This past week was interesting, let me tell you why. I hired a new yard worker, college kid, from a local college, have hired these kids for the past 20 years and have probably had 15 or so work for me. They have all been really good hard working guys. Well last week I get a new one, he is 6ft tall and 320 lbs., a strong kid but not strong enough to pack around that extra 120lbs of excess weight and really do the job on my property. He is 21 years old and in the middle of our yard I go into a consultation with him and I learn his parents and all his siblings are obese, his dad had had a stomach bypass surgery for weight loss. When I asked my new worker what he thought of that he replied, "well, it sounds like the easy way to go..." In other words he approves of that approach, easier he determines then going on a diet.
I have done weight loss for over 20 years and I can read minds, so I know when I have been told the real truth to my questions or whether I am being told what someone wants me to hear. So I ask a barrage of questions and what I glean is that at age 18 he was active in high school sports and weighed in at 220 on the football field, he said he felt fit and he was an asset to the team. But 3 years later he stands in front of me with a gain of 100lbs, I pull out my calculator and compute that to be around 33lbs a year of weight gain.
But here is the problem, this big strong kid who only 3 years ago was a high school athlete, has extreme difficulty to walk the steep stairs (50 steps) from my yard to the house above. The same steps that I sprint up and down 5x every day that I come back from a 4mile run. Then I watch and see that he is fatigued during the hour and half mow of the yard and I am thinking, how is he going to get up the stairs to his car??
On his next work day I talk with him about his weight and about his diet and about the health risks and I educate him on the fact that he did not "inherit" his condition from his parents (he is convinced it is genetic).
I ask him a question, "do you consider yourself fit?" He responds yes, I am very strong. "Lets see how fit and strong you are with a fitness test, would you like to do a fitness test?" So I asked him to do 10 slow and controlled full pushups, he could only do two. We then did slow and controlled single leg lunges, he could only perform two. Then we attempted to do 10 sit-ups, with much strain he managed zero. I already knew his cardio was very poor simply by watching him mow the yard and walk the stairs. I then asked him a serious question, "do your think you are as fit as the average 80 year old man? "Yes" he replied. "What about the average 70 year old man? He thought long and hard on that one and then replied with uncertainty, "Yes, I think so." How about the average 60 year old man? His reply was, "I don't know." How does that make you feel I ask and he says, "not good." I then ask him what he is going to do about it. "I guess I need to work out more." And I tell him that that is not the total answer, the problem is the foods you eat, you have put this weight on, these 100lbs, by eating the wrong foods. Too much of the wrong foods and no exercise and the wrong state of mind=rapid weight gain.
I encouraged him to stop by my clinic and I would start him on a program at no charge. He has yet to call for that appointment but I will continue to confront him and wake him out of his 3 year trance so he does not follow in the health risk footsteps of mom (diabetic from obesity) and dad (heart attack, stomach bypass).
Weight gain and weight loss is a complicated issue and most people are totally confused and overwhelmed by what to do. Despite all the information available to us on the internet, weight loss remains confusing for those who need to lose it. The reason for this is because weight gain and weight loss is 50% physical/diet and the other 50% mental/emotional/habit. In my clinic, our slim down programs address the mind-body complex, our results are superb. Men lose an average of 5-7 lbs a week and women lose an average of 3-5 lbs. a week. Until next time, Dr. Mark Doyle
Dr. Doyle is a certified clinical hypnotherapist registered with the State of Washington. He tackles both sides of the weight gain/weight loss equation with a superb slim down program and hypnotherapy. The goal and the objective is weight loss for life and to achieve this desired state, you will need to be able to "change your mind."
I have done weight loss for over 20 years and I can read minds, so I know when I have been told the real truth to my questions or whether I am being told what someone wants me to hear. So I ask a barrage of questions and what I glean is that at age 18 he was active in high school sports and weighed in at 220 on the football field, he said he felt fit and he was an asset to the team. But 3 years later he stands in front of me with a gain of 100lbs, I pull out my calculator and compute that to be around 33lbs a year of weight gain.
But here is the problem, this big strong kid who only 3 years ago was a high school athlete, has extreme difficulty to walk the steep stairs (50 steps) from my yard to the house above. The same steps that I sprint up and down 5x every day that I come back from a 4mile run. Then I watch and see that he is fatigued during the hour and half mow of the yard and I am thinking, how is he going to get up the stairs to his car??
On his next work day I talk with him about his weight and about his diet and about the health risks and I educate him on the fact that he did not "inherit" his condition from his parents (he is convinced it is genetic).
I ask him a question, "do you consider yourself fit?" He responds yes, I am very strong. "Lets see how fit and strong you are with a fitness test, would you like to do a fitness test?" So I asked him to do 10 slow and controlled full pushups, he could only do two. We then did slow and controlled single leg lunges, he could only perform two. Then we attempted to do 10 sit-ups, with much strain he managed zero. I already knew his cardio was very poor simply by watching him mow the yard and walk the stairs. I then asked him a serious question, "do your think you are as fit as the average 80 year old man? "Yes" he replied. "What about the average 70 year old man? He thought long and hard on that one and then replied with uncertainty, "Yes, I think so." How about the average 60 year old man? His reply was, "I don't know." How does that make you feel I ask and he says, "not good." I then ask him what he is going to do about it. "I guess I need to work out more." And I tell him that that is not the total answer, the problem is the foods you eat, you have put this weight on, these 100lbs, by eating the wrong foods. Too much of the wrong foods and no exercise and the wrong state of mind=rapid weight gain.
I encouraged him to stop by my clinic and I would start him on a program at no charge. He has yet to call for that appointment but I will continue to confront him and wake him out of his 3 year trance so he does not follow in the health risk footsteps of mom (diabetic from obesity) and dad (heart attack, stomach bypass).
Weight gain and weight loss is a complicated issue and most people are totally confused and overwhelmed by what to do. Despite all the information available to us on the internet, weight loss remains confusing for those who need to lose it. The reason for this is because weight gain and weight loss is 50% physical/diet and the other 50% mental/emotional/habit. In my clinic, our slim down programs address the mind-body complex, our results are superb. Men lose an average of 5-7 lbs a week and women lose an average of 3-5 lbs. a week. Until next time, Dr. Mark Doyle
Dr. Doyle is a certified clinical hypnotherapist registered with the State of Washington. He tackles both sides of the weight gain/weight loss equation with a superb slim down program and hypnotherapy. The goal and the objective is weight loss for life and to achieve this desired state, you will need to be able to "change your mind."
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