They Said It Was Incurable… Until This Happened

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Resumen

TLDRBill recounts his health journey after being diagnosed with liver sclerosis and type 2 diabetes. Initially prescribed a Mediterranean diet, he transitioned to a carnivore diet after realizing the damaging effects of sugar. Over a year, Bill lost significant weight and improved his overall health, achieving normalized blood sugar levels. He emphasizes the importance of lifestyle changes rather than temporary diets. Sharing three guiding questions for managing cravings, he aims to educate others on the dangers of sugar addiction and the benefits of a high-fat, low-carb diet. Bill now encourages people to join him on his health journey through his new channel, Cumbria Carnivore.

Para llevar

  • 🍽️ Transitioned from Mediterranean to carnivore diet for health improvement.
  • 💪 Lost significant weight, now just above 16 stone.
  • 📉 Normalized blood sugar levels, off diabetes medication.
  • ❓ Uses 3 questions to manage food cravings effectively.
  • 🌱 Prioritizes eliminating sugar from diet to combat addiction.
  • 👟 Enjoys walking and has adopted a more active lifestyle.
  • 🎥 Plans to share his journey on 'Cumbria Carnivore' channel.
  • 🍖 Addresses misconceptions about meat causing gout.
  • 🚶‍♂️ Emphasizes the importance of sustainable lifestyle changes.
  • 💡 Inspires others to educate themselves about nutrition.

Cronología

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The speaker recounts a doctor's advice to follow a Mediterranean diet for liver sclerosis, emphasizing the lack of a cure and the focus on diet for prolonging life.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    The speaker transitioned to the carnivore diet after starting intermittent fasting and dealing with liver disease diagnoses. They suspect a link to medical injections previously received.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    The speaker describes their weight loss journey, mentioning their battle with obesity, diabetes, and the initial phase of intermittent fasting before being diagnosed with serious liver issues.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    After discovering the harmful effects of sugar, the speaker cuts out carbs, grains, and processed foods in favor of meat, veggies, and healthy fats, resulting in significant weight loss.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    The speaker shares their routine of light walking to improve fitness, highlighting the picturesque surroundings and gradually targeting a more active lifestyle.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    Reflecting on past diet attempts, the speaker discusses the carnivore diet's natural appeal and how it contrasts with previous struggles with sugar and carbs.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    Emphasizing personal experiences, the speaker points out sugar's addictive nature and its detrimental effects, relating it to a broader discussion on children’s diets today.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:40:00

    As the speaker continues documenting their journey, they plan to share more of their insights on the carnivore lifestyle, focusing on educating others about sugar addiction.

  • 00:40:00 - 00:45:00

    The speaker has achieved significant health improvements, with blood tests showing normal liver function and reduced diabetes risk, suggesting a holistic approach to health management through diet.

  • 00:45:00 - 00:51:46

    Lastly, the speaker expresses a desire to help others on their health journeys, emphasizing the importance of avoiding processed foods and myths related to high animal protein diets.

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Vídeo de preguntas y respuestas

  • What diet did Bill initially follow for his liver condition?

    Bill was advised to follow a Mediterranean diet.

  • What is Bill's current weight loss status?

    Bill has lost significant weight, going from morbid obesity to just above 16 stone.

  • How did Bill transition to the carnivore diet?

    After starting intermittent fasting and realizing sugar was his enemy, Bill naturally progressed to a carnivore diet.

  • What significant health improvements has Bill experienced?

    Bill's blood sugar levels have normalized, and he is no longer on diabetes medication.

  • How does Bill manage cravings for sugar and carbs?

    He asks himself three questions about the benefits, consequences, and feelings associated with eating certain foods.

  • What is Bill's overall goal now?

    Bill aims to reach a target weight of 13.5 stone while maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

  • How does Bill integrate exercise into his routine?

    He enjoys walking and aims for a mix of short walks and longer hikes as part of his routine.

  • Where can people follow Bill's journey?

    Bill has set up a channel called Cumbria Carnivore to share his experiences and help others.

  • What misconception does Bill address about meat and gout?

    He explains that gout is linked to plant-based diets rather than high meat consumption.

  • What does Bill believe about the effectiveness of the carnivore diet compared to others?

    Bill feels the carnivore diet is a sustainable lifestyle change, unlike temporary diets.

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  • 00:00:00
    And all I got from this morbidly obese
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    doctor was was you need to eat a
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    Mediterranean diet and there is no cure
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    for sclerosis of the liver. All you can
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    do is prolong your life by um by doing
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    the Mediterranean diet.
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    Bill, how did you find carnivore?
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    Um, absolutely natural to be perfectly
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    honest,
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    Dave. Um, I started,
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    um, I started by intermittent fasting.
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    Um, and then, um, I was diagnosed with
  • 00:00:46
    sclerosis of the liver and, uh,
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    non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
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    Um I'm convinced that it was due to
  • 00:00:55
    there was there was a big massive spike
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    um in my bloods oh a good 12 months or
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    more ago. Um and it co coincided with me
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    being given those uh diet
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    injections. Um and I I put it down to
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    because I was taking them once a week on
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    a Sunday. I put it down to my pork joint
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    on a Sunday. Um, and after three or four
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    weeks of them, it wasn't down to that.
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    So, I had to stop taking the injections.
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    But around that time, I had this massive
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    spike. And the normal levels were like a
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    hundred, whatever the the the the
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    terminology is. Uh, and it went up to
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    about 1,200, which was massive. So, they
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    um they actually phoned me up, the the
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    GP formed me up, told me to get to the
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    hospital. Um by the time I'd got my
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    bloods taken in the hospital um that
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    those levels had come down and they
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    weren't overly concerned. Uh but as a as
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    a um an afterare they sent me for a
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    fiber scan
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    um and then I was basically hit with
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    you've got uh fatty liver disease and a
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    sclerotal liver.
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    They didn't really explain much about it
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    apart from um your your liver is um it's
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    if you if you cuted a slice of black
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    pudding open, that's what your liver is
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    looking like now. Um I said, "Well, what
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    do we do?" "Well, you need to go on a
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    Mediterranean diet." Now, at the time,
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    uh they they weighed me. I was just
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    under 150
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    kilos. Um absolutely massive. Uh I had
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    al already lost a bit of weight because
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    I was uh intermittent fasting. I'd
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    started to intermittent fast. So I was
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    eating within a six-hour window. Um and
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    my weight had started to come down. So I
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    I'm gueststimating that I was probably
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    above 26 storm when I started that
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    process. Um my my body was rife with
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    type 2 diabetes. Um I was taking two
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    metformin a day, twice a day. I was also
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    on glycoazide twice a day, two
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    glycoazide twice a day, uh, which was
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    the maximum dosage. Um, and my my
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    results were, um, obviously we're a
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    little bit different in the UK. My, uh,
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    HB1AC was 99 at one point. Um,
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    so that was around that time. That's
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    what me me uh results.
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    So, um, they they had they said
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    basically just you need to go on a
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    Mediterranean diet. Well, and that was
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    it. Um, pretty much off you go. No def
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    no definition of what that might mean.
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    No, no, pretty much go find out on
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    Google. Um, so I I looked into it and
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    and I I've I've done so many different
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    diets over the year. I've been morbidly
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    obese all my life. Um, I'm now actually
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    just slightly above 16 stone, 103 kilos.
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    Um, and that's the weight I was when I
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    left school for 42 years ago. And how
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    tall are you? I'm 5 foot
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    10. So, um, yeah, my my BMI was like way
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    up there. All all my life my BMI has
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    been way out. I've been morbidly obese.
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    Uh there was only one time that I spent
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    12 months going to the gym and and I
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    really hit the gym and even then I got
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    down to 17 stone. But it was it wasn't
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    sustainable for me because of the amount
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    of time I was spending at the gym. Um I
  • 00:04:58
    had no life at the time. 12 months and
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    no life. Go to the gym, go to work, go
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    to the gym, go to work. and and it was
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    you know I was doing the gym twice a day
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    really got got into it but then life
  • 00:05:10
    happened where I couldn't go to the gym
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    as much but at that time I got down to
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    17 stone that's the lightest I've ever
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    been but I just got to say as well once
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    you once you're going to work for a rest
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    you know there's a problem with your
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    exercise regime right yeah exactly
