After two brain surgeries to remove a tumor that left him depressed, Keith turned to food for comfort. His weight reached “way over 300 pounds." When Keith Guernsey met his wife, Susan, his life changed. “I knew I had to be healthy to have a long life, and I had to get rid of all that excess weight.”
He went on to figure out the keys to his own weight loss lock, and has lost 166 pounds. If you want to know how to lose over 100 pounds, this episode is well worth listening to.
Keith is the author of the book Fathers and Sons, Sports and Life.
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After two brain surgeries to remove a tumor that left him depressed, Keith turned to food for comfort. His weight reached “way over 300 pounds." When Keith Guernsey met his wife, Susan, his life changed. “I knew I had to be healthy to have a long life, and I had to get rid of all that excess weight.”
He went on to figure out the keys to his own weight loss lock, and has lost 166 pounds. If you want to know how to lose over 100 pounds, this episode is well worth listening to.
Keith is the author of the book Fathers and Sons, Sports and Life.
See all episode artwork, links and notes at:
https://blog.dirobi.com
This show is for informational purposes only.
None of the information in this podcast should be construed as dispensing medical advice.
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Find episode links, notes and artwork at:
https://blog.dirobi.com
This show is for informational purposes only.
None of the information in this podcast should be construed as dispensing medical advice.
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
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Keith Guernsey:Thanks for having me Dave. Appreciate it. Happy to be here.
Dave Sherwin:Yeah, we found your story online and we thought it was really interesting, you know, newspaper articles picked it up and, and you've got some, some buzz going over your story and thank you for taking the time to share it with my audience. Uh, why don't you start off by... Yeah, thank you. Um, why don't you give us more of the backstory. Brain surgery does not sound fun, but let's go back even before that time in your life generally. And what led up to that?
Keith Guernsey:Oh, I was having trouble hearing my, uh, girlfriend at the time. And, uh, she kept insisting that I go to a doctor and I make light of the situation by saying I'm ignoring you because she was asking me to take out the trash and I was trying to watch my beloved New England kids, football on TV, and she, to her everlasting credit, she was persistent. And after many, many, many tests, it was determined that I had a benign brain tumor called an acoustic neuroma on my eighth cranial nerve. And I didn't know what all that medical Mumbo Jumbo meant, but I know it wasn't, uh, wasn't good. It wasn't going to be a pleasant. And I actually went to the doctor and I asked the auto neurologist, uh, what would happen if I didn't have the surgery? And he said, you will die. That kind of makes the decision for you. Um, you said I might have five years, maybe 10 if I didn't have the surgery. And so I, I obviously, you know, I was in deep denial but I went ahead and uh, fortunately I was very, that was very lucky to have a wonderful hospital and I found what is in my mind, the best neurosurgeon in the world. And he removed the tumor in a 10 hour operation. He got the whole tumor, sent me on my way and I jogged out of the hospital five days later, which was a couple of days ahead of schedule and went home and resumed normal life so to speak. And I was up at my lake front Condo by myself. I had been divorced for about 15 years. They picked up the paper and I read a personal ad cause I was looking for some company somebody go to the movies with and it says www f when I said, I have no idea what it is, but I'm intrigued enough to give it a shot. And it was far and away the best decision I ever made my life because it led me to my lovely wife Susan. And she has been my rock, my inspiration for everything, most especially getting to the point where I am now a living healthier at 66 than at any time since I was 26. The first surgery was in 1995 so 23 years ago, uh, I met Susan in 96 and then in 97, they found out that the had gotten the entire tumor but they had not gotten the surrounding tumor cells. They went back in for a 12 hour operation and at this time they got the tumor, they got all the surrounding tumor cells, but they had it to what they call a lot of scraping around the area to deaden the um, the dead and the tumor cells and this led to some serious complications, uh, namely terrible, terrible headaches. I couldn't lie down and stand up, walk too much of anything and all I could do was sit and eat and I was depressed as you mentioned, and eating a lot of comfort food. Susan sat me down and explained to me that the four food groups were not pizza, Chinese food, Ben and Jerry's and Bud light. And I just knew that I had to make some serious changes.
Dave Sherwin:When you discovered you had the tumor, what kind of lifestyle where you living health wise?
