January 24, 2018 • 32 mins
January 24th 2018
This week's guest is Christy "Code Red" Nickel. A former professional boxer, turned health and diet coach. Her book "The Code Red Revolution: How Thousands of People are Losing Weight and Keeping it Off WITHOUT Pills, Shakes, Diet Foods or Exercise" is available now and she talks about what types of carbs you should be adding, how to track your food, what macronutrients are, why you need to be eating more fat, and how you can lose 10% of your body weight in a month on her diet. As always if you have any questions feel free to ask them. Just hit up @Worstanthony on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat.
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Account right, Yes, it is podcast number four. So this
will be the second diet expert that I talked to.
If you remember too podcasts to go, I spoke to
my friend Nicole who works with Dr Oz and that
was one specific diet called the Pigan three. You want
to go check it out, just scroll down and find
that podcast that I don't have that many yet, and
I think what we're going to find out together is
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a lot of the diet people we talked to, a
lot of the fitness people I talked to during this podcast.
You're gonna have um varying ideas of what you need
to do to reach your goal. And that's kind of
the whole point of this podcast is just like when
I was doing the the video series with Elvis Durant,
there was a workout for everybody, there's a diet, there's
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a fitness plan, there's a workout for everybody. And maybe
someone I speak to doesn't really um give you the
information you need, or maybe their plan doesn't fit your lifestyle.
The whole point is the more podcast you listen to,
the more people I talked to, the the more information
you'll have to attack whatever your plan is, the better
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you'll be prepared for whatever your journey happens to be.
So this is going to be another diet conversation, So
let me go ahead and I'll try to do this
like a boxing announcer making her way to the podcast
Christie code Road Nickel, Did I did I do that right?
Do I sound like a boxing announcer? And you did
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it actually really well too? So you spent your your
time for how many years being an actual professional boxer?
I was a federally licensed from two thousand two to
two thousand ten and never renewed my niceness after that. Uh,
and I just started boxing as a way to pay
my way through college. I had no idea that it
would turn into what it did. I mean, but that's
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you realize, that's kind of a crazy way to think. Okay,
I have to pay for college. Let me go beat
the crap medicine people. No, no kidding. I was bartending,
I was waiting tables. I was dead broke, I mean,
just nothing. But I always stayed in shape. And so
I took a local boxing class at a at a
local y m c A. And little did I know
through the class, an actual boxing instructor was was watching
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me through the window. What comes up to me? And
he said, he said, how long have you been boxing?
I said forty four minutes. You have a propensity for
this sport. Well, now that i'm a coach, I understand
what he means. Some people just got it right. And
so he said, why don't you fight? I said, buddy,
I'm not answer said no, I'm in college whatever, And
he said, you know, you could earn money to pay
your way through college. So I just started fighting, literally
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to pay for my dinner. It was five dollars to fight.
It was all sanctioned, regular boxing. But I was knocking
out every one of my opponents, and I had good
showmanship and I could speak to the press, so my
popularity grew. It turned into something huge. I got my
own MTV show, I won multiple awards, you know, I
traveled the world fighting. So that's kind of how it
went down. Well then, how okay, And I'm gonna go
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back to um the whole Broke College thing in a
little bit, because I think there's an important um question there.
But how did you go from that world to coming
out with a book about diet? When I was when
I retired as a professional boxer, I was I picked
up a lead level of road cycling and I would
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cycle uh and I hear. I am my early thirties
at this point, and I would cycle uh anywhere from
two to three hundred miles a week. I was one
of the top level cyclists. Yeah, and I mean I
went all over the country cycling. It was a very
very good cyclist. Well, I was getting fatter and fatter
and fatter. And here I'm coming off being ranked one
of the top three in the world in boxing to
one of the top ranked female cyclists you know, in
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the area, and I'm getting fat. So I started to
I thought I can't possibly ride or train any harder.
And that's when I found out about the phenomenon. I
now called the fat athlete, and I was I was
a fat athlete. So I started realizing while I was
freaking fat because I was shoving too many carbons and
sugar in my face. And I didn't realize it because
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I thought while I exercised that I ain't know a
big deal. Well, then I that's how I got So
then that's how I made the transition to holy crap,
everybody needs to realize that. And everybody, no matter if
you're in a wheelchair, you have a brain tumor you're
seventy eight, or you don't exercise, that has nothing to
do with weight loss weight loss and is one new
trition related. So then I made the transition to one
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nutrition and wrote the book. Okay, so the book is
the coda Red Revolution, how thousands of people are losing
weight without shakes, pills, diet foods, or exercise. Correct. Everyone
is on board with the first three things, without shakes,
without pills, about diet foods, but I feel like without
exercise throws a lot of people off. Absolutely, I'm one
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of the only ones I've ever I've ever heard actually
say it, And I mean, and I am an elite
level athlete with a degree in exercise science, and yet
I'm telling people, hey, it's not gonna do any good.
So yeah, I think everybody should exercise, absolutely for the
million of the reasons. But think about it, it's not
gonna make it's not gonna do a hell of beans
good with your weight loss, and and the science backs
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it up. I mean, you think a pound of fat calories, Well,
I burned about four hundred calories during a three mile run,
which I do every single morning with my dog Anabelle.
That would take nine runs for me to work off
one pound of fats. And I'm gonna blow out a
knee and most people will without ever before I even
make a dent in my weight loss. And so I've
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got and I've I've built up a twenty year long
career just helping people lose weight, and I've got hundreds
and hundreds of testimonials to back up that. It's just
you can lose all the weight you want without having
to exercise. Okay, so then let's jump into what is
what's the theory behind it? What is the process here?
What I do is take people completely off carbs of sugar.
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And when I say carbs, I mean simple carbs clearly
not complex carbs. I think a lot of people do
get caught up. It's like, oh, I got to remove
all carbs from my diet. What is the difference between
This might sound like a very basic question, but what
is the difference between a simple carb and a complex carb?
So just keeping a simple um, the complex carb vegetables,
fibrous vegetables. The simple carbs are your breads, things that
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have a high glycemic index, the things that have a
high sclycemic load, the things that break down into sugar
as soon as they hate your stomach. Okay, so a
regular potato falls under the regular potato does trigger insulin.
So I take people off potatoes during weight loss mode.
So we eat like we're diabetics. We we want to
become very insulin sensitive. And even me, I'm not even
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near being a diabetic. I only eat We're talking about
meat and vegetables, nuts, ache seeds, and healthy fat. So
I take people off fruit during weight loss mode, and
I take people off all potatoes, any kind of pasta, grains, rice,
anything that causes inflammation. Anything that's going to trigger an
insulin response and increase the water. Take them off soda,
pop juices, things like that, and make sure they get
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at least seven hours of sleep at night. So it's sleep, water,
and real food. Why is seven hours the key? Sleep
is the absolute number one biggest factor when it comes
to weight loss, hands down, when you are getting lack
of When we have a lack of sleep, your body
senses the lack of sleep as stress and it will
hang on body to body fat to protect revital organs.
