DoctorOz: Your Body Type & Weight Loss Secrets Revealed

Defining our body type by using a piece of fruit is an outdated, shorthand, it doesn't really tell us much, except it reminds us where our flaws are. So my med unit poured through the latest research because we know more than ever about why your fat deposits where it does. So here's the question for all of you. Which new body type are you? Take a look. Stand in front of the mirror. Where's the largest concentration of your body fat? You carry weight around your midsection, between your chest and hip bone. If so, you may be the stress type. Turn. Do you see pinchable fat on the side, aka love handles? Then you might be the sugar type. Fat around your hips, butt, and thighs? Maybe you're the estrogen type. Raise your arms. Excess skin under there? You could be the tea type. The science is in. Knowing which of these four new body types fits you can help you maximize your weight loss results. So look at these types again. It's important to know which one you are. You can be a combination of more than one. I'm gonna post the quiz on DrOz.com as well so you can find yourself. Now that you know your new body type, what you eat to maximize your weight results can be determined. Let's start with the stress type. These are the people who hold the fat around their belly. How are you, Christina? Good to meet you. Thanks for being here. Thanks for talking about this. Sure. So some people would have called you an apple in the past. Some would have called you some other kind of fruit. Who cares? We're not talking about a whole different way of defining you. It's the stress type. So explain if you can to me how stress affects the way you eat and the way you feel about your body. So whenever I feel a little stressed out, I'm always snacking. So I snack at all different times of the day, sometimes at night, sometimes right before I go to bed. I'm always snacking, munching on something, and then, you know, the pounds come on and they land right here. It does. In the middle. Can I just explain one thing? When I show this to Lavatar, this is not pinchable fat. This is fat that's actually deep under the muscle. It's fat around the organs. You all clear on that? It's really important to determine. And the reason you get this kind of weight is because of the stress. And yes, the stress makes you eat things you shouldn't, but the stress also, very specifically, makes you put cortisol out. The cortisol says, whoa, wait a minute. You're gonna be in a bad situation. Things aren't good. Maybe it's like a famine. So store all the calories and put them around my intestines, around my liver, so I've got myself protected. So although your body's trying to help, it's doing the wrong thing for you. It creates this stress-type collection of fat, which tends to be sort of dangerous, because it leads to so many of the issues that we fear, things like heart disease and the like. We don't want that. So your solution is pretty simple. You're gonna try, if you can, to eat carbohydrates, but the right kind, because they're gonna soothe you, and you're gonna want that warmth. You know why? Think about this. The carbs, of course, we all know that. It makes more of that feel-good hormone serotonin, but the warmth also soothes you. It helps de-stress you. So what I'm asking you to do is, do the regular things that are good for your body, but add to it something to address what your main problem is, which is the stress. So I'll come over here. I got a little idea for you. This could be your breakfast going forward. I sort of took one of our day-off diet morning smoothies, and I modified it. So it's a little bit of some yogurt. This is almond butter, some flaxseeds that have been squashed or they've been ground up. The banana. Then you're gonna add some oatmeal. Oatmeal's a complex carbohydrate. It's not gonna rush into your bloodstream, not gonna panic your body, but it's soothing. Then you're gonna microwave it for a minute, and when you do that, you've got this. A morning smoothie that's an antidote to the stress-type weight gain that so many folks complain about. Give it a taste, see if you enjoy it. But this is the kind of thing you wanna do to relax yourself. Stop penalizing yourself and realize, I deal with the stress with a little bit of nudge with the right foods, and all of a sudden, I can make myself look the way I wanna look. Thanks for starting this stuff. You gain? Thank you. Let's move on to this sugar-type. Those who hold the fat around their middle, and they have a little bit of those love handles. Valerie volunteered herself as being the sugar-type. You love sugar. I do, yes. What's your favorite sweet? Oh, chocolate, yes. Dripping, oozing chocolate. All the time. All right, so here's the deal. The problem with sugar is insulin. If it wasn't for the darn insulin, it wouldn't be a big deal. But when you have a lot of sugar, the insulin has to deal with it. And when you make more insulin, guess what it does? It says, store the sugar as fat. And