Today, we will be traveling a different road and taking a break from the business world because the universe is not limited to income, jobs, or career building. It goes beyond that. Andre shares a glimpse of his lifestyle in this episode, specifically how his diet works. He will be deep-diving head first on how he has uncovered the best food choices that have been the right fit to his palette and body. He also gives his two cents on how this diet revolutionized his relationship with food. Now just a reminder, what works for him might not work for you, so listen to this session and take it with a grain of salt.
[2:26] Introducing the carnivore diet
[5:38{ How Andre faced the ups and downs of his food journey?
[7:25] Shifting your focus: What we focus on in life, we get
[17:29] Understanding what grass-fed means, as opposed to corn-fed and how it affects your body?
[24:18] What is the idea behind the term “organic”?
[25:32] Get good at reading nutritional labels, understand what nutrients are going into your body
[33:34] “Not working out, not taking action is nothing but an excuse.”
[34:20] Taking everything bit by bit: When you look at a problem, it can be extremely overwhelming. So take it one step at a time.
[40:48] Sleeping can also improve your health.
[47:36] It’s just a matter of discipline and committing to the best you.
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Transcript
Andre Popa: Who's A Badass? That's right. You're a badass. Welcome everyone to the weekly show where we will go deep into the human dynamic and what makes us all extremely special. We're breaking the stereotypical mold of the badass on a Harley with tattoos. And we're rebranding the badass with any human being that's happy and free. One can have all the money, houses, the Harleys and tattoos, Lamborghinis, yet if they're not happy and free, what's the point? Let's push some buttons and start some shit. Welcome to the weekly show, Who's A Badass.
So I want to back up to why I'm doing this conversation, why I'm telling this story. One, my weight over the last 17 years has been up and down, up and down, up and down. And it was that time of life when I was 34-ish, 35, business was amazing like we're killing it. Stress was all-time high. Money was great. So with all that came a bunch of stuff, and I put on weight. I'm sure there's a doctor that can break down while, you know, "Stress does this to your body and this alcohol consumption will fuck you up on this side. And then if you eat too much of this food, blah, blah, blah." I got fat. That's the result.
And today, we're going to focus on the results as well because, for me, it's always been about the results. Just like in business, I don't give a shit what it is. What's the result? Are you making money? What's the bottom line?
We can create stories as much as we want. But all that matters is, what's the end result: are you happy? Is your relationship with your wife phenomenal? Are you healthy? Are you excited about life? Because those are the results that we're fighting for.
All right. So as my weight fluctuated all over the place, I got up 250 pounds over, then I got 250 pounds under. This is all in the last 15 years, just Mine Jump. Up and down, up and down, I tried this shake, that shake; this diet, this pill, that workout system; this coach, that coach. And I'll tell you this. After all the trials and even though this conversation right now at least is about weight loss, the carnivore diet is not and it's funny because how the word diet has been sold to our brains by society that diet has to do with weight loss—bullshit. If you look up diet, it means what the fuck you're eating. It's consumption.
So my journey of consuming calories—because this is another lesson of calories in, calories out—it's just energy. You guys know I love talking about energy. Everything in Badassery Factory is all about energy. So understanding that energy that you're intaking and then not using, that energy has to transform because you can't make energy. What do you do with it? Could it be created or destroyed? No, it can only be transferred.
So if you'd taken a burger that's 1,000 calories, what are you going to do with it? Are you working off only 800 calories and then whatever the body does, another 100, let's say now you have an excess of 100 calories. And my goal here is not to teach you about caloric intake or the diet world that - it doesn't matter. What I'm telling you is what I'd learned in this whole journey. So calories in, calories out; weight loss up and down, weight gain up and down, it's been a journey.
About a year ago, I got to a place not of my heaviest. My heaviest was 250, just to keep it real. I was still hot. Don't get me wrong. Sexy galore, huh? I'm kidding. There's nothing sexy about that, but I got up to 250. This is years, years, years ago. Well, about three years ago, probably right before the shutdown—somewhere there—I got up to about 241 again. So I'm like, "Son of a bitch! It's not fun. It's not good," blah blah blah. All the mental shifts started kicking in. Meanwhile, I'm a fucking life coach and motivation coach, and all these fun phenomenal things.
So about a year and a half ago, into this beautiful shutdown, maybe a year - yeah, a year and a half ago—somewhere there—I started saying, "Hey, I got to do something. I got to work out. I have to find a system that works for me. Gyms are shut down, nothing available out there in the world." So, I set up a gym at home and I started doing stuff. I started doing resistance and muscle stuff and putting on some muscle, not necessarily cardio. And I started figuring out how to eat. And I went into a journey of basically Paleo. Paleo worked for me really, really well, which meant that I would do proteins and vegetables.
And I know Paleo, for example, allows a few other things. For me, what I loved, what worked really well for me to drop weight was protein and vegetables. Did that for some time. But, again, I went up and down, and up and down, and up and down. And then my father passed away, then I put on some weight over the holidays because I thought, "Well, fuck it. You're going to die one day, screw it. We'll just eat, enjoy life. It's what Dad would want." That was not good, not a smart decision because you got to go and do all that bullshit.
Then my mom died back in May of last year. Same thing, we went through about a month of whoa-whoa, man. You got to eat, you got to celebrate life because what else are you going to do? Stupid. But this is the journey of the up and down, up and down, up and down. Meanwhile, I kept searching. I kept searching what to do, how to do it better, what makes sense for me, why does protein work, why does vegetable work, why together I feel the best, blah, blah, blah. And as I went through this trial-and-error journey, that's over the last year, plus figured out what worked, figured out how I can drop weight quickly if you will, and I also learned how to put on calories. I also learned how to put on weight is my point.
And what's interesting is I'll tell you. Anybody that's out there thinking, "Man, I got to drop some weight," so there's a conversation here about dropping weight, obviously. But it doesn't have to be with the carnivores. A carnivore does so much more than dropping weight. And I don't like the words losing weight because when you lose things, the brain is automatically trained to go find them. Lose your keys, what are you going to do? "Oh my God, I got to find my keys," so drop, release, et cetera. So the conversation will partake in the dropping and releasing of extra stored fat, which is just energy that was never used. It was transferred.
