What's going on, y'all? Robert Sykes, Keto, savage.com
and today I've got special guest Yari.
He is the winner of the Savage System giveaway that we launched
this year. So we flew him him in from
Finland, spent the whole weekend together.
It's been an awesome experience. He's got an amazing
transformation story. So I wanted to bring him on the
podcast, talk about his journey, talk about what all we did, and
just dive a little deeper into his story.
So appreciate y'all. Let's roll the intro and dive
in. And we are live, Yari.
How are you, ma'am? Oh oh so great.
It's been so amazing weekend with you.
It has been a good weekend. So just to kind of give the
listeners some some context here, you were the random winner
for the beta launch of my Savage System course.
That random winner won an all expense paid trip out here.
Spend the weekend with me and we have done quite a bit over the
past few days man so. For for sure, sure.
It's it's been such amazing trip.
And you came all the way from Finland.
Yeah, yeah. Thursday, Thursday.
So I want to dive into all the stuff we've done this weekend,
but I want to kind of get some back story on you because you've
been following me since 2016, I guess, which is crazy.
You've had a tremendous transformation journey yourself.
So kind of talk to me about where you came from, man.
You You weren't always this lean and trim and chiseled.
For, for, for my youth for sure. I I was very like played lots of
different sports and, and was very active in my youth and
maybe around when I was like a 20 maybe, maybe then I just like
a quit, quit all the sports and, and and then also like I, I have
always have a like a big appetite and, and eat, eat, eat,
eat a lot and and not not the good stuff.
So, but when, when, when you are young and you are so active and
play sports, it's never the problem then.
But yeah, since since then, I, I go to school and, and get the
other things going and, and then it's, it's like started little
by little. I, I like kept the same like
eating habits and, and, and and eat a lot of weight started to
come little by little. You'd, you'd, you don't like
recognized by yourself like like when it's happened.
And and then it was like I was maybe 2021 or 22.
I, I was in like a university studying, studying economics.
And then I've been yeah, this like a Long story short, short,
I was meeting when I was a young younger meeting my, my sister
working with like a summer job. And then then I met, met this
like 1, one guy who like, became my like a mentor and, and also
what I, I, I become like a business partner also.
So in, in that time I, I I met, met him, him at at at in my, I,
I worked there like like a summer place and, and they
started their companies. Then when my, my sister worked,
worked with him. And then I all, all the summers
I, I went to work with, with, with them and also like, I, I
went to the university and I, I studied like one year and then
came, came again to work summer, summer with him.
And, and then there was this like I, I I didn't really didn't
like that much for, for in university.
It it all that doesn't felt like like like something for me.
And and then when I when I get back and and work work the
summer I I went to studying, it was like not not close to
Helsinki, where I I kind of lived my adult thought, But I
gained back to Helsinki work the summer.
And then there was this like one, like a, like a little
miniature place opened and, and, and also then that my, my, this,
this business partner asked if, if I wanted to like stay, stay
work there then. And the whole time you're kind
of eating like a bunch of junk food and.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I I studied hard, but kept kept my
like 90% like a like a chunk food.
I never made food at home and just ate ate burgers and it I
don't know how, but maybe like 5 to maybe 5 kilos.
I weighed like every more more every year and and didn't like
notice it in but but still I I it was like mentally you, you
you know this when you when you have this kind of like a bad
eating habits, you know, like you are quite depressed easily.
You don't move and and and you eat this this chunk.
So it's affecting. But these these kind of things
you maybe notice later when you when you get healthy.
You don't yeah, yeah, yeah. And you don't know these those
like like the symptoms or what, what what you want to call it
like like when you are eating and and being because you don't
know anything else and, and. So at like 20 twos when you
started gaining about 5 kilos a year.
I, I think yeah, I think so. It was that that time when and
and and more more maybe when, when, when when I got get to
that work. It was like a quite stressful
work and and and very, very busy also.
And then I just I just we we every lunch we went, we went to
eat some burgers and and dinner. Dinner was then burgers also and
and some like then then I like started my first company maybe
after being a one, one year in that like a lower miniature
place. Then then I started my own
company and, and when you start as you as an entrepreneur know
that it's, it's quite, a, quite a chop and, and when you first
start exactly, it's 60-70 hours a week of work and, and, and
quite stressed. And then then you like reward
yourself with some food and, and later came like alcohol also.
