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“Get a giant bear chasing you around” Dr Mike literally experiencing this 24/7 with Bear

The mirror trick is horrible. That's like insulting yourself every time you eat.

“there are people starving in America”, Africa appreciates that statement, we love how your people have raised awareness for poverty in African in the past but I feel like Americans need to take care of Americans more now. Appreciate the video Doc👍🏾

I appreciate Dr Mike’s holistic approach. Talking about mental health, sleep and cardiovascular health in addition to weight loss. It shows a doctor committed to the overall health of his patients.

I'm so glad he debunked the bear I'm so sick of running and he keeps eating all my food 😭

“Turn your house into a rave while you eat” you think I don’t already?

I'm in the middle of a weight loss process, which is going quite well so far 😊 was at 104,7kg and am currently at 97,5kg

I've had an eating disorder for quite some years and I'm so afraid a good amount of those tips remind me of the "pro-anorexia tips". It's really scary how these so called healthy tips can make anyone spiral into an ed or disordered eating really fast. Take care guys and be careful <3

Dentist here, Snacking often can reduce your mouth's pH which can lead to tooth decay. If you really need to snack switch to healthy snacks like celery, carrots etc.

The mirror trick is brutal; sounds more like psychological warfare than diet advice.

I love how he said "if you do it so you hate yourself while eating" he was clearly disgusted with the whole idea! He can say he's body positive or whatever, but this proves that he's a doctor that doesn't hate fat people!

As someone who works for a non-profit that helps rescue food and delivery it to people in need, the comment about intentionally spoiling and ruining food truly brought tears to my eyes. I can't believe anyone would do that knowing how Manu people are struggling to feel their families and children.

“Get a bear to chase you around...do not recommend...” SAYS THE MAN WHO OWNS A BEAR! 😂

There can be a really thin line between healthy eating and having an unhealthy and disordered obsession with eating "healthy". This video is a GREAT reference for addressing some of those thoughts! Thank you!

My personal advice: - Don’t start too drastically, make small changes as you’ll be more likely to stick to it. - Find out what changes you can make that are easy and start with those. For example, I love exercising but hate dieting so it was pretty easy for me to go from a relatively sedentary lifestyle to going to the gym 4 days a week and having two “active recovery” (or walking to make it sound less fancy). It is a big jump but I did used to go to the gym in the past, until a relationship I was in got in the way. - Cut out the unhealthy snacks, replacing them with healthier snacks. My go to is fruit, and I honestly prefer it over other snacks such as chocolate. If dieting is hard, don’t even stress about it for the first few weeks, we can work on that after a couple weeks. - Cut out/reduce fizzy drinks, easy enough to do and makes a difference. - Don’t use the scales as your only method to measure progress, I’d personally advise taking photos of yourself, but don’t do it everyday as you probably won’t see progress daily. - Don’t hate yourself for messing up once. If you have one cheat meal or miss one gym session, don’t think “well now it’s not worth it so I can just eat more and exercise less”. This isn’t true, one missed session isn’t as bad as five, one cheat meal isn’t as bad at a cheat day. Get back to it. - Mix cardio and weightlifting, as stated in the video - Believe in yourself, you got this :)

As someone with an ED, just thank you 💙 thank you for always choosing your words and advice carefully. EVERYTHING we hear about food sticks.

"Get a bear to chase you around" Is that why you have a newfie named Bear?

Why would you intentionally spoil perfectly good food??! That's like telling people to burn money so they don't spend it too much!

What a nice video. Those tips are hilarious. Here is the best tip: Do any kind of workout and watch what you eat. Its simple as that. If you are lazy like me and you dont want to count calories get yourself cheapest meal plan (I got one from Next Level Diet).

No idea if anyone will see this but here is how I lost quite a lot of weight: I planned my meals. At the beginning of the week I planned out exactly what I was going to eat every single day. And I only bought the ingredients for these meals (healthy meals of course). Nothing else. Trust me: Its WAY easier to not buy chips rather that to not eat them when they are already at home. I also only had two meals and a snack a day. Breakfast at 12:00 and dinner at 18:00. The snack was a plate with fruit and veggies. Yes. Sometimes I was a little hungry. But nothing terrible. And no matter what the weather was, I always went out on a walk for 30-60min. With this method I lost about 20kg in 4 months. Are they faster ways? Probably. But this one worked for me. All the others didn't cause I couldn't stick to them.