DoctorOz: Lose Weight & Control Unhealthy Eating with the System 21 Plan

Last year we brought you System 20, the most successful health plan we have ever rolled out. And now System 21 has taken System 20 to a whole new level, helping you lose weight, get a better handle on your physical and emotional health, and after the hardest year we've ever collectively experienced, thank goodness. Now Lisa lost 57 pounds since she started on this plan just one year ago. Pretty cool. Xandra, she lost 20 pounds in just two months on System 21, and she's getting a better night's sleep because it's part of the plan. Amanda exceeded her exercise goal, and I can't wait to show you what Carolyn looks like because she lost a ton of weight and, this is really important, she came off all of her medications. System 21 ladies, you're all doing a fabulous job. I want you to give yourself a round of applause. I'm very proud of you. I really am. It takes a lot of effort. You're show up in your lives every day. God bless you. And you're role models for a lot of America. Now here's the best part for everybody. Some of these folks are joining us today to reveal the secret easy ways that they shed the pounds and got unhealthy eating back under control. We're going to start with our show's Senior Investigative Correspondent, Marce Cabocampo. She's been on System 21 for about two months. She's also a team leader. I love that you did this plan. Oh, this was such a great plan, Dr. Oz. Thank you for creating it. Well, as you know, it's a hotel secret I'll share with you. It's actually a plan my producers use. After 12 years of making shows about losing weight, being your best person, sleeping better, dealing with anxiety, they brought those best tips for themselves and we just happened to share it. Anyway, what have you gotten out of this? What do you think is the is the best part of the plan? You know, I will tell you the best part of this has really been getting centered and managing stress during this pandemic, which has been really one of the most stressful times of my life. And the program has helped me in really specific ways beyond weight loss. It has helped me get back on a sleep schedule. It's helped me prioritize my mental health. It's helped me connect with other people. Now, of course, the weight loss is a bonus. The average System 21-er has lost 15 pounds in eight weeks. And that's just part of the mind, body, spirit benefit that this program gives you. So the ultimate question, do your friends want to copy you? Everybody wants to do it because it's getting me centered. That's what we all need right now is some peace. I appreciate your leadership. And I know it took a lot because you have a bunch of things going on with the kids at all. God bless. All right, so I'm going to introduce you to Carolyn, one of those women. She started on System 20 a year ago and now is on System 21. This is she looked like last year. This is a real photo she showed us. Carolyn, please come on out. Show us what you look like today. Whoa. I mean, where did you go? I don't know. It's fantastic. She's gone. She's gone. You lost 70 pounds. Yes, yes. You dealt with a lot of health issues at the same time. Yes, absolutely. And I tell you, the ability to get off high blood pressure medications, get off meds for inflammatory disease, which so many of you complain about, is the best part of this plan for folks. And Carolyn, you're in there as well. Yes. Now you started the plan on System 20 and I remember celebrating with you. Yes. What have you done in System 21 that took it to the next notch? Okay, so System 20 definitely helped me start, kick off, get my body together. But System 21 actually allowed me to really tap into my mindset and really allowed me to get things right mentally. So to tap into that mind, body, and spirit, what Mario was talking about. So it really allowed me to stay grounded. It allowed me to come up with new creative ways to meditate, to just get fun with this whole process, and to really just stay, you know, like I said, grounded and dedicated to everything that I was doing because I knew my why. I knew the why to exactly why I needed to lose the weight and that was really what was so important to me. So I even challenged everyone in the group to a plank challenge. You did? I did. I will admit that when I was here last year out with you guys, with Billy Blank, that I couldn't even do a plank. That was my first time doing a plank. It was adrenaline, I think, that got to me. Well, you got it. You got it done. There you are. Now I'm challenging myself and I'm pushing myself every day by doing a challenge of just doing planks every day and just stretching it each day to get better and better. Look at you going there. You're probably intimidating your other teammates in System 21. That's fantastic. Yeah, definitely. What was the why, by the way? The why was