Hey guys so for today's video we have part 2 not pop for part 2 / 2 of the
weight loss Q&A so I did this video like a week and a half ago you guys really
really loved it and I had so much fun filming it like I loved just sitting
here and chit-chatting with you guys I'm definitely gonna do more like chit chat
tip videos q and A's and everything like that but
for today I really wanted to do an extension of the last weight lock that
weight loss video because a lot of you guys had so many more questions that I
didn't even get to touch on I went through the comments section and there
were even more questions I asked you guys for more last night on Instagram as
well so I want to touch on the topics that we didn't touch on last time so
this is kind of like an extension so for those of you who haven't seen part one
please go ahead and check it out there's so many more questions on that video
like metabolism plateaus how I actually lost the weight a little bit of my
workout routine there's plenty more questions on there I will leave it on
the top I think you can never remember what sided I think it's this one here we
go from the top right hand corner for you guys to click on so just to go over
a little bit of basics in case you haven't seen part one yet and you want
to watch it after I've lost 40 pounds I currently weigh in at 136 pounds 136 I
don't know why I said 136 anyways 136 pounds and I started off at 175 and I
used to be around 40 to 45 percent body fat I don't have an accurate number
because my old scale used to be really inaccurate and I'm currently sitting at
29.2% body fat so let's go ahead and move into the rest of the questions
someone asked did you ever have a week where you cheated on your diet and you
ended up gaining weight if so how did you handle that I'm currently on my
weight-loss journey and it ended up binging a few days ago I wish I could
take it back and I can't and as a result I've gained three pounds definitely 100%
every single time I cheat I gain weight that just happens but listen to the key
word gained weight weight and fat are two different things
just because you gained weight does not mean you gained fat when you cheat
you're likely eating a lot more calories now when you're consuming a lot more
calories one your metabolisms not used to it so it's gonna take those extra not
that carbs are bad but it's gonna take the extra I think it's called I can
remember the exact word but anyways it's gonna take the extra carbs that it's
getting again not that carbs are bad for you they're
not bad for you at all it's just when you consume more carbs than usual your
body actually stores them for energy because your body is trying to keep you
safe so your body is storing them as energy and when your body is storing
that as energy you kind of go you ball up in water wait pretty much is what I'm
saying so yes you're gonna gain 3 pounds or 2 pounds I've even gained 5 pounds in
1 week before because the entire week I cheated guys I literally dropped that 5
pounds like three days later as soon as you go back to your normal routine BAM
the weights gonna fall I lost that 5 pounds of water weight in
3 days but oh my god did I lose 5 pounds in 3 days no because it wasn't accurate
it wasn't real pounds you're not saying those pounds are temporary I guess is
what I'm saying they're not real fat or muscle or anything it's just water
weight it's just your body holding on to it you will drop it as soon as you go
back to your normal routine don't feel guilty at all at all at all for cheating
trust me I get it sometimes to where I'm like oh I should have not done that but
you kind of gotta think listen like think of it this way there's literally
365 days in a year do you really think out of the entire year that one day that
you cheated is gonna be that big of a deal it's really not that big of a deal
actually a perfect example is in the month of March I've remained 136 pounds
I haven't lost any more weight in March and that's just because well it was my
sister's birthday and we kind of had like a cheat weekend I got four days of
cheating and then I kind of continued it I was kind of like you know f it I feel
like just staying on maintenance so for March I've stayed on maintenance for
most of the part I also got sick twice in March so I skipped the gym for two
weeks out of the entire March I've just been eating maintenance calories now
starting today I'm jumping right back into a deficit so I will lose weight in
April but in March I haven't lost any weight I've stayed in maintenance and
it's not that big of a deal you have to kind of take the emotions out of it so
that you don't develop you know eating disorders or bad relationships with food
and everything like that sugar baby seriously so the next question is
hopefully this isn't too personal but do you think going through a weight loss
journey has made you more hyper aware of your looks overall and even sometimes
causing slight body dysmorphia like you still see yourself as you were prior to
weight loss so I think I've always been very aware of my love
I think all of us like as a society or most of us I guess I can say are very
aware of our looks we're constantly looking in the mirror Kron say on social
media especially me being on like being a social-media influencer being a
youtuber I'm constantly you know editing my own videos editing my own photos
seeing myself so I've always been very aware of my looks
has losing weight made me more aware yeah actually um you know now that I've
lost like weight now I like a look at my body and see like I guess now that I
