Well, let me tell you a little bit more about me, for years I was under weight and didn’t think a thing about it. I ate what I wanted when I wanted to and rarely ever ate healthy. I was working out but without any knowledge of what I was doing. Besides not knowing what I was doing, I sure didn’t know how to eat. I persisted to ask every guy that looked semi-in-shape for advice, but to no avail! If they knew, they sure weren’t telling me anything. After I got married, (nearly 10 years ago) I switched jobs and left my electrical and maintenance background and opted for the life of landscaping.

This change was inspired by the overwhelming need for sunlight, being trapped in a dark factory wasn’t the life for me. My wife and I (Carissa) were happy to be together. One day after a doctors appointment my wife told me that the doctor was worried about her breast health. She had a high probability for cancer, that certainly got our attention! But we did nothing for two years, after which we had our first child. At this time, my best friend’s mothers’ health had failed her and after several strokes and many prayers she passed. My best friend, Tim from www.ettlt.com handed me a book, the book was the Maker’s Diet by Jordan Rubin. This was the first book of its kind that I had seen, but after I had read it and conversed with Tim he said these words that echoed in my head for days after ‘if I had read this book years ago I believe my mom would still be alive”.

This was the beginning of something new for me as I started removing things from my family’s diet… starting with conventional, pasteurized dairy. This was significant because at the time our 1 year old was dealing with chronic ear infections and was up against ear canal surgery. We changed milk and saw a chiropractor, problem solved. He hasn’t had a problem with his ears since, he is now 6 years old! The hard masses that my wife was dealing with in her breast tissue had diminished so much that she hasn’t had any problems at all since the switch.

It wasn’t soon after that, I started questioning everything and doing lots of research on whole, organic, and raw foods. I spent a lot of time in my basement office reading and searching out content. I received my certification as a nutrition specialist and personal trainer around this time as well. It started out as just a way for me to better understand what I needed to do in my boring workouts and escalated into a full desire to teach. I pursued this passion by leaving my job of now 5 years trying to make my passion an income. I failed, then retried in a new state. Once I started in Nashville TN, I soon accumulated clients, but I was still under weight mind you.

This is where I began my whole health transition, I came up with a plan right around october of 2008. This plan was to gain weight without any “gainers”, whey proteins “mass builders”, or anything else that was unnatural. I wanted to gain weight using the Maker’s Diet “phase 3″ the way I have been eating for 4 years at this time. My goal in gaining weight was to:

1) get to my perfect weight
2) gain and sculpt my body
3) use this as an example of weight control for education

So off I went from November 1st to April 29th I ate 6 meals a day, followed by a tough 6 day a week training schedule which included marathon training. I would get up in the morning and have.
3 eggs
2 pieces of turkey bacon
2 pieces of sprouted cinnamon and raison Ezekiel toast
Mid-morning
2 egg protein shake
Lunch
2 Applegate Farms all beef hot dogs on yet more Ezekiel bread
Mid- afternoon
banana and maybe another protein shake
Dinner
Protein (chicken, fish or beef)
Vegetable (anything green
Starch (white or sweet potato)

Before bed
2 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on sprouted Ezekiel bread

I went from 145 to 205 pounds like it was my job… because it was my job. I did all that with training for a half marathon, eating nothing but organic all natural whole foods, a lot of those foods mind you. That is 60 pounds in 6 months! On purpose! Well, here is the kicker, after I ran the half marathon (pictured below) I went on the Maker’s Diet and started at the bottom “phase one” and it wasn’t long before I had dropped 20 pounds. Long, being, 3 weeks!!!

I now rest at 180 and after doing the 40 day Maker’s Diet again (as I do do it every year) I am now at 176 but that’s not even the point (recent picture below). The point here is that you have control if you educate yourself. If you are wondering how to do that, that is where I want to help. It is not a great mystery of calorie counting and portion reduction. Those things can help but are not practical for everyday life. As where eating to the “diet”, as it were, you will be able to sustain your weight and balance your pH levels, insulin swings, toxins, immune health, vitality and a whole slew of others that I don’t have the time to list (because my hand is cramping from all this typing).

There are few other trainers out there that will promise you that and guarantee your weight loss and total body change, I can help you because I have done it personally and have seen it through in the life of my family as well as scores of clients!

Here are my numbers

11/01/08
145
16% Body Fat

04/29/09
205
23% Body Fat

03/20/10
176
9% Body Fat

Feeling better than ever and looking like it, if do say so myself.