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She Lost 140 Pounds… Then Created a Clinic Where Patients Lose Weight FAST! Ft. Dr. Joice, NP · Motion and Success

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  [SPEAKER_05]: I was over 300 pounds.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: I was really in the dark place.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: I had really lost surgery, nothing moved.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: I tell everybody it is not the answer.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The United States, the food corporation, the medication, they put a lot into marketing.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They put a lot into the food to make people want to be addictive to it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So you're fighting against the trap that they have set for you.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The number one cause for death in the United States is basically cancer,
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  [SPEAKER_05]: People take the medication, they don't go to the gym, they don't even change your lifestyle and they still lose the weight.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Wow.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: But there's a caveat in that.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: You're gonna end up in the hospital.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: I have one patient, she walked in one day, almost in T.S.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: She says some of Lutai for three months and did not lose a pound.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: And this lady was like three hundred and twenty pounds.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Do you know in a year, this lady now is one hundred and eighty-eight pounds?
• 0:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's amazing.
• 0:58
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• 2:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: All right y'all, so welcome back to another episode of Motion In Success.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Listen guys, my name is Cody Brown, and I got my co-host for me today.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's Iowa, man.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yo, we back with another great episode.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Another fantastic guest.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This one too.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Listen, this is going to be one of the episodes that you have to listen to.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Here is exactly why.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If you've been struggling with weight loss, if you've been struggling to, you know, go ahead and drop a few pounds.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If you've been struggling to, you know, just get a healthier lifestyle.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This is going to be the podcast that you need to tune into because the person that we're going to get ready to introduce today,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: is a nurse practitioner, right?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Nurse practitioner, and specializes in weight loss and also helping you guys drop pounds.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So listen, if you guys are looking to do that, watch this episode from the start, all the way to the finish, because I promise you, there's gonna be game, there's gonna be information and we're going to discuss everything.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But without further ado, we'll go ahead and introduce our guests today.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Nurse Practitioner, Joyce, go ahead, introduce yourself, tell the people about yourself, and we'll get started from there.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Hello, everyone.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Thank you for giving me this opportunity.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: I am really grateful to be here.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Well, my name is Dr. Joyce.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: And I wear many hats.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: I am the owner and CEO of Golden Hands with Nelson Wellness Clinic.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: And also the host of a new podcast, Journey Beyond the Scale.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: OK.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: I am originally from Africa, Cameroon.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: I was born in a little town called Kumbha.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: And I immigrated to the United States.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: I started as an LPN, and I walked my way up to Dr. Ray, and You know in the midst of that I was over 300 pounds really.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Yes, 300 pounds and
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  [SPEAKER_05]: During that time, I was so depressed, I was anxious.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: I was seeing a mental health, you know, psychiatrists, just to, you know, take care of my mental health.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: But, you know, I decided to,
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  [SPEAKER_05]: to get a weight loss surgery.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: But I tell everybody it is not the answer.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: If you don't change your mindset, you are not going to succeed.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: So basically, I help a lot of patients and clients lose the weight.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: And sometimes, you know, like right now tell my patients, we just have to refrain from saying lose, lose, lose.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: In your losing the way you also gain in certain things, you know, like you're gaining energy, you're gaining good sleep, you know, things like that.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: So it's just an overall, you know, mental health shift and you're taking care of your health.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, so what was some of the avenues that you know you took to lose in your weight because you said you used to be like 300 pounds like what's some of the things that you did to lose that weight.
• 5:48
  [SPEAKER_05]: So, like I said, in 2018, I had a really low surgery, but after that, I stole for two years, nothing moved, okay?
• 6:00
  [SPEAKER_05]: And I wanna say, I was exercising, going to the gym, working out, trying to eat, because, you know, with the weight loss surgery, you're stomach is small.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: But I was asking myself, why am I not losing the weight?
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  [SPEAKER_05]: I came to a conclusion, the mindset, and if you trash dumbing yourself, when I said trash dumbing, I'm talking about saying negative things.
• 6:28
  [SPEAKER_05]: I was saying negative things to myself, I'm not worthy, look at me, I kind of the use we look at everything I've done, but I'm still stuck, you know, I'm still stuck, but
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  [SPEAKER_05]: healthy today, then go to GOP once.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: And I mean, you know, not to say where low surgery is not a good thing, it has saved a lot of lives.
• 6:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: It has.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: I don't want to discount that because it helped me go to over a certain number of pounds.
• 7:03
  [SPEAKER_05]: but it didn't move me to where I was supposed to be.
• 7:07
  [SPEAKER_03]: Right.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: So, you know, it's just a thing of a mindset shift.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: So you have to change your mindset, make sure you eat and write you exercising as well.
• 7:17
  [SPEAKER_05]: And, you know, obesity and weight gain is genetics too.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: You know, it runs in my family, my two kids, my son and my daughter.
• 7:26
  [SPEAKER_05]: the other one missed the genetic train, but they ought to zoom.
• 7:31
  [SPEAKER_05]: They ought to be.
• 7:32
  [SPEAKER_05]: So we fight in it, but genetic plays a major role in you getting weight.
• 7:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
• 7:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: And on top of that, it leads into different diseases and underlying conditions like, for example, diabetes, people are pre-diabetic, and the number one cause for death in the United States is basically
• 7:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: cancer, and also heart attacks.
