128. Heavy To Modified Ft. Anthony Lopez
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1 hour and 6 minutes
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247.27603
Summary
In this episode, Anthony Lopez talks about how he went from weighing over 600 pounds to now being in the 260's. He also talks about the struggles he faced growing up and how he overcame them to get back in shape.
Transcript
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What is up guys, it's Andy Priscilla and this is the show for the realistic about the lies
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to fakeness and delusions of modern society and welcome to motherfucking reality.
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Guys, today I've got a really cool show playing for you guys.
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The way this show came about was very interesting and I want to lay that out real quick for you.
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Yesterday I was in the locker room and one of the things that makes what we do here at First Form so amazing
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is that we are constantly having visitors come in from all different areas of the world
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who have had tremendous success at changing their lives completely.
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And yesterday I was in a locker room and we had one of what I think the most inspirational dudes I met,
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We started talking and finally I stopped him and I said,
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Let's just have this conversation because I think it'll benefit a whole lot of people.
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And if you're one of these people right now who are struggling with who you are and what you're about,
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you're facing criticism, you're facing obstacles, you're trying to change your body and your mind and your life
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and you're looking at the mountain and it seems too big to climb.
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All right, this is a show that you're going to want to listen to and listen close.
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I'm from Orange County, California and born and raised.
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So, dude, hundreds of pounds that you've worked off of your body.
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Let's talk about this for a minute, dude, because right now we're dealing with, you know, a pandemic.
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We're dealing with a lot of things that people never really thought would happen.
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And, um, you made the decision to get healthy before this actually came about.
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And, um, because there's so many people right now that are.
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It's the COVID-20, but also people who have struggled with their weight their entire lives.
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They're now starting to understand like, Hey man, this isn't a joke.
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No, it's, it's not, it's not, it's serious, man.
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It's like, you know, people are stuck at home doing nothing, you know, doing a lot of reflecting.
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And now you have to look at a body that you built for yourself, whether it be, you know,
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overweight or be in shape and, you know, nothing's, nothing's worse than looking at yourself
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I mean, it's, it's, it's a crappy feeling and we're pretty sure we're going to get into
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Uh, but you know, it's such a negative time right now.
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People are, you know, diving in deep and looking at their self and, and they're seeing like,
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I mean, so next time they see their, you know, X or their, whatever it is, they're like,
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It could be somebody like you who's been overweight their entire life.
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And they're like, just saying, Hey dude, uh, all right, it's time for me to take
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I mean, um, tell me a little bit about how you came up and how you got to be 600 pounds,
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All we do good times, bad times, happy, sad birthdays, whatever it's eating, man.
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Um, my mom, you know, she had me and my brothers and sisters.
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You're trying to get some food for the kids and go home, watch some TV, go to sleep and
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So, I mean, I was eating and I was like, you know, I think I was like four years old with
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like a big ass frigging chicken bone in my hand from Knott's Berry farm.
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And everyone thought it was the cutest thing in the world, but they weren't, they didn't
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know that that was going to lead into years of, you know, bad relationship with food.
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And on top of that, a lot of confidence, you know?
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So when I was raised, uh, I would, my family's type of family where it's like, oh, he's taking
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They raised me knowing that I, you know, to have self-worth and to know I could do anything
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And if I'm going to work for it, that's how my, my grandpa, my grandma, my mom, my dad,
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And, uh, just, I believe there's such thing as too much confidence because, you know,
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no one really told me the truth of like, Hey, your weight's scaring me.
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And by the time I did get told my weight was scaring me, I was already like, you know,
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15 years into like this savage eating, you know what I mean?
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I play sports, don't get me wrong, but I was, Oh, I was just, I was just eating.
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So we walked in and Anthony was in a locker room and they had the, the guys here had put
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Like I was like, look at, I was like, I'm going to fail right now and I'm okay with this.
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And that's, it's just, you know, years of not knowing what it was really doing in my body.
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Like it's not that I couldn't have apple juice, but I was like
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buying apple juice and it was gone by the, by like, sometimes before we got home, but
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I'll knock out a thousand grams of carbs a day.
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It just, and that's just all, you know, and I don't, and then while I'm talking about this,
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I don't blame anyone in my family because it's up to a certain point where it's up to
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me to realize, you know, what nutrition is, stuff like that.
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But, you know, hopefully someone hears this story and like maybe their mom, maybe their dad,
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And they're like, Oh shoot, we're kind of doing this to our grandkid or to our son.
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And they'll realize that, you know, BC does start at home and maybe the story will be able
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to help them even to like, maybe they're not the ones overweight, but they have an overweight
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Because you don't want to, you don't want them to have lived the life I did.
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And I don't regret the life I've lived and I don't regret anything I've done.
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And I don't regret getting 600 pounds as crazy as sounds, but it's definitely, it's,
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it's something that like, you know, I am, you know what I mean?
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And, and, but, you know, some people like said, maybe are not raised with that confidence
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that I have that I was allowed to deal with the bullying and the jokes that were made fun
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And maybe some people can't, you know, so we can stop at it right now when they're at
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You know, the thing is about the food, um, I was thinking about this because dude, when
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I was a kid, uh, you know, I was always the fat kid.
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Like I w I was, I wasn't like, like I, I, I got bullied my whole life for being fucking fat.
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So like, um, and I was the same, you know, we, our family was very much so celebratory,
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you know, when you celebrate, you eat, when you're sad, you eat, when you get together,
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Yeah, dude, I know, dude, I'm sitting here revisiting all my old, my, my old self, but
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And, uh, one of the things I remember my parents saying to me was, you know, eat, eat, eat all
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Well, mine was like, my main thing is that I always hear and I cringe, uh, when I'm at,
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even when I'm at restaurants or stuff like that, the parents like, you need to eat all
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your food because your kids out there starving.
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And I'm eating her plate too, because there's kids starving, you know?
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And I understand that comes from a place of love, but dude, also I would say in defense
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of our parents, um, that's how they were raised.
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And so, you know, you have to think of the societal introductions of, of change that happened
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Like they went from, uh, you know, family dinners, like they do, you know, pretty much
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And then all of a sudden we had fast food start.
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And so there was no cultural adjustment for what we were doing to our bodies.
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And really what I'm getting at is, you know, fuck dude, they didn't know that shit was
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But, but like, we don't know, we didn't know in, in the eighties and nineties, uh, in early
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two thousands, we, we didn't really know how bad the shit was.
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And I'm not making excuses for people, but it's, it's taken 40 years, 50 years for people
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to understand that, you know, yes, fast food is, is what it is.
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It's not how you're supposed to sustain your life.
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And we just fall into that trap of like, Oh, I don't have time.
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And then Tuesday, maybe you make something, but it's like from a box, you know what I mean?
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It's like, it's, it's just as bad as fast food and preservatives.
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And then two or Wednesday comes along, you're like, Oh, I'm busy again.
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So now you're already three days of eating fast food.
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Like it's just, it's something that's how, that's, that's how that cycle works.
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And I got to a point where like, I was going to get fast food for me and my boys, but I had the,
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So I had a full meal before I went to have a full meal.
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Did you ever do the, how many, how many fast food places did you ever go on one run?
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No, I'm just saying like, I used to do this thing when I was, when I was heavy, where I'd
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like go through Wendy's and get some shit from Wendy's.
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And then I would go through this other place and get some shit from, let's say McDonald's.
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If I get two of them and stack them on top, that's what I'm saying.
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I mean, it was, it's, dude, man, make me happy right now.
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And it's something that, you know, it, it took over my life and I didn't even realize what
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it was doing to me until, uh, you know, until I had to reflect.
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I had to look in the mirror and look at myself at over 600 pounds and be like, what the fuck
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So I, so I gained over a hundred pounds in nine months.
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My grandpa got sick with cancer and I stopped working and let my credit go to shit.
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And I didn't care because I knew that I wasn't going to be able to make new memories, but
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I was able to be there to make sure that he was comfortable.
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So I did everything that hospice should have did.
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He didn't want doctors and nurses to be showering and stuff like that.
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I was hanging out with them and we, I took care of him.
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And while he went through the stage of cancer, but I didn't drink, I didn't smoke.
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So dude, I'm talking about seven to like eight to 9,000 calories.
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People come in with breakfast, lunch and dinner and second lunch, second dinner, second breakfast
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I was doing stuff for my grandpa that I didn't want to have to do.
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It was easy to go warm up some tacos from last night or order some food or go eat McDonald's.
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Our food was brought into us because, you know, no one knew what to do.
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You get that instant, that five minutes of feeling good.
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It wasn't, it got to the point where it's like, I was just eating just to eat.
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So after he passed away, I continued to still live with my grandma because just as my grandpa's
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gone doesn't mean that everything's back to normal.
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Now my grandma is living by herself when she wasn't used to that.
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So I stayed with her and I, and we would every single day, bro.
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McDonald's, uh, number one, two sausage, egg McMuffins, extra hash brown, large orange juice.
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You know, if my grandma didn't finish her food, well, garbage is still right now.
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Now that's probably a full day of calories for you.
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So it's just like, yeah, that's what I was doing, man.
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So after being at my grandma's house at four in total, you know, from my grandpa got sick
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until I got home, it was about nine to 10 months and I got home and I, we have like
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this big old mirror and I looked at it and I was like depressed and I've never been depressed
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I'm telling you, I grew up with confidence and that's what I had.
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I had confidence, but I literally had to Google my feelings to know what the hell I was
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It's like, well, I know I don't have depression.
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I'm just going through a shitty time of my life right now.
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And for like three days, dude, I was, I was, I was mentally beat.
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I was at all time low from my weight to losing my best friend to just everything is just on
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And I just like, you know, I even had like some suicidal thoughts that like, you know,
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I don't think I would have went through with it, but it were there.
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And it was, dude, I was fighting my demons for three days, man.
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My, my girlfriend, my grandma were like, you were there, but you weren't there.
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Like we would talk to you, but we could just like see right through you.
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And I didn't know, like, not only did I have to go through losing my best friend, I have
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to now figure out what the hell I'm going to do in my own life.
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Cause just cause my grandpa's gone doesn't mean that my life stops.
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And I've just built, dug such a big ass hole where I'm like, either I get it done now
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There's no, and we, I didn't even know about COVID at this time.
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Cause if you were 600 pounds and caught that shit, man, I wouldn't be with you right now.
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So I, I just went through like the three days of just like completely just fucking beat
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And one day I just woke up and I was like, I got to fucking snap out of this.
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I was like, I'm feeling bad for myself and I caused this shit.
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It's like sitting here talking to you and hearing you and just hearing your voice and hearing
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your enthusiasm and your tone and it's just being around you the last day or so, just
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Like you don't sound or feel or talk or speak like someone that was that big.
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And like, so like, I really want to dig into this story because dude, I'm living book.
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We have so many people out there that, that are, we're in the position that you were in,
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Like on that first day, you're, you're coming out of this, this, you know, massive weight
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And so now you've created this fucking mountain and you're like, fuck.
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Like I didn't think I know about the first couple, the first month or so on the scale.
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So it took about a month for it to say five, five 98.
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So that's why I, I, as my weight loss progressed and it started getting the traction and I noticed
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I don't give a number because I, you know, I don't, I just, I don't know the number.
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Because the first month, I mean, at over 600 pound, you could lose 50 pounds.
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So I don't know what I was, but I was well over 600.
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I mean, and, uh, yeah, I just, I had to get, dude, I had to get together.
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Like, and it would ask me like, what was your motivation?
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Like, I didn't want my, how selfish would I have been for my, after my, we just buried
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my grandpa for my mom, my grandma and my whole family to bury me next because I chose
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My grandma just lost his life and didn't have a chance.
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So you think that maybe that's what triggered you into action?
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My grandpa taught me a lesson before he left straight up.
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He taught me more lessons than, uh, than I realized at the time.
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And now looking back and reflecting on it, I mean, there's a lot that learned.
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It's weird when you go from, when you, when you transition from, I want to look like everybody
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else or just be in, you know, like when I was, when I was heavy and I would think of,
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uh, losing the weight in terms of, I want to look a certain way that would last for a
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But when I started understanding that it was an obligation to the people around me to be
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my best and that I wasn't a fucking bitch and that food and that drink was not going
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It became, it became a battle between me and the fucking food.
