3-Year Follow Up Interview with 600+ lb Steve

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[Music] hey guys I have a very interesting follow up from a video we did before on Stephen Ozma and this guy started out 600 pounds okay I’m having a video up I mean a picture up right now we’re gonna look at the progression of where he came from where he is now because people wanted to know is he still maintaining his way how was he doing so I think it’s been like 3 years now right oh yeah 3 years of Socktober 6 since I started awesome first of all they’re not gonna believe that you were 600 pounds right exactly but you were 600 pounds yeah 610 yeah Wow let me just can I just recap on your how you got that big because you know like you weren’t born 600 pounds how did you end up being 600 pounds um just I was I was always like 375 most of my life and then I kind of quit working at a really physical job and I moved to a city and I had a more sedentary job and it’s this slowly kind of crept on and crept on over about a 8-year period 10 year period and the problem was I got so big then I was like oh I’m gonna try tomorrow and then 3 4 years later you know it just it just happened and then all of a sudden I made a decision to start and then I lost and capped it off and it’s I’ve tried like yeah as I told you before trying to lose it all those other ways it never worked you know until I started Aikido and it’s probably been you know the best thing I’ve ever done and it’s been pretty easy actually to do it and you also did in a minute fasting - right I’ve been doing intermittent fasting now for a year and 3 months I have one meal a day I’m a 23 while I may be 23 and a half I have one meal a day and that’s it okay yeah so so here you are 600 pounds it seems to me that if you’re 600 pounds literally I can’t imagine how your knees would feel walking going up stairs going on an airport singing in a plane like times it’s just like a whole different different experience I can’t imagine what was it like it was tough like I was for 600 pounds I was fairly mobile but like going up and down stairs it was tough going into sitting in a booth summer if it was a booth instead of a chair or chairs with arms and then of course the plane I had to have the arm up and then it’s the poor guy sitting beside me right so it was tough everything you kind of had to plan out your your challenge right it was everything was logistics or she couldn’t sit there be there it was tough what did you ever notice people looking at you pointing to you or anything like that that was probably my worst one that can supermarkets you know everybody would look at you and they were kind of sneer but it was a little kids they would like point to their moms like look how fat that boy look how fat that man is mom and then of course their moms to be embarrassed but there was a lot of that because you didn’t really realize how big you were until you see picture you’re standing beside somebody else and then you don’t when you’re that big you don’t think well I’m not that big that’s not that bad so I wanna I want to dig into what you just said there because I suspected that you haven’t really confronted or face yourself in the mirror you’re probably going around thinking okay you know you’re probably not looking at the mirror yourself inspecting right now no no it’s when you get beside somebody and then somebody points out then you’re like okay I gotta take a look at this and then you kind of brush it off and there’s lots of denial when you’re that big it’s like everything else like oh I don’t have a problem I don’t have and then you actually really do that’s just amazing cuz I did have one gal she was very large and she the reason what got her to change as she saw a shadow of herself and she didn’t recognize a shadow I’m like I mean don’t you look in the mirror like she didn’t happen just didn’t see it just kind of block that out so wow I always knew it was there but I was like oh yeah tomorrow I can get on it tomorrow start I can do it tomorrow and but then you kind of get into routine as like tomorrow turns into a month turns into six months turns into a year yeah and you know it’s always a tough thing because you’ve tried like I tried like all the JT craves the diet standards like all the stuff I could possibly read that you know the low fat stuff it never worked I could last maybe a week or two and then I couldn’t do it and as I told you before is Joe Rogan that’s how I kind of got on kyoya’s watch his podcast and it was something intriguing and then I kind of got onto Jimmy Moore I got on to you and I did my research for like a month like I found out the beginning September and I started doing my research I got onto you and then Stephanie this three you basically got me started and then I started doing keto and then once I started it was just the most amazing thing and it was easy and I could stay on it you know one month turned into two months to three months and I started sleeping you know the weight started coming off and it was pretty pretty easy so easy because you you weren’t hungry or because you could eat fatty foods I wasn’t hungry the biggest thing was the first two three weeks yeah I had you know the keto flu or I was going through the withdrawals it was a little tough but then after that I was you know eating the three meals a day I was having the bacon the eggs you know I was eating pretty good food so it was really easy and I was dropping weight pretty good but my problem at the beginning was I was reading too many books really you know up to fat have all this fat I was taking MCT oil and I was adding all that stuff on and it was then after about probably six months I wasn’t losing that much well I was losing weight but not as much as I thought it was should be that’s right I told you I reached out to Tristan then you just had on and I actually hired him as my keto coach and he basically turned me around and said hey cut out all that extra fat that mc2 I’ll just eat natural food have that the fat in your hamburger you know start cutting some of your meals down don’t do what they’re seeing just get really simple and eat whole food so once I did that that’s when I really shot down like I shot down real then I stole it again and I started watching you and you started talking about internet fasting that’s where I started you know a year and a half ago May and then I really jumped my last big done because I was having a little bit of problems again with the three meals a day you know doing here the two meals a day then I really got down an intimate fasting and I’ve been doing that now for a year and a half and I wouldn’t do one mill and I I couldn’t even eat two meals a day now it’s so easy and like traveling and going to friends I have one meal a day and sometimes they don’t eat that meal if I’m too busy and I go two days how much how much do you weigh now I’m down to 248 it’s been kind of a weird year I was 264 last year in our interview I got down to 248 but I dropped a couple close sizing and waist sizes but I’m actually I have a scale that imma keep an eye on my like you know my body fat and my muscle I gained 18 pounds of muscle on this last year so it’s kind of a it’s been a weird year I haven’t lost like a ton of weight but I’m still happy I lost you know down to 248 but I’ve actually put on a lot of muscle so I always wanted to get down at 225 but I think I’m gonna kind of be in this area this 242 248 I do have a few more pounds Liz but it hasn’t slowing down for me but I keep going up through my muscle every month I’m doing 2 pounds to a pound of muscle because I’ve been working out five days a week doing a lot of weights Wow so this whole thing about weight near the end kind of gotta throw it aside go on your clothing size like that’s a big one for me I went from a 3x now I’m down to an extra-large 2x depends are closed I went from a 40 38 wa