it then very meticulously goes to certain parts of your body. In many cases, it'll become those love handles. So to deal with it, you have to use sugaring-lowering techniques. And so these are my specialty. Oh, yeah. But this actually looks like a pancake, doesn't it? Yes. Please taste this. And as you're tasting, I'll describe what this is. This, my friends, is a mashed banana with two eggs. Then I put a little cinnamon on there. Again, there's no flour. Isn't that good? Yes. Who would've thought? Eggs and banana looking at a pancake. And with this, you won't have the problem with the insulin. The other thing you can do is replace the taste. You don't need the sugar. So garlic and oregano and sage, these are herbs that take you in a different direction than sugar so you won't feel compelled to put sugar in your body. You do this and pay attention to some of the day-off diet ideas and you'll see the fat coming off, especially at the love handle area. Awesome. Good luck to you. Thank you. All right, next. I promised you all the most popular type would be mentioned and that happens to be the estrogen type. These are folks who store their fat around their hips and their thighs. And Stacey, you're very honorable to come up here, but you were holding a pear earlier, I understand. Yes, I was. So folks, when the childbearing years are progressing, you will often not only have a lot of estrogen, but you'll have strong PMS symptoms as well if you're one of these estrogen storage people. I do. I have very bad PMS. I get tired too. I'm tired and I want to overeat and not eat these foods that are sitting here. No, why would I put these foods here? These are vegetables, right? But they're not just any vegetable. And here's the big story. If you want to deal with the estrogen, you actually have to deal with the foods you're eating because they can help block the estrogen. So come on back here. You know on the broad diet plans that we're offering, the day off diet as an example, what I love to do is to eat non-starchy veggies because you can eat as much of this stuff as you want. All these great things, asparagus, the bamboo shoots, the beets, however, however, this bottom column here, the bottom row, these are the cruciferous vegetables. And they very specifically seem to help us deal with estrogen levels. So if you eat the Brussels sprouts, the broccoli, the cabbage, the cauliflower, the daikon, kale, turnip, find these and make them part of what you're eating. And we'll put some recipes up on DrRoz.com to help. I'd love that. The T-type. Those are the folks who have trouble building muscle and they therefore have a little excess flat and skin on their arms. And Robin is here to help with this. That would be me. Yeah, you can all do it right. I won't put the arms up. I think they're in a T right here. And you can find yourselves in this. The T-types, you know, we're the shape of T when you put our arms out, but the T actually stands for testosterone. They tend to have low muscle mass without a ton of muscle. Make the arms really get more thin. Without a ton of muscle here, you'll leave room for this. And so we want to build muscle. And you don't want to take testosterone and do that. So the question is, how do you actually have it happen? And a big problem for a lot of Americans is they don't have enough vitamin D and that impacts on their testosterone levels. So I want you to include foods, include a tool to get you more vitamin D. You can go out in the sun a little bit if you want as well, but it's hard to do, especially in the winter months. So I want you, for lunch or dinner, a couple times a week, to include a protein that has vitamin D in it. Classically, these are cold water fish. So salmon, sardines. Do you like sardines? I've not ever had sardines. You haven't? Never. Well, we have a learning opportunity here. Yes, we do. Here, open your mouth. Ah. I'll do it. Oh, come on now. You don't know that trick. These are real sardines. That's a raw sardine. I'm not gonna give that to you. But I do want you to try this. I will. And go ahead and take that. I like to eat it this way, with my fingers. I know some people taste cat food when they taste this, but it's not true. I like it. It's pretty good. It's not bad at all. And it's got vitamin D in it. Now, if you can't do that, probably need a vitamin D supplement. So the folks who are the T's, one way or the other, supplement's probably the safest, but one way or another, get your vitamin D levels in there. Okay. Thank you very much for that. Now, here's the deal. I'm gonna power up this plan by posting an exercise guide to target all four body types on my Facebook page and Pinterest board. That's what it looks like. Make sure you share this with your family and your friends. Do those little activities to support the foods that you eat differently, and you'll be able to customize your program for your body type. Be sure to subscribe to my channel so you don't miss anything. And remember to check back often to see what's new.