Eliminate the Struggle - Overcoming Weight Loss Challenges With The Coaching At Summaup

0:00 know what I know now 0:02 what would I have told myself like five 0:04 years ago it's inputs right it's you 0:07 know all about your diet hydration sleep 0:09 another kind of micro variables and 0:11 adjustments along the way right if 0:13 you're talking about self-image if we're 0:15 talking about the Cadence of consistency 0:16 you know using kind of Diagnostic lab 0:18 testing to kind of Leverage and figure 0:20 out what your break points are and where 0:21 you kind of need help Therapeutics to 0:23 get you there faster so supplements 0:25 medications um and coaching rates so for 0:26 me it was a journey where I had mentors 0:29 I you know professionally I was in 0:31 masterminds I was in organizations but I 0:33 hit a point where I realized I needed 0:35 help for my health and like wellness 0:37 actually needed help and then kind of 0:39 that leads like to my final point it's 0:40 like you know of really realizing what 0:42 what season of life I was in right and 0:43 so it all kind of starts like you know 0:45 where I had this moment where I hit the 0:47 wall I was doing like everything in my 0:49 20s and nothing worked right I was like 0:50 plateaued out I was just this Big Blob I 0:52 keep talking with us I was so 0:53 embarrassed that I didn't want to like 0:54 look at a camera like you're never gonna 0:56 see photos of me from the front because 0:57 I was just so embarrassed of how I 0:58 looked right and just like what what is 1:00 this right and kind of let you know like 1:02 this all the time you made just a few 1:04 seasons later right it's like Arnold 1:05 Schwarzenegger was really popular for 1:07 saying like a physique and like you know 1:08 a body is something that cannot be 1:09 bought it has to be earned and really 1:12 kind of looking back in retrospect 1:13 everyone has bad days right you know I 1:15 have bad days bad weeks and if I don't 1:16 find a way to catch myself 1:18 those bad weeks can lead to bad months 1:20 and like they're getting late about 1:21 years and so what really helped out for 1:23 me is finding a system that worked and 1:25 you know anecdotally personally for me 1:27 it was like having a physician like Dr 1:28 Ryan like checking quarterly from a 1:30 blood testing standpoint to confirm like 1:31 hey are there any Micro Machines 1:33 deficiencies that okay thyroid heart 1:35 health and doing a deep dive right a 1:37 training program that was really just 1:38 tracked to me daily I need the help um 1:41 you know and like the last piece that's 1:42 really missing from a lot of these kind 1:44 of you know systems metaphorically is 1:45 just the appropriate dosing of a 1:47 therapeutic bam medications or 1:49 supplements that can kind of give you a 1:51 little bit of a boost or jump start and 1:52 so as I got older you know the hormones 1:54 sensitivities and inflammation markers 1:56 just decline right and so you're just 1:57 kind of finding this uphill battle and 1:58 so the same things you did just didn't 1:59 start and so to summarize for me success 2:01 was really professional it was microceps 2:03 and adjustments along the way and then 2:04 really kind of working with an expert 2:06 just to kind of catch we need to make 2:07 sure I get any kind of have those 2:08 negative spirals that last like weeks 2:11 and months and years and so how did that 2:13 kind of dovetail with you Stephanie in 2:15 terms of um you know the struggles with 2:17 paleo Keto and so forth you know on your 2:20 journey deferring to experts is 2:22 something that I I would kind of always 2:25 advise for people who really aren't sure 2:28 because there's so much information that 2:30 you can kind of get on the internet and 2:31 that's easily accessible to everyone and 2:34 you're gonna get a hundred different 2:36 answers from 100 different people how 2:38 you should lose weight and if you're in 2:40 a situation where maybe you don't have 2:42 experience with that or you've had 2:44 experience with that but it didn't go 2:46 well for you you weren't able to 2:47 maintain it like you're saying for me I 2:49 was doing CrossFit and at the time you 2:51 do CrossFit you are also eating paleo 2:53 and then you know for a little while 2:55 there was a community at my gym and they 2:57 were saying like you need to eat keto 3:00 and if you had a piece of fruit in your 3:01 hand you'd kind of be chastised for it 3:03 and you know 3:04 um yeah 3:06 I mean it sounds ridiculous too because 3:08 like knowing what I know now I would 3:11 never I would never chastise someone 3:13 who's about to lift like 100 like a 3:16 whole bunch of weight for eating a piece 3:18 of fruit because you you know circling 3:19 back I know now that I needed those 3:21 carbs I ended up actually feeling really 3:24 crummy a lot of the time I would feel 3:26 light-headed I mean if I was running in 3:28 like 100 Fahrenheit or something I would 3:31 like come so close to passing out I was 3:34 always feeling not great and this is 3:37 because I was like following this kind 3:39 of this guidance that I hadn't really 3:41 looked that much into but I you know I I 3:44 trusted my coaches and I didn't think 3:46 that much of it because