- Hi everyone!

It's your girl Jenn and today I am finally filming

the how I lost weight video.

If I'm gonna be completely honest,

I kinda put this video off because I know diet and nutrition

can be a very controversial topic online.

First off, I'm not a dietician, I'm not a nutritionist,

I just literally used these tips

that I'm about to share with you and I lost weight.

I can't guarantee that it's gonna work for you

because everyone's body is unique

and some bodies just react differently.

All I know is that these tips have helped me lose weight

and that's all I can claim.

So now that's out of the way,

let me just give you some stats about my bod.

Last year in 2016, I was the heaviest I ever was,

I was 120 pounds and for my frame, that really showed.

And now today in 2017, I am a 100 to a 105 pounds.

This took a full year to lose the weight

so please do not expect this to happen overnight.

It is a gradual process.

The only advice I can give you is to start today.

Start on your next meal and don't look back.

So I'm gonna rundown the 10 tips

that have contributed to my weight loss.

A lot of it is common sense

but sometimes you just need a little refresher.

My first tip is to find healthy foods

that you actually love eating.

It's not realistic to have a salad

for every single meal for the rest of your life.

It's just unattainable.

Go out there and go on a food tour,

find the healthy foods that you

just freakin' love eating and create a list.

So throughout the years, I've learned

that I love broccoli, green beans, mushrooms, tofu,

I can eat so much of that and never get sick of it.

Don't force yourself to eat that dry kale salad

if you don't like dry kale.

And I don't go out of my way

to eat healthy foods that I don't like.

For example, I don't like cucumbers, I don't like tomatoes,

and I don't force myself to eat it

just because it's healthy.

I just avoid them and eat other healthy foods

and it's really worked out well for me

so go out there, create a list, and stick to it.

The second tip is very important,

it is to have no distractions while you're eating.

I know it's like second nature at this point

to get your hot pile of food, turn on the TV or laptop

and just tune out and eat.

Your brain takes around 20 minutes to realize that it's full

and when you're not paying attention to your body,

you don't know when that time comes.

And I've noticed that whenever I watch something

and I'm eating, I tend to eat even more and even faster

and a lot of the times, I'm finished with my food

but the show's still going so I'll go back

and get seconds just so I can like, let the good times roll.

But if you wanna lose weight, it's easier to know

what your body is saying to you when everything is off.

I always try and stop eating right when I get

to the sweet spot and that is the spot where

I'm not hungry anymore but I'm not like, completely full.

It's that really nice in between

and I feel like the Japanese have a word for it

but I don't know, that's where I try and stop eating

and that's really helped me maintain my figure

and it's tricky, believe me.

It's really hard to get that spot

because it's so tempting to just eat

until your stomach's like, "Oh god, No!"

like, that's where I used to love being.

It's been easier to maintain my weight

because I'm not overindulging and overeating.

This next tip is something that I've using since college

and it's to have smaller plates and bowls.

So if you look in our shelves

you'll notice that we have two sizes,

we've got a normal big one for Ben,

and we've got a smaller one for me.

We've nicknamed it the baby plate

because it's just little.

And yeah, when I have a bigger plate

I tend to want to over-portion myself.

I wanna cram and fill the plate

so with the smaller plate, I can still cram

all the food in but it's actually

the perfect portion for me.

Tip number four is to get a water bottle.

I feel like drinking water is one

of the most common diet tips but it's so true.

When you are hydrated, you're not really that hungry

and for me, I love having my sippy cup

because this makes me drink

so much water throughout the day.

And it's the CamelBak specifically,

I love the like, the bite valve

and I love how you have to like suck the water in.

I go through maybe three or four bottles of this a day

and so I make sure that I'm very hydrated.

Whenever you have a craving, chances are

you're just dehydrated or you're bored

and so whenever when I have like, a hankering for some chips

or like any sort of snack or something,

I will chug half a bottle of this

and I'll wait 15 minutes and if I'm still hungry

then I'll go have a snack

but most of the time, after I drink it,

I'm completely fine and I can wait 'til my next meal.

I also should mention that I don't drink any juices,

I don't drink any soda or like milk.

I only stick to water, unsweetened tea, black coffee

and like, soda water, that's pretty much it.

My favorite is La Croix, it is so delicious,

it has zero calories and it just gives you

that carbonated kick if you are missing it.

My fifth tip is to never skip

any meals especially breakfast.

I feel like I have kind of programmed my body

to just wake up hungry so I always, always have breakfast.

There's a reason why it's called

the most important meal of the day.

It's because it kicks off your metabolism.

And I've noticed that when I skip my breakfast,

by the next meal, I am so hungry

I end up making really stupid food decisions

so I'll just end up overeating

or I'll order something like, really gnarly

like nachos or something.

It's easier to make mindful food choices

when your body is not starving.

Personally, I only eat three meals a day.

I know some people like to have

four to five smaller meals a day

but for me, it's just too much effort

to think of that many meals to eat

so I like to keep it simple, breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

For my breakfast, that's when I have most of my carbs,

I'll have beans on toast or like an egg wrap.

For lunch, I can treat myself

of a sandwich, a burger, whatever,

But for dinner, that's when I'm kind of the most strict.

When I was at like, my most motivated to lose weight,

for dinner I would never have any refined carbohydrates

so I wouldn't have any pasta,

I wouldn't have big fried rice dishes,

I would probably stick to veggies,

and a protein and that's it for dinner.

And then for breakfast, I'll have my carbs.

This next tip is something that I really struggled with

when I first moved back to LA in 2015.

I was eating out at restaurants all the time

and I was ordering Postmates all the time.

When you go to restaurants, even if you order

the healthy dish, you don't actually know

what the restaurants put into it.

Sure, there's a list of ingredients

but you don't know how much butter they put,

you don't know how much oil they put or msg,

the restaurant's objective is to make the food

taste as good as possible and keep you coming back

and it's a business so it makes sense

so that's why it's just easier to just cook your own meal.

You know exactly what you put in it

and I know it's like easy to say

like, "oh, I'm not a good cook, I can't cook"

but you just need to cook three recipes.

Learn how to make three healthy recipes

and then you can build from there.

It's impossible to just completely avoid restaurants

for the rest of your life, it's not gonna happen

so when I do eat out, I like to have a balance.

So I have this rule called The 2 Rule.

So I either pick an appetizer, an entree

or an entree and dessert.

I'll never get all three,

or if I do get all three, it's like a special occasion

but yeah, you don't need all three,

you don't need an appetizer, entree, and dessert

that's just a full package.

You just need two.

Tip number seven is to reduce your alcohol intake.

When I was at my heaviest, I was probably drinking

may two or three times a week and it definitely showed.

There's a lot of empty calories in alcohol

and the problem with me was I would always have drunchies.

When I would come home drunk,

I would just open up my cupboard,

make a snack, throw it in the microwave

and I would just eat all of it to soak up the alcohol

and then go to sleep.

But I mean I don't even know if that's scientifically proven

but basically, I would eat all that shit

and I would wake up the next morning, hungover

and I would always order a burrito.

Yeah, it was like a vicious cycle.

Obviously, I still drink.

I like to go out and have a good time

but I only drink once a week now.

If I'm gonna drink more than once a week,

then I'll only have one drink, that's it.

And every time I go out, I only have a vodka soda

with fresh lime, that is my favorite drink of choice.

But then I call it the Skinny Minnie

because it only has the calories of the vodka

and I think a shot of vodka is what,

like a hundred calories, and that's it!

This next tip is about snacking.

I don't keep any snacks that tempt me in my house

because I'm the type of person

where if I have Hot Cheeto Fries

or just any form of Hot Cheetos, I have to eat the bag.

It's kinda like, calling my name as I'm just in the house.

So I just like to cut the temptation

and not have any of it in my house.

If I really, really want them,

then I'll have to get off my ass and go by them.

But if they're not in the house,

then I'm not thinking about it.

So I know I've been blabbing a lot about food and diet

so I'm gonna talk about

the next obvious thing which is exercise.

I like to exercise around three to five times a week

and when I was training super hard,

I was going five times a week

and that in combination with all the tips that I said

made me really shredded.

For the first two months,

a lot of that weight came off because of those.

I know the ratio is something like 80% diet and 20% fitness

but when you put the exercise in,

that 20% goes a long way

and when you are just combining both those forces,

a lot of it just melts off.

So it's really important to find a form of exercise

that you hate the least.

So whether it is kickboxing, palates, swimming,

running, whatever, for me, it is to train alone.

I love going to the gym by myself, it's become