5 Egg Rules That Burn 4X More Belly Fat (Most People Break All of Them) — Transcript
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- 0:00Eggs are already one of the simplest, most powerful fat
- 0:03-burning foods that you can eat, but there is a
- 0:05good chance you are leaving most of the fat loss
- 0:08on the table without even realizing it.
- 0:10Believe it or not, two people can eat the exact
- 0:12same eggs every morning, and one burns nearly four times
- 0:17more belly fat than the other, just from getting a
- 0:19few small things right.
- 0:21So in this video, I'm going to show you the
- 0:23five most powerful rules to get even more fat loss
- 0:27out of your eggs, how each one works, and the
- 0:30pro tips that you won't hear anywhere else.
- 0:32So to start, I want to show you why the
- 0:34number of eggs you eat in the morning decides whether
- 0:37your body burns fat or barely does anything at all.
- 0:40Most people crack two eggs and think they're doing something
- 0:42good for themselves, and they are, but two eggs actually
- 0:45sits right below the line where the real fat burning
- 0:48kicks in.
- 0:49Here's what I mean.
- 0:50Inside the yolk of each egg is a nutrient called
- 0:53choline, and you can think of choline as the shipping
- 0:56containers that your liver uses to pack up fat and
- 1:00ship it out to your body.
- 1:02Without enough choline, your liver can't build those containers, so
- 1:06the fat just sits there packed in with no way
- 1:09out, and that backed up fat in your liver is
- 1:12one of the biggest reasons belly fat won't budge after
- 1:14the age of 50.
- 1:15The problem is two eggs doesn't give your liver enough
- 1:18choline to do the job.
- 1:20Three to four eggs does.
- 1:22That small jump is what finally gives your liver enough
- 1:25to start clearing the fat instead of letting it pile
- 1:28up, and it's not just for your liver.
- 1:30Those extra eggs also hit the amount of protein that
- 1:33your muscles need to repair and grow, and more muscle
- 1:35means a faster metabolism, which means you're burning more fat
- 1:39around the clock even while you sleep.
- 1:41So the fix here is simple.
- 1:42Make it three to four eggs, not two, and I
- 1:46mean whole eggs, yolk and all, because everything we just
- 1:49talked about, the choline, the fat burning, the muscle, it's
- 1:52all in the yolk.
- 1:53The second you toss the yolk and eat just the
- 1:56whites, you've thrown away the entire reason eggs burn fat
- 1:59in the first place.
- 2:00Now coming up, I've got four more egg rules even
- 2:02more powerful than this, including one that can help you
- 2:05lose almost four times as much belly fat while eating
- 2:08500 more calories a day.
- 2:11It sounds crazy, I know it, but it's true, so
- 2:14stay tuned for that.
- 2:15Now before we get there, I want to show you
- 2:17how the way that you cook eggs decides how much
- 2:19that fat burning power actually survives, because those nutrients that
- 2:23are packed inside of that yolk are fragile.
- 2:26Cook them too hot for too long and you destroy
- 2:29a big chunk of them before they ever reach your
- 2:32body.
- 2:32Most people scramble their eggs hard.
- 2:35They fry them until the edges go brown or blast
- 2:38them in the microwave, and every one of those does
- 2:40the same thing.
- 2:42High heat oxidizes the yolk.
- 2:44That's a fancy way of saying it damages the fat
- 2:47and the cholesterol inside, which turns something healthy into something
- 2:50your body sees as more harmful.
- 2:52So the goal is to keep that yolk soft and
- 2:55runny.
- 2:55The white can be fully cooked.
- 2:58In fact, it should be because that's how your body
- 3:00absorbs the protein that's inside of it, but the yolk
- 3:03needs to be protected and needs to stay somewhat loose.
- 3:07That means poached, soft-boiled, over easy, maybe a little
- 3:11bit towards over medium, but that's as far as we
- 3:13probably should go.
- 3:14For a soft-boiled egg, drop it into gently boiling
- 3:17water for about six to seven minutes, and the yolk
- 3:20stays slightly loose, slightly runny, with all that fat burning
- 3:24payload intact.
- 3:25The runnier the yolk, the more of those fat burning
- 3:28nutrients make it into your body.
- 3:30Now even if you cook your eggs perfectly, there's one
- 3:32thing in the pan that can undo all of it,
- 3:34and that's the oil.
- 3:35Most people reach for vegetable oil, canola oil, or one
- 3:38of those yellow bottles that says heart healthy, and that
- 3:41oil doesn't just sit on the surface of your eggs,
- 3:43it soaks in, and it gets into your body with
- 3:46every bite.
- 3:47Now here's the problem.
- 3:48Those oils are loaded with fragile fats that break down
- 3:51the second they hit a hot pan.
- 3:53When they break down, they create the kind of inflammation
- 3:56that keeps your fat cells locked shut.
- 3:59So you can do everything else right, eat the perfect
- 4:01eggs, cook the perfect way, and then drown them in
- 4:05an oil that slams the door on fat burning.
- 4:08Picture pouring premium fuel into your gas tank and then
- 4:11dumping a handful of sand in right behind it.
- 4:14That's what cooking your eggs in vegetable oil does.
- 4:16So here's the easy fix.
- 4:17Cook your eggs in butter, that's what I do, or
- 4:19use ghee or even avocado oil instead.
- 4:22These oils stay stable even when they're heated.
- 4:25Now don't overheat them, but a low to medium heat
- 4:28is what we want anyway to protect the yolk, and
- 4:30then that way those oils don't break down and turn
- 4:33inflammatory the way that the other fake oils do.
- 4:36And butter and ghee come with an added bonus.
- 4:39They're rich in a special fat called butyrate.
- 4:41Butyrate flips on your body's fat burning systems and helps
- 4:45calm down the inflammation keeping fat cells locked.
- 4:49So instead of fighting your eggs, the fat in the
- 4:51pan is working right alongside with them.
- 4:53Okay next up, this is the one I promised you
- 4:55back at the start.
- 4:56The single biggest mistake that decides whether you lose fat
- 4:59or you hold on to it.
- 5:00Get this one wrong and it can cancel out almost
- 5:03everything else that you're doing right.
- 5:04Let me show you what I mean with a study
- 5:06that still surprises me.
- 5:08Researchers took two groups, put them on different breakfasts.
- 5:11The first group ate the so-called healthy way, low
- 5:15fat, cutting back on the fat, and leaning on carbohydrates
- 5:18instead.
- 5:18The second group went the other direction, keeping the fat,
- 5:22dropping the carbs.
- 5:23But that's not all.
- 5:24The low fat group was also cutting 500 calories a
- 5:29day, while the other group was eating those 500 calories.
- 5:32So if calories were really what drove your belly fat,
- 5:35the low fat group should have easily won.
- 5:39But it was the second group eating more food, 500
- 5:43more calories, that lost nearly four times more belly fat.
- 5:48How is that possible?
- 5:49It came down to one thing on the plate, carbohydrates.
- 5:51When you eat carbs, your blood sugar shoots up and
- 5:54your body releases a flood of insulin to deal with
- 5:57it.
- 5:57Insulin is the hormone that slams the brakes on fat
- 6:00burning.
- 6:00As long as insulin is high, your body physically cannot
- 6:03burn stored fat.
- 6:04Now here's where eggs come in.
- 6:05Eggs are a zero carb food.
- 6:07They're built to keep your insulin low and your fat
- 6:10burning switched on.
- 6:12But the moment you pair them with toast or hash
- 6:15browns or a glass of juice or a bowl of
- 6:18oatmeal, you flood your body with carbs.
- 6:20Your insulin shoots up and all that fat from the
- 6:24yolk, the fat that was supposed to fuel your fat
- 6:27burning hormones, gets shoved straight into storage.
- 6:30So you sit there eating eggs every morning, thinking that
- 6:32you're doing everything right, while the toast next to them
- 6:35is undoing the whole thing.
- 6:37That's why those two groups got such different results.
- 6:40The second group kept their insulin low.
- 6:42So the fat they ate actually got burned instead of
- 6:46stored.