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Your brain is five, so it's not gonna let you
lose any weight if it's sensing that you're stressed, and
it doesn't know the difference between stress from being chased
by a saber too tiger, stress from lack of sleep,
or stress from being struck in traffic. It just says
stress and it hangs on a body fat. So if
you don't and I've seen this, I mean that's just
in the hundreds of times you don't sleep, you are
not gonna lose weight. And you and you found that
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seven hours is that magic number. Yes, that's so I've
I've gone back and forth between eight seven, seven and
a half. I mean everybody's funny, but I haven't. I mean,
everybody's different. There are some people who can function. People
can function. People are chronically sleep deprived in our in
our study, they're barely functioning, but they're functioning on a
lot less sleep. Problem is you won't be able to thrive,
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which is what happens when you need to lose weight
on less than seven hours. I've just seen from trial
and error that once I kick I get people below
the seven hour mark, man their weight lost stalls every time.
Well as I'm in the the morning radio world, so
trust me, I know. Sleep is definitely a come out
of the that people don't get a lot of and doctors.
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Doctors aren't talking about it. Nobody. People come to me
and they say, you're the only one that has pushed
sleep on like that. I said, nope, gotta sleep, gotta sleep,
gotta sleep. Nobody is really talking about this. Nobody says
how much are you sleeping? Nobody wants to say that.
That's the first question I asked. If someone who's very
new to any sort of diet opens up your book,
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what are the what are the first couple of things
you need to get people to understand To kind of
go through with this type of diet. The biggest thing
I want them to understand is to keep it simple.
It's very, very very simple. People want to get hung
up on organic, and they want to get hung up
on gluten, and they want to get hung up on
bull crap. They shouldn't even worry about right now, let's
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worry about just getting you to sleep. Let's worry about
getting you just to start drinking some water and keep
the food simple. People want to complicate everything, and so
that's the biggest thing. And I hear him. They'll come
up to me to books any though, come up and
he'll say, what do you think about some complicated I
don't even talk to m d s about this kind
of stuff they're bringing up. And I'm looking at them
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and they're, you know, there's seventy five pounds overweight, and
I'm like, but you just need to get some water
in you first. Quit worrying about the details. So to
keeping as simple as absolutely job one, you know, And
maybe you can help with this, because every single week
in this podcast, I give people something really easy that
they can add to their week. So the first week
was find out how much water you're supposed to be
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drinking and drink that much water. Literally the simplest thing
you could do. The next thing was getting it was
actually was getting the right amount of sleep. So it's
great that you're saying that. What's another thing, a very
simple life change that people can make that you think
will make a difference down the road. Oh man, you
took up the first two good ones. I was supposed
to say. Um, I mean I could, I could, I
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could say cut out sugar, but man, that is that
is that's so broad. Um, But people, I guess I
would say that people cut out the sugar that they
know is sugar that they know they shouldn't be eating.
That's probably the one thing I would I would say
right off the bat. Okay, I like that, And I
think everyone has that one thing they know that they
can do without. Yes, people create more obstacles than they
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originally have. People create these obstacles in their head. It's oh,
I can't function if I don't have blank in the morning,
or I can't I just I have a sweet tooth
that I need this every time I have dinner. And
you're like, no, you don't, You're just you're making that
up in your head, absolutely, uh, And people were just
live to in our society, we're taught we're taught to
eat three meals and two snacks. We're taught to eat
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low fat. We're taught to eat you know, frequently throughout
the day. We're taught this, we're taught that. And so
people have these things in their minds. You're right, they
their their head is totally. So a lot of these
people they they're just being they're just doing what they've
been taught wrongly in our society, by our government, by
the nutrition, the pyramid, you know, things like that. But
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they need to realize sugar is eight times more addictive
than heroin, and so it's not their fault that they're
really saying, I can't live without my blank, my Alma joy,
candy bar or whatever it is, my right grispy treat.
That is true. It is a chemical addiction. They cannot
help it unless they get off it, like they would
be getting off drugs. So it's that that's very liberating
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and and it takes a shame and builds out of
things when you tell somebody, when I look at someone
who's really heavy and say, you know, it's not your fault.
We just you're just doing what you've been taught your
falling when you're dot. They are not lazy people, they've
been taught wrong. First off, it's funny they brought up
I'm enjoy because I really do love myself and I'm
enjoyed from time to time. I really really do. But
you said something. Eventually, you you started boxing. You got
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into this fitness world because you wanted to pay for college.
And I always love when people who listen to the
podcast email or hit me up on Instagram with questions.
And one of the questions I got was, how do
you actually maintain a healthy diet when you already broke
time stressed college kid. That's a really great question. And
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the big misconception is that eating healthy is expensive and
it's not. It's not. Um what one of the things
that I would suggest, because you're talking about so you
take it. You take some fat. Right, fat has nine
calorie Look at an avocado has nine calories per gram.
So if you eat a high fat diet, you need
less food. Therefore, on my plan, a high fat diet,
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you don't need to eat as much. So it broke
college kid really could get away with eating one to
two meals a day of something that's got a lot
of fatted it avocado's, walnuts, eggs, and bacon. That's the
best breakfast you could possibly get. You won't be hungry
for seven hours after eating that. So if you play
your cards right and get a ton of fat in
your diet, it doesn't take very much food. It's the
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crap like the cereals and the rice and the pasta. Yeah,
you're hungry. I mean, think about a bowl of oat meal.
It's like the worst thing you can put in your
body that it spites your blood blood sugar faster than
the Snicker's bar. There's no protein, there's no fat to
slow down the absorbed so you get this huge sugar rust,
you feel fantastic. Twenty minutes later you crash and then
you're hungry. I mean, we're all hungry after a big
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bowl of oatmeal, like an hour afterwards. So these are
things that are just fallacies. They're wrong. But if a
growth college kid eats a lot of fat and protein
and gets you know, then they don't need as much
food to keep them going and they'll stay full for longer.
Not to mention all the other benefits of a high
fat diet regulated hormones, more energy, better, sleep, better, hair
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and nails will grow. All that kind of stuff you've mentioned, walnuts, avocados, Like,
what are the healthy fats people shouldn't be looking for
when they go to a grocery store. Yeah, the walnuts, avocados.
Look at real butter. You're looking at you know, steak
with the with the fat on it. They're looking at chicken,
like the rotisserie chicken from Costco with the skin on it.
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You know, there's so many ways to get the best
way I tell my clients to get fat in their
diet is adding butter to their vegetables. Man, butter it up.
Lots of real butter, that's fantastic for you. Lots of
olive oil. Fry things in olive oil. Don't take the
fat off things. Frior friar bacon first, then fry the
eggs in the bacon, grease, Eat all of it, Enjoy
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all of it, Lick your fingers. Those are the kind
of things that helped get the fat in the diet.
Avocados are the best thing you can possibly put in
your body. What stuck out to me there, which I
think stuck out to anyone listening to the podcast is
you said you use butter, and I feel like everyone
has been kind of taught to stay away from it. Now,
why is that it's absolutely incorrect and wrong. There's no
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science to back up not using butter. They you know,
back in the early days, when back in the fifties sixties,
when you know ansel Keys came out with the whole
low fat craze. When are you know, that's when we
really started getting sick and fat, because what happens when
you take fat out of things, you had to put
a lot of cards and sugar back in to make
it taste good. So that's how we got marjarine, which
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is the worst thing. It's terrible for you. And so
we got marjarine. Stay away from real butter. But there's
no science to back this up. We have we see
better cholesterol numbers from people that eat a high fat
diet and put a lot of butter on things than
people that eat margarine instead. Okay, and I know that
we touched on this earlier. We broke down kind of
the difference between complex carbs and simple carbs. But this
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was another question had It was just very simply someone
hit me up on snapchat and wrote, I want to
know more about carbohydrates, Like what do you think people
need to understand to move forward with a diet like yours.
