 Namaste, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you may be across the planet, around the world. My name is Greg Prescott from N5D.com and today I'm just giving a brief update on my progress on Keto. For my New Year's resolution, my one and only New Year's resolution, I decided to go on a Keto diet. I've done it before and I've lost a lot of weight with it. Subsequently, obviously I put it back on and from what I've understood, you got to find some kind of balance and it's hard to go back to, it's kind of like many of us that have gone down the rabbit hole. Once you go down the rabbit hole, it's hard to go back. If you go back and become a normie, you can't live life the way you did before you went down the rabbit hole. Now with the Keto diet, once you go down that rabbit hole and you come back out and try to be the normie again, your body will reject that idea and you'll put that weight back on. I know I did it. So yeah, on January 1st, I weighed 226 pounds. Matter of fact, I have some some pictures. So yeah, January 1st, this is what I weighed when I was over at in England at Allie's place with my wife and you can see, yeah, I was a big boy then. Quite large, large and this picture, whoops, the picture on the left was taken from one of our live shows that Allie and I did right before I started my diet and the picture on the right is today. So and I'll get back to this transformation thing because you know, I'll show you this in a minute, but if you're looking at the picture below, you can see the transformation and I'll get back to that in a minute. But yeah, there's a lot of dedication that goes on with the Keto diet. I talked about possible cheat days thinking, okay, maybe I'll have pizza and a big glass of milk. Right? Never happened. I had zero cheat days, none. The thing is you find little maneuvers and tricks around like some of the foods that you're craving. One of the foods I was craving was Manicotti. My mom would make these French crepes, obviously using flour and some mozzarella and ricotta cheese in the center, roll it up into a little roll and homemade spaghetti sauce on top, top that off with a little mozzarella, bake it until it's all nice warm and gooey. One of my favorite meals ever. But you can't have those crepes, but I found a recipe for Keto crepes with I tried coconut flour, I tried almond flour. It's just not the same. It was okay. The crepes don't hold up the way you would expect them to, so yeah, that didn't work. What else? Oh, I did a French onion soup, but every time I had French onion soup, it seems like I would put weight back on and I didn't use the sweet onions. I just used yellow onions. It was so delicious though, and I don't have any regrets. That wasn't cheating. Another food from my past on my father's side, I'm half Polish and Russian on my dad's side and Italian and Spanish on my mom's, but on my dad's side, pierogis are popular food. So not only do you have the flour with the dough, you also have the potatoes. I love pierogis, but yeah, I couldn't eat pierogis. Not that the store-bought ones are horrible. Anyone that's Polish or has had authentic Polish pierogis and then has Mrs. T's or any other store-bought pierogi, they suck. One time, I think it was from my parents' 50th anniversary, my daughter was down and we made 50 pierogis from my parents as one of their anniversary gifts. So yeah, and they take forever to make, but it's so worth the time and effort. What we do is we put well, you mash the potatoes up and then you put cheese and caramelized onions on the inside and then you take the dough and fold it over, tamp it down with a fork, boil it until it rises and then take it out, let it dry and then most people will fry it afterwards until it's nice little golden brown on the outside. Serve it with a side of sour cream and you're good to go. I see Cynthia McCollum in the chat. Hi, Cynthia. Is there a formula to training the mind to change negative thoughts to positive thoughts? That's a great question. And honestly, Cynthia yeah, I really got to want to do it. It's like an addiction. You know, you got to want to quit whatever that addiction is and for this you really want to you got to have your mindset on doing it. It's all a frame of mind and I was ready. I was ready on January 1st and I thought yeah, this this is it. I've done it before and it was successful and I did it again. Even though I did talk about on the video, there's a link if you're watching on facebook, it's up here. If you're watching on youtube, it's right below the video but it was my first update that I did where I lost 15 pounds quickly in the first month and it took another month and a half to lose another 12 pounds, but that weight came off. But in that video, as I was referencing, I talked about possible cheat days. A friend of mine in in the UK, Cliff lost a lot of weight on the keto diet and he looked fantastic. I saw him when I went to be with Ali in October and November of last year and he looked fantastic. He lost about 60 pounds in the past year on keto but he gives himself cheat days and I talked about that in the video about possibly taking it day off. Some of the things I miss the most would be pizza. There's a chain pizza. I'm not big on chain pizza but there's a chain pizza place called Jets Jets Pizza and they have this four-corner pizza that's just amazing. It's like slightly burnt on the edges and it's really good. I come from upstate New York and I had some friends come down from upstate New York and they stayed with me and one time we went out for pizza and trust