Keith Guernsey:Well, not a very, not a very good one. I was a bachelor and I was uh, what I say in my new book is a perpetually overweight party, hearty kind of guy.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Keith Guernsey:I was uh, um, you just, just going from one fire to the next and drinking more than I should be and, and just, you know, not hitting the gym and this pint of not living but kind of just existed if you will,
Dave Sherwin:lifestyle related or was this just one of those luck of the draw your genetic things that you made a guy, whether you're healthy or not, any sense of that?
Keith Guernsey:No, none whatsoever. It was um, you know, they said that they didn't know exactly what the cause was, but since I played and hockey and took a lot of blows to the head and they like, it could've been related to that, but they never actually say, you know, definitely that was the cause, but I'm, I'm sure it was probably contributing factor.
Dave Sherwin:Okay. So you didn't have these brain surgeries and, and you already weren't in the best place, but then you put on a lot of weight once you're in the situation you just described, right?
Keith Guernsey:Yes. Yeah. I was just sitting around and eating comfort foods day after day after day and all of a sudden I hit the scales and it said three 40 and I'm only five, nine. And I know that for Susan liked to have a long, happy, healthy life that I had to do something. Shortly after that we moved here to Georgia. She got transferred in her job and I did get 50 pounds off, but I was still feel very obese. And then we moved to Cressland, and I took that as a sign for the man above that. There was a great gym, 300 yards from my new house, but it would only help if I got in there and got to work. So I did.
Dave Sherwin:Susan, you, you mentioned, um, obviously you love her, you praise her and, and so she's, she was more health conscious than you, right. And she lifted you up.
Keith Guernsey:Yeah, we did it. We actually, when we moved to Crescent, we did it together. Um, you know, instead of we still, we didn't give up completely, um, you know, eliminate. It keeps her Chinese food. We just limited it. We just, she went to weight watchers and that kind of give us a base of, of what we needed to do. And she began cooking things like Brussel sprouts and cauliflower. And when we began eating apples and oranges and we both decided to do it together and we have, and every year when I have a physical and I passed with flying colors, I call her and tell her that she's stuck with me for another few more decades. But, um, another issue, another medical issue arose this past year in 2018. I was diagnosed in March of 2018 with prostate cancer. So that kind of, uh, through our world into upheaval, if you will. But, you know, having had two brain surgeries gave me a little bit of more comfort in terms of going into yet another life changing or life altering surgery if you will. So I had the, uh, surgery in September and I've been doing phenomenal ever since back in the gym, uh, getting, you know, keeping the weight off, getting healthy again to the point again where I, you know, I'm healthier, we're at 66 than at any time since I was 26.
Dave Sherwin:Yeah, that's awesome. My a customers is a constantly called middle aged awesomeness, you know, trying to be your best at any age. And you know what, I've had people, including my father in law, we said, Hey, what about a 75 year olds? And you know, I am seeing more and more people who are extending what we'd consider middle aged into their seventies and eighties. You're a living example of that, uh, of, of, uh, you, you probably feel like a middle aged man, not another way. An old guy.
Keith Guernsey:I do. Absolutely do. Um, you know, the only time I know that I'm 66, but I look at my driver's license. I don't feel any or close, you know, maybe 35 or 40, but I like a fab. I'm healthier and I have been in many, many decades and it shows in my, um, to my parents and my demeanor and I, I see friends that events here at crest one that grassland me all the time and how great I looked and obviously feeds my ego.
Dave Sherwin:Yeah, it's an inspiration. I mean, it's what we all want. We all want to be healthy and you know, throughout our lives, right? We all, we don't, none of us wants to end up to crap. So we just don't, we want to be healthy and strong and flexible and have all those attributes of health for as long as we can. And you're an example of that. I want to jump backwards in your story before we jump into the real details of your massive weight loss because it's a real success story. But first of all, I'm going to pose this question in the form of a comment. I've gone, I've gone friend who has the most beautiful and the immaculate late model truck. You can imagine the thing is lifted. It's got great tires, it's beautiful leather, uh, that, that thing always has great tires. He's always making sure it gets oil when it needs to, if anything goes wrong, he gets it fixed. But the guy won't go to the doctor for a physical, for the life of him. And I've said to them, I won't say his name here, but you realize you take better care of your truck than your body. Right? And the kind of Laos. But he, he, he just does it quite understand the maintenance on the Barney is really more important than maintenance on a truck. And what it is about men, I think more than more than women for sure. Why is it that not just you, but tons of guys, they're their wife, their significant other tells him he how do you, something might be wrong, you ought to go see the doctor or hey, it's time for your yearly physical. You get that text from your, your doctor's office, you get that even time for the yearly physical. We don't want to do it. Why is that? Now you went through that and luckily it saved your life, it sounds like,
Keith Guernsey:right? It did. And it's, you know, it's kind of a, um, a, almost a pie thing and then, and guys don't want to, you know, it's a, it's a, it's a pride thing. It's an ego thing. They don't want to admit they're unhealthy. They don't want to miss there. That could be an issue. Uh, they think they know best. You know, it's an attitude. And if I continued down that path, we wouldn't be having this conversation because I wouldn't be here. Yeah, no. And I, I was, I was every bit as stubborn as this gentleman. But you know, when a doctor tells you that if you don't go ahead with the surgery, did not going to be here in 10 years. It kind of makes the decision for you almost.