It really is a big misconception that people need a
lot of carbs. Um Like, even an athlete just doesn't
need a lot of carbs. The ketogenic diet is fantastic
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for athletes, being a keto adept adapted athletes. So I
you you just gotta look at grains. There's just your
body nowadays with the grains we have nowadays, and that's
the carbs. I'm I'm kind of referring to the process.
The rice, the grains, the bread, the Cristians, bagels, things
like that, muffins, those things just they wreak havoc on
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our body, on our gut, lining, on our insulin levels, everything.
So you really there is no need to eat any
of that. I don't care who you are. I am
an athlete and a very good one and I do
not fuel up on carbs. But what are the cars
that you because you mentioned there are good carbs, so
what are the cars that you do? Suggest? Vegetables, vegetables, nuts, eggs, seeds, vegetables.
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So I have a very low carb diet. My people
are on a very low carb diet. We're talking about
of their intake coming from carbs. So that's so that
would be vegetables. I mean there's a couple of carbs
and eggs. We just primarily eat just high fat. Okay.
And then I love this question. This is actually the
I think second or third time I've brought this up
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in a podcast. How do you keep a clean diet
but also go out on the weekends and actually enjoy
life and not be a little hermit? Like can you
drink alcohol every now and then? What are what are
the deals there? So my, my, my ice, I see
this as a little different. Um. You know, my people
are called code red rebels because we don't believe in
what society has brainwashed us into believing in. Code red rebels.
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We don't. We don't believe in cheating because we don't
really feel the need to. We just choose to put
healthy stuff in our body. And so when someone says
I just want to enjoy myself and I just want
to enjoy himself, but see, I enjoy myself having what
I have. I don't need to drink. I don't need
to to get to get wasted or to you know,
like to get buzzed or anything like that in order
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to in order to feel like I'm having a good time.
So that's kind of a mindset ship. However, to answer
your question, the best alcohols that you can put in
your body if you uh, if you want to drink,
are gonna be your clear liquors, your gin, your vodka,
and mix them with something that doesn't have sugar, like
a diet sprite or a diet tonic, that kind of stuff,
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so you don't want to you don't want to have
a lot of sugar. That's where your alcoholic stuff comes from.
And the alcohol isn't really even the problem. It's just
the alcohol makes you three of your inhibitions. Then you
start eating like the entire sleeve of fris packers. Yes
you do. Also, a four rounds of four unce glass
of wine is perfectly healthy. The problem is no one
just has a four round class. They have a twelve
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ounce class and they fill it up three times, pretty
down the whole bottle. That's not healthy. Now you mentioned
that your clients usually have them on what carbs yep,
temper of their intake, they're gonna be two questions here.
One is from someone who just wants to know more
about macros in terms of nutrition, and that's the word
I feel like has become really hot recently. Everyone's talking
about macros. I have friends who never talked about nutrition
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a day in their life. We're talking about I have
to make sure I get my macro's what is that? Yeah? Right,
So your macronutrients you're fat, your protein, your carbohydrates, and
so you've got micronutrients that are the smaller version that
you just meets, just small traces of well these are
that's what That's what they're referring to their macronutrients. That's
just short from saying macronutrients. And so my mic you
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want to balance them outical in two different plans, you know,
the zone diet and da da da da dada. You
just do won't home, You won't hear me throwing around
those those fancy, gimmicky catch marketing kind of terms, because
it's just it's just gimmicky. But my clients are on
their macro breakdown is six and their intake comes from fat,
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comes from protein, and ten percent comes from carbs. Now
why do you feel that works? Oh? The science backs
it up. I have studied, gone gone to UH seminars
and all kinds of conferences and red books, and we
see across the board, hands down, that is the best
healthiest way to eat where. And then when you're having
a high fat diet at these sixty percent of your intake,
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there are no detriments, there are no we don't see
any side effects from that. We have the healthiest people
on the planet are our eskimos, and they're on almost
a hundred percent fat diet. So we're just we're not
seeing the high cholesterol, and we're not seeing the diseases,
we're not seeing the cancer. And that's because people are
getting so much intake from fat. They're not getting simple carbs,
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are not getting any sugar, and we're seeing across the
board that are insulin levels and science science, science to
back it up. And then I of course I have
hundreds of people that I have, hands down, all ages,
even up until their eighties, are losing weight and getting
getting healthy. And obviously, as a reminder, as people listening
to this podcast, when you mentioned facts that we're talking
healthy fats here, we're not talking about anything other than
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healthy fats. Yeah, we're talking about dietary dietary fats, avocados,
avocado oil, things like that, and this kind of follows
that up in terms of tracking your macros, tracking the
percentage of all of those macros. What do you find
is the best way to keep track of what you're
supposed to be eating, because I feel like a lot
of people get lost there. They know what they're supposed
to do, but in a regular day, you it's it's
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hard to keep track of all that. Correct. Yeah, exactly,
so hands down, without a doubt. I've tried out all
the tracking apps and I use lose it, l O
s E I T it's a little orange scale. I
don't get any kick back from them or anything from
them by saying that. I'm just saying that's the best
track of crap out there my clients, and you'll find
this in my book. My clients have got to it
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is a requirement, and that's why people do so well
because you can hear in my voice that I don't
take crap from anybody, and my clients have got to
log their entire day before the day begins. So you
can't fly by the seat of your pants. So as
you say, okay, so I have in my groceries. I've
got an avocada, I've got baked in here and beat eggs.
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I've got some asparagus. What else have I got? Okay,
so I think this is what I'm gonna have. Before
your day begins. You beat boo boo b boop. Put
all the numbers in, get all the get all the
macro's right, make sure your balance, make sure you look good,
make sure I approve it. Everything looks good. And then
you start your day and you eat according to your
log because you'll put something in your mouth, you'll swallow it,
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and then all of a sudden, when you go to
put it in your app, you'll realize, whole crap. I
shouldn't have eaten that, like a stupid protein bar. You
shouldn't be eating protein bars ever, that's fake food. And
so as soon as you that, you'll notice your numbers
are completely skewed. Now what do you do? The damage
is done. You can't go throw it up now you're
now you just screwed up your numbers for the day.
So the question I know I would have you have
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the track record, you have clients who who swear by you.
I'm going to assume that buying a book and reading
what you tell your clients is different than actually having
you there with me on a daily or a weekly basis.
So how do you bridge that gap with the book?
So so people have been getting great results with the book,
and that is that is hands down my heart's desire.
I don't want them to have to need me to
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do that. But if people need a little more accountability,
what they do is they order what a custom program.
And what we have them do is is WILL have
them fill out of a long questionnaire about everything, and
then I will I have staff, but we together, I
write everybody's program. We write everybody's custom program. We give
them their exact numbers that they need to reach their goal.
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And I have formulas, I have you know everything, and
then we send it to them in a bag box.
