Dynamic Dialogue with Danny Matranga - 187: FIVE Fat-Loss Mistakes EVERYONE MAKES

Episode Date: April 25, 2022

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Starting point is 00:00:00 What's going on, everybody? Welcome in to another episode of the Dynamic Dialogue podcast. As always, I'm your host, Coach Danny Matranga. And in today's episode, we're going to discuss five reasons I see people struggling to lose weight. In fact, these five reasons more so than any other reasons I can think of seem to show up with the most prevalence, meaning I believe these to be the five most common mistakes people make, whether they know something about body fat loss or nothing. So these are kind of universally common mistakes that people make when they try to lose weight. So I want to break them down. Not only do I want to break them down, I also want to give you guys solutions as to help
Starting point is 00:00:51 yourself or to help your friends, family, and loved ones or clients. For those of you who are coaches, I know lots of you are coaches, avoid these pitfalls and to set yourself up for success in the future. If you ever want to lose weight, if you ever need to lose weight, perhaps to look a certain way for a vacation, even if you're happy with your current weight or body composition, these habits can work in a variety of different orders to just better help you take care of your health habits and consistency with whatever it is you're trying to do. So there are five specific mistakes that I think people make. And I'd like to get into the first one,
Starting point is 00:01:27 which is thinking that you can do it all on your own. This does seem to be a little bit more prevalent with beginners and more common for men than it is for women. I've worked in the fitness industry for about a decade now. And I did five years at the beginning of my career working in the corporate big box gym. So I worked in a 24-hour fitness in Sonoma County, which is a pretty affluent community. To put things in perspective, California has a pretty high cost of living, but Sonoma, Napa, Marin are kind of the big hubs of, I would say, Northern California's most affluent spenders, and they're all very healthy communities. So this is a community that price oftentimes wasn't a barrier for many folks who were interested in something like personal training. And so something I saw often was men
Starting point is 00:02:18 seem to be more resistant to asking for help than women. But in general, a number of people think that they can do it all on their own with very, very little support, whether it's weight loss, starting a resistance training program, starting a gym habit, going running, you name it. People tend to think all I need is for somebody to tell me what direction to walk and I will be able to walk on that path as long as I feel like it with no hiccups. And I think that that is one of the main reasons people struggle and they fail and they start, fail, start, fail, start, fail, is because they try to walk that damn path on their own with no idea of where that precarious route that's going to make you roll your ankle is, where that shortcut that can help you avoid mistakes is,
Starting point is 00:03:02 right? So having an expert in your corner, whether it's a coach, a local personal trainer, a dietician, a physical therapist, a cognitive behavioral therapist, depending on where you're at on your journey, having somebody in your corner who can provide you with expertise, guidance, and support is huge. In fact, I think there's four things that we can get from experts on our journeys, kind of independent of whether or not they may be a fitness journey. This could be something like what I'm working on, which is not being so bad at golf. It could be being a better partner in your marriage. It could be being a better parent. It could be learning how to play
Starting point is 00:03:41 an instrument, right? But I think if you're looking to do something or change something about your current situation, we'll circle this back to fitness. So you're looking to lose weight, having somebody in your corner who can provide you accountability, support, education, and help you stay out of your own way. Those four things are critical.