So when the burger that I took in was not consumed by me working out or doing any kind of physical activity, that excess caloric intake was stored. It was transferred into things called fat, love handles, belly—you get the point. So in this me learning about me and getting to a place of constantly searching—and I'm telling you the story for a reason because this was a big part of running into or attracting the carnivore diet—I'm telling you this for a reason.
So the focus, what we focus on in life, we get. And this works for relationships. It works for my happiness. It works for health. It works for money. It works for business. It works for scaling. Put the blinders on. Even if it's an unconscious behavior, meaning that I'm going to do this. I'm setting my mind to getting whether you want to call it healthy, healthier, a certain weight you want to be at like a goal, a target. Very, very important to know where the fuck you're going because if that's not there, then it's going to be all over the place like I was for years.
So I have a goal and it's 208 pounds—208—it has nothing to do with Idaho, nothing to do with Chris Robinson, zero, zero to do with anybody. That's my go target weight. It's 208. So I'm currently at 217. I started at 241 back eons, whatever, about a year ago, 241, up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down. Now, fast forward to how - because I kept searching, looking, studying, et cetera, somehow these snippets, this beautiful reel - the reels of short videos that we see out there in IG world, Facebook world, TikTok, et cetera, I started watching or being exposed to these people talking about eating fucking meat—carnivore, the concept of carnivore. I'm like, "Well, I am a carnivore, but I'm a herbivore, and I'm really an omnivore." So I get the concept of what it is. I never understood that it's a way of eating or as we call it a diet.
So as I started watching these MDs—and this is what got my attention that MDs are carnivores—and they don't just tell you why carnivore, they back it up with bloodwork, they back it up with actual example of here's what a healthy record looks like and here's one that's fucked up, here's a vegan one and here's a carnivore one. And what's amazing is that we've all been sold that you got to eat your greens, got to have - you have your little kids, you got to give them the trees—the broccoli. How many kids do you know that come out of their mama's womb and they go for the fucking broccoli or the green beans or the carrots? I'm sure if they see it around enough, but nobody really goes for it. None of us are naturally inclined to vegetables.
If you're vegan, just take this conversation for what it is. I'm not saying you're wrong for doing it. If you're a carnivore, I'm not saying you're right or wrong. This is my story and these are just my opinions. And I'm going to tell you what worked for me and nothing really didn't work for me. So I'm just going to tell you the story. How's that?
So I watch all these guys, Carnivore MD is one of them, a few doctors on YouTube, on Instagram, on TikTok, and I'm watching all these guys, they're ripped, they're cut, they're 45 years old, 55 years old, 65 years old, 80 years old, they've been carnivore for five years, ten years, 15 years. I'm like, "Where have I been?" And then I'll tell you what got me, what threw me over the fence was Joe Rogan.
People love Joe, people hate Joe, doesn't matter to me. I love Joe Rogan because he speaks truth and he's got balls, and great. But he happens one day to talk about, "Hey, here are my results after 30 days of carnivore, eating like a carnivore, eating carnivore diet, whatever he called it.
So I saw pictures. You put up a picture of before and after, I'm like, "Holy shit! He said he didn't change anything else. He did the same workouts, did the same routine—work, wake up—nothing changed. What changed was what he put in his mouth, what he put in the system. We are what we eat. So I guess if you do a lot of pork, you might be a piggy. I eat bacon every day. I eat bacon fat every single day and it's wonderful. Now, before I get there, so I see this video of Joe Rogan or - sorry - video/then photos, and I'm like, "Holy shit!" This is - I mean, it's interesting that I watch a couple of videos, interviews of him on his show with a couple of doctors that are now all carnivore and here's why and here's how they healed this issue and healed this issue and nothing else worked for 20-30 years.
So as I watch all these doctors now talk about bloodwork and the results, for me, extremely important results, it's all about results. I don't give a shit about the opinions, journeys, stories—fuck all that. Show me results. And it got my attention, so I'm like, "Holy shit! This is really, really interesting."
So one day, Tami and I were coming back from Santa Barbara—it's a Sunday—we're driving back. As we're driving, I have my phone up on top there and somehow a video pops up and it's one of these carnivore conversations. So I said, "Babe, have you seen this? Have you heard this? Have you looked into this at all?" She's like, "Well, what do you mean?" So I tell her about it and she's like, "Well, let's try it." I said, "All right, let's start tomorrow." So we got back that night, had dinner with the girls, et cetera. And then the next morning, we are off and running. We don't know what the fuck we're doing. We just know it's carnivore, so we do some quick YouTube videos, "What do you eat on carnivore diet?" And everybody's like, "Well, here's what I do."
And there are different schools of carnivore diet. They're very similar, but they're still funny enough. There's separation in even fucking carnivore because even in the vegan world, "Well, you can't do this and you have to do it this way." "No, no, no. On our side, you could do it like this." It's like, "Fuck! Just be vegan, be carnivore, damn it!" So there are some different camps in the carnivore world.
So you have people that say, "Animal and animal by-products only. You cannot touch anything else," end of story. Then you have other camps that say, "Well, you can have some fruit along with -" So everybody - sorry - so everybody does agree that animal and animal products, by-products are the foundation. On top of that, some people say you can do some fruit, some people say you can do honey, some people say you cannot do honey. Being at that, it's an animal product and what it does for the body, blah, blah, blah, it's supposed to be phenomenal, so some yes, some no.
So as we researched this thing, we just went for it. And we already eat at home, even out as much as possible clean, meaning organic, grass-fed, raw. So as much as possible literally 80-90 percent of our consumption, in general, is already all of that. So now, it wasn't a big deal to go into the meat world and the by-product world. And what I mean by by-product, it's this. It's any product that comes from an animal, which means from a cow. Obviously, you got the beef, you got all the different cuts of meat, that's the animal part. Then you have the organs. So you can do the livers in the kidneys, and the heart, and the testicles, and all that. I haven't done the testicles, but there are people that do them and they do them raw, and I'm like, "You must like balls and that's okay. Remember, I'm not judging if you're vegan. I'm not judging if you're a carnivore and I'm not judging if you like balls." Sorry, I had to. There it is.
