August 8, 2024 • 21 mins
Today I mark 85 lbs of weight lost. I share progress pics on my instagram which you can check out at this link: https://www.instagram.com/fast...
I also talk about inguinal hernia and hiit exercise.
I also talk about inguinal hernia and hiit exercise.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello, Welcome to another episode of the Fasting Guy podcast.
That's me, the Fasting Guy. Glad to have you here.
Be super short episode today. This is just an update episode.
So I know you guys that are faithful subscribers and
listeners and have been listening forever and you follow me
on the social media on the Instagram. It's a Fasting
(00:21):
Guy podcast. I think it's what it's called. I'm not
even sure what it's called.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Let me go look.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Yeah, Fasting Guy podcast on Instagram is where I do
all the updates at.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I'm just doing this quick update because.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
You know, we've just been consistently losing weight for like
the past five months or so, no stalls really to
speak of, maybe like a one week or two week
stall or something, but none of those long stalls. It's
just been really consistent. It's felt really good. But I
haven't been pushing it. I haven't been going to the extreme.
(00:57):
I haven't been doing anything crazy. It's just I don't
know so how to describe it.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
The way I'm eating.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
My body will eventually hit a spot it wants to
stop at. I don't know why, but I trust that
it knows what it's doing. And you know, I've stalled
for a month, I've stalled for six weeks, I've stalled
for three weeks. I've had all these things happen over
the last two and three quarter years now, but we
hit kind of a nice round number this week in
(01:25):
terms of weight loss. And so the reason I'm recording
this is because I actually decided to do a photo
update over on the Instagram, which is something I rarely do.
I hate taking photos. Most obese people don't like taking photos.
I do take them periodically for myself. I rarely ever
publish them for other people to look at.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
But in the interest of trying.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
To be real and not be ashamed, and to show
other people, hey, this is what you know, real life,
slow steady, non extreme weight loss looks like, I figured,
maybe you know, we could step out there, so I
posted it the Stories today. You won't see it on
(02:14):
Stories today because I schedule these pods in advance, so
this this podcast will actually schedule like a week later.
So if you didn't see it a week ago for
you when it was posted, it's today for me, but
it'll be a week ago for you if you didn't
happen to see it on my story on the Instagram.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I did save it to one of those highlights.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
So if you just go to my Instagram page Fast
Thing I podcast, and you know, right on the front page,
right under your profile, you see those little circles called highlights,
there's one called before and after, and I saved it
there so you can click that if you care to look. Nevertheless,
the update is is that, well, I think i'd like
to give both right, So our our actual weight now
(03:00):
is eighty six pounds lost. But using Happy Scale that
I like to use, which gives you weight loss on
a weekly average, so it averages week by week, so
that way you don't you're not susceptible to fluctuations up
and down day by day on the week by week
trend the way Happy Scale does it. We've lost eighty
five pounds, So that's the one I'm going to go
(03:21):
by because the eighty six, I may gain a pound
bag tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And it may just be eighty five. So I don't
go by what my lowest weight is.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I really try to go by what this trending weight is,
which gives you weekly averages compared to each other on
the Happy Scale, and so going by that, it's eighty five,
which is a Is it.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
A round number? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
It's weird because I didn't consider eighty a round number.
Like I didn't do an update with picks at eighty pounds.
I didn't do a pick with updates at seventy five pounds.
I don't know why in my head, but there was
something about the number eighty five that felt magical. I
don't know what felt magical about it, but something I
don't know in my mind.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
It just clicked as here's a milestone.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I guess maybe one of the other reasons it clicked
is because I know if you again, if you use
happy Scale, that app which I highly recommend, you can
set up milestones, whether you want it to be five
pound milestones, ten pound milestones, twenty pound milestones, you can
set them up.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
To whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I set my weight loss goal up into ten pound milestones.
And so I just crossed another milestone here recently, and
I just have five pounds to go on this one.
So it put me over half because we had been
at eight out of sixteen, which is slightly less than half,
and now I've completed eight out of seventeen. Now I've
completed nine out of seventeen, which means I'm over halfway there.
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So that's kind of a it's a milestone within a milestone.
We finally crossed the halfway point. And again, I don't
know if that's the halfway point. Like I'm really tall,
I don't know what weight I need to get down to.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I'm just guessing that I need to be around.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Two twenty five or two thirty or two forty or
two fifty.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I don't know. You I'm six foot four. I don't know.