Starting point is 00:04:00 So let's break down each one of those. And again, these are solutions to the problem of thinking you can do it on your own. So let's break down each one of those. And again, these are solutions to the problem of thinking you can do it on your own. So accountability is huge. You can get this from a friend, you can get this from a coach. It's very different from support and I'll explain how. Accountability is anchoring something you want to do or need to do to something that is going to make sure you get that thing done. So you might anchor your workouts to your workout partner who is going to hold you accountable to being there. And if you are not there, they are going to make sure that you hear about it. And so how this shows
Starting point is 00:04:38 up in my practice and what I do with my coaching company is we have a weekly check-in that is mandatory for all clients. If clients do not complete their weekly check-in, guess what? You're going to hear from us. We're not like a lot of other coaching teams that say, oh, you didn't email us? Too bad. We're not going to reach out to you. Maybe you did your program. Maybe you didn't. I'm not concerned. I'm just going to hit your account in a month, take my subscription money and move on to my 500 other clients. We work with a small amount of clients specifically for the reason that if somebody's not being held accountable, it is our job to reach out to them personally and make sure that they stay on track, right? Because clients have bad weeks, they don't want to report, they
Starting point is 00:05:20 got busy, they forgot, they are fading on the motivational spectrum, which is normal, but perhaps they don't know that this is normal, right? Somebody who can hold you accountable is critical to anything that you might want to accomplish. The second thing is support. Support is a big deal. Being able to ask for help, having somebody who's there to listen, having somebody who is in your corner when you make mistakes, that's support. Accountability is somebody who holds you to the plan. Somebody who can provide support is somebody who will help you if you fall off of that plan, give you guidance, right? All of these things are important. Education, I think, is a layer beyond that, which is probably going to come from somebody who has either done exactly what you need to do or who has guided somebody or many people through
Starting point is 00:06:05 this same path. So a good example for this, of course, would be music lessons, right? Support might be your mom saying, don't give up, honey, you can play the guitar. But accountability and education come from the lessons that you have booked with your guitar tutor. And the education comes from actually being told where you're making mistakes and how to adjust them. And if you do stuff on your own, unless you have really, really developed the skill of self-awareness, which most people have not to this level, you're probably going to fall into this fourth problem, which is kind of getting in your own way. You're like a lot of the reasons that people gain weight in the first place is because
Starting point is 00:06:44 they cling to beliefs and habits that get them there, right? Like you don't gain weight overnight. You have developed habits and beliefs that have in large part shaped the way that you consume food and exercise to a point where you've gained weight. And if you want to lose weight, you have obviously identified that that weight gain was counterproductive to your ultimate goals, right? So being able to get out of your own way and just have somebody set you straight is one of the biggest reasons to work with somebody, whether that be in a professional setting where you're paying for a service, you're paying for that accountability, support, and education, or try to find it from a variety of people. It takes a village sometimes, but do whatever you need to do to make sure that you're getting out of your own way and stop thinking that you can do something as complicated as body fat reduction, right? Yes, it is as simple as staying in a calorie deficit and finding a training modality you will like. That is a very simplified and reductionist viewpoint. It's very challenging to lose body fat and it's very easy to gain body fat. That's why 70% of people in the United States are overweight and 40 plus percent are obese.
Starting point is 00:07:46 So getting a little help at first can be huge. And I would say in 10 years or around a decade of doing this, the number one mistake I see universally is people thinking they don't need any help at all. They can figure it all out on their own. And very few people can, and they just keep making the same mistakes and they stay in the exact same place for years and years and years being chronically overweight or obese, which is one of, if not the worst things you can do for your health. Like if you want to punch out quick, you want to die fast, you want to, you know, suffer from all cause mortality at an enhanced rate and die of what in many cases are largely preventable illness, just continue to let the
Starting point is 00:08:26 weight pack on or stay in a perpetual state of being well beyond a healthy body fat percentage and see what happens, right? Like you tell me if you think the pride of asking for help is worth the trade-off because it's not. And like for many people, especially for men asking for help is literally as simple as just being too proud to admit that they don't know what to do and they're not in control of their body, which is something that for me as a coach was always really sad to see. And it's one of the main reasons that I started working more with women, because quite frankly, as a in shape 20 year old dude, like there weren't a lot of 30, 40, 50 year old men who felt they could get beyond their ego to ask for help. And I find that women are much better at doing this. And so I ended up working with women who
Starting point is 00:09:08 not only weren't afraid to ask for help initially, they were excited to continue to get accountability, support and education throughout that weight loss journey. So, you know, if you got a man in your life or you're a listener, who's a guy or, you know, whatever that may be, like if your pride is getting in the way of you asking for help, uh, you will pay the price for that down the road. So the number two mistake that I think people make is doing too much in the gym and not enough in the kitchen. And this is just the perpetual notion that just seems to be impossible to kill of being able to outwork poor nutritional decisions. of being able to outwork poor nutritional decisions. And so what I mean by that is this, you do not have the ability in all likelihood to out-train the consumption habits of the traditional American diet. Meaning like most people overeat by a substantial amount. They're consistently
