Hey everyone Me: Kevin here in this video I'm going to talk about how much I lost and how much I did it first though I Have to thank all of those of you who signed up for a day to shadow me. I'm totally flattered as we go look for real estate by flying with the private jet to a destination so we can meet real estate agents, chat about startups and YouTube or social media real estate investing whatever you want. It's going to be a wonderful day for you to Shadow me and it's so exciting if you want to learn more about that. it's linked down below right next to the links for the courses.

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Uh for that day of shadowing me? uh and again we we will be raising the price on those Shadow days because uh, way more people signed up than we thought which I'm honored by. but I also want to honor the expiring day which is tomorrow. Okay, so now we got to talk about how much I lost and how so in January of last year I felt miserable right after I sold my stocks I went skiing and I remember just looking at stocks and I'm like man was it the right decision to sell my stocks and I'm skiing and I'm realizing I can't get down the ski slopes I had gained way too much covid weight. uh in fact I uh well let's just say I gained over 45 pounds and it was, uh, way too much covered weight.

In fact, this is the before photo and in just a moment I'll show you the after photo to where when I was skiing and going down normal slopes like Blues double Blues single blacks I I couldn't do it I couldn't bend my knees on the double black. uh sorry, not the double black I don't go double blacks I couldn't bend my knees to get down the the single black so I'd fall down them. uh on the blues I had to stop three or four times I felt really bad about myself I couldn't I wasn't running but when I tried to go run I was running like 11 minute miles on five minutes or five miles and I'm just like this is embarrassing like I can't move I feel exhausted, winded going up the stairs at my home two-story home I can't get down to ski slopes like this is ridiculous I I need to fix this. So from January of last year to now I've kind of done my best to lose as much weight as possible and uh, I've gone a little bit too far in the other direction of the pendulum to where I think I'm I wait too little right now which is fine.

it's part of my goal. uh, and I'm gonna talk about that. but I want to reveal how much I lost and how I did it in this video. so I lost uh that 45 pounds I was just over 180 pounds.

uh and now I weigh about 139 and a half which is like crazy. Here's the after photo of mostly just cardio and diet. it's it's way too low I probably need to weigh somewhere around 150 160. uh after hitting the gym which is my plan for 2023 and uh, what I do want to say though is I wanna I wanna share how how I lost weight? uh and uh in sort of my beliefs surround fitness and health because I think that's a an important thing going into 2023 a lot of folks might might you know, take some inspiration hopefully or or some ideas here.

So uh, my basic rule of thumb was uh, very similar to what I do now, which is, uh, obviously, uh, you gotta exercise right? Losing weight is a very simple factor of calories in calories Out genetics maybe make a five to ten percent difference according to research I was doing with Harvard but there's very little evidence that says you can't lose weight solely because of your genetics. Again, maybe it's five or ten percent harder. but most of weight loss comes down to actually exercising and and simply eating less. What I did notice is the more I exercised the hungrier I was so sometimes if if I went through sort of periods of time where I'm like, okay I I don't have time to exercise I was actually not very hungry and it was easier to have a caloric deficit, right? Generally, if you have a 2 000 calorie a day diet and you eat 500 calories less than in in seven days, you'd lose about 35 100 calories.

or you'd have a deficit of that which is nearly a pound right? about 3 600 calories. uh. However, I I don't like under eating I like eating a lot. Uh, I'm really a big fan of eating very very healthy foods and so what? I found my my core diet uh has and this has almost always been my diet.

Uh, but like the vast bulk of what I would eat throughout the day uh, would be cereal in the morning and then the bulk of the rest of the day. fruit and nuts I Know that sounds crazy to some folks I would certainly have a meal. uh, maybe once every two or three days. Uh, Lauren would we would have like a salmon meal? or we'd go to a restaurant or whatever and so I'd get some variety.

but I feel like I just lived off of fruit and nuts and I'm actually I feel great like I I feel so energetic I run really fast. Now in my opinion I'm not super fast, but I can finally break eight minutes a mile again on you know, five miles which is great I don't feel exhausted at all I feel like super light I feel like I gotta float around and it's awesome. But I'm a big fan of fruit and nut nuts along with obviously a healthier meals Mediterranean diet style. But if you look at the Mediterranean diet pyramid, the bulk of it is whole grains.

You know, whole wheat bread. not not the junky kinds of whole wheat. uh, which are roots are like 10 blends of whole wheat. real good whole wheat, uh cereal, whole wheat breads, a lot of fruit and nuts.

big part of the Mediterranean diet food pyramid. and then less so like fish and chicken, and then even less so obviously candy, chocolates, uh, alcohol. You got to keep that moderated because you could just drink yourself to weight gain. It's it's that's very bad.