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    exactly um the job that I was doing at
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    the time I I was a train driver. So, it
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    was a very, you know, sitting on your
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    bum day in day out eating rubbish, you
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    know. Um, and you know, it it it's it's
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    not a good
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    lifestyle. So, um, one one of the things
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    that I found with uh when I got
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    diagnosed, um, I I I kind of made a
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    decision there and then and I realized
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    that sugar was the enemy. sugar that was
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    that was the enemy. Uh and I made a
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    decision there and then uh and I haven't
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    gone back on it uh since and it was the
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    end of August when we had this
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    discussion when they found I found out I
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    had well I didn't actually find out I
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    had R4
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    uh sclerosis of the liver. Now R4 uh
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    over here is is the the high high end.
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    That's it. You've got it. There's no
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    reversing it. It's the worst it can
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    possibly be. Um, but I didn't know that
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    at the time. I just knew that I had
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    sclerosis of the liver. Um, and I did my
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    research and then basically I quit sugar
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    that day. Um, never touch sugar,
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    potatoes, rice, pasta. Um, then um then
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    I quit because I thought, right, I'm
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    going to start having porridge in a
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    morning. Then I realized that that was
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    just as bad. So, I quit all grains.
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    Bread was my my demon. Bread and toast.
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    Um, so if I have uh a slice of toast,
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    it'll be the whole loaf. Um, and and in
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    no time at all, all those bad empty
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    calories. Um, so so I quit all those.
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    Then I discovered seed oils were really,
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    really bad. So I quit the seed oils. So,
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    what I replaced my carbs with was I went
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    to avocados,
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    um berries for fruit,
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    um and
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    um cauliflower, broccoli,
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    um you know, green vegetables,
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    um but I but all the other ones I I quit
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    and I haven't had them since since the
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    end of August of 2024.
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    um a huge benefit. Obviously, I lost a
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    ton of weight. Um I lost, you know, it
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    it was dropping off me, literally
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    dropping off me. I wasn't exercising at
  • 00:08:04
    the time. Little short walks. My cousin
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    had said, "Look, walk to the first
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    lampost, then back again." And then when
  • 00:08:12
    you can do that when you're not out of
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    breath, you know, walk to the next
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    lampost. And and that's what I did. Um,
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    and as the weight dropped off and the
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    pressure was was taken off my joints and
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    and I wasn't getting out of breath, uh,
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    I I I did myself. And I I live I'm I'm
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    fortunate that I live in a beautiful
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    part of the country with lots of walks.
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    I've got the mountains and the lake
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    district. Uh, one side I've got the sea
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    and walks around the sea and the beach
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    the other side. So, I went to Google
  • 00:08:44
    Maps and I worked out, right, I'm going
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    to have a little m one mile circuit. So,
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    I had this one mile circuit and I made
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    sure I did that um as often as I could.
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    Now, during the winter, I I didn't do
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    anything. Uh I really didn't do
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    anything. had just concentrated on diet,
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    lost the weight, and then came to
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    January and I just felt naturally
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    inclined to to go carnivore
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    uh and cut out carbs
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    completely. Now, um I was first
  • 00:09:17
    introduced to carnivore six or seven
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    years ago by a friend who lost a ton of
  • 00:09:23
    weight, absolute ton of weight. Still
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    carnivore today. And and he kept saying,
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    "You need to go carnivore, Bill. You
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    need to go carnivore." And I was like,
  • 00:09:33
    "Yeah." And it was that old excuse.
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    Yeah, but I like bread too much. I like
  • 00:09:38
    my toast too much. Um I talk to people
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    now and they'll go, "I like a pint too
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    much." Um and it's always excuses why
  • 00:09:46
    they can't do it. Um, so I was using
  • 00:09:49
    that excuse and and even though I could
  • 00:09:52
    see the results, um, he had a heart
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    bypass, triple high heart bypass 15
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    years ago and he should have been
  • 00:10:00
    looking for another one three or four
  • 00:10:03
    years
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    ago. Well, he's not taking meds for it.
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    He's not taking blood pressure tablets.
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    He's not taking any diabetes tablets
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    because he's not got those those things
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    now. Um, and he eats once a day. Um, and
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    and he just eats until he's had enough.
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    Uh, and he's proper lion carnivore now.
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    He he doesn't have cheese or or or dairy
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    at all. I do do cheese. I do do heavy
  • 00:10:30
    cream in my coffee uh because I do like
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    it and and I can cope with it. Um, so uh