So I like evening drink. Like it's same with like like
the way that alcohol comes. Like if, if, if you would ask me
like when I was 18 years, I would like never, I would say
like it's impossible that I will like somedays eat like a
weekday, some some alcohol. So when I was you, you young, I
I partied like a normal, normal kids too.
And but it was only like a one day and and and weekend and not
every week. And then and, and I, I, I never
understood people like who, who I always thought that if someone
drinks even like A1 beer a three, because he's kind of like
an alcoholic or something. So, and I always like that.
I will never beat that person. It's I will always like maybe
once or maybe like a bad, bad days two times.
So like Friday and Saturday and, and that's it.
And. But as the the business grew,
the stress grew, your workload grew, you started just getting
heavier and heavier and drinking more and more.
Yeah, Yeah. It's like, and also when we we
got big business got bigger. And also there's some kind of
like events come that you go dinners with the like business
partners and, and, or companies you work with.
And, and there is like a dinner and then you drink some wine and
maybe go some hockey game. Then you get some beer after
and, and, and little by little it's, it's, it's coming.
And then like it, it's then you like after sauna, you, you will
get the 11 beer and it gives you the good relax or or at least
you think you, you get the, you fall asleep better and, and get
that kind of thing. And then it's little by little
by little it it comes that it's almost like a every day you
drink one or two. And then many, many, many years
later, it was like a six or seven or eight or and yeah.
So you were drinking every day at that point, right?
Yeah, at the my like maybe maybe 5 or 10 years after these like
maybe when I was like a 30 I had this like some kind of eight H
crisis and then then then I was went first time for like a keto
and a lot lots lost lots of weight felt amazing.
Didn't drink any alcohol like 1 1/2 years and and everything
went went went great. But after that I when I when I
got the old habits back then, yeah, maybe like when I was like
a 3233 then then it started like a mostly like getting more and
more and more and more and. Yeah.
What was the heaviest you got? You remember.
I I think it was, it was five years ago and I was double my
size. What?
I'm double your size now. We're going to do some
conversions because I don't. Everything you do is in kilos
and we're all used to pounds. So what?
What was the heaviest you were in kilos?
I think it was something like 165 or something like that.
All right, so 160. Five, maybe even.
Maybe even because I didn't weigh weigh myself every
sometimes could be more even. So that would have been about
363 lbs. And what is your weight in kilos
now? I hopefully I'm 8080 kilos now.
80 so it's about 100 and. 70 maybe in the weekend has come
like a few few. We did eat a bunch of meat this
weekend. Yeah.
So, yeah, from 363 lbs to 176 lbs.
Let's throw some pictures before and after on the show notes here
because you wouldn't even recognize you back then.
It's it's crazy. And you were drinking a bunch
then. Is his audio feeling good?
Is he closer to Mike? OK, so like when you were that
heavy and you were drinking every day, what was the tipping
point when you realize that this is just not sustainable?
This isn't going to be my identity.
Like what was the breaking point I guess?
Yeah. So there there was coming some.
It was like, I think 10 years ago I had these kind of like
symptoms that I woke up middle of the night like feeling like
I'm going to die because afterwards it came out that I
have like a severe like a sleep apnea and with my blood like
oxygen levels called like 70 when we did the like it was like
you passed out when when it goes so low and I it developed and
it, it was I think very long time.
I didn't know this. But the most of the time you
don't notice that. But your oxygen like because
you're I think it's fat in the in the like a throat or
something and the air doesn't come and you snore and then
yeah, you it, it was quite horrible to wake up when
especially if after you have drink and you have like a
hangover and then you like wake up and you cannot breathe.
So it's kind of awful feeling also.
And and then yeah, I went to the to many different.
I got some kind of like symptoms and also it, that one time it
was I, I went to the event to the ER because I felt like I, I,
I will have a heart attack and, and then it scares me quite much
that I then, then I quit. It was 2004, exactly 10 years
ago. And then I, I was maybe 6 months
without alcohol, but I have like a pretty bad like I, I was
scared to go to sleep. And I had some like those kind
of like what is like a Sonox that that is like the truck I
I've got. And it that some sometimes I, I
had troubles, bad troubles for calling, calling to sleep
because I was like a scared to die.