I was so busy 3:48 with like running my business and that 3:50 kind of a thing so it was just something 3:52 that I was by no means an expert and 3:55 I've by no means claimed to be an expert 3:56 in at the same at the time but I wish 4:00 that I had kind of done the looking to 4:02 an expert at the time once I um I 4:05 actually did look to someone who was an 4:07 expert in nutrition for that kind of 4:09 guidance I started tracking my macros I 4:12 kind of came to realize that it's all 4:14 inputs and outputs like what you're 4:16 saying it's very mathematical you know 4:18 how your body metabolizes you know it's 4:20 different for everyone but for me 4:23 understanding the calories that were my 4:25 food that kind of thing that really made 4:27 a big difference for for me and how I 4:29 felt and how much weight I could lift 4:31 and like how good I felt throughout the 4:33 day like was I feeling fatigued those I 4:35 mean those were game changers and just 4:37 how I was I was feeling so I kind of had 4:39 to go bypass the misinformation 4:42 Journey yeah the Journey of like 4:44 Discovery and you're just like all right 4:46 so like you know I shouldn't be eating 4:47 this or I shouldn't be I should at all 4:49 me die right now it's like you mentioned 4:51 that like you hit the wall I'm at a 4:52 forklore you hit your Plateau like 4:54 passing out when you're running there 4:55 was a specific workout 4:57 never stopped I always went through and 5:00 I finished and I would be like but I had 5:02 to sit down because I was really 5:04 light-headed dizzy you know seeing stars 5:06 and all of that that specific instance 5:08 kind of drove me to realize like I 5:10 wasn't 5:11 I wasn't getting the nutrition that I 5:13 needed and at that time I probably like 5:15 would have been more inclined to double 5:17 down on keto and think like oh maybe I'm 5:20 not performing well because I 5:21 accidentally ate too many carbs it was 5:23 backwards you know just because of the 5:25 information I was being given by people 5:26 who were not experts you know like 5:28 anyone can become a CrossFit coach 5:30 really but um ultimately like when I 5:33 tracked my macros and I I followed a 5:35 plan I realized that how much of what I 5:38 was eating that was paleo or keto that 5:40 was easy to just like over consume 5:42 calories when it comes to things like 5:44 sauteing food in olive oil or avocado 5:47 oil coconut oil like people will 5:49 everyone would tell me like oh cook in 5:53 coconut oil because it's paleo and it's 5:54 great but 120 calories per tablespoon is 5:57 not something you think of like it seems 5:59 inconsequential when you're cooking like 6:00 I remember Googling like how much of the 6:03 food when you saute in like oil is 6:05 actually like are you actually consuming 6:07 consuming and it's another thing just 6:09 not to interrupt you but it's like it's 6:10 funny because it's like you know call 6:11 too there's so many calories and like 6:13 like a glass of wine or like different 6:15 types of alcohol and you're just like 6:16 holy moly right it's like it's so 6:19 calorically dense right now I'm saying 6:21 like the light beers in general but like 6:22 by and large you're not accounting for 6:24 that and that that adds another kind of 6:26 too good what are some systems though 6:27 because like your very systems aren't 6:29 like we're both sir Simpsons oriented 6:30 like how did you stick to it right 6:32 because like I know you're you know 6:33 extreme people like we always like 6:35 saying it's like extreme people get 6:36 extreme results right but like how did 6:38 you start well yeah knowing what I was 6:40 eating understanding the inputs outputs 6:42 aspect of it like having that guidance 6:45 if I could start over I would have that 6:47 guidance from the get-go and I would I 6:49 would definitely do at least to like to 6:51 some extent track my macros because that 6:53 was really what drove home an 6:55 understanding of what was in my food for 6:57 me a big part of it Beyond like not just 7:00 feeling terrible was eating things that 7:03 tasted good because I'm whatever so big 7:06 and so underrated but to me it's like 7:08 it's important because I I have these 7:11 things because I feel differently if I 7:13 if I don't eat well I realize that I 7:15 have these these patterns because like 7:17 when I go into like the Target app on my 7:19 phone or something it's gonna tell me 7:21 like hey you should order this again 7:22 because you always buy these same things 7:24 and it's always like these frozen 7:26 vegetables like frozen proteins frozen 7:29 shrimp for example is is one that I I 7:32 tend to eat a lot of if I am short on 7:34 time it's easy for me to throw some 7:38 veggies and some frozen protein into a 7:40 pan especially something that cooks 7:41 really quickly like shrimp because I 7:43 mean that can take five minutes and I 7:44 can throw in some spices like I always 7:46 keep curry paste on hand I always keep 7:49 cumin and chili powder like those kinds 7:51 of seasonings if I want to make 7:53 something that tastes a little bit more 7:55 interesting and then some kind of a 7:57 fibrous carbohydrate is something that I 7:59 got too like some frozen sweet potatoes 8:01 