Dave Sherwin:Yeah. And I just want to put that plug in in almost every health insurance plan now. Maybe all of them, I don't know, but they include a yearly physical and I get mine done every day. Don't worry. And I like it. I go in, I they, they do the blood work. I drive my doctorate a little nuts. He knows that when we're done, he's not done. Like I want to see the pdf, I want to see the blood work, I want to know where my testosterone is. I want to know where every possible nutritional a number is that they're possibly going to take. Like cholesterol, triglycerides, the whole bit. And for me it's fascinating and kind of fun to get that insight into your own body. Right. And uh, I just wished, right. Make it that way for more people. Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead.
Keith Guernsey:I know, well, you know, using myself as a, as a perfect example, last year, uh, at this time when I went, if my physical, my doctor told me for the second year on the road that I had an elevated PSA and in 2017, they didn't really seem concerned. This year he was more concerned and sent me to a urologist. And to make long story short, it turned out that yes, I did have cancer and you know, I chose the option of having the surgery and having it removed so it's was completely out of my body. But, um, you know, you left me, you have to swallow your pride so to speak and um, stuff for your ego and then go and, and, uh, you know, get these things done and get these things. Look that, you know, especially as we, as we age. I mean, when you're, when you're 16 or 26 to 36, yeah, maybe you could skip the year ago to the doctor. And I was, and I did. But now, you know, um, it's, it's at 60 or 65, you know, you need to go every year. And if I didn't go, you know, I still have cancer on my system and who knows how long, how many more years I've had.
Dave Sherwin:Yeah. Wow. So twice now, preventative health care has, has saved your life.
Keith Guernsey:Absolutely. No question about it.
Dave Sherwin:Okay. So let's go back to your story. Many people listen to my podcast when people would come to my company is awesome originally for weight loss. And so that's one thing that really sparked my interest because we lost him over a hundred pounds. It is, is really an accomplishment. It's, it's very difficult. A lot of people probably don't appreciate how difficult it can be, uh, to lose that kind of weight. And you discover yourself weighing 340 pounds. That's five, nine. And it sounds like you kind of had that epiphany of, wow, this, this is not going to work. I want to live a long, healthy life. And so what did you start doing first?