So my coffee right now, which I have about—I don't know—two, three to four cups a day, depending on how I feel and when I want. But inside the coffee—I'll get back to meat, I'm all over the place—but inside of my coffee, we do Ghee. Ghee is unclarified butter. It's a really cool brand and I'll do a post about it because this brand is so cool. They only make it during a full moon. It's really, really cool. They need that energy to make it. I don't know. Very cool. Back to beef.
So from a cow, you get all the cuts of meat. You get all the organs and to each his own. But now, the cow produces milk. And from the milk now, it has to be raw. And this is something that we've done for many, many, many, many years. We've been into this healthy world, not necessarily paying attention to calories, or how to mix foods in the body because different foods react to other foods differently in the body and they don't digest properly, and they create inflammation, blah, blah, blah.
So milk needs to be raw, which means it's not boiled the fuck out of. I guess that's what it means. What does it mean to pasteurize milk? They boil the fuck out of it. They kill all nutrients. So then when it goes into the body, you're basically just having bad shit if you will. When it's raw, you're getting all the nutrition from the cow through that milk. So we can use milk now for a few different things.
What's cool from the milk now, you can produce cheeses, not that we're making cheese, but we purchase raw cheese. And there are raw cheeses, funny enough, more and more. Then you got to ask yourself why was raw milk illegal, or raw products in general illegal, why is it that only two stores in our whole fucking neighborhood, only two stores offer raw products: Sprouts and Whole Foods. I got my opinions about the business behind all these guys, but the point is, they do offer these products, and then there are some that are imported from Western Europe, et cetera.
So cheeses are very, very important. Then we'll take the heavy cream, raw heavy cream—and it's a local California farm that we get all this stuff from—and this heavy whipping cream, let's just call it the heavy cream. It's called whipping because it's used for cooking and baking, et cetera, but we use it for coffee. Ah! So now, you take and it's just pure fat, like half and half. What's half and half? It's half cream and half milk. So we got rid of the milk and we just went straight for the fat in the cream.
So in the coffee, we'll do Ghee, which is unclarified butter, and then we'll do the raw cream from the mama source—from the cow. Cheese is all day long. So anything that comes from an animal, consume the shit out of it.
Let's go to the beef. There's a big difference. Even if you're not going to do carnivore, understanding what grass-fed means as opposed to corn-fed, man, what a difference understanding what it does to the human body, and why did they because look, we know the government's not here to help us. It's got the shit. The government is not here to help us. So you back this up, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 years.
And how did people look back in the '70s? What kind of figure—and that's why it was called the figure—didn't people have back in the '70s? Go look at photographs of people at the beach back in the '70s. Everybody was fucking fit. Nobody worked out. Gold's Gym was barely launching back then. We didn't have the gym craze 24 Hour Fitness, LA Fitness, your mom's fitness, Daddy's weight. There wasn't any of that. People were just healthy. Why? Well, because of the food. They weren't fucking with the food just yet.
The experimenting started in the '50s, and it got to the '60s and the '70s, '80s, and then it grew, grew, grew; GMOs. GMOs are a mofo. But go back to why we started we. They started feeding cows corn. When does a cow naturally go for, "My God, there's a cornfield?" We're going to go for the cornfield because what naturally comes to us is corn. No, they eat fucking grass. They are grass-eaters. You put them out on the field. What do they eat? They don't eat flowers. They eat fucking grass. That's how they're built.
We were told through government, through society, through brainwashing: "Don't eat a lot of red meat; red meat, cholesterol, high cholesterol." I mean, how much brain fucking did we all receive about red meat and pork? Oh, pork is in the Bible. Don't eat pork because it's bad for you. And bacon, got to watch the bacon because it's high in fat and cholesterol. So we were fed these stories and these - I call them propaganda, just like veganism.
When somebody pushes an agenda, there's an agenda behind it. When somebody pushes an agenda, when they push a rhetoric, there's something behind it and it's usually fucking money or it's evil, which maybe sometimes it's both or the same thing. So if the government now says, "Corn-fed cows, they've better flavor and we can fatten them up faster." Well, why the fuck would you want to fatten them up faster if it's unnatural for them? But here's what happens to the human body. Enough about cows, damn it! Enough about cows.
In the human body, corn-fed meat produces omega-6. Grass-fed meat produces omega-3. Our arteries clog with omega-6 and clear up and just like plumbing works beautifully with the right oils. Omega-3, which is found in grass-fed meat in wild salmon, certain fish—wild, not farmed. Do not touch farm fish. It's the most toxic shit on the planet. It's literally sticking your mouth on a tailpipe of a car as it's running and taking a breath. That's literally the equivalent of having farm-raised - it's just evil. Farming fish is evil. What's in them is - oh, my Lord.
Anyway, so back to omega-3s—I lost my train of thought. So omega-3 is olive oil. Why is olive oil so good for you? Why is it so good for you? It's abundant in omega-3. So you want to focus on omega-3s. So that's the meat world. We do a lot of eggs. I'm an egg person automatically. So when I heard that I need to eat more eggs, I'm like, "Party!" And literally, I'll have eggs maybe once for sure, like breakfast is a no-brainer. I don't skip it. I do it every morning. I'll do five, six eggs, maybe four, it doesn't matter, four, five, six eggs, and bacon.
Let's go to the bacon for a minute. There are bacons and there are bacons. There are pigs, different farms like Farmer John. There are some big, big brands out there that completely fuck up the pigs. And when I say fuck them up, they feed them the wrong stuff. And whatever they eat goes into my body. And now, guess what? I am what that pig was. Ugh! So if they're fed corn and shit, that should not be in my body. And they're injected with growth hormones and antibiotics, and God knows what, then that goes into my body.
So you want to eat as clean as possible, as organic. And even though the concept of organic in all animals out there, whether it's chicken, goat, sheep, lamb, beef, bison now, and all of the chickens, turkey, there's a big difference between organic because obviously, the concept of organic became really huge quite a few years back. It's like, "Oh, it's organic."