me, upstate any place in New York, New York knows pizza, real pizza, not like Domino's or Pizza Hut, real Italian pizza. And they came down and I told them about Jets and they tried it and they loved it too. So it's not just me. It's hard to find really, really good pizza. Jets Pizza is one of them but that's one of the things I missed and but now that I've gotten past that hurdle, I found there's certain things you can do and I'll be talking about shortly about how you can bypass that craving and that hurdle for some of the foods that you miss and enjoy and that's why I didn't have any cheat days. So hi to everyone joining me in the chat. I see Debbie Seared and play. Thank you very much Debbie and Moorer just came up from the beach. You look great. I keep missing you. Moorer's down here on Siesta Key and I'm on the beach all the time. I was there this morning despite it looking like rain I went there and got about an hour's worth of exercise and and uh, yeah, missed you again. Hi Jenny. How are you? I always think of it like this. There are two different realities running at the same time. One is negative and one is positive. We choose our experience by choosing our thoughts. Great answer. Yeah Great answer. That always inspires me to get back on keto. Awesome. Men seem to lose faster than women. So we have to be more patient, but I lost 30 pounds on keto. Good for you. Wow I I I met you Jenny not too long ago on the beach and doesn't look like you have to lose anything, but I don't know where you would lose 30 pounds from, but you know, if that's what you choose go for it. Yeah, um, I guess women have other places they would put it you know the the girly places I guess um then then guys so that probably makes sense that guys would lose it because we we lose it. Now, where are we going to put it? It doesn't go to our our our chest or our ass goes to our stomach and that's where we lose it. So about two weeks ago I stopped intermittent fasting I was doing that I was fasting from 5 p.m. Until 1 p.m. 20 hour fast and for no apparent reason I decided I'm not going to intermittent fast part of the reason was was because in january and part of february the weather was really cold here in florida. I I know no sympathy it was in the 60s which is cold if you're not used to that anyway it was too cold to go to the beach and because of its coldness I wasn't getting exercise in and but once it started warming up I would go to the beach and not you have to go to the beach early this time of the year because it's called in season all the tourists are down for midwinter break or spring break or whatever and you got to get down here early to get a parking spot so I figure okay. Well, I'm not going to wait until one o'clock to eat I'll have my a light breakfast before I go to the beach and what I usually have For breakfast is three eggs over easy. That's it. No toast obviously nothing else And I'll talk about this a little bit more too under hurdles and that you end up having on the keto diet But yeah, I stopped intermittent fasting uh Like I said kind of for no reason. I was just listening to my body My body said, you know, it's okay I try still try not to eat main meals anytime after five o'clock Tonight's going to be different because it's ellie's birthday and we're going to do a dinner in a movie so Um, yeah, that's that'll be a meal at eight o'clock and that's fine But yeah, ultimately. Yeah, just listen to your body. So what is keto? Right everyone's talking about it It's kind of like carnivore But it's a little different because you can eat You know vegetables and some fruits and stuff No carbs. No rice pasta noodles potatoes corn bread ice cream unless it's keto. There is keto ice cream out there And there's a low carb Ice cream by briars. I would have that on occasion just to give myself a treat No sugars. Uh, that's basically all juices and certain fruits Most fruits, right Certain fruits are good for you like strawberries and watermelon and uh blueberries Watermelon sweet. However, it's so high in water content That it's okay to eat So I lost 77, uh, I'm sorry 27 pounds in 77 days Right since january 1st and yesterday on march 17th st. Patrick's Day was the first day I went under 200 pounds And uh today i'm at 190 199.1. So um Yeah I have this um I have a scale that has an app to it and the scales right below me and youtube and right above me On facebook, but it it tracks my weight every day And I mean it does so many other things too. It shows you your your body fat Which mine for a large boned male that's within range um body mass Actually, my body fat has to go down a little to 25. That's the outer limit of the range My body mass index uh for somebody of my frame is is up to 30 So i'm at 28.5. That's fine And so on, you know, so It it shows you all this stuff that will help motivate you to Continue doing what you're doing if you're setting goals for certain body mass or body fat or whatever But Yeah, that's just one of the many things that You have to have those goals throughout keto or else Or else you'll relapse and you'll say oh screw it. I'll have a soda or I'll have this sandwich with real bread And you'll put that weight right back on um Jenny says she's the toppings on pizza if the crust isn't keto Right, they have this cauliflower crust I hate cauliflower and I tried it though I gave it a shot and sucked Yeah, pizza gotta have pizza jenny. I'm with you on that Well, it is that time of the year too, you know, that's this is the time of the year where many of us do put weight on So that's understandable. Hi