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Episode 8
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this is the dreamers podcast where
dreamers share their stories to inspire
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you
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now join host Joe Pardo as he interviews
a dreamer who’s living their dreams
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yeah
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yeah
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welcome to the juniors podcast I’m your
host Joe Pardo and today I’m
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interviewing brian thompson living his
dream by making a substantial life
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change
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welcome to the show Brian thank you it’s
good to be here
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great to have you i am excited to hear
everything you have to say about your
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journey it’s certainly been a long one
and not without detours but every day
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just keep moving forward
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well let’s start out by giving some
background on yourself
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uh I’m 43 i live in the Lancaster County
Pennsylvania area with my wife Laura who
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is probably my biggest inspiration
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she’s she’s always known
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she’s always been more supportive of me
than I am of myself and just she’s so
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she’s been there to give me the
knowledge that I needed to move forward
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and do what it needs to be done
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what was the reason you decided to make
a substantial life change
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well at the time I was way too close to
I was over 380 pounds and I just wanted
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to make sure that i was around longer
and doing that gave me be and kind of
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just when I figured that advocated me
that the idea to go investigate
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weight-loss surgery and from that point
make the changes needed to make in my
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life because really she’s been there for
me i got to be there for her
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so you you said that you had weight-loss
surgery yeah i’m less march ahead a
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roux-en-y gastric bypass where they
basically rerouted part of my digestive
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tract and now my stomach is basically
the size of my thumb
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oh wow I was not aware that that’s that
was the course that you took I realize
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it was addressed the course but i was
also a diabetic this allowed me to get
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off of insulin and all medications only
thing I have to take anymore a little
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bit of flonase keep the keep the nose
open
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wow so you mentioned that your wife
inspires you and that’s that’s really
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touching
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it’s true that
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is there anything else that inspires you
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well just I saw that one of my
supervisors at work it had the surgery
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done and done very well with it and she
had been struggling for a long time and
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I kind of gave me a little bit of the a
push in the right direction and just
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when I would go to the meetings and just
see the people there before and after
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shots that was like wow you can do this
and we see somebody wait 600 pounds that
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weighs 200 pounds it’s pretty inspiring
to see it’s crazy how it’s changed just
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in a little bit of time now you don’t
even need to in and out process compared
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to what it used to be
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I was him for two days the last day and
a half with line and when I was on
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insulin when I came out I was off
insolence was that quickly change and
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that is a big change i mean i’ve never
had to do any insulin shots but I mean
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that’s like everyday I know people that
have or actually work with the pumps and
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that’s an everyday struggle if it was a
pain especially for touring Disney had
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to carry around a little ice pack and
store the stuff at the first-aid station
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this is just kind of a pain so don’t
worry about that
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so let’s go in-depth a little bit more
about where your weight loss stream came
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about how like how it came about
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well when i graduated high school away
285 pounds and of simpsons I mean it’s
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amazing what good shape
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marching band kicked in because I did
was walk
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yeah and i just saw myself as i got
older i mean i got wider and I felt
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lousy and had no energy to do anything
my idea of exercise walking from from
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the couch to the TV to turn it on or
whatever that you know it’s like hey I’m
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going to switch the channel manually get
some exercise
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you know walking was a was a struggle i
was always a breath and I just I well as
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they couldn’t do it anymore i don’t want
to be that guy don’t want to be the guy
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you saw with e the gut hanging over the
side of the marquardt so
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this is I’m just going to do this and
the other than actually inspired me was
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an offhand comment by a co-worker of
mine who pokes fun at me and along the
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lines of bfu went to the beach
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somebody tried to push it back in the
water and it was kinda like well up you
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wow that’s that’s really horrible that
it’s a shame when people feel that way
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and you know it’s it’s it’s weird
because sometimes they don’t even real
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they don’t realize that they’re even
doing it they’re saying it to a person
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who you know you might joke around about
it but you’re joking around about it to
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protect yourself ever blog post about it
and call that fat on the the irony of
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the whole thing Joe is the guy who said
it was it is exactly what you call
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stealth-like hello pot kettle it doesn’t
usually work that way doesn’t it
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so but i’m gonna get actually I gotta
give them some thanks because it really
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kind of lit a fire under me via do you
know if he became inspired by your
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transformation to do something about
himself a far as i know he has it and
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honestly I’m okay with that
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well he’s giving you a he gave you a
great gift to say the least that we want
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to turn into something positive
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there you go now you know some people
just they don’t want to I don’t want to
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know that sort of thing with us they
don’t care to know itself
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what can you do you turn into something
positive for yourself i mean you can’t
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make a horse strength you can leave them
the water but and it’s comes down to you
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have to do what you have to do for
yourself that’s one of the things that
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go into with our group sessions you know
they what they’ve done with the
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surgeries give you a tool it’s up to you
whether or not you use it
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yeah and it’s not easy thing I mean my
life three family members that are all
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going through a similar experience and I
don’t like to look at it as as cheating
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I mean it’s instant gratification
because you’re your work you saw the
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workout and it’s gotta be tough because
you still look at something like man I
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really could eat that whole team’s cake