• 7:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: You give it, I mean, those like the number one causes of that, and it's all health.
• 8:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So just by losing weight, you know, definitely puts you in that category of not being a part of that statistic, you know?
• 8:09
  [SPEAKER_05]: Definitely.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: And there are not a lot of my patients are taking them off of their blood pressure medication, because you'll be amazed of how much even
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  [SPEAKER_05]: will change the whole trajectory of your life.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: You losing the pound or two, it does help.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: It drops of blood pressure, you know, you are cholesterol.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: We have a lot of African Americans, especially men, their cholesterol level keeps going on.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: And you know, men, they,
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  [SPEAKER_05]: sometimes you may, you know, I don't want to go to the doctor.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: So, um, and that's one of the things to that, you know, I'm trying to reach out to the main to understand certain things in your health.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 8:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 8:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: And the crazy thing about it, too, you know, like, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you
• 8:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: GLP is a great thing, you know, whether it's ozempick, or whether it's wagovi, whatever the case, you know, the thing is is because, you know, sometimes people try everything, but they try to die, they try to, they try the, the salas, they try the teas, they try everything, and it just doesn't work.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But if you can go ahead and use like some kind of tools and, you know, medications, then, if that's what you've got to do, that's what you got to do, and then also too, I've heard like, some people can't even have children
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  [SPEAKER_05]: You know, definitely.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: And, you know, when I got married because I had two kids before my current husband right, I was big.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: I was like 280 pounds.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: We were struggling to have baby.
• 9:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, so you're telling me that.
• 9:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: because people are overweight.
• 9:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's usually the reason why they can't have that.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: It's a contribution factor.
• 9:57
  [SPEAKER_05]: It is, you know, specialists will tell you.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: So, you know, we went to the doctor and, you know, we did all the tests, you know, he did everything is fine.
• 10:07
  [SPEAKER_05]: And the fertility doctor told me, you gotta lose weight.
• 10:11
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: I lost about 20 to 30 pounds and it happened, you know.
• 10:18
  [SPEAKER_05]: It happened.
• 10:19
  [SPEAKER_05]: So, you know, things like that, when you are overweight or obese, it's a lot of setbacks you can encounter.
• 10:27
  [SPEAKER_05]: Your health, you know, all the chronic disease, hypertension, cholesterol, all the things is going to, you know, it's something that you really have to take care of your health.
• 10:39
  [SPEAKER_05]: to be healthy.
• 10:40
  [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
• 10:41
  [SPEAKER_05]: And you know, we all want to be well, right?
• 10:44
  [SPEAKER_05]: If you're not healthy, how are you going to be well?
• 10:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's true.
• 10:47
  [SPEAKER_05]: You have to be healthy.
• 10:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's definitely true.
• 10:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: And we'll see even crazy is like right now.
• 10:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: In the American culture, they, um, they got to think where they tried to embrace obesity.
• 11:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, they try to make it seem like it's normal.
• 11:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: And they call it fat
• 11:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's so much chronic diseases caused from obesity that, you know, it shouldn't be embraces much, maybe.
• 11:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thinking, you know, especially for the health, for the kids, that's coming up.
• 11:22
  [SPEAKER_05]: I know you guys are enjoying this show, but I just want to step in and say if you need to lose weight, check out Golden Hands Will Lawson Wellness Clinic.
• 11:31
  [SPEAKER_05]: We are based in Dallas, Georgia.
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• 11:41
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• 11:46
  [SPEAKER_05]: at golden hands with loss and we'll be glad to answer your question.
• 11:51
  [SPEAKER_05]: We are the number one trusted with loss clinic in Georgia.
• 11:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: So like as a nurse practitioner what made you or like what is some client like testimonies that you could say?
• 12:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: where their lives, or their weight transform through OZIMP, through GLP1.
• 12:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like what is some, what is some results that you see?
• 12:17
  [SPEAKER_05]: So, you know, even with, you know, check my Google review, we have patients and clients that are extremely happy.
• 12:29
  [SPEAKER_05]: And they said, if they had known sooner, they would have done it, right?
• 12:36
  [SPEAKER_05]: But this medication,
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  [SPEAKER_05]: And not only the medication because you have to incorporate nutrition and exercise, like I tell my patient, when you are on this medication, the tendency of you losing muscle is very high, okay?
• 12:54
  [SPEAKER_05]: So you have to increase your protein intake.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: And we protein
• 13:03
  [SPEAKER_05]: So most of my clients and most of my patients, you know, they just call me, you know, sometimes they'll just come to the office just to talk.
• 13:12
  [SPEAKER_05]: This is look at how I am tying to you.
• 13:16
  [SPEAKER_05]: I feel very energetic.
• 13:17
  [SPEAKER_05]: I can sleep really good.
• 13:19
  [SPEAKER_05]: I feel confident in my clothes.
• 13:22
  [SPEAKER_05]: I have one patient that patients speak in me all the time.
• 13:27
  [SPEAKER_05]: She walked in one day.
• 13:29
  [SPEAKER_05]: almost in tears.
• 13:31
  [SPEAKER_05]: She said, I have been to a weight loss clinic and I did, she did, she says some of luteite for three months and did not lose a pound.
• 13:45
  [SPEAKER_05]: I said, and this lady was like 320 pounds.
