 Hey all hey all hey all so we're talking about a little fast This is gonna be fun, so I Went fasting for 14 days, so I got to take it back a little story Why would I ever even do that like why would you if you're curious if you know at all? Why would you even try that most people you know would have thought it was crazy and and here's the the honest truth Though is that I didn't wasn't starting for for 14 days I was gonna my goal was 10 days and But to really understand why I would do a 14-day fast you have to kind of go back a little bit I was 26 years old just a little over and I came from you know a military background I was a former recon Marine I was in radio reconnaissance. I did all this crazy fun crazy neat stuff, right and Then I went and played college football two years in my college career in football I was told that I if I don't stop I probably won't walk when I'm 30 It's kind of eye-opening experience and it wasn't long after that I just started my health are declining. I moved to Southern California from Minnesota, and I I couldn't walk around the block I was taking the ball and I was throwing down the steps of my dog and I knew something was wrong, right and it's like so Thinking about then if I would have thought about when I first started my journey if I was I'm not gonna eat for 14 days I would have said no way that's never gonna happen, but after a couple years of Trying everything You know anybody that's tried it all you're like I've tried everything I hear that all the time I'm like you probably haven't tried everything Merlin. You probably haven't I thought I tried everything I hadn't tried everything. I had tried everything that I could see in front of me, right? And I'd hired a naturopathic doctor holistic doctor a functional doctor now back in the early 2000s and late 1990s Those doctors really didn't exist much like it was kind of like voodoo doctors and regular doctors But you know Chinese medicine I tried that I haven't met a doctor from he was intranobal think about this I met this Russian doctor intranobal when we were talking about my liver enzymes and how that all these things of What was going on? I actually when I drank alcohol? I felt normal I was like and he's like trying to understand all this, but I didn't feel good. Something was wrong didn't know what it was and Not soon after that I got diagnosed with the condition and I was really I opened I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's And I just felt devastated. I was like, okay, maybe this was wrong, but how do you fix it? right, how do you fix this whole thing and it was crazy story crazy journey and After getting all these treatments done by holistic doctors functional doctors Chinese doctors Russian doctors Traditional doctors medical doctors What I realized is I need to kind of reset the button, right? I need to do a reset. I'm like what what about me What's my responsibility in this whole thing? I'm asking all the doctors to tell me what to do but I wasn't really figuring out me and so I decided to go on this 10 day Fast and not eat food for 10 flipping days. I was just gonna drink water. I had mineral water I was gonna drink a lots of water Now I was pretty confident in my ability to do this I knew it was gonna be hard, but I was gonna go go for it go for a try because I was reading Yes, that's kind of crazy thing. I was reading about how fasting can create a kind of a reset state so five days into the fast I'm actually helping a friend move and We were they were not moving excuse me They were breaking up concrete and I was gonna go over there and watch because I felt so crappy that I wasn't gonna be very much Helpful and so I was gonna go watch. Well, I felt pretty good that day I woke up and I just like I feel good five days after no food. I felt really good I can woke me up. I felt completely different and And I started helping I out worked every single person there They ordered pizza and beer and everything else. I didn't even I just drank my water I had a big gallon jug of water and drinking it down. No, it was not a glass bottle It was a plastic bottle of water and I drank my gallon of water I just kept working and working. I moved so much concrete that day. I got home and I felt great I didn't get I didn't wake up the next day. I'll soar and tired and miserable. I felt good I'm like something's going on in this fast something is changing inside of me. What is it? At that time you couldn't go Google anything, right? I had to go out and start searching for answers and what it was is anybody know the answer what happened to me Does anybody know what happened to me after day five? Just curious just just curious Ashley Marie just curious anybody know what happened to me in day five in day five I went into Therapeutic ketosis. What does that mean? My ketones? I was in a deep ketosis my levels of ketones were elevated It took me five days Five days of no food. So I think about this. I am actually Considered a