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Well, I've, I think we talked a little bit about it yesterday where I got, we're both
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past that stage, but for a while it was like, fuck, dude, I would get mad at people for
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Like I've lost a lot of friends through this and I've kept some of the greatest, greatest
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I've like used to get invited everywhere all the time.
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I do, I, you with everyone's like, you have a lot of followers, you have this, people want
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to hang out with you, but actual people that I know and I would hang out with, I don't
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You know, cause I, everyone already knows I'm going to say, no, you're on the path.
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I'm becoming the best version of myself in order to do that.
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And it's either you're on board with me and you're going to support it or you're not.
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That's one thing I always talk about on my social media is it's like, stop looking for other people
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You need to be able to go shopping by yourself.
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No, you could do everything by yourself before you could bring someone along with it.
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Because if you're not there and supporting yourself and your hard work and you're not,
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you know, congratulating yourself for your hard work and dedication, then how's anyone
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Like I think as humans, this is off the topic of weight loss, but I think as humans, we
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tend to try and fill the holes within ourselves with other relationships.
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Like when you do something good, you're like, anyone see that?
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But it's like, I hope, I hope that I ranked high enough in their worth category.
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Why do you want appraisal from someone that isn't even bearing their own self?
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When we start, when we start looking at ourselves and realizing that we are the measure
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of our own worth and what we think is what's important, not what the world thinks, that's
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When you know your self-worth, that's when your life changes.
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Did you go through a transition period where it was like, you, you had to figure that out
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I was like, bro, I just got out of the fucking gym and I'm, I was crying.
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I mean, like I, I DM'd you that, that was that like moment where I looked at the pictures
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and I just like, I think it was like an hour and like 52 minute workout.
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I wasn't even creating kettlebell, kettlebell stuff.
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And I try to do like the boxing classes, but I wasn't lasting that long.
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But I was doing something, you know, and, and the whole time I remember just feeling that
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like I had a million eyes on me and I felt like people were making fun of me and maybe
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But I was just in that mindset of just like, this sucks.
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But myself, like this, one of those things is like nothing harder than to blame yourself
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There's nothing harder to really sit down and look in the mirror and say, a spoon didn't
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And now I'm working out in front of these people and there's girls in there and there's
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guys in there and I'm over here trying to do sit-ups and feel like I'm about to freaking
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But like everything that I was given, I couldn't really do it.
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So I was doing like this half-assed job and it made me feel less than.
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And then you're trying to get off the ground at being over 600 pounds and you feel like,
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It's just one of those things I remember that it was probably the shittiest day of my life,
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but it was the best day of my life because that was a day that I started getting my life
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Dude, do you ever think back about how fucking tough that version of you was to go do this?
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At the time, I didn't realize it because I felt like so disappointed in myself.
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But when like, as I started posting up like the videos, people were like, I don't even
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You know, and at the time I just knew I had, I knew I had a goal and I had to just get
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And so I wasn't thinking, but now reflecting back on all that stuff, like I do like, that's
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crazy because I don't even know like now, like sometimes I walk in like gyms, like I
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was just at the gym with a whole bunch of like bodybuilders there.
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I'm not sure if you paid everyone out here to tell me this.
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So yesterday I said to Anthony, we were talking about rest days and training and all these things.
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And we were talking about how people will always tell you when you're on the path of trying to improve yourself, whether this be in business or with your body or with whatever it is you're working on.
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Listen, I understand you want this, but you're, you, you got to take a break once in a while.
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I got to live the life that I wanted for 30 years.
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I'm like, no, I don't want to the easy way out.
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A lot of people are like, oh, you're too heavy right now.
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I weigh 140 pounds and I still can do a pull up.
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It took me three months to get a pull up down, but now I'm knocking them out like crazy.
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I think I did my first pull up at 270 or 80 pounds.
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It's like, I don't want the easy way out anymore.
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I got, you know, I got fed love and all that BS before and it didn't do nothing, but allowed
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me to be way overweight and, and I don't like that.
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You're hitting on something that's really my passion, bro.
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This body positivity shit that, that, that they, that being pushed around.
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Look at my definition of body, body positivity is loving yourself enough to fix a problem
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Now there's going to be people out there that are going to agree and going to disagree.
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Body positivity is love yourself for who you are.
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You could love yourself, but wanting to change yourself, you know, I love myself every day,
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but I still look in the mirror and I'm like, I want to change this.
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When I was 600 pounds, I love myself, but I was overweight.
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I was at a, I was on a road to failure to death.
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You mean, so yeah, body positivity is great, but you still, still things you need to fix.
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Just because you love yourself doesn't mean, okay, I love myself.
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And if you don't love me for that, then you're against me.
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No, it's because they want to see you do better.
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I listen, you got to love yourself enough to fix what the fuck is going on that you're
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My issue with this body positivity is that it's highly marketed.
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And the message that is pushed is you're exactly how you should be.
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And if you do anything else, then there's something wrong with you.
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Like you talk about, uh, taking the day you said, Hey, this is my fault.
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Like that's the shit that like, that is the whole reason we are in this situation that
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we are fucking in right now is that people will not take responsibility for their own
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They want to blame everything else on everybody else.
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You know, it's, it's, it's this, it's that it's this, it's this, it's this.
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It's, it's, it's, that's always, that's what I always say.
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Like, Oh, I want to go to the gym, but I don't have time.
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Just because you've got your, like, just because you've gotten yourself to a point that
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you're like, let's say embarrassed or ashamed of or not proud of does not mean you're
00:24:27.880
It means you haven't been doing what you know you should do.
00:24:31.900
And if you have love for yourself, for real, you will do those things, you know, and,
00:24:36.120
and dude, you guys have to understand, dude, this is this, this mentality that Anthony's
00:24:42.220
talking about, or we talk about loving ourselves and accepting ourselves, bro.
00:24:49.780
If you stood in front of the mirror when you were 600 pounds and you affirmed every day,
00:25:03.860
At the end of the day, no overweight person is going, is happy with where they are.
00:25:10.740
Like when I see these people, like I'm fat and I love it.
00:25:14.020
Like, Oh, I'm, I'm, I'm big and I don't care because I suppose a lie because at the
00:25:17.440
end of the day, when you go home and there's that one girl that you liked that she doesn't
00:25:20.900
like you because you're away or that one guy doesn't like you because your weight, it
00:25:24.800
When someone makes that, that joke about, Oh, you're going to eat that much.