And then and they get to be tethered to me
for three months on our Facebook page where they have
to actually turn in their way to me every Friday,
and they they and I look at it and I
go over it and I call them out good or
bad on a Saturday morning coaching call. And so it's
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it's a way to keep that DoubleTree Hotel cookie out
of your mouth. But for people like me probably you,
that don't need the accountability and don't need the custom numbers,
the book was is really it's it's it tells you
everything you need to know. And I had kind of
a problem with that when I sat down with my
team and I was like, really, we're gonna give away
all this information. I mean, how am I gonna make
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money if we just tell them everything? Well, that's that's
definitely seems to be a problem because people really still
want the interaction with me. So we get people that
join me, and we've got groups of thousands of people.
They'll come to us for a challenge, like we're registering
right now for that ten pown Takedown challenge, and they'll
they'll get on and they'll get coached, you know, in
large groups each day by me, and then it gets
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a little bit small or of a group were a
little more expensive, and even smaller than that, we're more expensive.
So we have different tiered programs to meet everybody's needs.
So now you mentioned the ten pound challenge, right, and
I know you have clients who have lost like a
hundred pounds with you. Oh lord, yeah, I'm going to
make up a number. Okay, let's let's imagine that your
average client wants to lose they made a new year's resolution,
they want to lose twenty pounds this year on your diet.
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And let's say they're they're exercising moderately because they enjoy
it or whatever on your diet. How soon can they
expect to do that? No, that's I can tell you
right now. You can lose ten percent of your body
weight every month on my plan. And can you do
that with the book? Yeah? With the book, it's just
a matter of following what I say and people it's
it all boils down to how bad do you want it?
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I mean I I just did a book signing in
Portland on Thursday, Friday, and then one on Saturday in Washington,
and people were coming in and they're saying, all I've
been doing is reading the book and I've lost X
amount of pounds. So it absolutely can be done. It
just has it just boils down to a part where
are you ready? Because I break it down, You've got
to clear out your cupboards. You cannot no more nor
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drinking alcohol. You've got to get yourself this much water
a day. So people if they do it. It will
work and they'll feel fantastic. They don't have to they
don't have to um, they'll have energy, they'll sleep better.
So yeah, it all boils down how bad someone wants it.
If people want to find out more about you, where
can they go? You can always go to Code Red
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Lifestyle dot com if you want to be in our
challenge ten pounds takedown challenge dot com and that will
get you. It's forty seven dollars to enter. You can
win over four thousand dollars and prizes we do. It's
forty five days where you're getting coached daily by me.
You get tracking sheets, you get everything you need and
it's a lot of fun. You get you're you're in
a big community of support and it's uh. It's a
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great way to lose at least ten pounds in forty
five days doing really really really basic basic guidelines. Well, Christie,
thank you again. The book again is called the Code
Red Revolution, how thousands of people are losing weight without shakespills,
diets or exercise. Thank you so much for being on
the podcast. Appreciate it. Thank you, I appreciate everything. This
is great. You're very easy to talk to. Thank you.
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I do this every day and not everybody is is
as easy as you. Let me tell you. I mean,
I'll take the compliment. Thank you have a good one, alright.
The weekly challenge, so every single week on this podcast,
I've been suggesting something that you can either add to
your life or something that you can do to uh
kind of get on this journey, will do it all together,
you know. So the first week was to drink the
(27:30):
appropriate amount of water. Hopefully you're all doing that. I
know that there were two days that I missed. I
didn't drink enough water for myself whatever I have a
lotted for me, and I actually didn't feel great the
next day. So the water thing has actually been helping
a lot. The other challenge was to get at least
six hours of sleep. According to UH Christie, we should
be sleeping seven hours, So if you can do that,
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that's great. And then last week was a little different.
Last week was challenge yourself. Find something. Maybe it's three
months down the road, maybe it's six month down the road,
maybe it's a year from now, but find something that
you can do in two thousand eighteen that challenges you.
And it doesn't have to be fitness related. You could
go do an improv class. You can go sing karaoke
in front of the crowd for the first time. The
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three there are three kind of challenges that I'm working
on right now because I don't know how my schedule
is gonna play out for the rest of the year.
But they're all physical type challenges. One of them is
to run a half marathon, and I've done a half
marathon before, but this one, my goal will be to
run it in under two hours, which I've never done before. Then,
there were two stair climbs here in Seattle that I'm
gonna try to set up or get registered for. I
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should say one of them is done at the Columbia Center,
which is one of the tallest buildings on the Columbia
Tower that's one of the tallest buildings on the West Coast.
And then the other one will be running up the
stairs of the Space Needle for this Space Base two
space thing they do. So those are the three things
I'm looking at. Once I confirm one of those, I'll
obviously tweeted out at Worst Anthony, And if you need
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some someone to hold you accountable for your challenge, you
can hit me up at Worst Anthony on Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook,
or email My Day Friday Show at Gmail. And for
the challenge this week, you'll be removing something from your
daily habits. And we talked in a couple of different
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in both of the diet podcasts about how sugars can
really sabotage whatever your goal is. So my challenge for
you isn't to cut out sugars entirely, because I know
it's really difficult to do right away. If you can
do that, great, but find that one thing that you
know you shouldn't be eating or drinking and cut it out.
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For me, a couple of months ago, I think it
was October Avis screenshot of the conversation I had somewhere
I was drinking Monster Energy for no reason. Um, I
mean for a reason. I guess I was tired, but
I was drinking entirely too much of it. I mean
it got to a point where I was almost drinking
a can every day. And I really think that at
some point I got addicted to it because I had
never really I don't drink coffee. Um, I'd never really
(30:03):
drank that much red bull. I mean here and there
at an event or something. So I decided because Carla,
Marie and my boss Rich were making fun of me
for drinking. I decided that day that I wasn't going
to have anymore. And since that day in October, I
really have not had any energy drinks. There were two
instances where I was at a bar and someone handed
me a drink. It happened to be a red Bull
and vodka. Um, and I'll let that slide. Crap happens,
(30:27):
but find that one thing. Maybe it's soda for you,
Maybe it's a candy bar that you have every day
at work. Maybe it's a bag of chips that you
eat while you're watching Netflix at home, whatever it is,
find that one thing and cut it out. Because if
you can do that one thing, if you could proof
to yourself that you can go one week, two weeks,
three weeks without that thing, then you know that you
can do it with anything in your life that you
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want to cut out. But prove it to yourself. First.
Pick that one thing that you want to cut out
and decide right now what it is, and don't go
back to it for at least a week, and then
you'll feel better after it. You'll feel accomplished, and hopefully
you continue doing that. UM, I'm going to try to
cut out sodas as well, So along with the energy
drinks that I've already cut out, my next thing is
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to cut out sodas entirely. UM. You can again tweet
me if you want, If you want someone to hold
you accountable, I'm more than happy to do that. At worst, Anthony, Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook,
and Instagram. At worst, Anthony, if you have any questions
at all, hit me up. UM. You can also email
my Day Friday show. I know I'm going to have
a guest on the podcast I think next week about
(31:33):
speeding up your metabolism, like what you can do to
speed up your metabolism. So if you have questions specifically
for that, I will try to get them answered. Until then,
good luck on whatever journey you are on, and thank
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you so much. This is Workout Wednesday, Podcast number four.