claudette. How are you? Yeah, you do feel you feel lighter you do In other ways. So yeah more energy. Definitely Large bone. Yeah, I've got you know broad shoulders big bones. Yeah So large frame It's that polish and russian in me. I think I got it. It's it's well the app it comes with the The scale and I have a link to the scale above and below Um, I I don't remember the specific brand I I step on the scale every day. I just don't notice the brand name, but it's yeah, it's down there and up here Whether you're on facebook. So it's gonna be right above me Hmm sparkling water with stevia. Okay. That's a good idea. I don't have so soda cravings Um on a rare occasion. I know it's horrible for you mountain dew I was a mountain dude junky um before I Pretty much gave up all sodas, but once in the blue moon, I would still have uh a soda and it would be There's a place called windixie. It's a supermarket here in the united states And they have a soda a cola that's made with sugar I know I know Sugar's like the worst thing you can have But I would on a rare occasion have that you know everything in moderation. Don't judge. Okay But that's a cool trick jenny Oh, that's interesting. Wendy says there's a chicken pizza crust too. Interesting. I've never heard of that That's not that sounds good I gotta look up a recipe for that Yeah, that sounds really good. I would try that But yeah, I've had zero cheat days and The thing I miss the most Yeah pizza definitely um Milk for beverages milk. I'm a milkaholic I guess I I was a milkaholic. I drink a lot of water now ton of water But yeah, I used to go through a lot of milk probably three quarters of a gallon of milk a day Yeah a lot of milk um There's one thing I don't understand How is it not okay to drink milk on a keto diet? But it's okay to have cheese and cheese made cheese is made from milk How is one okay in the other not? And that baffles me Scientists are baffled over this one Uh juice is another tough one because I love Orange juice and pineapple juice I miss that now One of the cheats that I found was using These tortillas it's only three three net carbs per tortilla so I'm okay with that and what you do with that is you take some Avocado oil put it in a fry pan heat it up put your flour tortilla in there Brown it up on both sides not terribly brown, but just light brown There's your pizza crust and then And I found this uh from uh low carb low carb love on youtube uh myra But I I did something different. I took that actually I did two of them. I did a red pizza I made my own sauce with a low sugar tomato sauce and added my own spices to it And uh mozzarella and pepperoni on top And then on the other one I did a white pizza where I had ricotta cheese and garlic butter all mixed together and then more ricotta on top And I made a white pizza So that's how I beat my pizza craving. Of course, it's not as good as you know your italian pizza or jet's pizza or whatever But it still helped me get over that that craving I had for pizza Some of the some of the things that you'll go through you'll have hurdles Everyone will have hurdles on the keto diet and my hurt my hurdles The biggest one was probably Plate towing and this would happen when I had that french onion soup I made some homemade french onion soup. It was delicious And I put some gruyere cheese in it and melted it. I didn't put any bread in there no bread Just the soup and the cheese, but that's still for some reason would make me gain weight And so I might gain a pound or two And sometimes you just gain a pound or two. Maybe you had a lot of water Maybe you had something high in salt and you're retaining water but sometimes you'll just You'll just gain a little weight here and there like like back on the 15th And that was only a few days ago. I was at 202.2 You know now i'm down to 199.1 But even at the beginning of the month I started out at 203 0.3 and then I hit a massive plateau right here And I just couldn't lose or gain weight just plateaued and actually I started gaining weight. I'm like wow But then for no known reason I lost it You know, you can't get yourself down on that if you see your weight go up It's okay. There's probably a good reason for it, but You can't say oh fuck it I give up No, because it was only a few days after that Yeah on the 15th two days after I went below 200. So Hang in there and you can do it another plateau Is repetitiveness You know, they say varieties the spice in life You know for breakfast for the last couple weeks i'm doing Three eggs over easy You know in the past i've also done scrambled eggs and Little bacon or scrambled eggs and sausage and I know I know people have said that's not the healthiest food for you to have Especially after you've had quadruple bypass Thing is I needed to get my weight down Quickly and this is the way I did it. This is the way I chose Right and I feel really good about it. I kind of decided today that initially my goal was 199 and then once I hit that to Adjust it to 189 but I think maybe I think i'm gonna keep doing my Diet the way I am But with occasional I might actually have a sandwich one day Right. I might go out and buy some milk But i'm not gonna go overboard. I want to keep it basically Regimented to what i'm doing and if I can stay around the 199 195 to 199 range I think that's a good wait for me I had a quote or A comment rather on my post Earlier today I I made a post about and I showed the What was on? That that weight Daily weight reading I did a screenshot of that and I posted it on my facebook page And there was an interesting comment