00:25:29.280
And I'm talking about from experience now, unless I'm the one-off person.
00:25:33.060
Then listen, you and I are both in this industry now.
00:25:36.420
And I talked to fucking thousands of people over the course of a, of a 12 month period.
00:25:41.800
Every single one who has done the work says the same exact stuff that you were saying that
00:25:52.880
Like I was, I, I did love myself, but man, there was so many times where someone said a
00:26:03.780
And that's, and that's why every time we bring up my, every people bring up my weight,
00:26:10.400
Like how about the bullying that you get when you're overweight?
00:26:22.680
Cause I'm like, oh, this kid just went in on me, but you know, uh, it's one of those
00:26:30.500
It sucks when people give you a nickname nutty as a short for nutty professor.
00:26:33.780
But you know, I, once again, it comes to that thing where I didn't show, I didn't
00:26:58.680
Cause now I have a better body than, you know, 90% of these people that were making
00:27:02.440
fun of me, but that's for, that's for, we can talk about that later, but you know, in
00:27:07.160
And like, it sucked because like, I couldn't even sit like in like, like fifth grade, sixth
00:27:13.760
I was a fat boy and those things were small, you know what I mean?
00:27:16.280
And it got worse going through junior high into high school.
00:27:20.440
I remember one time I got up, my ass got stuck in the seat.
00:27:22.620
So I kind of like lifted the seat a little bit.
00:27:23.980
I'm like, yeah, I'm going to be single the rest of my life.
00:27:27.040
I was like, no, this did not just happen right now.
00:27:33.760
And that's why I speak so proudly when I speak.
00:27:36.800
And I know that you're not happy when you're overweight because you hear this stuff.
00:27:41.940
You laugh it off and you announce yourself as a fat person.
00:27:50.340
And dude, that's another problem with that body positivity shit.
00:27:53.120
Because I fucking know, I know how you truly feel.
00:28:02.900
And here's what people like that have to understand, brother.
00:28:05.980
That first day that you went and did that workout, you mustered up all the shit inside
00:28:14.220
you that had been fucking in there for years and years and years.
00:28:18.360
And bro, I'm telling you right now, to anybody listening, that first day, you are the baddest
00:28:27.880
And it gets easier after that as long as you just keep showing up.
00:28:38.120
Like I was looking back at myself when I was fat and I was like, fuck, dude, what a fucking
00:28:46.020
And like, I kind of like look at myself in versions of myself where, you know, almost
00:28:49.880
like, like the now version versus that version.
00:28:53.240
And I'm like, I would fucking destroy that dude.
00:28:58.200
So like, but then I, but then I, and I talked about this on the show a couple of weeks
00:29:02.480
ago, then I started really thinking about it and I'm like, wait, that guy who was really
00:29:16.680
Well, like we're talking about that because over 600 pounds, people are like, well, what
00:29:20.900
I'm like, well, I wasn't the people in my 600 pound life.
00:29:23.100
I was at, you know, SEMA holding camera equipment rigs and doing 17,000.
00:29:27.640
I was sweating my ass off, but I did it and I never complained about it.
00:29:31.360
I just, how am I gonna complain about something that it was my fault?
00:29:36.000
I don't have any type of thing where I can't lose weight or I, it was my fault.
00:29:43.640
I was out eating my movement, but you'll never hear me complain at over 600 pounds.
00:29:59.020
Like I, I share my story and I let, like let people in on this, like embarrassing moments
00:30:04.020
and these hard times and talking about my grandpa and talking about this stuff.
00:30:07.100
So they don't have to follow my footsteps because it's a, it's a shitty situation.
00:30:14.900
I remember like back, I don't remember the years, but I'm going to just, you know, go scroll
00:30:21.220
And not just the first weight loss, not just second weight loss.
00:30:24.740
And like, I remember losing like 150, like 200 pounds.
00:30:28.320
I call Kaiser and they're like, look it, you're denied for your skin removal surgery because
00:30:32.120
you didn't get the gastrics, whatever the bypass.
00:30:36.740
I'm like in my twenties, like I worked my ass off and it was a downhill spiral from there.
00:30:48.060
My whole life in my twenties, I've been losing weight.
00:30:51.400
Well, I'm going to say for my twenties, I've been like trying to lose weight and I've been
00:30:59.240
Cause it's a crappy situation, you know, going through, you know, have to have surgery and
00:31:03.900
And then, you know, uh, now I'm gonna have to have skin removal surgeries.
00:31:06.580
And then, you know, that's the cost that costs money too.
00:31:09.340
You know, like it's just a, it's not a life that you really want to live.
00:31:12.820
And if you're already there, I'm posting on my, my story and everything I've done to get
00:31:16.440
to where I'm at to show you that it's possible, but it's going to take a lot of hard work.
00:31:22.400
Cause I tell people this all the time and I think they think I'm kidding, but I tell
00:31:28.840
people that I would do all the work over again, a hundred times before I'd ever go back to
00:31:38.280
I, you, I, you, do you remember waking up in the morning, how much in pain and how much
00:31:41.720
you felt you didn't sleep when you're that big?
00:31:43.760
I never times it by like 10, you know, I would wake up like, ah, another day.
00:31:49.240
So I'm just like, it, it, and I just wasn't, I was happy, but I wasn't, I wasn't, I was
00:31:55.180
I guarantee you when you were that big, your first thought was what the fuck you're going
00:32:02.520
I already had, dude, when I was, when I had that relationship with food, dude, I would literally
00:32:10.340
No, I already knew what I was eating for fucking my, my morning snack, my lunch.
00:32:17.040
I was like, I'll be eating, thinking about what I'm going to eat for lunch.
00:32:21.500
I'm like, oh, I work hard so I could eat, but yeah.
00:32:24.420
It's like, now it's like a whole different mentality.
00:32:26.380
Now I get up and I'm just like, gym, gym, shower, gym, bro.
00:32:31.460
If I don't train, like if I don't train before I do, before I even talk to people, bro, I'm
00:32:36.620
I was going to say, so, so I've noticed now with this and maybe you feel the same.
00:32:40.480
If I don't wake up in the morning and hit the gym, I am an asshole all day.