very high-level athlete depends on who you ask depends on who I'm compared to I was a former military guy that competed and did some really gnarly stuff. I Was extremely committed. I was in the fitness industry. I was I worked out on a regular basis. I ate clean I ate already ate low carb. I wasn't keto necessarily before this I was low carb. I was in and out of ketosis to some degree But I wasn't deep in ketosis five days of no food It took my body five full days To tap into the store and get this clarity and energy and focus and move and start feeling better When at the same time literally five days earlier, I couldn't even walk my dog around the block I'd have to throw the ball down the stairs just so my dog can go for a walk My dog is a black lab. She was a black lab and she loved to run and I felt like I mean I didn't hit kids yet y'all. I think goodness my wife asked me the other day She was Dustin she goes how different would our life be if you had had that happen to you now and I broke down Just crying. I was like, I couldn't even imagine. I couldn't imagine barely getting out of bed. I couldn't imagine Just going to the bathroom was work Not be able to go outside Moody edgy grumpy all the time faking it smiling when you're outside in front of people been coming home And just sit in the couch and feel in like miserable by yourself. That was normal life Until five days in deep ketosis once I got into deep ketosis it changed. I'm like, I'm going forever I'm gonna I'm never gonna eat food again. Well, that's not gonna be a recipe of success I'm never gonna eat again. Anybody ever thought that one. I'm never gonna eat again But I was deep in ketosis and I and all I thought to myself is I'm gonna keep going So I'm in I'm in 10 days. I hit my 10-day mark and I'm like, I feel good I felt so good that my clients are like, I want to do what you're doing I'm like, I don't know if you want to go without eating for 10 days I had a couple do it by the way and I went for 14 days and after 14 days when I realizes my body started shifting again And I felt some changes that I didn't necessarily like after 14 days So I started implementing food now. This is the story. I actually did a post about it earlier This is what I didn't tell everybody for an entire year after that 14 days. I added one food back a week Could you imagine like this is back in the early 2000s like 2002 This is before Anybody understood this concept that you could do a diet like anybody that mainstream knew about it and I had to add one food bag if I added back something like a banana. I felt like crap I didn't add the banana back for the entire year. I Didn't add any of it. Why? Because I'm crappy and I like this must be bad for me. That's what I actually thought I realized there was something going on I didn't understand it yet scientifically, but I realized something was going on and after one year I Eat that way today. I taught myself the ketogenic diet the hardest flippin possible way ever That's what I did. I taught myself the ketogenic diet ignorantly. I don't ever brag to be a smart guy I I got some knowledge, but I like to challenge myself and do everything back-assword in the hardest way possible And so I'm deep in ketosis I'm 14 days in and I started learning how to live in ketosis now for that year was a tough year by the way Because when you feel really good and then you eat something you feel really bad You kind of remind you how miserable you are. You don't want to be reminded how miserable you are Does that make sense? Like it's never a good thing to be reminded how miserable you are It's never fun, but that's what happened throughout the year But I was catching on and I was starting to teaching other people Well, you don't have to go 14 days. What if you just start eating more like this? Well, I started doing some homework you couldn't Google anything by the way right back then Google You couldn't get Google the word ketones in the early 2000s Nothing came up y'all. There was nothing out there. It was out there You know, like it was in textbooks and like university books and Scientifically magazines and literature, but it wasn't in actually it wasn't in actual Google and So I started teaching more people and I started noticing the other people getting these benefits Well coming from having an autoimmune disorder having a brain injury having needing joint replacements I need it my knees replaced when I was 23 years old So my body wasn't responding well like my hip is really bad right now. It needs to get replaced really bad And so you ever see me limping, you know, why I just had both my shoulders had reconstruction And they did a they basically cut all the bones off and they had a reef structure them Like my body was a wrecking a long time ago So I started teaching people how to utilize this fuel source called ketones But then there was a challenge is that I felt better and I noticed when people were deep in ketosis They felt better, but they almost