 Today's episode of the Anthony Anderson show is brought to you by Mezzy Grill, that's M-E-Z-E-Grill dot com and CarpeVM dot com that's C-A-R-P-E-V-M dot com Greetings everyone. This is Anthony Anderson coming at you live from New York City. It's a beautiful Saturday I believe it is sometime in September early September. I guess it doesn't really matter But the point is we are here today with an honored guest Mr. Philip McCluskey of Philip McCluskey dot com Philip. How you doing brother? Hey, how's it going Anthony? Thanks for having me on your show. Yeah, man. Very cool. It's about time. It's about time Good to have you on so Philip and I have been friends and partners in the in the raw food scene along with Drew Mill and Vanessa of Gnosis chocolate and it was kind of like us four doing some events and we were holding retreats and and it was just like a Really good time. So we've been doing that since about 2007 and Philip has an awesome story He's had a major transformation with switching his diet and his lifestyle up And so I really wanted to have him on the show so he could share some inside tips and what he's been up to and and things That he's doing now. He's touring all over the world. He's a world-renowned speaker on living foods exercise weight loss So we'll have at it man. How's it going? It's amazing. I'm actually up here in Jasper, Alberta In Canada and just a sunny day and beautiful surrounded by mountains. It's amazing. What brings you up to Canada? spending a little time with my girlfriend and Just a little bit of a downtime before I go on my next tour which which starts up in October in Australia Wow, very cool. Very cool. What what brought on the desire to go to Australia and do a tour down there? You know, I've really been inspired to go for a long time And one of the things that I like to do when I tour is to go to places that are kind of unique And then I haven't been to before You know my one of my intentions is also to get in a lot of travel Culture or experience meet new types of people people that I probably wouldn't have Normally met if I just you know stayed in my own area So I like to create opportunities like that that kind of brought in my exposure But at the same time, you know, it's definitely a place that That that's a need of a little bit of raw food help right now They're the ratio I believe is a 68% of men in Australia are overweight Maybe not overweight like we are in the United States where there's such a large amount of obesity, but overweight all the same and And it's it's still fairly new there the raw food and the movement and kind of a little bit of the idea behind that So it's a perfect market. I've met some friends over there and we decided to give it a go So yeah, that's how it came about and you're also teaming up with Sun Warrior for this, right? Yes, Sun Warrior raw protein powder, which which I love they're they're teaming up They're doing website and design and and helping really push the tour and really grateful for that. Yeah, awesome That's sunwarrior.com if you guys don't know that really great protein powders a lot of superfoods They're teaming up with Philip for promoting his Australian tour. So keep an eye open for that So backing up a little bit. How did all of this come about? I mean now you're traveling the world speaking about your experiences inspiring Tens of thousands if not more people, how did you get to this point? Well, it's it's a it's a I'll give you that I'll give you the short of the long story. Okay, basically Maybe about five and a half six years ago. I had got to Max point in my life where my weight just was officially out of control now It was pretty much out of control the majority of my life. I've been overweight probably since the age of five You know literally going from be from being the the cute You know chubby kid who everybody wanted to pinch my cheeks and and of course I wanted to slap them That it went to be you know overweight and then obese and then they had to create a new term called morbidly obese Yeah, until finally I got to a point where I set them a scale one day and the needle went to 400 pounds and it was kind of It kind of felt like I walked into a doctor's office and the doctor just gave me some sort of terminal disease they're just like okay, you have X and You're either gonna live now or you're not you know because I always think about this quote I heard a long time ago. It said that there's you know two things that you don't see in life One is an old drug dealer because generally they're in jail or dead And the other is an old obese person because they're just not alive, you know And I already had started to feel some of the health issues coming on in a very strong way as you can imagine and so it got to the point where I just Really knew that it was now or never. I either was going to be saying yes to life and embracing it where I was going to continue just raw away so to speak until I passed away and And that's right around the time when I had discovered raw food and made a big drastic change in my life What were some I remember you saying that you've tried a lot of different methods before raw food What were some things that you had been delving into? Yeah, I literally had tried probably 30 different diets. I mean every major diet. I've done whether it was You know some of those old old school programs where you'd have this little booklet And you had protein cards and you would have to take the card after you ate a protein from the day from one slot And put it into the other and then you could eat protein for that day Yeah, you know that just the old corny stuff all the way up to you know doing weight watchers four or five six times I even tried vegetarian at a point in being vegan Of course all the fad diets add kins and that type of stuff. I mean I went to therapist counselors hypnotists I Just kind of went through the whole gamut and nothing seemed to work I mean there was even a time where I was working out at the gym an hour before work and then after work after doing a full day of work going back to the gym to do another hour and You know, I definitely was burning a little bit, but I could never lose more than 20 pounds And so nothing seemed to be working and at the very last moment, you know The only thing the doctors really recommended of course was you know, surgery. It's just like okay You can't do this so go ahead and get gastric bypass surgery and And I thought you know, okay, maybe this is the option for me I went through a month of tests to sort of satisfy my insurance company to actually pay for this crazy Invasive procedure where they're going to cut me