00:32:45.000
I, if I don't go to the gym, if I don't do some type of workout, mountain bike ride, whatever
00:32:49.700
Like now it's like, if I don't work out, I feel like, don't talk to me.
00:33:00.980
And then I come back and I call him a, Hey, do you want me to bring you some coffee?
00:33:06.920
And I think like I've, I've transferred over my food addiction to a gym addiction, which
00:33:14.660
Cause I, let's talk about putting that work today.
00:33:21.560
So like I do one rest day a week, but it's act, it's just, it's cardio twice that day.
00:33:26.660
So my rest day is Sunday and I go dirt bike riding or this week I'm going to big bear.
00:33:30.840
So it's still an active day, but I do a 75, I'm on 75 hard.
00:33:34.380
So I have to do two trainings, but even normally, like if I wasn't on it, I would still do,
00:33:48.080
It's something that now is embedded into you and you know how you felt when you're overweight.
00:33:53.840
So dude, I'm, I'm, were you able to do that when you were big?
00:33:59.340
Talk about some of the things that you do and enjoy now that you couldn't do.
00:34:09.540
I know we really didn't talk about before this.
00:34:11.680
I'm, I'm, dude, I'm down to talk about everything.
00:34:14.240
I know we really didn't like talk before this, but I'm telling you right now, I'm an open book
00:34:17.920
and I choose to share my life and I, it's something I want to do.
00:34:21.120
So, um, dude, I'm doing pretty much everything.
00:34:23.960
Like, I remember like, you know how hard it is to wipe your ass when you're over 600 pounds?
00:34:27.040
You have to like stand up, wipe your ass, then throw it to a total.
00:34:32.080
When I was, when I was at my heaviest, which was three 50, which is, you know, almost half
00:34:44.520
You eat too many peppers at night or something.
00:34:51.440
I have a love hate relationship with them and it lasts exactly 12 hours.
00:34:56.080
You guys know what the fuck I'm talking about too.
00:34:57.760
Anyway, the point is, is that everything was a chore.
00:35:07.580
There's a lot of work, but you know, like putting on my shoes, I would like have to like
00:35:15.320
My girlfriend would tell me to put in the sauce.
00:35:20.340
So this is, I brought this to everyone's attention, obviously after I started losing the weight.
00:35:24.340
So where I worked, we would always go to lunch all the time, right?
00:35:32.420
But when I was over, you know, when I was big, when I was really big, wherever we were
00:35:36.800
going, I would always be like, okay, where are we going?
00:35:41.580
I would take my own car because I didn't want to squeeze in with everyone.
00:35:44.060
I'll get there and I would ask for a table and not a booth because they like to
00:35:51.340
And no one even knew why I took my own car or why I always got there first.
00:35:55.440
Even my best friend, I told him, I was like, I never thought about that.
00:35:58.660
I was like, well, I didn't want to be sitting with all these people.
00:36:02.400
And I'm, what am I going to say in front of everyone?
00:36:05.540
So every single time we went to lunch was like three or four times a week.
00:36:08.520
I would get to the place first where we're going to eat at and make sure that we had
00:36:13.020
That's something that like, I hope no one has to relate with, but that's just something
00:36:19.680
Because that wasn't possible for me to squeeze in a booth.
00:36:29.360
Bro, people, people don't remember how I was big as fuck because I was pretty good at hiding
00:36:34.400
But like, dude, I would get in the booth sometimes and like, you know how like you get to some
00:36:40.340
I'd always have to push the table towards Emily.
00:36:46.880
Especially when your wife is actually in great shape.
00:36:53.900
I mean, there's a lot of things that people, you know, really don't understand.
00:36:56.740
And like I said, I'm glad that people won't relate with half this stuff, but at least they
00:37:00.500
But the people, there's people listening that do relate.
00:37:02.960
And, and I, the reason I'm going through all these things is because I know that these
00:37:10.960
Can you relate to a lot of the shit we're talking about?
00:37:14.880
I posted up a picture of me on an airplane, two seats.
00:37:19.620
And you know nobody wanted to fucking sit next to you.
00:37:25.340
So it was no one ever had to sit next to me, bro.
00:37:29.420
It, I look like the most miserable person on earth.
00:37:38.760
I just showed you the breakthrough picture and then show me yours.
00:37:40.920
But yeah, I don't, I, I got, I'll show it to you right now.
00:37:43.580
You're going to trip out because I just look unhappy.
00:37:46.180
And like, I was on a plane and God forbid, I had to take a shit or a piss on a plane.
00:37:54.880
And so it's like one of those things where it's like, you know, yes, it's my fault.
00:37:58.140
I caused this to myself, but I still have a, I'm still human.
00:38:01.040
So I still have to go on vacation and enjoy life.
00:38:10.140
We went to like Tulum and I'd finish like half the trip because I couldn't even walk.
00:38:20.260
So I would go to the pools, but compression shirts.
00:38:26.940
And you know, the crazy thing is I still do that now, but.
00:38:30.660
Dude, that's the, so, so I'm going to, I don't know if I could.
00:38:33.320
That doesn't even fucking look anything like you.
00:38:37.360
I really want to, I really want you to see this, this, this photo.
00:39:07.180
And like at this, I remember like, I'll never forget.
00:39:09.120
We told him like, make sure the center things go up.
00:39:16.480
So you had to do the seatbelt extenders and all that shit.
00:39:18.820
That's what, that's, that was a fucking for real moment for me, dude.
00:39:22.800
You didn't even look that big where you needed one.
00:39:34.680
And like, like it, it made me feel like a fucking ant.
00:39:48.120
But I, but, but I couldn't cause he was trying to help.
00:40:01.320
I made sure that I didn't need one, but it was not comfortable.
00:40:07.900
I was eating lunch with two people that, that I, I, I, I, you know, have a, I hold high.
00:40:16.560
We're talking in the middle of a conversation, just order food.
00:40:18.980
And the fucking owner comes up to me and said, Hey, you look uncomfortable.
00:40:25.160
Like, bro, I wanted to throw this guy through a window.
00:40:33.960
But then looking back at it, dude, imagine the 600 pound guy on a small wooden chair.
00:40:41.820
And he probably was awkward about fucking doing it.
00:40:45.120
He's like, I don't want to break my, dude, there's no, okay.
