 We're talking about the commitment to the journey and I was just saying to everybody whether you brand new to your journey or You know, you've been in this journey for months We can always take away things and sort of revitalize us refresh us reset us But right, you know thinking back to when you started your ketogenic journey like how did you decide to go? I guess basically how did you go all in? How did you commit to this journey? Well, I mean I had you I was not well And I I was struggling at higher doctors all over the world a ton of theorals wrong with me I was my 20s and lost use my leg at my head hit in I got diagnosed with autoimmune disorder And so basically at one point I said I got to take control of my own life And I decided to clean the slate and start with a fast and then from there I I found the ketogenic diet, right? I kind of created it for myself I didn't didn't have the real awareness of how to do that back then and But what I knew I had to do and I think the most important tip if you're gonna get on this journey Is I had to commit to the journey. I gave myself an entire year to figure it out It wasn't like I was gonna try it for a year I was gonna I was gonna I was gonna learn it and and and over the last 20 years now People that are you know starting a new lifestyle if it's vegan if it's keto or whatever it might be carnivore I tell people give yourself at least six months of Messing up because you're gonna make mistakes or things aren't gonna work But what happens is somebody, you know, they make they don't feel good for a week And then they say well that doesn't work for me and they switch gears and And then that's a big mistake I always tell people if you're trying to get from LA to New York You're taking an airplane the last thing you want to do is go down to Florida jump over to Pensacola go to Miami go up to Atlanta back to LA Then before you get you want to just take a straight trip there And you'd rather deviate a little off then turning all the way to the right and then too many people do that They go I'm keto and then I'm this and then I'm over here And I'm doing this to stay on the path and know that you're gonna have to wiggle a little bit to get there With the right there's a huge learning process along the way, isn't it like and that's what I see in this group all the time There's so many people asking the questions like where do I start? How much fat? What are the macros right and you you don't know what you don't know when you come into the space I was like you right? It took me a while to probably fully get into ketosis right but For me it was more about just starting and starting to eliminate some of those bad habits I think you're exactly right, you know like I want to change in a week But yet it took me 40 years to get where I was right so I mean God I don't want it to take another 40 and it doesn't need to right But I think you know there's some real benefits of being in this group and I know you're a big Advocative like you know creating a community what we're trying to do here as well I think it's the most important thing I think that you know life gets complicated, you know your wife my wife is not a low-carb keto person She does it from time to time So it's like that environment for me carbs really affect me a lot and For her they don't affect her that much and I don't expect her to live my lifestyle I want her to live hers, but I want her to respect mine, and that's just your communication But another thing but having these groups is a way for me to feel like I'm part of something That her and I don't have in common which is fine We have a lot of other things in common and so um so yeah I think being part of this group is really important committing to your journey knowing it's going to take time But the rule of thumb a lot of people make is like however long it took you to get to where you are So if you're 40 and you've been struggling with some health things since 40 Expect 40 months right now truth is you're gonna feel way better before that But that expectation is often a mess up for people and if we could help them with that And know that you're it's a journey We you and I talked earlier about something you're like I know that that could be a factor just that little tip You know because we're working together might change everything in your in your journey, right? And it had nothing to do with your diet right necessarily it had to be something else So and those are all important you get through an environment coaching Yeah, and I think something else for everybody to remember as well as like committing to the journey Doesn't mean you're not gonna have really bad days doesn't mean that you're not gonna make mistakes as well, right? Like I think the most success that I've seen with people that have sort of trained and coached along the way is It's okay to make those mistakes, but then how do you any tips on sort of like the mindset of when you do make those mistakes with You know the ultimate Destination way way way way way in the future. Yeah, you know We got we can talk for days on this one is so good if you have questions put them in the chat I actually had to put my phone other phone to see if there's questions that pop up so I can help out Yeah, I think the first thing is is you know, we think of star Star Wars It's like aha do be expect I think the first step you have to keep in mind is if you're sure in any journey It's never gonna be a perfect straight line. There's always gonna be setbacks But that's in everything think about relationships you fall in love So people start the keto diet first few days they may feel like crap after a couple weeks They start feeling better a lot of times they're feeling better because they're proud of themselves They're proud they're committed to it Even if they feel better and they're failing or messing up on the diet now They they feel worse because it's not because the diet is because they're not they're disappointed in themselves, right? So I think the first thing is yet of gratitude and be grateful that you're doing it The second thing is is to expect complications. You're gonna days where you're just like I slept horrible last night Do not jump off and think that what you did two days ago or the next the day before was the problem It could have been five days ago that could have been the reaction to this and these are things that people messed up I work with a lot of auto immunity and with auto immune systems that are out of whack And it's like you can eat something on Friday and it bothers you on Tuesday It's called a delayed reaction, but you it's hard to