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    that was six, seven years ago. His wife
  • 00:10:41
    lost a ton of work. She of weight as
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    well. she was had
  • 00:10:44
    fibromyalgia. Um, and when she was on
  • 00:10:48
    the carnivore diet, she didn't have
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    anywhere near the same symptoms that she
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    has when she's not on it. Uh,
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    unfortunately, she's gone back to being
  • 00:10:58
    um a car before. Um, and you know, so
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    she's get she's suffering with a
  • 00:11:04
    fibromyalgia now.
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    Um so um so yeah the the the the going
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    carnivore it was just a natural
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    progression
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    um and and there was a lot of
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    experimenting as well Dave um at first
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    you know it's like you know too much too
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    much protein
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    um you know not enough fat um eating at
  • 00:11:30
    the wrong times and and until I got it
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    right salt intake as well is getting the
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    right amount of fluids in the right
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    amount of water, you know, and the salt
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    and the minerals. Um, so and and one of
  • 00:11:44
    the things I realized today, um, I was
  • 00:11:47
    watching, um, there's a guy I follow on
  • 00:11:50
    on, um, on on Facebook and he was was
  • 00:11:54
    saying that the B it's you should go
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    with your natural cravings.
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    And I realized today that my natural
  • 00:12:04
    cravings all my life has been
  • 00:12:08
    carnivore. All the all the other things
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    have just felt unnatural to me. And and
  • 00:12:14
    like if I ever went out for a meal, for
  • 00:12:15
    instance, it would be a mixed
  • 00:12:17
    grill, you know, um or steak. It was
  • 00:12:22
    never pasta or or a rice meal. It was
  • 00:12:25
    always the meat
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    um and eggs. meat and eggs and and and
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    um that that satiated me, but I didn't
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    click that I was highly addicted to
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    sugar from a very very early age. Um and
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    it's that sugar addiction that people
  • 00:12:45
    don't understand. It's that silent
  • 00:12:47
    killer that is is
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    is highly addictive, you know, liken it
  • 00:12:53
    to heroin, you know. Um, if if people
  • 00:12:57
    realized, you know, would they take
  • 00:12:59
    heroin? And people say to me, "Ah, you
  • 00:13:01
    can have a cheat day. Why would I have a
  • 00:13:03
    cheat day? I'm addicted to sugar. I have
  • 00:13:06
    a sugar addiction. Why would I 10 ft?"
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    If people really sat and thought about
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    it, there's no way they'd be giving this
  • 00:13:14
    to their kids, right? If they actually
  • 00:13:16
    sat back and thought about how addictive
  • 00:13:19
    it actually is. Exactly. Exactly. and
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    and and I'm talking to people um now
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    that you know like somebody said to me
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    the other day, you're eating what I like
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    to eat when I was seven or eight. This
  • 00:13:34
    is you know we're talking you know back
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    in the 70s and uh you know when you know
  • 00:13:40
    sweets were a treat. They weren't an
  • 00:13:42
    everyday thing. You you got sweets maybe
  • 00:13:45
    once a week if you were lucky. you know,
  • 00:13:47
    um the ice cream van had come around,
  • 00:13:49
    but you didn't get one every day like
  • 00:13:51
    today. You know, if the ice cream van
  • 00:13:54
    comes around, the kids are given ice
  • 00:13:55
    cream every day. The the sweets are
  • 00:13:58
    normal. Um you know, I've got three
  • 00:14:01
    grandkids that stay with me through the
  • 00:14:02
    week and they've got their own cupboard
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    and it's it's full of stuff I will not
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    touch. Um and and all through this that
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    temptation's been there, but it hasn't
  • 00:14:14
    been there because I'm so focused on um
  • 00:14:19
    educating people as well. And and even
  • 00:14:21
    my daughter now has has has cut back on
  • 00:14:25
    the amount of sugar that the kids are
  • 00:14:27
    eating. Oh, that's good. You know, like
  • 00:14:31
    Ella, one one of my grandkids, she only
  • 00:14:34
    drinks water. She doesn't drink pop. She
  • 00:14:37
    she eats a lot of cucumber. Um but she
  • 00:14:40
    has got a sweet tooth, but but because
  • 00:14:42
    she eats those things and drinks water,
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    she's not getting as much as as she
  • 00:14:48
    could be. Um my my youngest grandson,
  • 00:14:51
    he's a choahholic and wants chocolate
  • 00:14:54
    all the time. We've replaced that with
  • 00:14:56
    berries, you know, so he he's we found
  • 00:14:59
    that he loves strawberries and um and
  • 00:15:02
    blueberries and and things like that. So
  • 00:15:05
    rather than give him chocolate, yes,
  • 00:15:07
    give him a little bit of chocolate, but
  • 00:15:08
    but it's mainly berries to give him that
  • 00:15:11
    sweetness. That's that's excellent. Um,
  • 00:15:15
    so your your timeline is pretty
  • 00:15:19
    compressed. Like it's from August to
  • 00:15:21
    now. So do you know the status of your
  • 00:15:25
    liver now? Uh, no. I've I've got more
  • 00:15:29
    blood tests on the 24th. my my my liver
  • 00:15:32
    functions absolutely normal according to
  • 00:15:35
    my bloods from the last one. So so my
  • 00:15:37
    bloods went from 99 for the for the
  • 00:15:42
    HB1C. It then went down to 42 which was
  • 00:15:46
    just in the the diabetes thing but it
  • 00:15:50
    was only two months into my journey when
  • 00:15:52
    I when I had that that test. So um so it
  • 00:15:58
    wasn't the full 3 months. Um, and my
  • 00:16:01
    latest one was 37.
  • 00:16:04
    Um, every So, so I'm no longer on
  • 00:16:06
    diabetic tablets at all. So, you know,
  • 00:16:09
    that's not even pre-diabetes anymore,
  • 00:16:11
    Ryan. It's not even pre-diabetes. No.
  • 00:16:13
    So, I'm I'm I'm not not di and this is
  • 00:16:17
    the thing as well where you just you
  • 00:16:20
    cannot trust the medical profession at
  • 00:16:23
    times. So, I quit the carbs because the
  • 00:16:26
    first thing I thought, right, if I'm not
  • 00:16:28
    eating carbs and sugar, then how can my
  • 00:16:32
    insulin levels be so be high? They can't
  • 00:16:35
    be. It's it's it's not possible for me
  • 00:16:38
    insulin levels to be high because I'm
  • 00:16:40
    not taking the sugar. And that was my
  • 00:16:42
    mentality. So, I actually stopped taking
  • 00:16:45
    when I went very very low carb, I
  • 00:16:48
    stopped taking my metformin and my
  • 00:16:50
    glycide.
  • 00:16:52
    Um I then went to see the doctor because
  • 00:16:55
    I really wanted to know more about the
  • 00:16:57
    sclerosis of the liver. What is this?
  • 00:16:59
    What is the treatment? What can I do?
  • 00:17:02
    And all I got from this morbidly obese
  • 00:17:07
    doctor was
  • 00:17:08
    was you need to eat a Mediterranean diet
  • 00:17:13
    and there is no cure for sclerosis of
  • 00:17:16
    the liver. All you can do is prolong
  • 00:17:18
    your life by um by doing the
  • 00:17:22
    Mediterranean diet. Just eat healthy
  • 00:17:25
    whole grains and you'll prolong your
  • 00:17:26
    life. Yeah. Yeah. Eat your porridge and
  • 00:17:30
    rice and pasta and and all these things
  • 00:17:34
    that have masses of amounts of sugar in
  • 00:17:37
    and people think, "Oh, this is the
  • 00:17:38
    healthy option." No, it isn't. It's
  • 00:17:41
    sugar. It's it's unhealthy. So, um, so
  • 00:17:45
    he said, so I said, "Well, I've stopped
  • 00:17:47
    taking my diabetes
  • 00:17:49
    medication." Oh, you mustn't do that.