So you know I've set it for too What did
I said it for?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I said it for two twenty five, I think so. Anyways,
you know, in other news, I go through these periods
of time where I just, you know, the intermittent fasting
and the not eating thing is overwhelming. I really decided
(05:35):
to go to a high beef diet this week. So
my first meal of the day has been the same
it's always been, which is a protein shake, greek yogurt,
a high protein pastry, a bacon, bacon and cheese wrapping,
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a low carb tortilla.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I don't know why I never get tired of that.
I eat it every day.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
It's a ton of protein, it's you know, you could
argue that I could have a healthier version of high protein,
but it works for me, and what works for me
and what is consistent and what is high protein that
I never get tired of doing is what I'm going
to do, So you know.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I keep doing that.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
But my second meal, you know, I told you in
a previous episode that I had done these factor meals
for like three weeks. I think I decided to cancel
those because I don't really eat the vegetables that come
with them, and I feel like they're charging you a
ton for vegetables.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Now, I'll probably go back to them because the.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Protein is really good at them, and it's the only
way I ever eat fish, so I'll probably go back.
But I took a break and I said, you know,
I'm just gonna go beef for dinner.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I'm gonna go beef.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
And then like a tiny protein bar as a dessert.
So Quest makes these mini bars. If you're familiar with
the Quest protein bars, probably arguably one of the best
you can get. They have the mini size, which is
a half size, so it's you know, it's not the
two hundred and ten calories or whatever, it's like one
hundred and something twenty hundred thirty which I don't count calories,
(07:11):
but you know, I figure, if I'm just eating beef,
that's plenty of protein. I just need a little something
with a little pleasurable.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Aspect to it to finish it off.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
And so what I've been finding this week is like
two days ago, I cooked I was like, Okay, I'm
gonna eat a half a pound.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Of beef for dinner.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
And so I have these, you know, these quarter pound
beef patties, and I cooked two of them, and I
mean I got like a quarter of the way through them,
Like I just I'm like, I can't eat anymore of
this beef. I was so uninterested in food that I
barely was able to force that little protein bar down,
but I did. Now you can say, well that was stupid, man, maybe,
(07:53):
but I mean it's small, it's small, it's insignificant, and
it's it's highing protein, and you know it's the many one.
So you know, it's a psychological thing. And again, I'm
not willing to do nothing now that I'm not willing
to do forever, and I think forever I would be
unwilling to have a dinner that was just hamburger patties,
ground beef, and not have some type of a protein
(08:16):
bar type dessert thing like I enjoy them. I think
it's if you're gonna have a quote unquote dessert type thing.
And granted, you have to be deep in the protein
world for a protein bar to taste like dessert, because
very few of them do. Like the built bars, which
I just ordered, by the way, I've had built bars
and forever, those really do taste like desserts and they're
(08:37):
reasonably well made. The oh god, what are those fit
crunch bar Robert Urban's fit crunch bars? Boy, those really
taste like desserts. But they're so high high calorie. But
I don't think anybody who argue that quest protein bars
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are really dessert like. They have a slight amount of
sweetness to them, they have a slightly chewy they've reformulated them.
They're not as chalky and hard as they used to be.
They're more soft than they used to be. So anyways,
I'm unwilling to go through the rest of my life,
you know, just eating a Hamburger patty for dinner and
being done with it. A lot of people are, and
(09:19):
I may at some point reach that stage. I don't know,
maybe I will, but anyways, so I ate the thing.
So then yesterday I'm like, okay, you know, am I hungry?
I'm like, I think I'm hungry.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
A little bit hungry. I actually thought about it.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
This is my second meal, by the way, I had
the first meal fine, and I'm like, yeah, I think
I'm hungry.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
So you know, I went and I made that. You know,
I still those two Hamburger patties, so I.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Just heated one of them up, which would actually be like,
you know, just one patty.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
The other one was you know, like halfway eating or something.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
So I made this whole patty and I'm like, I'm
gonna eat it and it's gonna be fine halfway through it,
and I'm.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Just I feel so full.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
By the way, if you ever wonder if you're actually
hungry or not, if you're ever.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Like, man, do I know when I'm hungry or not?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Or am I confused by my body? Take you some
ground beef patty it up, season it with salt and pepper,
and cook it. And if you're unable to finish it,
you're not actually hungry. Your brain is fooling you. It
is a craving. It is some kind of hormone imbalance.
It it's some kind of addiction thing. It's a it's
(10:24):
a binge thing. It's something other than true hunger. Because
if you're hungry, you eat the old amberger patty, you
eat two of them. But if you're not genuinely hungry,
like real hunger, you'll be sick of that thing quick.
