You're Not Failing on GLP-1s (You're Just Following the Wrong Advice)

[00:00:00]I went from looking pretty fit to well, this guy this guy must be taking a peptide. And yes, if people were looking at me thinking that, they were right. They were >> [laughter] >> absolutely right. Dream bigger. You got to dream bigger. If your goal is 200 lb, I want you to make that goal 190 lb.

[00:00:19]Okay? If you're a girl and your goal is 150, 140 lb, take 10 lb off of that. We are in a timeline right now where we have the most powerful weight loss drug known to man.

[00:00:36]This is when you were kind of growing up and you were like, "Oh, I wish I wish I could just take a pill and lose weight."

[00:00:44]We're kind of there, guys. Like it's crazy to say, but we're kind of there.

[00:00:49]And people are not taking advantage of this as they should be.

[00:00:54]You can get the body that you literally only dreamed of.

[00:01:00]I know when I was close to 300 lb, I always thought to myself, "I just need to get down to 225, 230 lb and I'll look great."

[00:01:10]I thought, "Yeah, the BMI, don't worry about the BMI. I got muscles. I got so much muscles, yada yada yada." It doesn't work like that, guys. You have less muscle than you think.

[00:01:20]And I know it's kind of controversial, but use the BMI as a guide. Unless you're Unless you're jacked, unless you're a bodybuilder, been doing this for quite some time. Get down to a normal range in the BMI and see how you feel, see how you look. Okay? It's It's actually completely stunning and shocking.

[00:01:39]Um the BMI for me was exactly right. I got down to that 230, 225 mark.

[00:01:44]And I was like, "Yeah, I could stand to lose another 10 lb." I lost another 10 lb. I was like, "Yeah, I could probably lose another 10 lb." Got down to 200, 190 lb. I was like, "Okay, I made it." I absolutely The difference that the last 10-15 pounds can make in terms of your body composition, it is absolutely crazy.

[00:02:06]I went from looking pretty fit to well, this guy this guy must be taking a peptide. And yes, if people were looking at me thinking that, they were right. They were absolutely right. So, just to get this video started, what I want to get through to people, use this.

[00:02:25]Do not just rely on the peptide, though.

[00:02:29]Okay? We can get you down to a body weight that honestly, it it'll be the body of your dreams. It is it's absolutely crazy. We can do this. You got to dream bigger.

[00:02:43]Genetics at this point do not matter anymore, guys. Metabolic disease does not matter.

[00:02:49]There's a few things that are holding people back, and I'm going to go through those things in this video. Okay? Um if you have any tips that you'd like to leave other people, what's been working for you, what hasn't, please, just leave it in the comments, guys. Sometimes there's comments that get added here.

[00:03:07]It's like, "Whoa, that that's actually very insightful." Okay? So, and people read the comments. I know I do on other YouTube videos. I just go through all the comments. There's gold in comments.

[00:03:16]So, feel free if something's working for you, leave the comment. Help someone out. Okay? We're all in this together.

[00:03:22]We're all kind of researching these peptides. Everything is new here. Okay?

[00:03:28]If someone tells you you have to do it this way, no, you have to do it that way, do not listen to them. Okay? Do not listen to me, even. If I'm telling you what's working for me, that does not mean it is going to work for you.

[00:03:43]And that's kind of one of the issues that people run into.

[00:03:47]They see something that's worked for me, and they're like, "I have to copy you exactly.

[00:03:53]For some people, that will work.

[00:03:55]For other people, it won't work, okay?

[00:03:57]And that's kind of what I'm going to go over in this video, some different ideas, what you should be looking for and stuff like that. First things first, guys, we have to kind of define what it means for something to be working, okay? Um everyone's different. Some people are going to be comfortable with a pound a week, 2 lb a week. Other people, if you're super uh super stupidly morbidly obese. Other people, if you're super morbidly obese, you can probably lose a lot more than that. We're talking super large people, okay? If you're closer to your goal weight, it's not rocket science, guys. You're not going to be losing as much. So, you kind of have to define that goal for yourself. What are you comfortable with?

[00:04:39]If you're comfortable with 1 lb a week, and you're losing 1 lb a week over the last 8 weeks, and I'm not talking about losing a pound consistently every single week. There's going to be weeks where you lose 2 lb. There's going to be a weeks where you gain a pound. There's going to be weeks where you lose 3 lb.

