Unmasking Greatness
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Unmasking Greatness
Maximize Your Busy Lifestyle: Balancing Health and Wealth for Lasting Success
Unlock your greatest potential by mastering the art of balancing health and wealth. I, Chris Kakouras, share my transformative journey of addressing a group of realtors about overcoming self-limiting beliefs, particularly those surrounding time management, and the crucial role of prioritizing health. Discover how our 30-day challenges and coaching programs demonstrate that education, communication, and networking are key to achieving your fitness goals. You'll hear firsthand how optimizing your health can empower both your personal and professional life, with practical insights into managing nutrition and exercise amidst the hustle of a busy lifestyle.
The true value of life transcends material wealth; health stands as the cornerstone of genuine success. Through heartfelt stories, including that of a father prioritizing financial gain over well-being, we underline the lesson that without good health, achievements lack true significance. This episode challenges popular dieting methods like intermittent fasting, keto, and paleo, highlighting the real difficulty lies not in losing weight, but in maintaining those results. Join us in understanding the necessity of a personalized approach to health and fitness, paving the way for sustainable lifestyle changes that lead to a more satisfying and fulfilling life.
For those navigating demanding schedules, we offer effective nutrition and fitness strategies to enhance your daily routine. Shift your mindset from restriction to moderation, with actionable tips like meal prepping and using calorie-tracking apps. Explore the benefits of teaming up with meal prep services, and delve into the science of metabolism to maximize your fitness journey. Through personal experiences and structured plans, I offer reassurance that a balanced lifestyle allows for both fitness success and the joy of shared meals with loved ones. Together, let's transform your approach to health, making it a productive, lifelong journey.
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Welcome to Unmasking Greatness. I'm your host, chris Kikoris, a lifestyle fitness coach and mentor. This podcast is about unmasking your greatest potential, finding your purpose and crafting a life worth living. Health and fitness has been the gateway drug to all of my success. My continuous drive to keep learning and surround myself with other high achievers forces me to level up, which has developed my mind to something I never thought was possible. This podcast is here to share what I've learned and continue to learn with all of you. This is your sign to take back control of your health, mindset and personal environment. Strap in as we are recharged and always find value in the show. Please subscribe and share, as we can all get better together. Let's go.
Speaker 2:What's up guys, welcome to Unmasking Greatness. I'm your host, Chris Koukouris. Now listen, a couple weeks ago I had a really cool opportunity happen, and this is what happens when you do a good job. No, I would think so, but inevitably. I had an opportunity to talk in front of a group of realtors. And this happened to come about because, you know, in our pool of clients we have people from kind of all over. They have their own profession, some are entrepreneurs doing their own business, some corporate fitness and then a lot of them realtors. So we understand the idea and the self-limiting belief of not having time, being busy, not prioritizing, and so when I got this opportunity, I was like this is great. I'm really going to kind of break things down for these guys and I want to give you a little backstory how this happened.
Speaker 2:We occasionally will run 30 day challenges in our program and the goal for us is to obviously get some quick wins like help them, you know, get some, get some progress, but really show and highlight our coaching program, because a lot of people that you know see the things that we're posting. They don't really know what's all involved in the back end and a lot of it is education, communication, we do networking events and there's a lot that goes into it outside of just workouts and nutrition. So, with that, when we ran a challenge, you know, a couple months back, a handful of them they stay with us and a handful of them were actually realtors and they worked into inside the same corporate building, which was Berkshire Hathaway in Greenville, and so I got to talking with some of them and they had a, you know, a luncheon and they're like Chris, you should come in and talk and maybe even do a challenge for them. And I was like cool, yes, I'm definitely open to that. And so I put together a presentation and in that presentation there were some slides and I go through my spiel and so I want to share that with you guys. I am going to basically play the recording of me speaking in front of these individuals and hopefully you can take some of the things away. Again, there are slides.