And that's what happened to me yesterday. I was sick
of it super quick. I ate like half of it
and had my little small mini protein bar again, and
(10:45):
that was it for the day, and then I'll be
darning today. The other thing I've started doing is I
brought back the doing the hit now I do. I
did this a long time ago and loved it. Man,
it made me feel so much better. I had such
better oxygen and as far as being able to go
and walk and do without feeling winded or tired doing hit,
we'll change that quickly. It's amazing how fast it works.
(11:06):
The reason I stopped doing it was because the way
I do it is I jog in place as fast
as I can, knees as high as I can get them,
legs as fast as I can get them going and
I swing my arms back and forth just like I'm
jogging in a straight line down the road, except I
can do it in my house, in my living room.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
But if you do that full out, I mean.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Especially if you're an obese person like me, you do
that full out, for full bore, for whatever time you choose.
Like I'm just starting back and I'm having to do
ten seconds cuz you know, the first one, you know,
do it ten seconds, then you wait ten seconds. So
whatever amount you do it, that's the amount you wait.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
So the first one.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
All out for ten seconds, not that big of a deal,
wait ten seconds. Then the second one all out hard
as you can go for ten seconds, and then wait
for ten seconds, and that one you start feeling a
little bit. Then the third one, all out hard as
you can go ten seconds, jumping to the max. You
got to go as hard as you can go, fast
as you can go, relentless, one hundred and ten percent
of every burst of energy you can put into It's
(12:02):
the way you got to do it for it to work.
So the third time, do it. And then I'm in
that third ten second break and I'm gasping and I'm winded, Like,
oh God, and then I get to the fourth one,
then stop. And you know I plan on doing five.
I can't do the fifth one, like I'm just exhausted,
heart rates finally way high. I'm just I'm done, I'm winded,
(12:23):
I'm gassed, and so I just stop. It is amazing
when you do that for like just three days a week,
after just a few weeks, how much you will feel
yourself being able to breathe and consume oxygen and have
this ability to go.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
And here's why I quit doing it because by hernia,
I have an angle in or hernia, and doing that,
the weight of my belly pulling down while I'm doing
that causes my hernia to protrude again when it's very painful.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
It's very hard to retract it.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
And I'm trying to preserve that thing as long as
I can because I don't want to get surgery until
I absolutely have to, and I want it to also
be when I'm as as thin as possible, because for
you know, for every ten pounds you're overweight, the complications
of having a surgery or a procedure is multiplied.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
And I'm many many, many, many, many.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Tens of tens and tens of pounds overweight. And so
for a healthy one hundred and eighty five year old
man who has an ingle will herney to go in
and get it fixed. But you know, not that big
of a deal. You know, it's gonna be sore and
hard getting around for a few days. Is recovery, it's
gonna be super high. It's not be hard for the
doctor because they don't have to weed their way through
rolls of fat and all this stuff that the surgeon
(13:38):
has to go through, And so your chances of it
being successful is infinitely higher than if you're obese and
you've got big walls of fat they got to pull through,
and then you've got to try to recover, and while
you're trying to get up and get around, you still
got this heavy belly pulling and pulling on the stitching
and the mesh.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
And so I have learned.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
How that how to move, how to do how to
operate in a way that that hernia rarely, if ever
bothers me, Like most days I don't even know I
have a hernia. So I use this tracking app. It's
called what is this app called Symptom Tracker. I highly
recommend it. You can put whatever symptoms you got in
it and track them every day. You can put whatever
(14:18):
treatments you do every day and put them in there
and track them every day. And so I track all
kinds of symptoms. I track everything every day, and I
track when I take meds and track this, track that. Anyway,
I just look back to over the course of the
last year, and over the course of the last year,
I've had zero feelings of hernia there. Zero it's zeros
(14:40):
every day. Zero feelings of hernia for a year, even
though I do have one. But when I know how
to move and I know how to act, and I
know what I can do and can't do, the thing
stays retracted. In other words, it doesn't protrude. It's not
a problem, and it's fine. But I started doing this
hit exercises. I guess it's been u I did the
(15:01):
second one yesterday, so with like three days three or
four days ago, I started it and immediately I felt
the slight burning sensation there where that herney is and
I'm like, oh god, I mean, it's really frustrating because
you know that hit stuff really is healthy for you.
But I'm always having to evaluate things in terms of
(15:24):
it's benefit to me versus its harm to me.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
So you know, I've done it two days now.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Tomorrow will be my schedule third day, so we'll see
how it goes. Like I don't really feel the hernia
much today, Like I did feel it a little bit
last night, but I haven't really felt it today. The
one thing that I'm trying to do is have good
posture when I'm doing that hit stuff, and to pull
in and tighten the abdominals and keep them tightened, which
(15:51):
is very hard when when you're going out full bore
as fast as you can. But I do think that
helps some. But we'll see, We'll see how it goes.
