REAL AF with Andy Frisella - 128. Heavy To Modified Ft. Anthony Lopez

00:00:00.000 What is up guys, it's Andy Priscilla and this is the show for the realistic about the lies

00:00:21.580 to fakeness and delusions of modern society and welcome to motherfucking reality.

00:00:26.420 Guys, today I've got a really cool show playing for you guys.

00:00:31.360 Actually, there was no plan for the show.

00:00:33.300 I completely made that shit up.

00:00:36.200 The way this show came about was very interesting and I want to lay that out real quick for you.

00:00:41.580 Yesterday I was in the locker room and one of the things that makes what we do here at First Form so amazing

00:00:48.280 is that we are constantly having visitors come in from all different areas of the world

00:00:56.100 who have had tremendous success at changing their lives completely.

00:01:02.260 And yesterday I was in a locker room and we had one of what I think the most inspirational dudes I met,

00:01:10.380 one of the coolest dudes I met.

00:01:12.020 We started talking and finally I stopped him and I said,

00:01:14.900 Hey dude, let's stop talking.

00:01:16.760 Let's just have this conversation because I think it'll benefit a whole lot of people.

00:01:20.260 And if you're one of these people right now who are struggling with who you are and what you're about,

00:01:28.340 you're facing criticism, you're facing obstacles, you're trying to change your body and your mind and your life

00:01:36.300 and you're looking at the mountain and it seems too big to climb.

00:01:41.440 All right, this is a show that you're going to want to listen to and listen close.

00:01:44.880 I have my new friend, Anthony Lopez here.

00:01:48.200 What's up, brother?

00:01:48.740 What's up, brother?

00:01:49.060 How's it going?

00:01:49.860 Good, good, man.

00:01:52.400 Dude, so just a little background on Anthony.

00:01:56.480 I'll let him say it.

00:01:57.240 Tell everybody where you're from.

00:01:58.480 I'm from Orange County, California and born and raised.

00:02:01.860 And I was over 600 pounds.

00:02:03.940 Over 600 pounds.

00:02:05.300 And what are you at now?

00:02:06.460 260.

00:02:07.580 260 pounds.

00:02:08.960 So what's your total weight loss?

00:02:11.220 I'm horrible at math.

00:02:12.260 Me too, bro.

00:02:12.760 That's why I asked.

00:02:13.440 Was that like 230?

00:02:13.860 I put it on you.

00:02:14.740 Like 230, 235.

00:02:15.700 I don't know.

00:02:16.540 All right.

00:02:16.820 So, dude, hundreds of pounds that you've worked off of your body.

00:02:20.860 Yeah.

00:02:21.040 Let's talk about this for a minute, dude, because right now we're dealing with, you know, a pandemic.

00:02:27.340 Um, we're dealing with health.

00:02:30.200 We're dealing with a lot of things that people never really thought would happen.

00:02:33.720 Yeah.

00:02:34.000 And they're happening.

00:02:34.880 Yeah.

00:02:35.160 And, um, you made the decision to get healthy before this actually came about.

00:02:40.480 Yeah.

00:02:40.760 And, um, because there's so many people right now that are.

00:02:46.420 The COVID-20.

00:02:47.460 Yeah, bro.

00:02:48.520 Yeah.

00:02:48.840 It's the COVID-20, but also people who have struggled with their weight their entire lives.

00:02:54.260 They're now starting to understand like, Hey man, this isn't a joke.

00:02:58.800 No, it's, it's not, it's not, it's serious, man.

00:03:01.560 It's like, you know, people are stuck at home doing nothing, you know, doing a lot of reflecting.

00:03:04.900 Yeah.

00:03:05.200 And now you have to look at a body that you built for yourself, whether it be, you know,

00:03:09.400 overweight or be in shape and, you know, nothing's, nothing's worse than looking at yourself

00:03:13.980 and realizing that you messed up.

00:03:16.060 Yeah.

00:03:16.240 I mean, it's, it's, it's a crappy feeling and we're pretty sure we're going to get into

00:03:19.220 that.

00:03:19.740 Yeah.

00:03:19.960 Uh, but you know, it's such a negative time right now.

00:03:22.160 People are, you know, diving in deep and looking at their self and, and they're seeing like,

00:03:26.100 damn, I got to fix this.

00:03:27.140 Yeah.

00:03:27.360 I mean, that I've seen people in over a year.

00:03:29.500 Yeah.

00:03:29.700 I mean, so next time they see their, you know, X or their, whatever it is, they're like,

00:03:33.020 damn, I put on 25 pounds.

00:03:34.700 You know what I mean?

00:03:35.020 I don't want to be seen like this.

00:03:36.160 Yeah.

00:03:36.660 So, um, yeah, I think.

00:03:38.100 Dude, that could be 50.

00:03:39.300 It could be a hundred.

00:03:40.300 It could be somebody like you who's been overweight their entire life.

00:03:43.640 And they're like, just saying, Hey dude, uh, all right, it's time for me to take

00:03:47.620 care of this.

00:03:48.340 Yeah.

00:03:48.480 I just don't let it get to over 600.

00:03:50.180 Yeah.

00:03:50.560 So let's talk about that.

00:03:51.840 Let's start there.

00:03:52.680 I mean, um, tell me a little bit about how you came up and how you got to be 600 pounds,

00:03:57.660 man.

00:03:57.920 So I, how I came up was I'm Mexican black.

00:04:00.980 All we do good times, bad times, happy, sad birthdays, whatever it's eating, man.

00:04:05.780 All it is, is eating.

00:04:06.960 And I wasn't taught correct portion control.

00:04:09.420 I wasn't taught, you know, nutrition.

00:04:11.060 Um, my mom, you know, she had me and my brothers and sisters.

00:04:13.460 I'm the oldest.

00:04:14.260 And you know, the easiest thing is fast food.

00:04:16.100 You know what I mean?

00:04:16.480 That's just the easiest thing.

00:04:17.480 Everyone knows that, you know,

00:04:18.420 you get off a long day of work.

00:04:19.900 You're not trying to go to the gym.

00:04:20.880 You're not trying to cook.

00:04:21.600 You're trying to get some food for the kids and go home, watch some TV, go to sleep and

00:04:24.780 redo it again.

00:04:26.040 So, I mean, I was eating and I was like, you know, I think I was like four years old with

00:04:29.920 like a big ass frigging chicken bone in my hand from Knott's Berry farm. 0.81

00:04:33.160 And everyone thought it was the cutest thing in the world, but they weren't, they didn't

00:04:36.300 know that that was going to lead into years of, you know, bad relationship with food.

00:04:39.700 Yeah.

00:04:40.020 And on top of that, a lot of confidence, you know?

00:04:41.900 So when I was raised, uh, I would, my family's type of family where it's like, oh, he's taking

00:04:46.200 stuff apart.

00:04:46.760 He's breaking stuff.

00:04:47.540 Like he's going to be an engineer.

00:04:48.960 You know what I mean?

00:04:49.700 And they, they raised me with confidence.

00:04:51.280 They raised me knowing that I, you know, to have self-worth and to know I could do anything

00:04:55.080 I want to do if I want to do it.

00:04:56.580 And if I'm going to work for it, that's how my, my grandpa, my grandma, my mom, my dad,

00:05:00.140 that's how they raised me, you know?

00:05:01.640 And, uh, just, I believe there's such thing as too much confidence because, you know,

00:05:05.840 no one really told me the truth of like, Hey, your weight's scaring me.

00:05:08.240 And by the time I did get told my weight was scaring me, I was already like, you know,

00:05:12.080 15 years into like this savage eating, you know what I mean?

00:05:15.140 I play sports, don't get me wrong, but I was, Oh, I was just, I was just eating.

00:05:18.720 I like food, bro.

00:05:19.780 Pizza and chicken wings.

00:05:20.800 It's like apple juice, you know what I mean?

00:05:23.960 Like it's, that's how we connected guys.

00:05:25.900 So we walked in and Anthony was in a locker room and they had the, the guys here had put

00:05:30.800 some apple juice in his locker.

00:05:31.980 Cause that's one of his, his favorite things.

00:05:34.080 And I saw that apple juice.

00:05:35.400 I knew we were instant bros.

00:05:36.540 Yeah, no, hands down.

00:05:37.580 Like I was like, look at, I was like, I'm going to fail right now and I'm okay with this.

00:05:41.400 Like I'm about to drink this apple juice.

00:05:42.860 You know what I mean?

00:05:43.160 And that's, it's just, you know, years of not knowing what it was really doing in my body.

00:05:46.360 Like it's not that I couldn't have apple juice, but I was like

00:05:48.540 buying apple juice and it was gone by the, by like, sometimes before we got home, but

00:05:52.440 I'll knock out a thousand grams of carbs a day.

00:05:55.540 Easy, easy.

00:05:56.440 So, you know what I mean?

00:05:57.280 It just, and that's just all, you know, and I don't, and then while I'm talking about this,

00:06:00.120 I want to say, I don't blame my mom.

00:06:01.760 I don't blame my dad.

00:06:02.600 I don't blame anyone in my family because it's up to a certain point where it's up to

00:06:06.320 me to realize, you know, what nutrition is, stuff like that.

00:06:08.820 But, you know, hopefully someone hears this story and like maybe their mom, maybe their dad,

00:06:12.740 maybe their grandma or grandpa.

00:06:13.840 And they're like, Oh shoot, we're kind of doing this to our grandkid or to our son.

00:06:17.300 And they'll realize that, you know, BC does start at home and maybe the story will be able

00:06:20.480 to help them even to like, maybe they're not the ones overweight, but they have an overweight

00:06:23.200 kid.

00:06:23.800 You know what I mean?

00:06:24.220 Because you don't want to, you don't want them to have lived the life I did.

00:06:26.500 And I don't regret the life I've lived and I don't regret anything I've done.

00:06:29.240 And I don't regret getting 600 pounds as crazy as sounds, but it's definitely, it's,

00:06:33.540 it's something that like, you know, I am, you know what I mean?

00:06:36.800 And, and, but, you know, some people like said, maybe are not raised with that confidence

00:06:39.820 that I have that I was allowed to deal with the bullying and the jokes that were made fun

00:06:43.280 of me.

00:06:43.580 And maybe some people can't, you know, so we can stop at it right now when they're at

00:06:46.240 a young age and why not?

00:06:47.360 Yeah.

00:06:47.740 I agree with that.

00:06:48.700 You know, the thing is about the food, um, I was thinking about this because dude, when

00:06:53.320 I was a kid, uh, you know, I was always the fat kid.

00:06:56.660 Yeah.

00:06:56.840 Like I w I was, I wasn't like, like I, I, I got bullied my whole life for being fucking fat.

00:07:02.640 You know, I was the fat dude.

00:07:03.720 Yeah.

00:07:04.100 So like, um, and I was the same, you know, we, our family was very much so celebratory,

00:07:11.420 you know, when you celebrate, you eat, when you're sad, you eat, when you get together,

00:07:16.100 you eat and, and, and we're an Italian family.

00:07:19.440 So it's like a lot of drinking with that.

00:07:21.380 You know what I mean?

00:07:22.020 Drinking carbs.

00:07:22.400 Yeah, bro.

00:07:23.560 And so dirty, man.

00:07:24.400 Yeah, dude, I know, dude, I'm sitting here revisiting all my old, my, my old self, but

00:07:29.460 man, it's the truth.

00:07:30.360 And, uh, one of the things I remember my parents saying to me was, you know, eat, eat, eat all

00:07:37.920 your food.

00:07:38.320 So you can be big and strong.

00:07:39.240 I remember that man.

00:07:40.360 Like, and I took that shit serious.

00:07:42.740 He got big, he got big and now he's strong.

00:07:44.740 Well, mine was like, my main thing is that I always hear and I cringe, uh, when I'm at,

00:07:48.900 even when I'm at restaurants or stuff like that, the parents like, you need to eat all

00:07:51.720 your food because your kids out there starving.

00:07:53.320 Like, don't tell them that.

00:07:54.800 Like I heard that too.

00:07:55.520 I hear that.

00:07:56.100 I'm just like, look at these pictures of me.

00:07:58.180 This is what that does to you.

00:07:59.680 You know what I mean?

00:07:59.900 Like, oh, my mom said, eat it all.

00:08:01.220 We'll eat all this.

00:08:02.060 And I'm eating her plate too, because there's kids starving, you know?