Speaker 2:I think, if I can, I'm going to attach a link to the podcast if you want to watch, if you're a visual person and you want to watch it, or if you want to DM me on Instagram, I think I'll be able to send you the video recordings so you can actually see the slides, because as I'm talking, I'm going to be obviously presenting slides and some visuals. So some of the things you're going to have to use your imagination if you're just listening to this podcast, but if you are very busy, if you are someone that struggles with understanding nutrition and how to manage it and how to make it simple, how can we find easier solutions to hit our protein? What about workouts, like, do I have to work out every single day or can I do it minimally? And how it's actually going to change and affect your lifestyle and your production. For you know, whatever work that you're doing, or even showing up for your friends and family, how much better quality that you can come in that room with when you are optimizing yourself. So I hope you get a ton of value out of this. You know, again, this was something and a great opportunity for me to get in front of people physically and talk and express. You know how this is important and how this can change their lives. So, again, I hope you guys enjoy it and if you get some value from this, definitely you guys don't forget. You know, give me a good rating on the podcast, share this with a friend, shoot me a DM, let me know that you heard it, share it, you know, on their stories. This is inevitably your way of saying thank you to me, and I thank you if you are one of the people that tune into the podcast every single week. So I hope you have a great Monday, enjoy this and I'll see you next week.
Speaker 2:My name is Chris Kikoris. I own CAC Performance. We're a lifestyle fitness nutrition business and we work with a lot of different people, but specifically busy individuals that have hectic lifestyles, not your typical nine to fives but we teach them strategies and tactics, how to actually reach their health and fitness goals. So I'm gonna go through a couple of little slides, with you guys probably wondering who I am. I've been in upstate for 25 years, so I've pretty much been in the Spartanburg-Greenville area for a long time. I'm a husband, I'm a father my son is six years old that's my wife right there and I started CAC Performance back in 2020.
Speaker 2:I've been in and out of the fitness space for quite some time. I've been bodybuilding as a pro athlete, worked in a lot of big box gyms, worked with a lot of different types of people, which is why I started crafting my program, the way that it is. This we've transformed tons, and probably 800 is cutting me short at this point. We've worked with a lot of different people and again it's because we hit the online space right. We're not all in person. So I do have a bachelor's in exercise science, minor in psychology. I got a little bit of knowledge but a lot of it's experience.
Speaker 2:So over the time of me actually building my business, we ended up having a team. Two of them are not here right now. We have Coach T Wallace you can see up there Ranzino, valentine, and then over here we have Skylyn, andreina, susanna. These are all coaches on my team to help us manage our clients. All of them are highly qualified. Two of them are also RNs, so education is a strong piece of what we do. We're not guessing with what we're doing with your bodies. Side note, a matter of fact, all of these coaches here were my clients before they actually came on the team. So we actually helped them with their nutrition goals, fitness goals and because we made such a big impact in their life, they're like well, I want to do what you're doing, chris, and I want to work with you. I was like, well, great, you know the system, come on. So that's how we started expanding.
Speaker 2:But why am I here? You guys being a realtor, you guys are busy. Your schedules are not your typical schedule. You don't have nine to fives. You're in the car half the time. So when people tell you you got to pack your meals prep, it seems a little bit difficult to understand how you're going to do something like that. But, as you know, we have a couple of people you guys already know that work here. We have Jake Dickens, who set this thing up for me. So thank you, amanda Pope. Of course I put her transformation picture up there. I put her transformation picture up there.
Speaker 2:Julia Ross, who's also here, and Jacqueline Dowland. I know she's not here, but everybody has different goals, so we cater to what they need. Jake being a type one, we have to be very careful with the types of carbohydrates he's taking, making sure his insulin levels stay level. Amanda, her goal was to actually get on stage before she got pregnant and that we did before she got pregnant. Julia Ross, we actually had a conversation and with hers a lot of times. You guys know what you're supposed to be doing and we just need to bring some awareness to it, and when people say they don't have time, they're not prioritizing and they're not paying attention to what they're supposed to be doing. So, with her, she knew the morning time is ideal for her to get her workout in and I just had to say that. And now she's going in the mornings, right. So sometimes it's like the simple answers is what gets you the results that you want? Jacqueline, same thing. She crushes it at work, which a lot of you guys are probably very successful at what you do, but you kind of put everything else on the back burner and that means sometimes you, your health and your fitness goals.
