Name: I Surveyed 200 People Under 12% Body Fat, Here’s What They ALL DO Daily to Stay Lean
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If you wanna look like someone that has a low level of body fat, you do what they do, right?

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You immerse yourself in their lifestyle, just like if you wanna learn a language or just what you would want to emulate for your kids to learn, right?

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We learn by doing, and I've spent years, literally years, just asking people what they do to stay in shape or what they do to just naturally be thin, right?

Some people say, I've just always been this way, but when you start actually looking at their habits to really eat like a skinny person or eat like someone that's in shape or eat like someone that's low body fat, you start finding there's these common denominators.

And we're just gonna jump right into them.

This is years of me talking to people and finding things that aren't quite so extreme, but just make sense.

When you look at it, you say, you know what?

Sally does kind of live like that and she's in shape.

The first thing that I noticed that people do that are in shape or that are thin, they forget to eat.

It's not even they're doing it on purpose.

If you follow them around, they forget to eat.

And I was sitting down with an Academy Award-winning producer friend of mine.

And he was telling me about his wife that's always been thin.

He struggled with his weight and he's had a tremendous transformation.

He was telling me, you know, she just forgets to eat.

And more often than not, it's forgetting to eat breakfast.

Sometimes it's forgetting to eat dinner, you know?

And the funny thing is, is metabolically, this is doing an amazing thing.

I mean, you're keeping insulin levels low.

Everything from a mechanistic standpoint is telling you, yes, you're going to oxidize more fat and you're putting yourself into this deficit, into this depleted state where mitochondrial changes occur.

Which leads me to sort of the next thing that people do is they'll eat random amounts at somewhat random times.

Like I've been around a lot of in shape people before, and I'm not talking the fitness type people that are obsessive about things.

I'm talking about just naturally kind of walking around looking good, right?

These people will end up eating random amounts, sometimes large amounts, sometimes small amounts with no particular rhyme or reason.

Sometimes it's a big breakfast, sometimes a small breakfast, sometimes a small lunch, big lunch, and it's kind of random.

And this has a tremendous impact on ghrelin, on leptin, on adiponectin.

It has all these different things that influence not only our behavior, but influence how our cell metabolism works.

So of course there's epigenetics and there's polymorphisms and there's regular genetics that influence these things.

But also we have a lifetime of just eating habits and a relationship with food that we may or may not even know exists.

The third thing that I've noticed with people that are in shape or thin, just naturally, is they tend to prefer to operate on an empty stomach.

They're usually the people that like to get up and train on an empty stomach, or they like to quote-unquote not do something on a full stomach, or they like to use their brain on an empty stomach, or they say they think clearer on an empty stomach.

They're people that are just skewed towards operating that way.

Now, that doesn't mean that's the case with everybody, but then you look at other people that say, no, I need to have fuel in my system.

I need my M&Ms when I'm cramming for this exam.

A lot of times those people look different.

Now, there's obviously going to be different theories here and different truths, right?

There tend to be these people that prefer to operate on less, and they also tend, in my experience, to be leaner.

Side note, if you are one of those people or you're someone that's trying to emulate those people, I recommend sipping on electrolytes.

It makes a huge difference in trying to just be on an empty stomach more often or try to just forget a meal or purposely forget a meal.

So I put a link down below for Element Electrolytes.

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So there's 1,000 milligrams of sodium, which has a huge impact on appetite, 200 milligrams potassium, and 60 milligrams magnesium.

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It makes the biggest difference when you're trying to just simply eat less.

Simply eat less, nothing crazy, just eating less meals, eating less frequently, plain and simple.

The fourth thing that I've noticed, and this might catch a little bit of slack, is they tend to not overdo fatty meals.

Now, this is coming from someone that's been a ketogenic person for a very long time.

But the reality is, most people that I talk to, they don't opt for fat foods.

Like, they don't opt for the fattier cuts.

They tend to just eat that way a little more naturally.

And again, you can hate me for this if you want.

The reality is, this is just what I've seen when I talk to people.

Doesn't mean they're metabolically healthy.

But generally speaking, they are the kinds of people that might do two eggs and some egg whites, and they might have it cooked dry instead of in oil, right?

They just, they're aware of a food that is heavy.

And that's kind of an interesting thing, as like a heavy food.

They're aware of a heavy food, and they don't eat something that's heavy, which actually carries a lot of, no pun intended, weight.

Number five is they tend to be the fidgety people, the people that move a lot, sometimes a little edgy.

Now, that doesn't mean it's always the case, but I definitely notice that.

And these are things that you could try to emulate, right?

How do I just artificially make myself a little more fidgety, or do the dishes more, or get up and move around?

It's just kind of what I've noticed with them.

They're always up around the house, always busy.

The next one is in this world, I feel like we have people that eat their feelings and people that starve their feelings.

By and large, I've noticed that people that are thin tend to be the people that starve their feelings, meaning when they get stressed or anxious or mad, they tend to not eat, compared to people that maybe emotionally or stress eat.

It doesn't mean that thin people don't do that too.

By all means, remember, there's a lot of ambiguity here.

These are just common denominators based on about a decade worth of surveying people, unbeknownst to me and them.

So it's funny because when they get stressed out, they might say, I just don't have an appetite.

And from a cortisol perspective, this actually works in their favor because when cortisol is elevated, you don't typically want to add fuel in, okay?

Insulin and cortisol, they are opposites in some ways, and we don't want to add a lot of calories to stress.

That's exactly how the corticoid receptors in our gut can actually lead to fat formation, especially visceral fat.

So we have to be really careful with that.

The seventh one is one that is gonna catch some flack for sure, and that's fine.

And it's just the reality of the situation.

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