00:08:04.280 Yeah.

00:08:04.520 And I understand that comes from a place of love, but dude, also I would say in defense

00:08:08.620 of our parents, um, that's how they were raised.

00:08:12.320 Correct.

00:08:12.800 And so, you know, you have to think of the societal introductions of, of change that happened

00:08:18.520 during their lifetime.

00:08:19.300 Right.

00:08:19.860 Like they went from, uh, you know, family dinners, like they do, you know, pretty much

00:08:26.740 now.

00:08:27.700 And then all of a sudden we had fast food start.

00:08:30.220 Right.

00:08:30.900 And so there was no cultural adjustment for what we were doing to our bodies.

00:08:36.580 And really what I'm getting at is, you know, fuck dude, they didn't know that shit was

00:08:40.160 new.

00:08:40.680 Well, food's so easy to get now.

00:08:42.140 Yeah.

00:08:42.460 But, but like, we don't know, we didn't know in, in the eighties and nineties, uh, in early

00:08:48.180 two thousands, we, we didn't really know how bad the shit was. 0.61

00:08:52.220 And I'm not making excuses for people, but it's, it's taken 40 years, 50 years for people

00:08:58.900 to understand that, you know, yes, fast food is, is what it is.

00:09:03.200 Right.

00:09:03.500 It's not how you're supposed to sustain your life.

00:09:05.780 No, not, not at all.

00:09:06.980 It's easy.

00:09:07.700 Let's go fast food for a reason.

00:09:08.980 And we just fall into that trap of like, Oh, I don't have time.

00:09:12.020 Let me just go get fast food.

00:09:13.000 Yeah.

00:09:13.360 That's Monday.

00:09:13.980 And then Tuesday, maybe you make something, but it's like from a box, you know what I mean?

00:09:17.620 It's like, it's, it's just as bad as fast food and preservatives.

00:09:20.240 And then two or Wednesday comes along, you're like, Oh, I'm busy again.

00:09:23.020 Here's fast food again.

00:09:23.880 So now you're already three days of eating fast food.

00:09:26.180 Yeah.

00:09:26.620 You know what I mean?

00:09:27.000 Like it's just, it's something that's how, that's, that's how that cycle works.

00:09:30.160 It's a crazy cycle.

00:09:31.440 And I got to a point where like, I was going to get fast food for me and my boys, but I had the,

00:09:35.320 you know, I had the snacks on the way home.

00:09:36.720 I had the burger for the ride home, you know?

00:09:38.500 So I had a full meal before I went to have a full meal.

00:09:41.180 Did you ever do the, how many, how many fast food places did you ever go on one run?

00:09:46.280 On one run?

00:09:47.040 Like, like, like between just myself?

00:09:48.680 No, I'm just saying like, I used to do this thing when I was, when I was heavy, where I'd

00:09:53.000 like go through Wendy's and get some shit from Wendy's. 0.91

00:09:55.860 And then I would go through this other place and get some shit from, let's say McDonald's.

00:09:59.520 Yeah.

00:09:59.740 I did the Taco Bell and Dal Taco.

00:10:01.500 So I like the, the Dal Taco gets to the end.

00:10:03.840 And I go to Taco Bell for the Mexican pizza.

00:10:05.660 If I get two of them and stack them on top, that's what I'm saying.

00:10:08.160 That's what I did.

00:10:08.780 Yeah.

00:10:08.920 I mean, it was, it's, dude, man, make me happy right now.

00:10:12.460 Bro, we're connecting here.

00:10:13.680 Yeah.

00:10:13.920 No, it's, it's, it's, it's what it is.

00:10:15.600 We enjoy eating, man.

00:10:16.700 And it's something that, you know, it, it took over my life and I didn't even realize what

00:10:21.200 it was doing to me until, uh, you know, until I had to reflect.

00:10:25.040 I had to look in the mirror and look at myself at over 600 pounds and be like, what the fuck

00:10:30.200 did I just do?

00:10:31.420 And I just, you know, when was that moment?

00:10:33.460 So I, so I gained over a hundred pounds in nine months.

00:10:37.500 My grandpa got sick with cancer and I stopped working and let my credit go to shit.

00:10:41.200 And I didn't care because I knew that I wasn't going to be able to make new memories, but

00:10:44.400 I was able to be there to make sure that he was comfortable.

00:10:46.780 You know what I mean?

00:10:46.980 So I did everything that hospice should have did.

00:10:48.520 He didn't want doctors and nurses to be showering and stuff like that.

00:10:50.960 He had pride.

00:10:51.420 So I did it.

00:10:52.360 I was hanging out with them and we, I took care of him.

00:10:54.280 And while he went through the stage of cancer, but I didn't drink, I didn't smoke.

00:10:57.440 So dude, I'm talking about seven to like eight to 9,000 calories.

00:11:01.360 People come in with breakfast, lunch and dinner and second lunch, second dinner, second breakfast

00:11:05.720 throughout the whole day, bringing food.

00:11:07.500 I was depressed.

00:11:08.260 I was doing stuff for my grandpa that I didn't want to have to do.

00:11:10.900 And I was eating, bro.

00:11:12.240 I was eating and I gained a lot of weight.

00:11:14.880 So obviously, you know, that was my crutch.

00:11:18.120 You know what I mean?

00:11:18.360 That was my drug.

00:11:19.040 It was easy to go warm up some tacos from last night or order some food or go eat McDonald's.

00:11:24.960 Our food was brought into us because, you know, no one knew what to do.

00:11:28.080 We were so sad.

00:11:28.820 We just like, here, eat, eat, eat, you know?

00:11:31.040 You get that instant, that five minutes of feeling good.

00:11:34.520 And that's all it lasted.

00:11:35.500 It wasn't, it got to the point where it's like, I was just eating just to eat.

00:11:38.500 Like I wasn't even happy anymore.

00:11:40.240 So after he passed away, I continued to still live with my grandma because just as my grandpa's

00:11:44.360 gone doesn't mean that everything's back to normal.

00:11:46.220 Now my grandma is living by herself when she wasn't used to that. 1.00

00:11:50.080 So I stayed with her and I, and we would every single day, bro.

00:11:53.640 McDonald's, uh, number one, two sausage, egg McMuffins, extra hash brown, large orange juice.

00:11:57.840 That's like 2,600 calories right there.

00:11:59.480 Started off my day with it.

00:12:00.240 That's how you start.

00:12:01.040 That's how I started it.

00:12:01.640 Yeah.

00:12:02.000 A hundred percent.

00:12:02.520 It's how I started it.

00:12:03.200 You know, if my grandma didn't finish her food, well, garbage is still right now. 1.00

00:12:05.680 Now that's probably a full day of calories for you.

00:12:07.720 Yeah.

00:12:07.920 I'm at like 25 right now.

00:12:08.980 Right.

00:12:09.040 2,500 calories.

00:12:10.040 But other proper food.

00:12:11.200 Yeah.

00:12:11.280 So it's just like, yeah, that's what I was doing, man.

00:12:13.600 I was, I was beat.

00:12:14.520 So after being at my grandma's house at four in total, you know, from my grandpa got sick

00:12:18.300 until I got home, it was about nine to 10 months and I got home and I, we have like

00:12:22.740 this big old mirror and I looked at it and I was like depressed and I've never been depressed

00:12:26.400 in my life, man.

00:12:27.020 I'm telling you, I grew up with confidence and that's what I had.

00:12:29.360 I had confidence, but I literally had to Google my feelings to know what the hell I was

00:12:33.280 feeling.

00:12:33.620 And Google told me I was depressed.

00:12:35.100 I had depression.

00:12:35.800 It's like, well, I know I don't have depression.

00:12:36.840 I'm just going through a shitty time of my life right now.

00:12:39.180 And for like three days, dude, I was, I was, I was mentally beat.

00:12:42.180 Like, you know what I mean?

00:12:42.640 I was, uh, I was beat.

00:12:44.200 I was beat up.

00:12:44.980 I was at all time low from my weight to losing my best friend to just everything is just on

00:12:50.060 my shoulders.

00:12:50.520 And I just like, you know, I even had like some suicidal thoughts that like, you know,

00:12:54.600 I don't think I would have went through with it, but it were there.

00:12:57.000 And it was, dude, I was fighting my demons for three days, man.

00:12:59.400 My, my girlfriend, my grandma were like, you were there, but you weren't there.

00:13:02.180 Like we would talk to you, but we could just like see right through you.

00:13:04.820 And I just, I was beat up, man.

00:13:06.120 I never been through this before.

00:13:07.240 And I didn't know, like, not only did I have to go through losing my best friend, I have

00:13:12.380 to now figure out what the hell I'm going to do in my own life.

00:13:15.020 Cause just cause my grandpa's gone doesn't mean that my life stops.

00:13:17.720 You know what I mean?

00:13:18.300 And I've just built, dug such a big ass hole where I'm like, either I get it done now

00:13:23.020 or I just die.

00:13:24.220 And that's just pretty much it.

00:13:25.540 There's no, and we, I didn't even know about COVID at this time.

00:13:27.700 Yeah.

00:13:27.980 You know what I mean?

00:13:28.340 So I was just like, you know.

00:13:29.680 Good timing for you.

00:13:30.460 Yeah.

00:13:30.780 That was a blessing, man.

00:13:31.560 Cause if you were 600 pounds and caught that shit, man, I wouldn't be with you right now.

00:13:34.960 So I, I just went through like the three days of just like completely just fucking beat

00:13:39.860 up, bro.

00:13:40.640 And one day I just woke up and I was like, I got to fucking snap out of this.

00:13:44.280 This is not me.

00:13:44.840 This is not how my grandpa want me to be.

00:13:46.260 This is not how I was raised.

00:13:47.400 I was like, I'm feeling bad for myself and I caused this shit.

00:13:50.340 So you know what's weird, man?

00:13:51.600 It's like sitting here talking to you and hearing you and just hearing your voice and hearing

00:13:55.380 your enthusiasm and your tone and it's just being around you the last day or so, just

00:14:00.200 a little bit that I have.

00:14:01.700 It's crazy to me that you were that big.

00:14:04.600 Like you don't sound or feel or talk or speak like someone that was that big.

00:14:10.840 No, at all.

00:14:11.640 And bro, like you're a fucking champion, dude.

00:14:14.600 Thank you, man.

00:14:15.040 No, for real.

00:14:15.660 And like, so like, I really want to dig into this story because dude, I'm living book.

00:14:19.920 Yeah.

00:14:20.040 We have so many people out there that, that are, we're in the position that you were in,

00:14:24.820 right?

00:14:25.220 Yeah.

00:14:25.400 Like on that first day, you're, you're coming out of this, this, you know, massive weight

00:14:30.780 gain.

00:14:31.140 You already were heavy.

00:14:32.220 I was already heavy on top of that.

00:14:33.500 You know what I mean?

00:14:33.940 And so now you've created this fucking mountain and you're like, fuck.

00:14:38.220 Yeah.

00:14:38.620 I got to climb this motherfucker.

00:14:40.420 My 600 pound skill said error.

00:14:42.660 Yeah.

00:14:42.960 Like imagine a 600 pound skill.

00:14:44.820 Like I didn't think I know about the first couple, the first month or so on the scale.

00:14:48.560 I didn't even say anything.

00:14:49.740 It said error.

00:14:50.380 The scale said error.

00:14:51.400 So it took about a month for it to say five, five 98.

00:14:54.380 So that's why I, I, as my weight loss progressed and it started getting the traction and I noticed

00:14:59.240 that I was motivating people.

00:15:00.760 I don't give a number because I, you know, I don't, I just, I don't know the number.

00:15:04.620 Yeah.

00:15:04.780 So you already know.

00:15:05.700 Oh, it could have been six, six 30.

00:15:08.140 I could be six 10.

00:15:08.860 I could be six 70 for sure.

00:15:10.180 Because the first month, I mean, at over 600 pound, you could lose 50 pounds.

00:15:13.140 So I don't know what I was, but I was well over 600.

00:15:16.260 Yeah.

00:15:16.400 I mean, and, uh, yeah, I just, I had to get, dude, I had to get together.

00:15:20.240 Like, and it would ask me like, what was your motivation?

00:15:22.360 Like, I didn't want my, how selfish would I have been for my, after my, we just buried

00:15:26.140 my grandpa for my mom, my grandma and my whole family to bury me next because I chose

00:15:29.800 to put food in front of, you know, my life.