open and make my stomach the size of my hand and this craziness and at the very last moment I had gotten approved and I was about to have it done and That's when I discovered, you know raw food. That's when I discovered healthy eating and that's all when everything You know instantly switched in a moment's time. Yeah, so were you in a relationship at this point? Or are you single? at that point I was married, okay, and I Was married and I just it was funny that you mentioned that because my wife and I had gone to Germany and it was pretty dramatic because There was you know, one thing I noticed at one point was people were staring at me, especially in Berlin You know, it's very fashionable there. I just figured hey, maybe I'm not wearing the right clothes or something like that You know, but people were staring and like pulling at their friends Pointing at me. Yeah, and I was like, what's going on? You know, I was always like a tough aggressive guy I wasn't used to that But and but I couldn't figure it out and then later on we went over to the Netherlands And we were in a little bed and breakfast and I came downstairs to use the phone because our room didn't have a phone And when I walked in the lady that was behind the desk the receptionist She didn't say hi. She didn't greet me. She didn't do anything The only thing she did was she looked up. She looked at me and she just exclaimed really loudly She's like, how did you get so big? Oh? And She wasn't trying to be mean She was just actually concerned and and we had a little talk for about, you know Two minutes and I left and and that's when I realized oh wow those people weren't looking at me because of my clothes Those people were looking at me because of my size because so many people there are just trimming and shape I mean I saw you know 95 year old women out on their bikes biking around and you know 80 year old women coming from the store with their groceries in the basket in the front of their In the front of their bike and it was just such a different culture and Basically that shock kind of got into my system and I just kept thinking about how did you get so big? how did you get so big this idea sort of just kept resonating in my mind and When I came back to the United States I decided to answer that question for myself and Instead of going and having the gastric surgery. I made the switch to Healthful eating and and that really made the difference. What was the style of your diet when you got into the living foods lifestyle? Well previously it was probably the worst imaginable. I was I was eating anywhere from five to seven thousand calories a day easy I Remember going to Dunkin Donuts in the morning on the way to work and thinking okay I want to get something to eat because I didn't eat anything because I didn't take the time to make food for myself Because I was probably tired from the night before and just you know always out of breath and overwhelmed and inside I remember pulling in and saying okay, let's get a muffin a muffin can't be that fattening Oh, maybe I'll get a corn muffin corn must be good, right? So I started getting to corn muffins and then people at work were drinking these things You know coffee coladas so I went and got a large one of those and I got into habit of just doing that every single day Two corn muffins a large coffee colada, and I remember one day for fun I just I don't know somehow is inspired to go on their website to just check out the calorie content And I realized that the muffins were 500 calories each whoa the coffee colada was 700 calories I was having 1700 calories I was probably having almost my daily caloric intake for my size before I even stepped into work in the morning Yeah, and then of course, you know went out for lunch during work. I didn't prepare any meals So it was always fast food I'd go to McDonald's or Burger King with my $5 and stand in front of the dollar menu and just be like Three hamburgers, you know a French fry and a milkshake And I mean I don't even know how many calories that was but I used to be so tired that when I would go back to work My biggest fear in work was that my boss would walk in and find me a sleep on my keyboard because I would just fall asleep All the time I couldn't even stay awake. Yeah, my body's like, please just shut down Like you don't want you to kill yourself. Just shut down and I'd just be falling asleep with drool on my keyboard Yeah, and then of course I was so exhausted from the day that on the way home I couldn't even think of making food. So I'd pick up a calzone a large pizza Yeah, a grinder, you know some kind of chicken Parmesan grinder and just pack it it again with chips and soda and ice creams and It was tough man I just remember the thinking I'd come home from work with my food And I only had one flight of stairs to get to my house and by the time I walked those one flight of stairs I was so winded in out of breath and even sweating the only thing that I could really do was go sit on my couch Recline the chair put a movie in and like arrest the food on my stomach. Well, and that's what I would do I would eat until I went to sleep or passed out on the couch and then would wake up and you know go to bed later on And you're doing this for years. Yeah, it wasn't a very exciting life as you can imagine Yeah, but yeah, it had become a habit unfortunately. Yeah, I'm sure you watched a lot of good movies though. I Was a movie expert because I didn't watch any TV. I didn't really get on with TV right in like the commercials I didn't like yeah programming so what I would do is I would just only watch movies that I loved and I mean It was literally four hours of movies every night and Saturdays and Sundays was like an eight to ten hour movie marathon Wow, that was it pretty I mean I remember going into the movie store and the guy looked at me and we became friends and he said at one point He goes you're not even looking to find a new movie You're looking to find a movie that you watch the second or third or fourth time over because you watched all the Movies we have in here. Yeah, I was like, you know, you're you're actually right Well, man on a side note the Anthony Anderson show is now available on podcast So you can see the videos and the audio you can watch this episode on your iPhone at home on the train Whatever you need go to only one TV comm and you'll see all the information right there It's really like a new thing We really want to be able to access this kind of information as soon as possible and wherever possible So how about diabetes was that ever a concern? Thankfully, I never had diabetes my sister had diabetes