[00:04:57]I'm talking after 8 weeks, if you're down 8 lb, congratulations. You got there. What you're doing for you is working for you based on what you're comfortable with with your goal.

[00:05:08]Okay? If your goal was to lose 3 lb a week over the over that 8 weeks, and you only lost 8 lb, what are you doing? We have to adjust, okay? That is what I'm talking about in terms of if it's working for me, it might not work for you, and vice versa.

[00:05:25]Literally, everyone is different, okay?

[00:05:28]This is not different than any other weight loss.

[00:05:32]That is why diets, especially, they're so dogmatic.

[00:05:38]Because someone might do a high-carb diet, and it might work great for them, okay?

[00:05:44]Someone else is doing a keto diet and it works amazing for them.

[00:05:50]If both of those people decided, "Okay, I'm going to switch. I'm going to switch diets."

[00:05:55]And they're like, "Oh, this isn't working for me." All of a sudden, to them, that diet is not going to work for anyone. Okay? And that is absolutely crazy. And I understand it's dogmatic, it's the internet. I mean, people are go crazy for clicks.

[00:06:11]What I'm here to tell you is, do what works for you.

[00:06:16]If you're in the position where your weight loss has slowed down.

[00:06:21]Okay, you're not losing as much as you feel. Maybe you've plateaued completely.

[00:06:25]Maybe you're gaining weight. And we're not talking about dose right now. The dose should technically be the last thing that you change, okay? Really think about what you're doing in terms of diet and exercise first, okay? The dose and the peptide, it's there to support you.

[00:06:40]Yes, you can manipulate the dose to kind of push through plateaus and stuff like that. But who wants to do that? Stay on the lowest dose that you can until it is time to actually increase the dose, okay? [laughter] So, if you're in that situation where you're not losing what you want to be losing. Why don't you change Why don't you change something?

[00:07:02]Start with the diet. That's typically the easiest thing to change.

[00:07:06]You don't even need to change your diet specifically. You can still do keto, you can still do high carb, you can do carnivore.

[00:07:14]Why don't you just implement a bit of time restricted eating for a little bit?

[00:07:19]Maybe instead of eating all day whenever you're hungry, you do 6 hours. You do 8 hours, okay?

[00:07:25]Oh, Tyler, maybe you're already doing that, you think to yourself, and you're still plateaued? Okay, change the window.

[00:07:31]I personally, and again, this is personal. Everyone's different. Not everyone's going to be able to eat a specific way at a specific time.

[00:07:39]But me personally, whenever I did time restricted eating, and I did a bit of time restricted eating while I was losing the weight, if I restricted my eating window to the morning, so let's wake up at 8:00, let's say, and eat from 8:00 till like 2:00 p.m., if I stopped eating at 2:00 p.m., it was guaranteed weight loss almost every single day, no matter how many calories I ate. I could eat 2,000, 2,500 calories, I'm losing weight. I I don't know what it is. I don't know the science behind that. But if I took that same window, instead of 8:00 a.m. till 2:00 p.m., let's say I did 2:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., I'm, to be quite honest with you, not losing as much weight. I I don't know what the science is behind it. That was for me specifically. It might not work for you, but again, experiment. We are experimenting. Maybe it will work for you. Maybe you'll be like, "Tyler, you're right. It was that easy. I didn't even have to switch my diet. I just switched my time eating window, okay?

[00:08:42]Now, that is just to give you a simple idea. That is probably the lowest hanging fruit is the time restricted eating, okay?

[00:08:51]Um besides, of course, upping your dose, okay? But you you don't want to up your dose too much where you get to the point where you can't even eat at all.

[00:08:59]I mean, that's just a miserable existence at that point, right? Sorry, guys. I just want to cut in here, um because I forgot I wanted to mention this.

[00:09:07]Um just because something did not work for you in the past, I'm talking pre-GLP life. If something did not work for you pre-GLP life, do not discount the fact that that actually might work for you now, okay?

[00:09:27]And I know I know what you're thinking.