• 13:49
  [SPEAKER_05]: I said, well, I don't know what they were doing over there, but this is the plan.
• 13:54
  [SPEAKER_05]: So I sat down with her, talked to her and we came out with a plan of what she's going to do and I recommend that you know the medication.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: this lady started, do you know in a year, this lady now is 1808 pounds.
• 14:12
  [SPEAKER_05]: Every day she walks into the clinic with a big smile.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: Compared to where she walked in her head was just like this, I don't know if this is going to work.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: I have spent a lot of money, but today she is happy.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: She is extremely happy or fire results.
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  [SPEAKER_05]: So that's what you know I want to see I've been there.
• 14:33
  [SPEAKER_05]: They're relate to me and I tell them I you know where the most is not a it's not a snap and the finger and you're like oh I'm thin.
• 14:43
  [SPEAKER_05]: It don't happen like that you have to put in the work.
• 14:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I agree and I was gonna say what are your thoughts on Do you feel like the doctors?
• 14:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Are they embracing this new, this, this, I kind of could call the technology where, you know, people could use an injection and it was weight because I know surgery is a lot of money for the, you know, so them knowing that a cheaper alternative exists, they might not like it, you know?
• 15:12
  [SPEAKER_05]: definitely they don't like it especially the bariatric surgeons because this medication in a year you could lose.
• 15:21
  [SPEAKER_05]: I mean it depends on everybody's bodies different right?
• 15:24
  [SPEAKER_05]: You might metabolize different and my metabolize differently.
• 15:28
  [SPEAKER_05]: So most of the doctors, they're really
• 15:35
  [SPEAKER_05]: And what I always tell my patients is, we just don't prescribe medication like, you have to be qualified, right?
• 15:43
  [SPEAKER_05]: There are some criteria for me to prescribe you the medication and for you to use the medication.
• 15:49
  [SPEAKER_05]: You don't just walk in and say, oh, I want to lose five pounds.
• 15:54
  [SPEAKER_05]: And I, you know, give you prescription for a Zenpake or if you don't walk like that.
• 15:59
  [SPEAKER_05]: So, and that's why most doctors that will sit down with you and tell you, okay, this is what it entails.
• 16:09
  [SPEAKER_05]: And if your insurance covers it, you qualify for the medication with send your prescription.
• 16:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 16:15
  [SPEAKER_05]: I mean, there are some doctors that don't embrace it, but I'm telling you, from experience, it's a game changer.
• 16:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: So outside of qualifications we're insurance like what's usually like the some of the things that you would consider to qualify a person for.
• 16:30
  [SPEAKER_05]: So you have to be your BMI has to be 27 on my both with one or two qualifying chronic diseases like hypertension, high cholesterol cardiac issues, diabetes and things like that.
• 16:45
  [SPEAKER_05]: or you have to be over 30, your BMI has to be over 30 pounds for you to qualify for the medication.
• 16:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's interesting.
• 16:54
  [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
• 16:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
• 16:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so for the people who are on those epic, right?
• 16:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: What are some other lifestyle changes?
• 17:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because I know you can't just be giving yourself the injection and thinking, you're just going to lose weight like you said, you're just going to lose weight out of nowhere.
• 17:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like what are some other lifestyle changes that they have to make?
• 17:10
  [SPEAKER_05]: And, you know, just for clarification purposes, you know when they started the clinical trial, right?
• 17:17
  [SPEAKER_05]: They started with ozampi, okay, so they realized that a lot of patients are losing the weight.
• 17:24
  [SPEAKER_05]: So, because of insurance purposes, they rebranded it and beat, we go, so if I'm writing a prescription for ozampi, it's for diabetics.
• 17:36
  [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, and yeah, and if I'm writing a prescription for way govy is for weight loss.
• 17:44
  [SPEAKER_05]: So you have to be qualified for, you know, but it's exactly the same medication.
• 17:48
  [SPEAKER_05]: Just like Monjaro, Monjaro and Zemon is the same thing.
• 17:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, yes, to answer your question,
• 18:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: What are some other lifestyle changes that they have to make like without the change they're dying, what they have to change, start going in the gym.
• 18:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like I know you can't just give yourself that injection, you know a few times a month and think you're miraculously just going to lose way overnight.
• 18:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 18:19
  [SPEAKER_05]: But I'm going to tell you one thing, right?
• 18:22
  [SPEAKER_05]: People take the medication, they don't go to the gym, they don't even change your lifestyle and they still lose the weight.
• 18:31
  [SPEAKER_05]: Wow.
• 18:32
  [SPEAKER_05]: There's a caveat in that.
• 18:33
  [SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
• 18:35
  [SPEAKER_05]: If you don't consume enough protein, and if you don't drink enough fluid, you're gonna become dehydrated, okay?
• 18:43
  [SPEAKER_05]: You're gonna end up in the hospital.
• 18:45
  [SPEAKER_05]: Number two, you're gonna lose muscle mass.
• 18:48
  [SPEAKER_05]: And when you lose muscle mass, your balance, you lose in balance, losing muscle mass is not good, especially when you get in all the down the word there's a tendency of redeveloping all these attributes, causes and bone issues.
• 19:01
  [SPEAKER_05]: So we do encourage even though the medication takes it up it either way.