although she wasn't overweight and it was Pretty extreme. Uh-huh. She actually passed away from it The majority of her life she couldn't drive because of her eyesight was so bad. Yeah, Maya My father who was also overweight Had a triple bypass heart surgery three types of cancer and got diabetes But I guess I nipped it right in the bud. I mean I was probably borderline I'm I was dealing with other things like I couldn't breathe and terrible acid reflux I mean painful yeah acid reflux and and even acid reflux It was so terrible It would come up in the middle of the night go back down the wrong tube and it would block my breathing and I would wake up Recognizing that I might have not even been breathing for the last 15 seconds And I have no air in my lungs and I would just freak out and start running around my room like a chicken with his Head cut off just trying to get a breath and then eventually something would clear up and I would be like And it was just like oh my god like I'm gonna live type of thing that happened to me about five times And that's probably some of the scariest moments of my life And that's kind of also some of the reasons why I just recognized man I got to make a change because it's like now or never I mean Never went outside going outside meant sweating profusely Yeah, and that wasn't a very appealing to me Which would turn into like rashes in my arms my legs and stuff like that So there was a lot of other things didn't get the didn't didn't really move into diabetes probably I don't know if I was so heavy on sugars in general, but just lots of masses of meat and garbage and stuff Which I know has sugar in it as well, but yeah, diabetes never was the issue of thankfully So was your wife at the time was she kind of enabling you about this or was she trying to push you towards a more positive lifestyle? I think If I'm gonna be really honest, you know, I definitely I Definitely am somebody that I'm the type of person that you know when I get in my zone There's not too much that can push me off. Yeah You know spouse or otherwise. Yeah, so It's not that she was like saying here Let's you know, let's eat fat food all the time She would love to see me exercise and stuff like that and eat some healthful foods But I just wasn't in the position to do it and just was so utterly unhappy with life That you know, it was just kind of like, you know, I accept you where you are and if this is your choice then so be it But later on when I switched to raw there was there was definitely a much more support there So when you made the switch, what was the initial diet like? Yeah, so basically I came back from Germany and And I had been reading about water fasting for a while and in there There was some a term raw food and so I said, okay, that sounds interesting I googled it found out about it and It was the first thing that really resonated with me. It just made sense. It was natural. It's a man's first diet Before we discovered fire we ate our foods, you know raw and and so I always I always thought well That's an interesting concept and so I went out and literally went to Amazon.com ordered like 20 books devoured them I mean, I didn't really eat them, but I had them all and and I was just so amazed by it that time I mean, I was sold times a hundred. Yeah, I switched to a hundred percent raw vegan overnight Didn't look back sticked on that for over five years and just maintaining that distinctive and basically what it was is I Had noticed that when I had switched to raw and started reading the books There were so many different philosophies and ideas, you know Some people would say you need to be a fruitarian some people would say oh you need to mono meal Some people say natural hygiene or you need 50% of your diet to be in superfoods or you need to juice You need to do smoothies and it was just so much Information and kind of a little bit of conflict as well. Oh, yeah that I just decided listen I have to do this my way. I've done this everyone else's way I've heard about every single diet I've tried I've been told what to do felt totally disempowered my whole life if I'm gonna do this I have to do this my way. It's the only way it's gonna work And so I created a rule for myself and the rule was you can eat whatever you want as long as you stay a hundred percent raw So in the beginning I mean I was making the most ridiculous size salads ever the only way I can think about it is When you go to an Italian restaurant It's kind of like family style and there's like six of you and they put the salad bowl And it's for the whole table like that was my salad for lunch and that was my salad for dinner Like that size salad I mean I had anywhere of upwards of ten handfuls of nuts and and one bowl of salad I mean I'd have two to three avocados per salad. Yeah, and at the time people like oh, no You can only have three avocados a week I was having three in a salad and the weight was just flying off me Faster than I could ever have imagined. I mean I remember after the first three months. I was standing on the scale With my wife in the hospital and and I couldn't use my scale at home It didn't go high enough. I couldn't use the scale of my doctor's office because it didn't go high enough I had to go to the special unit in the hospital that had these big electric scales and I remember just standing on it and You know, of course we started at 400 pounds and I stood on it and we looked at it And I was just like oh, you know it obviously hasn't reset from the previous person So I got back off we pressed the reset button I get back on and this number appears again I was just like wait a minute unplug it. There's something wrong because it was digital So she unplugged it plugs it back in and resets and I step on it again And both of our jaws just dropped because we realized the reality I mean I had tried so hard before and couldn't lose more than 20 pounds and here I mean I literally did zero exercise for the first year I switched to rock because I was just so big But with the diet change alone I had lost like 55 pounds in three months my clothes were falling off me I was just in shock in awe But at the same time it was kind of like the snowball rolling downhill building a momentum It just got me more excited to go for it an even stronger way And that's kind of what really kept me going Wow, that's awesome. I mean especially without I mean it just it's almost like magic, you know the way you describe it So you went from those kind of like the big sounds and then you're really well known for the juice feasting So how how long did that come about like what was the process? Sure. Well the