  • 00:17:52
    You must keep taking your
  • 00:17:54
    medication. Now, I'd got quite strict
  • 00:17:57
    and I was doing one meal a day. I I'd
  • 00:18:00
    stopped eating fruit at this point um or
  • 00:18:04
    just a few berries and and that was in
  • 00:18:07
    my in my meal plan. And then I was
  • 00:18:08
    taking my I was doing my my my blood
  • 00:18:11
    tests and they were all perfect. My my
  • 00:18:15
    fasting levels were absolutely normal. I
  • 00:18:19
    didn't go above seven on my on my normal
  • 00:18:22
    test while I was eating. Absolutely
  • 00:18:24
    perfect. So I'd stopped taking my
  • 00:18:26
    medication and he said, "You've got to
  • 00:18:27
    take your medication." So I started
  • 00:18:30
    taking my
  • 00:18:31
    medication and then one night I was sat
  • 00:18:34
    there. I've never had a hypo in my life
  • 00:18:36
    and I just felt really really bad. I
  • 00:18:40
    thought and I was coming over all
  • 00:18:42
    lightaded and and just the cold sweats
  • 00:18:46
    and I thought what's go what's
  • 00:18:47
    happening? So I thought well let me
  • 00:18:49
    check my my my
  • 00:18:51
    bloods 3.2 two thought, well, that's not
  • 00:18:55
    right. You know, that that's just way
  • 00:18:58
    not right. And so I thought, well, I'll
  • 00:19:00
    leave it 15
  • 00:19:02
    minutes, 3.1, left it another 15
  • 00:19:06
    minutes, 2.8. I thought, oh. So I had to
  • 00:19:10
    go to the kids cupboard and grab a
  • 00:19:12
    banana out the kids cupboard, at the
  • 00:19:13
    banana, and see my my my levels coming
  • 00:19:16
    back up. And then I went to see the
  • 00:19:18
    diabetes nurse and she said, "Well, the
  • 00:19:22
    metformin won't do you harm, but the
  • 00:19:24
    glycide will because that's designed to
  • 00:19:27
    bring your insulin down, your blood
  • 00:19:29
    sugars down, but if you've not got blood
  • 00:19:32
    sugars to bring down, then it what's it
  • 00:19:35
    bringing down?" And see, it's all very
  • 00:19:39
    well for it to explain it now, but no
  • 00:19:41
    one explains it to you at the outset,
  • 00:19:44
    right?
  • 00:19:45
    No, that and that was that's the problem
  • 00:19:47
    with the the medical profession now.
  • 00:19:50
    Here you are, you're type two diabet
  • 00:19:53
    diabetic, take this
  • 00:19:55
    metformin and it's it's the same with
  • 00:19:58
    the cholesterol where LDL levels or take
  • 00:20:01
    the statins, take the take because they
  • 00:20:04
    get paid they actually get paid for
  • 00:20:07
    prescribing metformin and diabetes
  • 00:20:10
    tablets and and statins. they actually
  • 00:20:13
    get a bonus for doing it and it's the
  • 00:20:17
    easy way out. But I'm convinced that
  • 00:20:20
    doctor could have killed me by by giving
  • 00:20:23
    me that really wrong advice. And again,
  • 00:20:26
    his his advice was the Mediterranean
  • 00:20:29
    diet. And then he he printed off a
  • 00:20:32
    50page sheet on the Mediterranean diet.
  • 00:20:36
    Well, I've, as I say, I've been morbidly
  • 00:20:40
    obese all my life and I've tried every
  • 00:20:43
    diet under the sun. I've tried Weight
  • 00:20:45
    Watchers. Um, and and that worked for a
  • 00:20:48
    week or two, but I got tired of eating.
  • 00:20:51
    I really did. I got tired of eating. It
  • 00:20:53
    was too much eating, too much
  • 00:20:56
    preparation, too much faffing about. Um,
  • 00:20:59
    I went on um, Herbal Life, which is when
  • 00:21:02
    I when I was doing the gym, I used
  • 00:21:05
    Herbal Life to to get my weight down and
  • 00:21:07
    then started going to the gym. That
  • 00:21:09
    worked, but then I find out later on
  • 00:21:11
    that it's not healthy at all. That that
  • 00:21:14
    that whole Herbal Life diet. Um, and
  • 00:21:17
    then I tried a a quite an extreme one
  • 00:21:22
    that that pretty much cost me my
  • 00:21:24
    gallbladder. I've had my gallbladder
  • 00:21:26
    removed as well. Well, I'm kind of and
  • 00:21:28
    I've I've got no gallbladder. Um, but I
  • 00:21:31
    was on a 500 calorie a day diet for two
  • 00:21:36
    months. I lost I didn't get this weight,
  • 00:21:39
    but I did lose a lot of weight quickly.
  • 00:21:42
    And that involved um eating twice a day,
  • 00:21:46
    250 calories, one piece of meat um twice
  • 00:21:51
    a day, and one of a selected vegetables.
  • 00:21:55
    There was zero fat in that diet. Zero
  • 00:21:58
    fat at all. And then what happened was
  • 00:22:01
    when I'd finished, I think I got down to
  • 00:22:03
    about 19 stone. I was 26 stone. So I'd
  • 00:22:06
    lost like seven stone in that two, but
  • 00:22:09
    you know, too quick. And then I went for
  • 00:22:13
    a meal with my my daughter and my
  • 00:22:15
    grandkids uh to an all you can eat
  • 00:22:19
    buffet. And I, you know, within two days
  • 00:22:24
    I was in the hospital, uh, cuz I just
  • 00:22:27
    ate loads of and all that fat into my
  • 00:22:31
    system. Um, and I ended up having to
  • 00:22:34
    have my gallbladder removed. Um, so that
  • 00:22:39
    that didn't
  • 00:22:41
    help. So, um, so yeah, I've done some
  • 00:22:44
    extreme diets in the past. Uh I tried
  • 00:22:47
    the Atkins
  • 00:22:48
    diet 20 years ago, 25 years ago. Um I
  • 00:22:53
    did that for two weeks. Um but again, I
  • 00:22:58
    didn't understand the sugar
  • 00:23:00
    element. It was a miracle diet which
  • 00:23:03
    which worked. It was it I'm not saying
  • 00:23:06
    it didn't work, but if I'd have
  • 00:23:09
    understood the sugar aspect of things,
  • 00:23:12
    then I I would have um I probably could
  • 00:23:16
    have persevered with that. Um but again,
  • 00:23:20
    two weeks into that, I was dreaming of
  • 00:23:21
    toast. I was waking up dreaming of
  • 00:23:23
    toast. Um you know, and and then it was
  • 00:23:28
    like and you just put it all back on.
  • 00:23:31
    Um, so, so yeah, I've tried every diet
  • 00:23:34
    under the sun, yo, your diet all my
  • 00:23:37
    life. Uh, and this is the first time
  • 00:23:40
    that I've done a prolonged and and I'm
  • 00:23:42
    not calling this a diet. It's it's a a
  • 00:23:47
    lifestyle, you know. Um, I'm able to
  • 00:23:50
    walk three miles a day now, which which
  • 00:23:52
    is incredible. Awesome. We've got um
  • 00:23:55
    Blackon, which is uh it's not quite a
  • 00:23:59
    mountain. Um but I've I've looked at
  • 00:24:02
    that for 58 years. Never been up it.
  • 00:24:04
    It's like a local thing. Everyone goes
  • 00:24:06
    up Blackum. You can see for miles. Uh I
  • 00:24:09
    did that two weeks ago. Uh did a couple
  • 00:24:12
    of way rides last Saturday. Um and I
  • 00:24:15
    went for a walk this Saturday. Took a
  • 00:24:18
    friend up to the lakes and and we did a
  • 00:24:20
    nice little
  • 00:24:21
    walk. That's just not me.
  • 00:24:24
    Everyone must be pretty shocked by the
  • 00:24:27
    amount of energy you've suddenly got.
  • 00:24:28
    No, the the the funniest thing is the
  • 00:24:32
    amount of people who don't recognize me
  • 00:24:34
    now. Now, um just to I'm very prolific
  • 00:24:38
    in the town and and everybody knows me
  • 00:24:40
    in the town. I run a a local web design
  • 00:24:43
    company in the town and tech shop. So,
  • 00:24:46
    people bring the the the laptops in for
  • 00:24:49
    repairs and and and things like that.
  • 00:24:51
    And I'm very vocal on social media. I
  • 00:24:54
    will give my opinion. So like it or not,
  • 00:24:58
    everyone knows me. Uh some for positive
  • 00:25:02
    reasons, some for negative. But um the
  • 00:25:06
    amount of people who don't recognize me
  • 00:25:08
    and and you know even yesterday one of
  • 00:25:10
    my clients um I was talking to well I
  • 00:25:14
    was I was on my walk and they they
  • 00:25:16
    passed me and I was like, "Hi Richard,
  • 00:25:18
    how's it going? Good morning." And he
  • 00:25:21
    you knew he the eyes just knew. He just
  • 00:25:23
    didn't know who I was. Um and that
  • 00:25:26
    happens all the time. Double taking.
  • 00:25:27
    They're like, "All right, Bill. Bill, is
  • 00:25:30
    is that is that you? What happened?"
  • 00:25:35
    That's awesome. Um
  • 00:25:38
    so daytoday, how have you been eating?
  • 00:25:42
    Like are you doing two meals a day or
  • 00:25:45
    um it it I'm not on a I basically eat
  • 00:25:50
    when I want to eat. Um a lot of the time
  • 00:25:53
    it's one meal a day. Um occasionally
  • 00:25:56
    it's two meals a day. Uh I do I try when
  • 00:26:00
    I do one meal a day, I try and do 24
  • 00:26:03
    hours between eating so that I get the
  • 00:26:05
    autophagy kicking in. Um I've just
  • 00:26:08
    finished a 72-hour fast. I was hoping to
  • 00:26:11
    do 86 hours, but um I I made the mistake
  • 00:26:15
    of putting a lamb shoulder in yesterday
  • 00:26:18
    morning and I came home after uh going
  • 00:26:22
    we had a cousin's afternoon um where we
  • 00:26:25
    met and everyone was eating and drinking
  • 00:26:27
    and I was sat there and they're eating
  • 00:26:30
    and I've got my glass of water. Um and I
  • 00:26:33
