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Dr. Erica Steele – Losing weight can be a challenge, but it doesn’t have to be. My name is Dr. Erica Steele. I’m a holistic doctor in family practice. I hold six degrees in my field. They’re all in the natural health care space. I am a drugless doctor and I went to school. So you don’t have to. All right. So let’s discover how to balance your body, your mind and spirit for optimal weight loss results.

And we want to do this holistically because I’m Melissa doctor. All right. So what does it mean to have a holistic weight loss process? It’s really about creating a healthy balance with all aspects of your life to achieve those sustainable results that last years and years. So in this video, we’re going to explore some of those key principles for having a holistic weight loss lifestyle and how you can use them to achieve your actual goals.

All right. So what is it about? Holistic weight loss is really about creating that balance and holistic medicine in general is about creating that balance where we always look at the relationship that one organ system has to another, or this aspect of our. Humanity has to do this. We look at humans, I treat humans for a living all day long, and so one thing may affect another. And it may be surprising if, for instance, your mental health, if it’s not addressed, is going to affect your emotional health, which in turn is going to affect your physical health and wellbeing.

So we look at all of these different components when we’re working to really balance and help people to reclaim their health. Mindfulness is that first step. So we’ve talked about it. Many times before in many videos, but I cannot stress the importance of mindfulness that’s being fully present to your thoughts, your feelings, your actions in the moment. So if you have a lot of feelings coming up

And it’s not related to something going on in the actual moment. That’s a lot of past emotions that needs to be processed and needs to be dealt with. Also, there’s a lot of thoughts. So our minds are racing. We’ve got all kinds of things going on. And so we want to put these thoughts on a leash and begin to think clearly, right?

Because our thoughts create our feelings and then our feelings create our actions and our actions create our behaviors over a long period of time. So many of us have work to do when it comes to being mindful because we’re constantly thinking about things. You’re thinking of emotionally suppressing or avoiding, and then that is going to lead to inaction, which is going to prevent us from achieving our healthy weight loss goal. Meditation, yoga, prayer can all be super helpful for us to be able to discover that.

The second step. His movement, of course, we want to move our bodies sometimes. The reason I put it second in this particular video is because sometimes movement can be motivating. A lot of times we have stuck stagnant energy in different areas of our body emotions that have been stored for so many years.

And so when we begin to move our bodies and breathe consciously like with yoga or Pilates, or or even just simple body weight movements, if we start to feel into our bodies, we can feel where it’s stuck and stagnant, and that can really give us clues. And insights into what emotions are bothering us. Do we have a chronic shoulder that’s responsible? Do we have throat stuff? That’s communication. Do we have heart stuff? That’s grief or sadness?

Do we have belly stuff, that’s fear, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. There are a lot of different connections and a lot of different resources, which I’ll talk about in other videos of how we can make that mind, body connection and movement can really help us to see where our body is. It’s like a check engine light.

All right. Third step nutrition. So eating is balanced in nutrition. Eating a balanced and nutritious diet, is essential for your healthy weight loss focus on consuming whole unprocessed foods. Just like I’ve said, if it’s God made, eat it, if it’s man-made stay away from it, if it’s in a box or bag it’s processed, probably shouldn’t go into your body. It won’t digest while your body won’t identify it well, so really make sure that you’ve got things that are growing your fruits and your vegetables low-glycemic whenever possible, your proteins.

So chicken breasts, Turkey breasts, white fish. Lentils black beans, kidney beans. Those low-fat beans are really good sources of protein and you want to have protein every single meal. Let’s say if on average you need a hundred grams of protein, just take that number that you need and divide it by how many times a day you’re going to eat.

And then set that as your goal. I typically first start with water, making sure patients are drinking half their body weights and ounces of water, and then we go secondary to their protein. So we go, okay, make sure you get half your body weight in ounces in water. Get that into routine. I know for a lot of people they’ve been dehydrated for so long.