Uh, and what I found is a lot of people thought that was crazy because they'd say things like oh, but but nuts are so high in fat. Well, nuts are actually really high in good fats, especially if you get dry roasted nuts. They're extremely, uh, high fat in polyunsaturated monounsaturated fats, which are extremely healthy for you. In fact, you want to have more of those fats in your diet because they fill you up right, they make you feel full, and they're extremely healthy unsaturated fats with the exception of trans fats which are also unsaturated but those are more in like fried Goods uh.

unsaturated fats. Really, really, incredibly healthy. a core of the Mediterranean diet. Olive oils right? Have that on on a sandwich instead of butter.

These things were great and I just ate as I ate until I was full I I never felt like I was hungry because I was just eating as many nuts as I wanted I'm a big fan of nuts I love salty nuts especially and fruit. I would go on runs and then I'd sit there and I'd eat a whole melon, a whole cantaloupe, a whole uh, you know, honeydew melon, watermelon. the and some people like Kevin that's crazy. There's there's so much sugar.

But when you actually do research on the sugar that's in Fruit these are, uh, these they are. You know fructose is a simple sugar, but it's uh, it's brought to you in sort of a package that is so heavily filled with water and fibers that you're not getting this sort of insulin. uh, a spike that you would ordinarily get if you just had like a chocolate bar. and so you I never feel sort of like a crash after fruit if anything I just feel more energized and so uh, the fruit that you get in its natural form and the vitamins and minerals that you get from things in their natural form.

whether it's fruit or or nuts or or beans or lentils or whatever, or chicken or salmon, it's so good. uh like I feel 2022 was a very stressful year for me in many regards, but in terms of like losing weight and like physical health I I feel so much better now than I did last year. Uh, so that was really probably my biggest secret is uh I just I would run. uh, you know I tried to run every day although I wasn't the best of that.

Uh so maybe on average I only ran maybe three times a week if I average it out over the year I try to run more but again, the more I ran, the more hungry I was. but I just filled that up with with uh, nuts and and fruit I'm very, very healthy natural food and and I never let myself get to the point of feeling like I was hungry. Yeah, there were sometimes I would feel a little hungry. uh, but that was because I was kind of I purposely tried delaying sometimes my breakfast in the morning because I noticed that if I had my breakfast too early, I started to get tired.

uh, earlier. and that's because my breakfast always consisted of too big of a bowl of cereal and so I would overeat. and then if you overeat, you feel tired. Uh, in this case, it wasn't the type of food it was, it was just that it was overeating.

and I always like adding flaxseed to my cereal as well. but uh, if I'd delayed eating up until right before my run have a banana or an apple right before my run, you know, get a little bit of energy right before the Run uh then then I could eat afterwards and I always thought that was. uh, that worked out well. so that was sort of.

If I ever felt hungry, you'd be somewhere around maybe 11 or 12 right before I try to run in the middle of the day mostly because I enjoy running in the Sun so some people are like oh, Kevin uh, you know, are you spray tanning and it's like no, I'm just running in the Sun every day. uh and and so I really enjoy that I'm a big fan of that. I also am a big believer that and I don't know this with certainty. You know I'm not a doctor or whatever, but I believe that if you have some color to your skin, it's a lot harder to burn.

And burns are really bad, right? Burns are cancerous, Burns are bad. Uh, and so you want to try to. If you're going to be out in the sun, you want to do everything you can to avoid burning. Uh, so now my goal for 2023 and I haven't really started? I went to the gym.

like maybe one day I have a gym. Uh, but uh. my goal for 2023 is actually to on a daily basis. Uh, work out and go to the gym.

So uh, we'll see how how things can transform in 2023. Uh, but uh yeah. I'm pretty happy right now. I I know I've gone too far to one side.

but I also think that what's really cool is if if you lose too much weight obviously it's really easy to gain weight, that's generally an easy thing to do. Uh, but uh, it's easier than to see growth as you're at the gym and sort of muscle definition and such. So so we'll see what what I can achieve for next year. But uh yeah, I'm excited I'm very, very happy.

Check out those programs linked Down Below in the shadow cabin for 2023. Uh, flight days? Those will be really cool. Look forward to seeing you there. Uh, we'll learn a lot about real estate and otherwise and uh, we'll see you soon! Thanks so much for watching this and happy.