00:15:31.680 Yeah.

00:15:32.120 You know what I mean?

00:15:32.380 My grandma just lost his life and didn't have a chance.

00:15:34.320 Yeah.

00:15:34.900 I have a chance.

00:15:35.840 Yeah.

00:15:36.080 And I'm so much younger.

00:15:37.080 So you think that maybe that's what triggered you into action?

00:15:40.260 A hundred percent.

00:15:40.940 My grandpa taught me a lesson before he left straight up.

00:15:44.860 Yeah.

00:15:45.140 Yeah.

00:15:45.300 I mean, that, that was it.

00:15:46.380 He taught me more lessons than, uh, than I realized at the time.

00:15:49.680 And now looking back and reflecting on it, I mean, there's a lot that learned.

00:15:52.720 It's weird when you go from, when you, when you transition from, I want to look like everybody

00:15:58.960 else or just be in, you know, like when I was, when I was heavy and I would think of,

00:16:03.980 uh, losing the weight in terms of, I want to look a certain way that would last for a

00:16:07.860 couple of days or maybe even a week or two.

00:16:09.780 But when I started understanding that it was an obligation to the people around me to be

00:16:15.000 my best and that I wasn't a fucking bitch and that food and that drink was not going

00:16:19.920 to control my life, things, it changed for me.

00:16:23.140 Like a light switch.

00:16:23.760 Yeah.

00:16:23.940 It became, it became a battle between me and the fucking food.

00:16:29.600 Yeah.

00:16:30.220 Do you feel that way?

00:16:31.360 Yeah.

00:16:31.580 Well, I've, I think we talked a little bit about it yesterday where I got, we're both

00:16:34.060 past that stage, but for a while it was like, fuck, dude, I would get mad at people for

00:16:38.420 offering me a hangout with me.

00:16:39.460 Like I've lost a lot of friends through this and I've kept some of the greatest, greatest

00:16:42.360 friends around.

00:16:43.060 I've like used to get invited everywhere all the time.

00:16:44.940 I do, I, you with everyone's like, you have a lot of followers, you have this, people want

00:16:47.640 to hang out with you, but actual people that I know and I would hang out with, I don't

00:16:51.160 get hit up anymore.

00:16:51.920 Yeah.

00:16:52.240 You know, cause I, everyone already knows I'm going to say, no, you're on the path.

00:16:54.820 I'm in the gym.

00:16:55.300 I'm on a path.

00:16:55.900 I'm bettering myself.

00:16:56.660 I'm becoming the best version of myself in order to do that.

00:16:58.920 I need to be selfish.

00:16:59.680 And it's either you're on board with me and you're going to support it or you're not.

00:17:02.720 And I don't have time for you right now.

00:17:03.940 Yeah.

00:17:04.280 Well, you're on the path.

00:17:05.260 It's it, man.

00:17:05.860 It's like, so not everybody's on the path.

00:17:07.520 No.

00:17:07.660 And that's okay.

00:17:08.280 That's one thing I always talk about on my social media is it's like, stop looking for other people

00:17:11.800 to support you.

00:17:17.640 You need to be able to go shopping by yourself.

00:17:19.440 You need to go to the gym by yourself.

00:17:20.580 You can go to movies by yourself.

00:17:21.580 You need to, you need to do everything.

00:17:23.620 No, you could do everything by yourself before you could bring someone along with it.

00:17:26.400 Because if you're not there and supporting yourself and your hard work and you're not,

00:17:29.360 you know, congratulating yourself for your hard work and dedication, then how's anyone

00:17:32.220 else going to support it?

00:17:33.080 How anyone else going to be?

00:17:33.860 That's such an interesting point, bro.

00:17:35.720 Like I think as humans, this is off the topic of weight loss, but I think as humans, we

00:17:43.400 tend to try and fill the holes within ourselves with other relationships.

00:17:46.780 100%.

00:17:47.660 Yeah.

00:17:48.260 And we look for their, their, their appraisal.

00:17:50.740 We look for it.

00:17:51.340 Like when you do something good, you're like, anyone see that?

00:17:54.000 Yeah.

00:17:54.160 Anyone see that?

00:17:54.820 But it's like, I hope, I hope that I ranked high enough in their worth category.

00:17:58.220 Yeah.

00:17:58.640 Like, bro, fuck that.

00:17:59.660 Who cares?

00:18:00.120 Yeah, that's right.

00:18:00.620 Why do you want appraisal from someone that isn't even bearing their own self? 0.96

00:18:03.620 When we start, when we start looking at ourselves and realizing that we are the measure

00:18:09.160 of our own worth and what we think is what's important, not what the world thinks, that's

00:18:13.700 when shit changes.

00:18:14.520 That's when your life.

00:18:15.660 Yeah.

00:18:15.960 When you know your self-worth, that's when your life changes.

00:18:18.680 Did you go through a transition period where it was like, you, you had to figure that out

00:18:23.660 or did, did it just click?

00:18:24.900 I DM'd you.

00:18:25.260 I DM'd you that day.

00:18:26.540 Yeah.

00:18:26.660 I was like, bro, I just got out of the fucking gym and I'm, I was crying.

00:18:30.100 Yeah.

00:18:30.360 I mean, like I, I DM'd you that, that was that like moment where I looked at the pictures

00:18:34.220 and I just like, I think it was like an hour and like 52 minute workout.

00:18:38.540 Tell me about that first day.

00:18:39.940 That first day at the gym?

00:18:40.980 Yes.

00:18:41.320 Bro, I was tired in like 10 minutes.

00:18:43.580 I kept going, but I was doing wall pushups.

00:18:45.840 I was doing knee pushups.

00:18:47.360 I was doing just a lot of body weight stuff.

00:18:49.500 I wasn't even creating kettlebell, kettlebell stuff.

00:18:51.940 There wasn't a lot that I could do.

00:18:53.480 And I try to do like the boxing classes, but I wasn't lasting that long.

00:18:56.520 But I was doing something, you know, and, and the whole time I remember just feeling that

00:19:01.680 like I had a million eyes on me and I felt like people were making fun of me and maybe

00:19:06.800 they were, maybe they weren't.

00:19:07.880 But I was just in that mindset of just like, this sucks.

00:19:10.800 Like this really sucks.

00:19:12.200 And who am I going to blame?

00:19:13.420 But myself, like this, one of those things is like nothing harder than to blame yourself

00:19:16.560 for your fuck ups. 0.98

00:19:17.580 There's nothing harder to really sit down and look in the mirror and say, a spoon didn't

00:19:21.540 do this.

00:19:22.220 Fast food didn't do this.

00:19:23.220 A fork didn't do this.

00:19:24.060 I did this.

00:19:24.660 So that's hard already.

00:19:26.180 And now I'm working out in front of these people and there's girls in there and there's 1.00

00:19:29.040 guys in there and I'm over here trying to do sit-ups and feel like I'm about to freaking

00:19:32.080 have a cram cam and get up.

00:19:33.460 You know what I mean?

00:19:33.880 But like everything that I was given, I couldn't really do it.

00:19:36.960 So I was doing like this half-assed job and it made me feel less than.

00:19:40.100 Which makes it more embarrassed.

00:19:41.060 Exactly.

00:19:41.700 And then you're trying to get off the ground at being over 600 pounds and you feel like,

00:19:44.620 you know what I mean?

00:19:44.960 It's just one of those things I remember that it was probably the shittiest day of my life,

00:19:49.760 but it was the best day of my life because that was a day that I started getting my life

00:19:53.200 back together.

00:19:53.640 Dude, do you ever think back about how fucking tough that version of you was to go do this?

00:19:59.500 Well, you know what I'm saying?

00:20:01.140 At the time, I didn't realize it because I felt like so disappointed in myself.

00:20:06.280 But when like, as I started posting up like the videos, people were like, I don't even

00:20:10.480 go to the gym and I'm 30 pounds overweight.

00:20:12.520 How were you in there?

00:20:13.480 You know, and at the time I just knew I had, I knew I had a goal and I had to just get

00:20:18.100 it done.

00:20:18.440 And so I wasn't thinking, but now reflecting back on all that stuff, like I do like, that's

00:20:22.480 crazy because I don't even know like now, like sometimes I walk in like gyms, like I 0.75

00:20:25.960 was just at the gym with a whole bunch of like bodybuilders there.

00:20:27.740 I'm like, what the hell am I doing in here?

00:20:30.000 Like, you know what I mean?

00:20:30.740 And I felt comfortable.

00:20:31.680 I don't know, bro.

00:20:31.880 You're starting to look pretty jacked.

00:20:33.180 Man.

00:20:33.460 Thank you.

00:20:33.880 Yeah.

00:20:33.960 Thank you.

00:20:34.620 Thank you.

00:20:34.940 I'm not sure if you paid everyone out here to tell me this.

00:20:36.680 No.

00:20:37.120 Like, you've been telling me this.

00:20:38.220 I told you this, dude.

00:20:39.320 Like your fucking arms and shoulders.

00:20:41.160 And I mean, bro.

00:20:42.000 Dude, I'm in the gym three hours a day, man.

00:20:44.140 Yeah.

00:20:44.300 Just like, just giving it all I have, man.

00:20:46.980 I've been lazy for so long, dude.

00:20:49.180 I, I, I just, I'm just giving it all I have.

00:20:51.620 That was funny when you said that yesterday.

00:20:52.980 So yesterday I said to Anthony, we were talking about rest days and training and all these things.

00:20:57.980 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.

00:21:08.640 They're going to, dude.

00:21:10.000 And they do this out of love, right?

00:21:11.980 Like, bro.

00:21:14.420 Listen, I understand you want this, but you're, you, you got to take a break once in a while.

00:21:19.140 I hate that.

00:21:19.740 I get so mad.

00:21:20.860 I'm like, bro, I took a break for 30 years.

00:21:23.140 For 30 fucking years.

00:21:24.520 I got to eat what I want.

00:21:25.880 I got to do what I want.

00:21:27.160 I got to drink as much as I want.

00:21:29.060 I got to live the life that I wanted for 30 years.

00:21:31.620 You had a 30 year cheat day, bro.

00:21:32.420 30 year cheat day.

00:21:33.120 30 day.

00:21:33.600 I had a 30 year bulking season.

00:21:35.200 You know what I mean?

00:21:35.820 And like, I don't want that anymore.

00:21:37.240 People are like, oh, you can do this workout.

00:21:38.560 It's easier.

00:21:39.200 I see you're struggling.

00:21:39.960 I'm like, no, I don't want to the easy way out.

00:21:42.780 I want to struggle.

00:21:43.840 And I'm going to keep doing it.

00:21:45.220 Like I'll try and do a pull up.

00:21:46.180 A lot of people are like, oh, you're too heavy right now.

00:21:47.800 I weigh 140 pounds and I still can do a pull up.

00:21:51.780 I'm like, well, that's you.

00:21:52.720 It took me three months to get a pull up down, but now I'm knocking them out like crazy.

00:21:56.360 That's fucking awesome.

00:21:56.940 You know what I mean?

00:21:57.200 I think I did my first pull up at 270 or 80 pounds.

00:22:01.040 That's what I'm saying, bro.

00:22:01.920 You've got a shit ton of muscle.

00:22:03.400 I love it, man.

00:22:04.740 But you know what I mean?

00:22:05.380 It's like, I don't want the easy way out anymore.

00:22:06.820 No.

00:22:07.220 Like I don't need the easy way out.

00:22:09.080 I don't need anyone to feed me all this BS.

00:22:11.840 Like I need the truth.

00:22:12.860 I got, you know, I got fed love and all that BS before and it didn't do nothing, but allowed

00:22:17.660 me to be way overweight and, and I don't like that.

00:22:20.500 Let's talk about that for a second.

00:22:21.920 You're hitting on something that's really my passion, bro.

00:22:24.700 This body positivity shit that, that, that they, that being pushed around.

00:22:28.460 How, what's your thoughts on that?

00:22:29.840 Look at my definition of body, body positivity is loving yourself enough to fix a problem

00:22:35.700 you cause.

00:22:36.320 That is what my body positivity is.

00:22:38.240 Now there's going to be people out there that are going to agree and going to disagree.

00:22:41.520 Body positivity is love yourself for who you are.

00:22:43.880 And that's fine.