They’re going to go to the bathroom a lot in the beginning. And that’s actually a good thing because that’s the body just cleansing itself. It’s going, oh my gosh, thank God we’ve given her water. And so it’s going to take awhile to balance and don’t be afraid of that. You need to be able to eliminate it over time. As you become hydrated, as your cells become hydrated, the bathroom trips will definitely calm down. So be aware of that. Once you get the water down, then add the protein, make sure you’re subdividing it out. I tend to get smaller doses of protein than larger doses of protein.

Like I don’t typically eat one meal a day unless I’m fasting or doing some sort of spiritual practice. So there’s all kinds of different ways that we can. Maneuver for that. All right. Four steps sleep, You want to get quality sleep. You want to make sure that you’re sleeping restfully. If you tend to ruminate before you go to bed, just put a simple notebook by your bed and write everything down. Like data, dump everything on your brain. I don’t typically recommend things like melatonin because it can affect your serotonin.

But if you do need something to help calm you down. I love Gabba as an amino acid. I love Althea. Holy Bazell can also be helpful too. And it’s nice and mild valerian, nice and mild. We are, we don’t need to knock yourselves out. We just need a nice gentle sleep. We also don’t want to skip sleep. We don’t want to do four hours a day, five hours taking a lot of naps.

We want to get, have that nighttime routine and have that restful sleep that so many of us need to be able to repair and heal. The fifth step is stress management. We talk about this a lot on this channel about emotional stress and emotional wellbeing, and really validating an honor. There’s a lot of different modalities out there EFT tapping there’s NLP, which is neuro-linguistic programming. There’s hypnotherapy, there’s meditation, there’s mindfulness.

There’s a lot of different modalities reading books can even really help you too. Understand and validate your emotions. We all have them, whether you’re a man or a woman, we all have emotions. And it’s very important for each one of us to validate our emotions and how we actually feel. So we want to ensure that we give our emotions space, even if it’s difficult, even if it doesn’t feel good, it’s important to honor those difficulties.

And let’s say uncomfortable emotions before we just shoo them away and try to affirm them away. We want to really sit with this discomfort and be comfortable. With this discomfort and honor that emotion before we’re ready to transform it into something healthier. Mindful eating. So that’s eating consciously. That’s knowing your macros, what you’re eating for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack, making sure that you’re aware, present to where, where your food is coming from. That’s an even deeper connection to mindful eating. Are you growing your food? Are you buying your food?

Where are you buying your food from? Where does that source come from? Because that’s all energy. So if you are buying foods from different places and you’re not aware of them, you’re not truly mindful. Eating, because you’re not fully present to what it is that you’re eating and why you’re eating it. So really connecting in and commuting with yourself because that’s how you’re nourishing yourself. That’s how you’re healing yourself in essence.

Gratitude is my seventh step. And that is really being grateful for what you currently have. I know a lot of people like gratitude, And if you have a difficult time with gratitude, that’s actually a symptom of resentment, frustration and lack of forgiveness of self. And so you may want to look at and consider doing some practices around forgiving yourself, giving your anger some space, giving your resentment some space, learning to be with them, maybe doing some tapping around.

Around that, and really work on committing yourself to bringing up all of those feelings in a safe container and processing them so that you can get to the other side with gratitude. I can tell you, you will not get gratitude. If you’re holding onto resentment, they bump heads and they don’t work because how could one be grateful if they feel like the world is out to get them or beating them up or whatever.

So just be mindful of that. Lastly, we look at your support system. So that is your network of friends and family. I strongly suggest you take an inventory of those people just because their blood doesn’t mean that they need to be in your life. And you want to make sure that the people in your life make you feel good and you feel motivated now. It’s not necessarily.

Their responsibility is to make you happy, but also to be there. Practicing healthy boundaries with you. Do, when you communicate boundary, do they respect that boundary? Are they loving and kind when you communicate that boundary? Are they highly reactive? Are they demotivators? Are they jealous of you?