that I'd like to share with you guys If I can find it Here it is Yeah So I posted this earlier today as many of you know, I've been on the keto diet since january 1st of this year I started out at 226.3 And as of yesterday I hit my goal of 199. It took 77 days to lose 27 pounds From this point forward. I think I might just maintain my weight and not be so strict about being on keto And that's what I initially Thought would be the right thing to do, but there was an interesting comment by jill Jacobson And she said that she's been carnivore For just over three years now. She started with keto Healed many health problems type 2 diabetes. This is not medical advice or information This is just some one person's experience Okay So take that youtube Uh, so type 2 diabetes was one of them every time I tried to add things back in Like what I was saying, you know, maybe milk or bread with it with a sandwich Well, it's not good at all when eating keto or carnivore your body stops losing When it is at its comfort zone and stays there Please be careful. It's a slippery slope And you've done amazing. It was so hard seeing you go through all your health problems, my friend. I appreciate that I do because the lord knows I've been through a shitload of health problems, you know in the past three years But I'm fucking resilient here. I am So That's what made me say I'll probably stay mostly Yeah, keto or maybe carnivore, you know Go back to the comments real quick I grew a stevia plant and dried it. It is very sweet. Yeah, I some people call. Is it stevia or I call it stevia I know other people call it stevia Um, yeah, I have a a big bag of it So And I also have monk fruit extract that I use as well Jenny says we get raw milk from the farm here and I think it's so beneficial right on No Sadly, no Man, I love orange. You can't eat oranges period too sweet too high in sugar And jenny says she makes pizza out of tortillas nice nice, but yeah, yeah the the ones I have they're they're only three net carbs So it's really low in carbs and you still get that pizza fix Oh, thank you susan I appreciate that Sure chicken crust recipe nice I'll check that out when I get done here What motivated me was knowing if I ate high carb or sugars It would set me back three days and get it out to yes, that's true Dr. Beth said you are either burning that we're storing that and carbs create storing that is so true Yeah so true Claudette says eating some kind of cheese is okay because whey is removed. Okay, that I did not know that and the fermentation removes the sugar in the milk I didn't know that Okay, still doesn't make a lot of sense so They don't remove the whey and the sugar in ice cream apparently that's why you can't have that i'm assuming And lots of water flushes out that yeah, yeah, that's that's the truth Dr. Bird disagrees about eggs being bad for the heart There's a lot of research on that lately you remember when Well, I don't think you're old enough to know But when I was a kid they were saying, you know margarine was the thing Remember that commercial the older people here will will know if you think gets butter, but it's not It's I'll let you guys answer it in the chat to see how old you are to remember that And that other commercial it's not nice to fool mother nature That was another margarine commercial But back in the day, you know marg they said When they were saying that margarine is better than butter They were also saying don't eat eggs Now it's the other way around All right. Hi Tina. How are you? TJ says scrambled egg On toast a little bit of cheese yummy everything in moderation. No, I can't do it Can't do the toast I I could well I get the moderation thing, but I just And I do have keto bread They sell keto bread at Aldi's and it's only for keto bread. It's inexpensive. It's like 375 a loaf They're tiny loaves though. They're not they're not that big So I could have that But what I do is I freeze the loaves of keto bread. I've got like three of them in my freezer And I just don't have the urge to have any so I've gotten away from bread Thank you. I appreciate that Ah, and that's coming from a paramedic Yeah, I keep getting better every day. Thank you So Chris calls it stevia. Okay Gotcha That's correct ice cream is high in sugar and fat. Yeah If you think it's butter, but it's not It's chiffon I think parquet was uh, it's not nice to fool mother nature. I think you're right on that But it was chiffon margarine Why do we have stupid things like that stay in our heads? Why is that important for me to know 30 years after the commercial originally aired? Did I save that just for this moment? Can I get rid of it now? Holy shit crazy So yeah, repetitiveness You know trying to shake things up for breakfast you know, maybe I'll Go to scramble some scrambled eggs mix some mix some cheese into that dice up a little onion in there side of bacon, who knows Finding new recipes is always fun or creating your own To have the gumption and the balls to create your own and say fuck it. I know all this stuff is good Like one thing I want to do I've got some ricotta cheese Or not we're caught. Yeah ricotta cheese in the refrigerator And I did it I I bought some first to meet when I made some white pizza with the tortilla shells But I had plenty of leftover and I'm thinking what can I do? What else can I do with this? So I'm going to take some of the ricotta cheese and some cream cheese some paprika and a few other spices Carve open a chicken breast and put that all in there And you know put it back together with toothpicks Heated up so it's