Before & After Keto – Intermittent Fasting & Weight Loss session with Dr.Berg and Dan McGinley

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So, welcome everyone. We have another amazing before and after. This is Dan and I wanted to say thanks for doing this interview. Um, and I want to just first find out a little bit about your past. I saw the before picture.

Did you have a lot of weight problems early on at all? Did you just start gaining weight at a certain point? What What happened? So for mo for most of my life I was pretty athletic and played a lot of sports and activities and I was probably but I was always maybe at least 10 or 15 pounds overweight. I didn’t really know that at the time.

So like right now my weight is about 155 pounds. I’m 5 foot 6 and a half 5 foot seven. So but you know during even my college soccer playing career I was 170 pounds let’s just say. So I never really was much lower than that. But what happened is after college and stop I stopped playing soccer as much and I wasn’t really exercising as much.

So I would end up being like 20 pounds higher than that. So about 190 pounds. I would fluctuate actually um from my let’s say 20s until I’m like 37 now. So in between that area I would fluctuate 20 pounds every year. and I would gain 20 pounds and lose 20 pounds and gain 20 pounds and lose 20 pounds um until this year when I decided to I’m not going to do that anymore.

I’m going to try to keep it off and I’m going to figure out how to do that. Wow. So, when you were in uh college uh college playing soccer, what type of uh diet did you have back then? So, I didn’t have I would say no diet. I ate whatever I wanted to eat.

Uh I didn’t really think about it at all. Um even growing up, I didn’t really think about it that much. I didn’t think anything about different types of calories or anything like that. It was just I ate what I wanted to eat and that was really it. Wow.

Amazing. So, what made you uh want to decide to say, “You know what? That’s it. I got to lose this weight. ” What uh what what was it?

Well, I guess this time I just said to my my wife would always say, “This isn’t healthy for you. You know, it’s not healthy for you to gain weight and lose weight and gain weight and lose weight. ” And my argument at the time was, well, it’s better to lose it than to just keep it on, I guess. But she, her point was, I just needed to figure out something where I could keep it off and figure out a lifestyle change. That was the whole big thing.

Instead of just dieting for a certain amount of time, let’s say a few months, and then going off of that, which is what I would h what would happen is January would come around after the holidays, I would feel disgusting, and I would see myself in the mirror that I was 20 pounds too heavy or whatever. And I do play an adult soccer league and it would like the season would start to come up and I want to kind of be able to run a little bit, let’s say. So I would watch what I was eating, but I would just watch my calories. I didn’t really know what I was doing. I just know I knew at the time lower my calories and I had success doing that.

So I would do that and then I would lose it, but then it would come back. So this time I said to myself, I’m going to figure out how the body works. I want to like research and not just know it’s calories. So that’s when I kind of stumbled upon your site and your YouTube channel and just started soaking up as much knowledge as I could about how the body works and what’s best for me and that kind of stuff. Awesome.

So then um so you started doing did you do a combination of just ketosis or do you do intermittent fasting at the same time or what what did you do? So the plan was I started in January. I was, like I said, I was 190 pounds this year. And I just started watching my calories like I usually did. And for the first month, I did the research while I was watching my calories.

And I um I ended up losing around like 15 pounds or so just doing that. And then I started figuring out more information from you and I started to then I got to about 20 pounds and I said, “Okay, now that I’m at my 170 lb weight that I usually get to, I want to see how far I can go here. I really want to lose as much body fat as I can and get in the best shape of my life. So, I’m going to have to use these tips and these tricks and this information that I’m learning. So, then that’s what I did.

I decided to do the first thing I did was um watch the type of calories that I was eating. So, I learned about healthy fats and I learned about carbohydrates are horrible and I started to lowering the carbohydrates and increase the fats and try to have as much protein and that kind of stuff. That was like my phase two, I’ll say. And then phase three was intermittent fasting. Uh, I I got information about intermittent fasting and I was probably at that time about 23 or so pounds down to where I wanted to be.

So, I said, “Let me do this intermittent fasting. ” Even though this is working for me with watching my calories and having healthy calories, let me do intermittent fasting and try it. And that’s when I was able to lose like the last 10 pounds, which is always the hardest for me, when I really tried to push it, I really couldn’t do it until I did the intermittent fasting, which was my stage three, I’m going to call that. Um, and now I’m kind of like in almost a stage four or five. Well, let me back up.

Stage four for me is like exercise with intermittent fasting. I was always doing some type of exercise during this time. I would like work out with weights three times a week, but nothing crazy, just like an hour in the gym and then I would also do uh running. But the biggest thing for me was I did running during my fasting window in the morning. So, I know some people have a problem with that.

And at first, I thought I couldn’t do that. I was always under the impression since my soccer days, I need to have carbohydrates for the soccer game tomorrow. And I got to make sure I’m all ready to go for this and have this energy. And I didn’t understand the body. And so, my first couple runs, I was shocked to see that I performed better than I did when I was eating breakfast and then running.

Let’s just say, isn’t that a piece of false data? Like people think they have to have Gatorade or glucose cuz they’re going to crash or whatever. That is not true. That’s the biggest that’s the biggest thing. And especially now I’m trying to take this information with my own children.

I have three kids um seven, eight, and nine and their diets are I would say not as good as they could be. And so like you know with they play sports and I’m like you don’t need that Gatorade. You know it’s not even going to help you. It’s it’s bad for you. Let’s just have some water.

Especially kids will chug a whole thing of Gatorade before the game even starts. you know, it’s just not good. It’s bad. So, so here you you did that and then um you the intermittent fasting, what pattern are you using now? So, what I did in the beginning is well, I’m kind of doing the same.

I did 12 and I did uh 16 and 8. So, I would do 16 hours uh fasted and my window would be like 12 to 8 feeding window, eating window, let’s just say. Uh, and sometimes I mean it’s not always 12:00 to 8 though, you know, it can be I like that it’s that you can flex flex it wherever you need. That’s why I love that. So if I need to eat lunch at 11:30, then I would stop eating earlier or something.

And a lot of times I would try to stop eating at 6 o’clock at night if I could. I figured let me push my fasting window as long as I could if I could do it, if it fit into the schedule. And so that’s what I would do. A lot of times I would only do uh 11:30. I would start eating 11:30 and I would stop eating at 600, let’s just say.

So really it wasn’t 16 and 8 then I guess um 18 and six you know. Mhm. Do you do you go out to din