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I'm a naturally skinny person I have never
gained weight since my adult life I've never
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had to worry about my weight I've never
had to worry about what I eat I feel
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healthy if skinny privilege is a thing
I can be called Skinny Legend these are
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the habits that make me stay at this weight
for the past 10 to 15 years so my first habit
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is I want to have a disclaimer that this video is
not for people who have eating disorders, it's
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not for people who have unhealthy relationships
with food I made this video because I've been
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seeing a lot of videos on my YouTube feed
about habits that naturally skinny people
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have and as a naturally skinny person I want to
add to the conversation and kind of verify the
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information out there so the first habit
is I don't eat when I'm not hungry and I
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only eat when I'm like really hungry I often
don't remember to eat unless I really feel it
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in my stomach and I'm like oh my God I'm hungry
and then I realized that oh it's like 7:00 p.m.
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and I haven't eaten anything all day that hunger
I just don't experience it I think that it's so
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common for everywhere actually not just in North
America but in Asia as well to have like regular
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meal time breakfast lunch dinner and people
just eat when it's Meal Time not necessarily
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because they are hungry and I think that that has
to change because back in our hunter gatherer days
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which is like hundreds of thousands of years ago we
didn't have food lying around we didn't have an
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abundance of food we had to actually work really
hard to find the food and food is like someday you
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can eat other days you can go one or two days or
even longer without food that's how we have evolved
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and trust me I have read a lot about this I have
learned and educated myself a lot about Health
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and Fitness and Nutrition so I can speak about
this with confidence that like this is healthy
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and I'm not advocating for starving yourself I'm
not advocating for restrictive eating that's not
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what I'm talking about I'm talking about eliminate
completely snacking in between meals always eating
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something throughout the day I don't think that
it's healthy all that snacking all that like
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eating when you're not hungry it's just extra
calorie and of course when you keep doing that
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you're going to gain weight I love food and I
have a very healthy relationship with food I don't
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restrict myself when it comes to eating
I eat very intuitively and I think that when I
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only eat when I'm like truly hungry it gives me so
much satisfaction when I eat the food that I want
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because like one day I'm just like I really crave
pizza or like I really crave pasta and like I'm
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hungry so I'm just going to eat those things and
I don't feel guilty about that so I usually skip
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breakfast because I don't usually feel hungry
in the morning and instead I take this thing
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called Magic Mind at the start of my day it's a
mental performance shot that's supposed to make
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you think better and faster while reducing stress
I took Magic Mind for 7 days straight to see whether
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it could make a difference in my daily life and
let's talk about the results first off I wasn't
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stress and productivity with so much things on my
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distracted but after using magic M I feel like on
the days that I use it my brain it's literally like
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it's operating at like 120% like 150% capacity I'm
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the next 10 days next habit is I stop eating when
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I'm full I never finish my plate maybe because my
stomach is just like a bit smaller than usual and
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what like really shocked me when I came to Canada
8 years ago I was really shocked when I see a
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North American portion okay you guys portions
are crazy you guys portion are like literally
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three four times bigger than like Asian portion
like whenever I go out to a restaurant I'm like
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oh my God like the plate is this big and like the
food is like this much on the plate and I'm like
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oh my God like this is enough for four people this
is not for like at least two or three people so I
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never finish my food whenever I go out like
there's always some food left I don't like
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the feeling of being stuffed like of course there
are times like I'm not going to say that I never like
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stuff myself I never like eat to the point that
I'm so full like of course there are times that I have
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but after that like intuitively my body is just
kind of know and not eat so much the day after and
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so I guess it's kind of balanced out like if one
day I consume like 2500 calories or 3000 if I'm
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like really stuffing myself the next day I just
like don't think about food at all I would still
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feel full from yesterday and I probably only have
like 500 600 calories or something like like that
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don't take like these numbers like too hard like
I don't I don't know exactly how much calories
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I consume cuz I never measure my calorie intake
like I said I don't believe in calorie counting
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or calorie restriction so yeah I think a lot of
it has to come down to food abundance mindset I
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know a lot of people think that oh like I pay
a lot for this meal like I better like make my
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money worth and like finish everything on my plate
or maybe your upbringing with your parents tell
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you to always finish your plate and never waste
food kind of affect your eating habit now but
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for me it's just like I rather waste all that food
rather than like stuffing myself because I respect
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my body if you pay for a meal I don't think that
it's a waste if you can't finish it like the
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value is already realized when you enjoy the food
however much it is I just eat till the point that
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I'm satisfied because I respect my body and that's
like my body telling me that hey you're full like
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if this is enough stop eating I want to listen to
that and like respect that need of my body as a
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society I feel like we overfeed ourself a lot and
you know that feeling when you stuff yourself and
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like after eating and you stand up and you're like
oh my God now I don't want to do anything I don't
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think it's healthy it is a habit that could lead
to a lot of other unhealthy habits it kind of goes
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with my last point which is like I never binge on
any food I think binging is of course we all know
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that that is very unhealthy even a chocolate bar
