This is Jocco Podcast number 428 with Eco Charles and me.

Jocco Willink good evening echo.

Good evening After a lifetime of dieting my patient Leila decided she had had enough

A 46 year old chef who suffered from rheumatoid arthritis

that left her fatigued and in pain, Leila weighed 317 pounds when she started treatment

with me. The medication she needed to keep her immune

system in check, kept packing on pounds and draining her energy. She was close to giving up. My first goal for Lala was to help her move the needle on the

scale. To give her the boost of an early win, step one was to get her moving. She began walking on her lunch break and incorporated

three additional 10 minute walks throughout the day. Next we got Lala started with resistance exercises

to assist with quality weight loss that decreased fat tissue without

sacrificing muscle. Once we got Lala moving, we focused on her nutrition. We

anchored her first and last meals with protein and she eliminated all snacking.

Within seven months Lala had lost nearly 60 pounds.

As exciting and rare as that weight loss was it wasn't even her biggest

accomplishment. She was most proud of the health benefits that flowed once

her body composition shifted.

Her joint pain decreased allowing her to reduce her arthritis medication, her blood

markers such as fasting insulin blood glucose triglycerides which can

gauge the risk of coronary artery disease all improved. The most inspiring part of

her story though was realizing that her body wanted to get stronger.

Shocked by our own success, Lala grew less hungry and more encouraged. She could

not believe how easy it was for her to feel so much better.

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