Keith Guernsey:Well, I just started working out in gently, uh, you know, I played sports, so I kind of felt like I had a base of, you know, in terms of slow and steady wins the race. He can't go too high, too fast, too long. Um, you know, start with, you know, you got to do a lot of stretching before and after, um, you know, start with five minutes and then 10 minutes and then, you know, 30 minutes of Cardio, that type of thing. Uh, but I'd always heard that, you know, if you lose the weight fast, it's not healthy for your heart and you stand a much better chance of gaining it back. So I, you know, I just, I started working out at home when we were in Duluth, Georgia. I had a stepper in my man cave and I just started on that and, you know, five minutes a day for a week, the next week, 10 minutes, and then gradually growing from there. And, you know, it's sad to lose, you know, uh, Apollo eight two pounds a week and I dropped the 50 and then I kind of hit a plateau. And just kind of stay there. And so we moved here five years ago and was like I say, the man of Bob said there was a great gym, 300 yards from your new home, but it doesn't do any good until you actually get in it and get working. And I did. And know I had a number of friends I worked out with, you know, raw, even though we're a thousand miles from Boston, some of the other guys were from the Boston area. We've got to talk Beantown sports and worked out together and it made it friendly and easy and know, and I didn't have to pretend, you know,[inaudible] 60 that I was trying to train for a triathlon. And I mean it just, you know, I did it an hour, an hour and a half of cardio every day and cut down on the portion, significant employee. And that was a big thing. I'm Susan, I'm doing it together. It's helped a lot. Her cooking like a safe Brussel sprouts and cauliflower instead of eating subs in deep, uh, was a great help. Um, and, and moving around during the day, even after the workout, you know, just chasing the dog around the house, going up and down the stairs, walking the dog, that's kind of a thing, you know, all those things came into play. I cut way, way back on my soda intake, which was also a big help and all of a sudden the weight started to drop and then I'm still down 135 pounds or five pounds less than my high school for pop lang wait 50 years ago. So
Dave Sherwin:really interesting point is kind of an interesting thing to debate and that is that the common knowledge or common belief and today's understanding of fitness and nutrition is that nutrition is probably about 80% of the equation. And fitness is probably 20% in actual weight loss and overall health. And yet for many, many people, their weight loss journey starts with the gym, not in the kitchen. And, uh, and that's how it sounds for you and I, and I've heard people who, who feel like someone's doing something wrong if they, if they hit the gym and don't change their nutrition. And my attitude has been, you know what, let them do whatever works for them because sooner or later they'll get that, but let them do what they're ready for. Um, yeah. Talk to that. You are an athlete. So when you started to think weight loss, you thought about the gym, you, you, it, it sounds like you didn't start with thinking about eating the apple or the orange. Talk to us about that and how, when when I did nutrition become important,
Keith Guernsey:I did both as Susan's going to wait, well, I just gave us a base of, of, you know, what, what we say, well we shouldn't eat for me, but the big thing was portioned. Can, you know, from a, from a food perspective was portion control. I used to be able to eat an entire pizza and wash it down with a six pack of Bud light. Now two slices and two bears and I'm ready to go to bed. But a portion control is a big thing for me. Um, and that helped and and cost as I lost the weight, my stomach shrunk and it became a kind of a cycle. And I just couldn't eat like I used to do. And, uh, you know, the, the, um, gym and being new and fresh and with for me when hand in hand
Dave Sherwin:and I bet you don't do two pieces of pizza and two beers every night either. That's gotta be something you do occasionally.
Keith Guernsey:Right, right, right, right, right. Um, yeah, I didn't mean to give that impression, but what I do sit down, uh, it's like, you know, every two weeks or style, maybe every three weeks, depending on what's going on. Um, that'll be yet to peers and two slices.
Dave Sherwin:Yeah. That's, that's your cheat nature. Yes, exactly. Yeah.
Keith Guernsey:Right. Exactly.
Dave Sherwin:No, you talked about losing the first 50 pounds and then you plant mode, so you got still over a hundred pounds to go. Once you got serious about losing that file, a hundred pounds, how long did that take you?
Keith Guernsey:Oh, we, about a year and a half or so. It didn't take even half, maybe two years. Uh, because like I said, I was focused on slow and steady on losing it a little time because that's what I had always heard that if you lose it a little at a time, you'll keep it off. Um, and you all put a strain on your body and your heart and um, just better. Well, I'm trying, I'm in it, it's proven, proven true for me. I've had it had it off for about three years now and I tend to have it off for the rest of my life and I'm very careful about watching. Um, you know, that, that it, that it stays off with women, you know, we'll then maybe I give myself like a passport, maybe two pounds. And that's about it.
Dave Sherwin:That's a great point right there. I want to talk to you about that. I think that for some people who lose a lot of weight so that there can be somewhat of a disappointment at the end because somehow they had it in their mind that once they got to their ideal body weight, the angels would come out and seeing and the world would just be a perfect place. And their candidate would become the president or who knows what. Right. Yeah. But in actual fact, once you lose the weight, you're just normal. It's just normal. Right.