like I never finish a chocolate bar I may have
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like 1 2 3 4 bites and then I'm like okay
I'm satisfied I think over time I'm just like
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I'm able to train or like it's not even like me
training myself per se it's just the habits that
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I kind of pick up from listening to what my body
needs or listening to that voice in my head that
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like it's enough like I think intuitively my body
knows exactly how much food I need I recently read
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this research/book that said that when we are
born like our jeans basically already determine
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the weight that we prefer to stay in and so maybe
my Gene already determined when I was born that oh
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she's going to be feeling the best when she's like
95 to 100 lb it's going to be like different for
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everybody of course based on your genetic and the
reason why it's so hard for people to lose weight
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is because once you have calorie Surplus and start
gaining weight for example if your set point is 120
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lb and if you gain weight and you are at 150 lb
your set points going to be changed from 120 to
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150 and so that's now your body's preference
your body prefer to stay at that weight so now
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if you want to lose weight and go back to 120 is
going to be extremely extremely hard because we
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are hardwired as a species to hold on to
every calorie that we can to hold on to any fat
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cell that we can because back in the hunter gatherer
days we had no idea how we were going to get our next
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meal so your body is going to work really hard
to hold on to those fats to hold on to the weight
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so just make sure that you know what you're doing
don't overeat don't stuff yourself don't eat when
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you don't have to and I think it's going to keep
you metabolically healthy it's going to keep you
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looking your best and feel your best that leads
me to intermittent fasting so I think growing up I
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didn't really do intermittent fasting and I don't
think teenagers should be doing intermittent
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fasting either so if you're a teenager and you're
still growing don't watch this video this video is
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not for you this video is for adults who have
already finished growing okay so intermittent
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fasting there's a lot of benefits that comes with
intermittent fasting if you just search any videos
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on YouTube you know how much it can help your
body it heals your body so definitely look into
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intermittent fasting basically for me personally I
sometimes do a 24-hour fast not really frequently
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but like at least every day I kind of crunch my
eating window into a 6 to 8 hours and the rest I
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don't eat so that's leave me 16 hours to 18 hours
of not eating for most people I think we naturally
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fast for 8 hours at night when we go to bed when
we sleep but you should be doing intermediate
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fasting for much longer you should have longer
window of not eating and compress your eating
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window down to like at least 6 to 8 hours another
habit is I don't emotionally eat I think that when
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you use food to numb yourself and to like cope
with your emotions is not healthy recently I've
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been like really appreciating the perfectionist
part in me and the perfectionist part in me is
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like I love my body so much I cherish and value
my body so so much you know and I want to give it
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the best thing possible in life the best possible
habit so that my body can function at its best so
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that I can feel my best I just don't think that
like emotional eating is a good thing I think
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it's very important to work on your relationship
with food I know it's so tempting to like just
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have ice cream and like comfort food or fast
food when you're stressed or when you have a
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long day but it is actually so much better if you
just like take some time to be mindful and like
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process those emotions and be there with your body
and listen to your body listen to how your heart
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is feeling if it helps you can also like joural
talk to friends talk to people don't indulge in
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escapism whether it be like watching shows or like
eating stuff that you know you shouldn't eat next
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habit is I never go on a diet I don't believe in
diet diets rarely work we know it from research I
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don't remember the exact number but like after
90 or 95% of people who go on diet will regain
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all their weight back or even more and the worst
is like the yo-yo diet when you like go on a diet
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lose weight and then gain weight again and then
you go on a diet and then you keep going through
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that cycle again and again and again and it's
just incredibly harmful to your body don't go
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on a diet but make healthy habits your lifestyle
instead you can't expect having really good eating
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habits or being really active and doing all these
exercises for 2 months to get to like your dream
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body your ideal weight and then after 2 months
when you reach that goal and then you come back
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to your old lifestyle of like eating like crabs
and like don't exercise and just be sedentary and
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expect your weight to stay the same at your ideal
weight like you it life doesn't work like that
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right so you have to make it long term you have
to be able to rewire your brain into loving the
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healthy habit and to keeping it as your lifestyle
it's just what you do your identity rather than
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like going on a diet just for two months just for
like a short amount of time to get to your ideal
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weight like it it doesn't work like that you have
to keep doing it day in and day out for the rest
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of your life and love doing it and making it your
lifestyle my next habit is actually my favorite
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like I never eat processed food rarely sometimes
I would eat processed food from the grocery store
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like what I mean by processed food is basically
anything in a package with the ingredients that
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I don't understand I find them really gross that's
probably the reason why I didn't like the Filipino
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snack last time I tried with Javi like of course I
didn't develop these habits when I was a teenager
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you know of course there was a time that like I
eat Processed foods and I see no problem with it I had
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the microwave dinner as there was a time that
that was my eating habit but I think the reason
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why I didn't gain weight eating them because I
still had them like in very like low amount but
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after educating myself more about health and
nutrition I just find those stuff really gross
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I think I completely rewire my brain to look at it