quantify that what you can do is take awareness, right? And so I think it's to be expected that things are gonna go on and that's in everything in our life It's relationships. It's career. It's jobs. Your job could be great for for three months And then you either hire somebody new you have like three bad days because the relationship isn't there yet And it doesn't mean your job's bad. It doesn't mean it's wrong It just means that that you have to now work through that and learn from it And these are the best lessons to learn you learn through the challenges not through all the successes You learn through both, but you learn a lot more for the challenges Yeah, I love that and we're on a like a coaching call today And I think the whole idea once again is that we talked about it this morning as well Is that experiment of oneself n equals one, right? So what works for somebody else might not necessarily work for you as an individual or you know Somebody else's goal is somebody else's goal. It's totally different for us, right? Like my goal might be to lose 20 pounds yours might be to have that you know that that cognitive Improvement somebody else might be trying to cure gut health and stuff So, you know staying in your own lane is so important But staying in your lane with that power of community like you talked about as well Yeah, it's it's it's just it's too important why it's a journey A journey to about five truly fighters to get where I am, you know where I feel very confident And my buddy hit me he's a former marine like I am and and he goes He's hit me on all this stuff. He's like, you know anything about grounding and I'm like, yeah I read the book when it came out, you know, whatever in 2009 all this stuff and And he's searching For this idea of how to feel good when he gets older or how to defy aging and all this other stuff And he's in the searching and that's okay. That's a phase. He's in and and I said to him like I kind of figured out Like I'm looking forward to next year. I'm looking forward, but I didn't always feel that way And as you build confidence in your journey and now some people when you're starting right now today Will not be how your journey is next year Expect it to change Instead of people go, well, I'm starting a lifestyle. No, you create a lifestyle. It's very different You're starting this keto journey or this low-carb journey and you may not end up full-blown keto You might are full-blown low-carb. You might find that it's a hybrid that you all plan up with I have a guy that he's 52 now. He's running marathons and doing crusted Well, he doesn't follow the diet that helped him lose 50 pounds It's it's he's in a world today But that was an evolution of time. It took him six years to grow into this new person And now he's very much more confident and he doesn't stress about food. What to eat when to eat it He just lives his life And um, and that's the goal. That's our mission and it's not to get results It's how to live your life once you achieve your results And how do you go out and impact more people is really the the mission here Yeah, and I think something that we haven't really talked about and maybe we need to talk about this Dustin is metabolic flexibility ultimately right like The ketogenic lifestyle is amazing and it can get really really great results But later on potentially when that metabolic flexibility kicks in it may be moving to a lower carb diet or You know a cyclical ketogenic diet can be what's best as well, right? So that experimentation of oneself learning what you can and can't do The power of a community and then hopefully Hopefully the knowledge of somebody else and and that's what we're trying to do here Right is pass on more knowledge to everybody and uh, yeah, I'm just grateful because I like guys I learned something I'm struggling at the moment. I live in Mexico I think I have a parasite in my tummy and Dustin coached me on something totally new this morning Which I did not know about at all and I'll share it once I've tested it myself, but I'm really looking forward to it. So Dustin any final words because I like to keep these nice and short and sharp. Yeah, my final word is this is that What what I don't want to happen is we know scientifically that elevating your ketone levels is Unbelievable. I'm working with a family that they have an older mom It was arguably slowing down and they're like, how can we help her and and and she's not phyla ketogenic diet We're using different tools and ways to elevate her ketones because she's not able to follow a ketogenic diet, right? And it's complicated in their in the situation So we're elevating her ketones in another way and and I just want people to know that ketones are important for health and vitality and performance of your life The diet a diet is what you create to sustain and enjoy your life And I just don't want people to go I tried that and didn't work for me Because the science is clear ketones work and extremely well What didn't work is the complexity of it all So sometimes we have different resources and you're and I'll talk in the future about other ways to help get ketone levels elevated And I would just say this, um, please share this group with other people if you want to get them educated Um and do this with your friends. The other thing is is go grab our free cookbook We're going to be doing some additional coaching some private coaching that you're going to get access to So once you grab our cookbook, we're going to give you some we're going to communicate through some emails and stuff Um, and you can get that on the page. Liam probably can tell you how to find it But get that so we can do some additional coaching like Liam got today for me Just different perspectives different ways to heal the body in a healthy way in a healthy manner because I have some unique backgrounds I specialize in abdominal surgeries. I specialize in hormones after we get to a certain age children development of children and of course the aging population and brain health Along with the ketogenic space. So anything we can do to health and I like athletes too, but I don't work with as many of those anymore Just to give everybody a little heads up So basically we're doing the five steps of introducing ketones and number one is you got to commit to your journey We're going to tomorrow. We're going to talk about cutting carbs Understanding protein and how much protein should have and then don't fear fat and then hydration as the end So that's kind of the five days of getting started. I'm doing but we're going to do one each day for you guys So we're super excited for that