Dr. Jade Teta ND - Lose Weight Here: The Metabolic Secret to Target Stubborn Fat and Fix Your Problem Areas

Praise for Lose Weight Here

Drs. Jade and Keoni Teta are two scary-smart guys who break down complex science into easy-to-understand and simple-to-apply concepts to get results even if everything else has failed you. If youve struggled relentlessly to ditch stubborn fat, Lose Weight Here could be your ticket for fast, lasting fat loss. Cant recommend this book highly enough!

JJ VIRGIN, New York Times bestselling author of JJ Virgins Sugar Impact Diet and The Virgin Diet

Lose Weight Here teaches you unique, sophisticated, next level strategies that go beyond counting calories and deep into the science of metabolism, hormones, and the physiology of why your stubborn fat spots are so stubbornand what you can do about it.

TOM VENUTO, author of Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle

Jade and Keoni present clear evidence why extreme diets and repeat diets damage your metabolism and a simple program to restore your metabolic function! Lose Weight Here is no nonsense, easy to follow, and will get you burning fat quickly in a healthy way.

TANA AMEN, New York Times bestselling author of The Omni Diet

Jade and Keoni present a clear and compelling argument against extreme dieting and a path back to metabolic function.

DANIEL G. AMEN, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Body and Change Your Brain, Change Your Life

This book is dedicated to the dream that one day individualized medicine will take the place of one-size-fits-all protocols and that doctors will invest in teaching their patients how to fully understand and honor their own metabolic uniqueness.

Contents

Introduction

W e both can remember one of the first personal training clients we ever had pointing to the back of her arm and saying, How do I lose weight right here? Now, years later in our clinic, we are confronted with the same question again and againmen distraught over stubborn chest fat they call man boobs, women complaining about saddlebags and inner thigh fat, and both men and women asking us to help them get rid of belly fat that stays no matter what they do.

But you know better than that, dont you? You know you cant lose weight where you want to. It simply does not work that way. Youre born to be a certain shapebe it a pear, or an apple, or a rulerand youre destined to remain that way for life. At least that is what the diet books, workout gurus, and health bloggers have told you.

After all, anyone who has ever exhaustively exercised and religiously dieted in an attempt to reshape his or her body can tell you that, in many ways, it is an exercise in futility. Can you relate? Sure, you go on a diet and you lose weight and tone up, but despite your best efforts, you are disappointed when your large pear shape merely becomes a smaller, and usually mushier, pear shape. If your thighs, belly, hips, and butt were problem areas before the diet, theyll usually remain problems even after you drastically cut calories and slog away on the treadmill. Muscle-building exercises like weight lifting often backfire and give you a puffy, waterlogged look. Even worse, the best results never last: Diets are notorious for their fleeting results, and most people will regain all of their lost weightor worse, end up even fatter than they were before they started dieting. And where does the weight always seem to grow back fastest? In the stubborn problem areas people are most determined to target, such as the belly, butt, hips, and thighs.

Why does this happen? Your metabolism does not work like a calculator the way the calorie zealots and diet pushers want you to believe. It does not work like a chemistry set either, the way the low-carb fanatics and insulin junkies want you to believe. In reality, there is no exact magic mathematical formula or hormonal-chemistry mixture that leads to sustained and lasting fat loss for all. In fact, both of these approaches will just as easily create the metabolic damage described above.

But theres good news: You can escape the diet trap, fix your metabolism for good, and change the shape of your bodyreally. When you fully embrace the concepts we outline in this book, you likely will never view diet, weight loss, and metabolism the same way again. The metabolic secret we outline is the key to losing weight, keeping it off for good, and losing fat right where you want to.

Were Jade and Keoni Teta, both of us doctors of naturopathic medicine. As integrative physicians and weight-loss specialists, we specialize in correcting metabolic disturbances that lead to weight gain and physiological dysfunction, and weve been perfecting the Lose Weight Here plan since 2004, when we launched Metabolic Effect as a boot camp shortly after returning home from medical school. Since then, weve expanded our practice, growing our metabolic clinic into a virtual health resource that consults with thousands of international clients each year. We wrote a best-selling diet book called The Metabolic Effect Diet and built a physical and online training center that has now certified thousands of professionals to teach our metabolic methodology. In the process, we developed a unique clinical practice that marries our specialties of natural medicine, strength training and conditioning, and hormonal approaches to weight loss. Weve collected all of our know-how and put it into these pages, and with this plan we are going to reprogram the way you think and teach you to revise your traditional weight-management techniques by identifying and optimizing the two components that are essential for successful weight loss: low calories and hormonal balance.

A NEW APPROACH

Simply put, dieting is making you fat, and it has made your metabolism defective. That defect is not only keeping you from losing weight, but also slowly making you fatter and your stubborn fatty areas even more stubborn. Up until this moment, you have been operating under the assumption that your metabolism is mapped out like this:

Calorie Reduction = Weight Loss = Balanced Metabolism

In reality, weight loss and your metabolism work more like this:

Balanced Metabolism = Natural Calorie Reduction = Permanent Weight Loss

As we said, two things are required to lose weight: low calories and hormonal balance. The popular eat less, exercise more approach (which most diet books and programs push in one way or another) easily lowers calories, but also disrupts hormonal physiology. As a consequence, key metabolic hormones like leptin, insulin, thyroid, and others shift in a way that causes increased hunger, unpredictable energy levels, relentless cravings, and a dramatically slowed metabolic rate. All of these changes mean any short-term weight-loss results you enjoyed quickly turn into long-term metabolic damage. Eventually, you will regain the weight you lost, more of that weight will end up in the hard-to-lose fat areas you were trying to get rid of in the first place, and it will be even more stubborn the next time you diet. In other words, if you want to get fatter and make your fat more stubborn, dieting is the best way to accomplish it.

The Lose Weight Here program is something entirely different from what youve experienced beforeand its far more effective. It teaches you how you can reverse metabolic damage and weight-loss resistance to see weight-loss and body-shaping results fast. To get lean and change the shape of your body quickly, youve got to stop counting calories and endlessly working out. Approaching things in this new way works with the natural thermostat nature of the body, decreasing the potential for metabolic compensation and weight regain. It also adjusts the biochemistry of stubborn fat areas so they are more likely to burn fat at rates similar to the rest of the body. In other words: You can stop uneven fat loss and lose fat exactly where you want to lose it.