Keto Diet and Intermittent Fasting Success Story – Dr.Berg Interviews Mark Christopher

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hey everyone we’re back again we have another great Skype interview and I wanted to introduce you to mark mark has a great before and after hi mark how are you doing I’m doing awesome great that’s great you’re talking your column from Texas and I wanted to I wanted to call you because I wanted to hear some your story like what happened before you decided to lose weight and I saw that I mean we’re looking at the before picture tell me a little bit about what was going on with your weight that led up I had I have a I have a desk job so I’m real haven’t been real sedentary and it’s real stressful too so basically I just let myself get very out of shape I I was way over way my blood pressure was real bad all my all my glucose and cholesterol triglycerides all that was really bad and I feel like I was probably getting close to diabetic gonna sleep at night normally bad and I met with a guy last November about mid-november at a luncheon and and I didn’t recognize him I had worked with him in the past and he started telling me about how he had lost 55 pounds with the contoso diet and you know I sitting there having my sushi and my rice and not really locking a lot of what he said but after that later I thought about it and started doing research and decided hey if I’m going to get healthy I’m gonna have to do something so the change was obvious in him so that’s when I started looking into low carb and ketosis and decided hey I’m going to do this because you know I want to see my grandkids one day Wow yeah exactly what what was your peak weight that you reached that you’re working out with that seventy-three and today I’m down 86 and a half pounds that’s incredible I started November 28 and since then I’ve been completely on ketosis you know I’m one of those guys that it’s these are all or nothing so I hear people saying oh you can have a cheat day once a month or you can have a car day once a week I I’m not that way if I was I’m you know I’m kind of like if I have a cheat day I’d be afraid I couldn’t get back so I’ve been he tells us ever since November 28th yes sir okay that’s a pretty that’s a significant weight loss so so were you on blood pressure medications at the time I my doctor was telling me to get on it and I was always afraid of blood pressure and diabetes medicines I was afraid that once I got on it I wouldn’t be able to get off so I basically just didn’t do what he said and went on for several several more months you know really not being in good shape but since then all my blood pressure is normal all my glucose cholesterol triglycerides are all normal and losing weight something somebody asked me what you know what’s the negative side of this and the only thing I can think of itself had to buy several sets of clothes that could be expensive so it might be a problem if my wife had he’d the wind ‘red at fun in Clarence bill oven matter it would be really rough it really would I mean the the price of having to tailor-make all the clothes and buying your clothes I mean that can get really expensive it’s almost like is it really worth a stack of clothes that I that fall off of me basically and my wife is scared to death to get rid of it she’s like she saw me gain and lose weight so many times I’ve tried so many different diets and you know they might can drop them some weight for a while but it all come back and this is nothing like I’ve ever tried before I’m I never get hungry I mean I get hungry but I don’t stay hungry that’s a big difference before I would like to starve and I’m I’m satisfied even doing the intermittent fasting is a breeze I enjoy the good foods you know the veggies and the higher fats and moderate proteins just like you thought hey Mark questions so that brings up the question I was going to ask you so the main difference as far as which what’s what is making it easier before doing other diets in this one would you say it’s just basically the cravings and hunger would that be the big thing I don’t have cravings like I used to at all but I enjoy my food but it’s not like I’m you know sitting around chomping at the bit because I’m so hungry I’m just not hungry like I used to be I enjoy my food a lot more too you know I have salads a big salad every day I make my own dressing and follow the recipes that you got out there I make my own balsamic vinegar dressing with oh it’s good isn’t it yeah I know I hear you you know I haven’t touched bread or noodles or rice beans corn any of that there’s November 28 then I don’t miss them Wow so that’s so cool because it me trying to do an eating plan on top of hunger and cravings is totally insane and for those of you that are watching that are new to keep ptosis in a minute fasting ketosis is a type of eating plan that omits a lot of the carbohydrates but we’re still doing a lot of vegetable carbohydrates we’re just limiting the sugar ones and that way you can drop a hormone called insulin force your body into fat burning and when you’re burning your own fat that’s what your body is living off of it’s not living off necessarily the dietary food living on your reserved thus you’re not going to be so hungry anymore in fact you ever get to a point where when you have to eat you’re like I’m not even hungry I’m just gonna eat because it’s time yeah and I when I’m like that noise it takes lips over all it takes less food to satisfy me and and to make it you know I don’t find myself longing for food I don’t think myself you know reaching out and grabbing something like I used to you see I really noticed that you know looking back how much I would grab for food and not even think about it and just just eat something down and just how to have it right it’s so that’s so awesome and also like when the person starts to eat and then they become hungry because you’re spike in the insulin and they’re snacking especially at night a lot of guys have snack their graves and they spiked insulin now they’re really hungry so they weren’t hungry before and especially even doing like lean protein and vegetables without the fat that could be a problem so give me an example of how many meals do me today I’ll have your kale shakes but other than that I’m good the whole day Wow and then what do you when you eat a meal give me an example of what you would eat in that meal oh I’ll have a a regular dinner plate full of salad and I’ll have spinach and some Cato in it some romaine lettuce some shredded cheese and tomatoes and the dressing that uh that I make myself and that’s the bulk of my meal and after that I’ll have maybe a grilled chicken breast wow that’s awesome and then do you find that when you initially did this did you have to kind of gradually go into it or could you use jump right into one meal a day oh yeah no it was some of them was a learning process I didn’t understand all of it at first Franklin ruin I started I was really just doing low carb and then I started doing research and I got on YouTube and I put in ketosis and there was a doctor that was promoting ketosis and that really got my attention so you know I started watching your videos and learning a huge amount the ways that can help me another thing I wanted to point out is how much energy I have it’s it’s really amazing because I get up at 4:30 in the morning now and I’ll go in and work out before I go to work and I can do 7 miles on the elliptical with and I could just keep going because my Energy’s just non-stop the only reason I have to stop is I have to go to work I run out of time Wow that’s awesome and then has anyone like that knew you before just go what the heck are you doing you’re shrinking yeah just this last Monday I met a guy at a restaurant and he looked at me he he said I’m shocked so I said I hope that’s a good way he said oh yeah there’s a lot of people they they really don’t think it’s flat don’t r