• 19:09
  [SPEAKER_05]: And your cravings, you still have to drink enough fluid and you still have to consume enough protein and make sure you're drinking or you're consuming enough fiber because some of the side effects like constipation is really a big thing with the medication.
• 19:26
  [SPEAKER_05]: So all those, there's a lifestyle change you have to make.
• 19:30
  [SPEAKER_05]: And you have to change your mindset as well.
• 19:33
  [SPEAKER_05]: Of course, the medication is because when you're in two
• 19:37
  [SPEAKER_05]: You are full, you eat two spoons and you're full.
• 19:40
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 19:40
  [SPEAKER_05]: You can sometimes, you can't even finish an apple.
• 19:44
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, really.
• 19:44
  [SPEAKER_05]: Yes, really.
• 19:46
  [SPEAKER_05]: And even when you start eating Islam, I can't, I can't even finish it.
• 19:51
  [SPEAKER_05]: So that's how the medic, that's the mechanism of the medication.
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• 20:22
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• 20:30
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• 20:35
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• 20:40
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• 21:01
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• 21:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: So what about all right, who now the person gets to their desire go, right?
• 21:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, once a person loses them on the way that they want, how are they going to keep it off?
• 21:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, because you know, the whole goal with big farmers, they want you to be on the meds over and over, no matter what the medication is, you know?
• 21:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: So how do they like, like,
• 21:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: How do you keep the weight off once you lose it?
• 21:33
  [SPEAKER_05]: And that's why it's based also on your lifestyle and your current medical history, okay?
• 21:42
  [SPEAKER_05]: Just like people stay on lesser cholesterol medication or high blood pressure medication for life,
• 21:50
  [SPEAKER_05]: Yes, you can stay on it for life, because there are other benefits, okay, help protects your heart, they've approved it for those who have sleep at me, you know, things like that.
• 22:03
  [SPEAKER_05]: So,
• 22:04
  [SPEAKER_05]: I do always encourage my patient when they get to their goal weight, okay?
• 22:10
  [SPEAKER_05]: We have to make sure before they get them, make sure your mindset has changed and you've made certain choices and most of times I really don't want to take them off, you know, cut them off, go turkey.
• 22:25
  [SPEAKER_05]: You know, you have to take like a lower dose rather than being on a higher dose.
• 22:30
  [SPEAKER_05]: You take a lower dose for a second period of time and with monitor you won't see how where you don't.
• 22:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 22:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: So what would you recommend that option for like who would you recommend?
• 22:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Um, GLP one would go be like, who, like, what type of old beast person would you recommend it for?
• 22:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Is it the person who they can't go to the gym or they just don't want to go to the gym or someone who they looking for an alternative outside of the surgery?
• 23:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Or maybe even somebody who, you know, they got the ability to go to the gym, but they're just like I, you know, I wouldn't, would you recommend the person go to the gym or would you just like, hey, you know, use the use this instead.
• 23:24
  [SPEAKER_05]: I mean, there's no way around these three things.
• 23:28
  [SPEAKER_05]: You take in the medication, you change your lifestyle, which is making sure eating good, as well as exercising.
• 23:37
  [SPEAKER_05]: Exercise is going to help you, which are brain and also strengthening your heart.
• 23:44
  [SPEAKER_05]: Most of the times, you've heard when people say they've dieted and exercise and they're not losing weight, right?
• 23:49
  [SPEAKER_05]: If you diet in and you exercising, you're not losing weight, then there's something wrong.
• 23:56
  [SPEAKER_05]: Okay, there's something, and research has shown that exercise alone is not going to make you lose weight.
• 24:04
  [SPEAKER_05]: It's more nutrition and your mindset.
• 24:08
  [SPEAKER_05]: You have to, I know it's busy, it's a microwave society, you know, sometimes we don't get enough sleep, but sleep is very important.
• 24:15
  [SPEAKER_05]: You know, hormonal changes, hormonal imbalance is also going to contribute to you gaining the weight of the weight.
• 24:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
• 24:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: And as an urge practitioner who's like, you know, describing these things.
• 24:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Where does the benefit come in for you?
• 24:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, because I know A lot of people gonna be watching this a lot of nurse practitioners like why I want to do what she does.
• 24:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: I want to you know I'm interested in what she's doing so how are you able to start you know your own clinic and like is you said is it virtual or is it?
• 24:48
  [SPEAKER_05]: So I do, I do, no, I have a, I have a physical office.
• 24:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: I have it.
• 24:54
  [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, but I can also do, you know, but I see patient virtual.
• 24:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
• 24:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: How are you able to, you know, start it off and get your first few patients.
• 25:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I know you, I'm pretty sure you're still marketing to get some people to, you know, come your way and, and, you know, come to your clinic.
• 25:11
  [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, so I started, you know, in the head of COVID, okay, I opened in the head of COVID 2021 and I was the director of nurses at a big hospital here in Alana.
• 25:31
  [SPEAKER_05]: But with me, in the process of me losing my weight or getting to my go away, I realized, you know, I could change, you know, some people's life with my story and with what I do, okay?
• 25:46
  [SPEAKER_05]: So I was working for this doctor.
• 25:48
  [SPEAKER_05]: He had a weight loss clinic as well.
• 25:52
  [SPEAKER_05]: But you know what I saw is it's just walking,
• 25:56
  [SPEAKER_05]: grab medication and leave.