- 6:46So keep your eggs in low carb company.
- 6:50If you need to add something, add some spinach, add
- 6:52some peppers, mushrooms, tomatoes, maybe a little smoked salmon or
- 6:57cheese or some breakfast meats and keep the toast, the
- 7:01potatoes and the juice off the plate if you can.
- 7:04Now that said, if you want to add some carbs
- 7:06with your meal, there is a simple trick that you
- 7:08can use to keep insulin down.
- 7:10Eat your eggs and your vegetables first and then save
- 7:14those carbs for the very end.
- 7:15Just by eating them last instead of first, you cut
- 7:19the blood sugar spike from that meal by up to
- 7:2244%.
- 7:24You're eating the exact same food, but simply change the
- 7:26order that you eat it in.
- 7:28And that can have a massive impact on your ability
- 7:30to burn fat.
- 7:30Now there's one last thing that decides how much fat
- 7:33burning power your eggs have.
- 7:35And it's settled before you ever crack one open.
- 7:38I'm talking about the kind of eggs that you're buying.
- 7:40Here's what most people don't realize.
- 7:42An egg is only as good as the hen that
- 7:44laid it.
- 7:45You are not what you eat, you are what you
- 7:48eat ate.
- 7:49Think about that one.
- 7:49None of the fat burning nutrients that we've talked about
- 7:52are made by the hen herself.
- 7:54They come from what she eats and how she lives.
- 7:58A hen out on a pasture eating grass, clover, bugs,
- 8:03in the sunlight, lays a completely different egg than one
- 8:07stuck in a cage eating nothing but corn and soy.
- 8:10Same shell, sitting right next to each other at the
- 8:13store, but inside they're not even close.
- 8:16A true pasture-raised egg can have up to four
- 8:19times the vitamin D, two to three times the omega
- 8:22-3s, and far more of the antioxidants that your body
- 8:25needs to fight the inflammation that locks fat in place.
- 8:30And it actually shows up on the scale.
- 8:32In one study people who ate omega-3 rich eggs
- 8:35trimmed inches off their waist over three months without changing
- 8:39anything else they were doing.
- 8:41So when you're at the store, here's what you need
- 8:43to look for.
- 8:43The words you want on the carton are pasture-raised,
- 8:47not just cage-free, not just free-range.
- 8:51Those sound nice and they're better than conventional eggs, but
- 8:54all they mean is that the hen wasn't in a
- 8:56cage.
- 8:57They don't promise that she ever set foot outside.
- 9:01So the optimal is pasture-raised.
- 9:03Pasture-raised is the one that tells you the hen
- 9:05actually lived outside on the grass.
- 9:08And here's a simple way to know that you got
- 9:10the real thing.
- 9:10You crack the egg open and look at the yolk.
- 9:13It's a deep rich orange instead of a pale yellow
- 9:17that you would oftentimes see at a diner.
- 9:20That's the sign it's loaded with the nutrients that make
- 9:23eggs burn fat.
- 9:24The pale ones are the eggs that look the part
- 9:27but leave most of the fat-burning power out.
- 9:29So spend the extra dollar or two on real pasture
- 9:33-raised eggs.
- 9:34It's the difference between eggs that just look healthy and
- 9:37eggs that actually do the work.
- 9:39Okay, now you know how to get the most fat
- 9:41-burning power out of your eggs.
- 9:43But eggs are just one piece of your morning.
- 9:45There are other breakfast foods that train your body to
- 9:48burn belly fat as well.
- 9:50And a few of them work even better when you
- 9:52pair them with eggs that you're already eating.
- 9:55So I broke down the 10 best ones in another
- 9:57video which has now been seen by more than a
- 9:59million people.
- 10:00And I show you the foods that keep you full
- 10:02for hours.
- 10:03The ones that control your hunger hormones.
- 10:06And a couple you've probably been told for years to
- 10:08stay away from.
- 10:09Put them together with what you've learned today and you've
- 10:11got a breakfast that burns fat for you all morning
- 10:14long.
- 10:15I will include a link to that video here.
- 10:17Click to watch it next and I'll see you there.
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