I mean, I don't want because what happens is when
that thing finally does protrude.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I don't know, if I don't want to get too graphic,
but if you don't know what.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
An inglo or herney is, and there's a couple of them,
one of them that goes down and goes through one canal,
and it'll protrude in one place and then the other one.
It'll slip through this other little hole and go through
this other place. And if you're a mail it will
actually slip through and go into your testicle sack, and
that's what mine does. And it is crazy painful, unbearably painful.
(16:28):
I remember when it first happened. It happened with me walking.
I had been this is way back in what sixteen,
twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen. I'd got where I was walking
several miles a day.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Then one day, on a whim.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I decided to try to jog a little bit, and
granted I had video of it. I had a drone
at that time, and I took the drone with me
to the track and I set the drone up in
the air at the end of the track, and I
got some video of me jogging down the track. Now,
when you look at it, it's about the speed that
a healthy person would go if they were just walking,
very slightly more quick than normal. But for me, it's
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like going ten times as fast as I normally go.
So it's like it's like slow ocean jogging. But every
time your feet pound the payment, all the weight of
the gut and the abdomen region pulled down and yank, yank,
it's it's all that weight's pulling down. And I was
so proud that I was able to jogs for the
first time since I was in tenth grade.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I remember very clearly the last time I jogged.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I was in tenth grade in high school, back in
nineteen eighty six, and I was so proud of it.
I'm like, I'm not I'm not a world beater by
any means, and I'm not breaking records or anything, but
I'm actually jogging. This is how far I progressed. And
at that time, I think I'd lost like seventy five pounds,
and I was so happy. And then one day I
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come home from that and I jogged, and you know,
I sat down and I felt this just as pain
in my abdomen. It was just it was it was
just so painful. And then at one point, I don't
want to be too graphic, but it felt like at
one point somebody had reached down and grabbed my testicles
and was yanking on them, and they were pulling on
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a cord that ran all the way up into my abdomen,
nearly up into my lungs, and it was just like
and I was like, oh my god, what is this.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I'm dying. I was immobile. I was so immobile.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I could barely make it from my recliner in my
living room, to my kitchen, to my bathroom and my bed,
Like just making any one of those trips was unbearable.
And finally, after I think like two or three weeks
of just misery went by. You know, men are stubborn,
I finally went to my doctor and he's like, I
don't know what it is. I'm gonna send you to
(18:43):
a h crap. What are the doctor? What is the
male doctors called? I'm sorry, my mind's blank. Anyway, I
went to him and he checked me out and he.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Goes, oh, that's easy. You got a hernia. Ain't gonna
hernia you need to get operated on, like a crap.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Anyway, So I did a deep dive on hernia's which
is always what I do. I went and did the research.
I jumped into the literature. I read about procedures, efficacy
of procedures, danger profiles by obesity rates and stuff, and
arrived at this.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Plan to.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Live with it chronically. And over time I've gotten really
good at living with it chronically.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
But as a sacrifice, it means like I can do
walks that are not fast.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
So there's not like there's not this pounding that the
foot is not pounding, like I'm not moving enough for
the foot to pound, because every time that foot pounds,
if you can imagine when that foot come downs and
hits then all this abdominal weight that I carry tons
of it. You can go see the pictures. You'll see
it pulls down and it's just this yanking and it's anyway.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
So I can manage it.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
But you know, I want the hit stuff because last
week I got out and did some stuff, went somewhere
and got out and around and I'm like, you know what,
I I feel a little winded over something. I shouldn't
feel this winded over, especially considering all the weight I've lost,
like now, when I was four hundred pounds, yeah, four
and fifteen pounds, yeah, I should have felt like this,
but not.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
I shouldn't feel like this now. So I don't know.
Let's see how it goes.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I didn't plan on including that in this update, but
you know, sometimes you get a bonus.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
The real thing about the update.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Was the eighty five pounds and the progress pick posted.
If you want to go gawk at me and my
massiveness and see what it looks like when a real
obese person lose weight, really slowly, and they still obees
and still a long way Togo, but they're happy the
progress they made. You can see that in the before
and after section. I wanted the highlight called before and
(20:43):
after on my Instagram page Fasting Guy Podcast. I genuinely
hope that you're doing well. I hope that something I
say one time, like I sometimes why people message me
and go, you know that you said this one thing
in that pod the other day and it stuck with me.
I never forgot it, and I never know what that
thing will be. But share my journey or results I found,
or research or experiences, and sometimes you guys draw something
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from it, and sometimes you send me messages and I
draw from you, and I'm highly appreciative of that. We're
going to wrap it up my very best wishes to
you and your health and weight loss journey, and we
will talk to you in the next one
Hello, Welcome to another episode of the Fasting Guy podcast.
