Success Stories w/ Dan, Brittany, Yvonne & Debbie

What Is This Episode About…

Week after week, you all hear me talk about the life-changing benefits of proper nutrition, hydration, and sleep. But I don’t want you to just take my word for it! Hear these incredible testimonies from these four REBELS on the brink – a lifetime of obesity, sickness, pain, and suffering only to be reversed with Code Red.

Dan, Debbie, Yvonne, and Brittany have had tremendous health healing and success living the Code Red lifestyle. I want to take a moment and highlight and mention that while weight loss was something each of them experienced, it was far down on the list of the benefits they experienced from taking their lives back. 

At 56 years old, Dan, a Navy veteran, a husband, a father, and was dealing with serious prostate problems, and his weight was ballooning even on his strict vegan diet.

Debbie was humiliated on a plane. She was 305 pounds, trying to fit into an airplane seat and couldn’t get the seat belt to buckle. And that was her start to losing 155 pounds on Code Red.

Yvonne lost her brother to obesity and was heading down that same path she lost her brother on. And Brittany, a nurse practitioner who went to nurse practitioner school because she wanted to learn how to heal herself because traditional medical doctors were not giving her the answer. She knew something was right. And she wanted to do something about it.

 These stories are heart-wrenching, and I know there are so many of you out there who can relate. I want this to be an opportunity for you to be genuinely inspired to say enough is enough so you can start living the life you deserve.

Key Takeaways

  • Debbie’s humiliation when she couldn’t fit on an airplane seat (05:02)
  • How Debbie took her life back with Cristy Code Red (08:55)
  • Brittany finding passion in metabolic medicine (14:09)
  • Finally reaching her goal weight through the custom program (19:16)
  • Dan begins to question his vegan lifestyle (24:26)
  • He begins to have health issues as a result of his unhealthy diet (30:00)
  • Yvonne loses her brother to obesity (35:50)
  • She was dealing with severe pain and health complications due to her own weight issues (40:02)

Learn More About The Content Discussed…

Get the Code Red On-The-Go Guide here.

Join the next 10-Pound Takedown Challenge here.

When Was It Released…

This episode was released September 23, 2020

Episode Transcript…

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Cristy  0:00  

Welcome back to rebel weight loss in lifestyle I am your host Christy Code Red hello are you digging my new Mohawk color? It is red and people are like Christy Code Red that’s why your Mohawk is red? No, this just because this is a sick color. I mean yes when I originally became Christy Code Red back in 2002 with my first boxing match, I had red hair and that’s how my name came to be because I was in nursing school at the time, and I had red hair so my sister Carrie came up with Code Red, and it has stuck but and I’ve been every color. So this is just one of the many colors I want to try. And I came from I went from purple. To that I had purple route that faded into a hot pink tip. And now I’m doing this dark red route that fades into a bright red tip. It’s sick. It’s a lot of fun. Yeah, the one thing I’m comfortable with I found out is change. That’s the one thing that I I am comfortable with you guys. We get a lot of ratings and reviews and I want you to know that I appreciate them so very much this one comes in five stars from Jamie dp or dp D ipi. I don’t know however you would pronounce that she says more inspired every day these podcasts with a perfect refresh and reminders for me to keep on track the best Thank you Jamie. Also from rebel Kelly right on target five stars. Always up front and telling it like it is thank you for my health back. Florida Deb at 67 says rebel inside and out thank you for always coming up with topics that made me feel like you’re speaking directly to me. You keep me laser focused and pick me up when I stumble commuting into and from work has never been so great. All Deb The best way to start my day. Thank you for changing me inside and out. What wonderful, wonderful ratings and reviews and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for stopping what you’re doing and filling out a rating and review on the rebel way. Lost in lifestyle podcast, we are ranked pretty high among all podcasts in the United States. Last time I heard we were number 250 out of almost 900,000 podcasts in the United States. Wow. That’s something you can hang your hat on. Wow. And it’s all because of you. So thank you. Thank you. Today’s episode, we’re talking about success stories. And I’ve got four guests. Okay, Dan, Debbie, Yvonne and Brittany, four guests that you’re going to hear from who have had tremendous health and healing and success on the code red lifestyle and you’ll listen, I mean, everybody thinks weight loss, weight loss. And yeah, I mean, I’m categorized as a weight loss expert. But you’ll notice from these guys when you hear from them, that weight loss is so far down the list of things that the the benefits that they experienced from taking their life back. You’ll see that you know that Yvonne lost her brother to obesity and she knew that she was headed down that same path she lost her brother, her brother died of obesity related complications. That he could have prevented had he known about Code Red sooner. You’ll hear from Brittany who’s a nurse practitioner who actually went to nurse practitioner school because she wanted to learn how to heal herself because traditional medical doctors were not giving her the answer. She knew something was right. And she wanted to do something about it. You’re going to hear from Dan, who’s a Navy veteran, a husband, a father, 56 years old and was having had cancer and was having prostate problems in his early 50s. And he was strict vegan for six years. Then he got sicker and fatter and sicker and fatter until he was made fun of by somebody at work. And he just couldn’t do it anymore. He knew something was wrong. And you’re going to hear from Debbie who is a leader for us. And Debbie was absolutely humiliated. on a plane. She was 305 pounds, trying to fit into an airplane seat and couldn’t get the seat belt. So she tried to just tuck the seat belt in to where it didn’t look like you know, it wasn’t buckled but she didn’t want anybody to know it wasn’t buckled because she didn’t want to ask for the seat belt extender. And that was her start to losing 155 pounds on Code Red. These are just grab a tissue, you’re gonna see that they are real heartfelt and very emotionally moving. You’ll see that I was moved in a couple of them. And I know you will be too and it’s nice that we could combine all four of these stories into one podcast for variety, and it’s really great. So I’ll see you guys soon enjoy this podcast. I’m Christy Code Red and you’re listening to rebel weight loss and lifestyle where we believe food holds the power to heal or poison. And we believe our society has been misled regarding proper nutrition and weight loss. You’re in the right place if you’re looking for some straight up truth, because I’m here to shed light on the lies and brainwashing that has taken place over the past five decades. Thanks so much for listening.