like have fitness goals I look at my body and see what else I want to do to
it like okay when I go to the gym I really want to
work on you I have hip tips for example that's an insecurity might I hate my hip
tips so that's made me more aware I never realized my hip tips before but
now that I've like you know that I know I can like build my butt and build my
hip dips a little bit better it's like fill them in now I know those things I
am more aware of my looks but it's also made me realize that you have to love
yourself at every stage I can't just love myself when I get to
my goal weight I have to love myself now and during the process because trust me
trust me trust me because I've been there if you don't love yourself now
it's almost like that you know that's going on around Twitter though what is
it not a meme isn't no it's like a little trend whatever anyways you know
paper saying if you don't love me at my you don't deserve me at my yeah like
literally if you don't love yourself at your worst you're not going to love
yourself at your best you're just not trust me cuz I've been there like I
thought that losing weight would be like the magic key and then I did it a few
years ago I lost all this weight and I still was so I was so insecure guys that
I remember crying because I cried and said I was too skinny when I literally
wasn't even too skinny I was the same weight that I am right now I wasn't too
skinny but I was so like like messed up in the head when it came to my body
image trust me losing weight is not the magic
key it's just not you have to love yourself now from within and on the
outside to love yourself after - do I see myself the same as pratas and where
pride or weight loss sometimes I do and then I just have to like believe my eyes
and be like no Amy you've literally lost 40 pounds you've transformed into a
whole new person you're still transforming wake up call here the way I
look at it is I'm 23 years old and my entire life I've been the chubby kid
the chubby teen I was always been a bigger girl
so that's what I was used to so how do you expect to lose 40 pounds and then
all of a sudden you're used to that I feel like now it's gonna take me another
chunk of years to get used to me being this person so the next question is I'd
like to hear your thoughts on accepting that it's a long process and not
obsessing over instant gratification this is huge this is so huge so a lot of
people want and trust me what I it's like if I could right now snap my
fingers lose the rest of my weight and get to my goal weight hell yes like I
still have around 20 pounds to lose would I snap my fingers and lose those
20 pounds yes I would but that's it's just not gonna happen that's just not
realistic this process is so much of a process like it takes time it doesn't
just happen overnight I think the biggest thing to realize is to take the
timeline out of it like what does it matter how long it takes you to lose the
weight if you are doing it for the right reasons and you're doing it to change
your lifestyle like if you're creating better habits to change your life like
listen to that word life like we're talking forever here for the rest of
your life what doesn't matter how quick you lose it what does it matter if you
lose the way by next week or by your wedding or by your vacation or by prom
or by that party or by your birthday what does it matter
it's not gonna be instant it's not gonna be easy it's gonna take work and it's
going to be hard but it's gonna be worth it so someone asked how do you keep up
with your diet and still eat rice good lord the amount of people that think not
that she's not that she said that or anything but just in general the amount
of people I think rice is not supposed to be eaten when you have to lose weight
is ridiculous but she said I was told by many not to eat carbs but I love my rice
laughing face I love my rice too girl so let me let's get this out there there is
not one single food in the entire world not one single food on the entire earth
that makes you gain weight it just doesn't McDonald's doesn't make you gain
weight Starbucks doesn't make you gain weight
rice doesn't make you gain weight milk doesn't make you gain weight that this
this nothing single-handedly makes you gain weight you gain weight when you
consume too many calories and when you're not moving enough so when your
energy balance is off so here's your
energy balance when you're maintaining your weight it's balanced you're eating
this amount but you're also working out this amount so your body is like okay
I'm cool I'm staying the same when I lose weight I eat less and I workout
more so now I lose weight so let's say you're working out less and you're
eating more now you're going to gain weight like that's just how it works it
all comes down to energy balance so there's not one food in the entire world
that will single-handedly make you gain weight you can literally eat let let's
say your calorie deficit which I will leave the calorie calculator down below
for you guys to see what your target is because every single individual on this
earth has a different calorie target so let's say you need to eat 1,400 calories
to lose weight you could literally and I'm not kidding you guys like I know
this sounds crazy but it's not a joke you could literally eat 1,400 calories
every single day of McDonald's or 1400 calories of rice every single day and
lose weight now I know there's gonna be those health police people that are like
no no no that's not true listen it's true it's scientifically a