That's me, the Fasting Guy. Glad to have you here.
Be super short episode today. This is just an update episode.
So I know you guys that are faithful subscribers and
listeners and have been listening forever and you follow me
on the social media on the Instagram. It's a Fasting
(00:21):
Guy podcast. I think it's what it's called. I'm not
even sure what it's called.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Let me go look.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Yeah, Fasting Guy podcast on Instagram is where I do
all the updates at.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I'm just doing this quick update because.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
You know, we've just been consistently losing weight for like
the past five months or so, no stalls really to
speak of, maybe like a one week or two week
stall or something, but none of those long stalls. It's
just been really consistent. It's felt really good. But I
haven't been pushing it. I haven't been going to the extreme.
(00:57):
I haven't been doing anything crazy. It's just I don't
know so how to describe it.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
The way I'm eating.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
My body will eventually hit a spot it wants to
stop at. I don't know why, but I trust that
it knows what it's doing. And you know, I've stalled
for a month, I've stalled for six weeks, I've stalled
for three weeks. I've had all these things happen over
the last two and three quarter years now, but we
hit kind of a nice round number this week in
(01:25):
terms of weight loss. And so the reason I'm recording
this is because I actually decided to do a photo
update over on the Instagram, which is something I rarely do.
I hate taking photos. Most obese people don't like taking photos.
I do take them periodically for myself. I rarely ever
publish them for other people to look at.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
But in the interest of trying.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
To be real and not be ashamed, and to show
other people, hey, this is what you know, real life,
slow steady, non extreme weight loss looks like, I figured,
maybe you know, we could step out there, so I
posted it the Stories today. You won't see it on
(02:14):
Stories today because I schedule these pods in advance, so
this this podcast will actually schedule like a week later.
So if you didn't see it a week ago for
you when it was posted, it's today for me, but
it'll be a week ago for you if you didn't
happen to see it on my story on the Instagram.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I did save it to one of those highlights.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
So if you just go to my Instagram page Fast
Thing I podcast, and you know, right on the front page,
right under your profile, you see those little circles called highlights,
there's one called before and after, and I saved it
there so you can click that if you care to look. Nevertheless,
the update is is that, well, I think i'd like
to give both right, So our our actual weight now
(03:00):
is eighty six pounds lost. But using Happy Scale that
I like to use, which gives you weight loss on
a weekly average, so it averages week by week, so
that way you don't you're not susceptible to fluctuations up
and down day by day on the week by week
trend the way Happy Scale does it. We've lost eighty
five pounds, So that's the one I'm going to go
(03:21):
by because the eighty six, I may gain a pound
bag tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And it may just be eighty five. So I don't
go by what my lowest weight is.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I really try to go by what this trending weight is,
which gives you weekly averages compared to each other on
the Happy Scale, and so going by that, it's eighty five,
which is a Is it.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
A round number? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
It's weird because I didn't consider eighty a round number.
Like I didn't do an update with picks at eighty pounds.
I didn't do a pick with updates at seventy five pounds.
I don't know why in my head, but there was
something about the number eighty five that felt magical. I
don't know what felt magical about it, but something I
don't know in my mind.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
It just clicked as here's a milestone.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I guess maybe one of the other reasons it clicked
is because I know if you again, if you use
happy Scale, that app which I highly recommend, you can
set up milestones, whether you want it to be five
pound milestones, ten pound milestones, twenty pound milestones, you can
set them up.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
To whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I set my weight loss goal up into ten pound milestones.
And so I just crossed another milestone here recently, and
I just have five pounds to go on this one.
So it put me over half because we had been
at eight out of sixteen, which is slightly less than half,
and now I've completed eight out of seventeen. Now I've
completed nine out of seventeen, which means I'm over halfway there.
(04:43):
So that's kind of a it's a milestone within a milestone.
We finally crossed the halfway point. And again, I don't
know if that's the halfway point. Like I'm really tall,
I don't know what weight I need to get down to.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I'm just guessing that I need to be around.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Two twenty five or two thirty or two forty or
two fifty.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I don't know. You I'm six foot four. I don't know.
So you know I've set it for too What did
I said it for?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I said it for two twenty five, I think so. Anyways,
you know, in other news, I go through these periods
of time where I just, you know, the intermittent fasting
and the not eating thing is overwhelming. I really decided
(05:35):
to go to a high beef diet this week. So
my first meal of the day has been the same
it's always been, which is a protein shake, greek yogurt,
a high protein pastry, a bacon, bacon and cheese wrapping,
(05:55):
a low carb tortilla.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I don't know why I never get tired of that.