salads, you know, I just knew that intuitively everything would change And so after a while, you know having ten hands fulls of cashews just didn't feel so good anymore And so my body naturally just adjusted and I was just like, okay This doesn't feel good and and before when I would have to have you know two avocados minimum per salad I mean I would notice that sometimes a week would go by and I hadn't even bought any avocados Things had changed my my portions got dramatically smaller Because I was starting to assimilate the food and getting more into me for the first time in my life I mean back in the day I could eat a whopper and be hungry 15 minutes later because my body's like thanks I don't know what you gave us, but you didn't give us anything that we actually wanted Yeah, so we're just gonna pass that through you and we're still, you know Hungry for these vitamins these minerals and blah blah blah and now here I am blasting my body with spinach and kale and just goodness every day and smoothies that That I think that's how I really transition back to the smaller meals and then I said, okay What's next what do we do after this like I feel like I've gotten this under my belt and it feels really good The first year went by I had lost a hundred pounds in the first year with just the diet change alone And then I said, okay round two or here. We are in the second year. How can I how can I up this? How can I really you know face fears and and and and you know see what kind of challenges there are? And so I heard about this idea of this 92-day juice fast, right? And it just seemed crazy I mean like who does juice for three months? Well, you know, I'm a Scorpio. I'm an extremist. So I'm like, okay I'll do it. I literally made the decision overnight and and and Switched and did in an end of being a hundred days that I did it for and I literally just had juice for 100 days and during that time, I mean I lost 55 more pounds I finished at the end of the second year the second year. I lost another hundred pounds literally cutting my weight in half in two Years from 400 to 200 pounds But the juicing just blew my mind because I mean I was literally having Things happen to me physically that I didn't even know where possible I mean it the only way I can describe it is without sounding, you know overly esoteric is it almost felt like I Was having a born-again experience because the sky it seems bluer and the You know the trees were greener I mean I remember driving down the street and actually having to pay attention to the road because everything felt so Magnificent and my vision was just so clear I mean I was seeing out of the left and the right peripheral and then this this Middle space here and then way way back. I was seeing that all at once all in detail Yeah, and you know, I know a lot of times in the raw food world people say like superhuman and all this stuff and joke around But I really started to feel like that and I had such clarity in my mind and Was just getting new information kind of downloaded into myself that I knew that I didn't even have previous knowledge of and it just was It was really quite an amazing experience. Wow. Let's take a quick break for our sponsors Mezzy grill calm where authentic Mediterranean food meets modern flavor. They're now serving breakfast as well They're on 8th Avenue at 55th Street in New York City and there's worldwide Franchising opportunities available and they also just recently made the NYC clean plates edition. So it's really clean food. 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So back to that I'm glad you really covered the like the emotional awakening because that was something that I really felt too like at first It was for physical, but then you know, it's like you're blasted past all this stuff and and the juicing really brought that on more so Yeah, the juicing was amazing, you know so many people that start raw or start juicing one of the things They always get into talking about is oh, how was the detox and how do you go from eating? 5,000 to 7,000 calories and and you must have had the most incredible Detox and you know sure there was a little bit of physical detox probably less on my side because I was just eating so many fats in the beginning but what I did notice is I had the most incredible emotional detox ever and What I mean is I mean let's put it this way when you're eating heavy foods, right? Which I was a pro at eating all these heavy bulky fatty foods when you have emotions that come up in your life And they rise up. Well, I would notice that I would go and eat heavy foods and weigh them back down again And then I played this game of you know a little while later. I might be getting stressed out from work I might be depressed about something the emotions kind of flare up again I eat these heavy foods and it weighs it back down again And and so that was a normal process but now you switch that to a raw food lifestyle and the emotions flare up and Eating a salad just doesn't do that great of a job of weighing down those emotions So all of a sudden stuff comes up comes up comes up And you realize that you have one or two options the the first option which a lot of people tend to do is they go from raw To eating cooked and having something heavy that weighs that down Then they go back to eating raw and then eating cooked again because they can't deal with the emotion weighing it back down And generally every time they play that transition There's a little bit of extra guilt that gets added on that says I couldn't do it or I'm a failure Usually that's not the best option the second option which I decided to go with was I said okay This is coming up the emotions here. I don't even know what it's from. Is it from childhood? Is it from you know the present moment? I don't know, but I know that I need to let it go I need to figure out ways to let this go and so this emotional purging was going on and you know I started getting into just you know reading some spiritual books and Eckhart Tolle and being in the present moment and not being Afraid to cry and letting the emotion out and just being really real with myself and in the beginning It was a process like I would try to have to figure out where everything was like what coming from like why am I upset? Is this is this for my parents getting separated is this from this and that and After a while I realized that I was putting too much attention on it So I started this simple practice of acknowledgement and release so when I felt the emotion come up I would just acknowledge it like I acknowledge the fact that I feel sad today and I let it go and and I just