Skipping breakfast is one of the worst things you can do when trying to lose weight.

Because skipping breakfast causes your body to go into starvation mode. This then slows your metabolism to a crawl, while triggering intense hunger and cravings.

• Oatmeal with almond butter and berries

• Veggie omelet and avocado toast

• Greek yogurt with chia seeds and papaya

2. Snack On Protein

I always tell my patients the key to sustainable weight loss isn’t calorie restriction, it’s making smarter food choices.

One smarter food choice is to eat protein rich snacks, rather than snacks high in fattening sugars and carbs. Eating a high protein snack will keep you feeling fuller for longer while stabilizing blood sugar.

Great protein snack options include hard boiled eggs, turkey slices, a slice of cheese on wholemeal bread, Greek yogurt, or a handful of nuts.

3. Go for Daily 30 Minute Walks

I’ve yet to meet a patient happy to sweat buckets on a treadmill each day.

What I recommend they do instead is go for daily walks.

You can start small, with 10 minute strolls. And then build up to 30 minutes as your endurance improves.

To make it more pleasurable, consider walking with a friend, listening to a podcast, or turning it into a game by tracking your steps each day.

Want a bonus tip?

Reverse the effects of “Western Gut”.

See, the lab team and I discovered that most people’s guts have become fat 

Add THIS Korean spice to your meals.

It’s a spice that prepares your stomach to digest food, rather than store it as fat.

One of my patients tried eating this spice at mealtimes…

And she lost 34 lbs of trapped fat in weeks…  without making any other changes to her diet.

You can find out what this spice is in this video:

>>>Eat this Korean spice to lose 15+ lbs effortlessly

Question 2: At night I lie awake worrying about one thing or another. Is there anything you recommend that will help me sleep?

I see lots of patients whose stress and racing thoughts sabotage their sleep each night.

The good news is there are simple, natural ways to de-stress at bedtime. You can then fall asleep faster and enjoy a deeper night’s rest:

1. Power Down Devices

There’s a reason why poor sleep has become an epidemic: Our phones!

“Doom scrolling” through social media, the latest fear inducing news, or plowing through work emails is the worst thing you can do at bedtime. 

All of these things overstimulate your brain… causing the release of stress inducing hormones. 

It’s then impossible to relax and drift off to sleep!

Make sure you turn off all devices at least one hour before bedtime, and put them out of reach of your bed. 

Instead, reach for a good book to use up your last reserves of brain power.

2. Use A Meditation App

There are some excellent bedtime meditation apps to help calm an overactive mind. 

Listening to a 10-15 minute guided bedtime meditation right before getting into bed calms your brainwaves while lowering stress so you can fall asleep faster.

Many of my patients recommend apps like Calm, Headspace and Insight Timer.

3. Calm Your Brain with Apigenin (Chamomile Tea)

Chamomile tea has long been a natural sleep aid. And now scientists know why. 

See, chamomile tea contains an antioxidant called “apigenin”. And apigenin is where chamomile gets its mood calming benefits from. 

This is because apigenin calms key receptors in your brain, helping to lower stress and induce sleep.

However, if you’ve already tried chamomile tea without success, it’s likely your brain is overwhelmed with “Sleep Blocker” chemicals.

These are chemicals that keep your mind racing and your body feeling agitated at bedtime. 

Thankfully, the lab team and I found a way to calm these “Sleep Blocker” chemicals.

It’s a 30 second technique you use at bedtime that allows you to enjoy 7-8 hours of deep, uninterrupted sleep and awake bursting with energy and ZERO grogginess in the morning.

You can find out how to do it in this video:

>>>Try this bedtime ritual to flush away sleep blocking chemicals and enjoy 7-8 hours of uninterrupted sleep

Question 3: “How can I tell if an eye serum is high quality? And not just a glorified moisturizer”

Eye creams are one of the hardest formulas to get right.

They need to contain enough active ingredients to fade the look of eye bags, crow’s feet, and dark circles, while being gentle enough for the delicate skin around the eyes.

Most beauty brands focus on the second objective. 

They base their formula around gentle ingredients, like vitamin C, hyaluronic acid, and retinol. 

Yes, it’s true – these ingredients CAN help to fade wrinkles. 

Yet in most eye creams they’re often so watered down you end up with a topical that’s little better than a basic moisturizer.

Here’s a quick test you can do in a department store to check if an eye cream contains strong enough active ingredients:

1. Apply a pea sized drop to your thumb and rub it with your index finger.

2. If it feels heavy and greasy, that tells you it contains more moisturizing ingredients than anti-aging ones.

In most cases, what you’ll be testing will be called a “serum”.

Serums contain more active ingredients able to penetrate the skin at a deeper layer than standard eye creams.

Serums also contain ingredients to target specific aging eye signs, like puffiness, dark circles, or fine lines. 

You can find out about the ONLY eye serum I recommend to patients – which provides younger looking eyes in minutes — in this video:

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Got Questions? We’ve Got Answers!

That wraps up another edition of ‘Ask Me Anything’.

As always, if you have any burning questions about health, beauty, longevity or anything you think Dr. Rosenberg could help with…

Please send us an email and we’ll let him know!

Dr. Rosenberg loves reading your questions and sharing his answers each month.

There are only so many patients he can see in his clinic.

Yet through this blog he can reach millions…

And help even more people on their path to feeling and looking their best at any age.