Speaker 2:Here's some other people that we worked with. You may know some of these. A lot of them are local, but you know top to top the left. I mean most of these people. Like the guy in the middle, he has three different restaurants that he owns. Um, this guy down here, john, he has a mortgage brokerage. Pam Harrison, she's a realtor as well. I mean all these people are pretty much business owners, entrepreneurs, or have some sort of corporate level of experience, and we've managed to get them amazing results by teaching them the things that we're showing.
Speaker 2:So quick story, okay. Why does this even matter. Why am I talking to you guys about this? Without your health, nothing matters, and I've never heard anybody on their deathbed said I wish I would have bought another house, another car, another watch. Okay, how many of you guys? If I could give you $10 million right now, raise your hand, would you take it? Yeah, you'd take $10 million. Keep it up Now. If I told you that you would not wake up tomorrow, would you still take it? You guys value your life more than $10 million, which means that you need to be taking care of it.
Speaker 2:These pictures here this is my parents, my father, my mother. You see my family down here and you got to understand what is your goal. Why are you doing what you're doing? This is very, very important for you guys to understand, because you can get caught up in the monotony of your work, chasing dollars, success, attributes, whatever it is, and I've seen it with my family and I've done it myself. This is why I'm here talking to you guys. All right. So up here, my mother. She's been in corporate world pretty much her whole time HR, that's all she's done waiting for her retirement. She's 64 years old, about to be 65, about to hit the retirement fund right. Be able to live the life everybody wants to live Retirement, collect the cash right. Be able to live the life everybody wants to live retirement, collect the cash right.
Speaker 2:My dad, immigrant, came here when he was 18, 19 years old, couldn't speak a lick of English, had to find his way right and the only thing that you can do back then restaurants or construction he got into the restaurants. My dad's Greek, so that's what they all do. They all do the restaurant business. Over that time he has built himself up. You know, and I've seen him crash multiple times Things work, things don't work. And he eventually got to a point where he built a successful restaurant, which is in Bullen Springs right now called the Grapevine, and he also, within the last seven years, got 10 rental properties that he rents out. Building, building Success, money is something that he really put a lot of focus in, because that is, you know, that's what he's building. He wants to provide food on the table for his family. Give us a good lifestyle. All good intent. I don't have a lot of memories with him. When people ask me about my father, he worked, that's it. I don't have much other than that.
Speaker 2:So within the past seven years, my father had a health condition come up which is similar to COPD. It's a lung complication. He has a hardening of the lungs, forced him into retirement. He got denied. He got denied. Sorry, I didn't mean to go this way. Anyways, he got denied a lung transplant. So you're working for all these things, but there's some things that are just out of your control. Ok, and with that he got put in the hospital for a month.
Speaker 2:Now, if you don't eat, you don't drink, you can't do, you can't move, muscle atrophy happens very quickly. You lose it all and he couldn't even walk. When he got out of there, I didn't think he was going to get out of there walk. When he got out of there, I didn't think he was going to get out of there. And so what I'm telling you guys is that you can't, you can't decide, or you don't know what's going to happen in your life. Right, you don't know if you're going to get cancer, if you're going to have a lung problem, if you get an accident you don't know. But at least give yourself a fighting chance to survive and get out of it. If my father would actually took care of himself, you know, worked out, had a little bit of muscle, he would have walked out of there, but he didn't have anything to reserve, and so you got to be very clear with what your goals are and make sure that you're working towards something and living a life that actually means something to you, because the money is money comes and goes, right, but those memories you'll lose forever. So let me get into some good stuff for you guys. All right, we're going to talk a little bit about nutrition, the importance of exercise, how this actually will change your life, and I got something special for you guys and I got some treats for you, which I'll tell you about.