always quit and how disappointing this is when you can it's like you can show somebody the winning lottery ticket And they always throw it away or they rip it up if that makes any sense. Hey, Kathy Barry Hey, Kathy, what's your weight at am I gonna see you Kathy by the way and more I'm gonna be in Louisville, Kentucky next week Who's coming who's coming to town? So 14 days of no food changed my life forever, but it was day five that I recognized there's something happening that matters Well now fast forward all those doctors I worked with every single one of those every single doctor I work with now I was advising them on A new way of living their life It's kind of unique because it the teacher or the student became the teacher kind of weird, right? The reason why is none of these doctors were taught this concept behind fasting All these naturopathic holistic doctors were like forcing these supplements down me and I was taking all this stuff I'm taking all the stuff and I'm like, wait a minute. Like it's I'm not getting that much better, right? What if I just took everything away and started over clean and the number one thing happened was therapeutic ketosis And so I want everybody to know because I know I have some big followers in different places that Be any ketosis is really important Kathy buried down 243 pounds for Kathy that just inspires me. I'm telling you just amazing I know Derek's on Derek is doing some amazing things out there in Arizona right now And he's on a he's on a big journey himself and That also inspires me but what I want to I want to share with you all is that is people go all the time Like I did a clubhouse. I'm not a clubhouse guy. I'm not a clubhouse. I'm doing a clubhouse and these people are on there Like you got to eat. You should be eating your food from a farm I'm like, you don't live in America. Do you like there's a small percentage of people that can literally hide under a rock and eat organic grass-fed food from the cow from the farm But once you put three kids in the in International business and life and travel and everything else you got to find a way to do the best you can And so to for me today to do that that 14 day for 14 day fast probably wouldn't happen Well for me today to stay in ketosis therapeutically without having support and tools probably wouldn't happen very well and And so this is part of my talk is to tell people like if you're on your high horse Just do the diet you don't have I'm you either have the most basic life in the world And congratulations if you can pull that off because I didn't choose that style I chose chaos and a lot of fun things out all at once or You have a metabolic system that's a special meaning that you didn't break But what I found is the majority of America is Busy they're stressed. They're overworked. They don't have the wisdom and knowledge and their bodies metabolic system has been Affected meaning that you're not burning fat very well I was set up to burn fat y'all as an athlete as a Marine I was primed to be good at burning body fat and it still took me five days with no food to wake up Five days with no food to wake up. What is what is my mom gonna need? What is my sister gonna need? What are my wife need? What is the world gonna need if it took me five days, which I was primed and ready to go So this is if you want to wake up and you're in doing a keto anything I don't care what it is if you're not doing keto if you want to wake your brain up get yourself into deep ketosis and Maintain it for a sustainable long time meaning I did it for a year and once I did it for a year I did it for another 15. Did I mess up? Yes many times. Did I make mistakes? Yes many times I've ever went to a bachelor party and try to stay keto at a bachelor party and still have fun Anyone anyone? Yeah, I was that jackass. I tried doing that and yes, what I didn't have any fun I was it was it was horrific. I was like you shouldn't eat that. Yeah It was just an emotional stress nightmare wouldn't want to recommend that to anybody. So Stay in deep ketosis. It's one of the reasons why I drink ketones every day. This is actually my favorite flavor I drink them every day. Why cuz I don't want to have to worry about being a deep ketosis You're dying. I don't want to have to go five days. I do 24 hour fast. I do a 60 hour fast once a month I don't want to go five days. I don't want to track my macros every day I don't want to analyze everything every day because guess what? I have three kids at home We hope to expand our family. I want to travel. I'm getting ready to travel next week I want to I want to stay up late one night and not mess up my system, right? I want to have I love corn chips I want to have some corn chips and not not worried that it's gonna kick me out of ketosis. Yes I like corn chips. Yes. I do if I go to Italy I want a piece of pizza and not for track it But here's the thing if my body because of my joint replacements because my proneness to having