I'm going to die because it was that like that experience when I
went to ER, it was very, very scary and, and, and yeah.
And then, yeah, I, I got that CPAP machine also for my sleep
apnea. And that's quite annoying that
it like blows air to your, your lungs that they will like going
to continue. And, and it was like a that
also, I, I woke up sometimes when, when it blows and it can
feel like a little bit the same that you, you, you cannot
breathe. And that, that, that is like a
quite, quite an awful feeling. It's, it's like, like you're
drowning or something and kind of breathe.
And when you wake up for that, then it then it took some, some,
some long time that I, I, I could like, I, I, I, I didn't
sleep like maybe a few hours a night for, for the long, long
time. And it was quite stressful then
also and, but at the same times we were having these like
negotiations with, with our company that we are, we were
selling, selling, selling our companies to the like investment
company and, and, and, and it was.
Stressful there too. Time for for there as well,
yeah. But at that point the company
was super successful. Like you were making a lot of
money with that. This was before, so 10 years
ago, this would have been before you sold to the investors.
So from society standpoint, you were very successful with your
career for sure. And everybody was probably
congratulating you. But at the same time, internally
you were like, I've thrown away my health in the process.
Yeah, yeah, and, and, and and and yeah, and, and after, after
everything, you, you, you learn, learn that that kind of success
is it's, it's, it's, it's like nothing.
If if you don't have your, your health.
I could have all the money and I had, I'm not like a like a
billionaire or anything like that.
But got, got got quite, quite amount of money.
And it what, what it did to me. Then it's I, I buy lots of nice
things, nice house build, build a nice like a summer house and
and cut the new lacquer, very nice sports car and and
everything like that. But it never felt like it was
like like a get eating a candy or something.
It was fun for one day or like A and and then and I travelled a
lot, did the like the best Michelin restaurants and and go
like the nicest clubs. You can go like Avip and and
everything like that. But always inside felt so, so
like not happy for myself and and like like, like not worth a
certain certain kind of like I was still like very confident in
in because I was successful in, in, in in like business life.
And it never like I, I I've never been like how, how, how
they decided to describe like not had a bad like confidence
ever because of that. But but still inside I don't
know that. I I, I weren't fulfilled at all.
Yeah, Yeah. So when you sold your share of
the company, because you're, you're totally sold to the
investors, right? Like you don't have any shares
at the moment? At the at the moment, I had like
we, it, it's kind of a long story, but we have lots of like
a group companies that we were, we were group that then we sold
it to investment company and then they made it like a 11
company. And, and I, I, I got the like 3%
of that company shares and I, I continued to, to work there.
I think I was like 2 years still working there after we sold.
And I, I was quite big shareholder because the
company's I sold was the most like a best success in, in our
group. So I got the quite a big like a
whole of that. And, and and I've been like
saying like they would be worth worth like a 5 or €10 million
today if I like be continued it there.
But like I would never hesitate the second that I would change
them to my health because it's, it's the health now.
Now I got this point. It's everything is like so much
better and and we if I would continue like my old habits and
and got the like 5 or 10 million more, it would be.
Because you said you had some buddies that stayed in there.
Yeah, they've continued to decline in health, right?
Yeah, yeah, it's, yeah. It's been like seeing, seeing
other other people that that kind of success is like, it's
so, so taxing that. I think only like a very minor
people can like manage all all things that you can like keep
keep that working life so separate that you your private
life is you can like exercise and eat healthy and and I don't
think there are many people and people maybe like that.
That kind of sucks is people like see see that that's like
you want you want to like get and and and nothing bad like a
like a hunt hunt success or also in in that way.
But but if if, if you you don't like concentrate your hell that
at the same time, I think it's like a it's it's not worth it,
not worth at. All so you, you sold to the
investors, you took a lot of your share and you you built
your custom house on the lakefront property with a sauna
with seclusion and you just double down on your health.
You sleep as long as you need to, you wake up when you're
ready. You do the cold plunge sauna
every single day in Finland. You get your puppy dog, you make
all your own meals, you focus on your health.