right now there’s nobody else here and I
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got a fork it and some time to kill and
and I
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we I mean most people struggle with that
you’re kidding yourself if you don’t
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believe that you struggle with that
every single day regardless of your
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weight or your size because the
temptation is there and the foods are
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designed to to be admitted
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that’s actually one of the sad things
about this food is an addiction but the
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difference between that and alcohol and
drugs is you need food to live so he’s
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just kinda gotta buckle down and do it
anybody who says that having the surgery
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is taking the easy way out
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doesn’t have any idea what you’re
talking about now it’s it’s definitely
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not any easier it’s just it’s it’s a
great tool for somebody who especially
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if you had tried a lot of diets and
haven’t had a lot of success and that
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was pretty much me no success
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are there days that I require having
done this e every once in awhile because
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you see something that looks really
really really tasty and you really just
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like tear into it but unfortunately you
can’t but then you kind of realize it’s
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like well you know the entire half gal
ice cream it that ain’t that important
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really no it’s not
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you can still get a taste exactly it’s
gonna think spoon instead of scoop
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hey so how is though all this weight
loss received by your family members and
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friends
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um i was i was very open about it what I
was what i was doing with total course
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of action I I took I took a long time to
make up my mind kills originally my wife
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was very supportive of it
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my-my mother and sister were kinda like
and don’t know about this taking the
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easy way out that sort of thing and they
finally came around when I said look I’m
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doing this and you can either support me
or not tens said well you know your your
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son brother for definitely support you
and they’ve been very supportive sense
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especially when they saw that I made
some very standing progress so what kind
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of steps that you take two to get the
ball rolling on this first of all you
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have to attend basic information section
and they kind of run down the options
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and
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what they can offer and then you hear
from their insurance people they talk to
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your insurance for you see what’s
covered and in my case my insurance
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required six months of medically
supervised diet before they approve it
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so for six months I went to the doctor
every month to be weighed
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cut the log of what I was eating and it
wasn’t without problems i mean there
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were months that it was up there were
months that it was down at the end of it
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they said okay you know everybody signed
off on it they had they had a meeting
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with dietitians and meeting with
exercise physiologists and learning the
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proper way to work out that kind of got
me hooked on the gym which was a good
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thing we’ll come back to that
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and finally this it ok everything is
approved
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here’s when we can do it and I said okay
let’s do it
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it’s the diet the actual eating around
the surgery is kind of difficult because
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you going full liquids and when you’re
out of surgery or all in partial liquids
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which means you can eat the idea of
solid foods and include putting in jello
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and yogurt and it was kind of funny
because i had my surgery time right
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before Easter and so I’m there with my
wife’s family on easter they have a
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lovely ham and potatoes and I have a
little container of jell-o in a little
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container of putting a protein shake
like okay what is wrong here people but
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since its it was a major life change and
it’s just it’s one of the that’s one of
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the biggest and best decisions I’ve ever
made
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so when you were again started did you
hit any roadblocks
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oh definitely you were kinda like oh
yeah i can still have that go back to
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the dr you gained two pounds like well
that’s not good and for somebody who’s
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always been an emotional and a stress
eater
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it was tough no doubt about it we were
dealing with some family medical issues
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and CZ to find comfort in the big bowl
of macaroni and cheese and definitely
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but over the course of the city well i
guess it was really in pre-surgery about
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11 months and over the course that I
learned what I can and can’t have and
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also how to exercise they get to the
point where i was at the gym six days a
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week
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get up at four in the morning go over
there did anything go to work also
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that was more awake than 20 thicker
because the same you don’t live near
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adding McCoy go to the gym with him and
then go running for eight and ten miles
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setting that I think he’s smoking like a
truck
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so how did you work to overcome seeing
food and wanting to just eat it all up
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and especially with the stakes being so
much higher because once you have that
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surgery you keep you can like you just
can’t do it or you’re putting yourself
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in your outfit rest right right
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it was fundamentally it’s willpower
something i don’t usually have a lot of
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but the other thing is you too much well
then you wind up being sick and it’s
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kind of a nice deterrent like AI don’t
want to do that again so you know just
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accept there are some things you can’t
really have any more
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I mean I went darn near years between
having beers
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it’s that easy course my wife will not
tell you I’m a cheap date and one of
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them pretty well I’m pretty well done
this
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hey just because the way things are
structured now I mean the alcohol
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bypasses just pretty much right into the
bloodstream so your skull one shot
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you’re dancin and for somebody used to
enjoy the occasional cocktail that was
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pretty difficult but what I had to do
the other hardest thing i did was give
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up caffeine really how come um caffeine
still a tax on your on your stomach is
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an irritant
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so what they didn’t want me to do was
have that with the surgery so I kind of
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stopped cold turkey on Ash Wednesday of
last year and I tried caffeine like
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maybe five times since then
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Wow and I was pretty bad i mean i was i
was literally like four or five bottles
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of diet pepsi and I the 20 ounces
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yeah a lot of fluid but you know was it
was habit and you have to break the
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habit i haven’t even
