I want to talk to you about the theory of the setpoint. You may be saying set watch, some of you may have heard of it before, I had never heard of this. And it was a huge eye opener for me to understand. So the theory of setpoint is that we are all born with a biologically and genetically predetermined weight where our body works, and at its optimum level. Now there is a four to nine or so kilogram buffer, which is an eight to 19 pound buffer. And now if our weight starts to go below that, our bodies being the amazing vehicles that they are, our bodies do everything in their power to get us back up to this point where we can function optimally now I've experienced a plateau on many diets, you probably have to where you are restricting your calories and you are exercising.

And no matter what you do, those scales won't budge. Well, what if it's not a plateau? What if it's your body trying to get you back to where it will function best? Then the most interesting thing about setpoint and I guess, as well, one of the saddest thing for dieters is that your setpoint very rarely goes down, but your setpoint often goes up. So when you have restricted for a significant period of time, your body raises your setpoint so that it can safeguard you from going into that starvation mode in the future. Now, there are so many studies that look at What happens to people that have lost weight over time?

And most of those studies, two to five years after people have stopped dieting, they've gained nearly close to five kilos, I guess would be 10 pounds. We are dieting ourselves heavier. Who Who would do that? I wish I had known that when I started my career as a janitor, because there's no way I would have done something that was going to raise my setpoint so that every time I dieted, it got that little bit harder to lose the weight because my setpoint minimum was a little bit higher than it was before. It's a really interesting theory to think about. And that's getting more and more support for those of you that maybe you're in an unhealthy way And you're not feeling well in yourself and you know that you need to change.

There is a doctor who works with largely he's done a lot of work with obese patients. And he says that your setpoint can be reset. And the way he explains it is that it's a very, very slow process. So you would work on for the first month, losing only two kilos out to be four pounds. If at any time during that month, you start to lose more than that, then you need to increase your food intake even anytime you start to put on weight or you need to reduce your food intake. And then at the end of that month, you spend month two, maintaining that weight loss.

You do not want to lose weight, you want to maintain that two kilo weight loss amongst three. You work on losing another two kilos month for you work on maintaining, and you the process goes on like that. I guess we know that fad diets don't work, we know that Quick Weight Loss solutions don't work. So if you really do feel like you need to lose weight for your health, then this is an approach that you could take. I, you know, I feel as though and when our focus is weight loss, we're still mentally headed in the wrong direction. I would much rather our focus be on health, you know, on putting good things into our bodies because we actually love our bodies and we want to nourish them and nurture them.

And I think quite naturally you will find if you have not lived a lifestyle like that, that your weight may change, but weight cannot be Your goal, we don't have scales anymore, do away with them. And they they can't be part of this equation because those things keep us trapped in diet culture and standpoint for me has been a really interesting and eye opening thing to understand. I'm sure that that you will have that the same sort of thinking about it. And and why would we do things that we know are going to make us heavier and another great reason to stop dieting.