4-Year Follow Up Interview with 600+ lb Steve

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hey guys I have a great interview today it’s basically a follow-up we’ve done a couple different recordings over the last few years and Steven is here hi Steven how are you doing I’m doing good how are you guys good so the reason I wanted to bring you back on is because you have an incredible incredible story I’m just going to let you kind of give everyone just a thumbnail sketch of where you were and how you actually came to where you are right now as far as your weight and your health and so why don’t you just kind of give us a brief summary of that back in 2015 I was weighing 600 10 pounds and I basically wanted to lose weight I wanted to retire here when I was like 14 age 50 here which I’m doing this year so I had to find a solution to lose that weight and I kind of got onto a Joe Rogan and I found out about keto I loved September first took me about a month of studying following dr. Byrd Jimmy Moore some of the originals back then in October 6th I basically started on the day of my birthday and by two years later I was down 344 pounds and now it’s been almost four years and I’m down 367 pounds and I’ve kept it off and now life’s been great so basically the big weight loss is two years and then I’ve been basically maintaining building muscle and just kind of staying in that same little category but having really good improvements over the last two years that’s what I want to dive in like right right now how much do you weigh I’m 242 ok I can’t quite I can’t seem to quite get down anywhere like I’m pretty lean for my size that’s a weird one away but I’m doing lot of muscle I’m going up so I’m cut you know for the last two years I’ve been in that 242 to 248 range I’m just kind of staying in there but clothing size has gone down stuff like that so it’s two different transformation Wow last year you came to our summit and I was exciting if we compare last year with now not just weight but any other health improvements that you noticed just from the last year well what I’ve noticed in the last year is like I told you I had water retention in my lower legs and I was having a skin issue where if I just touched it was it was really weak and it was damaged over this last year I’ve been doing once a week I do a two days fast and then every 45 days I’ll do five days five monistic that my skin is actually getting stronger I’m not having that issue I still have this skin issue it hasn’t gone back of you know I was so big I was made Act but just overall like health mental traveling like it’s just amazing like a do it come live from the first year from honester to this year I was just kind of getting into I was really skinny for a year now I’ve been almost two years and just the whole quality of life like easy to travel workout clothes the way people look at you and because you’re in a whole new basic I’m like a normal person now compared to where it used to be so how yeah so those of you who are watching and you really don’t know much about it stephen is a is doing a combination of keto ketogenic diet and in a minute fasting together and I think you do one mill a day yeah so basically now for two years I’ve been doing one meal a day and I do it above eight o’clock at night and it’s basically because just have like two hamburgers and cheese and some spices in one big salad and that’s what I eat every day and I do 45 minutes of cardio pretty hard like I do the roller that’s my new thing I’m on the rower in that the concept to ski and machines below to my to ones I do and I do that 45 minutes then I do usually a good 45 minutes that’s pretty heavy you like eight so and I do that every I do that five days a week and then I’ll do cardio maybe one day on the weekend and I only have one plus at work all day and and there’s a lot of days where like I travel quite a bit I’ll just skip eating for two days because you know if I’m flying around many airports I just don’t even and Kimmy it’s been going well and I’ve been getting quite a bit of muscle that’s what everybody keeps trying to tell me is like oh you’re going to catapult yourself like you your muscle but I’m getting stronger I’m getting more sighs and I’m very very consistent on what I do with my eating Wow and it’s end of portion and I don’t know I’ve been having a really good result so I don’t you know it’s kind of interesting when Tom McLaury I want to talk to him and he does Aikido I want to you know kind of compare to him what he thinks but I don’t think you need all that food to gain the muscle no in fact there’s a couple points I want to bring up about that like the real reason why keto and I F work so well from a scientific basis but first I want to talk about muscle protein print muscle protein you know if you eat a hamburger for example you’re only gonna get maybe thirty seven percent of that’s going to be actual protein the rest is like water and fiber and collagen and stuff that you’re not digesting so we’re getting about 37% of it’s going to be digestible protein so and then what happens there’s a lot of those proteins amino acids are going to be used for repair replacement but honestly your body is not shedding or getting rid of protein as fast as you think so we’re we constantly recycling our our nutrients and our amino acids and in other nutrients tubes and I workout most days I’m working out fasted so that’s another thing that a lot of people don’t understand so I don’t eat before I work out so I’ve worked all day now so I beats me to eight o’clock and I saw and then I get up in the morning I go to work I get home at five o’clock and then I basically go into doing cardio I going to do my workout and then I’m actually feeling really good and if I don’t tell myself to go eat that a day I probably don’t have to and I still have lots of energy I’m still doing like you know abs at the end like I do I do not lack for the energy and the strength and I don’t feel drained or anything and then I basically then I basically go eat then I relax and then I know it’s bedtime for me but that’s why MIT day works out for me I like eating later at night because then everything is kind of settled down and I’m ready for my next day and then I start over again okay I like the what you’re doing because the the part of the nervous system called the flight-or-fight works during the day at night in the evening things are winding down it’s called parasympathetic rest and digest so you’re actually your body naturally is gonna do a little bit better with digestion in the evening then in the morning believe it or not so then you actually eat you could you go to bed and you recycle that long but the point I was gonna bring up is that um when you do in a minute fasting you cause your body to start to run only on ketones and fatty acids and when that happens your body then starts to recycle nutrients way more than if you’re eating frequently because it’s it’s kind of like you’re adding a little bit of a so-called starvation stress which is not really starvation but if you don’t eat it creates a little bit of stress enough to cause your body to adapt to that and start being very conservative with the nutrients so you start recycling the nutrients so that the amount of nutrients you need so heck of a lot less that’s why you can get by with a little smaller amount of food because your body is running off your factor which is designed in an average thin person has close to that 70 to 80 thousand calories of fat as reserve we will have like 1,700 stored calories of sugar so it’s not natural to run your body of sugar so when you convert over to fat by reducing your carbohydrates all these wonderful things happen with the with the cells with the mitochondria store get more energy your cognitive function improved your mood so no you’re not going to lose your muscle you’re not going to wither away b