00:22:44.440 You could love yourself, but wanting to change yourself, you know, I love myself every day,

00:22:48.260 but I still look in the mirror and I'm like, I want to change this.

00:22:51.720 I need, I want bigger arms.

00:22:52.940 I need to continue losing this weight.

00:22:54.740 When I was 600 pounds, I love myself, but I was overweight.

00:22:58.680 It was unhealthy.

00:22:59.840 I was at a, I was on a road to failure to death.

00:23:02.340 You mean, so yeah, body positivity is great, but you still, still things you need to fix.

00:23:06.240 Just because you love yourself doesn't mean, okay, I love myself.

00:23:08.380 And if you don't love me for that, then you're against me.

00:23:10.580 No, it's because they want to see you do better.

00:23:12.460 Yeah.

00:23:12.760 You know what I mean?

00:23:13.080 They, it's so that's my body positivity.

00:23:14.860 I agree, bro.

00:23:15.520 I listen, you got to love yourself enough to fix what the fuck is going on that you're

00:23:19.580 truly upset about.

00:23:20.600 My issue with this body positivity is that it's highly marketed.

00:23:24.640 It's highly pushed.

00:23:25.480 And the message that is pushed is you're exactly how you should be.

00:23:29.620 And if you do anything else, then there's something wrong with you.

00:23:32.560 And motherfucker, that's just not true.

00:23:34.320 People, we have to call ourselves.

00:23:35.820 Like you talk about, uh, taking the day you said, Hey, this is my fault.

00:23:39.980 That's real growth, dude.

00:23:41.520 Like that's the shit that like, that is the whole reason we are in this situation that

00:23:46.100 we are fucking in right now is that people will not take responsibility for their own 0.91

00:23:51.140 fucking actions in their own life. 0.68

00:23:52.700 They want to blame everything else on everybody else.

00:23:55.280 You know, it's, it's, it's this, it's that it's this, it's this, it's this.

00:23:59.480 And like, dude, the truth is it's always us.

00:24:01.700 It is.

00:24:02.040 It's always us.

00:24:03.100 It's, it's, it's, that's always, that's what I always say.

00:24:05.640 It's like, blame yourself.

00:24:06.960 Stop blaming other people.

00:24:07.960 Like, Oh, I want to go to the gym, but I don't have time.

00:24:09.360 Well, don't make the time.

00:24:11.200 Don't, don't look for a perfect day.

00:24:12.760 Make the time.

00:24:13.480 And it doesn't make you a bad person, dude.

00:24:15.360 Like that's what you guys got to understand.

00:24:18.160 Just because you've got your, like, just because you've gotten yourself to a point that

00:24:22.480 you're like, let's say embarrassed or ashamed of or not proud of does not mean you're

00:24:26.760 a bad person.

00:24:27.880 It means you haven't been doing what you know you should do.

00:24:30.300 It means you have things you have to fix.

00:24:31.520 That's right.

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.

00:24:48.420 Let me ask you a real question.

00:24:49.780 If you stood in front of the mirror when you were 600 pounds and you affirmed every day,

00:24:54.040 I love myself.

00:24:54.720 I love myself.

00:24:55.420 I love myself.

00:24:56.100 I love myself.

00:24:57.200 I love myself.

00:24:57.960 I'm perfect.

00:24:58.960 I'm perfect.

00:24:59.540 I'm perfect.

00:24:59.920 The way I am.

00:25:00.620 Blah, blah, blah.

00:25:01.640 Would you have ever believed it?

00:25:03.340 No.

00:25:03.860 At the end of the day, no overweight person is going, is happy with where they are.

00:25:08.080 I don't care.

00:25:08.480 I'm telling you.

00:25:09.040 And I'm, I agree.

00:25:10.080 I'm speaking.

00:25:10.740 Like when I see these people, like I'm fat and I love it.

00:25:12.980 I'm like, no, you don't.

00:25:13.740 I agree.

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

00:25:23.980 goes and affects you.

00:25:24.800 When someone makes that, that joke about, Oh, you're going to eat that much.

00:25:27.020 And you laugh it off.

00:25:27.840 You go home and you feel it.

00:25:29.080 Yeah.

00:25:29.280 And I'm talking about from experience now, unless I'm the one-off person.

00:25:32.520 No, you're not.

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

00:25:47.720 I'm saying.

00:25:48.200 Not happy.

00:25:48.680 You can't fool me, dude.

00:25:49.720 I've been fat.

00:25:50.440 You can't BS a BSer, man.

00:25:51.800 Straight up.

00:25:52.240 I know it.

00:25:52.880 Like I was, I, I did love myself, but man, there was so many times where someone said a

00:25:57.180 joke on my laugh and I go home.

00:25:58.840 I'm like, damn, my heart hurts.

00:26:00.460 Like that sucks.

00:26:01.220 Cause it's true.

00:26:01.940 And nothing hurts more than the truth.

00:26:03.420 That's it.

00:26:03.780 And that's, and that's why every time we bring up my, every people bring up my weight,

00:26:07.500 I would get defensive.

00:26:08.760 So dude, talk about this, man.

00:26:10.400 Like how about the bullying that you get when you're overweight?

00:26:13.800 People, cause people don't understand.

00:26:16.020 They really are in elementary school, bro.

00:26:17.600 Oh fuck.

00:26:18.400 Kids are ruthless.

00:26:19.080 Kids are ruthless.

00:26:19.800 Yeah.

00:26:20.020 Kids are ruthless.

00:26:20.900 Now you just see some of the comments.

00:26:22.020 I laugh at them.

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

00:26:26.360 things where it sucks. 0.74

00:26:27.940 You know what I mean?

00:26:28.260 It sucks being bullied.

00:26:29.380 It sucks.

00:26:29.860 People make it funny.

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

00:26:38.100 let them know it hurt me, uh, at school.

00:26:40.920 You know what they call me in school, dude?

00:26:42.260 Yeah.

00:26:42.520 Weapon.

00:26:42.960 What was your name?

00:26:43.500 Fucking snaggle tooth.

00:26:44.860 Snaggle tooth.

00:26:45.440 Yeah.

00:26:45.600 Cause I have fucked up teeth, bro.

00:26:47.080 Damn.

00:26:47.520 Yeah.

00:26:47.760 Now look at you now though.

00:26:48.600 Yeah.

00:26:49.040 That's what I say.

00:26:49.820 That's Hollywood.

00:26:50.540 Yeah.

00:26:50.900 Yeah.

00:26:51.160 I went and bought those motherfuckers. 1.00

00:26:52.580 I got a smile for miles now.

00:26:54.560 That's what I'm talking about.

00:26:55.300 I don't give a fuck.

00:26:55.840 No, no.

00:26:56.360 It's in it.

00:26:56.740 And it's that I will get on that too.

00:26:58.020 That's a good feeling.

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

00:27:05.600 elementary school, they didn't make fun of me.

00:27:07.160 And like, it sucked because like, I couldn't even sit like in like, like fifth grade, sixth

00:27:11.540 grade, I couldn't even fit in like the seat.

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.

00:27:18.840 You know what I mean?

00:27:19.180 So people will laugh at that.

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.

00:27:29.580 But you know what I mean?

00:27:30.300 It's a crappy situation.

00:27:32.020 But I didn't let people know.

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.

00:27:41.020 People make fun of you.

00:27:41.940 You laugh it off and you announce yourself as a fat person.

00:27:44.720 Oh yeah.

00:27:44.920 I'm a fat friend.

00:27:45.580 Ha ha.

00:27:45.940 But it really eats you every single day.

00:27:48.240 You're hiding behind it.

00:27:49.300 You're hiding behind it.

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.

00:27:56.460 Yeah.

00:27:56.800 I know.

00:27:57.500 Yeah.

00:27:57.880 And dude, it's okay.

00:28:00.980 It's okay to feel that way.

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. 0.99

00:28:17.560 Yeah.

00:28:18.360 And bro, I'm telling you right now, to anybody listening, that first day, you are the baddest

00:28:24.920 ass motherfucker for making that step. 0.97

00:28:27.600 Yeah.

00:28:27.880 And it gets easier after that as long as you just keep showing up.

00:28:31.060 Yeah.

00:28:31.660 Like the feeling gets easier, not the workout.

00:28:33.400 You have to be really proud of yourself, dude.

00:28:35.020 Think about this, bro.

00:28:35.960 Like I went through this realization myself.

00:28:38.120 Like I was looking back at myself when I was fat and I was like, fuck, dude, what a fucking

00:28:43.100 bitch. 1.00

00:28:43.900 Like how big of a bitch was that dude? 1.00

00:28:45.840 Yeah.

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.

00:28:55.660 And that dude was already doing well.

00:28:57.320 Yeah.

00:28:57.680 You know what I'm saying?

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

00:29:08.000 fat did a lot of hard shit, bro.

00:29:09.960 That's a lot easier for you now.

00:29:11.760 Yeah.

00:29:11.980 And he did it every day for a long time.

00:29:14.800 Actually, that dude was pretty bad ass.

00:29:16.680 Well, like we're talking about that because over 600 pounds, people are like, well, what

00:29:19.480 did you do?

00:29:20.120 Yeah.

00:29:20.380 What did you do?

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.

00:29:26.880 You were active.

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?

00:29:34.260 Yeah.

00:29:34.780 I don't have thyroid problems.

00:29:36.000 I don't have any type of thing where I can't lose weight or I, it was my fault.

00:29:39.660 I love food.

00:29:40.480 So, you know what I mean?

00:29:40.980 So, I was moving.

00:29:41.840 I was active, but I was just out eating.

00:29:43.640 I was out eating my movement, but you'll never hear me complain at over 600 pounds.

00:29:47.140 You just said it, dude.

00:29:48.540 That's what everybody does.

00:29:49.920 We out eat our movement.

00:29:51.680 Yeah.

00:29:52.040 We out eat our movement.

00:29:53.380 If you could just figure that out.

00:29:54.820 Yeah.

00:29:55.000 That your whole life will change.

00:29:56.980 Yeah.

00:29:57.280 My life has changed.

00:29:58.340 It's too, you know what I mean?

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.

00:30:10.820 You know what I mean?

00:30:11.460 I've lost weight so many times.

00:30:12.940 I've lost, it's not my first time, man.

00:30:14.900 I remember like back, I don't remember the years, but I'm going to just, you know, go scroll

00:30:18.740 my Instagram and they'll see it.

00:30:19.760 My whole life is on Instagram.

00:30:20.940 Yeah.

00:30:21.220 And not just the first weight loss, not just second weight loss.

00:30:23.460 You know what I mean?

00:30:24.080 It's there.

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.

00:30:35.140 I was like, I have extra skin.

00:30:36.740 I'm like in my twenties, like I worked my ass off and it was a downhill spiral from there.

00:30:40.800 And I, that's why I got bigger.

00:30:42.180 Yeah.

00:30:42.400 And then like, you know what I mean?

00:30:43.060 I felt hopeless.

00:30:44.520 You know what I mean?

00:30:44.920 And I regret doing that.

00:30:46.000 That's a cop out, but you know.

00:30:47.140 No, no, no.

00:30:47.600 I get that.

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

00:30:55.520 gaining it and losing it, gaining it.

00:30:56.920 It's like, just fix it now.

00:30:58.980 You know what I mean?

00:30:59.240 Cause it's a crappy situation, you know, going through, you know, have to have surgery and

00:31:03.120 then ruining it.

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.

00:31:20.200 So start now.

00:31:21.500 So let me ask you this.

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

00:31:36.600 how I was a hundred percent.

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?

00:31:43.340 Yeah, bro.

00:31:43.760 I never times it by like 10, you know, I would wake up like, ah, another day.

00:31:48.380 Yeah.

00:31:48.740 And you know what I mean?

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

00:31:54.420 that version of happy.

00:31:55.180 I guarantee you when you were that big, your first thought was what the fuck you're going

00:31:57.360 to eat.

00:31:57.740 Oh man.

00:31:58.340 Was it not?

00:31:58.760 Bro, would you?

00:31:59.240 I love it, man.

00:31:59.920 Yeah.

00:32:00.160 What do you mean?

00:32:00.700 Wake up in the morning, man.

00:32:01.900 Go get some breakfast.

00:32:02.520 I already had, dude, when I was, when I had that relationship with food, dude, I would literally

00:32:06.840 sit like before I fucking got out of bed, bro. 0.97

00:32:09.460 You would plan your breakfast.