Well, the reason they fucking invented organic is because they fucked up all those organic before, damn it! If they would have left the shit alone, it would all have always been organic and you don't have to fucking invent organic to sell us more expensive organic shit. That's my rant about organic propaganda.
So the idea of something being organic—and this is something that I felt through the years—we had to learn because just because something's organic it doesn't mean all that much. Like you take chickens, "Oh, organic chicken. Lovely." Well, could it be organic and still raised inside of a cage? Yes. Could it still be organic and still receive some hormones? Yes. Could it be organic and still receive antibiotics? Yes. Could it be organic and still raised in a cool coop, whatever they call chicken coops or little warehouses? Yes. So just because a chicken is organic doesn't fucking mean shit anymore.
So when you're getting eggs that are organic, are they from pasture-raised chickens, which produce automatically omega-3s? What? This is the shit they didn't tell us because they told us that first, eggs are good, eggs are bad; eggs are good, eggs are bad like butter. Oh, you can't eat butter, cholesterol is high, so they invented what? That Miracle Whip shit. I can't believe it's not Butter Guy who came out and made a gazillion of dollars on feeding us bullshit chemicals because butter now is fattening and it's bad for the cholesterol, but it's literally one of the most amazing things on the planet—butter, butter, butter.
My coffee right now has Ghee. It's butter, it's unclarified butter. We put butter on fucking everything. We cook now with Ghee. We stopped cooking with olive oil, we cooked with Ghee. It burns up to 480 degrees and we cook with it.
So back to the idea of what's organic. So you take now the cow and the meat, the rib eye, or the filet that you're about to purchase, is it organic? Is it grass-fed? Is it pasture-raised? This is the shit that we had to learn over the years. We've been at this eating healthy game obviously because we don't trust the government. We've been at this a long, long time. So we had to do all this research. So we learned all these things along the way because we realized that this package said organic and this one said organic, grass-fed, and it was $10 more. So we're like, "What do you mean organic and pasture? And this other one said grass-fed and this one said grass, organic, and pasture, $10 more. What? There are three packages right here. This one's 10, 20, and 30. What's the difference?"
So reading labels is so fucking important. Understanding what you're putting into your body is just like when you're around certain people, you feel like shit. You want to get away from them; that's the first rule. But it's doing that inventory. Can you imagine if people came with labels and they had labels and they're like, "I'm an asshole. If I don't eat, if I don't sleep enough, I get grumpy. I react to certain situations. I get bitchy here?" Can imagine people had a fucking ingredient list like you know exactly what's up and it's like, "Yeah, you're not for me. I cannot have you in my environment just like nutrition labels on food?"
So get good at reading labels, understanding what sugars are going into your body, and what sugar does to the body. Sugar, funny enough, just like, you got to ask yourself why sugar is lethal. It's literally one of the most addictive substances on the planet, and what it does to the human body. Oh, my God, the inflammation that it causes inside the body is ridiculous.
Anyway, so organic, organic, organic, read the labels, really understand how these animals are raised, how they're treated and how they are milked, what happens with the milk from there, how do they produce the cheese. Get involved with your food. And it's funny because we're so freaking brainwashed today to "Go to McDonald's and if you don't get your food in 30 seconds or less or it's free," and that's the mindset that we've been fed, not take your fucking time and enjoy your meal with your family and eat organic, and make sure that the cows and the animals are taking care of properly, and make sure they have a great environment. Let's take care of us because that food is me. And that shift right there, man, when I understood that I am my food and my food is me and we are one, poof, mind fucking blown.
All right. So let's go back to our journey on the carnivore diet. So days - no, I'm not going to go through days, but I'll tell you sort of like how it began. So we went for eggs. We went for heavy bacon. We started cooking with Ghee instead of oil, just because you need fat. So if you want to look at intake, you want to do 70 percent protein, 30 percent fat. And when I say 30 percent fat, it could be animal fat, meaning bacon fat. It could be tallow, that's also very powerful. It could be butter. It could be obviously from the milks, the fats, et cetera. It could be any form of fat you want to take in, if you on top of that want to do fruit, like for example, avocado is a fruit.
So for those of you that don't know the difference between a fruit and a vegetable, fruits have seeds, damn it! Even though we think having a vegetable salad with tomatoes and cucumber, it's a fucking fruit salad. They lied to us, damn it.
All right. So lots of fats, so 30 percent fat, 70 percent protein, and I can't say that we ever measured, we never went down to the metrics of it and got into the crazy macros, never did that, but we just ate whatever felt good.
So did I start this in order to release weight? Partially. Was I curious just to see - because I love meat, I love fats, I love bacon. That's like, "Ooh, manly shit." I love butter, I love all of that stuff so I thought, "I want to see what happens" was my thing, like "Could it be?" Because all these guys out there—guys, gals—because there a lot of women, funny enough, on the carnivore diet that have lost 100-150 pounds, 50 pounds, 30 pounds, but they've cured all these things and I'm like, "Holy shit, amazing!" That's like the stories, the results, I keep focusing on results that I see out there are amazing. So I thought, "Let me see" because it can't hurt, because I know fat is good for me. Because if the government tells me fat is bad, I know it's good. So opposite. If they tell me eat veggies, then they push veganism, fuck you, I know it's bad.
So I thought, "What's the worst that can happen? We'll figure it out. We'll go day by day." First 30 days, we literally went for the rib eyes. We went for the filet mignons. We went for the ground beef, meaning burgers and various scrambled eggs and ground beef and ground turkey and fat and cheese on top. I mean, just you can make whatever you want.
There was something else that caught us by surprise, and this was a funky one because we love flavor, we love garlic, we love all these, the turmerics, and the great spices. I'm a spicy eater as in heat. So for me habanero and serrano peppers and all the jalapenos—I'm a huge fan. And even though they are fruit because they have seeds—because you learned here today, you know now what a fruit is—even though they're fruit, and we did some fruit, we still do, I do bananas, and Tami does organic like cherries and papaya, and different things. So there are some things that you can do. And again, do what you want. I'm telling you what we did and what we're loving—we'll put it that way.