You dropped half your weight and now you're just like on this
journey of self improvement. Yeah, exactly.
And and that started like a five years ago.
So so I, I left, left the company in it was quite late
2016 and then I wanted to start start already this like health
journey, but but and and it started quite well.
I I I we I like get the new business sold my my hobbies
being like I've been collecting this vinyl records and and we we
open at the record store at at Helsinki.
It was like AI wanted to like it was happy and then also wanted
to like a make a little bit of like a business, but it's quite
hard and it first it was quite fun, but but then I, I still
like AI was like a maybe a little healthier.
I didn't drink that much, but maybe one year after we, we
opened that, then then I, I started again like a increasing
alcohol very much. And then then some like that.
There was this one guy who was like a also a little share
shareholder in that company and he decided to leave the record
store or so. And that that went like, it was
hard to like manage that because I, I, I, I, I, I wasn't there
like like at working. So I was like in the back and
work, work some sometimes some something, but the I wasn't
meant to be also that I, I really like her always, always
are there. And then we, we sold, sold that
company to and then, then it, it came.
So like more and more and more like after, after you give up
those certain kind of structures in life, like I've been so work
like orientated it all because it it's still like a very close
comedy when you are in in and, and your life is like all that.
And then when you suddenly like stop.
And also also those like working like partners there when, when
they are out, they, they've been like a 15 years, like everyday
life. And then they, they like
disappear and also like like lots of like a friends and
everything like changes a bit when you like drop, drop that
kind of like the things in life. So it's.
And do you still have shares in the original company?
No, no, you sold out completely. Yeah, yeah, they we there is
this kind of like a agreement you you need to make when you
that if you leave, you need to sell your shares and and you
know certain kind of like a money also that you you don't
like if you leave before they they are these kind of investors
company that that bought us. They they they are already sold
like one time and to the another investment.
They are like making like a three to like a six year
investments that they they will like grow business a lot by by
by lots of different companies. And then they will resolve and
and and and when you when when it's resolved, it's called like
an exit. Then then you get the like like
the sell your stocks like in in that money you, you, you will
give. So so I I I needed to like I I
didn't get any like a more money from when I was sold, even if we
we were worth what more than at the time I said, but I needed to
like sell them at a certain like the same same kind of money.
Maybe I got maybe little more than I paid, but.
Yeah. So no longer any
responsibilities with that company and the record store
sold, so no longer responsibilities there.
No, yeah. At that point, you were still
drinking. Yes.
But you weren't, you were eating a little bit better at that
point, right? Are you still pretty heavy?
Yeah, yeah, I, I had like these these few moments like when when
I had those like like bad seizures at 10 years ago, I was
like 6 months eating more healthier and, and not drinking
at all. And, and then at the maybe 20-17
at the start, it was like a little bit like the same.
But then then after we sold this, this like record company,
then then it was like a the biggest, like a downfall for for
two years. Because you done everything like
that you were passionate about. I had nothing like a like a
structure in my life and it was quite funny.
I leave it in a like a roof house apartment in the middle of
Helsinki, like a one €1,000,000 apartment like a greatest place
in the Old Town, like a soul centre at at the town you can
but I never went to the I. I always ordered like a chunk
food to my home, went to the downstairs shop to get some beer
and and other alcohols. And then there was like this in
Finland we don't like a normal shops.
We cannot buy like a strong alcohols.
So there is like a shops for that, that has like a monopoly.
And then that that was like A11 kilometre away.
So I I went there and I drive with the car because I couldn't
like walk there. I went went to car and few times
a week and I bought a lot, lots of liquor like strong alcohol.
Was that when you were like, in your deepest, darkest, depressed
state? And that was when you were at
your heaviest weight, too. Yes, that then, then it was from
from 2018 to 2020. Then I, I gained like I think
maybe 12:10 or I, I didn't weigh myself ever, but but I, I
certainly know this that I, I, I didn't do anything like I I just
like watch it movies at my home and drink alcohol and a junk
food. That that's basically what I
did. Didn't want to see any people.
Just felt felt bad sometimes. So like a few few friends, but
most of times just it was just what?
Was from from that moment, you know, you had sold the big
company you had built, you sold the record store.