    got home and and the smell of this this
  • 00:26:35
    lamb shoulder was just permeating. Uh,
  • 00:26:40
    I'd done my 72 hours, the the stem cell
  • 00:26:43
    reproduction had started and and I
  • 00:26:46
    thought, right now I need to to refeed
  • 00:26:49
    and give those stem cells something to
  • 00:26:51
    work with. Um,
  • 00:26:54
    that's that's my uh my own uh way of
  • 00:27:01
    trying to fix my liver. They're saying
  • 00:27:03
    you can't fix it, but we're
  • 00:27:06
    experimenting with steel stem cell
  • 00:27:09
    therapy. So, when I found out that a
  • 00:27:12
    72-hour fast would produce uh stem
  • 00:27:16
    cells, I thought, well, why don't I use
  • 00:27:20
    the body's natural ability to to heal
  • 00:27:23
    itself and and do my own stem cell
  • 00:27:27
    therapy? So, I do uh a 72-hour
  • 00:27:32
    fast usually once a month at the moment.
  • 00:27:36
    I'm doing it quite
  • 00:27:37
    regular. Um, and that's easy. 72 hours
  • 00:27:41
    is I can do that standing on my head.
  • 00:27:44
    Um, when I went up Blackumon, uh, I went
  • 00:27:48
    up with a coast guard and and it was
  • 00:27:50
    quite funny really because he said,
  • 00:27:52
    "Have you brought fruit with you?" Why
  • 00:27:55
    would I bring fruit with me? Well, just
  • 00:27:57
    to give you energy on the way up, but
  • 00:27:59
    that's like putting petrol in a diesel
  • 00:28:01
    car. I don't run on carbohydrates. I run
  • 00:28:03
    on fat. And and I says, well, you know,
  • 00:28:07
    in the morning, I had a thousand
  • 00:28:08
    calories of fat in my coffee. I had
  • 00:28:11
    butter in it. I had heavy cream in it. H
  • 00:28:14
    I had two sirloin steaks. I had four
  • 00:28:17
    eggs. I had a big chunk of salmon.
  • 00:28:20
    Massive meal. I had about 2 and a half
  • 00:28:22
    thousand calories before I went. That
  • 00:28:24
    was eight o'clock on the Saturday
  • 00:28:26
    morning. And all the way up he's
  • 00:28:28
    stopping. He's having little bits to eat
  • 00:28:30
    and and do you want some crisps? Why?
  • 00:28:32
    I'm telling you, I'm in ketosis. I'm I'm
  • 00:28:35
    fat adapted. All I burn is fat. And I
  • 00:28:39
    got all the way to the top and all the
  • 00:28:40
    way down the bottom. Nothing. Didn't
  • 00:28:42
    need anything. Didn't take a snack or
  • 00:28:44
    anything. Um and I didn't actually eat
  • 00:28:47
    till 2:00 on the Sunday afternoon. And
  • 00:28:50
    and he he said, "How did you eat a lot
  • 00:28:52
    when you got back?" I said, "No, I yet
  • 00:28:55
    on Sunday at 2:00." "How do you do it?"
  • 00:28:58
    He said, "I was famished when I got
  • 00:28:59
    back." I said, "Cuz I'm fat adapted and
  • 00:29:01
    I've still got plenty of of stored
  • 00:29:04
    fuel." So, um it absolutely blew him
  • 00:29:08
    away the way I had that energy uh all
  • 00:29:11
    the way up and all the way down. Yeah,
  • 00:29:14
    it's uh it's so cool that we're we're
  • 00:29:17
    able to do that, you know, and um it's
  • 00:29:20
    almost like a party trick cuz these
  • 00:29:23
    people that have
  • 00:29:24
    only subsisted on carbs their whole
  • 00:29:27
    lives, they're looking at you like,
  • 00:29:29
    "What's going on? I don't understand
  • 00:29:31
    this at all. How can you go 72 hours
  • 00:29:34
    without eating anything? It's crazy."
  • 00:29:37
    Without the hunger. So, so when I quit
  • 00:29:40
    those um those carbs at the beginning,
  • 00:29:44
    it was only 10 days. 10 days from
  • 00:29:46
    quitting sugar. Um and bear in mind that
  • 00:29:50
    it was a week before I c I quit the the
  • 00:29:52
    porridge because I had gone to porridge
  • 00:29:54
    for seven days. But 10 days after that
  • 00:29:58
    that initial decision to quit sugar, I
  • 00:30:02
    no longer got hunger pains. It was like
  • 00:30:05
    I' I' I'd gone cold turkey. I' I'd quit
  • 00:30:09
    that sugar addiction. Um, and it it was
  • 00:30:14
    it was incredible the way it just all of
  • 00:30:17
    a sudden it switched off within 10 days.
  • 00:30:20
    Um, you know, and I thought cuz cuz I
  • 00:30:24
    used to get hunger pains in the morning
  • 00:30:26
    and you know and I thought, "Oh, I need
  • 00:30:28
    something to eat. I need" and I now
  • 00:30:31
    realize that that's the the withdrawal
  • 00:30:33
    from sugar hitting you saying, "I need
  • 00:30:36
    sugar. I need sugar because I was
  • 00:30:38
    addicted to sugar. Um, you know,
  • 00:30:41
    physically addicted, you know, I was
  • 00:30:43
    still still say mentally addicted and
  • 00:30:46
    and I'm not saying that I don't look at,
  • 00:30:49
    you know, like looking at my cousins
  • 00:30:50
    eating yesterday, they had various
  • 00:30:53
    different meals and I thought I could
  • 00:30:55
    taste some of the things they were
  • 00:30:56
    eating. I thought, "Oh, that would be
  • 00:30:58
    nice." But um somebody recommended a
  • 00:31:02
    book for me um right at the beginning um
  • 00:31:06
    and and it was uh
  • 00:31:09
    deinia let me let me just find it
  • 00:31:13
    because it was really useful. it
  • 00:31:16
    didn't it reiterated what I already knew
  • 00:31:19
    and but what she gave was some
  • 00:31:22
    techniques um and and and it was it was
  • 00:31:26
    incredibly useful and and I'm not I'm
  • 00:31:29
    not one to to to usually kind of um
  • 00:31:33
    promote books um but this one was was
  • 00:31:37
    particularly useful and it was
  • 00:31:42
    um it's not a diet
  • 00:31:44
    by Deinia
  • 00:31:46
    Taylor and she came from an addict
  • 00:31:49
    addictive background. Um she was
  • 00:31:52
    addicted to alcohol and partying and
  • 00:31:55
    various
  • 00:31:56
    drugs and she put it into perspective
  • 00:32:00
    um of of how addictive sugar was. But
  • 00:32:04
    there was there was there was three
  • 00:32:06
    things she said that that stuck with me.
  • 00:32:09
    So she said when you look at uh
  • 00:32:11
    something that you know you you've got
  • 00:32:13
    kind of a a um a craving for or or a
  • 00:32:19
    temptation. So let's say for instance
  • 00:32:21
    it's toast. So the first thing do you
  • 00:32:24
    want a slice of toast bill? First thing
  • 00:32:27
    what will I benefit from eating that
  • 00:32:30
    toast? So
  • 00:32:32
    me 20 30 seconds of pleasure.
  • 00:32:37
    Yeah, the that little rush in the head,
  • 00:32:40
    that little pleasure for 20, 30 seconds.
  • 00:32:44
    The second question
  • 00:32:45
    is, what will the consequences of eating
  • 00:32:48
    that
  • 00:32:49
    be? So, let's look at the toast. Well, I
  • 00:32:52
    want another slice of toast and then
  • 00:32:55
    another slice of toast until I've done
  • 00:32:58
    the whole
  • 00:32:59
    loafing. And the third one is, how will
  • 00:33:02
    it make you feel?
  • 00:33:05
    absolutely gutted and disappointed with
  • 00:33:09
    myself because I've succumbed to that
  • 00:33:12
    temptation and now I've had to reset and
  • 00:33:14
    start
  • 00:33:15
    again. And those are the three three
  • 00:33:18
    questions I ask myself whenever
  • 00:33:21
    temptation comes. And it's funny, I was
  • 00:33:24
    at church yesterday and I was talking to
  • 00:33:26
    the pastor's daughter who's she's gone
  • 00:33:28
    carnivore and her partner's carnivore.
  • 00:33:32
    And her partner, she said, "I'm doing
  • 00:33:34
    good, but Alex, he uh he was the Easter
  • 00:33:38
    Bunny yesterday and he came back with
  • 00:33:40
    Easter eggs and he ate four Easter
  • 00:33:42
    eggs." He's lost loads of weight on the
  • 00:33:44
    carnivore, but he ate four Easter eggs
  • 00:33:46
    one after the other because he started
  • 00:33:50
    and couldn't stop. and that temptation
  • 00:33:52
    was there and then obviously now he'll
  • 00:33:56
    feel gutted because he's had to reset
  • 00:33:58
    and start
  • 00:34:01
    again. And just as you're explaining
  • 00:34:05
    that story about the Easter eggs, you
  • 00:34:07
    know, I I'm just sitting there thinking,
  • 00:34:09
    yeah, I would have done exactly the
  • 00:34:11
    same. I'd eat one and then the next one,
  • 00:34:12
    the next one, the next one, and then I'd
  • 00:34:14
    be like looking around for where's
  • 00:34:16
    number five?
  • 00:34:17
    It's like it's just it's it's so
  • 00:34:21
    dangerous because it just never ends.
  • 00:34:24
    So So at the beginning it was it funny
  • 00:34:28
    really and not me at all. So at the
  • 00:34:31
    beginning there was a couple of times at
  • 00:34:33
    night where I was I was on one one one
  • 00:34:35
    meal a day and and and this was right at
  • 00:34:38
    the beginning and I' I'd think could
  • 00:34:40
    just eat
  • 00:34:42
    something. So I' I'd go to the cupboard
  • 00:34:44
    where the kids stuff was, look at it
  • 00:34:47
    all, smell it, and go, "Oh, no." And
  • 00:34:49
    then I'd cut myself a slice of
  • 00:34:53
    cauliflower and fry it in olive oil with
  • 00:34:56
    salt and pepper on and eat that. And it
  • 00:35:00
    was absolutely delightful.
  • 00:35:03
    and and that was my go-to snack, a a
  • 00:35:07
