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Get Leaner & Live Longer

Episode #1 The One About How Adam Lost 100lbs

Get Leaner & Live Longer

Nate Palmer

Nutrition, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.9300 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Adam starts at the beginning and talks about his 100lb weight loss journey. He prides himself on being a "product of the product" and leading by example. He discusses a critical moment in his life where everything changed for the better and how we created a five year plan with a deadline and accomplished every item on the list!

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Transformation Coach.

0:03.1

Me Podcast, and I'm your host, Adam Shibely.

0:07.6

Let's get after it. So we're going to kick this podcast series off with a little bit of a story.

0:20.4

I'm tell you about a guy back in July 2007. This was a guy that weighed 330

0:28.1

pounds and he was standing in the middle of a grocery store with his credit credit card in his hand, not sure that they had

0:34.7

enough money to pay for the grocery bill.

0:37.6

He was $40,000 in credit card debt, and this guy was me. At the time I was a strength coach so I was

0:49.0

a guy that was supposed to be healthy sort of I weighed 330 pounds like I said I was strong but I didn't

0:55.4

really represent what you you would consider to be a healthy person I was a

1:00.8

strength coach I was a strong guy I was competing in strength athletics I was helping

1:04.5

athletes get stronger but really I was working with a lot of high school athletes and I felt

1:12.2

like a muscle-bound babysitter at times. I wasn't happy with where I was at in life,

1:17.0

with my career. I did have one good thing going. I had a great relationship with a young lady that I of course met at

1:23.8

the gym since I was a meathead and recently she had told me that she was

1:29.7

planning on moving about an hour away to pursue a higher degree of education.

1:35.0

So I had that going for me as well.

1:37.0

So I was a little bit bummed out at this moment.

1:39.0

And, you know, I left that grocery store feeling like that was my rock bottom moment and I needed to make a decision that I was going to change everything.

1:52.0

So I went home and the funny thing is some of my friends

1:56.2

had noticed that I had become a bit of what I call now a crap magnet and you know it's kind of a drag to be around. I didn't enjoy where I was at and I was

2:06.4

dragging other people down with me. So two different friends actually had left me a DVD called The Secret. It was about the law of attraction.

2:16.0

And the DVD had been sitting on my DVD player for several weeks.

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