would continue that process of acknowledging and letting go as A lot of that emotion childhood pain trauma, you know, I mean I you know I had I mean I've teased my entire life I've only been able to shop at one store for like the second half of my life because no place had clothes that fit me I mean I used to be a five extra large shirt in a size 58 jeans Okay, I mean you just can't find that kind of clothes anywhere. I mean and it just goes on and on just tons of Insecurities and ticks that I created and just from being that size and and moving into Letting all of that go once and for all was such a big thing for me now you switch that to juicing Let me tell you there's really nothing that weighs down those emotions. I mean because it's just like you're drinking water practically I mean you have emotions. You're just not able to bury it with the food like you could with Eating in standard American diet or even eating raw and including nuts and things like that So sometimes the emotion detox comes even more faster and furious and it's just like, okay, here we go and And it's good because once that's out man, and you feel refreshed you feel renewed you feel like a new person I mean I barely can remember who I was before I lost the weight. It almost feels like another lifetime ago. Sure, sure For some people just getting into this lifestyle What would be some supplements or some tips or tricks that you could recommend for them to get you know make some quick gains Well, one of the things that I like to usually recommend and you know, obviously switching a hundred percent overnight Is not something that you know is very feasible for most people or most people will be able to do So a simple method of working some more raw into your life and making some helpful changes is a process called the Replacement method and the replacement method is simply this it says that Okay, I am going to and you pick a meal I'm going to change my breakfast instead of having bacon and eggs every single morning. Here's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna just learn how to make a great green smoothie or Substitute with fruit or something like that and so you're adding something in your diet You can have whatever you want for lunch whatever you want for dinner. This is just one thing That's it and so you work at that for four to six weeks until it becomes a habit Until it becomes easy until you don't feel like oh, I'm making that you know Smoothie in the morning where you're kind of like it feels like a struggle. No, this is just what you do every day now This is part of your life. It's easy and then when you feel really comfortable with that you add in the next thing How can I how can I add in a wonderful salad for lunch? And then you keep you create a habit out of that and you keep playing that game Until you finally realize well There's just not enough time in the day to eat all the garbage that wasn't serving you before and eat all this amazing healthy food So, you know just to buy a method of displacement you just place the other stuff out And you find yourself at a new space with these wonderful wonderfully created habits that are really just assisting you and guiding you and Makes the transition a lot easier And usually that works the best for people it really gives them a Slow-paced lets you feel grounded and it doesn't feel like you have to do too much all at once Yeah, what would be a good recipe for a green smoothie? You know my favorite green smoothie recipe is very well It has a simple base, but then you can you can get excited with it if you want to so what I like to do Is I think of three things one I want to get my nutrients in there So I either pack it with spinach or kale Or sometimes whatever other fun green that I can find that you know, maybe just might be on sale that day or look You know really fresh that day but I like to get in the dark greens and you know I'm talking about like I usually do a whole bag of spinach or You know like two three handfuls of kale some people could put a couple of leaves and I pack it in like if we're gonna Have this and we're gonna get the nutrients out of it like let's really pack it in so yeah first of all You got your greens second of all you want to make it creamy you want to make it yummy You know you don't want to just be chomping on lettuce leaves in there So I usually go with a banana okay depending on how you are with sugar You can do one to two bananas and that's gonna make it creamy So first we got our greens second We got the creaminess and then third you might have something you might want a little bit more of a sweet taste And I like to put in either mango or blueberries or pineapple Blueberries probably my favorite and I'll just mix some of that in there So again you got your greens you got your bananas for smoothiness and you got whatever fruit you want to make a sweet fruit And I usually just have some frozen fruit or I'll get fresh fruit and then I'll just freeze it It's nice and cold when you blend it up the whole drink is cold But then of course you can play around from there like I'll add a little bit of sea salt which brings out some of The flavor I'll add some carob Because I love I love the taste of carob it tastes chocolatey But it doesn't have the caffeine in it and I'll add maca root for you know for that for that stamina and and Sometimes I'll add a little bit of green powder in there as well Okay, depending on and then and then of course my Sun warrior protein powder I like to get in there, especially if it's an after workout, but those are all again optional You know another optional thing that's kind of fun is if you find you're drinking your smoothies too fast You can add a little pinch of cayenne in there and that's a sure to slow down your consumption a little bit And unless you're like me, I love cayenne so I could just drink it straight, but it's kind of a fun thing So you have your base smoothie and then you have these other things that you can kind of add in as fun little options If you really want to make it, you know like a powerfully packed superfood smoothie. Yeah, cool So what's your daily protocol like these days? I know it's always, you know People ask me the same thing and it changes from day to day But what's the true? Where's the trend going for you right now? Sure. Well, I definitely I definitely enjoy keeping it as light as possible So my main things that I eat are four items and it's going to be juice smoothies soups and salads okay After about five years five and a half years. I did start to transition in some cooked foods so during the winter I was experimenting with Tonic