Weight Loss Success Stories – Testimonial – Lost 72 LBS – Dr.Berg interviews Martha

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So Martha, tell me a little bit about um I talked to you before. Tell me a little bit about what we talked about at first. I found you on the internet when I was desperate to lose weight. I needed to lose between 50 and 70 pounds. I was 66 years old at the time.

And I just searched how do you lose 50 pounds? Because I tried Weight Watchers, South Beach, nutri system. You name it, I tried it. No, no luck. counting calories.

No luck. I found you. Thank you that I found you. I’ I’ve watched I’m sorry. I can’t help but be emotional.

I’ve watched you literally every day since I found you. I keep you running on all day. I’m doing housework and you’re talking to me. I feel like I know you. That’s great.

And my life is just so different. I can’t tell you. I’m 67 years old. I’m a recovering cancer patient. I had everything against me, Dr.

Burke. Everything. Wow. I have non-hodkins lymphoma. I’m not active, but that’s what I have.

You You swell. You know, I still do. I have Shogun syndrome. I know you know what that is. The dry eye.

And I have lung bronchio obliterance, which means the chemo fried my lungs. So, I can’t hike, I can’t bike, I can’t play tennis. That was always a that was always my pleasurable thing. So, I don’t burn that many calories, you know. So, I had to have something.

I had to have something. And I found keto. Man, I lost 17 pounds in three weeks. Boom. Boom.

Boom. I said, “Okay, maybe this thing’s gonna work. ” Right. And I’ve just worked it. I’ve just worked it.

Wow. That’s fantastic. So, you’ve lost how much how much weight so far? 72 lbs. I I reached 42us 42 pounds and I stalled.

I saved the same weight for a month. And I called you and I emailed you and I told you my son was on it and he has now lost 66. He’s, you know, a man and strong and he’s gone muscular, but he doesn’t want to be filmed, which I don’t blame him. Uh, and I called and I emailed you and you called me. You called us one afternoon and you talked to us and honestly when we hung up talking to you, we both just sat and cried.

We were just so happy. Not not tears of sadness, but just that you reached out to us. We just needed the help, you know. I told you to reduce your stress, go a walk, sleep more, right? Yes.

Yes. And that helped you? Yes, that was the key. And I started taking bubble baths and being on the patio with the birds and listening and and I stopped taking editing jobs and just uh took more naps, watched more movies, um went visited friends more often and I and I became uh just rested just you know I mean only thing I did wrong during this whole last year I think was I tried to buy a bicycle and I got on it and rode. about 20 feet and fell and almost broke a leg and an arm.

Yeah, not good. So, I was in bed for about five weeks. I didn’t go off the keto when I had the bike wreck. I didn’t eat, you know, I stayed in bed most of the time up and down, but I wasn’t back to my normal schedule because I couldn’t walk hardly. I was lucky that I didn’t really hurt myself.

Um, anyway, that was the worst thing I did. But I gained three lbs those five weeks, but I didn’t beat myself up over it. And I knew that I could go back into uh, you know, the the planning and everything and the weight just came right back off and now I’m down 72 pounds. But I want to say this one thing. I want I want people to know, one size does not fit all with weight loss.

what worked for me. You’re you’re going to have to find out what works for you. Um that was the main thing I learned over the years. I have over this year I had trouble with ground beef. My son has trouble with cheese.

So I don’t eat that much ground beef. And I think that uh you you hit it on the nail because the um you know what I look at because I had a little more space. I could see what’s happening. You’ve been through cancer. you had you have an autoimmune disorder and that is the stress.

That’s the stress. So, uh other people it might be something different but um it’s not about the weight, it’s about your health and removing the barriers. Uh I had one lady, she was plateaued, she was vegetarian, she was plateaued. So, we found that we had to lower her protein content and boom, she lost the weight. So you know what you want to do is take a person’s individual weakest link.

It could be digestion, inflammation, it could be something else and we fix that. But the whole goal is to understand your body and um understand the mechanism of how it works so you can control it. So you’re not at the effect of your body like right now you’re in control of your body which is the cool thing. And that’s why I think with you when your cravings went away and your you weren’t as hungry, you probably found other things to do more u meaningful, right? Yes.

I did want to say that once I got keto adapted, they call it totally getting off of sugar. Sugar is the evil monster in this whole story, right? Once I got off of sugar, something snapped in my brain and I lost the cravings that I had had for years that kept me from being able to tolerate diets. I would just get I would just crave so bad that I’d eat a apple, a pear, an orange. Worst things in the world I could have been doing for my body.

I thought it was healthy, right? So when when that snaps and you get that feeling and you know people everybody knows people oh I can eat anything I want I’m never hungry. See they don’t have that problem. Their brain is not wired like mine. Yeah.

You know and once I snapped I go wow this is what it’s like to live in the world without a food craving on your mind all the time. Right. Obsessing your whole that’s all people think about is food food food. And it’s a trap because you’re the food is controlling you and you don’t even know it when you’re in it. And then when you get a chance to step out and say, “Wow, I can actually do what I want to do and eat what I want and not eat and it’s okay not to eat.

This is how other people live. ” You know, because you know, you wonder as a fat person, you wonder, well, how do they do it? You know, I’m never hungry. Well, now I tell people, I’m never hungry. And they go, you must be lying.

And I go, no. Yeah, I know exactly what to feed my body. Yeah, I know. Bacon and eggs are my friends. That is that’s amazing that uh you you know the key is you um you learned how to do it.

You studied. You you didn’t look for the quick fix. You gave it time, patience. You hung in there and look what you got. You got you’re in a size six and even that’s loose and you’re healthier, too.

So, I just want to say thank you, Martha, for um complying and participating and sharing your wins. Um, and I’ll post this as well. And I must say one more thing. I must tell you, I see my cancer doctor every six months and he’s been so loving and caring and he’s tried to help me lose weight so much, you know, but he’s never fussed at me. He’s never belittled me because of my weight.

And the first time I went in there, six months, and I had lost about 50 pounds. He actually just hugged me and just he just, you know, he he just And then this last time I went in, I had lost 68, I think. He’s just high-fiving. He’s bringing all the nurses in to see me. They’re just all sitting around like I’m a rock star.

You know, everybody up and down the halls just, “How’d you do it? How’d you do it? Maur,” you know, it’s just a thrill. I mean to know, you know, that people care about you and and they want you to do well and and I have, you know. Yeah.

And I mean, people can see from the pictures that was agony when I was that big. I was just in agony. And now I’m just so happy. Every day is just happy. It’s joyous.

It’s just I just can’t I just have so much more energy and just liveless. It I just, you know, I hope that my story helps somebody out there. Yeah. It like you helped me