• 25:58
  [SPEAKER_05]: And I'm like, no, it shouldn't be like that, you know.
• 26:01
  [SPEAKER_05]: And most of the times, I will stay with the patient, talk to them on nutrition and things like that.
• 26:06
  [SPEAKER_05]: And you'll be like,
• 26:08
  [SPEAKER_05]: You spend too much time with his patients, you know.
• 26:12
  [SPEAKER_03]: Do you have a vested interest?
• 26:13
  [SPEAKER_05]: Right, you know, and so I've decided to open my own clinic.
• 26:19
  [SPEAKER_05]: So I could sit with this patient, talk to them one-on-one, and let them know that you can do it, but you have to be patient.
• 26:26
  [SPEAKER_05]: So I open on my clinic and, you know,
• 26:29
  [SPEAKER_05]: started, you know, like Facebook at then, Facebook ad was, you know, easy, you put it in and, you know, that's when, and then wet of mouth to wet of mouth was one of my biggest advertising mode, yeah.
• 26:46
  [SPEAKER_05]: a lot of patients when they come in the way we serve them and our customer service is even up to now.
• 26:53
  [SPEAKER_05]: We have people driving from like an hour-thirty minutes to come to a time.
• 26:58
  [SPEAKER_05]: You know, they pass all this because, you know, when you provide in services like this, the people or the patients on the client, they have to be, they have to trust you.
• 27:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: They have to.
• 27:09
  [SPEAKER_05]: If they don't trust you, no matter what you do, you might have a cleanest
• 27:15
  [SPEAKER_05]: they will not come.
• 27:17
  [SPEAKER_05]: So you have to make sure they trust you and what you offering them is the real thing.
• 27:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Right, right, right.
• 27:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: On a business side, you know, to starting a clinic and everything is probably not the most easiest task to do.
• 27:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like, what was that journey like?
• 27:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, like, did you have to raise up capital?
• 27:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: Did you go out and get grants?
• 27:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like, starting your first practice, you know, how did that journey look?
• 27:41
  [SPEAKER_05]: So, you know, it was, it wasn't an easy journey, but when it came to finances, I wasn't really, I didn't struggle in that area because I was working in this hospital, I was making this end money.
• 27:59
  [SPEAKER_05]: But you know, when I started, you know, my husband also supported me, he
• 28:08
  [SPEAKER_05]: The gathering stuff and I, you know, sought out information.
• 28:12
  [SPEAKER_05]: There were a lot of things I did by myself, you know, I just sat and I went to the internet, you know, Google and I did this, I did that.
• 28:20
  [SPEAKER_05]: So, um, financing, no, I did not take out a loan.
• 28:24
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 28:25
  [SPEAKER_05]: I just stopped into my, you know, hour.
• 28:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, is there anybody teaching the game because I mean you go to school to be a nurse practitioner But they don't teach you the business side of this.
• 28:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know like they don't teach you how to get the clients in the door They don't teach you how to get your first location They don't teach all the rest of the teach you out of become a nurse practitioner That's where they qualify for so like what like
• 28:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like how like what was some of the the the the biggest downfalls when you started your your first clinic because again, you know, that's not I mean, there's people teaching things, but in an industry like this, you probably is not so much people out there really talking about.
• 29:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: you know how to start your practice.
• 29:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: What's the steps to do?
• 29:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: Do you get licensed in one state?
• 29:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: Do you go out and get licensed in, you know, multiple state like, like, talk about that a little bit more.
• 29:20
  [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I had a friend because mostly especially in my community.
• 29:26
  [SPEAKER_05]: people tend to hold information.
• 29:28
  [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
• 29:29
  [SPEAKER_05]: So I had a friend shout out to Vera.
• 29:32
  [SPEAKER_05]: She helped me walk this step by step.
• 29:36
  [SPEAKER_05]: And told me, go to this website, do this, do that.
• 29:39
  [SPEAKER_05]: So I put in a lot of hours.
• 29:43
  [SPEAKER_05]: You know, sleepless night researching and doing things and whenever I needed any information, I'll call her, okay?
• 29:52
  [SPEAKER_05]: And so with that, when I gained a lot of information, you know, there were other nurse practitioners that I meant to.
• 30:00
  [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
• 30:00
  [SPEAKER_05]: But guess what?
• 30:01
  [SPEAKER_05]: I did not monetize that.
• 30:03
  [SPEAKER_05]: And, you know,
• 30:05
  [SPEAKER_05]: And now I know I'm coming out with a course that, you know, just how to start a weight loss and wellness going.
• 30:14
  [SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
• 30:14
  [SPEAKER_05]: What you need especially in Georgia, but I'm going to make it, you know, the 50-state
• 30:21
  [SPEAKER_05]: So that is the thing.
• 30:23
  [SPEAKER_05]: It's a lot of information out there, but if you don't know how to tap into it, you won't really know where to start.
• 30:30
  [SPEAKER_05]: It is a gruesome process, but you really need someone to help you get to that point.
• 30:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm glad you actually start and you know your own course and you met your teaching at because you know, even me, like I said, you know, being in the
• 30:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: we know the craziness that goes on in the hospital setting.
• 30:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of nurses are looking for different options.
• 30:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're running away from the hospital.
• 30:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of them mention that they want to jump into things like weight loss.