So the rib eyes, the ground beef, the filet mignon, the lamb, I love lamb. Myself and Ariana, we love lamb; Bella, Tami, not so much. She'll taste it, but it's like, "Nah, it's a little gamey for me." I'm like, "All right, good, more for me." So meat, meat, meat, meat, meat, meat, and then it's like, "What do we have for dinner?" Meat. I love liver, chicken liver, for example, not so much on the beef liver side, but chicken liver, love it. So I will throw chicken liver and I'll even throw onions in there. Again, it's a vegetable.
So there are some that will say, "Don't touch onions." So Carnivore MD, you'll see him on Instagram, he says, "No vegetables whatsoever at all, never, not good for you, huge inflammation in the body. All these vegetables have these toxins." And again, he breaks it down really, really well, but they have these toxins and poisons inside of them. So if somebody consumes them, they release these toxins, these poisons to, of course, kill their predator. Some are like, "Holy shit! No, no, don't do that to me."
So anyway, we really limit it. I did onions a couple of times and fruit pretty much here and there. It's not a daily thing. But in that, I started intermittent fasting about a year-plus ago. So basically, I will eat between 11:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. And then I don't eat between 7:00 p.m. and 11:00 a.m. Just don't eat. I'll have coffee in the morning. So break the fast with the fat then the Ghee, or the cream that I use, and that'll break my fast not all the way, but to whatever extent. And then I work out in the morning fasted.
I want to talk about the workout because I fucking despise exercise. And I know there are a few of you out there that literally despise to work out. I hate it. I would rather do pretty much anything than exercise. But when I started to exercise because I knew that I had to create some kind of resistance in my body to kick up the muscle mass just a little bit for the muscle mass now to consume calories throughout the day as I'm sitting at a computer, talking on a video being interviewed, interviewing. When I'm sitting, the body is not moving, and that's why I move my arms. I'm getting a workout right now guys, I'm burning calories. This is calories out.
So I started working out but I did in the way to where I tricked myself into working out. And then funny enough, I pitched it to Tami as well and it worked for her as well. So here's what happened. So we got a whole gym set up in our garage. My studio here is in my garage and we have pretty much everything we need for working out. But here's the other thing because a lot of people say, "Well, I don't have money to buy dumbbells. I don't have money to buy a treadmill. I don't have money for the gym." You don't need any of that shit. You have a body and there's always a floor somewhere. There's always, always, I promise, there's always a floor. You can do push-ups. You can do sit-ups. You can do squats. You can do leg raises. You can do buttock exercises. You can do so much fucking shit. You don't need - you have a tree outside, there's got to be a branch, you can do pull-ups. You follow me?
Not working out and not taking action is nothing but an excuse, and I've done it for years. Now, I do something almost every day. Do I skip Sunday, maybe Saturday? Absolutely. Or if I go to phenomenally hard CrossFit with Gary Callin (ph) this last Saturday where they kicked my ass, rude, rude people, yeah, I took all the way off until today. So I took what? Sunday, Monday, today's Tuesday. So I took two days off. Today, I went to kickboxing with Bella and she kicked my ass. Ah, yeah! What's with these people? I just want to get up something, ah, yeah!
Anyway, but the way I started to work out and the way I brainfucked myself is that I said, "Okay. I'm going to do bite-size—and in my coaching world, funny enough, it's what I use with clients—I'd love to have bite-size deliverables, meaning that when you look at a problem, it could be extremely overwhelming like, "My God! I have to do all of that? Fuck!" So the brain gets overwhelmed and you never start, you never go anywhere. But if you can say, "Hey, fuck all that, that's noise. We don't need that. We just need this little, tiny little thing here, whatever it may be." So for me, it was working out.
So I thought, "You know what sounds like nothing is 12 minutes. Twelve minutes is nothing. Anybody can do 12 minutes. I can do 12 minutes. Twelve minutes is for bitches" I'm telling myself, It's like, "Fuck, yeah." So if I can just crank 12 minutes and then be done, holy shit, that would be amazing. So literally, I started doing that 12 minutes every morning, 12 minutes, 12 minutes, 12 minutes. And guess what? Then now, throughout the day, I would start feeling this muscle, this little thing here going on, this definition, then you get a compliment, "Hey, have you lost some weight? Hey, were you working out?" I'd say, "Oh, what?" You go, "Stop it. No." And all of that shit works is my point to you doing something. And then, as I now start feeling better, my pants are looser, my shirts are looser, and I feel definition if you will. Now, I start thinking, "Well, I want to keep this definition. I like how there's now this thing."
So I start thinking for tomorrow, "Hey, I like this, so I'm going to get more," meaning I'm going to get back on that thing. I'm going to do that machine. I'm going to do that exercise. So it creates a want now. But go through 12 minutes a day, bite-size, chunk, small. Do the tiniest thing possible and build upon it, but taking action is the mofo.
Then I want to talk about discipline and focus. But I will do that in a minute. I want to finish up six weeks of being on this carnivore diet. So as far as what to eat, go YouTube it. There are a lot of doctors that tell you what days you're not to touch, and then just eat a bunch of meat and animal products. That's it, very, very simple. Yeah, watch calories. So what happened was - and water, water, water, water.
I was going to tell you guys about condiments. You can't touch anything but salt. And because you're cutting out so much now, the body requires these electrolytes. And so you want to supplement with some electrolytes and, of course, salt intake is extremely important. So we salt this shit out of our food. I love salt anyway, so now it's like Salt City.
So we go for rib eyes, we go for filets, we go for lamb, we go for pot roast, we go for literally anything that's cookable, we'll do it, from livers, et cetera. So you get the point. Animals and animal by-products, stop there. If you want to throw some fruit in, go for it. Depending on what you have going on and what you're looking to achieve, my biggest thing that I can recommend for you guys from this video if it does anything for you is go to YouTube and just "carnivore diet" and you're going to get to Dr. Berry, and you got some people that have been doing this for years with some crazy results.