fact that you will lose weight now do I recommend doing that no cuz it's not
healthy should you lose weight off of McDonald's no because actually Michael
Matthews has this said this once which I love this yes you can lose weight by
eating 1,400 calories of McDonald's every day but you're literally gonna
have a six-pack have your weight loss and you're gonna be on a hospital bed
with like diabetes heart disease and not like come on you like it's not just
about the weight and how you look it's about your health too but I want to say
that to make a point because a lot of people think eating healthy is the way
to lose weight listen it doesn't matter how healthy you eat it matters your
calorie balance I know a lot of people are like clean eating that's how I'm
gonna lose weight clean eating guys I could eat all of the brown rice all of
the quinoa on the earth all of the broccoli all of the chicken on the earth
and still eat too much quinoa too much nuts too much chicken too much broccoli
and in gained weight like it has nothing to do with what you eat it has
everything to do with how much you eat and I again I know there's people out
there that don't want to hear that because there's people out there that
force themselves to eat clean because I think that that's what's making
lose weight that's not what's making you lose weight it's coming down to your
calories but are you gonna be extremely healthy yes it's like of course clean
eating is very healthy like you want to eat healthier because it matters for
your health it matters for you know your body on the inside so if you're on a
weight-loss journey and you're craving let's say McDonald's fries right now go
get those fries and just fit it into your calories that's how this journey is
gonna be more sustainable like a lot of people will restrict themselves and
never get anything and just eat clean it's so restrictive that you end up
binging and then you end up gaining all your weight back so for me I eat clean
like 80 percent of the time and then I have my 20 percent dirty I guess you
would call it you know I mean so I fit things into my calories there are not
necessarily healthy but they're soul food okay they make me happy they keep
me alive in a way and you know they keep me going whereas I've done it before
Brian ate 100% clean and then it's just too restrictive and I literally end up
binging and gaining like 50 pounds back so I think a lot of people like we got
to get out of the hole clean eating trans like it's just it's way too
overhyped and again I know people like I literally know people who were like I
need to lose weight I gotta eat clean they ate clean for
like six months and didn't lose any weight why because they were still
eating too much food it comes down to your portions and your
calories the reason why clean eating like people will lose weight off of
clean eating without counting calories is because typically when people do eat
clean they will cut down their portions anyways and that's why you'll lose
weight cuz you're cutting down your calories I think a lot of people over
complicate the process of weight loss like I've been there and done that too
where it's like you think it's so complicated but listen weight loss is
actually super simple it comes down to how much you're eating versus how much
you're burning so don't worry about what you're eating and and and what order
you're eating it or what time you should eat it or this or that like don't
overcomplicate it don't overthink it just simply stick to your calories eat
what you love obviously keep your health in mind it's
super important to eat your veggies and your fruits and everything I also want
to make a quick mention that I know I'm saying it comes down to how much you're
eating you can eat up to 1400 calories of donuts like I'm literally trying to
make a point here because that's how true it is but what I will say is it's
hard to do that because those are empty calories like if you have 14
mcDonald's you're gonna be hungry after still because those calories are not
nutritious so you are gonna be hungry so it's gonna be hard for you to stick to
your calories whereas if you fill your calories with greens veggies fruits lean
like you know just good Whole Foods yes you will still lose the same amount of
weight as you lost with McDonald's but you'll have a more enjoyable experience
in a way because you're not gonna be hungry those foods keep you full they
keep you energized so I do do want to make a point when when I say that I
don't mean on the inside I just mean literally scientifically if you took
human a and human be fed them clean fed the McDonald's same amount of calories
they would both lose weight that's all I'm trying to say but you know obviously
those calories are super empty you're not gonna be full not very great protein
just eat what you like keep it in moderation everything is balanced I like
to do the 80/20 you know 80 clean 20 dirty so someone asked me have you ever
tried losing weight the unhealthy way what are your views on eating disorders
cool you guys I could go into this honestly probably in a weight loss
journey I've literally like gained weight and lost weight and gained weight
and lost it and gained and lost it my entire life and I've done so many
unhealthy diets I've battled my entire life with like a bad relationship with
food and I've had a little bit of a run-in with an eating disorder I'm gonna
go into like my story and everything in a weight loss story and journey video
but they're tough you know it's definitely tough I'm still struggling
with my food habits I want to have an even better relationship with food I
