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Fat leg amputations for 2 generations it stopped with me as the fat to fit first responder realtor · Connor with Honor: AI, Real Estate and Real Life

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  SPEAKER_00: Everybody, when I started my process of torching off that 135 pounds of fat, I didn't really look at my familial history.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's something that you might want to think about.
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  SPEAKER_00: My dad started to get fat in his 40s, which a lot of adult males do.
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  SPEAKER_00: And some of that reason, and I I would have loved if my dad was still alive or if I had an opportunity back then, I would have loved to have had his hormone levels checked to see where his testosterone happened to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Growing up in southern New Mexico, very close to where they blew up the first atomic bomb.
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  SPEAKER_00: And my father actually working at White Sands Missile Range for a general contractor working on those missile projects.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who knows what kind of elements he was subjected to that could have had an impact?
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  SPEAKER_00: But just about 40, he started putting on weight.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I remember seeing pre-40-year-old pictures of him being this slim man.
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  SPEAKER_00: Didn't work out, but slim.
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  SPEAKER_00: He smoked hacks of cigarettes a day and always had his two beers in the evening, course tall boys.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that was the dad's method for every single day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that worked out pretty well until he got older, and then he was revealed to have type 2 diabetes, then he got a foot infection, then they cut off his leg.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then looking at his dad, believe it or not, his dad also had a leg amputated because of an infection, and because the healing process wasn't very good at that time and even now for type 2 diabetics in the lower extremities.
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  SPEAKER_00: That leads me to today looking back at myself and when I was 365 pounds, type 2 diabetic and running pre-diabetes for a long time up to that point, seeing what could have been possible.
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  SPEAKER_00: And maybe you should have this real talk with yourself, especially if you have familial history with regard to sickness and illness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, sometimes they use that against you when you go visit your medical professionals and they say, oh my gosh, you have this, so here's some medicine, just to prevent it happening to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would definitely, in those cases, get additional opinions to make sure that the doctor is going down the right road.
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  SPEAKER_00: And with everything, if you're going to change any kind of method in your eating plan, make sure that you seek out that medical professional's advice to see if in fact you should be going down this road because especially with the way that worked for me, the fasting and then the testosterone replacement therapy, there are medications that get impacted by the way they get absorbed by the body with both of those fronts.
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  SPEAKER_00: So somebody's taking testosterone, that could impact a particular drug that you might be having prescribed to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then on the other side of that, if you happen to be fasting for multiple days, it could be that the medicines that you're taking are going to cause issues because now you no longer have any food in your system.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your digestive tract happens to be shut down.
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  SPEAKER_00: Therefore, if you're taking these medicines, it could really make you sick.
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  SPEAKER_00: The trick of the whole thing is being consistent all the way through the process.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was talking to somebody the other day, and I was mentioning to them, I think it was probably on X and also via a phone call, that got me to start that whole X cycle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is when you're depressed, it's easier to be sad and depressed when you're not carrying around an extra 135 pounds of fat or you fill in the blank.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's much easier.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, what I bet you dollars to donuts, you'll end up finding out, is when you trim down, if you're able to finally conquer whatever sabotage you put into play in your own life, once you get to that point and you grow up and you accept it and you realize it's going to be hard, it's going to be painful, it's going to suck not eating, if that's in fact if you want to embrace fasting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Caloric restrictions, another thing, you can look into that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't seem to have worked overall.
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  SPEAKER_00: It seems like the fasting helps more people, but again, it's also difficult to stick with for long periods of time unless you develop that into a lifestyle.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're busy always going out with people, going to parties and these sorts of things, it makes it a little bit more difficult.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I will tell you this the best thing you can do is just have a seat, look at what's going on in your lives, and then try to work out being consistent on a particular longer-term basis, and then you'll see those adjustments in the scale.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you do adhere to working out occasionally, working those muscles, the majority of your weight, if not all, will be fat.
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  SPEAKER_00: You'll be attacking the fat stores.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, people often ask, what's that first step?
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  SPEAKER_00: You're going to have to get your diet in order.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I know Andrew Huberman, a doctor for Stanford, talked to friends of his talking about how they should best approach their dietary changes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he said, Well, there's five things you can eat.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can eat meat, you can eat eggs, you can eat fish, you can eat vegetables, you can eat fruit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Doing that will probably solve a lot of your problems, including dietary issues and also maybe some kind of intestinal inside issues, body issues, those sorts of things.
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  SPEAKER_00: But again, before you start eating all natural food, maybe you should talk to your doctor and make sure it's not going to hurt you, versus, of course, eating processed food from McDonald's.
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  SPEAKER_00: That might be silly, but I think maybe the world, when people start giving advice that don't have PhD and MD behind their name, that's looked on a little suspicious.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been the one that's gotten it off.
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  SPEAKER_00: As some people have in the past, once you achieve this, once you get a majority off of your fat off and you're able to maintain that for a while, you have just entered an entire new group of people being the one percenters, because to succeed is very difficult.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's easy to go try to get the medicines, especially the new FDA-approved uh that they've been putting out there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just be careful with that because they talk about weight loss.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the commercials are great.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have all these people walking around, they're all friendly and they love each other.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would be concerned that instead of fat loss, it's weight loss, and weight loss includes all sorts of loss, which is also going to include muscle.
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  SPEAKER_00: And muscle isn't easy.
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  SPEAKER_00: In my mid-50s, it's not easy to build it and maintain it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It takes work, but muscle, muscle mass you have, the more that equates to longevity.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can check that out online as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Connor with Honor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for watching.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll be back in the next one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stay fit, everybody.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm the first fat to fit first responder.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll talk to you soon, be well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks.