Weight loss coach shares his top four tips for quickly dropping pounds

A weight loss coach has lifted the lid on the four things that people should do to lose weight quickly and keep it off, saying the key is to reduce stress in the body. 

Jared McDonald, 36, from Idaho, is the founder of The Metabolism Reboot, a company that helps clients — particularly women 45 and older — reset their metabolisms and overhaul their eating habits to promote sustainable weight loss. 

He recently went viral on TikTok after sharing why he tells people to stop exercising and focus on their health, not weight loss, if they want to drop pounds. 

‘You have to realize that stress is the problem. Stress causes your body to store fat right in your midsection,’ he explained. ‘Now the common approach to weight loss is to eat less and exercise more, which actually then stresses the body out more.’ 

‘You have to realize that stress is the problem. Stress causes your body to store fat right in your midsection,’ he said, explaining that calorie restriction and exercise cause stress 

Keeping that in mind, McDonald’s first tip is to ‘stop focusing on weight loss.’ 

He knows the advice ‘sounds crazy,’ but he believes that people who are seeking permanent weight loss should ‘actually focus on getting healthy.’ 

His program touts eating foods that help boost the metabolism instead of counting calories. 

Research has shown that calorie restriction can cause the metabolism to slow down and lead to weight gain after people stop their diets. 

‘The things you do to lose weight typically stress the body out more,’ he reiterated. ‘But the things you do to get healthy will actually promote health and will allow you to lose the weight.’

McDonald’s second piece of advice is to ‘eat real food.’ 

‘Fake food, shakes, prepacked meals, none of that is actually going to solve your problem long-term,’ he insisted. ‘Most of the time, they actually cause more stress.’

He noted that diet foods don’t teach people how to change their mindset and overcome stress eating or other harmful patterns.   

‘When we talk about stress, we have to talk about toxins and inflammation and blood sugars and cortisol. Fake foods don’t actually solve that,’ he continued. ‘Also they’re not sustainable. You can’t eat them forever.’ 

McDonald’s third recommendation is to ‘stop exercising for weight loss.’   

McDonald’s first tip is to ‘stop focusing on weight loss.’ He believes that people who are seeking permanent weight loss should ‘actually focus on getting healthy’

McDonald went on to say that people need to ‘eat real food’ and ‘stop exercising to lose weight.’ He noted that exercise isn’t bad, but it can add dress to the body 

‘I get a lot of pushback when I tell people this,’ he said. ‘I’m not saying that exercise is bad because it’s not.’

The metabolism coach explained that people who are already overweight and have changing hormones will end up causing more stress to their bodies if they focus on exercising. 

‘You might feel better, you might like it, you might get stronger, you might have a mental release, and those are all good things,’ he said. ‘But that belly fat is going to stick around.’

Intense exercise without proper recovery can lead to elevated levels of cortisol and low testosterone, according to Healthline. These hormonal changes are linked to weight gain and excess belly fat.

‘So your number one focus shouldn’t be on exercise to lose weight,’ he stressed. ‘It should be on nutrition and getting healthy. That’s the key.’ 

McDonald’s fourth and final tip is to ‘drink water.’  

‘I know we hear that a lot, but the reason why is that one of the first steps in metabolizing fat cells is called hydrolysis,’ he said. ‘So you need water to actually burn fat, and most of us are chronically dehydrated.’

McDonald’s fourth and final tip is to ‘drink water.’ He added that sometimes drinking water alone isn’t enough and people need to ‘replenish with electrolytes and minerals as well’

McDonald’s video has been viewed more than 1.7 million times since it was posted and received hundreds of comments

He added that sometimes drinking water alone isn’t enough and people need to ‘replenish with electrolytes and minerals as well.’ 

The content creator noted in the comments that he does want people drinking Gatorade for electrolytes.  ‘Use lemon and limes, real salt, or Redmond Re-Lyte,’ he advised. 

‘As you start to do these four things, you’ll start to see the results happen,’ he insisted. ‘You can lose weight quickly. You can lose weight permanently. And, again, you can actually do it sustainably.’

McDonald’s video has been viewed more than 1.7 million times since it was posted in December and received hundreds of comments. 

‘I’ve been doing these things but can’t lose weight. I think stress is definitely a huge factor for me,’ one person wrote. 

‘I’ve been following [you] and your suggestions, and have lost 60 lbs since June,’ someone else shared. 

‘I was really waiting for someone to say exercise for your health not to [lose] weight…thank you,’ another added.