00:40:47.440
So on that, there's no, there's no good way to tell someone they're overweight.
00:40:51.380
There's no good way to tell someone you want them to change your life around.
00:40:53.260
Like only thing that I tell people is like, you just got to lead by example.
00:40:56.120
You got a brother that's overweight, start going to the gym, invite him every day till
00:41:02.540
There's no, cause you're going to, I'm going to be a, take it offensive no matter what.
00:41:10.040
He's not going to pull you aside and say, you need extension.
00:41:13.180
He's going to be like, Hey, you look uncomfortable.
00:41:21.300
You know what's so weird when we talk about that is like people these days are so quick
00:41:30.920
Because like when that dude asked me that, I like, I was so fucking mad.
00:41:39.460
And, and, uh, I didn't, but then that lasted for about two minutes.
00:41:46.780
I'm, I got to fucking, I got to get my stuff together because our, so he actually did me
00:41:52.640
It was, it's a breakthrough moment where you realize that, okay, I'm not the only one
00:41:59.920
And I hope it sucks when people do that and they have to go through it.
00:42:02.800
Cause you know, uh, for us, it was a life changer for other people.
00:42:06.460
I mean, it could just be them going to eat more because they're that depressed to happen.
00:42:13.080
I mean, how many of those moments did it, did that?
00:42:19.000
Like all the other moments before that, that's how I dealt with it.
00:42:22.860
You ever, you ever go to the music park and just do the walk of shame.
00:42:35.320
So you have to like, so everyone, you know, in a music park, everyone's waiting to get on.
00:42:39.640
So they're looking at you to get your ass on and get off.
00:42:45.020
So you feel like everyone's staring at you, but at this time everyone's facing me.
00:42:48.280
And like, you'd like, Oh, they're going to try to close.
00:42:55.720
And now there's like, now everyone's already buckled in.
00:42:59.580
They're trying to freaking put my Norbit ass inside this thing.
00:43:05.460
So now the, the, the next ride is already behind us.
00:43:07.740
So now that it's taking longer than I expect, I get up and I just walk, get to walk past
00:43:15.620
Like that is another moment that you thought would have changed my life, but it didn't.
00:43:24.060
I was like, well, since my friends are on roller coaster, I'm about to eat a funnel cake.
00:43:28.320
I didn't ever do, I never had to do that at an amusement park, but I mean, there's been plenty
00:43:32.500
Like when I would go to an amusement park, bro, I just wouldn't, I wouldn't do the rides and I would
00:43:36.300
blame it on like, Oh, I don't want to wait in the line or I don't know if I want to do
00:43:53.160
You start, you start adapting to your lifestyle that is unique to you because of your weight.
00:44:06.040
You know, I couldn't, you know, there's a lot of things I couldn't do and it's not,
00:44:09.800
you know, I had no choice but to adapt no matter how much I said I didn't want to do
00:44:13.020
it, how much I said it was dumb, how much I said it was a waste of money inside.
00:44:16.080
I wanted to do it, but I couldn't let people know I wanted to do it because then people
00:44:19.440
realized that I, well, people didn't realize that I realized that I have a problem.
00:44:24.100
So I adapted to my normal, which is, you know, that being obese, being, being, having a, a
00:44:30.820
wall put up of my, you know, of my weight and there's things I can't do.
00:44:36.000
You know, dude, I mean, we could go on and on and on about all the, the bad things and
00:44:42.560
the, the, the, what it caused, but bro, you've turned into a fucking machine.
00:44:47.560
And you're inspiring all kinds of different people, uh, whether they were that big or not
00:45:00.060
Like we, we, you know, we're fucking, we love food.
00:45:05.800
So let's talk about like for the people right now who are listening and let's, dude, if you've
00:45:10.580
got 30 pounds or fucking 300 pounds or more or whatever it is, how, what would you say?
00:45:16.980
Like, how do we get these guys to say, Hey, let's fucking go.
00:45:19.740
It doesn't matter where they're starting off from.
00:45:23.380
Look at, look at yourself and your life and your goals and realize that they're your life.
00:45:29.020
It doesn't matter if someone walks in the gym, needs to lose 30 pounds or lose 300 pounds.
00:45:32.900
Either way, it's going to be a long road ahead of them.
00:45:38.520
It's still going to be, you know, days where you just want to quit days where you cry days
00:45:42.040
where, you know, something happens in your family where you in, in your life where
00:45:46.180
Like, you know, life slaps you in the face every freaking day.
00:45:48.760
And it just, because that person's skinny, trying to get big or the person's fat, trying
00:45:52.120
to get skinny, it's still a long road and it's still hard as hell.
00:45:55.840
And it's still, you still have a normal life to live.
00:46:08.160
Pay attention to yourself and just grind your ass off.
00:46:14.180
You're just, you're every single day, you become a better version of yourself.
00:46:23.840
Do whatever the hell you need to do to make yourself, or to realize that you're worth the
00:46:27.940
body if you're willing to work, willing to put in a hundred percent of the work.
00:46:30.620
And dude, guys, understand that, like Anthony and I both understand, like, dude, because
00:46:39.640
Like, I've gotten big, lost it, gotten big, lost it three times.
00:46:44.500
So, you guys have to understand that we both get where you are.
00:46:52.780
When I looked at myself at 350 pounds, it seemed insurmountable.
00:47:00.480
The day I looked in the mirror and I'm like, fuck, I got to fucking change this.
00:47:05.680
Guys, I understand how lonely and mad and depressed you feel in that moment.
00:47:16.440
But fuck, guys, like, there's only one way to the top, bro.
00:47:22.420
And it doesn't matter how big your mountain is or what it is.
00:47:28.160
And you can climb that mountain a lot faster than you think.
00:47:33.640
How quick has the time gone by to where, you know, you've been doing this for three years
00:47:39.360
Like, I've been on 75 hard basically the whole fucking last two and a half years.
00:47:58.500
Like, dude, to the like the people listening right now that are so frustrated and so down
00:48:02.820
and so upset about where they've let themselves get to.
00:48:10.680
You just like you have so much on your plate where you just feel like, where do I start?
00:48:14.120
It's like looking at a messy ass room and you're just like, well, where do I start?