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I that was my beverage of choice and i
haven’t had no 15 months I’ve also
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learned it and i’ve grown accustomed the
water did you used to drink a lot of
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water
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not as much as I should have you know my
water was carbonated with the in
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artificial coloring and aspartame hey
well as a big improvement right there I
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just an interesting more water
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helps everybody and everything but why
eighty percent water so yeah definitely
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helps so was serving any parts of your
weight loss journey that haven’t quite
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worked out well I deal with of
persistent blisters what kinda sidelines
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me from a serious activity actually i’m
going to be leaving here and going to an
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appointment with the doctor to have one
looked at that i got in December Wow on
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your feet or you know my left big toe
and it’s it’s a it’s kind of a byproduct
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of having been diabetic as long as I was
just a lot of nerve damage and some
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extra seen a wound care specialist on
this we’re going to get it filled up
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they’re gonna do some little operation
straighten the tail and hopefully
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eliminate the the issues in the meantime
I get to walk around a really stupid
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looking orthopedic boot
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well it’s better than losing the tile
that’s true i I’ve done that
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wow I’m really sorry to hear that that
was the right big guy lost in 2010 and
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you didn’t you didn’t feel like at that
time that was the enough of a tipping
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point for you it was I mean a job . lost
60 pounds gained it all back in some wow
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yeah I mean it’s not just about losing
the weight is about keeping it often and
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that’s why I really gets back to have it
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yep huge that’s my biggest robot now is
my field let me down can exercise as
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much as I like to especially snakes this
time of year because we have a lot of
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great rail trails around here to go
walking on and I was my original plan
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was actually do a 10k disney in January
but that kind of second happen
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will you uh i think i’ve seen that
you’ve done if I’d k haven’t you yeah i
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did last year’s a family 5k down there
was a lot of fun i did as part of team
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all ears
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speaking of inspiring people there are
some wonderfully just great people to be
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around and I’m said that it is no longer
are you a member of any other running
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groups now i’m a member of Mickey milers
i joined last year when I was hoping to
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my five and i was going to do the 5 end
to 10 but unfortunately with the toe
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it’s like and I didn’t know what was
going on so I never got around to
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registering and then closed up sold out
yeah they sell out so quick there it’s
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pretty ridiculous i mean i was surprised
i was able to gain for the goofy for
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january i just registered for it like
last week
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yeah that’s a little bit too far for me
yet it’s far for me i have a 5k coming
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up in october and I gotta get myself in
shape for its in hershey with the trucks
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brewery very cool
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we’re going to have you know the rest
stops we’ll have music and beer will
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take too much of it
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oh that’s that’s not a problem but it’ll
be fun a lot of the folks from gmail
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users are going to be there really might
have to find out when that is over 50
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shit i don’t know if they’re any spaces
open the race but the only speak when
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you have a nice nice / very nice snack
bar area usually a lot of independent
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scratch type things cheap growler fills
have a wife is appears to have a beer
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column this so so so what are your
dreams for the future light
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well I’m open to continue where i’m
going with staying active and would like
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to increase my running or water langer
so as I told michelle on her podcasts
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that you know i’m going to be there it’s
definitely not going to be pretty but
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I’m gonna do it and just kind of keep on
the path of going on i’m gonna generally
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good passed out and that’s that’s kind
of a big deal as long as I have my
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support system in place which I do I
think it’ll be okay
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support is paramount I i can tell you
how many people I’ve had on so far and
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they they all say the same thing it’s
it’s all about support and who’s giving
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you that support
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yeah I just been typing lucky and having
so many good people not just in the my
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friends and family or mine
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I all ears teammates but even the
medical community here likes has been
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just wonderful
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anything that I’ve that I’ve needed that
I’ve had questions about they’ve been
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able to answer i’m still working with
the exercise physiologists once or twice
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a week even with my feet they’ve
developed some exercises that I can do
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that don’t involve a lot of impact on
the feet and let me get some cardio and
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some strength training it stick
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I died I don’t know the words to thank
you mean it’s just you know how do you
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think somebody’s getting your life
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the the big job but somebody’s gotta do
it i guess and they said that thanks to
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seeing people succeed but still it’s
just one chef from the rooftops
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these guys are awesome so before we
depart would you like the sharing the
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last thoughts with the audience
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follow your dreams you can reach your
goal I’m living proof but seriously the
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best way to say it is if you as Walter
that you can dream it you can do it I
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can’t
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echo that enough Walt build an amazing
world for us the total idiot to come
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into and not just the disney kind ya
inspiring so many people to live their
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dreams and it’s a dream that he got to
live his dream and inspire so many
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people through what he wanted to do and
how he wanted to make his mark i would
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agree with you there my friend
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well is there anything you’d like the
plug twitter handle website Facebook you
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said you had a blog post so do you have
a website for people to visit you
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actually I do
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it’s a second here to its night flight
27 . wordpress.com very good i will have
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that in the show notes for everybody
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appreciate that not a problem well thank
you so much for coming on the show Ryan
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I really appreciate it thank you for
having me i wish you the best of luck
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with with your cast i hope your dream
comes true
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thank you very much for working on it
alright hopefully we’ll see the summers
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yeah definitely
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