Keys to Success

Dr. Bleu Schniederjan (00:00):
Hello everyone, it’s Dr. Bleu Schniederjan. And I just wanted to kind of make a video that just lays out the big picture of who I see being patients being successful after surgery. And I think this is what I try to live in my own life, and I want to kind of just paint a big picture of, of what that looks like. So, just a few things. Number one, when we start gaining weight, what happens is we metabolically are broken. We have so many things through the way that we’ve eaten over the years and not living a healthy lifestyle that our body is just, it needs a reset. And the way to do that is two ways. One, surgery’s been shown to do that, and two, through the dietary and lifestyle changes. So in my own life, this is what I’ve found to be successful, and I’ve seen this in patient’s lives.

(00:59):
Number one, cut out sugar out of your diet. All sugar added sugar to anything that we eat. Just try to get all the excess sugar outta your, your diet through soft drinks, through processed food, through you know, a lot of the drinks that we get, like at Starbucks and things like that have tons of sugar. So cut all that out. Number two is cut out processed food. This is what drives our weight gain more than probably anything. So anything out of a box or packaged. Get back to whole foods meats, vegetables, fruits, nuts. Now processed food, whenever you pick up a packaged food, it usually has three things in it. And this is over and over what I see. It has sugar, it has some kind of wheat or carb, and it has a vegetable oil. And those are the three culprits that we’re seeing in what’s causing us all to be metabolically unhealthy.

(02:05):
So get back to whole food. I think what what’s important to do that is, is get back in your own kitchen. You need to learn how to cook stop eating out, stop getting things in a package. The other thing is, and this is kind of a tricky one, is cut out vegetables in your life. What I mean by that, it’s kind of confusing, but if you pick up a lot of processed food, like I was telling you about, they usually have one of five ingredients in it. It’s either soybean oil, corn oil, canola oil, sunflower or safflower oil. They’re the way that they extract these oils they’re very inflammatory in the process that that of the extraction. And when they get in our bodies, they’re very inflammatory. So instead, you want to find things that are made with either olive oil avocado oil or Coconut oil.

(02:59):
Most of those, those are the three that are the healthiest. Getting good sleep. I know this sounds simple but when our body, when we’re not getting adequate sleep and quality sleep every night, it puts stress on our body and, and it causes weight gain. Exercise. Two things that I, I I lay out to all my patients. One is, you know, whether it just be a walk after a meal 10 to 15 minutes. The other thing is, is building muscle. That’s real important long term. We know that the more muscle we take into our older age, the longer we live. So just exercises that do that, like pushups, air squats just natural resistant type exercises. Healthy relationships. I know that’s very important that we maintain a good network of friends and family and keep them healthy.

(04:05):
Keep our stress levels down. Having good outlets for that. As far as dealing with stress, I think this is, this is a hard one but avoiding alcohol I recommend your first year to cut out all alcohol. Whenever we’re drinking alcohol our body breaks down alcohol first. And so if it’s trying to burn fat and we’re trying to lose weight, if we’re introducing alcohol every day it basically it stops our ability to burn fat. And, and then we’ve seen after weight loss surgery, you, you, you have a higher risk of, of, of, of abusing alcohol. So I think you need a good year to just avoid it until and until things are back more normal. Another thing that I, I recommend, and I do this quite a bit, is introducing fasting. Especially when a, when a patient gets out past three to six months that first three to six months, you need to be able to eat, you know, at least three times a day, maybe even mid-morning, mid-afternoon supplement.

(05:12):
But once you get past that six months introducing some fasting I’ve cut my breakfast out. I eat basically lunch and dinner Monday through Friday. Also. Every now and then, every week or two I do a 24 hour fast. And what we’re seeing is, is when you abstain from putting food in your body, it’s your body basically kind of heals itself. It’s more in a mode of cleaning up things, cleaning up inflammation, and there’s a lot of health benefits. And so these things I’ve just listed today, if I was to pass on to any of my patients, what is the key to success? If you can implement most of this in your life, it’s, to me the, the way to be healthy. And so I just challenge you to, to do that. And the videos that we’re gonna be releasing over the next year is gonna build upon the details of all the things I’ve just laid out. And so continue to tune in.