So we start. Let me tell you about some of the negatives because there are negatives with anything in life. So one of the first negatives was I typically - I'll tell you guys my journey and this may be a little bit too much, but I'll just tell you exactly my story in this. So basically, before the carnivore diet, I had a very normal, I think it was normal, I've been told it was a normal movement, meaning I would eat. And about an hour or two later, I'm in the restroom and I do my thing and then I eat later. So I would go about twice a day on average. That was just normal for me. It's just what I do. And I felt great. Sorry to talk about shit, but it is what it is. We got to just go for it.
In the process of the first, I believe, somewhere in between the first week and the second week, that wasn't happening anymore. So I'm like, "Ugh! This is not fun." So there are stories out there of people saying that you shit bricks and it's difficult, et cetera. I just think constipated or I feel that I just didn't have the flow somehow. So then I'm like, "All right. So what do we do? What do we do? What do they sell?" They sell us - well, we need fiber. Well, fiber, according to all these doctors in the research, fiber does what to the body? Inflammation. And disease is what? Inflammation. There are heart surgeons out there today that will tell you that the problem with heart disease out in the world today, it's not cholesterol and it's not meat, it's fucking grains. Do the research, it's out there. I found it.
So what I decided to do because I'm thinking, "Well, because I'm a contractor, I build things." So when the pipe doesn't flow, what do you do? You put some stuff in there to make it flow, some drain or whatever. Some like, "I'm going to eat more fat." So I increased my fat intake and guess what? Pipes were moving. It was a good day. It was a great day.
So that was one of the situations in the journey where I thought, "Hey, that's weird," so then we fixed that. And then about two to three weeks in - and I'm just sort of guessing here, we didn't journal like, "Oh, day 42." No, we didn't do that. The Russians are coming. I'm just kidding. Stop. Stop. See? I make a little joke and you guys get all cray-cray. The Russians are not coming. Relax.
But the McDonald's thing today is funny. I can't get into politics, damn it! I promised myself I wouldn't do it. But anyway, McDonald's serves human meat in their burgers. So ask yourself why they're getting out of Russia, and it's not grass-fed. Hoo!
Headaches became a thing about two to three weeks in and they were headaches that were like this pressure that was from the shoulders up, like this dull sense of fucking pain. Ugh! So if there was one heavy negative in this thing, it was these headaches. But today, I understand that it was detox that we have to get through. The body was releasing stuff. So today, I'm sleeping where I used to wake, yeah, I don't know, two, three times a night for whatever, use the restroom, just stop, check my phone because I have a lot of VAs in a few parts of the world. And when we sleep, they're out there working for us. And so for whatever reason, I would just be up a few times a night. So that unsteady sleep pattern—not good.
So today, I'm happy to report that I sleep a minimum of six hours straight. So I'm giving you guys the negatives: poop and headaches gone. Fixed that, got right through it. But today, the positives are I sleep like a baby, for the most part, I'm going to say for the most part. Do I still get up to use the bathroom? Absolutely. Do I still check my phone because somebody's waiting for something and this thing has to launch on that website, and this person's waiting for a bio, and this person needs a headshot? Yeah, but in general, 80-90 percent of the time, I sleep like a baby.
My energy throughout the day, where I used to slump 1:00, 2:00, 3:00 p.m., you hit that wall and you crash and, "Oh, my God! I need a nap," and being an entrepreneur working from home, how easy is it to take a nap? It's easy. Well, that's gone. Now. I will take a nap. For example. I took a nap right before the show because today, I was up at 4:00 because I had a bunch of stuff to get done with India and Philippines. So I'm up at 4:00 and I'm cranking. I'm up here in my studio. I'm like, "It's 4:00 a.m., you can either do this or get a fucking job and do this for somebody else." You follow me? So we choose entrepreneurship.
So sleep is amazing. Energy level throughout the day is so consistent. And the ability at my age at 52—and I'm sure to some of you that are maybe 52 or 60, that can whoop me in a kickboxing class, like today, I did kickboxing for the second time, Bella kicked my ass—it was fucking hard. I mean, it was horrendously hard, but you know what? I did it. So I'm like, "Shit!" Two months ago, I would have never done 20 percent of it. I would have walked out, fuck you all, but I did it. So energy, power, there's a strength that comes whether it's from the meat, from the fat. Life is good, baby.
Focus, focus up here. For those of you that know me, Tami, she'll vouch that I'm a very, very right-brain person, which means I'm creative, I'm a go-getter, I'm fast, I got to make shit happen. When I'm doing stuff, I got to go, which means I'm not necessarily the left-brain person. And the left-brain person is the detail-oriented, the analytical, the organizer. But what's interesting is I think I'm becoming a bitch. Not that left-brain people are bitches, no. That's just a joke about myself. Stop it.
What's happening is I'm able to do things that I wasn't able to before. And whether that's me not allowing myself in the past to do so or stories, for example, we're launching our website, new website, new and improved, et cetera, I'm going to say in a few days. And the amount of work that had to go into this website that had to get created and we're still not done, funny enough, but the amount of left-brain shits that I had to force myself, well, yeah, I had to do. The word force, I think a few months ago, I would have to force myself. But here, I'm like, "Shit! I got to do it," and I would do it and I would literally come out of the think tank. An hour later I'm like, "Holy shit!" I mean, I got whiteboards going on. I have mine maps going. I'm writing bios. I'm writing copy. I would pay people or beg Tami, "Help me." I would never do that before. And now, all of a sudden, it's like, "Holy schnikes! I'm able to do these things." And again, the only thing that's changed is my food intake and exercise. That's all I know. I'm not taking any vitamins. I'm not taking any supplements. I'm not drinking any special water outside of alkaline water and Pellegrino because I love it. And I drink organic coffee—fair trade—with Ghee. And that's sort of my world, and I've done that. Now, I believe we're six weeks. I think we start week 7, I think.