• 31:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: How's the lifestyle like do you have a lot of time?
• 31:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you have like is it flexible?
• 31:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like I know you're running a clinic, but you know,
• 31:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: compared to being a full-time hospital, you know, staff, staff, nurse practitioners, a little bit different.
• 31:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Is it more convenient or is it a lot more work?
• 31:23
  [SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I can say once you establish, it is pretty much flexible, and you have to find good staff.
• 31:33
  [SPEAKER_05]: If you have good staff that you have your processes in place, you are going to be fine.
• 31:40
  [SPEAKER_05]: And the main thing about the whole, you know, the weight loss industry is such a ring that you think so?
• 31:47
  [SPEAKER_05]: It's pretty much saturated.
• 31:49
  [SPEAKER_05]: But you
• 31:50
  [SPEAKER_05]: Yes, I agree, I agree, I agree, I agree, I agree, yes, but you have to know.
• 32:00
  [SPEAKER_05]: your patients.
• 32:01
  [SPEAKER_05]: You have to know your client what they want and what they need.
• 32:06
  [SPEAKER_05]: It's not just about selling medication.
• 32:09
  [SPEAKER_05]: It's not about I've had so many patients or clients that has left or the clinic and come to my clinic.
• 32:19
  [SPEAKER_05]: Why?
• 32:19
  [SPEAKER_05]: Because of the customer service, I sit down with them.
• 32:30
  [SPEAKER_05]: down the road, you're going to be really unhealthy.
• 32:34
  [SPEAKER_05]: I'm being unhealthy, you won't be able to spend time with your family and you know your life expectancy might be cultured.
• 32:41
  [SPEAKER_05]: So those are the things.
• 32:42
  [SPEAKER_05]: Yes, it is saturated, but you have to know how to get your patients.
• 32:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's the most important thing, marketing, you know, marketing, marketing, marketing.
• 32:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: What's like a piece of advice that you would tell other nurse practitioners or even nurses out there?
• 33:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Because you climbed the ladder from LPN to I think CNA, and then I'm so LPN, LPN, RN, I said CNA, LPN, RN, RN, no, no, okay, all right, all right, so I'm like, like, caregivers, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay,
• 33:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: a lot of great work yeah okay so like what's one piece of advice that you give them because you know we've came across a lot of nurses and you know a lot of times is they have a skill that they can go in any state and really operate like you can go in any country like this is a skill you know what some of those strategies that you give other nurses or even nurse practitioners out there
• 33:48
  [SPEAKER_05]: to make money outside of the hospital or outside of the clinic like you know they have the degree they have the the certification like what some of those things that you would recommend that they would do you know one thing is you have to be passionate about what you do and you have to know your stuff and the other thing too is if you get in what what helped me back a little bit
• 34:18
  [SPEAKER_05]: I am strong and great in management, but business, oh no, but I'm learning a lot of stuff and a lot of things along the way, and you know, and with also business investment and all those things.
• 34:35
  [SPEAKER_05]: So I will tell them, make sure before you get into
• 34:40
  [SPEAKER_05]: something like this, know the business part of it.
• 34:44
  [SPEAKER_05]: Because if you don't know the business part of it, they are setting things.
• 34:47
  [SPEAKER_05]: Because, you know, my first year, yes, the revenue was good, but I'm like, you know, when my CPU was like, okay, we did this with this, but where is this, you know, things like that, I'm like, I was just so blind.
• 35:01
  [SPEAKER_05]: The second year was like, oh, okay, yeah,
• 35:10
  [SPEAKER_05]: get people that know what they're doing.
• 35:15
  [SPEAKER_05]: You know, you can hire like a CPA, you can hire, or find somebody who's gone through this, somebody like me who's gone through this and ask
• 35:31
  [SPEAKER_05]: two people in my community, they're trying to open their own clinic right now.
• 35:36
  [SPEAKER_05]: So I'm mentoring them like every week with me and I say, okay, we go through the list.
• 35:41
  [SPEAKER_05]: Have you done this or this?
• 35:43
  [SPEAKER_05]: Where do you want to open your clinic?
• 35:46
  [SPEAKER_05]: What is the location?
• 35:47
  [SPEAKER_05]: You have to find a location that is not saturated.
• 35:52
  [SPEAKER_05]: Do you know exactly what services you want to offer?
• 35:56
  [SPEAKER_05]: If you know the services you want to offer, okay, we need to do this.
• 36:00
  [SPEAKER_05]: You need to go to the health department to get certain, you know, all those things and you have to make sure you go into the county to get licenses and things like that to operate.
• 36:11
  [SPEAKER_05]: So, I mean, there are little, you know, certain things that you have to do, and it has to come chronologically, before you open that way, you can just open the clinic like that.
• 36:21
  [SPEAKER_05]: You have to obtain like a certificate of occupancy before you can start.
• 36:27
  [SPEAKER_05]: But I tell them, go ahead, if you have the name of the business, go ahead and register with the Secretary of State.
• 36:34
  [SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
• 36:35
  [SPEAKER_05]: Once you register, you've started your business.
• 36:37
  [SPEAKER_05]: It don't matter if you open your doors two years
• 36:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Right, right, right.
• 36:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: And what's like the cost that it would take to, you know, to start off their first clinic or get their first location going, you know, whether they have to find the office and then build it out.
