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Speaker 1: Africa is on X. At Africa Milani.
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Speaker 2: 16 Minutes Night is 2, 5 o'clock. Vincent Deache is the founder of Vincent Deache Personal Training here to talk about weight loss. Vincent, a very good morning and welcome to the show.
00:00:16
Speaker 1: Good morning, Africa. Thank you for having me.
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Speaker 2: At times, I think we can literally be obsessed with numbers when it comes to weight loss. People climb on a scale on a daily basis. They have measuring meters around the waist. And by the way, the waist is not on top of your hips. It's actually a little bit higher than that, but that's a different conversation. Some people measure the percentage of fat that is contained on the body's. This is not a healthy way of going about a fitness and healthy routine, I would imagine.
00:00:48
Speaker 1: Right, Vincent? Well, it all depends on what the reasons are for those measurements. We've got numbers that we set for ourselves, and I think these numbers just set tangible goals, objective goals for us to reach. But we need to understand why we're wanting to reach them and what that means once we've reached them before. So the thought process in going into the situation is a little vague in the beginning.
00:01:17
Speaker 2: So what should we then set as goals if the goal is to lose weight? What advice would you give us in terms of what we need to consider?
00:01:31
Speaker 1: Well, we need to consider what that means for us. If we want to lose weight, what does that mean? A lot of the time we get onto the scale and we want to reach a certain number, but that scale measures your full body weight, right? It doesn't only measure your body fat percentage. and so we get onto the scale and we want to see a a decrease in a number or sometimes an increase in that number but we want to see a decrease in a number which is a weight loss but it needs to be body fat loss program right a fat body fat percentage loss.
00:02:06
Speaker 2: Because that number could very well increase even though you are perhaps getting leaner and leaner because my understanding is that the weight of muscle is heavier than the weight of fat Yes, definitely.
00:02:20
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're going into a program and you're practicing a resistance training program, yes, very often you're increasing full body weight, but your body fat percentage decreases. So we must just make sure that the measurement tool that we're using is measuring the right factors, right? Like I mentioned before, if we get onto the scale, that scale is measuring your total body weight. That means the weight of your skeletal structure, your muscles, your organs even. So we need to make sure that we're measuring the right type of You have the right to fall. What we're measuring is body fat loss and if we're losing body fat.
00:03:10
Speaker 2: And that's an important measurement, Vincent, whether you are building your body or not, because a lot of the times a percentage of body fat is associated with people obviously wanting to be lean, to cut, to shape, to sculpt, those kind of things, right? Whereas ordinary folk should also worry about body fat because... the amount of fat we carry will result in a whole lot of lifestyle-related diseases and distresses.
00:03:40
Speaker 1: Absolutely. And it places an unnecessary stress onto your body. And it's got direct correlations to cholesterol and high blood pressure. So we need to take into consideration what I usually do with my clients is I like to measure the correlation between muscle mass and body fat. And we need to make sure that the muscle mass percentage is higher than the body fat percentage.
00:04:07
Speaker 2: When it comes to weight loss, some people would argue what you do on the kitchen counter and therefore what you put onto your plate and down your throat is possibly more important than what you do at the gym. How do you respond to that, Vincent?
00:04:20
Speaker 1: Well, I usually have a saying that I say, remember what you eat in private shows in public, right? So definitely, you know, your body, you cannot exercise away out of an unhealthy diet. That's just 100% the truth. So even though they play for, you know, I used to tell my father that it takes, it's 50% diet, 50% exercise. And what it actually is, it's 100% exercise and 100% diet within reason, right? You don't want it to take over your life, but definitely what happens in the kitchen aids the lifestyle in the gym or an exercise program, definitely.
00:04:58
Speaker 2: And what is key though, whatever diet you then choose to follow, it has to be sustainable and it has to be healthy.
00:05:06
Speaker 1: Yes, it does. I mean, it all depends on what kind of lifestyle you need and what your end goal is. You know, very often we choose our favorite parts of diets, of different diets, because we've tried so many over the years, and so we choose our favorite ones. Every diet can work for you. It all depends on whether it fits into your lifestyle, and it doesn't necessarily have to be sustainable for the rest of your life, but it has to be, it has to work If you're somebody that works in restaurants all the time and that's around food all the time, creating food, for example, is better for you, even though it doesn't make sense to take the food with you to work, in that case. It's just going to curb you from just eating all the time. I mean, I'm just using that as a very quick example of just how your diet, how it needs to supplement a lifestyle. Yeah.
00:05:59
Speaker 2: And then I suppose final question, Vincent, we can be very susceptible to how bodies and the image around bodies is being portrayed, particularly on social media nowadays, right? Even traditional forms of media, magazines and television programs. We should not fall for that. We should have a greater appreciation and understanding of of what our bodies can do and then work towards a healthy goal within the constraints of our bodies, right? There are certain people who will never wear size 28 ever again in their lives, so therefore do not try.
00:06:40
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly. I mean, it's good to have a certain goal, but we need to make the goal about ourselves, not about somebody else. And we need to be realistic about what our bodies look like and what our bodies can do, and then work within the benefits of what we've been given. Instead of comparing ourselves to somebody else, because that person's lifestyle might be very different to yours, their body structure and their physical structure is very different to yours. So start with your own self and see what you're capable of, and then build from there.
00:07:14
Speaker 2: Vincent, always a pleasure chatting to you. Thank you very much for your time and your insights this morning. Vincent De Ache, founder of the Vincent De Ache Personal Training Organization.
