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Mike Israetel

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2772 total appearances

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Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

I do business through half the rest of the next weekend and I'm back to my old body weight. Everything is problem solved. And so I encourage folks to think in this dichotomy of business versus fun meals and So that they don't spend too much cognitive bandwidth trying to enhance the taste and texture and quality of their business meals.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

I do business through half the rest of the next weekend and I'm back to my old body weight. Everything is problem solved. And so I encourage folks to think in this dichotomy of business versus fun meals and So that they don't spend too much cognitive bandwidth trying to enhance the taste and texture and quality of their business meals.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

It's spending time to essentially trick your body into wanting to eat more of the food. And if we're so kind of addicted to the idea of food pleasure all the time. that it ends up being this whole thing of like, well, look, you know, like, um, if you're engineering your food to taste as good as possible, you're just going to eat more food all the time.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

It's spending time to essentially trick your body into wanting to eat more of the food. And if we're so kind of addicted to the idea of food pleasure all the time. that it ends up being this whole thing of like, well, look, you know, like, um, if you're engineering your food to taste as good as possible, you're just going to eat more food all the time.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

It's spending time to essentially trick your body into wanting to eat more of the food. And if we're so kind of addicted to the idea of food pleasure all the time. that it ends up being this whole thing of like, well, look, you know, like, um, if you're engineering your food to taste as good as possible, you're just going to eat more food all the time.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

So separating meals into business meals, where the goal is just get the food in and make sure it's healthy and it can taste good, but just don't hyper optimize on that. And then if you, you can't live like a monk all the time. So every now and again, you have a meal that is a fun meal, but you know, it's a fun meal. So it doesn't have to be all this pressure to make it super healthy.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

So separating meals into business meals, where the goal is just get the food in and make sure it's healthy and it can taste good, but just don't hyper optimize on that. And then if you, you can't live like a monk all the time. So every now and again, you have a meal that is a fun meal, but you know, it's a fun meal. So it doesn't have to be all this pressure to make it super healthy.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

So separating meals into business meals, where the goal is just get the food in and make sure it's healthy and it can taste good, but just don't hyper optimize on that. And then if you, you can't live like a monk all the time. So every now and again, you have a meal that is a fun meal, but you know, it's a fun meal. So it doesn't have to be all this pressure to make it super healthy.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

You can eat an excess, no problem. If you have more fun meals than business meals in your week, problem solved as to why you're fatter than you want to be. If it's mostly business meals and a few fun meals, you're probably in a maintenance holding pattern and you're going to be great. If you need to lose weight, two or three months, easiest thing in the world. They're all business meals.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

You can eat an excess, no problem. If you have more fun meals than business meals in your week, problem solved as to why you're fatter than you want to be. If it's mostly business meals and a few fun meals, you're probably in a maintenance holding pattern and you're going to be great. If you need to lose weight, two or three months, easiest thing in the world. They're all business meals.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

You can eat an excess, no problem. If you have more fun meals than business meals in your week, problem solved as to why you're fatter than you want to be. If it's mostly business meals and a few fun meals, you're probably in a maintenance holding pattern and you're going to be great. If you need to lose weight, two or three months, easiest thing in the world. They're all business meals.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

No fun meals for two or three months. You're not starving to death. You're not bereft of nutrients. But you're not exactly going to McDonald's and getting the new slushie they have coming out because that's not for business. That's for fun. Imagine aliens coming down when you're at McDonald's and they're like, hello, human. What is the purpose of ingesting this food?

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

No fun meals for two or three months. You're not starving to death. You're not bereft of nutrients. But you're not exactly going to McDonald's and getting the new slushie they have coming out because that's not for business. That's for fun. Imagine aliens coming down when you're at McDonald's and they're like, hello, human. What is the purpose of ingesting this food?

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

No fun meals for two or three months. You're not starving to death. You're not bereft of nutrients. But you're not exactly going to McDonald's and getting the new slushie they have coming out because that's not for business. That's for fun. Imagine aliens coming down when you're at McDonald's and they're like, hello, human. What is the purpose of ingesting this food?

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

And you're like, to support bodily function. And the alien looks at his assistant. The assistant's scrolling through our internet. He's like, that guy's just having fun. Alien looks at you like, this is for fun. You're like... Yes, sorry I lied to you guys and everyone knows why I'm here. They just know which meals are for fun, which meals are for business.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

And you're like, to support bodily function. And the alien looks at his assistant. The assistant's scrolling through our internet. He's like, that guy's just having fun. Alien looks at you like, this is for fun. You're like... Yes, sorry I lied to you guys and everyone knows why I'm here. They just know which meals are for fun, which meals are for business.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

And you're like, to support bodily function. And the alien looks at his assistant. The assistant's scrolling through our internet. He's like, that guy's just having fun. Alien looks at you like, this is for fun. You're like... Yes, sorry I lied to you guys and everyone knows why I'm here. They just know which meals are for fun, which meals are for business.

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

The business meals, number one is health and getting all the nutrients you need and not getting too stuffed. If you follow those basic guidelines, the more business meals you have, the more your body will look like you want. And if you're at a place where you look great, some fun meals in there every now and again are awesome. If they're all fun meals,

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

The business meals, number one is health and getting all the nutrients you need and not getting too stuffed. If you follow those basic guidelines, the more business meals you have, the more your body will look like you want. And if you're at a place where you look great, some fun meals in there every now and again are awesome. If they're all fun meals,

Dhru Purohit Show
Are You Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Goals? Expert Sheds Light on the Key to Becoming Leaner and Stronger in 2025 with Dr. Mike Israetel

The business meals, number one is health and getting all the nutrients you need and not getting too stuffed. If you follow those basic guidelines, the more business meals you have, the more your body will look like you want. And if you're at a place where you look great, some fun meals in there every now and again are awesome. If they're all fun meals,