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5 habits making you fat ! ( i was 115kgs) lost 40kgs
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Key takeaways
Key wellness strategies / self-care & productivity-style habits to lose fat
1) Fix your sleep (big driver of hunger + fat loss)
- Prioritize sleep by creating a consistent sleep pattern.
- Example routine:
- Sleep at 11:00 pm, wake at 8:00 am
- Don’t eat close to bedtime:
- Finish your meal ~3 hours before sleeping
- Rationale mentioned:
- Late sleep increases hunger.
- Poor sleep can cause hormone imbalance and cravings.
- When you sleep, your body shifts toward recovery/“fasting” state (less need for food).
2) Be careful with socializing (protect your food choices)
- Socializing is fine, but don’t use it as an excuse to lose control of eating.
- Avoid patterns like repeated meals out or junk food that often follow social outings.
- Strategy implied:
- If you’re not able to access healthy food while out, stay home and cook (especially if healthy options are harder to find).
- Rationale mentioned:
- Eating out often reduces access to healthy options and increases oily/processed snacks.
3) Increase high-quality protein
- Biggest nutrition mistake from the speaker’s past: not understanding protein.
- Key points:
- Many people (speaker claims ~80% in India) are protein deficient.
- Protein helps reduce fat gain due to a higher thermic effect (more calorie burn during digestion).
- Protein source promoted:
- Yeast protein (fermented yeast), with benefits noted:
- Easier on the gut / suitable if lactose intolerant
- Contains 9 essential amino acids
- Claimed to offer good value vs some alternatives
- Yeast protein (fermented yeast), with benefits noted:
4) Stop snack binges + ultra-processed chips
- Avoid repeated snacking (especially late-night Netflix binges).
- Why snacks were called “bad habits”:
- Ultra-processed, calorie-dense, low nutritional value
- Digests quickly → you feel hungry again later
- High calories with low volume; trans fat mentioned
5) Don’t eat constantly—follow a structured eating schedule
- If food is in front of you, don’t automatically eat—pause and decide.
- Drink water when you feel hungry (speaker suggests some hunger is misread).
- Suggested schedule:
- Eat twice or thrice maximum (avoid “snacking all day”)
- No breakfast
- Start meals after 12:00 pm
- Last meal around 8:00–9:00 pm
- Sleep around 11:12 pm
- Rationale mentioned:
- Feeling hungry can indicate you’re in a deficit, meaning your body uses stored fat.
- But don’t interpret it as “never eating”—interpret it as eating at the right times and not too much.
Presenters / sources mentioned
- The speaker (main narrator; no name provided)
- “Sonam Wangchu” (example case: ~11 kg loss in ~20 days)
- Utra Pay / “Shift” discount course (mentioned in context of yeast protein promotion)