How do they respond to you? Excelling? Let’s say you get a promotion or something really incredible happens. Are they happy for you or do you feel almost. Afraid to tell them because you don’t want them to feel bad. A lot of us, who have been through trauma, have deeply codependent relationships and, that’s B and it’s masters empathy, because we are always assessing our environment to make sure that the people in our environment are happy. Because if they’re happy, that means we’re happy, but that is codependent relationships.

I can be happy or not happy and you can be happy or not happy. They’re not interrelated. I can actually be happy and you’ll be unhappy. And we will be okay. And so understanding the support. Court system and how those dyed relationship dynamics work is really important to your overall health and wellbeing when you’re balancing yourself. All right. So balancing your body, mind and spirit with a holistic approach is certainly key in my opinion.

To optimal weight loss. And by incorporating these steps into your daily life, you can achieve your weight loss goals forever. It’s not a quick fix. This is a lifestyle and you can improve your overall health and wellbeing and lead a happier, more fulfilled, more wholesome life. I definitely am living proof of that. So if you want to start your holistic weight loss journey with me today and see the results for yourself, please click on the link below and we’ll be welcome to have you in our next upcoming holistic weight loss program.

Dr. Erica Steele : Discover the power of a holistic weight loss process and how it can help you achieve a healthier lifestyle for your life. My name is Dr. Erica steele. I’m a holistic doctor in family practice. I hold six degrees in my field in the natural health care space and I’ve gone to school. So you don’t have to.

All right, let’s jump into it. So what is a holistic weight loss journey? It’s a safe, natural and effective approach that includes the entire person. So often you’ll go into a doctor and let’s say, you’re going to, for one issue or you’re going for another issue, you have to go to multiple specialists.

Oftentimes for multiple issues regarding the same person. So holistic medicine, we don’t do that. We look at you as a whole person. So that includes looking at your physical, mental, emotional, environmental, spiritual, as well as your ancestral components and how that all plays into where you are with your health and where you’re stuck up.

So in this video, we’re going to explore the benefits of choosing a holistic weight loss path and how you can incorporate these principles into your daily life to achieve sustainable results. So the first thing is pretty obvious: improved physical health. So holistic weight loss can help you improve your physical health by promoting healthy weight loss, which helps reduce the risk of so many chronic diseases, such as hypertension, diabetes in certain types of cancers.

And also. helps you improve your overall level of fitness. So there’s a lot of physical benefits to it that can really help you to make sure that we keep the doctor away. Obviously not a holistic doctor because we’re there for prevention, but we, if we choose to take our personal responsibility over our physical health, we won’t need to diagnose and manage disease because our bodies maintain well because it’s been made to heal itself.

If given the right environment, it’s our responsibility to create the environment that’s conducive for healing. Second. And better mental health. So a holistic weight loss journey, as well as just the whole lifestyle itself can help improve your mental health because you learn so much about yourself. And as you’re learning about yourself why, you think about what you feel that can help to reduce any stress and anxiety, improve your self esteem and increase your overall happiness and wellbeing.

Most often when people come in, they’re a little checked out mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, and I helped to realign them back into themselves and really teach them step by step how to create a holistic lifestyle for themselves, meaning that they are responsible for their mental and emotional state.

And I teach them and coach them around what they can do to create the life of their dreams. Number three increased energy. So by improving physical and mental health, you can definitely increase your energy levels. So you can wake up feeling alive. You can go to sleep just gently, relaxed. You can really help to regulate your energy levels, making it easier to be active and productive throughout the day.

I know I fit in like literally a week in my days. And that’s because I’m able to maintain my energy and keep my circadian rhythm balanced. Number four, speaking of circadian rhythm. Better sleep. So a holistic weight loss journey can help improve your circadian rhythm, which can help your sleep quality as well as your overall mood. If you feel more rested and refreshed each day, you’re going to sleep. You’re sleeping through the night and you’re waking up refreshed. That is going to really help your productivity throughout the day, which is so exciting.