differently and I'm so happy that I did that I
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also don't like overly sweet stuff I have one bite
I'm like that's too sweet I don't like it and then
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I don't have it I could buy a cake or like buy
a drink and take one sip or take one bite and
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I'm like hm I don't like it and then I just don't
finish them and there's nothing wrong with that
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you should never value money more than your body
listen to your body I want to keep coming back to
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that because all of this is not the habits to
like stay skinny like being skinny or thin is
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not really a goal it's not really the end goal the
end goal is to be be healthy right the end goal is
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to feel the best you could ever feel and I think
that these food can either help you achieve that
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or it gives you the momentary pleasure but maybe
after 20 to 30 minutes you feel so sluggish so tired
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and all that extra calories and chemicals and
preservatives just like stay inside your body and
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like in the long run it leads to so many problems
with your digestion liver metabolism weight gain
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next habit mindset is huge I love talking about
mindset here on my channel because it's literally
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the building blocks to everything my mindset are/belief about myself is always I'm a naturally
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skinny person and so I guess that because I keep
telling myself that and also the external feedback
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from everyone is like oh my God you're so skinny
like eat more you're so lucky you can eat anything
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like that message and also of course what I
tell myself become my self-concept and become
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my belief that you know what I can eat anything
and I will stay at this weight and I think that
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in a way that's kind of like the command from my
brain to my body if losing weight is your goal
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right now start telling yourself the belief that
you want to have keep repeating that belief until
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it becomes your self-concept my next habit is
don't make food become the focus the focal point
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in your day I don't think about food in my day I
I think I only think about food during meal time
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I know people who are counting calories who are
very restrictive with their food intake and their
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minds are so preoccupied with food when it's the
case it's so hard to have a healthy relationship
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with food so just try to feel your days with
activity that you love that gives you satisfaction
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and pleasure that you would normally get from
food get the same satisfaction from like having
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a hobby or like working on something that you're
passionate about basically make your life so full
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and so fun that food is just like something that
you think about at Meal Time like other than that
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you just don't think about food my next habit is
to always educate yourself on Health Fitness and
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Wellness knowledge is power the more you know the
more power you have to make educated choices for
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your body making healthy choices for your body is
an act of love I used to have this problem with
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Bubble tea I basically had Bubble tea every day it has
so many negative impacts on my sleep I would have
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this craving for bubble tea after dinner which is
usually like 8:00 or 900 p.m. and then I would not
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feel sleepy until like 5:00 or 6:00 a.m. which is
so unhealthy and what I used to tell myself when
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I got bubble tea is like oh I had a long day I work
so hard today this is like a reward for myself but
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like no that is not an act of love like I feel
like a lot of times like I said we trade
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happiness for pleasure in the moment and in that
moment the pleasure is to have a sugary drink and
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like chew on the bubble but the long-term effect
I can see on my sleep on my health it's not
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healthy to have that much sugar every day and I
know that I have like an addictive personality
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when it comes to bubble tea it's crazy it's like Bubble tea is like alcohol like it's like I'm like bubble- holic or something so it's kind of like my plan
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now to just say say no to bubble like all together not even like once or a week or like once a month Type of thing like cuz I know like I just know that when I get back into it I'm just going to be
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like an addict again and I don't want that for myself think about when you have that craving when
you give into that craving you're not respecting
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yourself you're not loving yourself it's actually
not a reward I think when I realize that I'm able
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to like my identity is someone who love herself
very much who respect herself very much so I'm
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not going to engage in activity that is not in
alignment with that another habit is I don't drink
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I don't smoke I don't Vape because actually when
you do these things especially consuming cannabis
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or marijuana your appetite go up and you want to
eat more I think maybe it's part of the reason I
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don't think it's like the main habit that makes
me skinny I just feel like it's worth a mention
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about my next habit which is Be Active stay active
move around a lot I feel like one micro habit that
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I do is like I'm very expressive with my hands
like I use my hand a lot when I talk and I think
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that that actually help burn a lot of calories
compared to just like sit and talk like this all
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these like micro movements in the day it really
adds up I work out 3 to 4 times a week I
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like taking walks I do Pilates I do hot yoga I do
cardio at the gym I'm very happy with my exercise
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regimen and I think that since I start exercising
I actually feel so much happier and the last habit
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that I have is I don't have snacks in my house
it goes with my first habit like my fridge is
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usually empty but I'm trying to change that
I want to fill my fridge with more fruits and
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vegetables but like packaged snacks chips I don't
have them in my house and I think that having your
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environment in check is so important to have good
habit if you feel your environment your cupboard
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your house with unhealthy snack then of course
when you just like want to munch on something
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of course it's going to be so easy for you to just
grab those snacks I've always wanted to make this
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video because always see comments that say oh you
have my dream body I want to be skinny like you
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some people even use me as a thinspo I don't think
it's healthy though don't do that but if you ever
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wonder what happen it's naturally skinny people
do then this is it I hope this video is helpful
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informative if you haven't please subscribe to
my channel and I'll see you in my next video bye