Keith Guernsey:Right. Exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Dave Sherwin:Yeah. Talk about that. Yup. Not
Keith Guernsey:For me. For me it was, it was, uh, it was a revelation and starts up, you know, uh, when I saw our all family and friends, uh, you know, remarked about how great I look at just how I felt. Like I said, I felt like I turned the clock back many, many decades, uh, and I could do, you know, so many more, so many more things, so many more activities. Um, you know, without getting winded luck, getting tired, that type of thing. And, and you know, I, my goal basically is Susan, I met later in life so that my goal is to live until I'm 95, which is another 28 years so that we can dance at our 50th wedding anniversary. That's always been my stated goal and I tend to make that
Dave Sherwin:beautiful. Yeah. And you're certainly not going to do it if you're overweight. It sounds like you've accomplished something. Great. And, and to, to my point of, you know, maybe taking off the way and then finding the angels aren't singing, it's not maybe as spectacular as you had in your mind and some people put it back on. It sounds like that longterm goal is an important part of keeping it off for you.
Keith Guernsey:Absolutely. There's no question, no question about it. You know, when you wait 44 years of your life to meet your soul mate, you want to be with that individual. In my case, Susan, for a very, very, very long time. And I, I felt very strongly that I would be cheating her and I would be cheating myself if I didn't get the weight off and get healthy so that we can have a long, long time together.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Dave Sherwin:So now you're both living this healthy lifestyle together. You're feeling better, you have in decades. And let me ask you a few questions. What is your favorite Jaffe breakfast.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Keith Guernsey:Yeah, I saw that question. Uh, I have your email and that is dependent on what the scale says. That by my favorite healthy breakfast, if I'm where I'm at, a lot of the is a cheeseburger from IHOC. If I'm a pound or two op, it's a bowl of cereal, which I don't mind at all.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Keith Guernsey:No. How about every two weeks or so. But I could tell how, how I feel, um, when we go to I hop, I'll have like my favorite cheese if scale has told me it's okay to do so.
Dave Sherwin:Okay. So you basically, are you trying to keep your ideal body weight and allow a little fluctuation but, uh, not much.
Keith Guernsey:Correct? Yes.
Dave Sherwin:How about your favorite healthy lunch?
Keith Guernsey:If Susan, what I call world's famous homemade pizza, the pizza comes in and that's where the two slices to come in. But no, no, at lunch, except on very rare occasions if I have something to celebrate, um, my favorite lunch is her for pizza
Dave Sherwin:and it's a healthy pizza.
Keith Guernsey:Well, not exactly, but we don't deal with all that. It's uh, it's, you know, meatball pizza and it's not specifically a quote unquote healthy pizza. But you know, I, I don't have that much of it and we don't have it that often, so I feel like it's okay to, uh, to cheat a little bit.
Dave Sherwin:Well, back to the back to the portion control, right. That really isn't a critical, yeah,
Keith Guernsey:absolutely. No question.
Dave Sherwin:Okay. How about dinner?
Keith Guernsey:Dinner is pasta with shrimp from Scott's downtown restaurants. But again, that's a, you know, once a year, twice a year tree.
Dave Sherwin:What about healthy dinner? What's your favorite Kelsey dinner?
Keith Guernsey:Believe it or not, I don't know how healthy it is, but I just have a bowl of cereal
Dave Sherwin:for dinner. I liked my stereo. Yeah, sure. Why not? You're, you're not alone. A lot of people love cereal, that's for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Dave Sherwin:No. Do you ever go to healthy snacks? You mentioned apples and oranges earlier. Leader and his fruit. Yeah. A favorite. Um, what's your favorite healthy snack?
Keith Guernsey:No, that, that's one thing I should have mentioned earlier. I don't do snaps anymore. I used to do, I used to do, you know, I love the candy. I'm an ams. Fritos, you know, anything like that. But I don't really do snacks anymore. I will allow myself some peanut m and m's every so often, but I find lives, no snacks.
Dave Sherwin:Okay, so this portion control and limiting your calories, really. Is that the biggest thing in your story? Probably for right?
Keith Guernsey:Oh, absolutely. No question about it. No question about it. Yeah.
Dave Sherwin:How are you sleeping now?
Keith Guernsey:Like a, like a lot. I sleep great.
Dave Sherwin:I sleep day one of the first year when you were overweight?
Keith Guernsey:No, absolutely not. No. No. I've never slept better in my life and I got my eight hours and I'm up and I'm afraid around four 30 because we have a forefoot. The alarm clock who makes us get up and uh, Susan, we'll take them out for a walk and I'll hit the gym and get my workout done before I wake up fully and have a, had to talk myself out of it.
Dave Sherwin:Tell me about your workouts. What are you doing now to keep yourself in shape?