00:32:10.340 No, I already knew what I was eating for fucking my, my morning snack, my lunch.

00:32:15.040 I, and I'm like planning out my day.

00:32:17.040 I was like, I'll be eating, thinking about what I'm going to eat for lunch.

00:32:19.820 Yeah.

00:32:20.020 I enjoyed food.

00:32:21.500 I'm like, oh, I work hard so I could eat, but yeah.

00:32:23.640 Damn.

00:32:24.000 You know what I mean?

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.

00:32:30.440 And I don't even feel right.

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

00:32:35.900 a monster.

00:32:36.340 Yeah.

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.

00:32:44.700 Yeah.

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

00:32:48.180 it is, dude, I'm an asshole.

00:32:49.700 Like now it's like, if I don't work out, I feel like, don't talk to me.

00:32:53.640 Yeah.

00:32:53.820 That's, I don't need coffee.

00:32:55.100 I just need the gym.

00:32:55.820 Yeah.

00:32:56.180 You know what I mean?

00:32:56.480 And my girlfriend's like, go to the gym. 0.94

00:32:57.840 Cause you're just being an ass right now.

00:32:59.300 Yeah.

00:32:59.420 I was like, you're right.

00:33:00.440 Bye.

00:33:00.980 And then I come back and I call him a, Hey, do you want me to bring you some coffee?

00:33:03.860 Like, you know what I mean?

00:33:04.400 Cause I just need it.

00:33:05.180 Like I need it because like, that's my escape.

00:33:06.920 And I think like I've, I've transferred over my food addiction to a gym addiction, which

00:33:11.620 is way better than a food addiction.

00:33:12.920 I think I have as well.

00:33:14.660 Cause I, let's talk about putting that work today.

00:33:16.900 Yeah, bro.

00:33:17.460 Well, look, man, you did a lot of cardio.

00:33:19.340 You're making me tired today.

00:33:20.400 Today was only cardio day.

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.

00:33:25.720 Okay.

00:33:25.980 That's my rest 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.

00:33:30.620 Yeah.

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,

00:33:39.780 uh, at least a one day a week.

00:33:42.860 My rest day would be just cardio.

00:33:44.340 It's your lifestyle now.

00:33:45.780 For sure.

00:33:46.180 There's no fixing that.

00:33:46.920 It's your, it's your lifestyle now.

00:33:48.080 It's something that now is embedded into you and you know how you felt when you're overweight.

00:33:51.700 You're doing the mountain bike at big bear.

00:33:53.220 Oh yeah.

00:33:53.840 So dude, I'm, I'm, were you able to do that when you were big?

00:33:56.300 No, no.

00:33:57.360 Okay.

00:33:57.800 Let's talk about that, dude.

00:33:59.340 Talk about some of the things that you do and enjoy now that you couldn't do.

00:34:03.960 Everything.

00:34:04.560 Yeah.

00:34:05.120 Sex.

00:34:05.800 No, I'm just kidding.

00:34:06.360 No, for real.

00:34:06.920 No, man.

00:34:07.300 We can talk about it.

00:34:07.840 I'm down to talk about it all.

00:34:08.780 I'm letting you know right now.

00:34:09.540 I know we really didn't talk about before this.

00:34:10.740 That's a real thing.

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.

00:34:20.780 Yeah.

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. 0.69

00:34:29.520 I don't know, but I can imagine.

00:34:30.780 But yeah.

00:34:30.880 So that's what it basically is now.

00:34:32.080 When I was, when I was at my heaviest, which was three 50, which is, you know, almost half

00:34:36.480 of the size of what you were, bro.

00:34:38.260 I would fuck.

00:34:39.280 I would literally sweat when I took a shit.

00:34:41.440 Oh yeah.

00:34:41.840 Like I was sweating.

00:34:42.580 I mean, some of you guys might still do that.

00:34:44.520 You eat too many peppers at night or something.

00:34:46.000 I'm just saying that red sauce.

00:34:47.420 That's right.

00:34:49.640 The jalapenos, bro.

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.

00:35:03.500 Everything.

00:35:04.580 Especially throwing out the trash.

00:35:06.040 That thing sucked. 0.99

00:35:06.860 Yeah.

00:35:06.960 Throwing out the trash.

00:35:07.580 There's a lot of work, but you know, like putting on my shoes, I would like have to like

00:35:11.020 take my shoe off, tie it and then slide it on.

00:35:14.420 You know what I mean?

00:35:14.740 I was getting the pool.

00:35:15.320 My girlfriend would tell me to put in the sauce.

00:35:16.620 Like I remember.

00:35:17.120 I never thought about that.

00:35:17.740 Yeah, dude.

00:35:18.240 Dude, check this out.

00:35:19.180 You want to know something crazy?

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?

00:35:27.440 We're just fat asses.

00:35:28.260 We'd love to eat, right?

00:35:29.400 Nothing's changed.

00:35:29.980 We still like to eat.

00:35:30.780 We just, you know, pick better places.

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?

00:35:38.580 Okay, but Buffalo always cool.

00:35:40.140 I would call.

00:35:40.700 I would get there first.

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

00:35:46.960 put people in booths.

00:35:47.820 And my big ass was infinity, no booth.

00:35:49.640 So I did that for like years.

00:35:51.340 And no one even knew why I took my own car or why I always got there first.

00:35:54.680 No one questioned it.

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.

00:36:00.900 And then they get, oh yeah, here's your booth.

00:36:02.400 And I'm, what am I going to say in front of everyone?

00:36:03.640 Like, oh, can we get a table?

00:36:04.720 It's embarrassing.

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

00:36:11.220 a table, not a booth.

00:36:12.260 Yeah.

00:36:12.760 You know what I mean?

00:36:13.020 That's something that like, I hope no one has to relate with, but that's just something

00:36:17.020 that was my norm.

00:36:18.280 That was my normal.

00:36:19.400 You know what I mean?

00:36:19.680 Because that wasn't possible for me to squeeze in a booth.

00:36:22.120 I still get PTSD at booths.

00:36:25.440 No, and then you feel good.

00:36:26.700 I feel good.

00:36:27.100 Yeah.

00:36:27.480 Dude, me too.

00:36:29.360 Bro, people, people don't remember how I was big as fuck because I was pretty good at hiding

00:36:33.900 it.

00:36:34.400 But like, dude, I would get in the booth sometimes and like, you know how like you get to some

00:36:37.980 booths and they're not fixed the table.

00:36:40.340 I'd always have to push the table towards Emily. 0.99

00:36:42.820 Like so that I could fit.

00:36:43.680 Yeah.

00:36:44.260 Oh, trust me.

00:36:45.460 That's embarrassing as fuck, dude.

00:36:46.880 Especially when your wife is actually in great shape.

00:36:51.100 It's super embarrassing.

00:36:52.120 Yeah.

00:36:52.560 You know, it's, it's a, yeah.

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

00:36:59.760 know.

00:37:00.320 Yeah.

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

00:37:06.760 people had these similar experiences.

00:37:09.240 Joe, you were pretty overweight.

00:37:10.960 Can you relate to a lot of the shit we're talking about?

00:37:13.300 Yeah, bro.

00:37:14.340 Airplanes, bro.

00:37:14.880 I posted up a picture of me on an airplane, two seats.

00:37:17.660 Dude, I look, I'll show you the picture.

00:37:19.620 And you know nobody wanted to fucking sit next to you.

00:37:21.440 No, they couldn't.

00:37:22.380 I bought, I bought the rope.

00:37:23.420 Yeah.

00:37:23.760 My girlfriend bought one seat.

00:37:24.880 I had two.

00:37:25.340 So it was no one ever had to sit next to me, bro.

00:37:26.760 But like, I literally have a picture, bro.

00:37:28.280 I'm going to show it to you.

00:37:29.120 Yeah.

00:37:29.420 It, I look like the most miserable person on earth.

00:37:32.700 Like, you know what I mean?

00:37:33.160 I, I look bigger than the plane.

00:37:35.100 I haven't seen a picture of you big.

00:37:37.040 So like, I, I don't think I showed you.

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.

00:37:49.900 It's impossible.

00:37:50.400 It's impossible.

00:37:50.980 It's not happening.

00:37:51.460 Putting on a diaper or just holding it.

00:37:53.000 It's not happening.

00:37:53.480 It's not happening.

00:37:54.280 Yeah.

00:37:54.500 You know what I mean?

00:37:54.880 And so it's like one of those things where it's like, you know, yes, it's my fault.

00:37:57.940 Yes.

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.

00:38:04.200 What the life that I could enjoy at that time.

00:38:06.380 How were the vacations that you went on?

00:38:09.000 I mean, like, let's say.

00:38:10.140 We went to like Tulum and I'd finish like half the trip because I couldn't even walk.

00:38:13.140 Yeah.

00:38:13.400 Like I was just too big.

00:38:14.440 You're always, you know.

00:38:15.540 Out of breath.

00:38:16.220 Yeah.

00:38:16.460 You don't go to the pools.

00:38:17.560 You don't go to the fucking beaches.

00:38:19.200 Oh, dude.

00:38:19.480 I would go to the pools.

00:38:20.260 So I would go to the pools, but compression shirts.

00:38:22.880 Yeah.

00:38:22.980 The compression shirt.

00:38:24.300 Yeah.

00:38:24.580 The long sleeves.

00:38:25.760 You know what I mean?

00:38:26.300 Covering up.

00:38:26.940 And you know, the crazy thing is I still do that now, but.

00:38:29.920 Holy fuck, bro.

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.

00:38:35.440 At all.

00:38:36.040 Guys, I want to pull this up.

00:38:37.360 I really want to, I really want you to see this, this, this photo.

00:38:40.580 I think I save it to my favorites, man.

00:38:42.900 Sorry, guys.

00:38:43.580 They just showed me the before pics.

00:38:46.260 I hadn't actually seen.

00:38:47.040 Oh, here it is.

00:38:47.900 Check this out.

00:38:48.460 So this is me on the planet.

00:38:50.420 I know we're far away, but that was me.

00:38:51.740 I can fucking see you, bro.

00:38:53.020 Oh, damn.

00:38:53.680 You're fucking, motherfucking planet, bro. 0.90

00:38:56.280 Let's be fucking real.

00:38:58.080 We're going to keep it real as fuck.

00:38:59.120 No, no, no, no, no, no.

00:39:00.200 It's all about keeping it real, bro.

00:39:01.860 I look like the most unhappy.

00:39:02.940 That's insane.

00:39:03.740 I look like the most unhappy person.

00:39:05.740 That was me on a plane, bro.

00:39:06.900 Yeah.

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.

00:39:10.920 They said it did or they didn't.

00:39:12.080 So like the center thing was squishing my ass.

00:39:14.140 And it was like the most embarrassing thing.

00:39:16.040 But once again.

00:39:16.480 So you had to do the seatbelt extenders and all that shit.

00:39:18.540 Yeah.

00:39:18.820 That's what, that's, that was a fucking for real moment for me, dude.

00:39:21.860 But you got to that point.

00:39:22.800 You didn't even look that big where you needed one.

00:39:24.440 No, but, but I got asked if I wanted one.

00:39:27.600 So like, like.

00:39:28.880 That's like when they don't ask me for ID.

00:39:30.240 Bro, I was on a plane.

00:39:31.020 It was, it was so embarrassing too, bro.

00:39:33.140 Cause it was right in front of Emily.

00:39:34.680 And like, like it, it made me feel like a fucking ant. 0.85

00:39:43.280 I was so fucking mad, dude.

00:39:45.620 Yeah.

00:39:46.040 I wanted to kill this dude.

00:39:47.340 So check this out.

00:39:48.000 Yeah.

00:39:48.120 But I, but, but I couldn't cause he was trying to help.

00:39:51.140 Yeah.

00:39:51.540 You know what I'm saying?

00:39:52.080 Like, what's he supposed to say?

00:39:53.760 That's what he thought.

00:39:54.640 He thought I would need one.

00:39:55.540 And you know what?

00:39:56.620 You should be safe.

00:39:57.160 Yeah.

00:39:57.360 I didn't need one, but I mean, it was all.

00:40:00.260 Yeah.

00:40:00.540 It was screaming for help.

00:40:01.320 I made sure that I didn't need one, but it was not comfortable.

00:40:04.600 So it wasn't like he was wrong.

