5 Weight-Loss Mistakes You Don't Realize You're Making

I have been considered as someone who have a great figure for a long time. In case this is the first time you watch my video, I'm 168 cm tall and 45 kilo, which equivalent to 56 tall and 100 pounds and I am size zero. For a long time, I've been constantly asked by people around me or people on the street, strangers. Some of them just comment on my figure. I found people constantly staring my legs when I'm wearing leggings. I remember one time there is a very nice grandma and uh she just walked to me and commented, "Good job. You look like a ballerina. You must been working really hard to get the figure." But the reality is I don't work out really hard. In fact, I don't have a workout routine. But for some reason, I have the figure a lot of people dream of. And at first I didn't understand why I had this figure. I thought it must be my gene, my crazy metabolic rate. But later when I pay attention to people who are struggling with losing weight and compared to my own lifestyle and I realize I do a lot of things quite differently. Why I can have the figure that a lot of people dream of by not trying so hard. It's less about the things I do. It's more about the things I don't do. So, in this video, I'm going to share five common mistakes that I see a lot of people make and I will tell you what I think it might work better instead. The first one is extreme exercise. It's very common to see that when people trying to lose weight, they just go to gym every single day, work out crazy amount of hours or they just do things that their body are not capable of. If you have tried this, you may find out very quickly that at first your body weight may have a sudden drop. Then it stays. No matter how hard you try, your weight is not moving everywhere. And because we all have life, right? We have work, we have schools, we have different things other than workout that we need to take care. And when you are putting too much time doing workout other stuff, you may not have enough time. So once you stop doing the crazy amount of workout, you will quickly find out the weight you lost came back quickly. And because your body already got used to your new routine, the crazy workout routine, so now you need to work out even harder, restrict harder to get to where you were. Your body don't like to be punished. I saw people who ran crazy amount of kilometers per day and every day he may get so exhausted and he lost his hair a lot because this extreme exercise but anyway doing any kind of crazy workout will not help you long term. Let's be honest, do you think you can do crazy amount of workout for the next 20 years? Probably not. Because most of us have life to live. we have other things to take care and for girls with long hair if you are sweating so much you need to take a shower and it's going to take you so much time. So in my opinion extreme workout is not the best way. If you are doing too much exercise then your body is capable of taking your body will consider that as a danger signal. As we know, we can adjust our hormone. So, your body will try the best to preserve enough energy for your survival. So, what can you do instead? My recommendation is think about an exercise that you like to do every day. You may able to do it continuously for the rest of your life. It doesn't need to be in the gym or classic workout routine. It can be walk in the park, walk your dog, do housekeeping, snowboarding in the winter, and surfing in the summer. Just find something you generally enjoy doing. When you're doing the workout, you can enjoy life more. You will feel happy. And you don't need to be stay the same every single time. Like one day you may go to a park, the other time you may visit your city like a visitor, go to a nice island, the next time maybe swim, the next time maybe snowboarding. You can choose to do different things. As long as you are moving your body, you are burning calorie. The second mistake is extreme calorie restriction. If you are eating much less than you're supposed to, you may feel constantly hungry. If you are hungry, you can't think clearly. You can't do things efficiently. All your energy is thinking about food. So when you have the chance to eat the food, you may find yourself hard to stop. And it work very similar like extreme exercise. If you make your body get used to eating so less and one day you decide to live a normal life like eat like a normal person, you will find out the weight you lost just come back so easily. And let's be honest, do you really want to restrict food for the rest of your life? Will you be set aside eating so little, especially those are not even the food you love for the rest of your life? Probably not. So don't do that. That's not good for you and sustainable anyway. And what can you do instead? I think the most important thing is the food choice. Food choice matters. You want to make sure or try to improve your food choice. We all know what healthy food look like and we all know what food we shouldn't eat or shouldn't eat as your regular routine. So if you want to have a good figure, you need to make the change. Healthy food can be tasty and enjoyable as well. So try different way of cooking it. Make wise food selection and choose the food you truly enjoy. Another thing I find myself doing different is I don't drink sweet. Okay. Once in a blue moon, I may have a milk tea while I mean having great time with other people eating outside, but that's quite rare. Most of the time, I drink water, tea, and coffee without sugar. And I don't consume alcohol. I think it's very beneficial to pay attention to how much calorie you drink like in alcohol or Coca-Cola or juices. So any sweet drink contains so much calorie and they won't make you feel full. So be mindful with your choices. They're going to make a big difference. And try to choose the food that you generally love eating. I have emphasized this point so many times in my channel because I think this is a very big factor that differentiate me and other people. And when I'm eating, I eat with whole of my attention or some people called mindful eating. So when I'm eating, I try not to think about other things or do other things at the same time. I enjoy my food. I try to put my attention to how the food taste, the smell, the sound, the texture. So I feel my food. And because I usually choose food I generally love. So eating is a enjoyable time for me. I would encourage you do the same. When you are eating just put everything down for that 5 minutes, 10 minutes or whatever. You can think about them after you eat. Now you have a food in front of you. Just enjoy them. Have a great time. The third mistake is big lifestyle change. I mean change your lifestyle too quickly like you are living like a completely different person. Except for a bad habit though if you find yourself smoking or drinking like crazy you're going