00:48:21.340
You get in there and you start, you go on the walk, you know, you go on, if you're too
00:48:25.480
big, then yeah, you want to walk, go in the pool.
00:48:28.480
Like it, the, like you said earlier, the hardest thing is getting inside that gym.
00:48:33.680
Once you're in there, you're going to start learning.
00:48:39.500
And then now you, you, you're holding someone else accountable and they're holding you accountable.
00:48:43.140
And it's just like really falling in love with the process.
00:48:45.820
Don't everyone always asks me like, how long did it take?
00:48:51.700
Just show up, show out, give it 110% and you're going to start changing.
00:48:56.780
You're going, your body's going to start taking, I didn't plan on getting muscles, man.
00:49:02.900
At the end of the day, I just wanted to be healthy and fix a problem that I let go way
00:49:07.780
You know, and now that my body is changing and going, you know, and I have muscles showing
00:49:12.360
and I'm doing pull-ups and I'm doing ab workouts and possibly have a six pack under here.
00:49:24.480
I started, uh, the skin, I haven't got to my goal for the number one is my goal.
00:49:28.940
I set a goal and like too many people are like, they just, they, they jumped the gun
00:49:32.360
before they set a goal and they try to finish it.
00:49:34.360
Like to try to just do, okay, I'm, I'm this close now.
00:49:36.780
So I'm, I'm not the type of person I did that my whole life and I set a goal and I
00:49:40.040
need to get it close as possible, which is 210 and we'll go from there.
00:49:43.600
But the main reason why the skin is always, is going to be here for now.
00:49:47.500
We talked about the yesterday, but I, I started a merch line, the heavy to modified, you know,
00:49:51.980
uh, movement is because I wanted to be able to save for my skin removal surgery.
00:49:59.800
But then as I sat down with my team and I'm like, why am I saving for skin removal surgery
00:50:07.540
If it doesn't affect me because people are commenting, well, fuck what they have to say.
00:50:14.400
This is what happens when you choose to put food over your health.
00:50:18.520
It's an insecurity, but I'm not going to not post it because other people and people
00:50:21.900
are going to say, forget what they have to say.
00:50:23.560
So I want to open up a gym in orange County to get people in the gym.
00:50:28.240
They're uncomfortable to do big classes or classes with people to do one-on-one because
00:50:32.520
And I'm not just talking about obese people, more with the obese.
00:50:35.640
There's a lot of people that are nervous to go to a gym.
00:50:38.520
There's a lot of people that don't know how to work out.
00:50:40.300
There's a lot of people that don't know how to eat.
00:50:41.720
There's a lot of people that don't know what supplements to take.
00:50:45.060
And if I could just find everything that I didn't like about these gyms, uh, I think I was
00:50:49.020
telling you the other day or yesterday, I was like, I didn't like how they
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would have me do a workout and I couldn't do it.
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So they pushed me to the side because I was, wasn't good enough to do it.
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So everything has a modified workout and that's what I've learned.
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We could take anyone from an athlete to someone that's, you know, 500, 200, 300 pounds overweight.
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And that's my goal to make a facility to make people feel comfortable.
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And they can look at me and say, well, damn, this guy walked in at over 600 and I'm only
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Like never did I think I was going to be doing fitness.
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You know, I never thought that I was going to be, you know, freaking eating, you know,
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And then, you know, my meal preps and all that stuff.
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I'm like, this is way too much food, but this is the right stuff to put in your body when
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You know, so it's just so much knowledge that I've learned, personally learned.
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I've personally got to learn on this journey that I feel I could share with people, not
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only just my story, but have them working out next to me.
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And it's like I worked out for three hours already.
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And now I just got a fourth hour workout because that person came in with me.
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That, I mean, people are like, you're doing too much.
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Here, here's what you said to me yesterday that, that really made me realize the kind
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He was telling me that he was going to get the skin surgery and then he changed his mind
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I, it's, I mean, like there's people like, I am blessed to have a big voice in this weight
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Like there's so many bad-ass people that are losing weight.
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There's so many people that have bad-ass stories that have worse upbringings.
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I was given, you know, the 1.5 million on TikTok and the 128 on Instagram.
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And I'm going to take that and I'm going to do everything that, how I was raised to show
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And it's, it's always, it's going to be there until I choose to remove it.
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But I rather help 50, 50 people do a transformation and then worry about mine because I'm still,
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I'm still bettering myself while I'm helping other people.
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And that's the main thing is like, I know how it feels to be an all-time low and I feel
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like you have no one to look, like, look out for you while I'm here to look out for you.
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And come in every single day and just, let's just leave it on the table.
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So how far away are you from getting that open?
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I have a, I have my Camaro that I'm going to be selling.
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So after I sell that, I'll be about, I'll have about 10 personally saved.
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There's a couple of things that, you know, we're got in the works right now, but, uh,
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I already have the Instagram, already have the logo.
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I just know that I want to give, make a safe place for anyone.
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Like I said, an athlete to someone that's more obese and that's ready to change their life.
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And I want to be part of their story and I want them to be part of mine.
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He didn't come here from California to, to record the show.
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No, you, yesterday, I told you yesterday, I didn't know what the hell I told you.
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The first two minutes, like I've been following you for a long ass time.
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Like, I don't know how I've held it together this long, but this is unreal.
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And I'm going to, I'm going to do everything I can to help you keep changing lives.
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Even when my story is done, there's plenty of other people's stories that can be told.
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I know you are, which is why I want to do something for you.
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Um, I'd like to, I'd like to gift you the seed money to start that gym.
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Um, you, you, you, people like you deserve to be in business and deserve to be in that
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And I'd like to expedite that process as quickly as possible.
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Not five years from now, because the world needs it right now.
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So if you would allow me to do that, um, I'd be honored.
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People like you got to be in this, in this game, dude.
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You know, um, a lot of you guys don't really know what we do here at First Form.
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And, you know, we try to give and change and do the right thing in this industry as
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And, uh, we need more people like that and, and, and dude on the ground in the gyms, you
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know, actually standing there with people, pushing them and, uh, bro, you have it, you
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And I, I, I just really, I, you just need, you need to be one of those people out there
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I was talking so much now I'm just at a halt right now.
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It means a lot, um, to have you on board and to, to help.
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Like, well, yeah, we'll figure it out like legally and everything.