You're in the the Creme de la Creme part of town in Helsinki,
but you're drinking and you're kind of reclusive, like you're
just sticking to yourself for the most part, eating a bunch of
junk food. What was the like?
That's when you were having all the the sleep issues too I'm
assuming, right? Yeah, they were still going on.
Yeah, I, I I had this like that CPAP machine all the time and
yeah and yeah, my sleep was so awful and a ten time I I didn't
like I always like started to drinking like afternoon.
I didn't drink from the first thing in the morning.
That, that I always like to consider that, that Alcoholics
do that. And no, no, no, no, no, no one
else. But yeah, I and I, I still was
like some kind of like a health conscious.
I most of the days I still make in, in the morning when I, when
I could eat something. I make this like this, like a
fruit, like a smoothie. Definitely not keto though.
Definitely not nothing like keto and and ate took some vitamins
and still in in certain kind of way you still think that you are
kind of healthy. Yeah, I just get.
And you really don't see yours. It's so, so hard to describe it
how, because it's you, you, you know that you are not healthy
and you know when you look in the mirror that you are.
But inside there's still some like level that you as you do
those like take vitamins and and eat that they will somehow like
reverse all those stupid things you you are doing and.
What was the Because you've been sober now for how many years?
Five years comes now when I started 1st of January 2020, my
new new journey. And that's when you started
doing keto straight up. I was like a first month and a
half I was like this, this like a normal healthy, healthy
eatings. But it was amazing how how still
I was like I was eating still quite and still I was like so
hungry all the time. I ate like a oatmeal and bro
diet like yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
And and all the like a brown rice and potatoes and and yeah,
and still I was like hungry all the time.
And then then I have always been like a still like a watching
this scene as as I'm, as you mentioned, I've been always like
what watching your content still as you you were kiddo, because I
at 2008 and 9:00 and 10:00 when I was like this kiddo, I then
it's I I still like continue to like.
You know it works. Yeah, and I know it works and
and I always like what what what what's it like the those like
who who is like you and and then I don't know I don't I don't
even remember how I like AI think I some some YouTube video.
I I I saw in 2016 or 17 of yours like and and I I still like
watch it then all like a Sean Baker and those like a boss
Hardy. You know the stuff I even a few
years before I I started. I I still like a new and what's
what's there and and I think I always like I knew I knew it,
it, it it would work, but but it's like this super addict
being super addictive. It's it's so hard to like start,
start. But yeah.
So after maybe 1 1/2 years, then half months, I, I, I just also
the alcohol like removal symptoms was very, very severe
and very like so hard to sleep very like getting these certain
kind of panic attacks or, or or I don't know how to, but still
like waking up at night and still got lots of sleep was
terrible. Any anyway and it was very, very
hard. I, I leave it then by the solo
next to my like my parents. And I remember that my I asked
my mother to come with live with me when I started when I because
at the at the like end of my journey, I, I drink like a 20 to
25 portions of alcohol every day.
That's quite, quite a lot. And it was, I was like, afraid
that something might happen. When I like getting the shakes,
yeah. Yeah, yeah, I had like a like A
and I all at very last like maybe half year, I also started
my days with alcohol because I had such a bad like a hangover
that and that's the that's the time you you and I realized that
this is like a yeah, I'm going to like keep doing this like A5
next 5 or 10 years and then then I'm I'm I'm done because because
it was so bad. I had like a bad like every
morning I I was coughing so much and, and had very troubled time
to pre because I was so heavy and also like, I don't know, so
inflamed. I guess it was.
And yeah, that then then I started to drink and and I
remember it's quite funny that I, I, I bought this like a
Finland. We have this like a chin drink.
It's like got longer and there is this like a bilberry longer
that I somehow thought that it's little like a bit healthier
because it has bilberry like a tasty.
Nature of the alcohol. Yeah, yeah.
