383 - Fat Loss Muscle Gain

A one year update on weight lost, fat lost, and muscle gained.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello there, Welcome into another episode of the Fasting Guy podcast.
So glad to have a year, spend a while since
of it, but done an update. I don't even know
how long it's been. You know, I'm committed to you
guys that if I just really don't have anything to say,
or I don't have a meaningful updates, but I just
don't do podcasts just for the sake of doing one.

(00:22):
This isn't a business or I'm not trying to grow
it into the world's most popular weight loss podcast, not
doing any of that stuff. It's just a documentation of
my life and my journey. And you guys have been
nice enough to come along and appreciate how you having
you here. But I know a lot of people, not
a lot of people, but people continue to unsubscribe because
there's just not updates. And I get it. If I
have a podcast that doesn't get updated in a couple

(00:43):
of months, I unsubscribed from it too. I said all
that to say this, if you're still here, I'm grateful.
It means a lot to me. I know there's a
core group of you guys that you know, kind of
have this connection. Just vibe get messages from you from
time to time, so let's be a quick update. So
last month, I should have done this update last month,

(01:05):
but I've just been putting it all and of all times.
Right now, I'm in a hotel room and I don't
know why it occurred to me to do it right now,
but it did. It just popped in my head. So
I'm like, I'm going to bang it out real quick.
But about a month ago, my wivvings app that goes
with my withvings scale popped up and it gave me
a It gave me like a three month update on

(01:26):
fat loss, muscle whatever, and I'm like, okay, I want
to see what with the last year. Last year has been.
So I changed the dates on it to go for
a year, and well I just had it in front
of me. We opened it up again. Dang it, sorry
about this. I lost it. So over the last twelve months,

(01:53):
we lost fifty six pounds of fat and we gained
eleven point eight pounds of muscle. So you know, that
makes it work out to like thirty thirty eight thirty
eight pounds of fat lost. They're thirty eight pounds lost total,

(02:13):
so it's fifty six pounds of fat that I lost,
but I gained eleven point eight pounds of muscle, so
that'd be I'm sorry, it'd be forty six, forty seven,
forty five point two forty four. It's not like forty
two pounds. What's that point eight point six? Okay, it's

(02:36):
like forty two pounds. Sorry, So we lost like forty
two pounds in the last year and total, but we
did lose fifty six pounds of fat and we gained
almost twelve pounds. Right at twelve pounds of muscle. That's
hard to do. In weight loss, that's very difficult to do.
It's gain muscle and lose weight. And so the reason
I wanted to do the podcast was one to give

(02:57):
you an update, but two, I wanted to just talk
about this muscle gain and how it's happened. I don't
lift weights, I don't really do exercises to build muscles.
I have two different hernias. I have an angle in
a hernia which I have to be very very careful.

(03:18):
That one is so bad if I mess up. And
you know, my goal is to I mean hopefully to
never have surgery. But if I do have to have surgery,
hopefully you know I will have lost enough weight that
the risk of complications will be low. Sorry moving things around.
Hope that doesn't bother to sound too much. So I

(03:41):
guess you can't really do weights because I don't want
to risk it. Then I have a normal you know,
hernia as well. So I just eat tons of protein. Man,
just eat tons of protein, and I try to eat
more and more protein. And to be honest with you,
about a year ago is when I said, you know,
I'm not going to worry about is it good protein?

(04:02):
Or are you doing too many protein shakes? Are you
doing too many protein bars? Or you're doing too much
of dish. I'm like, you know what, I don't gonna
worry about that. I'm just gonna focus on protein. And
if I buy protein that's processed, I'm gonna make sure
that it's really good quality protein and that it's not
full of sugar. And so that's I mean, that's really
what I've done. So you know, that's mostly weight protein isolate.

(04:26):
So if I get like protein bars, I wanted to
be weight protein isolate. Now protein drinks, you're just not
gonna get weight protein isolate drinks. They're gonna have, you
know this milk cassionate in or something because they have
to have something to make it taste milky, so I
buy those. But now what I've been doing is this

(04:48):
health code hl th h COD is a keto protein powder.
It's very high fat. And what I'll do is I
buy one of these. I like these, either the Premiere
Protein shakes or the Adkins Protein Shakes, a very low
carbon so I like those. And what I'll do is

(05:09):
I'll just I think those are eleven ounces. I'll pour
like five ounces of the shake and a mixer, and
then I'll put a scoop of that health protein in there,
which is like twenty I think it's twenty five grams
of fat, twenty five grams of protein, so it's a
it's a high fat and it's real high quality protein too,
And I'll do that. Then I'll have a protein bar