And especially like me, where you have so many demands on you, sleep is absolutely important and critical so that you’re able to think more clearly and feel more balanced throughout the day. Number five improved digestion. So holistic weight loss journey can help improve digestive health by reducing bloating, constipation, or other digestive issues. When you learn how to eat and you learn how to eat based on your macros, and you learn how to digest and assimilate and you clean up organs, like your Mom, your small intestines or your liver, it’s going to help improve your digestion overall.

So you’ll be able to eat food. A lot of times people will come in and they think, oh, I need to do a food reaction testing. Most of the time food reaction testing is wild. Inaccurate the reason being, because of the food, we have a lot of food like substances, especially in America, we have food that’s sprayed with herbicides, pesticides. We have GMOs. So is our body reacting to the food or is it reacting to, let’s say an herbicide or pesticide or the GMOs? We don’t really know, but I’ve learned in my practice that if we improve the digestive process and don’t go chasing after meaning we don’t need, we can save patients thousands of dollars in food allergy testing.

By helping them to learn how to eat, helping them to digest, assimilate. Metabolize what they’re actually eating and eliminate the body that will do the work for it. The body will heal itself and we can reduce any costly lab testing. And also we can keep that supplement count low, which is really important.

Number six is in a better mood. So we touched on this earlier. Allistic weight loss plan can really help to improve your overall mood and wellbeing because you’re starting to honor yourself, validate yourself, connect with yourself and how you feel. Again. So many people, they disassociate to survive. So they power through. They go, you know what I feel?

And I feel big and I don’t know what to do with these things. And they’re a liability. I can’t feel it. So I’m going to shut it down. I’m going to check out and I’m going to power through physically and I’m always. He’s an action. Early on in my career is so funny. Seeing people, you could literally see people coming in and they were just so anxious and they were like, gotta go, gotta do this, gotta do this, gotta do that. And they were so disconnected and afraid to feel because when you slow down, you actually have to start feeling your emotions and feeling emotions that you either don’t know what to do about, or that you have compartmentalized for years and years.

So we’re just in the consciousness of awakening of understanding the role of our emotions and how it can play into our overall. Overall health wellbeing, number seven, better skin. So inside out. So the skin is an external secondary drainage pathway. So our skin is inflamed or breaking out or all kinds of things. It’s really an internal issue. So as you’re working through a holistic weight loss process, you’re learning how to eat.

You’re learning how to eliminate better, your detox in your organs naturally. And so what happens is your body doesn’t have to shoot it out through the skin as much. You’re reducing your inflammation. And your body starts to return to homeostasis and you begin to see that healthy glow that you’ve missed. Plus when you’re drinking enough water, your skin looks hydrated.
Number eight, your confidence by improving your physical appearance. Of course. I’m all about vanity. Don’t get me wrong. Even though I’m Melissa’s doctor. I love vanity. I love looking good and feeling good. And so when you feel good inside and out and your insights match your outsides when you feel content with who you are inside mentally and emotionally, spiritually, and externally, that is matches and mirrors.

How you feel about yourself, man, that improves your confidence. Abound. So doing this process can really help to increase your self confidence as well as your self esteem. With that being said, Another happy side effect of this process is better relationships. When you start to look at the role that your relationships play on your mental, as well as emotional health, you start to clean house. You start to go, okay, is this relationship working for me? Is this not a relationship working for me?

How can I reduce stress and improve my overall wellbeing and make it easier to connect with others? You start to learn how to put the guards down. Feel safe, be vulnerable. You start to share and build relationships. That lasts for years and years. I think one of the things that I have just been so grateful for is based off of all of the personal growth work that I’ve done on myself. I have cultivated long lasting relationships that I’ve been in my life forever, and that feels so good. And so supportive.

Lastly, long-term results. So unlike when you’re doing a fat diet or a quick fix, when you practice a holistic weight loss process or a journey, it really focuses on getting fat. To the why and getting to the root causes. So you’re able to make these longterm long lasting changes to your lifestyle that can lead to long term results. Like I don’t have to track my food anymore because I know.