I was about to turn 50 when I got on System 20 and my mother didn't live to be past 51 and she had autoimmune issues as did I. So that was part of it and then just being full of stress, being, you know, under just a lot of like overcoming trauma and abuse, things of that nature that really made me stick to my why because that's where all the stress came from was the burdens. I like to call it, I didn't just lose the weight, I lost the actual weight. So now I'm weightless. It was the burdens that was releasing. That's why I said she's gone. She's gone. Well, I love the new one. I love who took her place, Carolyn. So I want to bring Carolyn and other people on the program who have found success on System 21 because they become the world experts in what really works and they're going to reveal their secrets with you. So Carolyn, System 21 success secret is batch cooking soup. Now you got to do the the why work. Okay. You got to figure out the purpose and you got to do the plank challenges but these tactics make life simpler day in and day out. Oh my goodness. So explain the batch cooking. Okay, so what basically what I did was, you know, especially during the pandemic because you know last time I was the one that did everything on fast food. Yep, yep. So I couldn't go to fast food anymore. So now it's like, oh crap, now I got to cook. But cooking is not so bad if you do it in batches. No, and that's what I did. I started making soup. So because soup was easy, I was able to, as you can see, beans and I was able to put my greens in here, all the same ingredients that I used in System 20. I was able to now create this and make it work. Look at those greens. I know, it's like I'm ready. So you do it for the whole week. I did it for the whole week and then I would just batch it up like this and I was good to go for myself, for my daughter. And this is really what I did during the whole pandemic. So really when everyone was gaining weight, as you see, I kept losing. I see it. I'm glad you're showing it off. So there's lots of good reasons to eat soup. I'm going to show you why this makes a difference. You get your beans in there with your protein, your vegetables, all that good stuff. Yes. It's also a unique way to keep you fuller for longer. Here's why, and I've been thinking about this demo for a while. This is fantastic. This looks kind of cool. Well, you're going to enjoy it when you see what it actually proves to you. So typically you eat a meal, right? And you have, let's say, a solid bite of something, right? And you put that solid bite in your mouth. This is your mouth, right? And that food sort of works its way down a little bit, right? You put another bite in there because after all, you're having a meal and that works its way down. And yeah, you can put, you know, a bunch of different things in there, right? But after a while, you begin to realize that you're thirsty. So what do you do? You take a drink of water or whatever you're going to be Now, here's the issue. When you eat your food in that fashion, it actually becomes a bit of an issue because it doesn't fill you up as much. Because these solid chunks of food have to be washed down. They don't stick in your intestinal system. Is that why I'm still hungry? Sometimes, yeah. But when you have soup, the thing about soup that's really cool, it combines a solid and a liquid in one bite. So when you drink the soup, it goes into your intestinal system and watch what happens, right? It makes its way down, but in a very consistent, regular pace. It is basically mother nature's appetite suppressant. Yes, because I definitely was fuller when I ate soup. It's been studied in clinical trials. When people drink soups versus solid food with just water, this keeps you full longer. So the soup, in addition to being easy to batch and all the other things you mentioned, it's a great way to suppress your appetite. I'm so proud of you, Carolyn. Thank you so much. God bless you. Proud of you, too. All right. Let me meet Shakila now. Shakila is new to System 21, but lost six pounds after just one week of giving up added sugars. I've got a little demo table here, Shakila. So show me your 21 secrets, which I think is replacing your sugary drinks with a rainbow coconut water spritzer. Take it away. Yes. Hi, Dr. Oz, and yes, I did. So I start with a half a glass of coconut water. I'm copying you here. It's going to look like this beautiful thing is right over here, if I'm correct. There you are. Yeah. And, you know, it just gives you all the electrolytes, the natural energy boots without the caffeine. OK. And then I fill the rest of my glass with some water or any type of water that you like. So it gives me my bubbles, of course. And then after that, just to give it some flavor, Dr. Oz, I add I love coconut. So I have some coconut here and then I have raspberry as well as blueberry. And of