I eat it every day.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
It's a ton of protein, it's you know, you could
argue that I could have a healthier version of high protein,
but it works for me, and what works for me
and what is consistent and what is high protein that
I never get tired of doing is what I'm going
to do, So you know.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I keep doing that.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
But my second meal, you know, I told you in
a previous episode that I had done these factor meals
for like three weeks. I think I decided to cancel
those because I don't really eat the vegetables that come
with them, and I feel like they're charging you a
ton for vegetables.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Now, I'll probably go back to them because the.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Protein is really good at them, and it's the only
way I ever eat fish, so I'll probably go back.
But I took a break and I said, you know,
I'm just gonna go beef for dinner.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I'm gonna go beef.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
And then like a tiny protein bar as a dessert.
So Quest makes these mini bars. If you're familiar with
the Quest protein bars, probably arguably one of the best
you can get. They have the mini size, which is
a half size, so it's you know, it's not the
two hundred and ten calories or whatever, it's like one
hundred and something twenty hundred thirty which I don't count calories,
(07:11):
but you know, I figure, if I'm just eating beef,
that's plenty of protein. I just need a little something
with a little pleasurable.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Aspect to it to finish it off.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
And so what I've been finding this week is like
two days ago, I cooked I was like, Okay, I'm
gonna eat a half a pound.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Of beef for dinner.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
And so I have these, you know, these quarter pound
beef patties, and I cooked two of them, and I
mean I got like a quarter of the way through them,
Like I just I'm like, I can't eat anymore of
this beef. I was so uninterested in food that I
barely was able to force that little protein bar down,
but I did. Now you can say, well that was stupid, man, maybe,
(07:53):
but I mean it's small, it's small, it's insignificant, and
it's it's highing protein, and you know it's the many one.
So you know, it's a psychological thing. And again, I'm
not willing to do nothing now that I'm not willing
to do forever, and I think forever I would be
unwilling to have a dinner that was just hamburger patties,
ground beef, and not have some type of a protein
(08:16):
bar type dessert thing like I enjoy them. I think
it's if you're gonna have a quote unquote dessert type thing.
And granted, you have to be deep in the protein
world for a protein bar to taste like dessert, because
very few of them do. Like the built bars, which
I just ordered, by the way, I've had built bars
and forever, those really do taste like desserts and they're
(08:37):
reasonably well made. The oh god, what are those fit
crunch bar Robert Urban's fit crunch bars? Boy, those really
taste like desserts. But they're so high high calorie. But
I don't think anybody who argue that quest protein bars
(08:58):
are really dessert like. They have a slight amount of
sweetness to them, they have a slightly chewy they've reformulated them.
They're not as chalky and hard as they used to be.
They're more soft than they used to be. So anyways,
I'm unwilling to go through the rest of my life,
you know, just eating a Hamburger patty for dinner and
being done with it. A lot of people are, and
(09:19):
I may at some point reach that stage. I don't know,
maybe I will, but anyways, so I ate the thing.
So then yesterday I'm like, okay, you know, am I hungry?
I'm like, I think I'm hungry.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
A little bit hungry. I actually thought about it.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
This is my second meal, by the way, I had
the first meal fine, and I'm like, yeah, I think
I'm hungry.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
So you know, I went and I made that. You know,
I still those two Hamburger patties, so I.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Just heated one of them up, which would actually be like,
you know, just one patty.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
The other one was you know, like halfway eating or something.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
So I made this whole patty and I'm like, I'm
gonna eat it and it's gonna be fine halfway through it,
and I'm.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Just I feel so full.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
By the way, if you ever wonder if you're actually
hungry or not, if you're ever.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Like, man, do I know when I'm hungry or not?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Or am I confused by my body? Take you some
ground beef patty it up, season it with salt and pepper,
and cook it. And if you're unable to finish it,
you're not actually hungry. Your brain is fooling you. It
is a craving. It is some kind of hormone imbalance.
It it's some kind of addiction thing. It's a it's
(10:24):
a binge thing. It's something other than true hunger. Because
if you're hungry, you eat the old amberger patty, you
eat two of them. But if you're not genuinely hungry,
like real hunger, you'll be sick of that thing quick.
And that's what happened to me yesterday. I was sick
of it super quick. I ate like half of it
and had my little small mini protein bar again, and
(10:45):
that was it for the day, and then I'll be
darning today. The other thing I've started doing is I
brought back the doing the hit now I do. I
did this a long time ago and loved it. Man,
it made me feel so much better. I had such
better oxygen and as far as being able to go
and walk and do without feeling winded or tired doing hit,
we'll change that quickly. It's amazing how fast it works.