Speaker 1: Africa is on X. At Africa Milani.
00:00:04
Speaker 2: 16 Minutes Night is 2, 5 o'clock. Vincent Deache is the founder of Vincent Deache Personal Training here to talk about weight loss. Vincent, a very good morning and welcome to the show.
00:00:16
Speaker 1: Good morning, Africa. Thank you for having me.
00:00:18
Speaker 2: At times, I think we can literally be obsessed with numbers when it comes to weight loss. People climb on a scale on a daily basis. They have measuring meters around the waist. And by the way, the waist is not on top of your hips. It's actually a little bit higher than that, but that's a different conversation. Some people measure the percentage of fat that is contained on the body's. This is not a healthy way of going about a fitness and healthy routine, I would imagine.
00:00:48
Speaker 1: Right, Vincent? Well, it all depends on what the reasons are for those measurements. We've got numbers that we set for ourselves, and I think these numbers just set tangible goals, objective goals for us to reach. But we need to understand why we're wanting to reach them and what that means once we've reached them before. So the thought process in going into the situation is a little vague in the beginning.
00:01:17
Speaker 2: So what should we then set as goals if the goal is to lose weight? What advice would you give us in terms of what we need to consider?
00:01:31
Speaker 1: Well, we need to consider what that means for us. If we want to lose weight, what does that mean? A lot of the time we get onto the scale and we want to reach a certain number, but that scale measures your full body weight, right? It doesn't only measure your body fat percentage. and so we get onto the scale and we want to see a a decrease in a number or sometimes an increase in that number but we want to see a decrease in a number which is a weight loss but it needs to be body fat loss program right a fat body fat percentage loss.
00:02:06
Speaker 2: Because that number could very well increase even though you are perhaps getting leaner and leaner because my understanding is that the weight of muscle is heavier than the weight of fat Yes, definitely.
00:02:20
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're going into a program and you're practicing a resistance training program, yes, very often you're increasing full body weight, but your body fat percentage decreases. So we must just make sure that the measurement tool that we're using is measuring the right factors, right? Like I mentioned before, if we get onto the scale, that scale is measuring your total body weight. That means the weight of your skeletal structure, your muscles, your organs even. So we need to make sure that we're measuring the right type of You have the right to fall. What we're measuring is body fat loss and if we're losing body fat.
00:03:10
Speaker 2: And that's an important measurement, Vincent, whether you are building your body or not, because a lot of the times a percentage of body fat is associated with people obviously wanting to be lean, to cut, to shape, to sculpt, those kind of things, right? Whereas ordinary folk should also worry about body fat because... the amount of fat we carry will result in a whole lot of lifestyle-related diseases and distresses.
00:03:40
Speaker 1: Absolutely. And it places an unnecessary stress onto your body. And it's got direct correlations to cholesterol and high blood pressure. So we need to take into consideration what I usually do with my clients is I like to measure the correlation between muscle mass and body fat. And we need to make sure that the muscle mass percentage is higher than the body fat percentage.
00:04:07
Speaker 2: When it comes to weight loss, some people would argue what you do on the kitchen counter and therefore what you put onto your plate and down your throat is possibly more important than what you do at the gym. How do you respond to that, Vincent?
00:04:20
Speaker 1: Well, I usually have a saying that I say, remember what you eat in private shows in public, right? So definitely, you know, your body, you cannot exercise away out of an unhealthy diet. That's just 100% the truth. So even though they play for, you know, I used to tell my father that it takes, it's 50% diet, 50% exercise. And what it actually is, it's 100% exercise and 100% diet within reason, right? You don't want it to take over your life, but definitely what happens in the kitchen aids the lifestyle in the gym or an exercise program, definitely.
00:04:58
Speaker 2: And what is key though, whatever diet you then choose to follow, it has to be sustainable and it has to be healthy.
00:05:06
Speaker 1: Yes, it does. I mean, it all depends on what kind of lifestyle you need and what your end goal is. You know, very often we choose our favorite parts of diets, of different diets, because we've tried so many over the years, and so we choose our favorite ones. Every diet can work for you. It all depends on whether it fits into your lifestyle, and it doesn't necessarily have to be sustainable for the rest of your life, but it has to be, it has to work If you're somebody that works in restaurants all the time and that's around food all the time, creating food, for example, is better for you, even though it doesn't make sense to take the food with you to work, in that case. It's just going to curb you from just eating all the time. I mean, I'm just using that as a very quick example of just how your diet, how it needs to supplement a lifestyle. Yeah.
00:05:59
Speaker 2: And then I suppose final question, Vincent, we can be very susceptible to how bodies and the image around bodies is being portrayed, particularly on social media nowadays, right? Even traditional forms of media, magazines and television programs. We should not fall for that. We should have a greater appreciation and understanding of of what our bodies can do and then work towards a healthy goal within the constraints of our bodies, right? There are certain people who will never wear size 28 ever again in their lives, so therefore do not try.
00:06:40
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly. I mean, it's good to have a certain goal, but we need to make the goal about ourselves, not about somebody else. And we need to be realistic about what our bodies look like and what our bodies can do, and then work within the benefits of what we've been given. Instead of comparing ourselves to somebody else, because that person's lifestyle might be very different to yours, their body structure and their physical structure is very different to yours. So start with your own self and see what you're capable of, and then build from there.
00:07:14
Speaker 2: Vincent, always a pleasure chatting to you. Thank you very much for your time and your insights this morning. Vincent De Ache, founder of the Vincent De Ache Personal Training Organization.