Keith Guernsey:Well, I do a 45 minutes of Heidi. I, I do either an elliptical or the bike or a treadmill, you know, fast walking on a treadmill and then I grew about a half an hour of light lifting because I have a torn rotator cuff in my right shoulder side. I can't do the power lifting that I used to do when I play football and hockey. But, uh, I do 45 minutes of potty hours and about a half an hour, uh, like lifting. And then of course during the day just keep it moving, blocking up and down stairs. I do some read a lot of resistance band work during the day. Um, and just generally keep, keep moving.
Dave Sherwin:How many days a week do you exercise?
Keith Guernsey:Well, I'm in the gym during the week, Monday to Friday, but I always try to get some exercise on the weekend, whether it be, you know, I might go for a swim, go for a walk, you know, whatever the case may be. But you know, I'm, my regiment is an hour and a half in the gym every week, day, Monday to Friday.
Speaker 4:Wow.
Dave Sherwin:Okay. Well, you, you really taking your sound from one place to a good place to healthy lifestyle decisions. And you sound like you're, you're certainly not a, uh, a health food store junkie. I mean, you're eating some foods, a lot of people don't consider it to be that healthy, but you cut out the snacks, you're doing the portion control, you're exercising hard and you feel better than you have in yours.
Speaker 4:Correct.
Dave Sherwin:Was there any books or experts along the way that really inspired you?
Speaker 4:Okay.
Keith Guernsey:Well, not really, but as I said, Susan, you know, did start with wait, did go to weight watchers, so that kind of gave us a kind of a guideline. But no. Um, yeah, there weren't any real books that, that, uh, you know, talked about getting healthy nutrition. Although, um, the only thing that comes close to that as TV 12, uh, Tom Brady's bro with his, I did it through a lot of resistance band work that he does as well. And you know, I mean, he's just a tremendous example because he's a successful professional quarterback still at the age of 41. So, you know, I model some of my workout after him.
Speaker 4:Okay, cool.
Dave Sherwin:And you've written a book. Tell us about your book.
Keith Guernsey:Well, I've actually written, so when I just finished the third, um, my first book was about Boston Sports, like stretches the players and coach and as an avid and my second book fathers and sons sports and life was, was a sequel to that, but it had more family, um, family mentors. It was about my great relationship with my father who was the ultimate sports parents. My third book that I just finished is called overcoming the odds, my triumphs over cancer, brain surgery and obesity.
Speaker 4:Wow.
Dave Sherwin:I only got the link to the fathers and sons sports in life. Um, so would you make sure and send me over the links to the other two books or whatever information you have so I can put them in the show notes.
Keith Guernsey:Certainly that the third book isn't published yet. It's Spanish. It's with my editor. It should be out in about 30 to 45 days. But yes, I'll certainly send you over the link to the first book. Confessions of the beans out of sports junkie.
Dave Sherwin:Well that would be terrific. And before I let you go, you're, you're a guy who's had some life experience. I mean you, you own a long ways and to publish and author and you've had this, these incredible challenges but also triumphs in health and your life experience. You want to share with us before we let you go or just the keys gs to the guys. Let's hear it.
Keith Guernsey:Yeah. Joe, don't black a little bumps in the road. Get you down. Don't let the blips on the radar screen get you down first. Severe, keep moving forward. Um, there's always light at the end of the title and just keep, keep going. Don't let yup. Uh, s s Tom and much wiser than I once said, the man above doesn't give you any challenges. Then you cannot overcome
Dave Sherwin:Greg words in there. Done that. Well, Keith, Guernsey, thank you so much for being on the call for those guys. Yeah, thank you. It's been, it's been tremendous, especially for anyone listening who is struggling with weight loss from some phenomenal tips in here and, uh, of course we will put them on the website. So if you go to blog.dirobi.com That's d, r, O, B, I n.com, and look for Keith Guernsey. So no note or when you're listening to this, uh, uh, you'll be able to just go to the blog and find it. There'll be links to the book likes to, um, the transcript as well as a few quotables of some of the cool and inspirational things that were said. So make sure and check those things out there and a, until next time, this is Dave Sherwin wishing you health and success. All right. Thank you so much for listening. And as I told you in the beginning, make sure and take note of that coupon code INSIDER, just enter that at checkout at DIROBI.COM To get 15% off any purchase. We'll see you next time.