Speaker 2:So over 95% of all diets fail. Standard approaches are not working. There is not a one size fits all, because if there was, then I would just have a kiosk somewhere and get you guys to buy programs. Weight loss is not hard, nor is it rare. Keeping the results that is hard. That is the difficult part for most people.
Speaker 2:How many of you guys know some of these diet styles? Has anybody dieted in here before Tried it? There's a lot of different ones, right? You got intermittent fasting style, we have keto, we have the paleo meal prep, but look at the commonality. If you're doing intermittent fasting, you're cutting calories because you're cutting time out of the day that you're not eating anymore. Keto just take all the carbs out, right, okay. Calorie reduction Paleo Well, we're just removing highly processed foods. Calorie reduction, meal prep Okay, you're now you're controlling your intake. Calorie reduction you see the pattern here. It all comes down to reducing your calories to start dropping body weight.
Speaker 2:Problem is how many of you can sustain something like this. I love my carbs. You ain't taking it away from me. Jake loves carbs, you know, and we still give it to them. You can still get great results if you know what you're doing, because, at the end of the day, what matters is how many calories that you're taking in and you're prioritizing your protein.
Speaker 2:So here these are reasons that sustainability is an issue. Right, cutting your calories is not effective because if you're not managing your hunger right, there is a hormone in your body called ghrelin. As you reduce calories, we get hungry, so that starts to elevate, and if you don't know how to manage some of these hormones, this is what's going to be detrimental for you, and there's different foods that will affect you when you eat. Cutting out normal food is not practical. This will cause conflicts in your professional and personal life. How many of you guys have business meetings? I mean, we're having a business meeting now, but you go out with a client. You want to go get a lunch, a dinner. You guys are trying to sell a property, whatever it is where you go, and just you don't order anything. That's awkward. No, you want to be able to eat what's on the menu, but how do you do that?
Speaker 2:I'm going to tell you, these diets are muscle wasting, decreasing your overall metabolism and downregulating hormone function. You cannot stay in a calorie deficit forever. It is a temporary process to reduce body fat, but you have to reverse back up. Your calories are essentially a budget, so long-term success is unique to you. So we gravitate to what we focus on.
Speaker 2:Focus on healthier choices, not foods that are bad for you. Anybody ever heard of the reticular activating system? This is a portion in your brain that puts a lot of focus. You ever buy a car and you got this car. You're like, I mean, I really want this car and you finally go buy it and for some reason, you buy the car and then you start seeing your car everywhere driving around. It's because you just now you're aware of it. Now you're driving it, and when you start to have those kinds of awareness, you start looking for healthier options like this right?
Speaker 2:If you start focusing on healthier options, your mind drives that way. If you start thinking of all the bad things and restrictions, your mind goes that way too, and that becomes torturous. All you think about is things that you can't eat versus things that you can eat. So our clients we don't give them a blacklist, you know. We don't tell them you can't eat something. Most of it's in moderation. Okay. So this is the method.
Speaker 2:You guys are professionals. You need to think like a pro. When you guys go out and eat, okay, where is the quality protein? When you guys are looking at a menu, where's the protein source Chicken, steak, fish. If you like tofu, that's you, you know, do your thing. But where's the protein Ratio? Okay, what is the ratio? How much protein do you need? If you don't know, you need to know, okay, and then offset. Offset the remaining calories whatever you want on the plate. You have to understand, like how many calories do you need? If you don't know, your diet will never work.