or some even you can get those packs of 8:04 brown rice and microwave them it tastes 8:07 like nice on the go on the go it's like 8:08 so like wow so it's like really like the 8:10 flavor so it's like kind of like the the 8:12 time of like Saving Time with like the 8:14 Frozen options or the meal packs and 8:16 rice packs and then it seems like you're 8:18 really strategic about this so like 8:19 you're actually like consciously 8:21 prepping right like meal prepping I I 8:23 kind of meal prep what I do is like is 8:26 I'll I tend to devote sometime I mean 8:28 even if it's a shorter meal that was 8:31 more like the veggies and protein and 8:34 then some seasonings I make sure that I 8:36 make enough that I can have it for lunch 8:38 maybe for another day or two because 8:40 that's as far as I can go with eating 8:42 the same thing but I that that's kind of 8:45 my my version of meal prep that's funny 8:48 because like you know it's just funny 8:50 because like I think again it's like 8:51 success is like professional and there's 8:52 always these micro adjustments needed 8:54 along the way and it's like embarrassing 8:56 to admit but today I saw the catch 8:57 myself late at night right like from 9:00 doordash or something or getting this is 9:01 super embarrassing about salt thirst or 9:03 like Burger hunger right and so like for 9:05 me like what I try to do is um I guess 9:07 systematically I don't have junk Fu at 9:09 home and this is a weird mental exercise 9:11 like I take a step back right and I look 9:13 at myself in the moment and it's this is 9:16 tough to do but I really asked myself 9:17 like how would JD one hour like from now 9:20 or tomorrow or next week feel you know 9:23 ordering or going in and out right uh 9:26 you know feel you know so it's like am I 9:28 punishing My Future Self and roaring my 9:30 current like 15 in itself right and so 9:32 like that that like mental model of just 9:35 like aligning myself figuring out like 9:37 success is professional there's micro 9:38 adjustments needed but like am I you 9:40 know doing the steps it takes like you 9:41 know from a long term uh you know 9:43 perspective like just zooming out 9:44 sometimes and just asking yourself helps 9:46 break the pattern right it really does 9:48 and so that's kind of helped me out um 9:50 there is a mail prep service that I used 9:52 Stephanie uh it's Trifecta right and 9:54 it's really cool because like you can 9:55 get like cod and and a la carte like 9:58 chicken and simple veggies as well sent 10:00 to you and then like one day of fasting 10:03 this doesn't work for everyone but like 10:04 you know Wednesdays for example like I 10:06 just have cold brew and and bone broth 10:07 coffee and you know bone broth um and 10:09 cold brew coffee right and like that's 10:11 it right and so I'm not saying it works 10:12 for everyone but for me like I feel 10:14 super dialed in it gives why uh one less 10:16 day to meal prep and like give some it 10:17 makes you feel really good but also like 10:19 just like that daily weekly 10:20 accountability with our screen around 10:21 staff and it was just like oh crap what 10:23 is like it's in my head I'm like what is 10:25 Stephanie gonna think right and Dr Ryan 10:26 on the you know blood testing yeah gosh 10:28 I don't want to you know let him down 10:29 right those kind of the the mental 10:31 aspects and if you're kind of investing 10:33 in like Therapeutics as well like you 10:34 kind of wanted to add to horsepower to 10:35 see the original faster you don't feel 10:37 like you want to let them slide right 10:38 and so kind of having like the training 10:40 testing and lab testing and Therapeutics 10:42 together really has helped me out 10:43 because everyone's gonna face challenges 10:44 and that affects how you perform like 10:46 how you feel based on you know how 10:48 you're eating the Therapeutics I mean 10:50 you feel differently right I think it's 10:51 really just kind of like zooming out and 10:53 zooming down of like success is 10:55 professional right it's not gonna happen 10:56 overnight but if you're taking the right 10:57 steps right and you're actually having a 11:00 deep why for me is like to see abs and 11:02 like identify as the former College out 11:04 that I was right but having deep why 11:06 that like these are just lifelong 11:08 changes that will kind of have a 11:09 positive impact and so you know looking 11:11 back at your story it wasn't success 11:13 overnight it wasn't like you know just 11:14 up into the right it was like zigzags 11:16 back and forth same here right but like 11:19 we kind of got not necessarily the cheat 11:21 codes but we got to like you know Super 11:22 Mario World like you know we set from 11:23 level one to level two level three level 11:25 four right for the Nintendo fans out 11:27 there like we did that through the 11:28 experts right and advice and guidance 11:30 accountability and I want to know now uh 11:32 if I could just basically be like hey 11:33 work with somebody ahead of the curve 11:35 like holding accountable you know has a 11:37 system of training testing Therapeutics 11:38 I wish I could have you know five years 11:40 ago before I metaphoric hit the wall um 11:43 and so forth 11:44 [Music]