just have a really horrible relationship with food though before but now I have
like a better relationship with it it seems like your weight loss journey
started when you moved out to your own place do you think it was easier to stay
on track more when you have your own space my biggest problem are the
cupcakes my mom won't stop buying girl I hear you every time I go to my mom's
house there's literally chocolate chip banana muffins on the counter and I'm
like why like I don't know how my sister Steph does it I think it's because Steph
doesn't really like those types of food so it doesn't really tempt her but me oh
I would be so tempted but I will say I'm a firm believer and when you are focused
and you have your goal and you want something you'll do anything and you'll
be there and you'll get it because I've lost weight before on my mom's house and
there was all in the cupboards in the pantry when
you want something you know when you're ready to do it you'll do it is what I'm
saying like you can't force yourself into this pull weight loss process life
journey because you need to be ready because when you're mentally ready those
things won't really bother you so someone asked me what my goal body fat
percentage is so I don't really have like an exact number because the thing
is I don't know how I'm gonna look like every single body and everybody is
literally different you can't really compare bodies and you also can't say to
yourself okay I my goal weight is 120 cuz I don't know how I'm gonna look at
that stage but I can guess and I can estimate I think I'm going to like it
around maybe 18 maybe like like I know no less than 15 maybe like 18 ish I'll
probably like it around that stage I know for weight I'll probably like
myself around 115 120 again I'm only 5 foot 1 I'm a really small girl but I
also do have pretty big chest and I have a big butt so my weight is also to be
taken that into consideration you never really know how much you're gonna weigh
and how you're gonna like yourself so that's why my goals are kind of just
like estimates so someone actually just asked me we're just on topic of this
what weight do you feel you'll be happy with I'm nearly double your weight and I
feel that your weight now is great and a healthy weight just makes me think is my
goal weight still fat if yours is less than 10 stone don't at all want you to
feel like I'm being rude I'm just stuck no worries girl so I totally get that
like I actually get this question a lot a lot of you guys comment and you're
like please don't lose any more weight you look perfect how you are and then
some of you guys comment like oh my god your current weight is my goal weight so
it makes you question your go away and question if your whole way is too still
too big or but love but again this comes down to not being able to compare like
you could take two people even the same height who are 130 and 131 be her
because she gains it in her stomach but maybe this girl gains it in her butt and
she looks good you know what I'm saying so you really can't compare it because
the person who gains it in their stomach is not going to like being 130 they're
gonna want to be more like 115 and that's me
I hold weight in my tummy area and I also hold weight in my arms in my face
so X your weight doesn't look good I mean my
butt stays pretty like big like I don't really lose that much weight there so
I'm like good in that area but I'll that's why I like I like a lower lower
weight because I know that the lower I go it'll mostly come off my stomach and
come off my face so I know a lot of you guys tell me don't lose any more weight
but please keep in mind that like this journey is my own and I can only make
that decision for myself and I know a lot of you guys think like oh my god are
you gonna go ahead and become like a toothpick no but also you guys have to
keep in mind the photos that I post on social media when you post a photo on
social media it's your best angle you look your best in that moment but you
guys don't see me naked at the end of the day when I take my clothes off and
I'm naked and I look in the mirror I have a lot of extra fat on my stomach
and there's a lot like I have like that pouch at the bottom my stomach that's
like there that I still need to lose I have weight there to still lose my arms
are not horrible but as you can see here they're still like they're not horrible
but like there's still a little bit a little bit chunky you know again we all
have different preferences and different ideas and views when I count calories
should I focus on hitting my macros so focusing on hitting your macros is
excellent it's actually super awesome but I personally it doesn't work for me
not physically it would physically work for me but mentally it doesn't work for
me because it's a bit too not restrictive but a bit too detailed and a
bit too obsessive when I count macros it's like okay not only are you watching
your calories now you have to watch your proteins your fats your carbs that's
four things your girl's gotta count now like it's just too obsessive for me to
detailed and I end up feeling very restricted I end up feeling very
mentally drained and it almost gives me a little bit of like bad food habit
vibes like it doesn't work well for me mentally well I want to make the one
thing clear too when you count macros you are counting calories macros are in
calories what I like to do is I just count my calories and I watch my protein
so I keep a very mindful I on my protein make sure that proteins up and then