Starting point is 00:09:58 surrounded by hyperpalatable foods. They drink a couple times a week, not necessarily every day, but oftentimes they're consuming some amount of alcohol or very much consuming caloric-laden beverages such as sweetened coffees and sodas, right? If you just look at kind of the general trend of how people eat and the general amount of food people eat, and you compare that to popular resistance training exercise modalities like lifting weights or CrossFit or popular aerobic exercise modalities like HIIT cardio, hiking, walking, jogging. You can see why many people start exercising and don't see the results they want when it comes to weight loss. And that's because if you don't change your diet, it is not going to happen. And a good example I could give you for this is the Assault Bike,
Starting point is 00:10:49 which is one of my favorite pieces of equipment. It's a hand and leg bike where the arms and legs work simultaneously. My favorite model is actually made by Rogue and they call their version the Echo Bike. And it tells you how many calories you burn. And if you absolutely rip on that thing as hard as you can, and you set the program to burn 10 calories and you rip it as hard as you can, you try to burn 10 calories as fast as possible. You will probably feel like throwing up at the end of it. It's brutal. And that is the equivalent, that 10 calories of one tortilla chip. I find that this metaphor works pretty well for explaining to people that even rigorous pain inducing vomit inducing exercise is not efficient enough for most people to lose body fat on their own. I broke my toe on a flight to bandandon, Oregon to play golf for four days for my best friend's bachelor party
Starting point is 00:11:45 last week. I broke my toe. I had to walk 70 plus holes of golf with my bag and a broken toe with no shoes. And I ate like shit the entire four-day period. There's a point to this. Trust me, we're getting there. My weight was pretty stable. My weight did not change much despite me eating a lot more food than normal. But you know what did change? Walking with a 50-pound golf bag barefoot with a broken toe. That's important because that changed how I walked. That made my walking substantially less efficient. So I was burning more calories, right? And I stayed about the same weight. So point being, to maintain my weight while eating like shit, I had to walk fucking 11 miles a day with horrible efficiency and a 50 pound bag around my neck. And that was just enough to maintain
Starting point is 00:12:44 my weight. Like had I played less golf, I probably would have gained weight. And that was just enough to maintain my weight. Like had I played less golf, I probably would have gained weight. And that was an absurd amount of exercise. Like most people do not have the time to walk 10, 11 miles a day, let alone run it. They're not at that fitness level, right? So my point is, unless you have the time and desire to do an absurd amount of movement it's very important to focus on your diet and remember that you cannot outwork a bad diet if your diet is tight and it's where it needs to be you can do whatever the hell you want in the gym i would recommend doing more resistance training than cardio because i feel that maintaining muscle and building strength is better long term for the metabolism than just
Starting point is 00:13:25 pounding away at cardiovascular exercise. But cardiovascular exercise is extremely good. So do both. Do whatever the hell floats your boat, but don't get it twisted. You should not be concerned with how many calories you're burning in the gym. You should be concerned with how many calories you're putting in your mouth. What's going on, guys? Taking a break from this episode to tell you a little bit about my coaching company, Core Coaching Method. More specifically, our app-based training. We partnered with Train Heroic to bring app-based training to you using the best technology and best user interface possible. You can join either my Home Heroes team, or you can train from home with bands and dumbbells, or Elite Physique, which is a female bodybuilding-focused program where you can train at the gym with equipments designed specifically to help you develop strength, as well as the glutes, hamstrings,
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Starting point is 00:20:00 any task is really important. Example, would you want a TV with your favorite, a highly distracting television show directly above your workspace? Or would you want that TV in an entirely separate room so that you could be free from distraction? Assuming that getting enough work done is the most important thing about this space. So what I mean by that is, if you're trying to watch your diet, do you want to have a bunch of potato chips and tortilla chips or whatever food you have a tendency to overconsume front and center in your pantry? Do you even want to have them in your house, right? And environment design extends beyond the kitchen. It extends to people. So do you have a bunch of haters and overweight people that want to bring you down when you try to lose weight or thin people who make fun of you
Starting point is 00:20:44 if you don't want to lose weight and you're just trying to build strength, right? Like if you have haters or mean people or people bringing you down in whatever journey you're on, especially a journey in which you're trying to probably change habits around your eating consumption, your food behavior and your exercise, a lot of people who don't want to make those changes or aren't ready to make those changes or who are intimidated or fearful of the work required to make those changes will bring you down. It's an unfortunate thing that people have a tendency to do. It's to say, I wish I could do that, but because I don't want to and this other person does, I'm deeply, deeply concerned that they might actually accomplish this. And that could in some capacity highlight my inability to do it.