• 36:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like, what's the typical start-up cost?
• 37:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like, what's the range usually?
• 37:01
  [SPEAKER_05]: So, it can range from like I can say,
• 37:06
  [SPEAKER_05]: 20 to 50,000, it all depends on what you want to do, right?
• 37:13
  [SPEAKER_05]: And I always say start small you can grow.
• 37:16
  [SPEAKER_05]: I started with a 1200 square foot and I moved to a 2400 square foot.
• 37:23
  [SPEAKER_05]: I think a year ago because I added all the services and you know, so you have to start from a place where you
• 37:36
  [SPEAKER_05]: You have to make sure you get in a place where you're not going to pay, all your revenue is going to go to rent.
• 37:41
  [SPEAKER_05]: You have to make profit, okay?
• 37:44
  [SPEAKER_05]: You don't want to pay $3,000 in dollar rent and you're only making $1,000 a month.
• 37:51
  [SPEAKER_03]: Right, yes.
• 37:52
  [SPEAKER_05]: So start up, I can say between $20 to $50,000.
• 37:58
  [SPEAKER_05]: And if you get in a place that you have to build out,
• 38:02
  [SPEAKER_05]: They cost my increase because you have to obtain certain licenses, you have to be a war.
• 38:08
  [SPEAKER_05]: You know, put up rooms and things like that, okay.
• 38:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, this one, this one's definitely a really good one.
• 38:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, really like how you work it down.
• 38:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: And do you have any
• 38:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: like before this I meant to actually to like what part of version where you ain't like before you got into the weight loss like were you in medicine were you in psych like what were you in so I was in general and I specialize in adorgerantology.
• 38:40
  [SPEAKER_05]: I love working with the elderly.
• 38:42
  [SPEAKER_05]: I love working with the elderly.
• 38:44
  [SPEAKER_05]: I walked in the nursing home for like
• 38:49
  [SPEAKER_05]: ten years.
• 38:50
  [SPEAKER_05]: Wow.
• 38:50
  [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
• 38:51
  [SPEAKER_05]: I moved to the hospital.
• 38:53
  [SPEAKER_05]: But you know, the elderly is just something about, you know, the elderly.
• 38:58
  [SPEAKER_05]: But yeah, that's my specialty.
• 39:01
  [SPEAKER_05]: I don't, you know, work with kids.
• 39:04
  [SPEAKER_05]: Seventeen and all work.
• 39:06
  [SPEAKER_05]: And any emancipated, you know, 16-year-old, I can't remember.
• 39:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: That would be a little tricky, too, because, you know, when it's sundown in and they start, you know, acting up, it gets crazy, but definitely, you know, I like what you're doing, you know, it definitely has changed a lot, and I like the fact you went through the transformation
• 39:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: is one thing to go out and help people but it's different when you actually went through it and you know what it takes you know so I'm glad you know I know you're changing lives like I said I was in the dark place I'm telling you when I say dark place in that place because my work on my home with my two safe place
• 39:55
  [SPEAKER_05]: Every time I go out, I feel like, oh, I saw me, like, people are going to be like, look at that fat one.
• 40:02
  [SPEAKER_05]: She can't lose weight and things like that.
• 40:04
  [SPEAKER_05]: I was really depressed.
• 40:06
  [SPEAKER_05]: And later on, I went to my closet, all dark clothes.
• 40:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: Really?
• 40:13
  [SPEAKER_05]: And later on, when I was researching, it says, you know, when people are depressed and anxious, most of the times, especially where you obese,
• 40:22
  [SPEAKER_05]: they wear darker clothes.
• 40:24
  [SPEAKER_05]: Why?
• 40:25
  [SPEAKER_05]: Because they don't want to draw attention to themselves.
• 40:28
  [SPEAKER_05]: Because brighter colors, you know, for being like, oh, you know, and even when I go to parties, you know, Africans will love parties.
• 40:36
  [SPEAKER_05]: So when I go to parties, I will see like in the back and I will hold my child and just sing me.
• 40:44
  [SPEAKER_05]: And I won't get up to dance because I just fell George, like everybody's gonna be like, look at how she's fed, and you know, things like that.
• 40:53
  [SPEAKER_05]: Even going to the table to take food, you know, you have to act like you eating right.
• 41:02
  [SPEAKER_05]: You have to act like you're in it right because you don't want people to judge you, you know So I was really in the dark place and I tell my patients I say I understand I see you are here and you could hear the frustration in your voices and I tell them I've been there I will hold you hand along the way
• 41:22
  [SPEAKER_05]: and I know it's not easy.
• 41:24
  [SPEAKER_05]: There are days that you're going to sleep, but you just need to get up because you're a big girl, a big boy pants, and keep going.
• 41:34
  [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
• 41:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
• 41:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
• 41:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: Honestly, and surely, because you know, like the mental health aspect is definitely important to talk about.
• 41:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, glad you mentioned that and glad you brought that up for sure for sure.
• 41:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: I agree, and even to think,
• 41:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like coming from, you know, Africa, I'm pretty sure like the beauty standards there's very difference.
• 41:56
  [SPEAKER_05]: Trust me.
• 41:57
  [SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
• 41:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's very very different.
• 41:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: So did you see the change being actually used to be overweight and then coming to America?