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This is, this is, you know, uh, I've had some, I've had some good breaks in my life
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and, uh, and I try to, I try to give back where I think it's deserving.
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And, and bro, you're, you're one of the most incredible dudes I've had in my presence in
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the last, since I've been doing the podcast, like for real.
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They told me they're like, um, they've said like, I've been doing, we've been doing this
00:56:48.020
Like they've never had anyone on the, like, he's like, Hey, I want them on the podcast.
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And he's like, but then he was also like, Hey, no, no, no, you know, no, uh, what do you
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He's like, oh, he's like, don't take it the wrong way, you know, but you know, you're
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It's hard to mess up my whole, whole life story.
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I did a pretty job of telling my life story, but there's no messing up here, man.
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You know, uh, let's, let's close with this, man.
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Talk to these people, give them, tell them what, you know, like your final thoughts, bro.
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If you're, if you're in a place where you want to change and you're in a place where
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You, we spent our whole years, however old you are listening to this, that, you know,
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we took the easy way out, you know, we went to the fast food lines instead of going to
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You realize that no one is going to do it but yourself.
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And if you have kids and you're being a selfish asshole, I mean, and if you're raising your
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kids the way that, you know, that did not teach them portion control, you're being a
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Don't wait for the perfect day of the perfect temperature.
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Get out there and give yourself a hundred percent and realize you're worth that body if you put
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Every single day you go there, you can learn something.
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Every single day you turn out fast food, becoming a better person.
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Every single day you meal prep, you're a better person.
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That's why not a lot of people get it done, you know, but the people that are getting done,
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I'm telling you right now, they're the real happy people.
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They're the ones that are not just posting, saying they're happy, even though they're
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And I'm not, I'm not disrespecting anyone overweight.
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I'm saying from my own personal feelings, I was not happy at that weight.
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Actually after 30 years, I'm actually living life.
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And I'm, I'm, I'm upset that I waited this long, but I'm, I'm happy that I did it and
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So just get out there and just, you know, give yourself a hundred percent, everything.
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I'm not just talking about weight loss, talking about anything, get out there and give it
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So dude, tell people your Instagram handle and where they can find you at.
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So all my, my, uh, all my social media is heavy to modified, heavy TO and then modified.
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I post daily on every, on TikTok, on Instagram, on stories.
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I try to let everyone know everything about me.
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Uh, and just to show that I'm a normal human being.
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As soon as I fly back home, I have to start prepping on the taco business.
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And then as soon as I'm done prepping and selling tacos on Saturday, Saturday night,
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I have to start prepping because everyone picks up their meal preps on Monday.
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Like it's just because like this amazing experience.
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I'm, I'm still working and I'm still in the gym.
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It's, it's, it's, it's not, I don't live like a, I'm not, I'm not rich.
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You'll see me like the craziest thing is like, you'll see me, uh, doing something cool
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And tomorrow morning you're gonna see me cutting up cilantro.
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And then the next day I'm, I'm, I'm packaging my meal preps in the kitchen.
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And then that later on that day, I'm at the dirt bike track.
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And you know, um, yeah, this I'm, I'm just a normal person.
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I'm a normal person that fucked up big time and I'm doing everything I can to fix it.
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And not only have you done a hell of a job to work on yourself, uh, and become an amazing
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And, and you're setting an example for people that would otherwise think something like
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And I'm not sure that you could possibly understand how powerful that's going to be in your life.
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I'm, I, yeah, I, I, it's, this weight loss is not for me anymore, man.
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Uh, thank you so much for, for being on the show, man.
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Dude, this has been one of my top favorite shows, if not my top favorite show I've ever
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But bro, this kind of conversation, man, it just really connects with me because it connects
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to me at my source of, of what we're trying to do for people.
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Like with personal development and first form and helping people and train everything that
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we do revolves around what you're living and helping people.
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I want to say something like, yeah, I I'm here to be like, you let them know that I'm here
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checking out the facility, you know, um, everything that is on Instagram is first form.
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The biggest thing that I noticed and that made me super happy to know that like, I I'm
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happy that I fucked with this guy for so long is when I walked into your shipping room and
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There was air conditioner and everyone was singing along like they were working, but they
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were happy because everyone, and we were talking about this earlier about they'll always
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forget about the shipping and the customer service and stuff like that.
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And every single section that from the entrance to, you know, the, where the offices are at
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into the back of the shipping, everyone had a smile on their face.
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Everyone was working hard, but they were just genuinely happy.
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I didn't see anyone with like, and I sat there and watched them.
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And like, when I saw that, I was like, that first form is what they say they are.
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I got to check out places, but I'm not, I'm not even going off the cleansing.
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I'm talking going off the smiles that I see on your workers face, man.
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I just want to like say that you guys are killing it and you are here to help everyone.
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You're not paying me to say this or none of this.
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Like I'm telling you what I've seen and I've seen it like the, the, they like working here.
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Cause they like meeting people like you and they like working with people like you.
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And that's what we get to do literally every fucking day.
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Like when I saw the, and I seen a lot of cool stuff.
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I was like, but when the main thing, what made me know that I really wanted to stick around
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I didn't know I was going to be on the podcast.
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Those are the most important people in our building.
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That's the last person that touches it before your customer touches it.
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But no, I'm telling you, that's what made me know that first form represents everything
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And it means everybody here is going to hear that and it's going to mean a lot to them
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So once the gym is open, once we get it open, I'd like you to come back out.
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Because well, then we'll talk about that from an entrepreneur standpoint.
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No, I need, I need, I need first form branding in there because dude, you're, I'm telling
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I mean, I've been listening to you for a long time and a lot of, you know, the stuff, a
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lot of the business mentality, my buddies sit down and we listen to your stuff.
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So to get to where I get, I sent you a DM years ago.
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I saw that from my, my, my, my modified one I've sent from my taco business.
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So it would be an honor to have first form branding inside there.
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And, you know, I, this is a, I haven't took it in yet, but I just want to say, thank you.
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If I haven't said it yet, I don't remember what I said.
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But if I haven't, I just want to say thank you.
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I, I, I think you probably would like to share that show.
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If you like the show, if it made you laugh, if it made you think, if it made you have a
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I don't try to, you know, make this all about that kind of stuff.