Speaker 2:You guys don't sell houses and just guess how much of a percentage you get right. You know cause. You're doing all the work. What if you don't get any money? You just keep doing the work. A lot of people do that with their health and fitness. They do the work, they don't get their cut. You got to be smart about it. So nutrition on the go, you guys. I think jake told me the other day somebody had like 10 viewings in a day. I don't even know how that's possible, but the point is some of you guys are in a car for quite some time, one place to the next. There's some different things that you guys can start to do because you got to eat and if you're anything like me, I get a little hangry. I'm not going to be able to talk or sell anything if I'm real hungry. So you need to have things that are ready for you to keep on hand. And before you guys leave, I have a whole table of stuff. Just go at it. It's for you guys. I brought it for you.
Speaker 2:We do a customized meal plan around foods you enjoy. So we ask our clients what do you like to eat? What are the things you eat on a regular? We build it around that. But there's also meal prep. You could prep your food in bulk. That's most common. People cook chicken in bulk, rice in bulk. They portion it out. Meal's already there. Calorie tracking Essentially, you could just eat whatever you want, as long as you're monitoring again how many calories. There's free apps that do that. Simple swaps. That's why I brought these snacks too.
Speaker 2:Anybody you like potato chips, anybody like chips in here? Yeah Well, I got some chips that have 20 grams of protein in a little bag and they're great. And there's tons of things. If you like tortilla wraps, there's egg white wraps. There's swaps for everything that you're already eating. That can get you some great results. So you don't have to just completely throw out everything that you enjoy.
Speaker 2:Think like a pro method we just talked about in the meal prep company. We partner with a lot of businesses up in the upstate, one of them being Clean Eats in Greenville, where maybe it just works better that you just pay someone to do your food prep. You'll make more money selling homes and being on the road than you wasting a couple hours cooking. You don't have to cook, you don't have to clean, you don't have to think about portions, and we build plans around that because we're partnered with them. And so another great option the options are endless.
Speaker 2:So give you a little context the importance of exercise. So we're talking about nutrition. This all kind of goes full circle. You got to think of your calories as a budget. Right, if I gave you a hundred dollar budget every day, some of you might be struggling. But what if I told you you had $4,000, $5,000 a day? Let's go to town, let's have some fun. Right? Your food's the same way. If we can build your calorie budget up over time, you can do that. I maintain where I'm eating, at 4,200 calories a day right now. Think about that. That's a lot, but I've been doing this a long time, right, it's just like you guys. If you've been doing this kind of work for a long time, I'm sure your credibility, your work ethic, your income probably went up as well. It's the same thing. But you got to understand what metabolism is.
Speaker 2:Metabolism is a very broad term and this is what I want to just touch on really quickly with you guys. You can see this chart here. The smallest one is a thermic, effective food. Your body takes energy and calories just to digest and break down food. If you have better, high quality foods, that little piece will open up a little bit. You eat highly processed. It actually slows down. There's a lot of studies on that.
Speaker 2:Exercise activity thermogenesis you do longer exercise. Maybe you do an hour, two hours, maybe you're doing boot camps. That's very high intensity. That'll open up as well. But you can see it's only 10 15. Your workout is only 10 15 percent of the calories you burn in a day and you're busting your butt. That's kind of frustrating.
Speaker 2:What about non-exercise thermogenesis? This is physical activity. This is walking to your car, taking the stairs, walking your dog a little bit. But this is why we also prioritize steps with our clients, especially again, if you guys are in a car a long time. Do a lap around the property, get some steps in the last one.
Speaker 2:Basal metabolic rate that's a big chunk right 60, 70%. How do we maximize on that? Lean body mass we need muscle tissue. How do we build muscle? We got to work out. We got to exercise Strength training. This is not boot camp. This is not aerobics. This is not orange theory. They're great. That is more in your eat pie. Exercise activity thermogenesis we got to build muscle. That's why my calories are so high, because I have a lot of muscle mass on me. Now I'm not saying you guys got to look like a bodybuilder that's not the goal but you need to have enough muscle to be able to pull you back out of that deficit that we're talking about dropping body fat, because if we can bring those calories down, get you to an ideal look, tone muscle tissue, whatever your goals are we can bring those calories back up and you'll still have that same low body fat percentage. So this is why you want to work smarter, not harder.
