Story time... three years ago, I was FAT! I know that's not the "politically correct" term to use today, but there's no other way to put it... I was 350+ pounds and my gut was blowing out a 48L suit to the point where I could barely button the jacket.

To make it worse, at 44 years old, I was already beginning to suffer from health problems associated with morbid obesity, including persistent edema, which is often a sign of early kidney or heart failure.

I could barely walk to the end of my driveway and back without pain in my legs and being short of breath. I had weird pains that would pop up out of nowhere, and because I also developed sleeping problems, I was always low on energy.

Years and years of living a sedentary lifestyle after an injury, had caught up to me. My body was weak. I was weak. And I didn't even know it.

I've heard so many people talk about aches and pains and problems as they age, that I actually thought this is just what happens when you're getting older.

But it wasn't until one of my sister's weddings that I actually saw myself for what I'd become that I had a serious wake up call, and I knew that if I didn't lose the weight and fix my health, I wouldn't be here for much longer.

So I began my journey, but it wasn't quite what I expected. Like so many others, I tried program after program, diet after diet, supplement after supplement, drug after drug, and even coach after coach, and any success I had was short-lived.

I always gained back the weight...

It frustrated me to no end, but I was determined to figure out how to not only lose the weight, but keep it off for good!

I never learned the actual science! What I mean is, you can't embark on a health journey and not learn about health, but you don't really learn science - you learn concepts and terms, (usually enough to convince you to buy something), but you don't learn the science.

And I wanted to learn the whole science about how the body worked, because if I could learn that, then I knew that I could figure out how to lose the weight permanently.

Sure enough, on my journey I heard a lot of keywords like metabolism, and calorie deficit, and ketosis, and so many others that just get thrown around.

I listened to so many "experts" talk and teach concepts that I thought that because I was familiar with those words and concepts that I knew how how weight loss worked - I didn't.

So, I decided to stop listening to the experts who were trying to sell me stuff, and started studying for myself.

I began reading books on biology, metabolism and more. I spoke with actual experts who practice medicine and have experience healing people.

And once I had learned the untold science - the stuff that doesn't get shared,  (maybe they think if you know you wouldn't buy) - I created my own strategy, (not a diet, or program, but a strategy), based on the science.
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​In fact, I turned my own body into a laboratory to learn and apply the science, and then I wrote this book to help others.