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Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield here.

And sometimes we get folks onto the podcast who really are out there in the trenches, living

life, getting things done and getting some really cool and interesting results.

And today I have a listener on also a guy who is really out there and involved in the

nutrition and the health community as a health advocate.

He's a family man, a father of five, he's been married for 28 years.

He's got a lot of stuff going on and his name is BJ Tucker.

Now BJ has an interesting story that we'll delve into today because he used to be very

overweight and I'll put a picture of BJ's former weight as well as what he looks like

now over in the show notes at Ben Greenfield Fitness.com.

But he was out of shape, overweight, really into alcohol and some other things we'll

get into today.

And then he lost a lot of weight.

He lost 75 pounds and he did it by eating plants and running.

And BJ actually recently featured an article that I wrote called Ten Steps to Mastering

a Plant-Based Diet over on his website, which I'll link to in the show notes.

But BJ was interested in that topic because he is a self-described plant-powered athlete.

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