00:40:06.140 We were, I was eating lunch, man.

00:40:07.900 I was eating lunch with two people that, that I, I, I, I, you know, have a, I hold high.

00:40:13.000 Yeah.

00:40:13.220 And they hold me high.

00:40:14.140 Yeah.

00:40:14.480 And we're eating at the sandwich space, bro.

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.

00:40:22.780 Here's another seat.

00:40:23.580 So you can sit on both of them.

00:40:24.740 Oh man.

00:40:25.160 Like, bro, I wanted to throw this guy through a window.

00:40:27.080 Yeah.

00:40:27.280 I was so pissed.

00:40:28.180 I was embarrassed.

00:40:28.800 I was mad.

00:40:29.480 I just was like, I was shaking.

00:40:31.320 Yeah.

00:40:31.740 And my, my friends got mad at the situation.

00:40:33.960 But then looking back at it, dude, imagine the 600 pound guy on a small wooden chair.

00:40:38.820 I get it.

00:40:39.140 He was just trying to help.

00:40:40.300 Yeah.

00:40:40.420 There's obviously better ways.

00:40:41.820 And he probably was awkward about fucking doing it.

00:40:43.800 But yeah.

00:40:44.060 He didn't know how to do it.

00:40:44.960 He didn't know.

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

00:40:58.340 he gets annoyed and it just goes.

00:40:59.400 Yeah.

00:40:59.660 Sister, same thing, whatever it is.

00:41:01.000 You know what I mean?

00:41:01.200 There's no good way.

00:41:02.140 No.

00:41:02.380 You know what?

00:41:02.540 There's no, cause you're going to, I'm going to be a, take it offensive no matter what.

00:41:05.180 You took it offensive.

00:41:05.960 The guy was trying to help you.

00:41:06.720 You took it offensive.

00:41:07.660 There's no good way.

00:41:08.660 Yeah.

00:41:08.680 I was mad.

00:41:09.340 There's no right way.

00:41:10.040 He's not going to pull you aside and say, you need extension.

00:41:12.960 No.

00:41:13.180 He's going to be like, Hey, you look uncomfortable.

00:41:15.100 Let me give you extension.

00:41:15.940 Hey, you need another seat.

00:41:16.780 You're big as hell.

00:41:17.720 Yeah.

00:41:17.940 You know what I mean?

00:41:18.600 Yeah.

00:41:18.980 I felt smaller than an ant.

00:41:21.300 You know what's so weird when we talk about that is like people these days are so quick

00:41:26.100 to hate those people.

00:41:27.620 Like blame them.

00:41:29.360 Oh, mad.

00:41:29.520 It's dude.

00:41:29.980 I get it too, man.

00:41:30.920 Because like when that dude asked me that, I like, I was so fucking mad.

00:41:35.520 Rage.

00:41:35.980 Yeah.

00:41:36.300 No, for real.

00:41:37.120 Yeah.

00:41:37.160 No, I know.

00:41:37.660 Like I could have attacked him.

00:41:38.800 Yeah, I know.

00:41:39.460 And, and, uh, I didn't, but then that lasted for about two minutes.

00:41:44.440 And then I was like, fuck.

00:41:46.780 I'm, I got to fucking, I got to get my stuff together because our, so he actually did me

00:41:50.740 a huge favor.

00:41:51.540 Yeah.

00:41:52.020 You know what I'm saying?

00:41:52.640 It was, it's a breakthrough moment where you realize that, okay, I'm not the only one

00:41:55.640 that realizes I'm overweight now.

00:41:56.960 Yeah.

00:41:57.360 You know what I mean?

00:41:57.700 Yeah.

00:41:57.900 And it's, it's a crappy feeling.

00:41:59.380 Don't get me wrong.

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.

00:42:09.580 Yeah.

00:42:10.320 Yeah.

00:42:10.860 Bro.

00:42:11.120 It's a, Oh, for sure.

00:42:13.080 I mean, how many of those moments did it, did that?

00:42:15.000 Like, I mean, that wasn't the first moment.

00:42:16.840 No, that was a breakthrough moment.

00:42:19.000 Like all the other moments before that, that's how I dealt with it.

00:42:21.940 I would go fucking eat.

00:42:22.860 You ever, you ever go to the music park and just do the walk of shame.

00:42:26.040 You ever get that part of being big?

00:42:27.400 I did it at like Disneyland.

00:42:29.300 They're like, yeah, you got, you got it.

00:42:30.900 Oh man.

00:42:31.320 The walk of shame is the most.

00:42:33.140 You won't fit on the ride.

00:42:34.080 You don't fit on the ride.

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.

00:42:41.760 Cause I want to ride this ride.

00:42:42.620 And you got to go, everyone's staring at you.

00:42:45.020 So you feel like everyone's staring at you, but at this time everyone's facing me.

00:42:48.040 Yeah.

00:42:48.280 And like, you'd like, Oh, they're going to try to close.

00:42:49.880 They bring a second person, try to close it.

00:42:51.480 And I was like, I looked at my bro.

00:42:52.600 It's enough.

00:42:52.900 Like, let me just get off.

00:42:53.560 Let me just go.

00:42:53.960 Oh, I think we got it.

00:42:54.660 And they bring another person.

00:42:55.720 And now there's like, now everyone's already buckled in.

00:42:58.080 Yeah.

00:42:58.360 And I'm the only person there.

00:42:59.580 They're trying to freaking put my Norbit ass inside this thing. 0.99

00:43:02.420 Yeah.

00:43:02.640 And it wasn't, it wasn't happening.

00:43:03.940 Yeah.

00:43:04.240 And so I like, I get off.

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

00:43:11.420 like all these people.

00:43:12.660 And I was just like, Oh, this sucks.

00:43:15.620 Like that is another moment that you thought would have changed my life, but it didn't.

00:43:18.860 Still went on after that.

00:43:19.800 But that was a crappy feeling.

00:43:21.060 I bet you went right after that.

00:43:21.920 I got a funnel cake.

00:43:23.000 That's it.

00:43:23.320 I got a funnel cake.

00:43:24.060 I was like, well, since my friends are on roller coaster, I'm about to eat a funnel cake.

00:43:26.200 That's it.

00:43:26.760 I do this today, bro.

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

00:43:31.700 of situations.

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

00:43:39.780 that one.

00:43:40.140 That's, that's me in like K1.

00:43:41.500 Everyone's like, Oh, let's go K1. 0.97

00:43:42.460 I'm like, Oh, the place is dumb.

00:43:43.420 Yeah.

00:43:44.060 Yeah.

00:43:44.260 That place is dumb.

00:43:45.120 Yeah.

00:43:45.320 I have a car.

00:43:46.780 Why do I want to ride a go-kart?

00:43:48.020 No shit.

00:43:48.380 I'm doing damn well inside.

00:43:49.160 I'm like, I want to ride them so bad, dude.

00:43:51.620 And yeah, that's, that's another thing.

00:43:53.160 You start, you start adapting to your lifestyle that is unique to you because of your weight.

00:43:58.760 You know, it's, it's, I had to adapt.

00:44:00.480 I had no choice.

00:44:01.180 I couldn't mount a bike ride.

00:44:02.340 I couldn't dirt bike ride.

00:44:03.140 I couldn't snowboard.

00:44:04.060 I couldn't go on roller coasters.

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.

00:44:23.080 I'm not just not fixing it.

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.

00:44:34.020 It just wasn't physically possible.

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. 0.97

00:44:46.660 I mean, let's be real.

00:44:47.560 And you're inspiring all kinds of different people, uh, whether they were that big or not

00:44:52.380 that big to take control.

00:44:54.060 And, and, and so let's talk about that.

00:44:57.980 Let, we've talked about the problem, right?

00:44:59.680 Yeah.

00:45:00.060 Like we, we, you know, we're fucking, we love food.

00:45:03.060 A little too much.

00:45:03.820 We love apple juice.

00:45:04.300 Yeah, dude.

00:45:04.900 We love food too much.

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.

00:45:21.220 We, we're, we, it doesn't matter.

00:45:22.560 Stay in your lane.

00:45:23.380 Look at, look at yourself and your life and your goals and realize that they're your life.

00:45:27.240 They're your goals and stay in your own lane.

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.

00:45:35.040 It's still going to be hard work.

00:45:36.500 It's still going to be dedication.

00:45:37.440 It's still going to be portion control.

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

00:45:45.040 you still have to go to the gym though.

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.

00:45:57.720 You still have a nine to five.

00:45:58.680 You still have kids.

00:45:59.320 You still have family and stuff.

00:46:00.680 So, I mean, it's, you just got to get it done.

00:46:02.580 You know what I mean?

00:46:02.880 Don't look at the next person.

00:46:04.080 Don't look at me.

00:46:04.800 Don't look at you.

00:46:05.760 Don't look at anyone.

00:46:06.900 Just pay attention to your road.

00:46:08.160 Pay attention to yourself and just grind your ass off.

00:46:10.300 And you're going to get there.

00:46:11.280 It might take longer.

00:46:12.500 It might take shorter.

00:46:13.260 It doesn't really matter.

00:46:14.180 You're just, you're every single day, you become a better version of yourself.

00:46:16.740 You know what I mean?

00:46:17.540 And that's it.

00:46:18.080 Stop looking at other people.

00:46:19.040 Stop looking at other people.

00:46:20.340 Don't look at me.

00:46:21.320 Don't listen to my story.

00:46:22.420 Just follow your own path.

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

00:46:38.260 I've been big more than once too.

00:46:39.640 Like, I've gotten big, lost it, gotten big, lost it three times.

00:46:44.200 Okay.

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.

00:47:25.760 It can be chipped away at one day at a time.

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

00:47:38.920 straight.

00:47:39.360 Like, I've been on 75 hard basically the whole fucking last two and a half years.

00:47:44.280 I feel like you're always on it.

00:47:45.340 Yeah.

00:47:45.660 You're always on 75 hard.

00:47:46.160 Well, I do sort of live that way.

00:47:47.580 So, um, and it's work.

00:47:53.100 It is work every day.

00:47:54.800 Fuck, bro.

00:47:55.580 It's worth it.

00:47:56.400 It is.

00:47:57.020 I mean, what would you say?

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.

00:48:07.380 You know what feeling I'm talking about?

00:48:09.260 Yeah.

00:48:09.480 You let yourself down.

00:48:10.680 You just like you have so much on your plate where you just feel like, where do I start?

00:48:13.920 Yeah.

00:48:14.120 It's like looking at a messy ass room and you're just like, well, where do I start?

00:48:17.980 Where do I, where do I start?

00:48:18.920 You know what I mean?

00:48:19.260 And the thing is that you just start.

00:48:20.960 Yeah.

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.

00:48:27.440 All it is, is starting.

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.

00:48:36.060 You're going to meet people.

00:48:37.060 You're going to talk to people.

00:48:38.220 You're going to maybe join a class.

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?

00:48:48.520 How did you do this?

00:48:49.400 How did you do that?

00:48:50.080 Like, don't worry about that.

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.

00:49:00.060 I didn't plan on this, dude.

00:49:01.600 I wanted to be healthy.

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

00:49:06.960 too far.

00:49:07.600 Yeah.

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.

00:49:16.700 And I still have to get all the skin removed.

00:49:18.940 You know what I mean?

00:49:19.500 Yeah.

00:49:19.720 Talk about that.

00:49:20.460 Why tell people why you didn't do that?

00:49:22.560 The skin?

00:49:23.180 Yeah.

00:49:23.540 And what you did instead?

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.

00:49:36.200 So I'm good 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.

00:49:46.400 Cause I do want the skin removed.

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.

00:49:56.420 It's like over $30,000.

00:49:57.740 That's a lot.

00:49:58.240 That's a Honda civic, you know?

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

00:50:04.060 when I don't want it right now?

00:50:06.080 Like, why am I saving for it?

00:50:07.540 If it doesn't affect me because people are commenting, well, fuck what they have to say.

00:50:11.340 Like, this is my body.

00:50:12.420 Like, this is what happens when you mess up.

00:50:14.400 This is what happens when you choose to put food over your health.

00:50:16.860 You know what I mean?

00:50:17.080 It doesn't bother me posting it.

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

00:50:31.660 I know how hard it is.

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.

00:50:44.100 There's so many people.

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

00:50:51.840 would have me do a workout and I couldn't do it.