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Account right, Yes, it is podcast number four. So this
will be the second diet expert that I talked to.
If you remember too podcasts to go, I spoke to
my friend Nicole who works with Dr Oz and that
was one specific diet called the Pigan three. You want
to go check it out, just scroll down and find
that podcast that I don't have that many yet, and
I think what we're going to find out together is
(01:07):
a lot of the diet people we talked to, a
lot of the fitness people I talked to during this podcast.
You're gonna have um varying ideas of what you need
to do to reach your goal. And that's kind of
the whole point of this podcast is just like when
I was doing the the video series with Elvis Durant,
there was a workout for everybody, there's a diet, there's
(01:29):
a fitness plan, there's a workout for everybody. And maybe
someone I speak to doesn't really um give you the
information you need, or maybe their plan doesn't fit your lifestyle.
The whole point is the more podcast you listen to,
the more people I talked to, the the more information
you'll have to attack whatever your plan is, the better
(01:50):
you'll be prepared for whatever your journey happens to be.
So this is going to be another diet conversation, So
let me go ahead and I'll try to do this
like a boxing announcer making her way to the podcast
Christie code Road Nickel, Did I did I do that right?
Do I sound like a boxing announcer? And you did
(02:11):
it actually really well too? So you spent your your
time for how many years being an actual professional boxer?
I was a federally licensed from two thousand two to
two thousand ten and never renewed my niceness after that. Uh,
and I just started boxing as a way to pay
my way through college. I had no idea that it
would turn into what it did. I mean, but that's
(02:34):
you realize, that's kind of a crazy way to think. Okay,
I have to pay for college. Let me go beat
the crap medicine people. No, no kidding. I was bartending,
I was waiting tables. I was dead broke, I mean,
just nothing. But I always stayed in shape. And so
I took a local boxing class at a at a
local y m c A. And little did I know
through the class, an actual boxing instructor was was watching
(02:55):
me through the window. What comes up to me? And
he said, he said, how long have you been boxing?
I said forty four minutes. You have a propensity for
this sport. Well, now that i'm a coach, I understand
what he means. Some people just got it right. And
so he said, why don't you fight? I said, buddy,
I'm not answer said no, I'm in college whatever, And
he said, you know, you could earn money to pay
your way through college. So I just started fighting, literally
(03:16):
to pay for my dinner. It was five dollars to fight.
It was all sanctioned, regular boxing. But I was knocking
out every one of my opponents, and I had good
showmanship and I could speak to the press, so my
popularity grew. It turned into something huge. I got my
own MTV show, I won multiple awards, you know, I
traveled the world fighting. So that's kind of how it
went down. Well then, how okay, And I'm gonna go
(03:37):
back to um the whole Broke College thing in a
little bit, because I think there's an important um question there.
But how did you go from that world to coming
out with a book about diet? When I was when
I retired as a professional boxer, I was I picked
up a lead level of road cycling and I would
(03:58):
cycle uh and I hear. I am my early thirties
at this point, and I would cycle uh anywhere from
two to three hundred miles a week. I was one
of the top level cyclists. Yeah, and I mean I
went all over the country cycling. It was a very
very good cyclist. Well, I was getting fatter and fatter
and fatter. And here I'm coming off being ranked one
of the top three in the world in boxing to
one of the top ranked female cyclists you know, in
(04:20):
the area, and I'm getting fat. So I started to
I thought I can't possibly ride or train any harder.
And that's when I found out about the phenomenon. I
now called the fat athlete, and I was I was
a fat athlete. So I started realizing while I was
freaking fat because I was shoving too many carbons and
sugar in my face. And I didn't realize it because
(04:41):
I thought while I exercised that I ain't know a
big deal. Well, then I that's how I got So
then that's how I made the transition to holy crap,
everybody needs to realize that. And everybody, no matter if
you're in a wheelchair, you have a brain tumor you're
seventy eight, or you don't exercise, that has nothing to
do with weight loss weight loss and is one new
trition related. So then I made the transition to one
(05:03):
nutrition and wrote the book. Okay, so the book is
the coda Red Revolution, how thousands of people are losing
weight without shakes, pills, diet foods, or exercise. Correct. Everyone
is on board with the first three things, without shakes,
without pills, about diet foods, but I feel like without
exercise throws a lot of people off. Absolutely, I'm one
(05:23):
of the only ones I've ever I've ever heard actually
say it, And I mean, and I am an elite
level athlete with a degree in exercise science, and yet
I'm telling people, hey, it's not gonna do any good.
So yeah, I think everybody should exercise, absolutely for the
million of the reasons. But think about it, it's not
gonna make it's not gonna do a hell of beans
good with your weight loss, and and the science backs
(05:46):
it up. I mean, you think a pound of fat calories, Well,
I burned about four hundred calories during a three mile run,
which I do every single morning with my dog Anabelle.
That would take nine runs for me to work off
one pound of fats. And I'm gonna blow out a
knee and most people will without ever before I even
make a dent in my weight loss. And so I've
(06:07):
got and I've I've built up a twenty year long
career just helping people lose weight, and I've got hundreds
and hundreds of testimonials to back up that. It's just
you can lose all the weight you want without having
to exercise. Okay, so then let's jump into what is
what's the theory behind it? What is the process here?
What I do is take people completely off carbs of sugar.
(06:30):
And when I say carbs, I mean simple carbs clearly
not complex carbs. I think a lot of people do
get caught up. It's like, oh, I got to remove
all carbs from my diet. What is the difference between
This might sound like a very basic question, but what
is the difference between a simple carb and a complex carb?
So just keeping a simple um, the complex carb vegetables,
fibrous vegetables. The simple carbs are your breads, things that
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have a high glycemic index, the things that have a
high sclycemic load, the things that break down into sugar
as soon as they hate your stomach. Okay, so a
regular potato falls under the regular potato does trigger insulin.
So I take people off potatoes during weight loss mode.
So we eat like we're diabetics. We we want to
become very insulin sensitive. And even me, I'm not even
(07:16):
near being a diabetic. I only eat We're talking about
meat and vegetables, nuts, ache seeds, and healthy fat. So
I take people off fruit during weight loss mode, and
I take people off all potatoes, any kind of pasta, grains, rice,
anything that causes inflammation. Anything that's going to trigger an
insulin response and increase the water. Take them off soda,
pop juices, things like that, and make sure they get
(07:39):
at least seven hours of sleep at night. So it's sleep, water,
and real food. Why is seven hours the key? Sleep
is the absolute number one biggest factor when it comes
to weight loss, hands down, when you are getting lack
of When we have a lack of sleep, your body
senses the lack of sleep as stress and it will
hang on body to body fat to protect revital organs.
(08:00):
Your brain is five, so it's not gonna let you
lose any weight if it's sensing that you're stressed, and
it doesn't know the difference between stress from being chased
by a saber too tiger, stress from lack of sleep,
or stress from being struck in traffic. It just says
stress and it hangs on a body fat. So if
you don't and I've seen this, I mean that's just
in the hundreds of times you don't sleep, you are
not gonna lose weight. And you and you found that
(08:22):
seven hours is that magic number. Yes, that's so I've
I've gone back and forth between eight seven, seven and
a half. I mean everybody's funny, but I haven't. I mean,
everybody's different. There are some people who can function. People
can function. People are chronically sleep deprived in our in
our study, they're barely functioning, but they're functioning on a
lot less sleep. Problem is you won't be able to thrive,
(08:43):
which is what happens when you need to lose weight
on less than seven hours. I've just seen from trial
and error that once I kick I get people below
the seven hour mark, man their weight lost stalls every time.