soups, which is something fun cool, which some people are now getting into basically if you've heard about making tonic teas Or medicinal teas. I know in a previous episode you had Kurt on and he was talking about his Rashi mushrooms and or in the chaga and all that stuff and how great that is so you can make a tea and then you drain out The mushrooms and all that and you have the broth and then you can put in root vegetables in there You want to get fun? You can throw an artichoke you can throw in different things like that Yeah, and basically you make the soup and then what we do is we'll take the soup when that's all done We'll put it in the blender and then we'll add greens in it So we'll add in like arugula some something really I mean just just something packed with nutrients a little bit bitter Yeah, maybe a little bit of coconut oil will blend that up cool, and in the end you have this warm tonic Green soup. I mean medicinal. I mean it's just ridiculous. It goes through your whole body and you feel just amazing So that's kind of a neat way that I like to sort of get in a little bit of a cooked warm element If that's something that I'm looking for or if something that your your listeners are looking to transition into a little bit But it's it is a creative way because you're not necessarily like eating chunks of stuff It's blended with the greens and you're getting the same amount of you know high impact I believe you know especially combining the tonic tea with it, and it's just it's just out of this world Yeah, yeah any probiotics or fermented foods? I do Sun Warriors Probiotic Ormus greens. Oh, which I like to mix in my soups, which is really fun But besides that I mean man. I I got to say I love Kim. I love kombucha. I Love rejuvalak. I don't really get into rejuvalak too much just because I'm not in one place enough to make it Yeah, but I if I can find in the stores. I'm all about the rejuvalak for those of you that haven't tried that it It smells like pickle juice, but it tastes like lemonade. It's kind of interesting And what's it made from? I think we would do that with wheat berries and Water, you know, it's been so long. Yeah, that's it time. I made it was about four and a half five years ago when I went to the the a raw food center in And Michigan actually Oh, yes The health Institute and and they taught us how to make it there But mainly kombucha has been my thing as a recent and of course like a sauerkraut kimchi I mean, I'm just I'm an addict when I make my own crowd at home and in big pots And you know comes out with like, you know a gallon and a half by the time I'm done And I usually blast through it a week in a week. I always I always refer to it as Just you know, you're going on that the kraut diet because I mean the minute you the minute I'm done and my crout's ready She's like my body's craving and I just want to eat so much of it and by the end of the week I'm like, well, I've actually like lost an additional five pounds on top of it Yeah, just moves through your system and it's just so fantastic and just clears things out of it But so yeah, I really am into I'm into that as well. Do you have you ever gotten into colonics or enemas? Yes, and and I believe in them a lot, you know, there's some mixed feelings I think about it mainly probably because people have had just a such a poor idea In life about what it means to feel comfortable to you know, touch yourself I guess in that in that regard and you know, nobody wants to have the idea of like some tube in their butt And that's what happens when you get a colonic or enema, but once you can get over that You're fine because it's I mean I recently introduced two people to an enema in the past month and just kept encouraging them and went out and bought In my bag and told them how to do it and I was like try it and when they they were done They were just like like literally it was like life change It was almost like a light went off and they were just like wow. I feel so different like I actually feel Happier now be like now that something's out of my body I mean literally people sometimes have stuff stuck in their coal and that's been there Since childhood, you know, and it's just I mean I'm not gonna get into it too much But you know one of one of my good friends is a colon hydro therapist and she said all politicians should get colonics You know as a joke, but it's really serious because you know You feel amazing, especially if you haven't had it done before And when you're going on a juice fast, you know after a few days You're not having obviously normal bowel movement because you're not eating mass right amount of food and colonics are mandatory because you're detoxing And you don't want all this toxic stuff to be stuck into your system. You want to be able to flush that out So enema is at home definitely Colonics, you know when you can afford them or if you're doing any kind of juice fast or long juice fast Then you know as much as you can afford most likely Yeah, do you know of any people that do bentonite clays while doing a juice feast? Is that common at all? Yeah, I don't I think the only person that I know that's done that Personally is my buddy Matt Monarch I think he did a heavy series of that like a seven day series where he's pumping that out every day and Doing two colonics a day too. Yeah, which was madness and he actually said he had almost like a euphoric Blissful experience where he felt like he was just sort of lifting off the ground so to speak. Yeah, and I mean There's people that get into that a bit And I mean, you know, you hear stories about people who are so bloated and then they have these Colonics or do a bentonite clay or whatever that it, you know And they've even talked about rings like literally sliding off people's fingers because they're so bloated Oh, and you know and it's just an interesting thing because it's still I think it's still fairly Untapped because a lot of doctors don't understand like regular doctors don't understand it and they don't normally Recommend it and it's kind of surprising because I've found lots of value from it Especially clearing away a lot of the stuff that's just been there for years and You know, some people even have worms and different things that come out and next thing, you know What they're eating patterns different because before they could eat and eat and eat and eat and nothing ever satisfy them And they might have been skin and bones, but they can still keep eating and eating and not realizing that there's other things That can be at play there. Yeah parasites. Okay, so since you lost all the weight You said that your activity