Speaker 2:So ask yourself some of these questions Are you currently on a consistent routine? If not, that'd be something to think about. Have you worked with a coach or trainer before? Did that work or not? Coaching and training is a lot different. Are your results measurable? Do you actually measure what you're doing, track what you're doing? You should I promise you guys are doing it here. You need to be doing it with your physical body too. And do you have a goal for the next three months? If you don't have a goal, that's the first place we've got to start. So here are some two major blockers that I see because I've worked with a couple of realtors in my time.
Speaker 2:Lifestyle conflict you guys are traveling all the time showing different showings, scheduling conflicts, right, things pop up. Someone calls hey, I need to see a viewing. You got to go, hurry up, let's go. Or you know we're talking about in-person training. Yeah, try to line your time up with somebody else. This is why online coaching is so great, because you have us when you need us and we're helping you outside of the gym too, which is where people really need us.
Speaker 2:One hour a day was that small piece of that pie? We can put that together for you. That's easy. Or you got poor results. You know you give up on the work too early. Right, you didn't see any results, like, oh, this isn't working, I'll just stop, it's not worth it.
Speaker 2:You know your fat loss plateaus. Or maybe you got skinny fat. You can lose weight just purely off dieting. You just wither away. I was talking about my father. Don't eat, don't drink, lay in bed all day, you'll lose weight.
Speaker 2:Where'd the weight come from? Is it muscle? Is it fat? Is it ligament tissue? Questions to ask how do you build muscle?
Speaker 2:The only way Resistance training. And the only way resistance training. And yes, physical activity is needed, but it's different. Do you guys got three, four hours a day, I mean a week. Do you think you guys could dedicate three, four hours In a week? I think so. Just my thoughts. You want to keep things simple when you're talking about working out Resistance training. Two, three hours per week, that's all you need Progressive overload to have that anti-plateau plan. We build that. That's a piece of like a little picture of what part of our app looks like Measure to take the thinking and guess work out. You should not be going in the gym guessing how much weight you should be lifting you should know, but you're tracking and we monitor that as well. And having a proper workout split, make sure we're not overworking the muscles, because you can do that as well. So we help design that based off of what you're capable of doing and we optimize on that.
Speaker 2:So who in here thinks it would be helpful to have someone figure all this out for you? Take all the guesswork. You guys I know it is Jake told me the other day that he has to think for everybody else underneath him. He doesn't want to think for himself and that's what I come in. I come and do some thinking for him. So this is what we specialize in. This is where we can help you? Who believes this would reduce some of your stress? Again, if you're healthier, you have more mental clarity, you're eating better foods. This all affects a lot of your psychology. Who believes in if they get amazing shape, this would improve their confidence and sales? Just saying, now don't judge me, but who would you want to help you?
Speaker 2:We have Jane over here, who's a realtor for two years. Jane, you're looking good. Billy over here, he's been a realtor for 15 years. All right, but Jane takes care of herself and hygiene, full of energy and positivity, confident, optimistic, go-getter mentality, in control of her life. Billy over here smells like fast food, drinks every chance he gets. Lack of self-discipline. Physically can't show more than three showings per day, drifting day to day. Now somebody has way more experience Two years but just from a visual standpoint.
Speaker 2:Who are you guys going to choose? Because if you can't take care of yourself, I can't trust you to take care of me. I mean, this is how we're built. We are visual people. Now I'm not saying he might not know more, because he does have experience, but initial reaction. You're going with Jane. If I was sitting at this table, you had to pick one person, and it was me or Billy to train you, but he had 15 years of experience. Who are you going to? Yeah, don't say Billy, or you're kicked out of the class. Billy is not getting my clients. You got to take care of yourself. We know, when we look at people, when they take care of themselves, there's an instant status of respect because they respect themselves. You need to respect yourself. Real champions are built, not bought.
