The Number One Food For Maintaining Fat Loss And How To Sustain A Healthy Weight And Body Composition With Michelle Shapiro

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Lifeforce and Lumebox. The weight loss journey isn’t always based on healthy and sustainable habits. Often, the pressure to lose weight can lead to drastic actions that can be harmful. Today’s guest is on a mission to share her weight loss journey, which she does not recommend to others, and provide guidance on how weight loss for better overall health can happen with compassion, empathy, and long-term healthy habits in mind. Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sits down with Michelle Shapiro to discuss weight loss, the myths and misconceptions, and the healthier way to lose weight. Michelle shares her weight loss journey and the symptoms she suffered through. She also shares her thoughts on diet culture and calorie tracking, the importance of individualization, her hot take on intermittent fasting, and the importance of exchanging ideas for growth. Michelle Shapiro, Integrative/Functional Registered Dietitian from NYC. Michelle has supported over 1000 clients to reverse anxiety, approach their weight with love, and heal digestive issues. Utilizing humor, nuance, and compassion, Michelle helps clients access their liberating self-awareness. In this episode, Dhru and Michelle dive into (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): Misconceptions about weight loss that are damaging (0:00:53 /0: 00:53) Scarcity Mindset (1:41 / 1:41) Protein for weight loss and body composition (3:10 / 3:10) Metabolism changes in response to weight loss journey (8:00 / 6:07) Michelle’s weight loss journey and the symptoms she suffered (11:00 / 9:13) Gut health for body composition (20:25 / 18:25) Michelle’s Losing Weight Lovingly Protocol (24:57 / 22:57) Weight loss as a symptom and diet culture (29:00 / 25:57) Is calorie tracking important and helpful (39:00 / 35:33) The importance of individualization (50:00 / 46:47) Foundations that apply to all humans (54:00 / 50:00) Anxiety and panic attacks as a fire alarm for the body and how to treat them (55:00 / 51:34) Intermittent Fasting and who should avoid it (1:01:00 / 57:00) Eastern medicine and the importance of exchanging ideas (1:17:000 / 1:13:30) Back to the basics (1:21:00 / 1:17:17) Also mentioned in this episode: Quiet the Diet, Michelle’s Podcast To learn more about Michelle, follow her on Instagram, Facebook, or her website. Right now, you can save $250 on your first diagnostic and get personalized suggestions. Optimize your longevity and track your progress go to mylifeforce.com/dhru! Lumebox is offering my community $260 off their FDA-approved portable Red Light device! That's over 40% off! Go to thelumebox.com/dhru and get your Red Light device.

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0:00.0	Michelle Shapiro 12 years ago, you lost almost 100 pounds in a very drastic move to lose weight.
0:10.0	We're going to get into your story. but the kicker is you did it drastically and in a way that you do not recommend people.
0:18.0	Now as a functional and integrative dietician, you're on a journey and a mission to not only help people
0:27.1	lose weight and improve their body composition, but more importantly feel good from the inside out and we're going to get into how you do that on today's episode.
0:37.0	But let's start off just like you felt you had mistakes that you made on your journey of weight loss that led to a lot of challenges that you had to unwind for years.
0:48.0	Again, we're going to get into that.
0:50.0	Let's start off with some of the top mistakes you see when it comes to the body composition and weight loss conversation that's happening today.
0:58.8	I think the biggest concerns I see in people approaching weight loss is not having enough protein and we can and
1:05.8	we'll talk about why that's so important along their weight loss journey severely
1:10.1	restricting in the beginning and putting themselves into a metabolic disadvantage in the long term
1:16.2	and then also having a really negative and scarcity mindset around weight loss which then
1:22.1	can produce nervous system changes that will not
1:24.8	support long-term weight loss as well.
1:26.6	Great, let's unpack those for a minute, right?
1:28.8	I'm going to go backwards.
1:30.9	What is this mindset, the scarcity mindset that you see working with your clients,
1:36.0	seeing the conversations on social media, on podcast, just seeing people's inner dialogue?
1:41.0	What is that scarcity mindset that's so damaging?
1:44.0	I think around weight loss specifically, we have this urgency and feeling to make ourselves
1:48.9	smaller and limit ourselves. And what ends up happening is our bodies listen to those messages and
1:54.7	our nervous system really wants us to stay alive and so we will respond with either
2:00.3	slowing down our metabolism, create anxiety and depressive symptoms,
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