Consciously what I need to eat and how I need to put it in there. And I can feel that within my body, but in the beginning, I needed to track my food to help build awareness and understanding of what I was doing. Because if I didn’t have the data, I might, I could just check out and assume I was doing great, but I wasn’t.

And so I kept stalling and stopping, installing, and stopping. So one of the great happy side effects is when you take a lifestyle like this, you’re going to achieve those long-term results. And throughout all areas of your life. All right. So we’ve talked about all the wide range of benefits, but physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, that can help you to improve your overall health and wellbeing. And by incorporating these into your weight loss journey, you can only achieve sustainable results, but also it can positively impact every aspect of your life.

If you are looking for support in that, if you want encouragement, if you want a structure, if you want a plan that is geared towards you and nobody else, we do take consultation. And when I do take consults, I take lots of data on my patients. Patients. I listened to them. I hear what their pain points are. I hear how I can help them. I look at all of the external data that we take. We take all this data on you because we want to create an individualized program.

There are people, even exact twins, that come into my practice that have totally different care plans. People with the same diagnosis, people with the same struggles, everybody is unique as an individual. And that’s why I love holistic medicine so much because it helps to take you as an individual and really looks at everything. And then we prioritize. Step-by-step what you need to achieve, the results that you’re looking for. If you’re interested, please, like share, subscribe and I check out our link below.

Dr. Erica Steele – Are you ready to transform your body, mind and spirit in 2023, then tune in to find out my name is Dr. Erica Steele. I’m a holistic doctor in family practice. I hold six degrees in my field. They’re all in the natural health care space. And I went to school. So you don’t have to. All right, let’s jump into it.

So 20, 23, here we are. You want to lose weight? And so let’s talk about what is holistic. Weight loss journey is going to look like this, because it really goes beyond just diet and exercise. Everybody knows the key to good health is eating fruits and vegetables and working out. You’re not going to fall out on the floor and go, oh my gosh, that was a revelation.

It’s actually more important to make lasting changes to your lifestyle that are going to help improve physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing overall. So we’re going to jump into the principles of holistic weight loss and how you can use them to create not only a healthier life, but a leaner life too.

Holistic weight loss is about creating a balance in your body, mind, and spirit. So we have to take everything into consideration when we’re working to achieve sustainable results. We’ll explore how you can use this holistic approach to achieve your weight loss goals. So first step mindset, the first step to transforming your body and your mind with a holistic weight loss program is really to change your mindset.

This means you’re going to adopt a positive and motivating outlook on yourself. You’re going to get rid of all the negative self-talk. Self-talk and you’re really going to honor yourself from where you are. That’s going to help you to see where you’re at objectively and that way you can be honest to make those simple, easy, effective changes. Overall, you want to set realistic and achievable results and then be kind and gentle with yourself along the way.

Second, we focus on nutrition. So when we make a decision that we want to get well, and we’ve made a decision that we are going to value ourselves and that we are going to honor ourselves and love ourselves. Now, we’re going to look at how we’re going to fuel ourselves. So fueling comes from a nutrition perspective.

Eating a balanced nutrition diet is essential for healthy weight loss. You cannot work out. I passed a healthy diet. You want to focus on consuming whole unprocessed foods. Limiting sugar as well as fats, and really making sure that you’re consuming sources of protein that are healthy with each and every meal and snack. And again, drinking plenty of water.

Simply put, so people get into, oh, I need to do a food allergy testing in which foods do I need to avoid and kick out in the beginning. It’s about adding rather than taking away. So let’s focus on understanding your macros, understanding your proteins, fats, and carbs, understanding what they are, being mindful of them, your ratios, and really getting fully present to what you’re feeding yourself.

And then from there, we start to tweak and understand where those numbers need to be ideally for you, where there’s ratios are and then how. How you can improve them so that you achieve the results that you’re looking for. We don’t get into eliminating and removing things till much later. It’s really just focused on where your baselines are and then where you want to go.