    good steak of of cauliflower and just so
  • 00:35:12
    satisfying because it had a little bit
  • 00:35:14
    of sweetness with it. It had that savory
  • 00:35:17
    as well. And one of my biggest problems
  • 00:35:19
    was sweet and savory. I would because I
  • 00:35:22
    have both sweet tooth and savory tooth.
  • 00:35:26
    I would eat savory like crisps were were
  • 00:35:30
    a bad one. You know, eat bags of crisps
  • 00:35:33
    or or um um chips in America. Um um and
  • 00:35:41
    and then I'd be associated with that and
  • 00:35:43
    then it's like, woo, need something
  • 00:35:45
    sweet now. So then I'd hit the
  • 00:35:47
    chocolate, the biscuits, and then I get
  • 00:35:49
    to the end of that and depending on how
  • 00:35:51
    I felt because I did do a lot of comfort
  • 00:35:53
    eating. When one of the one of the
  • 00:35:55
    biggest problems when you're morbidly
  • 00:35:57
    obese is you have very little
  • 00:35:59
    self-esteem. Um, and I'm sure people can
  • 00:36:02
    relate to that. Um, and my self-esteem
  • 00:36:05
    was pretty low. Um, I would look at the
  • 00:36:08
    ground even though I was a, you
  • 00:36:11
    know, I can switch it on. uh because I
  • 00:36:15
    am a salesperson, you know, that's
  • 00:36:17
    that's my main role in in in the in the
  • 00:36:20
    because I run me own business. My job is
  • 00:36:23
    to bring in sales. So, I could switch it
  • 00:36:26
    on, but my natural demeanor was looking
  • 00:36:30
    down, slouching, and and and not being
  • 00:36:34
    confident in myself. uh unless I was
  • 00:36:37
    playing the role of the salesperson,
  • 00:36:40
    which was just a as a a role I was
  • 00:36:43
    playing. Um, one of the things now is
  • 00:36:47
    I'm walking tall. I feel two two, three,
  • 00:36:51
    four foot taller than I ever have. I'm
  • 00:36:55
    I'm walking with my head up. I'm looking
  • 00:36:58
    people in the eye naturally, not um and
  • 00:37:01
    not, you know, even I go to a a quiz.
  • 00:37:05
    So, um my my uncle um is is part of uh
  • 00:37:11
    like the rugby club. Um and and it's a
  • 00:37:14
    mile and a half there. Um so, I don't
  • 00:37:17
    drink. So, I've started walking out to
  • 00:37:20
    there. Drinking fizzy water is my uh my
  • 00:37:24
    vice now. I don't drink fizzy water at
  • 00:37:26
    home because obviously it's it's
  • 00:37:28
    carbonated. But when I go out, that's
  • 00:37:31
    that's
  • 00:37:32
    my little treat, carbonated water. But I
  • 00:37:37
    walk there. It's a mile and a half and
  • 00:37:40
    and I have a good time and I and I'm
  • 00:37:42
    confident in myself without having
  • 00:37:45
    alcohol. You normally have to get into,
  • 00:37:47
    you know, yeah, a few beers, you get on
  • 00:37:49
    the same wavelength. I'm I I've got so
  • 00:37:52
    much confidence and then I do you want
  • 00:37:55
    to lift back? No, I'll walk. You know,
  • 00:37:57
    I've I've walked purposefully. I know
  • 00:38:00
    I'm not drinking and I could drive, but
  • 00:38:02
    I'll walk because I'm enjoying walking.
  • 00:38:05
    Never never in my life have I enjoyed
  • 00:38:07
    walking. That's I've got a car. Why do
  • 00:38:10
    And the amount of diesel I'm saving is
  • 00:38:12
    is incredible. That's parked in the
  • 00:38:15
    drive most of the time. Unless I need it
  • 00:38:17
    for work, but even work. I live a mile
  • 00:38:19
    and a half from work.
  • 00:38:21
    So, I walk to work and I walk back most
  • 00:38:24
    the time. Um, you know, unless I I
  • 00:38:27
    absolutely need to take my car because
  • 00:38:29
    we've got to go and visit a client or or
  • 00:38:32
    whatever. And if that's the case, I
  • 00:38:35
    because I'm up very early. I'm I'm I'm
  • 00:38:37
    up at 5 most mornings. H I'll do a three
  • 00:38:41
    mile walk before I even, you know, get
  • 00:38:44
    ready for work.
  • 00:38:46
    That's awesome. Um, it it's it's great
  • 00:38:50
    to be in like it's it's so nice to enjoy
  • 00:38:55
    a walk.
  • 00:38:57
    It's like it's so nice to actually be
  • 00:39:00
    looking forward to I'm I'm nearly
  • 00:39:02
    finished work. I'm going to be able to
  • 00:39:04
    enjoy that walk home or something. It's
  • 00:39:06
    it's just so nice. But the other thing
  • 00:39:09
    is um I kind of get the thing about
  • 00:39:12
    self-confidence, you know, when you're
  • 00:39:13
    always looking down and when you finally
  • 00:39:16
    look up you you literally feel like I
  • 00:39:19
    didn't realize I was this tall.
  • 00:39:23
    Yeah, that's right. That's that's right.
  • 00:39:25
    Feels like I'm standing on little stilts
  • 00:39:28
    or something like what's going on? and
  • 00:39:30
    the and the compliments I'm getting as
  • 00:39:32
    well, you know, because people obviously
  • 00:39:34
    they they they know who I am and and the
  • 00:39:37
    amount it's been the the support that
  • 00:39:40
    I've had locally has been incredible,
  • 00:39:42
    you know, the the amount of people that
  • 00:39:44
    have complimented me and are asking my
  • 00:39:46
    advice now um to to the point where I'm
  • 00:39:50
    I'm actually going to start my own
  • 00:39:51
    little group, the the the Cumbrian
  • 00:39:54
    Carnivore. Um and I'm going to kind of
  • 00:39:57
    catalog my my my journey. So, I've got
  • 00:40:00
    to put it all together and um and and
  • 00:40:03
    put the videos that I've got together um
  • 00:40:06
    and and then start helping people
  • 00:40:08
    because I'm helping people on my
  • 00:40:10
    personal uh page. But, you know, the
  • 00:40:13
    problem is when you're using your
  • 00:40:14
    personal page, there's people there that
  • 00:40:16
    that are really not interested in in
  • 00:40:19
    what you're doing to the extent that I
  • 00:40:21
    am, you know. And um we do a lot of
  • 00:40:25
    videography uh and drone work as part of
  • 00:40:28
    my business. Uh and we always have done.
  • 00:40:31
    So um I'm I'm I'm doing a lot of
  • 00:40:34
    cataloging. I've got the equipment, you
  • 00:40:36
    know, I've got my GoPro. I've got my Neo
  • 00:40:38
    little dr Neo DJI Neo, which is
  • 00:40:41
    absolutely phenomenal. Um and I've got
  • 00:40:44
    all the other drones that I can use to
  • 00:40:46
    to to catalog things. I'm just it's just
  • 00:40:50
    a pity that I didn't get any decent kind
  • 00:40:53
    of before shots.
  • 00:40:55
    Um you know the the the I did I did send
  • 00:40:59
    you uh one where I've got my my my
  • 00:41:01
    little um weighin thing. Now that was
  • 00:41:05
    before I started that 500 calories a day
  • 00:41:09
    diets. Um and that was that was why I
  • 00:41:12
    took that picture because I was I was I
  • 00:41:15
    wanted to catalog my journey. uh and it
  • 00:41:18
    was quite drastic uh I will admit um but
  • 00:41:22
    it wasn't sustainable and it was never
  • 00:41:24
    sustainable and it was never sustainable
  • 00:41:26
    in here and that's the problem with
  • 00:41:29
    diets you go on a diet and you go I'm
  • 00:41:32
    and and some people do the carnivore for
  • 00:41:34
    for 30 days and they go right I'm going
  • 00:41:37
    to do the carnivore for 30 days but the
  • 00:41:39
    mentality is I'm doing it for 30 days
  • 00:41:42
    they're not changing the lifestyle
  • 00:41:44
    they're they're doing it for 30 days to
  • 00:41:47
    lose the weight and then they go back to
  • 00:41:49
    to exactly what they were doing before
  • 00:41:51
    and before long you're back to square
  • 00:41:54
    one again. Now I've gone from 5 XL claws
  • 00:41:59
    to to this these are 2XL and these are
  • 00:42:02
    getting kind of baggy. Um my waist was
  • 00:42:06
    54 in. I'm down to 40. And and what was
  • 00:42:11
    great was I I haven't had 50 ones for a
  • 00:42:14
    long long time. And I looked at I looked
  • 00:42:17
    at the price of 501s and I thought
  • 00:42:19
    they're 100 pounds to buy these 501s and
  • 00:42:22
    I thought should I shouldn't I? And I
  • 00:42:24
    thought no because I'm going to lose
  • 00:42:27
    more weight and I know I'm going to I've
  • 00:42:28
    got another because my my goals keep
  • 00:42:31
    changing. So my first my first goal was
  • 00:42:34
    to get below 20 stone. Smashed that.
  • 00:42:37
    Then it was like right I'd like to get
  • 00:42:39
    down to 18 stone and I smashed that.
  • 00:42:42
    Then I got down to 17 stone and and I
  • 00:42:44
    kind of struggled at that point. I I was
  • 00:42:46
    kind of keeping the same weight, but my
  • 00:42:50
    I was shrinking, you know, and I get on
  • 00:42:53
    the scales every day. I I get on the
  • 00:42:55
    first thing I do in the morning before I
  • 00:42:57
    have anything to eat, drink, or anything
  • 00:42:59
    is I get on the scales so that it's the
  • 00:43:02
    same same way every day. That's me in
  • 00:43:04
    the morning. And uh so and it and it's
  • 00:43:08
    one that measures your fat, your bone
  • 00:43:11
    density, your muscle and everything. And
  • 00:43:14
    you know there was this the these couple
  • 00:43:17
    of stages where I was just not losing
  • 00:43:19