[00:09:29]Yes, I am talking about high carbs, okay? There's something about high carbs on these GLPs. If you reduce the fat, give it a chance. That's all I'm going to say. I'm not going to I'm not going to go further into this. I'm not going to preach to you. Whatever works for you works for you.

[00:09:44]But, if you're like me and high carb did not work for you in the past because it did not work for me at all before. I've talked about this in a video before. If I ate a carb, I could literally feel my neck growing. I could literally feel my double chin growing the second I put a piece of rice one little minuscule rice.

[00:10:03]If that went into my belly, all of a sudden I could feel the inflammation. I could feel my double triple chin growing. [laughter] I could feel my uh slabs of fat growing immediately the second I put that into my body. Okay?

[00:10:21]It is completely different when you're on a GLP. So, this is just for people that might have tried uh carbs in the past and they've been doing keto, carnivore and it's been working for them now. If you tried carbs in the past pre-GLP life, they might work for you now. Just give it a chance. But again, if what you're doing is working, why would you change? All right, let's move on to the next important thing to kind of keep your eye on. Uh it's a big part of weight loss. It's a big part of being healthy. Yes, I'm talking about exercise. Okay?

[00:10:55]The GLP and the diet is going to do most of the work. Uh but, if you're stalled out or you're not losing weight as fast as you think you can be, a big lever that you can pull on is simply exercise, guys. Online, you're going to hear a lot of people muscle muscle muscle muscle. I'm going to say no no no no.

[00:11:16]Why I'm going to say no is you're trying to lose the body fat. It is incredibly hard to keep on all of the muscle that you have while you are aggressively losing body fat on a peptide.

[00:11:29]Yes, there are things that you can do to kind of mitigate some of those losses.

[00:11:33]Uh full body strength training once or twice a week, okay.

[00:11:37]On days when you're doing that full body strength training, up the protein, okay?

[00:11:43]That's going to do the majority of the work that you need to maintain some of the muscle that you currently have. But, to be completely frank with you, no matter what you do, if you are losing body weight, if you are losing body fat, you're going to have a hard time keeping on the muscle. Just be mentally, your mental's, just be mentally prepared to lose a little bit of muscle, okay? It's not the end of the world. You probably don't have as much muscle as you think you have anyway. Now, in saying this about exercise, I'm not really going to go into what to do, what not to do.

[00:12:22]That's just not my channel, guys. If you If you want detailed information on what might work for you, just be open-minded out there. That That's the only thing that I that I would give you in terms of advice. Just because someone's telling you that you need to do a push-pull-legs, you need to train harder than last time, you need to train by science lifting, okay? Just because people are saying to do it a certain way doesn't mean it's going to work for you. It really depends on where you are, your kind of background, your history. I recommend just honestly keeping it simple in the beginning. If you're not doing strength training right now, maybe ease into it with bodyweight bodyweight exercises. Do some squats, do some push-ups. Just keep it simple in the beginning. Once or twice a week is probably all you need if you have no background whatsoever in terms of strength training. There's not much to that. And then from there, just look up different YouTube videos. What's an easy program? Like, maybe 3 days a week in the beginning. Maybe you're just doing Starting I think it's Starting Strength it's called. I did that like 20 20 years ago. It's just uh bench press, squats, and uh deadlifts to to keep it simple. Um just little things like that. Um the main thing that I like to do when I was losing the body fat though is cardio, okay? Do strength training once or twice a week, but do cardio like 5 to 7 days a week.

[00:13:46]There's no reason not to be doing easy cardio. You don't need to go crazy on the cardio either. I just recommend going a bit harder than what your normal walk would be.

[00:13:57]Like if you're just doing a leisurely walk, that is good for the brain. Uh it's good for your mental health, but it's not doing that much at the end of the day for for your fat loss unless again you're super morbidly obese. For some reason, I always want to say stupid morbidly obese. I've no clue why. Sorry, guys.

[00:14:17]Um but if you're like 50 lb overweight, 70 lb overweight, 80 lb overweight, 100 lb overweight, do zone two cardio.

[00:14:26]This is the type of cardio that you're going to be able to do every single day.

[00:14:32]The main thing is doing it. Okay, you don't need to do 2 hours a day. Maybe one day You don't even need to set an amount of time. Just start doing it and go by feel. When I was doing it, the main thing that I wanted to do was make sure that I would be able to continue doing the cardio the next day. That was the most important. If I woke up at the next day and I was too tired, burnout.