All right. Next step is going to be incorporating exercise. So now you’ve got your mindset. You’ve got your physical excuse. You’ve got your nutrition. Now we’re going to move into your physical fitness routine. So we’re going to start low and slow. We’re not going to be crazy. We’re going to first start just stretching and getting our bodies nice and relaxed.

And then from there, we’re going to start going, okay. Now let’s incorporate some strength training. Let’s incorporate a little bit of cardio. We don’t need to go crazy again. You don’t need to go. I mean nothing against CrossFit. Go do CrossFit if you want, but you don’t have to go join a CrossFit gym and go kill yourself. You don’t have to go and do power hot yoga, seven days a week, twice a day in order to get the results that you’re looking for. We want to practice being very gentle with our bodies.

Remember, this is a holistic weight loss program. This is not a military kick your ass weight loss program. This is a very gentle, honoring, loving, supporting one’s self. I’m going to move my body and see how it feels to actually be inside of my body. All right. Fourth step is sleep. So now we’re going to put sleep in the mix. The reason we put sleep in the mix is because if you’re not getting adequate amounts of quality sleep, it’s going to dysregulate your hormones, your circadian rhythm, and ultimately affect your metabolism. So having a nighttime routine is incredibly important, making sure that you do the same things over and over again, you have an evening routine.

You have a daytime routine, you wake up, you start the day, refreshes you in the day and you’re just winding yourself down. We really want to work on high energy in the morning, relax during the day, and then gently fall asleep. If you have difficulty with either one of these, if you’re waking up and you’re not energized, or you’re going to bed and ruminating and not sleeping, or you’re waking up at two, three in the morning, every single day, there is some challenges with the circadian rhythm that we need to work on.

So you’re not going to get the weight loss goals that you’re looking to achieve. All right. Fifth step is managing your stress. So emotional stress is. Incredibly important to learn tools. Many of us were not taught tools. We weren’t given tools. We were told to shut it down, survive and power through, and that doesn’t work. So we’re going to learn to honor our emotions, get present with our emotions because we can’t just let our minds go over here.

Our emotions over here and our bodies over here that makes disconnection. So we’re coming back online. We’re bringing our mind back online. We’re bringing our emotions on buying online. We’re bringing our physical form online, all of it. Suddenly now all those emotions that were buried are going to start to come up to the surface. And we’re going to need tools to be able to process that excellent book that you guys can look up by Dr. Carol Truman, it’s called feelings buried, alive, never die. It talks about what happens when we suppress our emotions and all the disease processes that it affects.

Chronic stress can lead to so many different health problems, but including in this context, overeating and weight gain your throat is a two way channel. Either get your expression yourself, or you’re going to push. Food, unhealthy food down in order to satisfy some unresolved emotional need. So we really want to make sure that you practice some different stress management techniques like meditation, prayer, yoga, breathing, exercise. If you want some more insight on that, please feel free to check out my other videos or reach out to me privately.

Six step is to practice mindful eating. So we’ve already gone through this process where we’re developing a mindset, we’re understanding what we’re eating. We’re starting to work on our stress and now we’re starting to recognize the relationships that are, let’s say stress happens with our eating.

So I. I did this program years ago. And I became very present to the fact that when I got angry, I would want to go eat. So I would be angry about something either with my daughter or friend or some work experience. And then I would want to punish myself by going and eating. And it wasn’t always unhealthy stuff.

Like I would go, I remember one time I’m sitting at my computer and there was something that happened that I felt powerless over. I felt angry. I felt totally detached and. I could be unconscious that I had an apple sitting there and I just, it was starting to eat the apple. And I was like, wait a second. I’m not even hungry. I’m just angry. And so really helping us to be mindful and present to why we’re eating is going to help us to eat less as well as make healthier food choices.

The seventh step is building a support system. And that can be tricky if our family systems are corrupt or we haven’t had a lot of support growing up, we have to really create our supportive network of friends and family that can really help you stay motivated. You are the company that you keep, unfortunately, fortunately. And so sometimes when you’re starting to make this transition, you are going to leave people that have been with you for a while, because you’re either going to grow together or you’re going to grow apart. And sadly, this even happens in marriages and it happens in close relationships where.