    anything but my composition was
  • 00:43:22
    changing. And this is where you've got
  • 00:43:25
    to be careful with scales that you know
  • 00:43:27
    you're better actually better off
  • 00:43:29
    measuring your waistline and your chest
  • 00:43:32
    and things rather than weighing yourself
  • 00:43:35
    and being obsessive with weight. But
  • 00:43:38
    because I had these goals, so I stuck
  • 00:43:41
    around 17 stone and I and that was where
  • 00:43:44
    I got to when I was going to the gym
  • 00:43:45
    that time. So, I'd got down to 17 and I
  • 00:43:48
    was happy with that, but I was I'd been
  • 00:43:50
    working out and um so I went to uh I
  • 00:43:56
    carried on and carried on and I honed my
  • 00:43:58
    my diet more. So, um I started putting
  • 00:44:02
    more fat into my diet and and I found
  • 00:44:05
    that I lost more weight by putting more
  • 00:44:07
    fat, which didn't make sense. you know,
  • 00:44:12
    it's uh no, but because I was doing a
  • 00:44:14
    lot of protein, more protein, and then I
  • 00:44:16
    realized that well, if you don't use all
  • 00:44:19
    the protein, then the liver is going to
  • 00:44:22
    turn it to fat and store the fats. But
  • 00:44:24
    if you're using the fat, you're in the
  • 00:44:27
    fat, you're keeping that fat burning
  • 00:44:29
    going. So, by increasing the fat, which
  • 00:44:31
    is why I started putting cream in my
  • 00:44:33
    coffee and butter in my coffee um and it
  • 00:44:36
    grossed a lot of people out, but it's
  • 00:44:39
    absolutely it's lovely. Um butter in the
  • 00:44:42
    coffee. Um awesome. And um so now I'm
  • 00:44:46
    down to almost 16 stone. I was looking
  • 00:44:49
    at BMIs and my for me to be because of
  • 00:44:54
    my height. Um I need to be down to 13
  • 00:44:58
    and a half stone to be at that maximum
  • 00:45:01
    BMI that that top end of normal BMI. So
  • 00:45:06
    that's my new goal is 13 and a half
  • 00:45:08
    stone. Um
  • 00:45:11
    which you know I yeah I could do that.
  • 00:45:14
    I've still got fat around the stomach.
  • 00:45:17
    Um, and and you know, my visceral fat's
  • 00:45:21
    down to 15
  • 00:45:23
    from
  • 00:45:24
    32. It's down to 15 now. You know, you
  • 00:45:28
    know the thing about this is like when
  • 00:45:31
    you're looking at a goal like that,
  • 00:45:33
    right? It's 16 to 13 stone. And you're
  • 00:45:37
    thinking, "Yeah, I can do that. Yeah, it
  • 00:45:40
    might take a little bit of time, but I
  • 00:45:42
    can do that. Definitely do that." on any
  • 00:45:45
    other diet. If you've gone from like 20
  • 00:45:47
    to 18 to 16 and then you're going, I
  • 00:45:50
    need to get to 13 and a half, you'd be
  • 00:45:51
    like, I'm jack of this. I'm not doing
  • 00:45:53
    this
  • 00:45:54
    anymore. You just give up because it's
  • 00:45:56
    just like like the 500 calorie diet
  • 00:45:59
    you're on before. It's just too much
  • 00:46:00
    work and it just takes over your life.
  • 00:46:03
    Right.
  • 00:46:04
    So, so before I went up Blackumon,
  • 00:46:07
    somebody said to me, um, somebody that I
  • 00:46:10
    respect and he's he's done something
  • 00:46:13
    similar, but he's he's not gone on the
  • 00:46:15
    carnivore diet, but he's done a lot of
  • 00:46:17
    working out, running, started walking,
  • 00:46:19
    and then fell running and, you know,
  • 00:46:22
    he's he's progressed. And and when I was
  • 00:46:24
    going up Black, he said,
  • 00:46:27
    "Bill, one bit of advice." He said,
  • 00:46:29
    "Don't look where you're going, look
  • 00:46:31
    where you've come from." And that's what
  • 00:46:34
    I do now. I look that I was 24, 25, 26
  • 00:46:39
    stone uh at one point and now I'm just
  • 00:46:44
    just above 16 stone
  • 00:46:47
    and 13 and a half stone is is it's
  • 00:46:50
    nothing. It it to get to there. But if
  • 00:46:53
    I'd have looked at when I was, you know,
  • 00:46:56
    25 stone and thought, right, I need to
  • 00:46:59
    half my weight.
  • 00:47:02
    There's absolutely no way I would have
  • 00:47:04
    given up long ago. And to think that
  • 00:47:08
    I'm I think I can do that in the 12
  • 00:47:11
    month period, which is an incredible
  • 00:47:14
    feat if you think about it to go to half
  • 00:47:16
    your weight in 12 months and I'm on path
  • 00:47:19
    for that. Um, you know, a lot of my
  • 00:47:22
    journey has been cataloged. Um so um the
  • 00:47:26
    other thing that was really really
  • 00:47:28
    encouraging was um we have a guy in the
  • 00:47:31
    town that runs a fight club. Um it's
  • 00:47:33
    like like boxing and training and things
  • 00:47:35
    like that. And he runs these 10 week
  • 00:47:38
    better body challenges and basically you
  • 00:47:42
    pay your £10, everyone pays the£10.
  • 00:47:45
    whoever wins out of, you know, so it's
  • 00:47:47
    not just on weight loss, it's weight
  • 00:47:49
    loss, fat loss, muscle build, bone bone
  • 00:47:52
    density, things like that. Um, and I've
  • 00:47:56
    done a couple I did a couple of those in
  • 00:47:58
    the past and and got nowhere. Got
  • 00:48:01
    absolutely nowhere. I thought, right,
  • 00:48:02
    I'm going to do this 10 week challenge
  • 00:48:04
    and I'm going to go on a diet and I'm
  • 00:48:06
    going to go out the gym and I'm going to
  • 00:48:07
    do this and I did nothing, you know. I
  • 00:48:10
    just gave up after a week. So because I'
  • 00:48:14
    I so it started one
  • 00:48:17
    in October October and it finished in
  • 00:48:20
    the middle of December. Uh I lost 20
  • 00:48:24
    kilos in that time. I'd already lost a
  • 00:48:26
    fair bit from the but 20 kilos I'd lost.
  • 00:48:30
    I won60 pound the first time I'd ever
  • 00:48:33
    won anything ever. Um and I was so
  • 00:48:37
    chuffed and and he was so chuffed. Now,
  • 00:48:40
    the beauty of this is that he did
  • 00:48:43
    another one in January. Um, now he beat
  • 00:48:47
    me in January, but I come second. I won
  • 00:48:50
    80 quid, which was great. And and it was
  • 00:48:53
    during that time where I was kind of
  • 00:48:55
    adjusting, a lot of adjusting. So, um, I
  • 00:48:58
    I didn't quite lose as much, but he used
  • 00:49:02
    my techniques to beat me. So he was
  • 00:49:05
    doing three day fasts and and one meal a
  • 00:49:08
    day and high protein, high fat, low
  • 00:49:12
    carbohydrates. So he this guy who's been
  • 00:49:15
    fit all his life took my my journey and
  • 00:49:20
    and adapted it to himself and he beat
  • 00:49:22
    me. And it's
  • 00:49:24
    like but uh I'm just so chuffed that um
  • 00:49:30
    you know that that I come first and I
  • 00:49:32
    come second and and we're talking quite
  • 00:49:34
    a few people were involved in this.
  • 00:49:36
    Never won a thing in my life. You know I
  • 00:49:39
    was always you know in that you know and
  • 00:49:41
    they chose the games the the the teams
  • 00:49:43
    for games and they go right I'll have
  • 00:49:45
    you and the two captains and I was
  • 00:49:48
    always the last one picked you know. So,
  • 00:49:51
    Bill, how can people find you? Do you
  • 00:49:53
    have your channel set up already?
  • 00:49:56
    Yeah, Cumbria Carnivore set up. Um,
  • 00:49:59
    should be able to find it. It's open.
  • 00:50:01
    Um, I haven't put much content on yet,
  • 00:50:03
    but that's my goal um over this week is
  • 00:50:07
    to to fill that that up with content.
  • 00:50:10
    Uh, because I just want to help people.
  • 00:50:12
    Um, and that's that's the bottom line.
  • 00:50:15
    Um, if if I can help the world um get
  • 00:50:21
    rid of that sugar addiction and and
  • 00:50:23
    educate people uh about that sugar
  • 00:50:26
    addiction, um my job's done and um you
  • 00:50:31
    know, I I can uh yeah, I can I can
  • 00:50:34
    settle h happy.
  • 00:50:37
    Nice. Um so I'll link to your page
  • 00:50:41
    below. Um, thank you so much for coming
  • 00:50:44
    on, Bill, and sharing your story. I
  • 00:50:46
    really appreciate your time.
  • 00:50:49
    Yeah, thank you for for giving me the
  • 00:50:51
    opportunity to to give my story. Um, you
  • 00:50:54
    know, it's great to be able to tell
  • 00:50:56
    people um, you know, how great the the
  • 00:50:59
    carnivore diet is. And, you know, I'm
  • 00:51:02
    not going to knock keto or or or that
  • 00:51:05
    side of things. you know, as long as you
  • 00:51:07
    you stop the processed rubbish, that
  • 00:51:09
    processed food is just poison. Um, and
  • 00:51:13
    another thing that I've no longer got is
  • 00:51:15
    gout. And that was one thing that people
  • 00:51:18
    are constantly saying, "Oh, well, I
  • 00:51:21
    suffer from gout, so high meat content
  • 00:51:23
    is going to give me gout." No, it isn't.
  • 00:51:26
    It's the plant-based that's giving you
  • 00:51:28
    gout, not the meat.
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  • Mediterranean diet
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  • sugar addiction
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  • type 2 diabetes
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