Well as I'm in the the morning radio world, so
trust me, I know. Sleep is definitely a come out
of the that people don't get a lot of and doctors.
(09:04):
Doctors aren't talking about it. Nobody. People come to me
and they say, you're the only one that has pushed
sleep on like that. I said, nope, gotta sleep, gotta sleep,
gotta sleep. Nobody is really talking about this. Nobody says
how much are you sleeping? Nobody wants to say that.
That's the first question I asked. If someone who's very
new to any sort of diet opens up your book,
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what are the what are the first couple of things
you need to get people to understand To kind of
go through with this type of diet. The biggest thing
I want them to understand is to keep it simple.
It's very, very very simple. People want to get hung
up on organic, and they want to get hung up
on gluten, and they want to get hung up on
bull crap. They shouldn't even worry about right now, let's
(09:46):
worry about just getting you to sleep. Let's worry about
getting you just to start drinking some water and keep
the food simple. People want to complicate everything, and so
that's the biggest thing. And I hear him. They'll come
up to me to books any though, come up and
he'll say, what do you think about some complicated I
don't even talk to m d s about this kind
of stuff they're bringing up. And I'm looking at them
(10:07):
and they're, you know, there's seventy five pounds overweight, and
I'm like, but you just need to get some water
in you first. Quit worrying about the details. So to
keeping as simple as absolutely job one, you know, And
maybe you can help with this, because every single week
in this podcast, I give people something really easy that
they can add to their week. So the first week
was find out how much water you're supposed to be
(10:28):
drinking and drink that much water. Literally the simplest thing
you could do. The next thing was getting it was
actually was getting the right amount of sleep. So it's
great that you're saying that. What's another thing, a very
simple life change that people can make that you think
will make a difference down the road. Oh man, you
took up the first two good ones. I was supposed
to say. Um, I mean I could, I could, I
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could say cut out sugar, but man, that is that
is that's so broad. Um, But people, I guess I
would say that people cut out the sugar that they
know is sugar that they know they shouldn't be eating.
That's probably the one thing I would I would say
right off the bat. Okay, I like that, And I
think everyone has that one thing they know that they
can do without. Yes, people create more obstacles than they
(11:13):
originally have. People create these obstacles in their head. It's oh,
I can't function if I don't have blank in the morning,
or I can't I just I have a sweet tooth
that I need this every time I have dinner. And
you're like, no, you don't, You're just you're making that
up in your head, absolutely, uh, And people were just
live to in our society, we're taught we're taught to
eat three meals and two snacks. We're taught to eat
(11:36):
low fat. We're taught to eat you know, frequently throughout
the day. We're taught this, we're taught that. And so
people have these things in their minds. You're right, they
their their head is totally. So a lot of these
people they they're just being they're just doing what they've
been taught wrongly in our society, by our government, by
the nutrition, the pyramid, you know, things like that. But
(11:56):
they need to realize sugar is eight times more addictive
than heroin, and so it's not their fault that they're
really saying, I can't live without my blank, my Alma joy,
candy bar or whatever it is, my right grispy treat.
That is true. It is a chemical addiction. They cannot
help it unless they get off it, like they would
be getting off drugs. So it's that that's very liberating
(12:18):
and and it takes a shame and builds out of
things when you tell somebody, when I look at someone
who's really heavy and say, you know, it's not your fault.
We just you're just doing what you've been taught your
falling when you're dot. They are not lazy people, they've
been taught wrong. First off, it's funny they brought up
I'm enjoy because I really do love myself and I'm
enjoyed from time to time. I really really do. But
you said something. Eventually, you you started boxing. You got
(12:40):
into this fitness world because you wanted to pay for college.
And I always love when people who listen to the
podcast email or hit me up on Instagram with questions.
And one of the questions I got was, how do
you actually maintain a healthy diet when you already broke
time stressed college kid. That's a really great question. And
(13:01):
the big misconception is that eating healthy is expensive and
it's not. It's not. Um what one of the things
that I would suggest, because you're talking about so you
take it. You take some fat. Right, fat has nine
calorie Look at an avocado has nine calories per gram.
So if you eat a high fat diet, you need
less food. Therefore, on my plan, a high fat diet,
(13:23):
you don't need to eat as much. So it broke
college kid really could get away with eating one to
two meals a day of something that's got a lot
of fatted it avocado's, walnuts, eggs, and bacon. That's the
best breakfast you could possibly get. You won't be hungry
for seven hours after eating that. So if you play
your cards right and get a ton of fat in
your diet, it doesn't take very much food. It's the
(13:45):
crap like the cereals and the rice and the pasta. Yeah,
you're hungry. I mean, think about a bowl of oat meal.
It's like the worst thing you can put in your
body that it spites your blood blood sugar faster than
the Snicker's bar. There's no protein, there's no fat to
slow down the absorbed so you get this huge sugar rust,
you feel fantastic. Twenty minutes later you crash and then
you're hungry. I mean, we're all hungry after a big
(14:07):
bowl of oatmeal, like an hour afterwards. So these are
things that are just fallacies. They're wrong. But if a
growth college kid eats a lot of fat and protein
and gets you know, then they don't need as much
food to keep them going and they'll stay full for longer.
Not to mention all the other benefits of a high
fat diet regulated hormones, more energy, better, sleep, better, hair
(14:29):
and nails will grow. All that kind of stuff you've mentioned, walnuts, avocados, Like,
what are the healthy fats people shouldn't be looking for
when they go to a grocery store. Yeah, the walnuts, avocados.
Look at real butter. You're looking at you know, steak
with the with the fat on it. They're looking at chicken,
like the rotisserie chicken from Costco with the skin on it.
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You know, there's so many ways to get the best
way I tell my clients to get fat in their
diet is adding butter to their vegetables. Man, butter it up.
Lots of real butter, that's fantastic for you. Lots of
olive oil. Fry things in olive oil. Don't take the
fat off things. Frior friar bacon first, then fry the
eggs in the bacon, grease, Eat all of it, Enjoy
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all of it, Lick your fingers. Those are the kind
of things that helped get the fat in the diet.
Avocados are the best thing you can possibly put in
your body. What stuck out to me there, which I
think stuck out to anyone listening to the podcast is
you said you use butter, and I feel like everyone
has been kind of taught to stay away from it. Now,
why is that it's absolutely incorrect and wrong. There's no
(15:34):
science to back up not using butter. They you know,
back in the early days, when back in the fifties sixties,
when you know ansel Keys came out with the whole
low fat craze. When are you know, that's when we
really started getting sick and fat, because what happens when
you take fat out of things, you had to put
a lot of cards and sugar back in to make
it taste good. So that's how we got marjarine, which
(15:56):
is the worst thing. It's terrible for you. And so
we got marjarine. Stay away from real butter. But there's
no science to back this up. We have we see
better cholesterol numbers from people that eat a high fat
diet and put a lot of butter on things than
people that eat margarine instead. Okay, and I know that
we touched on this earlier. We broke down kind of
the difference between complex carbs and simple carbs. But this
(16:19):
was another question had It was just very simply someone
hit me up on snapchat and wrote, I want to
know more about carbohydrates, Like what do you think people
need to understand to move forward with a diet like yours.