You want to love and honor yourself. And then it’s not that you can’t be with somebody who’s not on the same growth, but you can’t have somebody in your life who’s tearing you down or criticizing you or judging you, or is jealous of you. Because if that happens, That is going to de-motivate you after a while. So setting those healthy boundaries, determining what your core values are. I’ve done a video on core values, please check it out so that you can determine what’s going to work for you. And then that way you can use a barometer to say.

Is this person part of my soul tribe? Is this person going to help me? Is this person loving to me? Is this person supportive? Does this person match my core values? Yes or no. It’s a very linear conversation. You don’t, there’s not a whole lot of variables if they don’t. Operate within your core values that help you to feel safe. It’s time for them to go. Unfortunately, you can also find a workout buddy, or join a weight loss program as well. That can help you to be accountable. We offer a lot of accountability and support.

In our practice, the eighth step is being patient. So again, we want to be patient with ourselves, but I’d also like to say forgiving. We want to learn how to forgive ourselves. We forgive ourselves for what we’ve manifested in, what we’ve created up until this point. And we also forgive ourselves for making it hard, right?

It doesn’t have to be hard. We could choose for it to be fun and easy, and we can let go of the impatience. If we choose to step out of that, if we choose to say, you know what. I’m going to enjoy the journey. I’m going to enjoy the process. I’m going to learn about myself. This is not about achievement. This is not about hitting a goal. This is about me learning to honor myself, celebrate my progress, focus on the positive changes that I’m making in my life, and really just get excited.

I’m in the process of healing that you’re doing. The ninth step and final step is about sustainability. It’s important to focus on making these long lasting changes, really your lifestyle. I teach people how to create a holistic lifestyle. It’s not about. Changing a diet or exercising more, or just walking around with affirmations, it’s really creating a lifestyle. That’s going to work best with you, that you are more connected with source God, nature, whatever you want to call it, that you’re living in alignment with your purpose and your passion, rather than relying on all these external things such as and I love doctors. I am a doctor, but we don’t want to give our power away to doctors. We don’t want to give our power away to influencers. We don’t want to try every. Quick fix solution or fad, if it sounds too good to be true, most of the time it is. I have found in my practice that all the fads and the quick fixes are not going to work, it’s really that sustained loving action that you do consistently over a long period of time. Herring’s love cure hearing was a homeopath in the 1800s.

He documented how to cure the body. He said for one year, your body has been off balance. It takes one month to balance it back. So you just have a timeframe. Even though time is interesting. All right. So transforming your body in your mind without a holistic weight loss journey is a journey we’re taking. So I know that it may seem a lot and may seem overwhelming and may seem overbearing and all the things. But if you begin to incorporate these steps into your daily life, you will Chaffin.

Lately achieve your weight loss goals, improve your overall health and wellbeing and live a happier, more fulfilled life. If you need help in your holistic weight loss journey, we do have one. Program coming up, check out the link below and we are so excited to help you to achieve the results that you’re looking for you and your family.

Dr. Steele Ever wondered what my secrets are to unlocking sustainable weight loss for my patients. I’m here to tell you. My name is Dr. Erica Steele. I’m a holistic doctor in family practice. I hold six degrees in my field, and they’re all in the natural healthcare space. And I have helped thousands of people to be able to achieve their weight loss goals.

If you’ve tried every fad diet out there, every quick-fix solution leaves you feeling deprived and unsatisfied. But you are definitely in the right place. Holistic weight loss is about creating a healthy lifestyle of balancing your body, mind, and spirit to help you achieve sustainable results.

It looks at every aspect that could affect and hinder your weight loss goals. In this video, we will explore the benefits of the holistic approach to weight loss and how. You can incorporate these principles into your daily life. All right. Number one is the mindset. The secret to sustainable holistic weight loss is truly your mindset. Many people don’t realize that and just want to jump into all the doing. To begin with, a positive and motivated attitude is essential to achieve your health goals.