00:50:53.640 So they pushed me to the side because I was, wasn't good enough to do it.

00:50:57.060 So everything has a modified workout and that's what I've learned.

00:51:00.240 And that's what I want to push in my gym.

00:51:01.700 Like it's always a modified version to do.

00:51:03.720 We could take anyone from an athlete to someone that's, you know, 500, 200, 300 pounds overweight.

00:51:08.520 And that's my goal to make a facility to make people feel comfortable.

00:51:11.500 And they can look at me and say, well, damn, this guy walked in at over 600 and I'm only

00:51:15.380 210 pounds.

00:51:16.480 Yeah.

00:51:16.800 Let me do it.

00:51:17.480 Let's get it in.

00:51:18.100 Let's do it.

00:51:18.580 And it keeps me on track.

00:51:19.780 I'm still on this journey.

00:51:21.060 Yeah.

00:51:21.260 I'm still on this journey.

00:51:22.580 They're holding you accountable as well.

00:51:24.160 Exactly.

00:51:24.780 So I'm still on this journey.

00:51:25.820 Like never did I think I was going to be doing fitness.

00:51:27.700 You know, I never thought that I was going to be, you know, freaking eating, you know,

00:51:32.540 three, four or five cups of rice a day, bison.

00:51:35.320 And then, you know, my meal preps and all that stuff.

00:51:37.440 I'm like, this is way too much food, but this is the right stuff to put in your body when

00:51:40.520 you're doing work.

00:51:41.600 You know, so it's just so much knowledge that I've learned, personally learned.

00:51:45.560 I've personally got to learn on this journey that I feel I could share with people, not

00:51:49.140 only just my story, but have them working out next to me.

00:51:51.540 People come and train with me right now.

00:51:53.000 Yeah.

00:51:53.160 People, they come in, they work out me.

00:51:55.320 And it's like I worked out for three hours already.

00:51:57.580 And now I just got a fourth hour workout because that person came in with me.

00:52:00.300 That, I mean, people are like, you're doing too much.

00:52:02.040 I'm like, no, I didn't.

00:52:02.980 I'm not doing enough.

00:52:03.860 That's right.

00:52:04.200 Like I said, I had 30 years of resting.

00:52:06.180 Here's what I thought was cool, bro.

00:52:07.660 Here, here's what you said to me yesterday that, that really made me realize the kind

00:52:12.620 of person that you are.

00:52:14.880 He was telling me that he was going to get the skin surgery and then he changed his mind

00:52:20.020 because he wanted to help other people.

00:52:21.680 Yeah.

00:52:22.080 And he wanted to put that money towards that.

00:52:24.120 I thought that was fucking awesome, bro.

00:52:26.000 I, it's, I mean, like there's people like, I am blessed to have a big voice in this weight

00:52:31.480 loss community, man.

00:52:32.740 I'm blessed.

00:52:33.300 Like there's so many bad-ass people that are losing weight.

00:52:35.500 There's so many people that have bad-ass stories that have worse upbringings.

00:52:39.220 And I was given the opportunity.

00:52:42.140 I was given, you know, the 1.5 million on TikTok and the 128 on Instagram.

00:52:47.140 And I'm going to take that and I'm going to do everything that, how I was raised to show

00:52:51.620 love to people, to give back to people.

00:52:53.820 The skin is my skin.

00:52:55.340 You know what I mean?

00:52:55.800 And it's, it's always, it's going to be there until I choose to remove it.

00:52:59.240 But I rather help 50, 50 people do a transformation and then worry about mine because I'm still,

00:53:04.940 I'm still losing weight.

00:53:06.140 Yeah.

00:53:06.240 I'm still bettering myself while I'm helping other people.

00:53:08.440 And that's the main thing is like, I know how it feels to be an all-time low and I feel

00:53:11.700 like you have no one to look, like, look out for you while I'm here to look out for you.

00:53:14.700 My team is here to look out for you.

00:53:16.360 You know, we want you to win.

00:53:17.780 You know what I mean?

00:53:18.180 And come in every single day and just, let's just leave it on the table.

00:53:21.520 So how far away are you from getting that open?

00:53:24.000 Um, honestly, I don't know.

00:53:26.740 I have a, I have my Camaro that I'm going to be selling.

00:53:29.020 So after I sell that, I'll be about, I'll have about 10 personally saved.

00:53:32.440 And then I have, I'll get 20 from the Camaro.

00:53:34.220 It's already paid off.

00:53:35.180 And then we just got to go from there.

00:53:36.920 There's a couple of things that, you know, we're got in the works right now, but, uh,

00:53:40.140 for the most part, we're just saving, man.

00:53:41.380 My team's really small, but we have the goal.

00:53:43.720 I already have the Instagram, already have the logo.

00:53:45.740 I just know that I want to give, make a safe place for anyone.

00:53:50.760 Yeah.

00:53:51.160 Like I said, an athlete to someone that's more obese and that's ready to change their life.

00:53:55.240 And I want to be part of their story and I want them to be part of mine.

00:53:57.840 Well, dude, listen, man.

00:53:59.300 Um, you're an incredible dude, uh, for real.

00:54:03.080 And, and, and it's real guys.

00:54:04.640 It's genuine.

00:54:05.520 This is why I decided to do the show with him.

00:54:07.900 He didn't come here from California to, to record the show.

00:54:11.860 No, you, yesterday, I told you yesterday, I didn't know what the hell I told you.

00:54:14.860 The first two minutes, like I've been following you for a long ass time.

00:54:17.500 I don't know what I said in that two minutes.

00:54:19.300 I just remember saying, holy shit.

00:54:20.560 That's what I said.

00:54:21.160 I said, holy shit.

00:54:21.920 And that was it.

00:54:22.480 But you know what I mean?

00:54:23.360 Like it's, this is, this is unreal.

00:54:25.720 Like, I don't know how I've held it together this long, but this is unreal.

00:54:28.800 And this is like a blessing.

00:54:29.760 And I'm going to, I'm going to do everything I can to help you keep changing lives.

00:54:33.400 Even when my story is done, there's plenty of other people's stories that can be told.

00:54:36.500 I know you are, which is why I want to do something for you.

00:54:39.560 Um, I'd like to, I'd like to gift you the seed money to start that gym.

00:54:43.640 Uh, if that's okay.

00:54:44.700 Holy shit.

00:54:45.480 Yeah.

00:54:45.940 I said it again.

00:54:46.940 Yeah.

00:54:47.300 Um, you, you, you, people like you deserve to be in business and deserve to be in that

00:54:53.420 business.

00:54:53.840 And I'd like to expedite that process as quickly as possible.

00:54:58.080 Not five years from now, because the world needs it right now.

00:55:01.280 So if you would allow me to do that, um, I'd be honored.

00:55:05.140 Yeah.

00:55:05.880 Yeah.

00:55:06.740 Yeah.

00:55:07.600 I got you, bro.

00:55:11.900 People like you got to be in this, in this game, dude.

00:55:19.100 We're going to do this.

00:55:22.600 I'm proud of you, dude.

00:55:23.640 Thank you, man.

00:55:24.180 Fucking super proud.

00:55:25.700 For real.

00:55:31.100 Damn, man.

00:55:31.600 I said I was going to cry.

00:55:33.760 Well, hey, man.

00:55:34.600 Look, dude, I mean it.

00:55:35.960 You know, um, a lot of you guys don't really know what we do here at First Form.

00:55:41.100 And, you know, we try to give and change and do the right thing in this industry as

00:55:46.980 much as possible.

00:55:48.040 And, uh, we need more people like that and, and, and dude on the ground in the gyms, you 0.99

00:55:53.720 know, actually standing there with people, pushing them and, uh, bro, you have it, you

00:55:58.640 have a gift and, and you've done the work.

00:56:01.260 And I, I, I just really, I, you just need, you need to be one of those people out there

00:56:05.640 doing it.

00:56:06.040 And I would like to expedite it.

00:56:07.560 So, dude, I don't know what to say anymore.

00:56:09.680 I was talking so much now I'm just at a halt right now.

00:56:12.040 I'm like, but thank you, man.

00:56:13.700 It means a lot.

00:56:14.700 It means a lot, um, to have you on board and to, to help.

00:56:18.120 Oh, I don't need anything, bro.

00:56:19.420 Like I'm not trying to be an investor.

00:56:20.740 Like, well, yeah, we'll figure it out like legally and everything.

00:56:24.400 But like, I, this is for you.

00:56:26.960 This is, this is, you know, uh, I've had some, I've had some good breaks in my life

00:56:31.320 and, uh, and I try to, I try to give back where I think it's deserving.

00:56:35.200 And, and bro, you're, you're one of the most incredible dudes I've had in my presence in

00:56:40.060 the last, since I've been doing the podcast, like for real.

00:56:42.900 Dude, that, so.

00:56:43.780 They told me they're like, um, they've said like, I've been doing, we've been doing this

00:56:46.840 for like 15 years for Andy.

00:56:48.020 Like they've never had anyone on the, like, he's like, Hey, I want them on the podcast.

00:56:52.020 Yeah.

00:56:52.360 And he's like, but then he was also like, Hey, no, no, no, you know, no, uh, what do you

00:56:56.240 say?

00:56:56.400 I forgot.

00:56:56.880 Now I have to come and talk right now.

00:56:59.180 He's like, oh, he's like, don't take it the wrong way, you know, but you know, you're

00:57:01.640 the first person.

00:57:02.280 So don't mess it up.

00:57:03.040 I was like, oh shit.

00:57:03.880 Thanks.

00:57:04.440 He said, no pressure.

00:57:05.200 That's what he said.

00:57:05.720 He's like, no pressure.

00:57:06.500 I'm like, yeah, no pressure at all.

00:57:07.420 Don't worry about it.

00:57:08.100 How could we mess anything up?

00:57:09.900 I'm terrible at this.

00:57:11.100 I just talk shit.

00:57:12.480 Yeah.

00:57:12.640 So it's really hard to fuck it up.

00:57:14.260 Everybody knows who the, who I am.

00:57:15.780 It's hard to mess up my whole, whole life story.

00:57:17.860 I guess.

00:57:18.040 Yeah, exactly.

00:57:18.460 I did a pretty job of telling my life story, but there's no messing up here, man.

00:57:22.040 It's a, holy crap.

00:57:23.680 Yeah.

00:57:24.120 I got to get back into, I was talking before.

00:57:26.380 No, no, no.

00:57:27.120 Look, dude, we're, we're good.

00:57:28.660 You know, uh, let's, let's close with this, man.

00:57:31.940 Talk to these people, give them, tell them what, you know, like your final thoughts, bro.

00:57:36.420 If you're, if you're in a place where you want to change and you're in a place where

00:57:40.020 you need to make that change and you know it.

00:57:42.640 It's time to get selfish, man.

00:57:45.500 It's time to get selfish.

00:57:46.680 You, we spent our whole years, however old you are listening to this, that, you know,

00:57:50.500 we took the easy way out, you know, we went to the fast food lines instead of going to

00:57:53.760 the gym.

00:57:54.580 You need to get selfish.

00:57:55.540 You realize that no one is going to do it but yourself.

00:57:57.980 And if you have kids and you're being a selfish asshole, I mean, and if you're raising your

00:58:01.740 kids the way that, you know, that did not teach them portion control, you're being a

00:58:04.900 selfish asshole. 0.85

00:58:05.880 You know, you need to just get out there.

00:58:07.560 You need to make the time.

00:58:08.900 Don't look for the perfect day.

00:58:10.020 Don't wait for the perfect day of the perfect temperature.

00:58:11.940 There's no fucking, there's no such thing.

00:58:13.720 There's no such thing.

00:58:14.820 Get out there and give yourself a hundred percent and realize you're worth that body if you put

00:58:19.580 in the work and that's it.

00:58:20.960 You're worth it.

00:58:21.580 Just get out there and figure it out.

00:58:23.820 Every single day you go there, you can learn something.

00:58:25.660 Every single day you turn out fast food, becoming a better person.

00:58:28.700 Every single day you meal prep, you're a better person.

00:58:31.200 Like it's, it's all it is.

00:58:32.100 You know what I mean?

00:58:32.400 It's sacrificing.

00:58:33.180 That's why not a lot of people get it done, you know, but the people that are getting done,

00:58:36.180 I'm telling you right now, they're the real happy people.