Starting point is 00:21:25 So I need to tear them down before they see success. And there aren't a million people out there like that, but there's enough of them out there that you should audit the people that you keep around you when you are trying to do this. If there are people that are doubting you, hating on you, and they aren't providing accountability, support, or education, if they're providing a bunch of unnecessary critiques and just bagging on you or making fun of you, move those people right along, right? So design your environment for success, meaning silence the haters, put them on mute, don't give them the time of day, whatever.
Starting point is 00:21:56 Redesign your space that you eat in. This could be done a variety of different ways from moving the foods that you have a tendency to over consume to the highest point of your pantry or the back of your pantry, or pre-packaging them into single serving containers so you don't overeat them, you just eat one serving. It could mean not bringing them in the house at all. It could mean switching large plates for smaller plates. It could mean placing water bottles in spaces and places where you're inclined to grab them on the go so that you are always staying hydrated. There's so many ways to design your environment for success. It can mean building a home gym. It can mean changing your gym membership, right? Like this is more of an ecosystem change
Starting point is 00:22:36 than an environment change, but changing your gym membership to one closer to your house so you can always stop and have less excuses, right? Like people oftentimes think they need to just totally get through the weight loss dilemma with grin and bearing it, just fucking suck it up and just do it. But if you actually design your environment for success before you start, it's so much better. It would be like going and hiking a mountain and actually, you know, like standing and talking with the tour guide and, you know, getting insights as to what the best path to take was. And, you know, maybe having somebody walk the path before and make sure it's good or walking the path a couple of times yourself and getting an eyeball on it, like optimize before you start the journey. So you
Starting point is 00:23:18 don't have so much friction along the way. This can just be such a huge, huge difference maker. the way, this can just be such a huge, huge difference maker. And I would say that more people are aware of the fault or the common mistake of thinking you can do it on your own, and more people are aware of the notion that you can't outwork a bad diet than they are that you can design your environment for success. So I see this mistake all the time. And I think it's such an easy, easy, easy first step. Like you don't even have to start exercising. You don't even have to change your diet. You can just say, okay, what are the things in my environment or my day-to-day habits or routines that are counterproductive ultimately to my goal of losing weight? Okay. Number four, and more of you probably know this because you follow me or if you follow me or you've listened to the podcast before, but that is, and this is a very common mistake, is If you don't get enough sleep, it will affect
Starting point is 00:24:25 your mood. It will dysregulate your appetite. It will dysregulate important hormones like growth hormone, leptin, ghrelin, testosterone, estrogen, right? Not getting enough sleep isn't just bad for your physiology in some esoteric, hard to understand way. No, it's very clear. Not getting enough sleep enhances your strength gains. It enhances your muscularity. It enhances the body's ability to produce important hormones. And not getting enough of it can be detrimental in all the opposite reasons. It'll make it harder to stick to your diet because decision-making is unfortunately negatively affected by lack of sleep. Have you ever heard the whole all sleep on it thing? Yeah, there's a reason for that. And that's that sleep is good for your decision-making capabilities. And if you are trying to lose
Starting point is 00:25:15 body fat in an environment where you have the opportunity to make decisions consistently that are not aligned with your goals, meaning like, oh, do I grab a handful of trail mix at the receptionist's desk? Do I stop at my favorite fast food restaurant on the way home? If you are more capable of saying no to those decisions that you are presented with that will set you back, that's helpful. Sleep helps you do that. Additionally, if you take two people and you put them on the same exact diet with the same exact training program and you have one get six hours of sleep and one get eight hours of sleep, assuming we're putting these people on a deficit, guess which one loses more weight? They actually lose the same amount of weight. Guess which one loses more fat? That's right. The one that gets more sleep.