[00:14:57]Burnout. I knew I went too hard the day before. Pull it back. Consistency is more important when you're losing the weight. Okay? I was cycling consistently.

[00:15:09]Okay, it's low impact. Running, I mean, it's great, but for me, I I knew I would be too sore. I just kept it to cycling, low impact, little bit of strength training.

[00:15:21]Again, there's not much that I'm going to give you in terms of this. I am by no means an expert when it comes to exercise or anything like that. There's other channels, there's doctors out there that are on YouTube. They can give you all the science. I just went by feel, guys, by what worked, by what moved the scale. Do what works for you.

[00:15:41]That is the whole point of this video, guys. Do what works for you. If you are lifting weights right now 5 days a week and you feel amazing, don't just stop and do 1 to 2 days a week because I'm saying that that's what I did. Okay, do what works for you. If 5 days a week isn't working for you, don't feel like you need to continue to do 5 days a week because at one point in time it was working for you. Change things up.

[00:16:08]It's as simple as that. In terms of the dosing, guys, this is kind of the last little lever that you have to pull. I'm not really going to go into the dosing.

[00:16:16]I've done many videos on the dosing and what worked for me.

[00:16:20]Everyone is different, okay? Just because I did it a certain way does not mean you need to do it the same way that I did it. Even if you do it the same way I did it, it doesn't mean it's going to work for you. Everyone's starting at a different place. Everyone's body reacts differently. Some people don't react to these peptides at all. Some people have very bad side effects. Some people it's just a game changer. Like me, like I'm completely changed by these peptides.

[00:16:48]There's another channel that I follow.

[00:16:50]What's his channel's name? I'm going to shout him out cuz I really like watching his videos.

[00:16:54]Uh his name's Julio from Orlando, sunny Orlando, Florida.

[00:16:59]Julio.

[00:17:00]His channel is I think Riding the Tide or Rolling the Tide. I'll link his channel.

[00:17:06]He's a great guy to follow.

[00:17:08]He is on tirzepatide. Okay, this this drug has been a game changer for him.

[00:17:13]He's just doing 5 mg. He's prescribed by his doctor.

[00:17:17]Okay, what I'm trying to say though is just everyone is different. Just do what works best for you. What I would recommend doing though if you are stalled out and you tried diet, you tried exercise, and you've actually tried it properly, okay? You've actually kind of tracked what you're doing.

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[00:17:42]Premium is available though if you want the advanced analytics, okay? Track this stuff in my app, okay? It's going to show you week to week. Maybe one week you're exercising more and your weight is going down. Maybe one week you're exercising more, but it's causing your calories to go up and causing your weight to be flat. My app is going to show you this, okay guys? Support the channel. Five-star reviews are completely free on the App Store. Thank you very much. Back to what I was saying. Everyone is different in terms of the dose and what works. If you've pulled those levers and it's still not working, take a look how long have you been on the dose for? If you've been on the dose for over 6 weeks, it should be saturated in your system by then, okay? [snorts] What are you at? Are you at a super low dose? Are you at 1 mg, 2 mg? And I'm talking liraglutide. I don't really know the dose the other doses for the other brands.

[00:18:40]Um but if you're on a starting dose, raise the dose a little bit. Don't go extreme. I just like to bump it up level by level. So if I was doing 2 mg, I would maybe do three if I plateaued. And again, I'm not going to go into this exactly. I have an entire video where I talk about my 500 days on the GLP and the 76 doses that I did. So you can check that out. You can find it somewhere, okay? I'm not going to link it. I always say I'm going to link a video, but I always forget. Um and I to be quite frank, I don't know how. I just do the end screens, which kind of shows I think the most recent video that I did or YouTube suggests a video. So, we're not going to go into the doses.

[00:19:19]It's not a video for that. The whole point of this video and if you haven't figured it out by now, the whole point of this video do what works for you. What is working perfectly for someone else might not work for you. It might and that would be absolutely phenomenal. Another point of this video do not stagnate. Okay? If something's been working for you in the past, it might not work for you in the future.

[00:19:46]Just mix things up. You never know what is going to work for you.

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