And yeah. And then yeah, because I I
started that then, then, then and when, when it and I always
started to drink. I haven't eaten anything because
it if, if I wouldn't like if I would eat, then it wouldn't like
a cut like the good, like a high from the alcohol if I would
drink it like. So I always drink to the empty
stomach, but still at the very end of of those times, it's,
it's like I couldn't like most of times it's, it was just like
a, like a keeping that I, I would even feel a little bit
like a normal. And that's quite interesting
because I'm watching lots of this like a Chris Palmer stuff
that he like that alcohol. When, when, when we are quite
instantly resistant. You, you get like this lactate
from the alcohol that like gives you like the, that energy that
that food cannot give it, that it makes you feel like a little
bit normal. And, and after now the the
ketones that keep I I don't think it, it's like a it's so,
so, so hard to like with that kind of alcohol comes from some
without any like drugs or that's how powerful this like way, way
of eating and life is because the ketones I think they are so
like the for the brain, so. They kind of bridge that gaps.
Yeah, yeah. And breaks that like a barrier
that that and because the first like, yeah, the one 1 1/2 months
I, I spent with I, I still had so much cravings to the, to the
alcohol and, and everything because, yeah, since like I've
been drinking like from from 2010 or 11.
When you are drinking that much, you're you are like quitting
every day of the year. So that's I always like bought
also alcohol like that that next day I was I didn't like or maybe
like I bought more most of like that one drink and Sunday and
then Monday I will stop and sometimes I stop and being like
a two days without or even one week or sometimes even two
weeks. But then then every time you you
you go back. But yeah, so I remember then
after that one one and a half, six weeks, that kiddo was so
great then. And so, so I, I really should
like and I, I watch it still like lots of this continent and
2020 it was coming more popular and popular and more like a
content creators and and yeah, then but I, I didn't start like
a carnivore or anything. I was like a starting keto, keto
and and and. How long did it take you to lose
the weight once you started keto?
Like if you started 2026 weeks in 2020 going full.
Board. So I was, I was at end of the
first year, I think I lost like 50 kilos a lot.
Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah.
And. You've been dining.
You've been dining kind of pretty much ever since.
Five years straight. Yeah, it's all.
About oh, maybe, maybe like A4 four last year it was four
months, like a first time. I was trying to build muscle and
bulk up and yeah. Yeah.
When did you start working out? Like when did you start bringing
that into the picture? So I, I started walking at first
or when I, when I, when I started 20/20 at January, I
started walking and I could, I, I remember there's this like a
small where where you dump the chunk and there's this one like
a little circle. I, when I started, I could walk
that like a one or two times and it, it's like 250 meters or
something. And I was so exhausted after
that. But then I.
Little by little started to one more round, one more round, one
more round. Then it's turned like a there's
this other like a circle that it was 2 kilometers.
Then I started to walk that and little by little, I think at the
first summer I, I was already walking like those like a 5
kilometres circles two times a day.
So basically the first two years I walk it like 15 to 20,000
steps every day. So so I I I walk, walk walk at
the most and the first year, maybe in autumn I started to
weightlift for the first time 2020.
What was your like friends and family group like?
Were they pretty supportive of you doing this or were they
involved at all or? Yeah, My, my, my lack of mother
and father, It has been very supportive.
My mother is like a little bit scared of the of what I what I
eat, but still super supportive. Have been but yeah, it's like
some kind of it's this when when you start this journey and and
also if you want to like it's because my friends saw most of
France was like still still still most are like eating this
junk food and eating. So I need to restrict a lot of
like I didn't see like maybe few friends were my closest friends
was the and I needed to cut and also like maybe some some would
cut cut me too because I wasn't drinking and doing that kind of
lifestyle. But yeah, it's I didn't see lots
of people even then when I started this because it was like
in my head that I need to. And then I make this like a
comeback and and now now I have maids also, but I I didn't like
a use social media. I started that like a six months
ago again. I was.
Put your head down and grinding man.
Yeah, yeah. And I, I, I'm, I'm that kind of
person that I don't like need like a woman or something like
in my life, like to have like a that, like a necessary that I
can be at myself. And I've been more most, most
time just alone. And I, I feel comfortable being
alone. I, I don't, I I kind of like,
like my solitude and, and are the person that if I'm close to
somebody with with lots of time, then and then it's like a it's
more like a that I need my like a all time.
And, and yeah, so, so that's why few it's now almost two years.
I moved, moved to the my lake house.
It's it's kind of middle of nowhere, especially at the
winter. I lived there all by myself and
closest neighbours are maybe one kilometre away and there I am.