Speaker 2:If you want real, sustainable change in the next 30 days, three months or one year, you need to be playing the game that is infinite. There is no challenges. Those are Kickstarters. This means you need to learn the basic skills fitness, nutrition and your mindset to get you in a desired outcome. You also are learning skills on how to pivot. Every time life does what it does best Change, get a new job, baby, you move, something's happening, and if you don't know how to pivot through those sort of things, I always tell people it's better to slow down. Don't stop, because it's way harder to get things going again.
Speaker 2:Lastly, you must control your environment and surround yourself with those that are on the same mission. Your conversations and interactions will determine your day-to-day action. You guys know how a ship sinks it's not the water around it. It's the water that goes in it. What you guys consume on a day-to-day basis, the people that you hang around. They will sink you if they are toxic to you, but if you're around uplifting people, motivated individuals, it becomes stronger, and I think if you guys do something like this together inside of here, it will help you guys. I think if you guys do something like this together inside of here, it will help you guys hold each other accountable and hold you to a higher standard. You guys want to be the best. You got to start hanging around the best. So my gift to you guys before you leave, on this table out here again.
Speaker 2:We partnered with Clean Eats and TNS, the nutrition store. The nutrition store is literally three minutes down the street from you guys, so they have a snackatorium with all these healthy snacks that you guys can pick from. They also carry some Clean Eats meals in there too, but all your protein supplements they have it all. So they donated some stuff to you guys. Clean Eats, we got 20 meals that you guys can just grab. Go. They do some peanut butter jelly snacks as well healthier peanut butter jelly snacks, so feel free to grab those. My thing for you guys is again, this goes along the simple swaps. Make your life easy. How can we make your life easier to still hit your fitness goals, where things became more automatic, kind of like you ever just drive home and then you forget how to get there? Yeah, you need to make your lifestyle, and healthy lifestyle, just like that. There's a lot of info for everybody.
Speaker 3:Yes, yeah, all right, I want to. I want to just a few things, because you hit everybody with a lot of stuff and you know. First of all, there's nothing for me to gain here and this is why I brought him on. But I will tell you simply the things that have helped me the most. Planning a diet he writes it down and he gives it to me and I know exactly what to eat, when to eat, how many calories, and I record it and, using the MyFitnessPal, I get everything together. That's the thing. But the biggest thing is the app. When I go to the gym, it shows me exactly what exercise. It groups them. You know you've got shoulders and back and you've got this and I just check it off and it's a checklist. So I don't go to the gym and aim wondrously, just without an aim and without knowing what I'm doing. It's there, and I love the last one where I swiped it in the workout.
Speaker 2:I'm like good, I did what I'm supposed to do.
Speaker 3:But you know, I've never been a gym rat, never been good with my diet, and when I started I was 242,. I'm 227, and I eat more food than I've ever eaten in my entire life. I'm 227 and I eat more food than I've ever eaten in my my entire life. Uh, and it's crazy because it's like a Rubik's cube. When you put the pieces together, I mean, everything just goes. So I appreciate all you've done for for me for sure, thank you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll tell you that is probably the I would say almost like 85, 90% of the time. People come and want to lose weight. We get them eating more and they lose weight. And that is the scariest thing for people. They're like what do you mean? I'm trying to lose weight, I don't want to eat. And that is the thing that we have to tell them is we got to amp your metabolism back up. We got to get things going again.
Speaker 2:It's kind of like adding wood to a fire. Right, if you add wood to a fire, the flame gets bigger. You got to be careful. Yeah, too much wood It'll smother it too. So there's a very strategic way that we go about it. Skyline, actually, is one that was terrified to eat food. She thought that was going to make her like just blow up and she ended up getting on stage eating more food than she ever has. So don't be scared of food. It's just making sure that you're eating the right quality of foods. You understand food. We're scared and have anxiety of things we don't know. So hopefully I can bring some light, bring some clarity to you guys so you guys are not fearful and you can go out and have fun with your friends and family have a drink. It's okay. You know, we want to live a little bit, so thank you guys.