It really is a big misconception that people need a
lot of carbs. Um Like, even an athlete just doesn't
need a lot of carbs. The ketogenic diet is fantastic
(16:41):
for athletes, being a keto adept adapted athletes. So I
you you just gotta look at grains. There's just your
body nowadays with the grains we have nowadays, and that's
the carbs. I'm I'm kind of referring to the process.
The rice, the grains, the bread, the Cristians, bagels, things
like that, muffins, those things just they wreak havoc on
(17:03):
our body, on our gut, lining, on our insulin levels, everything.
So you really there is no need to eat any
of that. I don't care who you are. I am
an athlete and a very good one and I do
not fuel up on carbs. But what are the cars
that you because you mentioned there are good carbs, so
what are the cars that you do? Suggest? Vegetables, vegetables, nuts, eggs, seeds, vegetables.
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So I have a very low carb diet. My people
are on a very low carb diet. We're talking about
of their intake coming from carbs. So that's so that
would be vegetables. I mean there's a couple of carbs
and eggs. We just primarily eat just high fat. Okay.
And then I love this question. This is actually the
I think second or third time I've brought this up
(17:47):
in a podcast. How do you keep a clean diet
but also go out on the weekends and actually enjoy
life and not be a little hermit? Like can you
drink alcohol every now and then? What are what are
the deals there? So my, my, my ice, I see
this as a little different. Um. You know, my people
are called code red rebels because we don't believe in
what society has brainwashed us into believing in. Code red rebels.
(18:08):
We don't. We don't believe in cheating because we don't
really feel the need to. We just choose to put
healthy stuff in our body. And so when someone says
I just want to enjoy myself and I just want
to enjoy himself, but see, I enjoy myself having what
I have. I don't need to drink. I don't need
to to get to get wasted or to you know,
like to get buzzed or anything like that in order
(18:29):
to in order to feel like I'm having a good time.
So that's kind of a mindset ship. However, to answer
your question, the best alcohols that you can put in
your body if you uh, if you want to drink,
are gonna be your clear liquors, your gin, your vodka,
and mix them with something that doesn't have sugar, like
a diet sprite or a diet tonic, that kind of stuff,
(18:53):
so you don't want to you don't want to have
a lot of sugar. That's where your alcoholic stuff comes from.
And the alcohol isn't really even the problem. It's just
the alcohol makes you three of your inhibitions. Then you
start eating like the entire sleeve of fris packers. Yes
you do. Also, a four rounds of four unce glass
of wine is perfectly healthy. The problem is no one
just has a four round class. They have a twelve
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ounce class and they fill it up three times, pretty
down the whole bottle. That's not healthy. Now you mentioned
that your clients usually have them on what carbs yep,
temper of their intake, they're gonna be two questions here.
One is from someone who just wants to know more
about macros in terms of nutrition, and that's the word
I feel like has become really hot recently. Everyone's talking
about macros. I have friends who never talked about nutrition
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a day in their life. We're talking about I have
to make sure I get my macro's what is that? Yeah? Right,
So your macronutrients you're fat, your protein, your carbohydrates, and
so you've got micronutrients that are the smaller version that
you just meets, just small traces of well these are
that's what That's what they're referring to their macronutrients. That's
just short from saying macronutrients. And so my mic you
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want to balance them outical in two different plans, you know,
the zone diet and da da da da dada. You
just do won't home, You won't hear me throwing around
those those fancy, gimmicky catch marketing kind of terms, because
it's just it's just gimmicky. But my clients are on
their macro breakdown is six and their intake comes from fat,
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comes from protein, and ten percent comes from carbs. Now
why do you feel that works? Oh? The science backs
it up. I have studied, gone gone to UH seminars
and all kinds of conferences and red books, and we
see across the board, hands down, that is the best
healthiest way to eat where. And then when you're having
a high fat diet at these sixty percent of your intake,
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there are no detriments, there are no we don't see
any side effects from that. We have the healthiest people
on the planet are our eskimos, and they're on almost
a hundred percent fat diet. So we're just we're not
seeing the high cholesterol, and we're not seeing the diseases,
we're not seeing the cancer. And that's because people are
getting so much intake from fat. They're not getting simple carbs,
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are not getting any sugar, and we're seeing across the
board that are insulin levels and science science, science to
back it up. And then I of course I have
hundreds of people that I have, hands down, all ages,
even up until their eighties, are losing weight and getting
getting healthy. And obviously, as a reminder, as people listening
to this podcast, when you mentioned facts that we're talking
healthy fats here, we're not talking about anything other than
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healthy fats. Yeah, we're talking about dietary dietary fats, avocados,
avocado oil, things like that, and this kind of follows
that up in terms of tracking your macros, tracking the
percentage of all of those macros. What do you find
is the best way to keep track of what you're
supposed to be eating, because I feel like a lot
of people get lost there. They know what they're supposed
to do, but in a regular day, you it's it's
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hard to keep track of all that. Correct. Yeah, exactly,
so hands down, without a doubt. I've tried out all
the tracking apps and I use lose it, l O
s E I T it's a little orange scale. I
don't get any kick back from them or anything from
them by saying that. I'm just saying that's the best
track of crap out there my clients, and you'll find
this in my book. My clients have got to it
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is a requirement, and that's why people do so well
because you can hear in my voice that I don't
take crap from anybody, and my clients have got to
log their entire day before the day begins. So you
can't fly by the seat of your pants. So as
you say, okay, so I have in my groceries. I've
got an avocada, I've got baked in here and beat eggs.
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I've got some asparagus. What else have I got? Okay,
so I think this is what I'm gonna have. Before
your day begins. You beat boo boo b boop. Put
all the numbers in, get all the get all the
macro's right, make sure your balance, make sure you look good,
make sure I approve it. Everything looks good. And then
you start your day and you eat according to your
log because you'll put something in your mouth, you'll swallow it,
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and then all of a sudden, when you go to
put it in your app, you'll realize, whole crap. I
shouldn't have eaten that, like a stupid protein bar. You
shouldn't be eating protein bars ever, that's fake food. And
so as soon as you that, you'll notice your numbers
are completely skewed. Now what do you do? The damage
is done. You can't go throw it up now you're
now you just screwed up your numbers for the day.
So the question I know I would have you have
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the track record, you have clients who who swear by you.
I'm going to assume that buying a book and reading
what you tell your clients is different than actually having
you there with me on a daily or a weekly basis.
So how do you bridge that gap with the book?
So so people have been getting great results with the book,
and that is that is hands down my heart's desire.
I don't want them to have to need me to
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do that. But if people need a little more accountability,
what they do is they order what a custom program.
And what we have them do is is WILL have
them fill out of a long questionnaire about everything, and
then I will I have staff, but we together, I
write everybody's program. We write everybody's custom program. We give
them their exact numbers that they need to reach their goal.
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And I have formulas, I have you know everything, and
then we send it to them in a bag box.