I love it, man. I'm trying to remember when you
emailed because you, I remember getting an e-mail from you way
back in the very beginning. I don't even know what year that
would have been. That would have been probably
20/20/21 maybe. Yeah, yeah, something like them.
So I knew of you from that e-mail and I saw your before and
after pictures and it was super impressive.
And then when I launched the course earlier this year, 2024
and you did you, you bought the beta course then you won the.
Giveaway. Yeah, yeah.
And then I sent this like a e-mail to you as well.
Yeah, like, like, yeah. And then you won the giveaway.
Yeah. And I'm like, man, this.
Was so couldn't believe it then and still still couldn't
believe, but here I am. Yeah, here you are, man.
So you, you came in on Thursday, flew into Houston or Dallas in
Dallas and then drove up here, get here on Friday and what do
we do on Friday? Man, we, we did so much to try
to remember what all we did. We went out.
I came to here, yeah. And we just you toward the York.
Yeah, shows facility. Then we went to the steakhouse.
Steakhouse. Yeah, yeah.
Got a big old steak, 2 LB rib eye, so that was good.
And then on Saturday, we met up. You, you came to pick me up from
the capping, which you provided. Very nice capping, yeah.
You're big enough photographer, next time you have to bring your
camera because we got you in a cabin out in the woods.
There's all kinds of animals out there.
Armadillo was there. Yeah, armadillos.
All kinds of honks. Yeah, But then we met up with
Greg and we got a workout in at J Street Gym on Saturday in
workout, got a great workout in. After that we came back, met up
with Crystal and Riger. Then we went on a four mile, 4
1/2 mile hike around Lincoln. Yeah, it was amazing.
Weather was perfect, everything here.
That was good. That was good.
We're pretty. Yeah.
I was carrying Riger. That was a little double workout
there and then we'll be do. We went over to the house and we
ate a ton of food, man. That I had never seen steaks so
big. Yeah, it was like a that thing
had to be 3 lbs three # Chuck Rose for sure.
Had that crystal made some keto cheesecake?
That was the best ever. I I don't think there can be any
better cheesecake than that. You still need to give that
recipe. I will, I will, I will.
We had that. We had stuffed mushrooms,
jalapeno poppers, pork rinds. We were eating the cheesecake a.
Little cut. Little cut.
Yeah, yes, you cook some kind. By the way, man, you are the
only person that's ever been able to cook fish that Crystal
actually likes. So that that was good.
Yeah. And then we had a cheesecake
slice and we wound up having a second cheesecake slice, all
keto, so no worries. Yeah, that was good.
And then Sunday, yesterday, what'd we do?
Sunday we we got together for another workout.
We went to Ozark. Island then went to the crystal.
Yeah, we went to Crystal Bridges like a world run out Art Museum
here. We toured that.
They like this western themed travelling exhibit.
We did that. Then came back, we grilled some
of that elk that I got a few weeks back.
Once again, amazing. More cheesecake.
And some gorgonchola melted. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that was good. And yeah.
And that brings us to the day, man.
Yeah. And it's going to be good.
We're going to have you making some keto bricks after the
podcast here. So you can see that this was the
first time you had a keto brick was when you came here.
Yeah. Because, yeah, I've been wanted
to order them so many times, but it's, yeah, the shipping and all
the customs, it's been like a mess.
So where did that for solar? And that was the first thing I
ate Friday when I came. Yeah, yeah.
And it was so amazing. I'm glad to hear it man.
We went to the Western store to try and get you a cowboy hat.
Yeah, but they were. But they didn't have any white
ones. Won a white cowboy.
Dallas and find find the white one.
Well, when you go to Dallas, you'll have plenty of options
for cowboy hats, and you're also going to get some BBQ there too.
Yeah, in Austin as well. Austin as well, yeah.
You have to get a beef rib. A BBQ beef rib man.
Yeah, that you you suggested. So yeah, that I will definitely
try. So we'll do that.
But yeah, man, it's pretty freaking awesome time having you
here. I'm going to for sure have to go
to Finland now. Yeah, check.
Out your Sonic Cold Plunge combo.
