Welcome to the low-carb MD podcast, where we seek progress, not perfection.

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the low-carb MD

podcast thank you so much for joining us we're excited about this one it's good to

have my buddy Trot back Trot how's things how are you doing?

Oh very happy to be, very happy to be here. Very excited to talk with Terry today.

Yeah, me too. Well, Terry, our background is they kidnap me, Trot. And do you remember that in Denver?

At the low-car of Denver?

I get hooked up with Brenda Zorn and Terry

and a bunch of the IDM people and we went out

and we had a lot of, it was kind of a surreal experience because we jumped into this car I remember it was cold and we're laughing like kids it was like being a teenagers again we're just laughing having a good time we go to Brenda's cousin's house I think the Zorn's and they were very kind to us and

gave us a little wine and guess what Carl Franklin is there making his new

noodles and so I'm sitting there looking at one of my heroes who gave me my start and I'm having noodles that are low-carb that he's like gonna be a multi-millionaire on anyways. It was just great fun. We just had a lot of great conversation a great time and then I'm looking at Terry's story

Terry. It's pretty remarkable what you're doing what you've done what you've accomplished. I think people are going to love to hear your life story and what you've gone through because it is a lot of our stories and you know it's going to ring true and and help people who are frustrated with their plateaus and gaining weight back and losing weight and doing all this.

So tell people about your story, you know,

growing up and what brought you now

to being an educator for IDM. Sure, thanks Brian.

Well, I would say I started struggling with my weight as a young kid.

I would say probably by about the age of eight,

I was already gaining weight and already developing some

really unhealthy relationships with food and weight had been kind of an

issue in my family and so I think you know no one made a really big deal of it.

I started to feel worse about it as I got older you know I was the kid who was always heavy set and then in high school you know socially it became more of a problem for me and so I I did a big step for me and I joined a weight loss program and so this was back in the 80s and

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