(11:06):
The reason I stopped doing it was because the way
I do it is I jog in place as fast
as I can, knees as high as I can get them,
legs as fast as I can get them going and
I swing my arms back and forth just like I'm
jogging in a straight line down the road, except I
can do it in my house, in my living room.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
But if you do that full out, I mean.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Especially if you're an obese person like me, you do
that full out, for full bore, for whatever time you choose.
Like I'm just starting back and I'm having to do
ten seconds cuz you know, the first one, you know,
do it ten seconds, then you wait ten seconds. So
whatever amount you do it, that's the amount you wait.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
So the first one.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
All out for ten seconds, not that big of a deal,
wait ten seconds. Then the second one all out hard
as you can go for ten seconds, and then wait
for ten seconds, and that one you start feeling a
little bit. Then the third one, all out hard as
you can go ten seconds, jumping to the max. You
got to go as hard as you can go, fast
as you can go, relentless, one hundred and ten percent
of every burst of energy you can put into It's
(12:02):
the way you got to do it for it to work.
So the third time, do it. And then I'm in
that third ten second break and I'm gasping and I'm winded, Like,
oh God, and then I get to the fourth one,
then stop. And you know I plan on doing five.
I can't do the fifth one, like I'm just exhausted,
heart rates finally way high. I'm just I'm done, I'm winded,
(12:23):
I'm gassed, and so I just stop. It is amazing
when you do that for like just three days a week,
after just a few weeks, how much you will feel
yourself being able to breathe and consume oxygen and have
this ability to go.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
And here's why I quit doing it because by hernia,
I have an angle in or hernia, and doing that,
the weight of my belly pulling down while I'm doing
that causes my hernia to protrude again when it's very painful.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
It's very hard to retract it.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
And I'm trying to preserve that thing as long as
I can because I don't want to get surgery until
I absolutely have to, and I want it to also
be when I'm as as thin as possible, because for
you know, for every ten pounds you're overweight, the complications
of having a surgery or a procedure is multiplied.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
And I'm many many, many, many, many.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Tens of tens and tens of pounds overweight. And so
for a healthy one hundred and eighty five year old
man who has an ingle will herney to go in
and get it fixed. But you know, not that big
of a deal. You know, it's gonna be sore and
hard getting around for a few days. Is recovery, it's
gonna be super high. It's not be hard for the
doctor because they don't have to weed their way through
rolls of fat and all this stuff that the surgeon
(13:38):
has to go through, And so your chances of it
being successful is infinitely higher than if you're obese and
you've got big walls of fat they got to pull through,
and then you've got to try to recover, and while
you're trying to get up and get around, you still
got this heavy belly pulling and pulling on the stitching
and the mesh.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
And so I have learned.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
How that how to move, how to do how to
operate in a way that that hernia rarely, if ever
bothers me, Like most days I don't even know I
have a hernia. So I use this tracking app. It's
called what is this app called Symptom Tracker. I highly
recommend it. You can put whatever symptoms you got in
it and track them every day. You can put whatever
(14:18):
treatments you do every day and put them in there
and track them every day. And so I track all
kinds of symptoms. I track everything every day, and I
track when I take meds and track this, track that. Anyway,
I just look back to over the course of the
last year, and over the course of the last year,
I've had zero feelings of hernia there. Zero it's zeros
(14:40):
every day. Zero feelings of hernia for a year, even
though I do have one. But when I know how
to move and I know how to act, and I
know what I can do and can't do, the thing
stays retracted. In other words, it doesn't protrude. It's not
a problem, and it's fine. But I started doing this
hit exercises. I guess it's been u I did the
(15:01):
second one yesterday, so with like three days three or
four days ago, I started it and immediately I felt
the slight burning sensation there where that herney is and
I'm like, oh god, I mean, it's really frustrating because
you know that hit stuff really is healthy for you.
But I'm always having to evaluate things in terms of
(15:24):
it's benefit to me versus its harm to me.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
So you know, I've done it two days now.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Tomorrow will be my schedule third day, so we'll see
how it goes. Like I don't really feel the hernia
much today, Like I did feel it a little bit
last night, but I haven't really felt it today. The
one thing that I'm trying to do is have good
posture when I'm doing that hit stuff, and to pull
in and tighten the abdominals and keep them tightened, which
(15:51):
is very hard when when you're going out full bore
as fast as you can. But I do think that
helps some. But we'll see, We'll see how it goes.
