Dr. Jason Fung

you know, TV and food, movies and food, sporting events and food, car and food, mall and food.

Like you're breaking a lot of those social sort of conditioned hunger, right?

That food noise.

So the fasting is very, very effective for that.

And also from a homeostatic standpoint, it's the fastest way to drive down your insulin, right?

So those two are, you know, sort of core foundational principles.

The third is really a little bit more nebulous, and it's really to redesign your life to make sure that you deal with the social aspect, because that's the most important thing that we don't really talk about so much.

And I talk about if you have a successful plan,

So you want to plan for weight loss.

You need to address the sort of who, what, when, why, how sort of thing.

All the questions of what you're supposed to do.

Who are you supposed to do it with?

When?

Where?

Why?

The problem with eat fewer calories advice is that does it say anything about who you're supposed to eat with?

No.

when you're supposed to eat, why you're supposed to eat, where you're supposed to eat, right?

So there's all this stuff about mindfulness that's very important.

And like who you eat with determines what you eat, right?