Energy. I can't talk about sex because Tami's here, but it's great. There you go. I just talked about it. And there's a confidence that kicks in. And for those of you that have struggled with weight up and down, et cetera, when clothes are tight, that is the worst thing in the world. When a shirt now becomes loose, or in the pants, you're walking the pants are doing this and touching your legs as you're walking, it's like, "Holy shit!" It gives you that umph, that extra thing.
And on top of that, because you got to remember, most of us have done these diets in the past where you starve yourself and you got to have a calorie deficit, and you got to take this pill and you got to go see this doctor and you got to do this coach and that class, and you got to - "Fuck you" is what I have to say to the whole diet industry because I've done them all. And that's what I want to say is "fuck you" because it's all based on bullshit and I mean this from the bottom of my heart. And if you're a coach, God bless you, take it as you will.
But consistency, teaching somebody a way of life of respect for the body, and that's something that had to happen in me, I had to get to a place where I'm saying I now have to take care of me because not only am I a father and a husband to some amazing women, but I'm a leader in my community. I'm a coach to so many people out there. I show up on stages. So therefore, there's the authority figure. I talk online. So I had to get to a place like, "Hey, I have to be an example to everyone. What do I stand for? Who am I really?" And that turned into something called discipline for me. And it's something where I've been disciplined in parts of my life, but not in others.
So making money, business, creating, scaling sort of came naturally for me. Health, working out, eating the right stuff didn't necessarily come naturally until I learned. And this is now the learning curve of learning exactly what works for me and releasing the weight to then 217 pounds, then I have what? "Holy shit! This is exciting! I haven't done the fucking math yet! I'm excited, damn it! Here's what's exciting. See? I told you guys, my goal is what, 208? And now, I'm just realizing from 217 and do a weight that's only nine fucking pounds. That is fucking exciting. I didn't do the math, damn it! Huh!"
I have a cup of coffee here because now that is lit because you got to remember, what's nine pounds in this journey? I'm going to put on some more muscle. And by no means, am I ripping, buffing? Fuck all that. I don't like it. If we were cavemen and we had a go hunt a bison, makes sense, otherwise, waste of fucking time. Again, just my opinion. If you're a bodybuilder, God bless you.
For me, it's a matter of discipline of committing to the best you. I had to figure out what is the best me, who am I, who do I show up as to myself, to my health, to my happiness, to my wife, to my daughters, to my community, to my clients, to my friends, to my family, in general. Who am I?
And as all these things broke down, I have this new system that we're launching in Badassery Factory called 5xW, which is the five Ws. Some of you know about it already. It's a who, what, when, where, why. So understanding that who am I, what do I really want, when do I want it, where am I on that journey, and the big fucking why. Because if the why doesn't make you cry, you're wasting time.
So discipline. Was a motherfucker waking up at a certain time? I can wake up early, but I cannot wake up past this time. So I chose 6:00 a.m. So there's a clock happening at 6:00 a.m. on alarm. And I hate the word alarm as well because alarms go off when there's a problem—fire alarm, blah, blah, blah. So when we set our clock to wake us up, it's called an alarm clock. Again, I'm getting into totally other stuff, but you get my point. It's my wakey-wakey clock, my beautiful iPhone.
So discipline has to do with committing to your best self and then creating a goal like 208 and then creating a plan to get to that 208. If without a plan, you don't get to the goal. And that same thing happens in relationships, the same thing happens in business, the same thing happens with money. "I want to make more money." Well, that's it and people say, "I'm going to make more money. I get excited. I get tingly. I want to make more money." But they don't realize that they have to get fucking specific: how much money do you want to make and when do you want to make that money? So you want to make what? $100,000 or $10,000? Great. By when? What's the date? Be so fucking specific that it rocks your world. So by this date, I will have in my bank account or my pocket or my mattress $10,000 cash of US currency, whatever. And then that's the goal. How're you going to do it? Oh, you got to have a plan? Holy shit! You got to have a plan.
And this is where people - most people that don't get to their goals because they don't have a plan and then without the plan, obviously, you're not going to get to the fucking goal guaranteed. And the people that have a weak plan will get there, maybe. And the people that don't make a plan are fucked. And the people that do make a plan, the odds of getting to the success, to the goal are very, very high. So when you say, "I want to make this money, I want to be at this weight, 208 pounds." Okay, got it. Why do I want that? Why do I want that 208? So now, you start breaking all the shit down. And the more you niche down and you really subcategorize the why. Why do I want 208? Well, fuck. I can give you 100 reasons. My clothes are going to fit amazing. I can finally fit into my Armani and my Hugo Boss suits, and my Valentinos. I have so many reasons for what clothes I want to wear.
I will tell you guys the funniest fucking thing. Sorry, I'm all over the place. But in regards to clothes, I never knew that you could lose weight in your feet, and that's all I can say. We had lunch with some friends, not this last Sunday but the Sunday before, I had shorts on. We went down by the water—the Huntington Beach—and I put on some shorts and whatever shirt, but I put on these shoes. I've slip-ons. I'm like, "What the fuck? These are loose." And I said, "Babe, my shoes are loose." And she puts on her shoes and she's like, "Fuck! Mine too. My shoes are loose." I'm just telling you right now, be careful. You're going to lose weight in your feet.
Discipline. Discipline is the biggest thing out of all of this that I've learned. And I'm coming out a better badass, a bigger badass is I'm more disciplined than I was six weeks ago. And this discipline has to do with everything in my life, not just my consumption of the carnivore concept. I'm talking everything in my life has shifted the way I treat myself in general, the way I treat Tami, my ability to have conversations with Tami where before I wouldn't want to, deal with certain things, or I would react to certain things, I'm able to not react to these things today. So discipline, commitment to me to the better badass me, and same idea with business and what we're creating and it's just exciting.
So most of us think, we're like, "When are we supposed to eat heavy?" And this is something I learned before the carnivore diet and it still worked here as well. We all think that you got to have a big meal in the morning. Bullshit! You do not want to have a big meal in the fucking morning because how long does it take for the body to digest that shit and turn it into energy and the body is ready to use it? Twelve hours. So if I'm eating breakfast at 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00 a.m and 12 hours later at 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00 p.m., I'm winding down, the day's chilling, I'm putting in some alcohol, going to bed, and I have 1,000 calories to consume from this morning, but I'm chilling. What's going to happen with that energy? See my point?
