访谈录 2011-01-18&01-20 新年做全新的自己（在线收听）

Did you know that people who make New Year’s resolutions are 10 times more likely to make a positive change than those who do not and if you’re resolved to get healthy this year, then Dr. Mehmet Oz wants to help you. He’s here to tell us about his 11-week “Move it and Lose it” challenge. And you also have 4 important tips to help us. First of all, happy New Year.

Well. Thank you very much. I do want to shut up. That handsome, young neurosurgeon that you had on the show earlier today he’s actually the neurosurgeon taking care of Congresswoman Giffords , is my brother-in-law. So my congratulations on your success and for your wonderful team that saved her life. And that’s so much about, that's really impressed the country. OK. Why am I so excited today? You know, every Monday this year, we can be tackling the biggest New Year resolution that all Americans have told me that they are making which is take it back in shape. And to shape up, you need a couple of things. You need counseling from a nutritionist, you need a physical expert, a fitness trainer. You know, I know it’s hard to get that, it’s expensive, it’s difficult to do, so we teamed up with Nike and we share care. And we’re giving it to you for free, for free for 11 weeks: Doctoroz.com. What I’m gonna do is work you to the 4 steps, they are absolutely essential for, such as, resolution. We would give it all to you, but you’ve got to show up in your own life to make this happen.

And already hundreds of thousands have signed up. Remember to show people, tell people how to do it precisely, oftentimes, beginning of the year, we feel, we feel we are charged, we’re, we’re gonna do. How could be it different this time?

First mistake, if you’re vague, it ain’t going to work. You are gonna be very concrete. So for example, you know, go out and figure out your body mass index. Simple to do. You need to know your height. Get on a scale, get your weight, divide it by your height squared, then multiply 703. That’s hard to do in your head. So as a calculator does it for you, we calculated yours.

You did?

Yes. Here’re the numbers by the way. You would be less than 25. You’re 21. No one likes to show off, Robin. 25 to 30 (Right.) is a little bit overweight, not a big deal. But if you’re over 30 in your body mass index, it means that you are obese which increased by 40% shots of having your major problem. If you’re over 40, you're morbidly obese.250 times increase in risk of morbidity which includes heart disease, stroke and of course the big issues of cancer which also linked to heart diseases. (Absolutely). Now, what are you gonna do about it?

Those next steps.

You gotta write down, you gotta write down what you’re doing in your life. If you don’t chart, you’re not be able to give yourself the quality control on what you’re doing. Every little decision that you're making can be revaluated if you have to write down afterwards. So you can weigh yourself to get the body mass index, but you ought to be doing that anyway, throughout the course of this 11-week program. You can get more monounsaturated fatty acids, avocado, a great example, olive oil, of course, is one of my favorites. You’ll replace the sugars in your life with monounsaturated fatty acids. You’ll replace those sugars with cinnamon.

I use that so much even like in my cereal morning.

Isn't it fantastic?

Oh, yeah. My yogurt or something.

With other things the human does, it makes your body more sensitive to insulin. So, it’s better pushing the sugar where it needs to go, like into your muscles, rather than into your fat cells. And this is my secret for the New Year: black rice, this is called forbidden rice. In the ancient Chinese culture, it was not given to everybody. It has the dark color of blueberries. It has the same nutrients as blueberries, as to scientists huge hypo. You can find it everywhere now black rice, whole grain.

Where can you find this, is it hard to find?

I found it at the Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s has it. You can find this. And by the way, after today’s show, I guarantee you you’ll find it everywhere.

And it  helps if you have a buddy, if you have somebody that's gonna help you through like you doing.

You need two things. You need a buddy which is family, a coach, someone you love who will hook you up with partners as well. And that buddy if it's a trainer which in step 4 is the best.

OK, exercise.

Yeah.

That's something that people don’t like to talk about.

They don’t. If you can exercise, we know it’s the key to any successful program. Exercise opens up your muscles to sugars, so sugar can get into your muscles instead of setting up sharp on your hips. But the problem is, and we know this, people don’t have enough time to get to the gym, they can’t afford a physical trainer. The sun is in their eyes, you know, all kinds of excuses why they can’t make it happen. So, we’re going to give it to you for free and get it simple to do. But you will get me a little information for me, so we can customize a program for you. So on the show off today, we’ll get all these wonderful trainers coming out. They’re going to be studding up sharp, and allowing you to ask them questions, but also providing customized programs.  You want to be a big strong man with lots of muscles. It’s different from a woman who wants to just have lean muscle mass but that muscle is essential because of the calorie burning furnace that keep you thin and fit for a new year.

So it’s good to tailor the program for that individual, it's not one size fits all?

And it shouldn’t be. And if you do those 4 things, right? Be able to know where you’re today with concrete goals. If you were be able to chart what you’re doing exactly you could be charting your nutritional lists. I gave you a bunch of ideas. We have a bunch of options you can chart easily. If you’re very smart of finding buddies, or you could get an exercise program with a personal trainer, you will make it this year.

Let’s move it, let’s move it, then lose it. Thank you, Mehmet, thank you so much, all the best to the new year and you can head to our website, abcnews.com where you will find all Dr. Oz’s 11-week “Move it and lose it” challenge along with some diet tools information.