level really really bumped up a lot So what kind of stuff do you do during the day? You know to keep to keep busy stay after feet on your feet. Yeah Sure. Well the first year I didn't do any exercise when I lost the weight and then after I year was over I said, okay It's time for me to incorporate something into my life and of course everybody had suggestions as they normally do Oh, you need to do you know go to the gym You need to do this many reps and this many weights and you know this many sets and all this stuff And and I knew that if I found something that wasn't going to be appealing from I wasn't gonna do it It was gonna be like anything else I was gonna try for three weeks and I was gonna be done with it So I said, okay, I have to figure out something I like to do That involves move now. I don't care what it is. I don't even care if it's just ping-pong I have to find something and I decided to go out and do hiking which was perfect for me I didn't want to run down the street and you know 300 pounds and have everybody looking at me hiking I'm like in the woods. Nobody can see me. I'm surrounded by trees my my breathing is better And and so I started with that and then I did that the whole next year as I lost that second hundred pounds And then after I had lost that weight. I said, okay, this is pretty fun now I now I'm actually excited to do some weightlifting and excited to do push-ups and things like that So I've been in an experimentation phase. I've done everything from The P90X workout, which I know you've mentioned before I did that for a couple months. I mean literally the best shape I ever was in my life. Yeah Super trim. I just was doing things physically that I didn't even that I've never been able to do in my life ever Even when I was younger So that was amazing to Being on the move and not being able to do that and getting in a lot of you know body weight Exercises and so that's what I really enjoy the most right now. I think Just getting in push-ups. I mean we kind of play this game and I've done this with you know My buddy Drew who you mentioned and other friends too is is we'll just any time throughout the day We think about push-ups. We have to just stop and do 20 so it could be like on the way to the bathroom It could be you know, you've been on the computer for a half hour and just okay quick 20 minute break Let's just drop down and do push-ups, you know get back up and then you find out Wow, I've done you know 10 sets of 20 today or 20 is easy now I can do sets of 30 or or let's try different things instead of traditional push-ups You know, let's try like diamond push-ups or you know different types of things that are working different areas So I've been really getting into that and that really helps when traveling because you know I mean between doing that and and kind of crunches and sometimes I still take my p90x disc with me Actually have it right here with me and I'll just do the ab workout too So I'll put my push-ups and then I'll do a quick 15 minute ab workout Yeah with a variety of different crunches and leg exercises that are all you know focusing on the abs and stuff like that And that tends to be nice now. I'm recently. I've been up here in Jasper Alberta and it's just I mean, it's like God's country up here It's just so amazing that I just been putting in walks all the time I mean six six miles is easy I don't even blink because it's great the person that I'm with doesn't have a car the town's like a couple miles away Anytime you want something to eat or do anything fun, you know, it's just you just walk And so I try to get in as walking as much as possible I mean I try to incorporate all the little things like you know When I'm at the airport and you know, you have to go to the next gate I don't stand on the moving sidewalks. I walk and when there's the escalator or the stairs You know, I take the stairs and when I'm in a building when it's the elevator stairs I take the stairs, you know making simple choices like I don't have to be in the closest Parking space in front of whole foods I can park in the back and I can walk to the door, right, you know so kind of just creating a lifestyle of Exercise a little bit more than like okay from this time to this time I'm gonna do this from this time to this time I'm gonna do this now. It's just like I always want to be moving I always want to be working out even when I'm watching a movie sometimes I just sit down the ground and do stretches and and get my flexibility where I want it to be and Drop down and do a couple push-ups and sit that sit back up and kind of always just being active So it's kind of a state of being Active and you know my vibe, you know if you ever check out vibrant shoes It's like I wear those all the time and they just make me want to be even more active just walking down the street I want to climb on things and jump on things. Yeah, so much like go bike-fighting. Yeah, okay We're going to go hiking sure I'm there, you know, and it's just it's fun It's it's creating a lifestyle of health and exercise and enjoyment. Yeah. Yeah So how many books do you have published now? How many have you written? Um, yeah I just actually thanks for asking. I just actually finished my fourth book. So who started off with Raw food fast food, which was basically like simple recipes 10 minutes or less Okay, and then it went to raw food salad bar Which was a simple soups and salads because people find that soups and salads tend to be the bulk of what they eat After they go in raw for a while And then I wanted to do a dessert book. So myself and my friend Heather Pace. We did a Raw food care of desserts and we really wanted to Introduce care been a big way and decided to launch the first raw food book about it for those that have trouble with chocolate And aren't so interested in having the caffeine now that we can make a bunch of desserts with that and then most recently I just finished a raw food juice bar with my friend Natalia KW and that's just amazing beautiful juice recipes that are exciting and fun and You know, I'm big into juicing. I promote it I may not host a juicing event every so often up in Canada as well where people can come in detox So yeah, I'm really excited about this most recent one and it's it's been getting a lot of good reviews That's so cool. If someone wants to get that where would you suggest they they get it from? Yeah, they can just check me out on Philip McCluskey.com all my stuff's on Amazon I sell it for less expensive. So you gotta check it out there or you know also you can get the ebook version for less If you're interested being a little bit more