to stop immediately. It's not good for you. So I'm talking about like some people when they try to lose weight they just adopt a completely different lifestyle from some people online or they just eat like whatever people they are following. They just take their diet, take their exercise, take their daily routine. And in my opinion, that's not the best practice because our body like routine. Our body don't like change. Like to have a balance. So you may find out once you made a change, your body also trying to fight to you change back to the original. So if you are suddenly changing everything like how much you eat, when you eat, what you eat, what you exercise, how much you exercise, if your body weights change, you don't know which factor made your change. So if you could give it time and do it one step at a time and take feedback, you will know better which factor made the change and it will help you find out what works for you, what doesn't work for you. You will have an idea and know better about your body of what it's like and what to do to get the result faster. You want to feel how your body feel like when it's full, when it's hungry, what it's enjoy like, like when you eat a food. If you just feel so cherished or happy for no reason, that food may be a better choice than other food. like when you see it, you have no feeling or you just absolutely hate the smell. Make single factor change and monitor results and take feedback and adjust your lifestyle accordingly. In this way, you can achieve your result faster and easier. The next one is ignore your body need. I see so many people they try too hard sometimes especially for men. I think they are doing too much to a point that they completely ignore their body need. For example, someone may find he like running and he run 10 kilometers per day and one day he feel quite sick. He feel his body is tired. He feel sleepy. He feel unwell but he still force himself run that 10 kilometers. You want to listen to your body. Your body give your response for a reason. You don't just eat and exercise like a robot. You listen to your body. Take feedback. Honor its need and give it time to rest to nourish to recover. The last one I see so many people fall into is they do stupid stuff or buy, eat or do something that promise you instant result. That may include medical procedures, drugs, or some special food replacement drinks that promise you going to lose weight in x amount of week. And even crazier, some people I personally knew, he smoke because he think he can toxic his body to be slimmer. >> NO. GOD, PLEASE NO. >> I don't want to list them individually, but please use your common sense. In my opinion, anything that's promised you instant result will not work. >> Uhhuh. >> But you know, it's your choice. You can either trust the people who trying to sell you something or take your money or you can listen to me who already have the figure you want and telling you about the truth. If there is a scientific proof way that going to give you instant result, everyone going to look like a Victoria supermodel. But why it's not happening? Because that's not true. That's not real. That's not happening. Don't take shortcut. If you want to have a good figure long term, you're going to change your lifestyle. You're going to live healthier. You're going to need to have a healthy long-term mentality and think like someone who already have a good figure. >> Okay? >> I have a created affirmation video 3 minutes. You can find in my channel. If you're struggling, go check out the video. Take my mindset, make it yours, do what I said. You can have a great figure. Those are five points I want to make for today. And if you find what I said so far makes sense, I will encourage you to not leave right now and give yourself a couple more minutes to listen to the rest. No matter whether you believe me or not, I think it's very beneficial for you to remember that you heard this today. So I have a very sensitive body type and there are few times in my life that I have been tapped into a higher reality and in those reality I can think hundred thousand time more clear than my normal self. I almost feeling like I can feel the truth. I can know the truth. And in those moment, I completely believe that those are the reality. This life is not real. Everything is made from the same stuff. Like me and you, like my closest, this iPad or the water you drink, they are made from the same stuff. And I have saw that stuff. It's very beautiful. It's very colorful. How I know? What I saw is not important but I can tell you the message. So we are here as a human being to have this life because there is a higher level of being want us to be better. Basically the higher level of being want us to have certain quality. It doesn't matter what you believe is you can believe in God or universe energy or some other master or not at all. The point is if you could have those quality, you can have a better life. You can have more money. You will have a more successful career. You will have better body. You will be able to have a better life. That's the point. And sometimes I feel like we are the same creator. Like I may have a good body, but I may struggle in other area. You may be good in other area. And now you are watching my video because you find it's hard to maintain a good figure. So anyway, life is using different area to teach us the same lesson because the higher level of being want us to become the better version. And when you can do one thing well, the same mentality can be transferred into other field because no matter what you're going through, it's all the same lesson. It's all the same quality that the higher level being want. So what does the higher level being want us to be? So the being want us to become the being who can resist from temptation and keep doing the right thing. The being want us to be patient to be consistent and being emotional strong and stable good hard people. The being want us to have good intention when we are doing the thing and be nice and good to others. If you could be more content and enjoy what you already have, you can enjoy your life better. For example, you may see me have the figure you want, but you may have beautiful white teeth. I have did two time of braces and I removed six teeth to achieve what I look like today. So, be content with what you have. Try to enjoy your life more. Always see the positive sides. No matter what happen, you want to enjoy every moment while you are growing, while you are becoming better. Do what you can control and letting go of cling to outcome. No matter it's good figure or career success or money. Just have no attachment to anything in life. With no attachment, you can enjoy your life to its fullest. Okay, my friend. I hope my video is helpful. Great job for finishing this video. I hope you have enjoyed it and find something valuable to you. I will see you next time. Bye.