Hey everyone, Ben-Cuba Radio. I am back with John Mills in Part 1. We talked about his bodybuilding

journey, some of the reasons why he did it, about winning a pro pro card and we started to get into you know what

he experienced from a health perspective and I'm gonna I'm gonna dig deeper

into that now because that's kind of the area that I'm you know more interested in

because for me health always comes first to the body if you're doing something and

it creates any kind of healthy habit unhealthy habits it know, your sleep patterns, your well-being, you then

need to question it. It's then not becoming conductive to a healthy lifestyle and that's why we do

this stuff, right? We do health and fitness to lead a better life we don't want it to become our lives which is very very important so John welcome back I did then

I got good so we're going straight into this head first.

So when I was watching the film, it all seemed really nice and pretty and you know things panned out nicely and the

training was going well and then there was a point where you had like you had a

bit of a rough week your your kind of your mindset shifted you had a hard one and then you got to four weeks out and then it really

started to show its kind of colours.

Describe that transition from, you know, the first whatever, eight, 12 weeks and then the last four weeks and make people aware of kind of what you experienced on a health and performance level.

Yeah, I think the first few weeks you're just getting used to measuring your food out,

getting into the routine, starting to feel really good about the training.

My macros, and My macros are relatively high. My

fats were pretty high. So I was loving life really. I was enjoying the structure like any

athlete, you know being given a, or ex-athlete, being given a structure to work from normally I'm giving the training program and the diet

so it was nice to be on the issue to be on the other foot.

So it was great to have that structure. And as you saw, I think, it was around the time that I got, we got invited out to some friends for a weekend festivities, I suppose. And I knew that there was going to be food

and drink there that I potentially not that I couldn't have it but I was going to be

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