Cold plunge thoughts.
Water is 45, according to my little thermometer here.
A year ago I took a picture that I'm going to post on my Instagram today, at Jethro Jones.
And I weighed 263 pounds. For my weigh-in this week I was down to 193,
so it's been down 70 pounds.
Talked about the first 40 I lost with the
MLM starvation cult but now I'm
going to talk about what I've done since then which has been sustainable
and incredibly empowering so
I joined a group called superhuman fathers led by Kyle Carnahan and here's what
happened I met Kyle at an event in April of this year and I told him that I
was interested in starting a coaching thing for men.
And he said, Jethro, why would anybody come to you for coaching? You're fat.
I was like, dang, that's harsh.
Now, mind you, I had already lost 40 pounds at this point. So I was feeling good.
But that 40 pounds, like I said yesterday, I was still fat and I could feel it. I didn't like it.
But the other thing that I noticed when Kyle said that I was fat and nobody would listen to me.
The other thing I noticed was the spirit said to me, listen to this guy.
He's telling you the truth. He's telling you like it is. You can learn something from him.
You can learn a lot of things from him. And so we exchanged numbers and he sent
me a message later and he said, hey, let's set up a call.
Let's talk and let's see how I can help you.
And I avoided doing it for about a week week because I knew,
I just knew when I got on the phone with him, I was going to join his program,
and I didn't have any money at the time.
So sure enough, I got on the call a couple of days later and I was totally in.
And there are two things that I think are really important.
Number one, even though Kyle was super harsh with me, all I felt was love from
him. I didn't feel judgment.
When he said I was fat, he wasn't judging me. He was just stating an obvious
truth. I was overweight.
And he said something really interesting with that.
He said that people need to see you and believe that you can give them what they want.
And if they look at some fat guy who's trying to coach them to be better in
their life, they're never going to trust that that he's actually going to do
that when he can't even keep his weight in control.
So the first thing was I felt love from Kyle. The second thing was that Kyle
said, it's not even about your body.
It's about everything else that comes with it. It's about the discipline.
It's about who you become in the process.
And that is really the amazing part.
The way that I've grown, the way that I've improved in my business since joining
Superhuman Fathers, The way that I've been a better husband and father since I've joined it.
All of that, you just can't compare.
It's been amazing. And I'm not even close to being done.
That's the part that's really cool. This is a journey.
And I finally feel like I've achieved something that is sustainable.
That's not going to be a yo-yo type thing. It's not going to be a fad diet that
I go through because I'm really changing who I am to be more in line with who God has made me to be.
And I think that that's really powerful also.
So the love I felt from Kyle and the recognition that this was a spiritual process
and a spiritual growth, that's what has made this really powerful.
So what does it look like though? Well, I eat according to macros,
so I've got certain targets that I try to hit on my macros, fat, protein, and carbs.
I didn't even know what macros were when I started, and they were like,
you need to hit your macros. And I was like, what does that even mean?
And now, every time I eat, I'm looking at what those things are.
I've lost about 30 pounds doing this, so a little bit less than the MLM Starvation Cult.
But man I mean you can see my shoulders here
I am definitely getting more fit because
I do workouts as well and that's been really good but the stuff that's really
powerful is what you can't even see you can't even see it you can only feel
it and you can only experience it that's the part that's really cool because
those things are happening inside me not on the exterior let's go.