And then and they get to be tethered to me
for three months on our Facebook page where they have
to actually turn in their way to me every Friday,
and they they and I look at it and I
go over it and I call them out good or
bad on a Saturday morning coaching call. And so it's
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it's a way to keep that DoubleTree Hotel cookie out
of your mouth. But for people like me probably you,
that don't need the accountability and don't need the custom numbers,
the book was is really it's it's it tells you
everything you need to know. And I had kind of
a problem with that when I sat down with my
team and I was like, really, we're gonna give away
all this information. I mean, how am I gonna make
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money if we just tell them everything? Well, that's that's
definitely seems to be a problem because people really still
want the interaction with me. So we get people that
join me, and we've got groups of thousands of people.
They'll come to us for a challenge, like we're registering
right now for that ten pown Takedown challenge, and they'll
they'll get on and they'll get coached, you know, in
large groups each day by me, and then it gets
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a little bit small or of a group were a
little more expensive, and even smaller than that, we're more expensive.
So we have different tiered programs to meet everybody's needs.
So now you mentioned the ten pound challenge, right, and
I know you have clients who have lost like a
hundred pounds with you. Oh lord, yeah, I'm going to
make up a number. Okay, let's let's imagine that your
average client wants to lose they made a new year's resolution,
they want to lose twenty pounds this year on your diet.
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And let's say they're they're exercising moderately because they enjoy
it or whatever on your diet. How soon can they
expect to do that? No, that's I can tell you
right now. You can lose ten percent of your body
weight every month on my plan. And can you do
that with the book? Yeah? With the book, it's just
a matter of following what I say and people it's
it all boils down to how bad do you want it?
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I mean I I just did a book signing in
Portland on Thursday, Friday, and then one on Saturday in Washington,
and people were coming in and they're saying, all I've
been doing is reading the book and I've lost X
amount of pounds. So it absolutely can be done. It
just has it just boils down to a part where
are you ready? Because I break it down, You've got
to clear out your cupboards. You cannot no more nor
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drinking alcohol. You've got to get yourself this much water
a day. So people if they do it. It will
work and they'll feel fantastic. They don't have to they
don't have to um, they'll have energy, they'll sleep better.
So yeah, it all boils down how bad someone wants it.
If people want to find out more about you, where
can they go? You can always go to Code Red
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Lifestyle dot com if you want to be in our
challenge ten pounds takedown challenge dot com and that will
get you. It's forty seven dollars to enter. You can
win over four thousand dollars and prizes we do. It's
forty five days where you're getting coached daily by me.
You get tracking sheets, you get everything you need and
it's a lot of fun. You get you're you're in
a big community of support and it's uh. It's a
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great way to lose at least ten pounds in forty
five days doing really really really basic basic guidelines. Well, Christie,
thank you again. The book again is called the Code
Red Revolution, how thousands of people are losing weight without shakespills,
diets or exercise. Thank you so much for being on
the podcast. Appreciate it. Thank you, I appreciate everything. This
is great. You're very easy to talk to. Thank you.
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I do this every day and not everybody is is
as easy as you. Let me tell you. I mean,
I'll take the compliment. Thank you have a good one, alright.
The weekly challenge, so every single week on this podcast,
I've been suggesting something that you can either add to
your life or something that you can do to uh
kind of get on this journey, will do it all together,
you know. So the first week was to drink the
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appropriate amount of water. Hopefully you're all doing that. I
know that there were two days that I missed. I
didn't drink enough water for myself whatever I have a
lotted for me, and I actually didn't feel great the
next day. So the water thing has actually been helping
a lot. The other challenge was to get at least
six hours of sleep. According to UH Christie, we should
be sleeping seven hours, So if you can do that,
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that's great. And then last week was a little different.
Last week was challenge yourself. Find something. Maybe it's three
months down the road, maybe it's six month down the road,
maybe it's a year from now, but find something that
you can do in two thousand eighteen that challenges you.
And it doesn't have to be fitness related. You could
go do an improv class. You can go sing karaoke
in front of the crowd for the first time. The
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three there are three kind of challenges that I'm working
on right now because I don't know how my schedule
is gonna play out for the rest of the year.
But they're all physical type challenges. One of them is
to run a half marathon, and I've done a half
marathon before, but this one, my goal will be to
run it in under two hours, which I've never done before. Then,
there were two stair climbs here in Seattle that I'm
gonna try to set up or get registered for. I
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should say one of them is done at the Columbia Center,
which is one of the tallest buildings on the Columbia
Tower that's one of the tallest buildings on the West Coast.
And then the other one will be running up the
stairs of the Space Needle for this Space Base two
space thing they do. So those are the three things
I'm looking at. Once I confirm one of those, I'll
obviously tweeted out at Worst Anthony, And if you need
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some someone to hold you accountable for your challenge, you
can hit me up at Worst Anthony on Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook,
or email My Day Friday Show at Gmail. And for
the challenge this week, you'll be removing something from your
daily habits. And we talked in a couple of different
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in both of the diet podcasts about how sugars can
really sabotage whatever your goal is. So my challenge for
you isn't to cut out sugars entirely, because I know
it's really difficult to do right away. If you can
do that, great, but find that one thing that you
know you shouldn't be eating or drinking and cut it out.
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For me, a couple of months ago, I think it
was October Avis screenshot of the conversation I had somewhere
I was drinking Monster Energy for no reason. Um, I
mean for a reason. I guess I was tired, but
I was drinking entirely too much of it. I mean
it got to a point where I was almost drinking
a can every day. And I really think that at
some point I got addicted to it because I had
never really I don't drink coffee. Um, I'd never really
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drank that much red bull. I mean here and there
at an event or something. So I decided because Carla,
Marie and my boss Rich were making fun of me
for drinking. I decided that day that I wasn't going
to have anymore. And since that day in October, I
really have not had any energy drinks. There were two
instances where I was at a bar and someone handed
me a drink. It happened to be a red Bull
and vodka. Um, and I'll let that slide. Crap happens,
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but find that one thing. Maybe it's soda for you,
Maybe it's a candy bar that you have every day
at work. Maybe it's a bag of chips that you
eat while you're watching Netflix at home, whatever it is,
find that one thing and cut it out. Because if
you can do that one thing, if you could proof
to yourself that you can go one week, two weeks,
three weeks without that thing, then you know that you
can do it with anything in your life that you
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want to cut out. But prove it to yourself. First.
Pick that one thing that you want to cut out
and decide right now what it is, and don't go
back to it for at least a week, and then
you'll feel better after it. You'll feel accomplished, and hopefully
you continue doing that. UM, I'm going to try to
cut out sodas as well, So along with the energy
drinks that I've already cut out, my next thing is
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to cut out sodas entirely. UM. You can again tweet
me if you want, If you want someone to hold
you accountable, I'm more than happy to do that. At worst, Anthony, Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook,
and Instagram. At worst, Anthony, if you have any questions
at all, hit me up. UM. You can also email
my Day Friday show. I know I'm going to have
a guest on the podcast I think next week about
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speeding up your metabolism, like what you can do to
speed up your metabolism. So if you have questions specifically
for that, I will try to get them answered. Until then,
good luck on whatever journey you are on, and thank
you for spending this thirty year so minutes with me.
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