I Lost 100 Pounds in 7 Months: Dr. Berg Interview

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so I always like to do um these success stories when you find an amazing story you want to you want to share with people today we have special guest Jim bizat and uh welcome Jim how you doing I’m doing great thanks for having me absolutely you know it’s interesting I uh my sister is about I think eight years younger than me and she went to school with Jim and he went to the same uh middle school and high school and college and so he was also a wrestler so we have definitely have something in common he wrestled heavyweight and I think two-time National Championship right yes wow well done so um Jim tell me a little bit about um you did you always have Centrio heavyweight I’m guessing you’ve been big for a while right you’ve been overweight or I don’t I don’t know you tell me yeah I was always on the heavy side you know always uh always chunky I guess wrestling was a good outlet for me to get in shape wrestling and football and sports I always uh kind of got in better shape when I was participating in that stuff and then I’d always kind of fall off when the season was over and it was always a struggle so you’re going along for how many years before you said you know I just need I need to lose this way I was gradually getting higher and higher at one point reached 395 and I was sitting with one of my friends and I said hey five more pounds and I’m in the 400 club and he said what are you doing you’re crazy stop it so that kind of dropped me you know down to I think I got down to 360 and stayed there probably for the last five years I was probably in the 350 360 range at that point did you have any other health problems yeah I had a lot of health problems I was hospitalized a couple times with uh cellulitis in my legs um it was kind of I was always kind of I was just sickly and you don’t realize it at the time but you just think it’s normal you know that that you occasionally get ill and I and I did that and I and then and you just feel like this is kind of the end you know you’re gradually get older and then you’ll just get sick and die and hopefully you can make it as long as possible so it’s something you kind of got used to I mean especially like being that heavy I mean I would imagine you probably got used to it but I mean just the weight of like close to 400 pounds on your joints on your knees and your back I can’t imagine them but you probably just adapted to it yeah it just seemed I think everybody got comfortable with it my family me um yeah I just thought it was I would just stay medicated and and you know I’m just keep going that way you know was there something that um when you started to figure out uh keto um what what how did you run into Keto whenever I would shift to a high protein diet I would uh I’d lose weight you know I was just kind of some clicked and I knew how to do it you know I knew that if I cut out you know processed foods and and carbs I would uh lose weight but what happened was I went to a wrestling meet up at Parkside and I seen their heavy weight get beat and I thought you know what I’m gonna go I can help this kid I’m gonna go in the room and help them so I went into the room and realized I can’t move anymore like I used to you know I I I can’t help this kid so I thought you know what you need to start start working out start eating right and I really shifted towards as much protein as possible and really cut out you know every every carb I could think of you know and I and then the weight this is February of this year that this started and it just fell off me like you know it just it was amazing and I and I did work out throughout the process but it wasn’t like it was crazy workouts you know it was maybe twice a week up at the resting room you know getting on the bike slowly getting back into I knew how to work out because I’ve done it you know pretty much my whole life and but this there was something different and when I really kind of pushed out the processed foods and the sugars that it just changed my life you know it really did so you went from how much weight to your current weight now like tell me how much what you went from to currently I was in February I was probably in mid 360s maybe 365 and I right now I’m 255. so it’s all 100 plus it matched that short amount of time which was is really it’s crazy that it happened that fast and uh you know I I follow kind of the three like I follow a carnivore diet but it’s almost impossible to stay that you know that regimented so but I really don’t eat a lot of fruits and vegetables you know I think I get I mean I multivitamins is kind of where I’m getting you know and and from your advice uh um organ me is where I get a lot of my uh my vitamins but I uh I mean I don’t eat any pasta any sugar and I I just think yeah I just I agree it’s crazy what happened to me in this short amount of time it was it’s been it’s been amazing it’s life-changing you know and it’s been so many different aspects that that have happened to me it’s different positive things you know one thing that did happen I I did have uh I had a seizure because I wasn’t used to not holding the water that I had so I I went to my daughter’s softball tournament and spent the whole day I had some coffee in the morning I’m kind of nervous when I watch her pitch so I I uh didn’t drink any water throughout the day I got home and I went to bed and I had a seizure and I ended up in the hospital and it kind of broke it down the neurologist and everybody that it was heat stroke and dehydration and maybe a salt efficiency that kind of caused this thing so I mean that’s kind of a a warning to other people if they go through this to really keep an eye on you know their electrolyte intake which I which I do you know so um yeah I’ll just mention one point for those of you that are watching what happens when you when you start this when you cut out carbs you lose a tremendous amount of water weight and with that comes electrolyte loss so if you don’t especially potassium too so if you don’t add either electrolytes and sea salt you’re going to end up um pretty dehydrated so that’s just a really important little Factor I’m glad that you you figure that out but yeah that’s amazing so Jim when you do uh the carnivore of course you can get all your nutrients you just have to know what to do so you you’re adding uh fried beef liver organ Meats uh eggs uh fish the omega-3 fatty acids probably and also shellfish for all the trace minerals and you can even get some vitamin C from liver as well and uh you’ve been doing that right I mean you’re like because so many people just do the steak which is it’s not going to give you everything a lot of things but not everything yeah you know I eat a lot of chicken liver I eat a lot of beef liver we blend up the liver and add it to the um to the beef make hamburgers with it kind of takes that that funk away from the taste a little bit um yeah salt I no seasonings really except salt I use sea salt um I do go like I said I I if I in the morning I’ll drink uh a protein shake carnivore protein shake um a Premier Protein Bar if you know if I try not to get hungry I try not if I’m I always keep something with me just so I’m not ever really tempted these days I’m not I’m it’s it’s weird how I like Fourth of July I stood in the tent where all the food was and just looked around at everything and I was thinking why don’t I want this food anymore wow and I grabbed I grabbed a brat and ate a brat and uh and yeah it’s really has like because the the way I feel just out ways that that need yeah you know that’s that’s with me too when I get to the point where I’m like you know what I already know what I’m gonna feel like if I go this other direction it’s like no it’s not worth it because I’m sure people around you are not doing what you’re doing and then and they’re