You want to eat big at night. My biggest meal is dinner, and this is something I had to learn from different coaches out there in the world. The biggest meal has to be at night because if I eat - so my last weed at 6:00 to 6:30 every single night is like clockwork. Guess what? Discipline. Mm-hmm, discipline. So by 6:30 the next morning, what do I have energy for? Whatever the fuck I want. So I have my first cup of coffee, satisfy some hunger if I'm hungry, the fat in Ghee or the raw cream, boom, I'm back, water, I'm hitting the gym, 12 minutes.
The 12-minute thing is the way I'd start it. Today, obviously, I'm doing a one-hour kickbox; one hour, I did CrossFit on Saturday. I liked CrossFit. It was just a different setup. So I'll try it again, anyway, but I'm doing a lot more today than 12 minutes because I'm loving it. And I'm enjoying the breaking up because, for me, my brain has to be stimulated. I have to be excited. I can't do the same shit every day in my garage. So going to kickboxing, going to CrossFit, I'll try, maybe rollerblading at the beach, I'll get rollerblades. I just need to stay active, find it from things to do with my body.
And the other cool thing is to figure out how to stimulate different muscles. Because if you're doing bicep curls in the same movements every day, you're not tricking the body into "Oh, shit! We're burning calories over here! Oh! This muscle!" But if you're doing the same thing every day, you get used to it. The goal cools and nothing's new. It's going to be the same thing tomorrow, same eggs, same rib eye, same weight, same muscle group, et cetera. Anyway, sounds like I'm becoming a fucking health coach, and I'm not.
So discipline, discipline, discipline. That's my biggest takeaway from this thing. I got to tell you guys, I feel amazing. I have energy. I have power like never before. Well, we're somewhere there, it's about six weeks that we're into this thing, I love it and obviously, we're going to continue it till the end of having the full eight weeks or two months if you will. And it wasn't a thing like, "Oh, we're going to do this thing forever." We never signed up for that. We just thought, "Hey, let's try it out, see what happens."
And at the 30-day mark, literally the night before, we looked at each other and it's like, "Do we go get pizza?" So I'm like, "We can." I mean, for me, if one thing I'm craving, it's pizza. I love pizza. Not just pizza pizza, but it's got to be Italian, Napoleon-style pizza from Napoli. So it's got to be a specific pizza. So we thought - I said, "Hey, I really feel amazing," like bloating. I used to eat and be bloated for hours with certain foods, but I never paid attention to what foods. And I'm like, "Oh, it's got to be this" or "It's got to be that. It could have been the alcohol." But it would also happen during the day. So there's never a rule.
So all of a sudden, bloating is gone. My belly is flat. It's like, "Why would I want to change that?" So I thought, "Hey, I'm going to keep going." She's like, "Oh, I'll keep going with you." Now, all of a sudden, it's like, "We're going into month two." So we just said, "Well, we'll just take it one day at a time," and here we are six weeks and I think we'll have that conversation again in a couple of weeks like, "Hey, what do we do? Do we keep going?" Again, my goal is 208 as far as weight and we'll see, we'll see what happens.
Thank you for all the compliments that I look this, I look slim, I look great. Thank you, guys. Sunshine is crucial and I smoke two to three cigars a day and fucking love it. I don't inhale. And I don't need anybody's comments: do not smoke, smoking is not good for me. Smoking is so good for me. You have no idea. Things are what you believe they are. So that's my life. I enjoy it. I love it. I'm happy.
And what we're creating in 2022, oh, my Lord, you guys, be ready. The new website's coming out soon, launching boot camp dates somewhere in the next few days. So again, only 30 people will get in and be ready as soon as it launches. Get your spots.
I'll tell you guys now, it's $2,000 a person, $3,000 per couple. The couple could be either married or boyfriend-girlfriend. It could be a mom-son type of thing like sibling-parent, or business partners. And we've never had to check like, "Hey, are you guys really partners?" But don't try to save 1,000 bucks because you're really going to cheat yourself from that perspective. So anyway, 2 grand or 3 grand a couple. And when we launch it, be ready to jump because this first one will go pretty quickly.
And that's it. Love you guys. Obviously, I'll see you next week on here. We're going to talk to the person. So the Gary Vee event that's coming up, why would you care? So I'll tell you guys a few details since I have you. So I'm sharing the stage with Gary Vee, for me, a huge life moment. Obviously, I love the guy, been following him for years. I love everything he stands for. His mindset is gratitude. He loves his family. Obviously, from great, great entrepreneur, go-getter, makes stuff happen, great scalar—all that fun shit—speaks my language, says the word fuck. I mean, it's the same wavelength, so I can get him, et cetera.
So for me, I have a lot of respect for what he's done and how he helps a lot of people because it's not just about him. Anyway, so him and I will share the stage in Costa Rica. Funny enough, this event - no, damn it. It's not Costa Rica, it's Puerto Rico! Aya ya ya yay! It's Puerto Rico. And this is going to be on April 25, 26, 27, 28, somewhere there; Puerto Rico, 25, 26 of April. There are still tickets. Anybody that wants tickets, shoot me a DM. I'll connect you guys to how to get tickets. They offered me an affiliate thing to make money on tickets. I said no. I want to just help. I'm here for a bigger purpose. Just keeping it very real with you guys. So if you buy a ticket, that's directly to them.
So can you imagine partying and hanging out in fucking Puerto Rico with Gary Vee, Steve Sims? Got Dave Meltzer, some huge names, Thaddeus Gala. I mean, some big, big names. And Thaddeus Gala I'm looking to have on the show next week. And he'll talk about - because he owns the company, he owns the event and he'll tell us the story of how to put on these world-class events and more importantly, how to attract speakers like Gary Vee, the Steve Sims, the Meltzer, et cetera. So you got some big, big, big fucking names. So anybody that's looking to blow up and do some big shit this year, this could be for you guys. But of course, come to the boot camp first; that's going to be before the boot camp.
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