• 42:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: And did you see like a change in the way he would treat it you compared to, you know, back at Africa and he was like, you know, you felt a little bit.
• 42:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: like you felt like you're self esteem lowered a little bit.
• 42:15
  [SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yeah, definitely went down the drain.
• 42:17
  [SPEAKER_05]: I mean, you know, when I came to when I immigrated to the United States, I wasn't obese overweight.
• 42:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay.
• 42:24
  [SPEAKER_05]: I mean, you know, of course, good food here and, you know, you just see anything you want to eat and.
• 42:31
  [SPEAKER_05]: So, um, I just started gaining weight.
• 42:33
  [SPEAKER_05]: Then I had my first son.
• 42:35
  [SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
• 42:36
  [SPEAKER_05]: It just, the weight just started piling up and all the weight to almost 300 pounds.
• 42:42
  [SPEAKER_05]: And I'm like, what?
• 42:43
  [SPEAKER_05]: I wasn't like this.
• 42:44
  [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
• 42:45
  [SPEAKER_05]: When I look, because back in Africa, right, you walk like 10 miles a day to go get food.
• 42:54
  [SPEAKER_05]: I mean, growing up, we did really, you know, my dad was the categorizing us, you know, somebody, you know, he was well to do like, you know.
• 43:06
  [SPEAKER_05]: But still, you still have to walk a certain mile to go buy like bread or things like that.
• 43:13
  [SPEAKER_05]: And it's not always addictive, you know, that they have here food and it's not, you know, it's not back home.
• 43:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 43:22
  [SPEAKER_05]: You pick, go to the farm, get your fresh vegetables, come home and cook it, know, adding a sugar or butter or anything.
• 43:30
  [SPEAKER_05]: You just cook it as natural as it is.
• 43:33
  [SPEAKER_05]: So, back home, you won't really see obese people a lot.
• 43:38
  [SPEAKER_05]: So when I came here and the standards were very different, when I started getting away especially my culture do look at you as like an outcast because it's not something common.
• 43:52
  [SPEAKER_05]: It's not common back home.
• 43:54
  [SPEAKER_05]: So when you are among people that I look at my life, she's probably, she's eating too much or she's not taking care of her health or she's not doing.
• 44:04
  [SPEAKER_05]: Yes, eating too much will make you, you know, game weight.
• 44:08
  [SPEAKER_05]: So, you know, yeah, things like that.
• 44:10
  [SPEAKER_05]: So, yeah, the mental health part of it is very, very important.
• 44:15
  [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
• 44:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: All right, this is a great one.
• 44:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad, you know, not every time we have people from the have a feel on the show.
• 44:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: So definitely, this is like a good one.
• 44:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's a good one for sure.
• 44:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm glad that we had this because here's the reality about it, right?
• 44:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Do United States like the food corporation, the medication like
• 44:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: they put a lot into marketing, they put a lot into the food to make people want to be addictive to it, they change the flavors, they add this, they add that, and it just makes you want to eat it, and sometimes like you just get so caught up in it, you know, and next thing you know, you can't control yourself, so you're fighting against
• 45:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: What the trap that they have set for you, you know?
• 45:04
  [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, and like you said, the diet industry did take advantage of the dieting.
• 45:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 45:10
  [SPEAKER_05]: You know, the food industry is like, okay, I will fail diet.
• 45:14
  [SPEAKER_05]: People be like, okay.
• 45:16
  [SPEAKER_05]: I'm on a diet.
• 45:17
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 45:18
  [SPEAKER_05]: It's you, you, they, you, you diet, you know, we have like cabbets, soup of um, special kid diets on, I tried all the diet.
• 45:28
  [SPEAKER_05]: Keto is sure they were.
• 45:30
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
• 45:30
  [SPEAKER_05]: They were.
• 45:31
  [SPEAKER_05]: And you know, the mindset is, you have on this diet, right?
• 45:36
  [SPEAKER_05]: And I always think when I'm on the diet,
• 45:39
  [SPEAKER_05]: I'll do like a week and go to the gym for two days and I expect to lose 50 pounds.
• 45:45
  [SPEAKER_05]: It certainly does no work like that and that's how the food industry capitalized on dieting and then make a lot of money off of that, you know, they make a lot of money off of that.
• 45:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 45:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, definitely I'm glad that we had this conversation for sure.
• 46:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: I would like to ask you what's one
• 46:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: Empowering message that you would like to leave with the audience.
• 46:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, hearing your story here and where you came from, you know, and not only that, the amount of patients that you see, the amount of women, the amount of men that you see, like, what's one empowering piece of information that you will leave them with?
• 46:25
  [SPEAKER_05]: The scale doesn't define your worth, because for years, the scale told me how to act.
• 46:33
  [SPEAKER_05]: if I should be happy or not.
• 46:36
  [SPEAKER_05]: The number you see on the scale is a number.
• 46:41
  [SPEAKER_05]: There are many factors that can make change that number.
• 46:45
  [SPEAKER_05]: So I tell, and even thus what I emphasize in my podcast and say, do not let the scale detect your wife.
• 46:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: This was good.
• 46:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: You definitely gonna see you guys on the next one.
• 46:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Appreciate you.
• 46:59
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• 47:01
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• 47:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm looking forward to seeing you guys' comments.
• 47:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I'll see you guys in the next episode.
• 47:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Peace.