course, that rainbow. Look at that. That is beautiful. So, again, you're replacing the six quarts of whatever stuff you were drinking that had sugar water basically in there with something that tastes just as full, just as rich. It has the carbonation. So it tickles your tongue the same way to get the exact same mouthfeel. Actually, I think it tastes better without all that junk and synthetic material that was messing with your body. Did I get it right? Exactly. Yes, exactly, Dr. Oz. And I love it. It's my drink all day. And just getting away from the sodas is the best thing. But replacing it with this is awesome. I told you I'm proud of you. Thank you, Dr. Oz. We all find our own hacks. Listen, everyone, if you want to start system 21, it is free. You can find all the resources to start on the brand new Dr. Oz dot com website. Please check it out. Just go slash system 21. After you got Dr. Oz dot com, you'll be in this system 21 program. The checklists are there to go shopping more readily. Recipes, one sheet, all things you ever want. And you know what? We're not done yet. When we come back, it's snack time. These are the system 21 approved snacks that were the key to our test group survival. And the best part is you can eat them right out of the package. No cooking required. One of the best parts of system 21 is that we still allow you to indulge. We give you dessert and wine. You even get a cheat day once a week. And this year we even gave you back carbs. You are celebrating loudly. But I know eating healthy can require a lot of prep work. And sometimes, well, we just don't have the time or the energy. That's why our next system 21 success secret is to be prepared with these healthy prepackaged snacks for those munchies straight because they will. Mara, what is it? It is dehydrated fruits and vegetables. And I love this trend. You can now find them widely at supermarkets. And they're so simple. You have things like crunchy carrots with sea salt, apples. This is just apples and broccoli with olive oil and salt. And the best thing is, is they're crunchy. So they give you that satisfying potato chip vibe without eating potato chips. And you have a way of taking it up a notch, so to speak, the shake and wake. Yes. Yes. You shake in some spices to wake up the flavor. So, for example, this is pumpkin pie spice. I'm going to put it on these apples. You shake it up in the bag. And then what it gives you is kind of an apple pie sensation, which is really delicious. The other one that I love, ranch dressing. You can put it on any of the dehydrated vegetables. I like it on the broccoli. Oh, it's dry dressing, dry powdered ranch dressing. And what it does is it gives you like a cool ranch chip type of flavor. It's a great hack. Oh, my goodness. Does it really taste like ranch? It really does. You can put it on popcorn even if you like, but the veggies are better. Popcorn is the idea. I didn't know this existed. Dehydrated ranch dressing for popcorn. Oh, it's the best. It's magic. It's your snack right after dinner. Perfect. All right. Thank you very much. All right. Next, for all those candy bar lovers out there, Belinda and her Eric, who I adore, have created a System 21 approved dessert using only prepackaged ingredients. Eric, this is your invention. How'd you get the idea for this dessert? Dr. Oz, listen, my wife, I mean, I listened to her, so I knew what she really likes. She likes chocolate. She likes walnuts. So I came up with this thing called a snicker chocolate drop, and she calls me chocolate drop to affection. And what it is, it's a pitted date, and you take and you add a little. You cut the date, or you use the whole date? Yes, the entire date. You take the entire pitted date, and you take some all natural peanut butter, then you take some walnuts, drop it in, and then you take this little doohickey here, which is this, and you dip it down into the chocolate. And these are semi-sweetened morsels, and then you actually melt it down with coconut oil in the microwave for just a moment. And then you see this drooling with this chocolate. And then you take and sprinkle just a little pink Himalayan sea salt on it. You put it on some wax paper, and you let it sit in the refrigerator, and when you're done, you have this amazing little joker here. Look at these babies. I tell you, it's so simple. The salt is a brilliant addition, by the way, because it potentiates the sweet. She likes it. Look at it. I get points for this, Doc. I get points, and it's all System 21 approved. Absolutely. I'm so proud of you. If you can keep Belinda happy, bring a smile to her face. No wonder she's calling you. What'd she call you again? Chocolate nubbin? Chocolate drop. Chocolate drop. Eric and Belinda, thank you very much. Everybody, make sure you go to DrOz.com for more details for System 21. All these snack ideas are right there. We'll be right back.