Goal #1 - Lose Ten Pounds

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Hello friends and welcome to Uncle Marv's unhealthy
podcast. This is the show where we try to look

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at all the things that are unhealthy in our
life and try to replace all those choices with

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good healthy ones. Yes, that's right folks,
Uncle Marv here and I wanted to take a little

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time and explain my trailer and this is the
first full episode. And I figured I should

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spend a little time and tell you a little bit
more about my situation and what I'm looking

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to do One of the things that I had talked about
doing was holding myself a little more accountable

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To what it is that I want to do and the tagline
for the show is pretty much live healthy and

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be happy So I do want to get in better shape.
I want to Feel better about my body. I want

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to feel better about the work that I do the
life that I live in both, you know, working

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and recreation. But one of the things that I
really want to focus on is I had spent a lot

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of time watching YouTube videos in my office
and I got away from playing music all day long.

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I got away from the talk shows and I started
trying to look for things that would enhance

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my life kind of like my own self help journey.
But I started actually listening. to some of

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the shows and some of them were talk shows,
some of them were YouTube influencers and they

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would have on guests and celebrities and so-called
doctors and some of the stuff that they were

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saying was just outrageous. And I started thinking
to myself, how much of this is really true?

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And that's what I wanna do is, spend some time
going through some of those things that they

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talk about on YouTube, but more importantly,
I want to find out what truly is healthy and

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unhealthy. Now, how this will relate back to
me is one of the things that I wanted to do.

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I just wanted to lose 10 pounds. That was always
my first goal. And I started about a year ago

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on this journey. And my wife used to work for
LA weight loss. And she thought that she had

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the answer because she found out what worked
for all the men in that program and we did

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that and for I don't know the first three or
four weeks everything seemed to be going great

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and then all of a sudden it wasn't And we couldn't
figure out why she was at a loss I reached

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out to some other people I tried some keto things
and like the first couple of days it was okay

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and then it was like I couldn't do the keto.
Now I probably didn't do it right, I will be

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honest about that, but that didn't seem to be
working for me and we started looking at some

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of the plans that they were talking about online,
the Golow and all those other things and I

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thought those can't be right and I don't want
to spend that kind of money when the stuff

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that we should be able to do should be free.
So that's what I wanted to focus on. One of

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the things that I can do where I don't have
to spend $500 a month and buy these special

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foods and stuff. We lived a long time on this
planet without having to buy special food.

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I know that things are different and there's
so much processed chemicals and so much sugar

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and so much stuff in our foods. I know we can
find them. So whether it's organic or farm

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fresh or whatever the term is, I'm going to
figure it out. But one of the things that I

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do want to do is I'm going to look at what I
think are the very basic concepts of, you know,

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living life in a healthy and sustainable way.
So these are the tips that at least I'm going

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to try to work on. and whatever programs or
whatever tips that I can get from other people

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to go into this, this is what I'm going to do.
But I've got six steps in helping me lose 10

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pounds. And listen, I'm going to put a month
goal into this because September 7th, I've

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got a conference that I want to go to and I've
got to be the MC and I've got to stand up on

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stage. And I would like to have a little fatter,
flatter FL, flatter belly. when I get up on

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stage. So that's what I'm working on. So September
7th is what I'm shooting for to have a flatter

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belly, hopefully lose 10 pounds. Probably not
realistic, but at least I want to start working

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for it. So here are the six steps that I've
come up with and feel free to write me message

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me, tell me that I'm wrong or tell me where
I can tweak.

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or deficit. And no, I'm not going to edit this.
Create a calorie deficit. So we all know that

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eating fewer calories is one of the best ways
to lose weight. So figuring out what that means

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to me is that some is the first thing I'm going
to do. I think the goal is to reduce my calories

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by 500 to 1000 a day. And that could or should
results in about one to two pounds per week.

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And that's gonna be the first thing. Number
two, increase exercise. And this is the thing

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that I said I did not wanna do when I stopped
playing basketball and stopped playing, well,

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golf isn't really a sport, but I haven't played
that in a while. I'd like to go back and play

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golf, but that is not going to count towards
my weight loss program. And everybody always

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talks about aiming you know, spend about two
hours a week in moderate heart pumping cardiovascular

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exercise and, you know, running, cycling, hiking,
jump ring rope, and even something as simple

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as walking. I used to do that with the wife.
We probably need to work that back into the

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schedule. So that is going to be on the, on
the docket here. So Number one, create a calorie

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deficit. Number two, increase exercise. Three,
eat more protein, which I think I do already.

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I mean, I eat a lot of eggs. I eat a lot of
chicken. Should find a way to get more fish

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in my diet. I'll figure that out. Number four,
drink water. And the bottom line with that

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is it's actually, replace all the other crap
that I'm drinking with water. So getting rid

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of the soda. is probably the number one thing.
Now I have heard different reports, I'm gonna

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research this, but I think that I can keep my
coffee if I do a healthy alternative. I think

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I can keep my tea, which I do herbal teas. I
don't do just your, you know, Lipton iced tea.

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I do a ginger turmeric something tea is what
I usually do in the afternoon. So I think I'm

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gonna keep that but it's really gonna be my
goal to get rid of all the soda, all the sugary

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beverages and replace them with water. Number
five, limit the processed foods. And that is

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all the things that are high in calories, high
in sugar. I don't know what unhealthy fats

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are. So I know that every time we talk about
the processed foods, they always talk about

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the unhealthy fats, but I'm going to figure
that out. They always talk about, you know,

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adding whole nutrient dense foods like fruits,
vegetables, lean proteins. I'll figure out

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what all that is. So that is number five is
limit the processed foods. And number six,

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track your progress. This was probably one of
the things that I never really wanted to do,

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whether it was getting on the scale every day
or every week. I wanted it to be something

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where I can kind of eyeball it myself. I can
tell if I'm... feeling better or looking better,

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but I think that putting up with a way to track
is probably going to be the best way to, you

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know, figure out if I'm doing it right and hold
myself accountable. So I got to figure out

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which method I'm going to use to track my progress
and see if it's just a matter of writing stuff

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down. I really don't want to keep track of my
foods and keep track of the calories, but That's

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it. Those are my six things And that is my step
one in Living healthy and being happy. I'll

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be back with another episode soon to talk about
another piece of the Puzzle that I'm gonna

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be looking for in this podcast and then I think
after the next episode I will be starting to

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bring on guests So thank you all for downloading
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motivation and learn to live happy and be healthy.