Yeah, because, yeah, I just wanted to thank you so much
because this is like being one of the best weekends I have ever
spent and you have been. So your hospitality and
generosity is being because everybody in I watch a lot of
this content in this like keto carnivore space and everybody
says how like a good person you are and and and it's you, you
have been that and more and even.
I appreciate that man. Seeing you in person, Yeah.
And dream come true to meet. Meet you in person.
Well, likewise, it's cool for me to be able to meet people all
over the world, hear their stories and, and it's like, it's
cool for me to talk with you because like people have this
idea of what success is, you know, maybe it's monetary, maybe
it's relational, maybe it's health, wealth, combination of
all the above. But like it's cool to listen to
you because you checked a lot of those boxes and you kind of
sacrificed your health in the process.
And I've had several clients that are like that, like they're
very successful from a monetary standpoint.
But like if you, you could have all the money in the world, but
if you don't have your health, you got nothing, you know?
So that's the message. I want to like that.
That's why I want to and I also give like people's hope that
because the way I was, it's quite like a traumatic how
obese, morbidly obese I was. And here I am without any like
drugs or, or it, it's just this way of eating and, and life.
And it's, it's almost hard to like describe how like
everything changed. It's like like in all aspects of
of life have changed so much. When, when, when, when, when,
when you are like a consistent with with with this kind of
living. And it's yeah, but I want to
give like a people hope and also like that every you, you can do
it. Do it because if I can do it,
you you can do it. And you don't need any like
miracles, but. And you're thriving now, man.
Like you get a naturally occurring total testosterone of
1300 because you're checking the right boxes, you're eating the
right food, you're active, you're sleeping, you're you're
stress free. Like you're allowing your body
to function as it should and it's rewarding you in the
process. So like, you know, we got two
good solid workouts in while you were here.
We're going to keep pushing the envelope there.
And now it's starting to do like a new, new, new chapter because
five years I've been dieting. And so now, now it's time to
build some muscle and let's see how how that goes.
Maybe I I will join after few years your competition.
Hey man, we'd love to have you. I think that's good too.
Like a lot of people spend so much time dieting and it's hard
when you've lost a bunch of weight, totally transformed your
physique to like embrace the other side of actually seeing
the scale go up and eating more food.
But like, you can't keep dieting.
It's not good for you. So you've taken some time to
build muscle. Realized that because now we've
been you've been coaching me also like the last four four
months yeah because it has been this like obsessed in my mind
that I need to be in certain like under 10% fat and someday I
will be but but maybe now it's not the like the ideal time
because five years of consistent.
Well, if you focus on building muscle now, you can focus on
getting to that sub 10% for the competition after you've had
some time in the building place. That that that's my my like
thought also now it's. Going to be good man and you
have inspired me to get an old school record player.
That's. Fantastic.
So I'm gonna I'm gonna start rocking some old school vinyl
now. You've got quite the collection.
I mean you get, you said you got like 5000 records or something.
Like that I don't mind, but 3000?
3000 records. Yeah, that's pretty impressive,
man. But yeah, it's, it's cool.
I like bringing people from all over the world and just learning
from them and what they're interested in.
So you've definitely imparted on me the desire to get some some
record players go to that vinyl shop that we went to, Yeah.
It it was great scored some few few findings on.
Yeah, yeah. That's awesome, man.
Yeah. Where can people go to follow
you? Just dive into your journey a
little bit more and learn more about what you get going on.
Well, I have this this Instagram, maybe you can put
some like a new songs. Yeah, how to spell that Yeah.
There. I I started like a six months
ago to not not that much. Maybe this this kind of like a
training or or or eating, but my life.
I put there quite a much my my so if you want to follow there,
yeah. Yeah, I'll link after that for
sure, man. Yeah, we'll definitely do this
again. Like I'm going to come up to
Finland now for sure. We'll have to have you come
back. Down here to Arkansas.
I will definitely come back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 100% man, we
are. It's been a pleasure, brother.
Yeah, we'll go make some keto bricks before you head out, man.
We'll go take some progress pictures.
We got some documentation there and then we'll go make some keto
bricks and we'll call it a wrap. Fantastic and thanks again for
everything. Appreciate you, brother.
Appreciate you. It's been an honor.