nice and warm and gooey on on the inside and Maybe put some uh tomato sauce homemade tomato sauce on top little mozzarella on top of that It's a cheesy chickeny gooey mess Right, so yeah, I don't know if there's a recipe out there. I don't even know what it would be called if it was a recipe, but stuffed chicken Italian stuffed chicken breast. I don't know It just sounded good to me and that's one of the things I want to do with it so don't be afraid to experiment and try stuff that Perhaps you've never heard of maybe it exists. Maybe it doesn't. I don't know But like the the white pizza with the tortilla shells. I didn't look for any recipe for that. I'm like, okay this makes sense Or the tortilla tortilla. I'm sorry not the pizza shells with the tortilla So yeah, um The long-term challenges what what I showed you from Jill's post Made me think twice, you know, but I you know, I don't want to lose too much weight. I think this is a healthy weight for me You know, I've seen people that you know, many vegetarians are just like They they're so skinny. They don't look healthy And they might be 10 times healthier than me. They just don't look it I don't want to get there. I don't want to be that skinny. I don't think ever could because I do have like I said big bones But I want to show you, um, I'm gonna get back to this before and after that I have And I did this on photoshop or paint shop pro. I use a couple different Photoshop kind of Applications this was the last time That I lost that I went on Keto and that was back when I had before I had the chest surgery Um when I I had no no quadruple bypass scar there and I actually had a belly button back then I Kind of lost my belly button after all of my surgeries that I've had but Outside of that, you know, if if you were to envision my body, it's pretty close to that right now. So Except with all the scars that I have and that's why I'm not taking a picture like that Well, I do have one like that, but it's for my own entertainment I took before and after kind of thing This was me at ali's flat In the uk and you can see you can see my belly coming out right there. I had a big belly and You know how round my face was I I put on some weight when I was out there No regrets This was from Our ali's in my last show Before I started The keto diet so it was it might have been new year's eve Our new year's eve show and then on the right. That's me today I took that right before the comparison before and after and what I did was I overlapped that picture On top of today's picture and you can see the difference look at the face The weight in the face is just like you can see how much I guess that's another place jenny that guys can lose it, you know, we lose it in our stomachs and our faces I imagine you would lose it in your face too But yeah, it's it's quite the transformation. Um, so A lot in my face I make strawberry keto ice cream out of heavy whipping cream. Oh Give me a recipe for that. That sounds good because I got like three containers of whipping cream And I've got strawberries and I got blueberries Heck yeah, that sounds good. Please send me that recipe I know one of them in ketosis. I don't have any cravings. Nice and we'll have power. Yeah, there you go Clota says almond flour is okay for pizza crust. Have you done that clota because I've used almond flour for Jim to make french crepes It didn't work. Well, it wasn't good at all. It fell apart Yeah, that would be good if I liked mushrooms I'm making barbecue spare ribs with an onion mushroom red wine reduction and egg fried rice. I'd share with you brother, but Yeah But I'm not there some more for you That's okay barbecue spare ribs sound good I couldn't eat the rice, but yeah ribs sound good And I'm not You know, I know that some people say oh, you can't have barbecue sauce because of the sugar No, I'll I'll put because you're not using that when you put some like barbecue sauce on a Chicken thigh. It's not that much. I'm not going to worry about that so Anyway, that that's pretty much my uh my update Thanks for joining me here on YouTube and facebook That's a good question debbie I'm curious. Does your cholesterol get higher on the side? I've got my yearly exam coming up in like another month or so And I had all my blood work done and I'll find out then right But from what I understand like there was a comment from this Jill on my facebook page saying that her type 2 diabetes was resolved. This is not medical advice And my friend cliff in the uk same thing So if it can be reversed You know stuff like that if it can then it's a blessing At what expense at the expense of your cholesterol, maybe I don't know I'll find out though about And when I do find out I'll pass that back on I'll do another update video probably in another month And we'll see where I'm at then So anyway, I want to thank everybody for joining me here on facebook and youtube Thank you for watching if you're watching on the recorded version as well and We got to get ready for Ali and is and I are going to have dinner in a movie tonight. We're watching back to the future And I made pot roasts with green beans. That's going to be my dinner. So To those who Are dieting I'm with you Keep up the good work Maybe I've inspired a few people to start dieting. It works 27 pounds in 77 days. It works. You've seen the before and after And uh And I wish you good luck as well. So until the next time. I'm just going to sign off here Greg from n5d.com and centasia.com n5d.net And uh sending you all infinite love and light take care everyone. Thanks for joining me