I mean, I don't want because what happens is when
that thing finally does protrude.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I don't know, if I don't want to get too graphic,
but if you don't know what.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
An inglo or herney is, and there's a couple of them,
one of them that goes down and goes through one canal,
and it'll protrude in one place and then the other one.
It'll slip through this other little hole and go through
this other place. And if you're a mail it will
actually slip through and go into your testicle sack, and
that's what mine does. And it is crazy painful, unbearably painful.
(16:28):
I remember when it first happened. It happened with me walking.
I had been this is way back in what sixteen,
twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen. I'd got where I was walking
several miles a day.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Then one day, on a whim.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I decided to try to jog a little bit, and
granted I had video of it. I had a drone
at that time, and I took the drone with me
to the track and I set the drone up in
the air at the end of the track, and I
got some video of me jogging down the track. Now,
when you look at it, it's about the speed that
a healthy person would go if they were just walking,
very slightly more quick than normal. But for me, it's
(17:03):
like going ten times as fast as I normally go.
So it's like it's like slow ocean jogging. But every
time your feet pound the payment, all the weight of
the gut and the abdomen region pulled down and yank, yank,
it's it's all that weight's pulling down. And I was
so proud that I was able to jogs for the
first time since I was in tenth grade.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I remember very clearly the last time I jogged.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I was in tenth grade in high school, back in
nineteen eighty six, and I was so proud of it.
I'm like, I'm not I'm not a world beater by
any means, and I'm not breaking records or anything, but
I'm actually jogging. This is how far I progressed. And
at that time, I think I'd lost like seventy five pounds,
and I was so happy. And then one day I
(17:48):
come home from that and I jogged, and you know,
I sat down and I felt this just as pain
in my abdomen. It was just it was it was
just so painful. And then at one point, I don't
want to be too graphic, but it felt like at
one point somebody had reached down and grabbed my testicles
and was yanking on them, and they were pulling on
(18:09):
a cord that ran all the way up into my abdomen,
nearly up into my lungs, and it was just like
and I was like, oh my god, what is this.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I'm dying. I was immobile. I was so immobile.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I could barely make it from my recliner in my
living room, to my kitchen, to my bathroom and my bed,
Like just making any one of those trips was unbearable.
And finally, after I think like two or three weeks
of just misery went by. You know, men are stubborn,
I finally went to my doctor and he's like, I
don't know what it is. I'm gonna send you to
(18:43):
a h crap. What are the doctor? What is the
male doctors called? I'm sorry, my mind's blank. Anyway, I
went to him and he checked me out and he.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Goes, oh, that's easy. You got a hernia. Ain't gonna
hernia you need to get operated on, like a crap.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Anyway, So I did a deep dive on hernia's which
is always what I do. I went and did the research.
I jumped into the literature. I read about procedures, efficacy
of procedures, danger profiles by obesity rates and stuff, and
arrived at this.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Plan to.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Live with it chronically. And over time I've gotten really
good at living with it chronically.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
But as a sacrifice, it means like I can do
walks that are not fast.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
So there's not like there's not this pounding that the
foot is not pounding, like I'm not moving enough for
the foot to pound, because every time that foot pounds,
if you can imagine when that foot come downs and
hits then all this abdominal weight that I carry tons
of it. You can go see the pictures. You'll see
it pulls down and it's just this yanking and it's anyway.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
So I can manage it.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
But you know, I want the hit stuff because last
week I got out and did some stuff, went somewhere
and got out and around and I'm like, you know what,
I I feel a little winded over something. I shouldn't
feel this winded over, especially considering all the weight I've lost,
like now, when I was four hundred pounds, yeah, four
and fifteen pounds, yeah, I should have felt like this,
but not.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
I shouldn't feel like this now. So I don't know.
Let's see how it goes.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I didn't plan on including that in this update, but
you know, sometimes you get a bonus.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
The real thing about the update.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Was the eighty five pounds and the progress pick posted.
If you want to go gawk at me and my
massiveness and see what it looks like when a real
obese person lose weight, really slowly, and they still obees
and still a long way Togo, but they're happy the
progress they made. You can see that in the before
and after section. I wanted the highlight called before and
(20:43):
after on my Instagram page Fasting Guy Podcast. I genuinely
hope that you're doing well. I hope that something I
say one time, like I sometimes why people message me
and go, you know that you said this one thing
in that pod the other day and it stuck with me.
I never forgot it, and I never know what that
thing will be. But share my journey or results I found,
or research or experiences, and sometimes you guys draw something
(21:07):
from it, and sometimes you send me messages and I
draw from you, and I'm highly appreciative of that. We're
going to wrap it up my very best wishes to
you and your health and weight loss journey, and we
will talk to you in the next one
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