naturally the rest will fall into place so that's pretty much it for the
questions but I do have some topics that I want to touch on that I forgot to
mention last time and go over last time so I wrote down here tips on avoiding
plateaus so I did talk about plateaus in the last video it's really important for
you guys to watch part 1 because I go into why the body plateaus how you can
fix it so plateaus naturally happen to everybody
but I want to give you tips on how to like avoid it as much as possible it
will eventually happen but if you can prolong that process before you reach
there here's some tips so my favorite way is to do little calorie kicks that I
call these calorie kicks what I like to do is every two weeks or so what I do is
let's say like for example my calories is 12 to 1300 a day I'll throw in 1400
calorie days so just over eat by a little bit you know throw in a little
bit of extra calories in there then go back to 1200 for a few days and then
throw in 1400 in there and then I'll do that like twice in one month so just
like twice like not a lot but throwing in those extra little days you guys have
no idea how much it'll help you'll actually lose more weight now tell you
why your metabolism gets very comfortable when it's losing weight so
you want to almost make it shock it up a little bit you know spice it up like
throw it some throw it a little bit of extra food here and there to keep your
metabolism happy so that it doesn't stop so that I can lose more and actually on
those days when I eat 1400 calories and I weigh myself the next day those are
the days when I lose an extra pound another tip too is when I go to the gym
I like to switch up like my reps and my weights for so for example my typical
routine is I like to heavy weight lifts so what I do is I pick up the heaviest
weight that is challenging for me I only do 4 to 6 reps of that the next time
I'll be like you know what I'm gonna go a little bit lighter this time I'm not
gonna go heavier I'm gonna pick up a lighter weight but do higher reps this
time and then the next time I'll pick up an extremely heavy weight and just do
two reps I'll throw in a little bit of extra cardio one week a little bit of
extra weight lifting one week so I pretty much like to keep my workout
routine sporadic and different this helps to keep my metabolism guessing and
moving so that it's not always the same I've personally found that this has
really helped me lose more weight so I also wanted to go over this because I
get a lot of questions on this so a lot of you guys asked me when it comes to
calorie counting do you adjust your calories every day depending on how much
you workout no so when you calculate your calories through the calculator it
actually includes the amount that you work out till you stick to that number
you don't adjust it daily also I want to address under eating because I know that
a lot of people will eat on their calories just to lose more
weight now that can actually have the opposite effect not only is it bad for
your health you're really messing up your organs it's really bad for your
health you're also when you're under eating and you're losing to weight too
fast you're actually losing more muscle than you are losing fat so the goal is
to lose fat not muscle sometimes if you under eat too much or metabolism will go
into kind of like a shock to protect itself and you'll end up not losing any
weight at all I know a lot of you guys think overeating is like the culprit but
under eating can be just as bad as overeating you want to feed your body
the right amount to nourish itself but still be able to lose weight so the last
question I have someone asked me is what's been the hardest place for me to
lose weight oh my god you guys the hardest place for me to lose weight is
the weirdest place ever and it's my armpit fat okay I'm gonna show it to you
guys right now most of you guys probably notice it let's try to really get naked
here for you guys you see that right here oh my god and it's worse when I
wear a bra right now have like a little sports bra on and when I wear a bra it
does this and I have like that it's hard to show you guys but I have like that
fat little roll right here and honestly I don't know if that's ever gonna go
away so I might just be HAP might just have to be something that I can accept
because honestly I've seen people who are really slim and like lean and they
have that armpit fat and then I've seen people who are like chubby ER and just a
bigger girl and then they have smooth armpits and they don't have fat there so
my body just chooses to store fat there and it's been really hard to get off so
pray for me guys please say a prayer every single night that I eventually
lose this armpit fat thank you my face has actually lost a lot of fat
surprisingly I'm really happy about that because my face got so big at one point
you guys I wonder if I can grab a photo and put it here for you guys to see it
was so choake I naturally have like a very square shaped face but my cheeks
like right here get so chubby and bloated when I gain weight so actually
I'm really happy with how much my face has lost it actually continues to get
smaller every few weeks when I look at my face I can tell that it's gone
smaller so that hasn't been an issue for me at all so that's pretty much it I
hope you guys enjoyed watching a part two of the Q&A and I think that answered
like a lot of questions in the last one and in this
so you should be good to go like I see I feel like I covered almost everything
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