degenerative joint joint challenges because of Hashimoto's because of my brain injury if I'm out of ketosis Everybody in the world or everybody in my world. Sorry, and I'm not that that famous Everybody in my world is affected by it and I owe it to them to stay there And so what I do is I this is what I do I eat Usually around 11 o'clock each day 11 to 1 depending on today. I was almost 2 o'clock. I eat usually stop eating by 8 I usually eat with dinner 6 or 7. I may have some desserts from time to time like a low carb dessert Primarily eat proteins. I focus on proteins I eat a variety of low carb vegetables and I drink ketones twice a day Every once in a while. I have a brain shake. I call it. I have a brain shake that I make for my kids and myself And that's what I do and then 90% of the time I'm on target 10% of time I Went to a birthday party and I had two core tortillas and then everything else was just protein based That's what I did, but I still drink my ketones every day and it was a recipe for success now seven years later I'm very confident that I can stay in deep ketosis continuously Thrive and live and help other people live a better life So y'all appreciate for plugging in with me, but 14 days no food It's funny because you know, you've been doing this for a while and you know obviously I promote a product because I want to help people. That's all it is I just want to help more people and And every once in a while I get people that are just like they want to find the hard way but sometimes you have to do it the hard way to realize it easy ways more enjoyable and in Sometimes you just need to have faith and trust in somebody else and just give it a shot And I'll be interviewing somebody. He doesn't know I'm gonna do it I'm gonna be interviewing somebody soon. His name is Dave David Derek small small man And he's inspired me somebody got to meet really recently and and watching his journey and what he's done in his commitment I don't know if for a 14-day fast could he could have accomplished it in the state of mind He was in and in the life he was in but he could do one thing. It was just something basic Four four four he could do that he could do the core for he could do steps And with that it created momentum with momentum It gave him hope with hope he could he could put more effort into it with success He gets more smiles with success it starts driving biochemistry to reimpurpose that that success And it's he's in a transition to change his life forever And we need to be able to do that to more people and we need to really give that to more people Because the right now the world is sicker than it's ever been. It's more frustrated It's metabolic more challenge obesity is on the rise and if we don't step in and stop it our kids are screwed And I mean that literally like it is they have no shot And it's sad and it's truly sad and we can do something about it We just have to wake up the side and we have to stick together for us as people that have struggled with energy problems Us have struggled with weight problems us have struggled with health problems I said I struggled with just life problems We got to stick together and say okay How can we collectively together go out and change more lives because there are the some people who looked at me as like This healthy guy and fit guy and he's always in shape. He gets buffed muscles I was sicker than almost all my clients almost all of them I just faked it better. That's all I did. I just made it look like I wasn't but in reality I was sick as ever inside and I was looking for answers to change that so if you're having challenges in any capacity Listen, there's answers for you But the one thing that I'm not ever gonna do is I'm not gonna baby you for your sicknesses Guess what? Everybody's got a problem. The reality is what do you want to do to change it? And let's go do that the recipes here Let's go change it and if you put the work in your life will forever be different and guess what those problems You're gonna learn from all my challenges are now strengths moving forward in my life Because I've honored them as part of my journey, right? Thank God. I got sick in my 20s. Thank God I lost the use of my legs in my thing. Thank God. I forgot my friends in my 20s Thank God my my body was falling apart falling apart in the 20 because guess what 40s way cooler when you're feeling better When your 20s were miserable, right? So if you're in your 40s, you don't feel great great because you can feel awesome in your 50s And it gives you wisdom perspective to move on to the rest of your life And then you can share that with more people don't wait too long Don't be too perfect too long. Otherwise, you don't learn anything from it. So y'all have an unbelievable night I do have to go put the babies down Actually, my wife's doing most of that right now, but I'm gonna go support her. So I Will see you guys all in Texas or not in Texas. We're going Louisville next week. Cheers y'all