(05:30):
or protein pastry. And then I also have yogurt, so
I have the you know, just the plain faier Greek yogurt,
fat fat, five percent fat, so it's got like high fat,
it's got a lot of protein, and you know, I
eat a lot of that. As far as actual food,

(05:52):
like beef patties are probably my most eaten you know,
real food protein. I went through a spell where I
ate a lot of bacon. I haven't really been eating
bacon that much for a while. And then I eat chicken.
But I've decided to eat less chicken. This may sound weird,

(06:12):
but just I just did a lot of reading and
a lot of studying, and I just I know chicken
is lean protein, and people say that's good. But the
reason I started adding that health Code protein powder into
my protein shakes was because of all the fat that's
in it. And I really do feel better when I'm

(06:33):
on the fat. I feel fuller when I'm on the fat.
My digestion is better when I have the fat up,
My bile movements are better when I have the fat up.
Like everything is better. And that's why I like the
full fat yogurt too. So I don't eat as much
of the chicken. I still eat chicken, but like it's
not an everyday thing. I probably eat chicken two times

(06:55):
a week, maybe three times a week some weeks. Anyway,
I guess you want to talk about overall goals. You
know our goal three years ago, Well that's worth what
three years and three years and three months now? But
three years and three months ago. Our goal was to

(07:15):
lose around thirty to thirty five pounds a year and
try to do it for five years, and we're on
target with that. You know, we hit one hundred and
three pounds, so you know that's over. That's over thirty three.
It's over thirty three pounds a year. But I do
realize the more you lose, the slower it gets. So

(07:37):
if I lose thirty three or thirty five pounds this year,
that'll be great. But if I only lose twenty pounds,
I'll be fine with it. If I don't lose any
weight and I just stay the same, I'll be fine
with that. Like I'm just not stressed about it. I
just feel good. Oh now I do. I do remember
why I am decided to record this episode. So I
sat on the edge of my bed, and you know,

(07:58):
I have this messed up leg. I've talked to me
out a lot and just had all those blood cloths
and nearly killed me and wound up with a saddle
pument or embolism and all that became from blood clots
in the leg. But it messed those veins up, and
so I have poor circulation for my right leg. And
so I'm always propping my everywhere I travel after bring
this wedge with me to prop my leg up when
I'm asleep, and then I wear compression socks or when

(08:19):
I'm up anyway, So I take I have to take
blood thinners. For that, I'll take. I guess I'll take
blood thinners forever. Hopefully, knock on wood, nothing bad ever happens.
I think we just hit four years of taking them.
I think so. Anyway, so I opened my little pill
travel pill container and I saw those there's pain relievers

(08:42):
in there, and I saw them and it triggered me.
And I'm like, I just I just don't take pain
relievers anymore. I just don't take them. I can't tell
either last time I took a pain reliever from and
I used to mainly take them from my back every
now and then I would take one for a headache.
Now I did. I actually did take a and I'd
be profen for a headache four to six weeks ago

(09:03):
or something. But as far as like for my back,
like I just don't have low back problems anymore. I
don't have chronic back problems anymore. And you know I
was traveling with i'd really liked those aceed of metaphin
ibuprofen mix. They're called combo something. It's like half ibuprofen
had half a seedamfic. I just started liking those for

(09:27):
tolerable pain, and then hydro codons always had with me
for worse pain. I don't even carry the hydro colones anymore.
I guess I have them at the house somewhere. I
don't even where they're at. And I just have two
of those little, you know, half a seed of minive
and half ivuyprofen pills in my little container, just two

(09:48):
of them. Like I used wouldn't leave home without a
bottle because I just never knew where I'd wind up
and how much bad, how much pain my back would
be in. But so I guess that's probably the biggest benefit.
And I do feel lighter. I was buying groceries the
other day and I was walking around, and I don't
know why it struck me at that particular time, but
I just felt lighter. Felt I felt really light. I'm

(10:10):
not really light, by the way. I'm still a very
heavy person. I'm still an extremely large person. But there
you go. There's an update. I hope that your journey's
going well. I hope that you're doing well, hope that
you're healthy and happy. That's the most important thing is
being happy, being as healthy as you can be, and

(10:31):
if we can get weight loss to come along with it,
that's just icing on the cake. Appreciate you being here.
Hopefully it won't be as long until I update you
again soon Thanks