When I grew up during the 70's we ate 3x a day. Mostly balanced meals, but once in a while we ate processed snacks like chips or sodas. As kids we played hopscotch, hoo-la-hoop, jump rope, skating, basketball, football, bike riding. We didn't have devices and watched TV in moderation. We didn't want to come inside to eat...we wanted to stay outside playing.

I eat for pleasure iam suffering with obesity class 2 😂

True as fck doctor, because of unhealthy eating habits iam suffering with class 2 obesity 😿

I remember eating bread with butter or margarine and a little sugar sprinkled on it. We didn’t have juice boxes. And honestly only drank milk or water usually. We’d have orange juice occasionally if we were feeling by fancy. Then there’s coffee and iced sweet tea. If we had an upset stomach it was ginger ale. We also rarely ever ate outside the home or school cafeteria. Now people don’t even use their kitchens.

You sound like you're drunk

1) Eat boring food, limit food variety. Low carb food, low fat food etc. You wouldn’t eat out of pleasure as you are eating the same food and you will stop when u r full. Also eat non processed food and don’t eat often. I.e eat 3 meals no snacking. Or do IF, 2 meals or 1 meal a day

2) Fat fasting! Allows period of high fat food, let the body use stored fat in the body.
No diary or nuts.
Eat these food instead:
Eggs
Bacons
Avocados
Salmon
Sardines
Butter
Leafy greens
Bone broth
Tea/coffee

3) Exercise
Benefit, taking mind off food. Walking in the nature. Good for de stressing 😅
Thank u Dr Fung🙏

Can anyone tell how a sample meal look like for 2mad or omad? If going for low carb

Eat to live. Not live to eat.

There is no grade 13.

People in the 70s weren’t doing “exercise classes” or going to gyms, but they did move around over the course of the day, be it kids walking to & from school, riding bikes for recreation, playing games like Tag!, etc.

You’re 100% correct on the frequency with which people now eat out or order food from restaurants. I’m also a kid from the 70s, and going to a restaurant was an occasional treat & a very big deal! Same with the constant snacking, it just didn’t happen back then. If you were hungry between meals, you usually just got a piece of fruit.

Can you drink teas etc during the time you don’t eat

High fructose corn syrup, hello??? Inflammation from glyphosate??? Of course we ate snacks in the 70s this is absurd…

I see lots of Instagram videos of US mums organising their fridges and larders. The amount of snacks sweets and juices they show are quite staggering.

That’s the fact jack !

I also grew up in the 70s, but in Europe. The one thing I can say is, that food was more clean. Nobody drank sodas. We drank milk, or water.
Food was fresh and not full of toxins. Veggies were not modified and meat was without antibiotics and growth hormones. We probably ate less, because there were no chemicals in the food that effed up our brain actuvity and destroy our natural hunger.
I ate a lot of potatoes and bread as a german, but was always skinny. We also walked, biked and ran everywhere. We were constantly moving. And if I got hold of some pocket money, you bet I would spend it on sweets, ice cream and other goodies. Stillwe all remained slim and skinny. I believe it is the toxins in our foods today that destroys our hormonal balance and throws us off health.

Dr Fung and a few others are informing us in detailed and convincing ways! The result if you follow their advice is nothing short of mind blowing!! Thank you for educating us, Dr Fung! With gratitude!