eco. Yeah. Yeah, that's a really good idea So now you're going to Australia and then what are your plans after Australia? Are you coming back to the States or Europe? So one of the things that I'm really excited about is I'm going to Australia and As I'm going there. I'm kicking off a new program finally after working on a program for years I created a Seven-week at-home complete weight loss full-life transformation program. It's called World sexiest diet and there's also going to be a book coming as well the world sexiest diet People can check that out old sexiest diet.com. So I'm going to start touring in the States specifically for that because so many people I mean the biggest question that obviously I get from somebody who's lost over 200 pounds is you know, how do I do it and You know a lot of people will bring up things and so I've tried this and that and you know The funny thing is there's a lot of diets out there that have been created by skinny people Who don't understand the plight a really losing way good point and and that's kind of what I get into I address the emotional issues and and give you the keys to transform and we talk about the seven secrets to Sexy and how to you know get your outside and the inside sexy So you can feel that self-love and really transform your life So I'm going to be on tour for that. So we're doing this Australian tour And then I'll be just bouncing back and probably moving right out to the the West Coast After February and continuing on there. How long are you gonna stay in Australia? Two months. Okay. Oh You're gonna hit the West Coast East Coast both of them and I think we're gonna try to hit Perth It's a bit of a stretch man. It's just a big country But yeah, but most likely the East Coast definitely Sydney and In Brisbane, hopefully a Byron Bay and Adelaide in the round there Cool You should see if you can find some there's a lot of food forests and permaculture people out there And I'm sure it would be it would be a good place to host a talk if possible Maybe talk to your connection out there who's getting everything lined up And she might know of some good permaculture people because that's like the best place for it Yeah, and there's some cool, you know aboriginal You know just wonderful wonderful people and events and things going on and I love getting into there You know, I'm not so much into the whole tourist scene Like I like to get into the heart of what's going on and and if I can get you know get up to New Zealand and check out Some memories on the way back man. That's that'll that'll be a wrap for me. I'm looking forward to that I also plan having a good time there I booked my my one of my people that I love to watch musicians is Jason Razz and I Booked tickets at the Sydney Opera House there. We're gonna go skydiving. So this is all about kind of like Merging business into pleasure. And so it's not business anymore or not pleasure It's just life and it's just kind of what we do and what we enjoy Well, it's a bit of mix of everything which which makes it quite wonderful Yeah, you know, you're gonna be pretty close to Bali as well So if possible, I would highly recommend Bali I've had my friend my friend Suki's over there. Yeah, right. She's always just like I'm gonna come to Bali He's probably sure yeah, I mean, it's really probably I don't know a three-hour flight from Australia You know once you're that far over you might as well do what you can but all right Very cool. Very cool. So before we break If you could give the guests or not the gear the guest But if you could give the viewers maybe like three books that you would recommend You know just like three books that you've read in your life that really made a big difference even two books Just something that they could go on. I would probably say if I was gonna pick two books right now Well, I think it'd be three books that first one would be definitely the power of now by Eckhart Tolle love love love Eckhart's work and it's really helped me release a lot of the emotional stuff and come back to the present moment come back to now and You know just to take life a little bit easier, you know the second book I actually have right here and I go through this a couple times this this will be one for the men But it's also one for actually anybody The way of the superior man is fantastic and I just read this one over and over again That'll you know guys that that's a little bit of a reminder on what it's like to be You know a guy and then women it's kind of like women check that book out as well because it gives you a little bit of Understanding on how we how we tick and so those are those are a couple great books That one deals with a little bit more relationships obviously Eckhart's a bit more spiritual matter And you know another one which I really really love is the way of the peaceful warrior I know they made it into a movie Which was all right, but the book was just fantastic and that's by Dan Milman and I've read I mean I used to read that book over every single year just to inspire me to Face fears and overcome and and you know really go for it in life. No deathbed regrets You know, it's like saying yes to life and really embodying all that that really means awesome That'd be my recommendations. Very cool. So how can people find you Facebook Twitter? Where are you on the internet? Sure Twitter? My name Philip McCluskey dot com PHI LIP MCC L us ke why I have a Facebook fan page. It's Facebook comm slash Philip McCluskey and then the number seven Philip McCluskey seven Or my website Philip McCluskey comm a lot of people might have known me from my previous website name Which was loving raw you can type in loving raw you can type in my name either way gets you there You'll be able to see all my posts tons of free videos and hundreds of blogs and Fully complete raw food online store. So yeah, there's a bunch of different ways. You can check me out. Awesome, brother Well, cool, man. Thank you so much for coming on the show. I really appreciate your time and your presence My pleasure. Thank you so much for all you guys are doing. Yeah. Yeah, I'll see you when you get back. Have a good time All right. All right. Take it easy Phil. Peace later, man All right, everyone. Thanks so much. That was Philip McCluskey. He's a big hero of mine He's made some major gains. I mean major gains stuff that you know I don't even forget the guy's name from Subway But it's like that stuff's like irrelevant to me like what Phil's been doing completely overshadows that so check him out for Sure, and check us out on only one TV calm and we'll see you really soon. Take care. Thanks a lot. Peace