This means setting realistic and achievable results that keep you focused and committed and being kind and gentle with yourself. With the process, about a pound to a pound and a half a week of weight loss is considered healthy any more than that is drastic. And you do run some other risks. Second, nutrition is familiar. The second nutrition to sustainable healthy weight loss is your nutrition. Eating a balanced and nutritious diet is essential. You must work out past an unhealthy diet. It just won’t work. So you must focus on whole, unprocessed foods, drink plenty of water, limit your sugar intake, and keep your fats at a reasonable level.

Even your healthy fats. We look at macronutrients; I’ll have a video to educate you because we’re out of the diet phenomenon that doesn’t work with exercise. The third secret to sustainable holistic weight loss is movement. Regular physical activity is essential to burn calories and build muscle, but you don’t have to kill yourself. Really. You can do a mix of some cardio that you enjoy, such as walking, dancing, or bike riding, along with some, let’s say, yoga or Pilates or bodyweight training, anything that helps build muscle.

That can help you lose weight and improve your overall health and well-being. Next, you genuinely want to find an exercise that you love and enjoy that way. You’ll make it part of your daily routine. The fourth secret is sustainability. Holistic weight loss is sleep. Getting adequate sleep is essential for your weight loss, as it helps to regulate your hormones and neurotransmitters, which can help improve your metabolism. Aim for six to nine hours of sleep each night and maintain a consistent sleep schedule.

Even if it can’t be tricky, prioritize your sleep. The next one. My fifth secret is to maintain a sustainable weight. Loss is stress management. Uh, Chronic stress, even good stress, can lead to overeating weight, gain, and health problems. So find ways to manage your stress, thoughts, and emotions; the focus tends to be generated from your emotional responses. So learning some emotional coping skills can really be very helpful.

We have 30 days to emotional healing. Course online course that I give you every single day I give you one. A new, emotional technique that you can use to help. So if you want that, please check the link below. Mindful eating The sixth secret to sustainable holistic weight loss is mindful eating. That means being conscious and present with what you’re eating and drinking. You would be astonished. How many people don’t know how many ounces of water they drink? How many grams of protein, how many grams of fat, how many grams of carbs?

And if that’s, you’re not practicing mindful eating choices. So we want to ensure that we’re present to what we’re consuming and not assuming. This can help you to eat less and make healthier food choices. Your seventh secret to sustainable holistic weight loss has a support system. Having supportive people around you, such as friends and family, can also help you to motivate and help you to keep on track of your weight loss goals, ensuring that your environment is conducive to your achieving.

Your goals are critical. Kick out the naysayers, even if their family, if they don’t have anything nice to say, don’t pick up the phone, find a workout buddy, or even join a support group to help keep you accountable. We. Offer a lot of accountability and support in our practice as well. The eighth secret to sustainable holistic weight loss in patients. I know growing up is a slow and steady process. It won’t happen overnight, and it’s consistent, deliberate action over an extended period. It’s essential to be patient and not get discouraged by setbacks. Celebrate your progress along the way.

And focus, focus. Those positive changes you’re making will show up eventually. Number nine, the ninth and final secret that I have to share with you about sustainable holistic weight loss is, you guessed it, sustainability. Focusing on lasting changes that create a healthy lifestyle is essential, rather than relying on fad diets or quick-fix solutions. Even if you choose one of those and lose weight quickly, the odds of gaining the weight back are really high.

So try to avoid those quick-fix solutions because they can create long-term issues you’ll have to deal with later. Instead, healthy lifestyle choices are how to maintain your health over a long period. And so these are my 10 secrets of sustainable holistic weight loss. By incorporating these principles into your daily life, you can not only achieve your healthy weight loss goals, but you can also improve your overall health. In addition, well-being will add to a happier, more fulfilled life.

So start your holistic weight loss journey today and see the results for yourself.