Starting point is 00:25:59 In fact, a lot of the weight that people lose when they're in a deficit and not getting enough sleep, unfortunately, is muscle. I've trained a number of clients over the years who desperately want to lose body fat, and they have a hellacious time of doing it with five to six hours of sleep compared to seven to eight. It's not to say that you can't do it. You absolutely can, but it is a little bit harder when you're in that five to six range. So if you're in that five to six range and you got kids, you got no way around it, you've got to be really tight with your accountability, support, and education. You've got to be tight on the fundamental mechanics of how your caloric intake to expenditure works, meaning don't be overeating and stick with that
Starting point is 00:26:39 diet. And you really want to design your environment right. If you get that seven to nine hours of sleep, you still have to be tight on those. If you get that seven to nine hours of sleep, you still have to be tight on those three things, but you'll just find it's a lot easier to stay tight on those three things. Getting into the fifth and perhaps final, final for today anyway, I think we could easily make this a 10, 20 item list, but these were the top five. But this is what I like to call the psychological dilemma that a lot of people run into. So the, the, the first one is a little bit psychological. Uh, the second one is just an error, fundamental error in reasoning. The third one is probably
Starting point is 00:27:15 conceptual in that it's hard to think of your environment, uh, your actual environment as perhaps being somewhat connected to your weight loss, this one makes a lot of sense. And it's the stock market mentality, meaning the minute the scale goes up, people panic, they freak out, they want to throw the whole thing away, burn it and start over. And you see this a lot in the stock world, the real estate world, the crypto world, but it's this idea of like, oh my God, we had one bad day in the stock market, I'm panicking, I want to sell, or a stock had one bad day, I'm panicking, I want to sell. When in fact, what most educated investors would say is to just find and select good companies that you think have long-term growth potential,
Starting point is 00:27:56 or to just buy the entire index, like for example, an S&P 500 index that holds the top 500 companies, and just buy that and just let time do its thing. Meaning if you know you've got the right stuff and you know that long-term the right stuff will make you money, just buy the right stuff and hold it for a while and you'll be good. You will have good days and you will have bad days, but you won't be freaking out. And so I think it's the same with dieting. Are you hitting your deficit? Awesome. Are you hitting your deficit most of the time? Check. Are you hitting your workouts? Good. Check. Okay. You're going to see the scale go up and down, but it will mostly go down so long as
Starting point is 00:28:36 you do those things. So on the days it goes up, don't freak out, quit, and think you need to reinvent the wheel. Start in the same way you might want to invest in the S&P 500 index because it contains the 500 best companies in the world. You might also want to start with a diet and training protocol that is sustainable, somebody to hold you accountable, not overdoing it in the gym, but really staying tight on the diet and designing your environment. And once you have done that, getting good sleep too, getting good sleep too. And once you have done that, set it and forget it, show up and do it. And when you are highly accountable, right? And you're very, very much compliant and things slow down, then you make adjustments,
Starting point is 00:29:21 set it and forget. It sounds like you never have to make adjustments. You have to make adjustments. That's what we do as coaches. We help people make adjustments after we've set the initial and preliminary program. But if you aren't showing any resilience when you get a little bit of friction or the scale goes up and you want to go all the way back to step one and redesign the whole thing, that's going to be exhausting. And that's why so many people gain and redesign the whole thing, that's going to be exhausting. And that's why so many people gain and lose the same 10, 20 pounds for the entirety of their adult life. Start smart. Bring someone on board to hopefully help you get into a situation
Starting point is 00:29:56 where you can be successful. Stick to it diligently. Attack your goals violently. Do the best you can when you make mistakes and fuck up because you will. We all do. It's totally normal. Just get support. Ask for a little education around how you can avoid that mistake or minimize the impact of that mistake next time and stay the course. Don't panic sell. Don't freak out. Focus on trends, not blips. All right, guys, that's going to do it for today's episode. I want to thank you so much for tuning in. If you want to help the show grow and help more people hear episodes like this, you can do me a huge favor and leave me a five-star rating and review on iTunes. There's literally nothing you can do to help a podcast grow more than that and telling your friends
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