00:58:37.960 They're the ones that are not just posting, saying they're happy, even though they're

00:58:40.900 overweight.

00:58:41.380 They're the real happy people.

00:58:42.820 And I'm not, I'm not disrespecting anyone overweight.

00:58:45.020 I'm not disrespecting anyone.

00:58:46.080 I'm saying from my own personal feelings, I was not happy at that weight.

00:58:49.740 And I am now say that I'm happy.

00:58:51.640 I'm doing things.

00:58:52.480 I'm living life.

00:58:53.200 Actually after 30 years, I'm actually living life.

00:58:55.960 And I'm, I'm, I'm upset that I waited this long, but I'm, I'm happy that I did it and

00:58:59.980 I have no regrets.

00:59:00.880 So just get out there and just, you know, give yourself a hundred percent, everything.

00:59:04.060 I'm not just talking about weight loss, talking about anything, get out there and give it

00:59:06.800 a hundred percent.

00:59:07.460 Stop waiting for the perfect time.

00:59:09.100 Just do it.

00:59:10.120 Fucking right, bro.

00:59:11.400 So dude, tell people your Instagram handle and where they can find you at.

00:59:15.140 So all my, my, uh, all my social media is heavy to modified, heavy TO and then modified.

00:59:21.260 That's all my platforms.

00:59:22.940 It's where are you most active?

00:59:24.880 Uh, TikTok and Instagram.

00:59:26.620 Yeah.

00:59:27.060 Yeah.

00:59:27.200 TikTok and Instagram.

00:59:27.960 I'm the most active, uh, but I post daily.

00:59:30.660 I post daily on every, on TikTok, on Instagram, on stories.

00:59:34.460 I post my motivation stuff.

00:59:36.180 I post my good days.

00:59:37.020 I post my bad days.

00:59:38.280 I post my wins.

00:59:39.160 I post my losses.

00:59:39.860 I try to let everyone know everything about me.

00:59:43.700 Uh, and just to show that I'm a normal human being.

00:59:46.260 I still work all day.

00:59:48.480 As soon as I fly back home, I have to start prepping on the taco business.

00:59:51.360 And then as soon as I'm done prepping and selling tacos on Saturday, Saturday night,

00:59:54.460 I have to start prepping because everyone picks up their meal preps on Monday.

00:59:57.380 Like it's just because like this amazing experience.

01:00:00.380 I'm, I'm still working and I'm still in the gym.

01:00:02.580 You know what I mean?

01:00:02.940 It's, it's, it's, it's not, I don't live like a, I'm not, I'm not rich.

01:00:06.240 No, you're seeing the real work.

01:00:07.320 This is the real work.

01:00:08.140 It's the real shit.

01:00:08.920 The real stuff.

01:00:09.320 You'll see me like the craziest thing is like, you'll see me, uh, doing something cool

01:00:12.720 like this.

01:00:13.100 Right.

01:00:13.360 And tomorrow morning you're gonna see me cutting up cilantro.

01:00:15.540 That's how it is.

01:00:16.480 And then I'm selling tacos.

01:00:17.860 And then the next day I'm, I'm, I'm packaging my meal preps in the kitchen.

01:00:21.120 And then that later on that day, I'm at the dirt bike track.

01:00:23.440 Yeah.

01:00:23.660 People are like, what the hell do you do?

01:00:24.880 I was like, I work.

01:00:25.720 Yeah.

01:00:26.180 I work.

01:00:26.860 Yeah.

01:00:27.180 You know what I mean?

01:00:27.640 And that's just what it is.

01:00:28.880 And you know, um, yeah, this I'm, I'm just a normal person.

01:00:32.660 I'm a normal person that fucked up big time and I'm doing everything I can to fix it.

01:00:37.640 Bro, bro.

01:00:38.260 You're doing a hell of a job, man.

01:00:39.640 And not only have you done a hell of a job to work on yourself, uh, and become an amazing

01:00:44.860 dude, but you're doing it to help others, bro.

01:00:47.660 And, and you're setting an example for people that would otherwise think something like

01:00:52.180 that would be impossible.

01:00:53.800 And I'm not sure that you could possibly understand how powerful that's going to be in your life.

01:01:01.840 So I hope you keep it up.

01:01:04.280 I'm a, I'm a hundred percent.

01:01:05.460 And I believe you will.

01:01:06.560 I'm, I, yeah, I, I, it's, this weight loss is not for me anymore, man.

01:01:10.600 I can tell.

01:01:11.080 I got big in my arms now.

01:01:12.160 Yeah.

01:01:12.340 I'm happy.

01:01:12.820 That's what's up.

01:01:13.360 But no, it's, you got to keep going, man.

01:01:14.840 I'm, I'm, I'm always, I'm always hungry.

01:01:16.540 I'm always thirsty for the right things.

01:01:18.100 Yeah.

01:01:19.260 No shit, bro.

01:01:20.500 Gotta leave that apple juice in the fridge.

01:01:22.140 I'm taking it home with me.

01:01:23.160 Yeah.

01:01:24.680 Well, hey brother.

01:01:25.780 Uh, thank you so much for, for being on the show, man.

01:01:28.640 Dude, this is awesome.

01:01:30.240 Thank you, man.

01:01:31.120 Dude, this has been one of my top favorite shows, if not my top favorite show I've ever

01:01:35.020 done.

01:01:35.360 So done a lot of shows.

01:01:37.060 Yeah.

01:01:37.380 I've listened to a lot of them.

01:01:38.940 But bro, this kind of conversation, man, it just really connects with me because it connects

01:01:44.480 to me at my source of, of what we're trying to do for people.

01:01:49.120 You know what I'm saying?

01:01:49.800 Like with personal development and first form and helping people and train everything that

01:01:55.220 we do revolves around what you're living and helping people.

01:01:59.540 Yeah.

01:01:59.700 I want to say something like, yeah, I I'm here to be like, you let them know that I'm here

01:02:03.580 checking out the facility, you know, um, everything that is on Instagram is first form.

01:02:08.600 Your people are happy.

01:02:10.120 You know what I mean?

01:02:10.300 The biggest thing that I noticed and that made me super happy to know that like, I I'm

01:02:14.100 happy that I fucked with this guy for so long is when I walked into your shipping room and

01:02:18.300 everyone was happy.

01:02:19.120 There was air conditioner and everyone was singing along like they were working, but they

01:02:22.860 were happy because everyone, and we were talking about this earlier about they'll always

01:02:26.520 forget about the shipping and the customer service and stuff like that.

01:02:29.420 And every single section that from the entrance to, you know, the, where the offices are at

01:02:34.760 into the back of the shipping, everyone had a smile on their face.

01:02:38.040 Everyone was working hard, but they were just genuinely happy.

01:02:40.900 I didn't see anyone with like, and I sat there and watched them.

01:02:43.160 Yeah.

01:02:43.320 Yeah.

01:02:43.460 I watched them work.

01:02:44.260 I'm like, damn, this is, this is amazing.

01:02:46.240 Like this thing's bigger than Amazon.

01:02:47.200 So I was taking it in.

01:02:48.260 And like, when I saw that, I was like, that first form is what they say they are.

01:02:52.700 Cause you meet a guy.

01:02:53.360 I've met a lot of companies.

01:02:54.480 I've been contacted by a lot of companies.

01:02:55.740 I got to check out places, but I'm not, I'm not even going off the cleansing.

01:02:59.460 I'm talking going off the smiles that I see on your workers face, man.

01:03:02.540 I just want to like say that you guys are killing it and you are here to help everyone.

01:03:07.620 And I've, I've witnessed it.

01:03:08.940 You're not paying me to say this or none of this.

01:03:10.940 Like I'm telling you what I've seen and I've seen it like the, the, they like working here.

01:03:15.580 And that's cool to see it.

01:03:16.700 So many people, you know, why they do bro.

01:03:19.200 Cause they like meeting people like you and they like working with people like you.

01:03:23.620 And that's what we get to do literally every fucking day.

01:03:26.280 Yeah.

01:03:26.780 That's why for real.

01:03:28.160 It shows.

01:03:28.800 Yeah.

01:03:29.360 Hands down.

01:03:29.940 Like when I saw the, and I seen a lot of cool stuff.

01:03:33.640 I love Porsches.

01:03:34.540 I love Lamborghinis.

01:03:35.420 I love quotes.

01:03:36.280 I love everything.

01:03:37.300 I was like, but when the main thing, what made me know that I really wanted to stick around

01:03:41.720 first form is when I saw shipping.

01:03:43.860 Yeah.

01:03:44.200 That's the, I'm not going to lie.

01:03:45.280 It wasn't everything else.

01:03:46.800 I didn't know I was going to be on the podcast.

01:03:48.200 Those are the most important people in our building.

01:03:49.740 Dude.

01:03:50.180 That's the last person that touches it before your customer touches it.

01:03:53.060 Correct.

01:03:53.920 And I'm telling you, man, like that.

01:03:56.540 And people are like, this guy's crazy.

01:03:58.200 But no, I'm telling you, that's what made me know that first form represents everything

01:04:01.680 that I want to represent.

01:04:02.900 And it means everybody here is going to hear that and it's going to mean a lot to them

01:04:06.040 too.

01:04:06.680 So thanks again, dude, for coming on the show.

01:04:10.280 Thanks for having me, man.

01:04:11.020 We could go on and on and on.

01:04:12.020 Yeah.

01:04:12.520 So once the gym is open, once we get it open, I'd like you to come back out.

01:04:17.700 We're going to talk about that.

01:04:18.720 Dude.

01:04:19.100 Because well, then we'll talk about that from an entrepreneur standpoint.

01:04:21.380 Yeah.

01:04:21.800 Yeah.

01:04:22.160 You know what I'm saying?

01:04:22.520 No, I need, I need, I need first form branding in there because dude, you're, I'm telling

01:04:26.740 you, man.

01:04:26.960 It's up to you, bro.

01:04:27.820 There's no obligation.

01:04:28.820 No, no.

01:04:29.140 I know there isn't.

01:04:29.820 I know.

01:04:30.240 I know.

01:04:30.420 This is just me.

01:04:32.040 There is zero obligation.

01:04:33.240 So it's whatever you decide you want to do.

01:04:35.520 No, man.

01:04:35.900 I think that'll be badass, dude.

01:04:36.780 I mean, I've been listening to you for a long time and a lot of, you know, the stuff, a

01:04:41.020 lot of the business mentality, my buddies sit down and we listen to your stuff.

01:04:43.820 We share your podcast.

01:04:44.760 I even share with my girlfriend.

01:04:45.720 She's now an entrepreneur. 0.98

01:04:47.060 So to get to where I get, I sent you a DM years ago.

01:04:51.000 I saw that from my, my, my, my modified one I've sent from my taco business.

01:04:55.800 And I believe I sent from my filming business.

01:04:57.920 And I've updated you, you know what I mean?

01:04:59.520 So it would be an honor to have first form branding inside there.

01:05:03.040 And, you know, I, this is a, I haven't took it in yet, but I just want to say, thank you.

01:05:07.460 You're welcome.

01:05:07.760 If I haven't said it yet, I don't remember what I said.

01:05:09.500 But if I haven't, I just want to say thank you.

01:05:11.380 And you guys are killing it, man.

01:05:12.880 And thanks for having me on.

01:05:13.720 Well, I love you, man.

01:05:14.980 It's been a fucking awesome.

01:05:16.180 Yeah.

01:05:16.800 So guys, that's the show.

01:05:18.560 I, I, I think you probably would like to share that show.

01:05:23.540 So that's the fee we usually have on the show.

01:05:26.260 If you like the show, if it made you laugh, if it made you think, if it made you have a

01:05:29.800 perspective change, give us a share.

01:05:33.040 You know, we don't run ads during the show.

01:05:34.700 I don't try to, you know, make this all about that kind of stuff.

01:05:38.620 And it's a value exchange.

01:05:39.820 So if we do good, you know, do good by us.

01:05:42.160 That's all we have.

01:05:42.860 So I love you guys.

01:05:44.240 I appreciate you guys.

01:05:45.200 And I'll talk to you next time.

01:05:46.100 We'll see you next time.

01:05:47.100 We'll see you next time.

01:05:47.680 We'll see you next time.

01:05:48.680 We'll see you next time.

REAL AF with Andy Frisella - August 07, 2021

128. Heavy To Modified Ft. Anthony Lopez

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