 

Unknown Speaker  5:02  

My low was 2018. September started, my husband and I went to Boston for our honeymoon. After 35 years of marriage, we decided it was time for hunting and getting on the airplane at 313 pounds and I knew was going to be a struggle. But I didn’t realize how small the seats were. I hadn’t flown in years. And so on the plane we got and of course, the seat belt won’t buckle and I’m like, well, I’ll just kind of sit here and pretend like it’s buckle. And dick said, your seat belt won’t buckle. And immediately I was embarrassed. So I said no, but it’ll be okay. I’ll just sit here quietly. And he said, No. So he got up and he went now the stewardess for an extender, because I couldn’t. I vowed in that moment that I was done. I was never going to let that happen again, what an embarrassment for him because I couldn’t speak up to say Look, my butt’s too big to fit in the seat Can we have a seat belt extender. So we went on our honeymoon and I struggled, I had joint pain, I had type two diabetes, I struggled with a fib. So going to Boston in October where it’s humid and hot or cold, depending, I knew would be a struggle anyway, because I the heat bothered my a fib, activity bothered my a fib, sometimes just living bothered my phone. So I didn’t know what kind of time we were going to have. But I vowed to make it the best. So I would always be the last one on the bus. So that nobody had to wait for me to struggle up three steps to get on the bus. And I would be the last one off the bus so that nobody had to wait for me. And Dick was so patient and he would just wait at the door for me and help me off the stairs and it had just become a way of life and I had decided I was done. So let me just interrupt you. For those of us who are not in the medical community. Can you explain to us what a fib is and what when you say it bothers you What can you tell us what that means? Sure, sure, sorry. So atrial fibrillation, just in my instance, it’s different for everybody if you have it. And in my instance, I could tell when an episode was coming on. And what that meant is that my heart rate would go up to anywhere from 280 to 312. And stay there, and then just stop, and then go back up and then just stop. So, and the heat, I learned that the heat really bothered that and so I had just learned to know when my lips would tingle and I’d be like, Okay, this isn’t good. I need to go take some deep breaths, whatever. So anyway, so I just didn’t know what that would mean, on our vacation. So we made it through that 10 days and I got home and I thought, okay, something’s got to happen. Well, I just started a new job. off to a meeting. We go in Boise to the Boise center. The elevator was out, the escalator was out, guess where our meeting rooms were? Job.

 

Unknown Speaker  8:01  

Oh no.

 

Unknown Speaker  8:03  

So again, here I am with all these people that I respect in this new job. And I love my new job and I love the people I work with. And yet I have to go up four or five, six stories to the meeting rooms and how am I going to do that? So I one step at a time, and I made sure I was the last one. And again, I was just so embarrassed by it. I didn’t want pity. I blamed my knees. I blamed my a fib, when the reality was it was just the weight that I was packing around. And that’s the reality. So when I got home, long story short, I had joined a 21 unstoppable influence challenge 21 day, Natasha and Heather quizzle. Were going to be speaking in Boise. So I said to Deke, I need to go. I just need to hear Natasha. I didn’t know at that point that Christy Code Red was going to be there. And so when I walked in that night, and they introduced Christie code grabbed and I was like a bonus. Well then when you got up and spoke, and I’m not kidding, you were speaking to me. You spoke of a life that I had envisioned but didn’t even realize I could live. And so after hearing you That night, we got in the car to drive back to Twin Falls. And I said to dick, I got to do that. And he couldn’t quit talking about Christie Cobra, then what? How she had changed people’s lives and, and I don’t know why I have tried every diet on the earth, from A to Z, you name it, Been there, done that in 59 years of my life, and I’ve been overweight since second grade. I remember being 15 going to the doctor and he put me on a low carbohydrate diet. No ketchup. That’s the only thing I remember. We lived on a farm. We had ketchup. I’m here I was a kid that couldn’t catch up in more right? But Never once did he talk about the sugar influence. It wasn’t the sugar it was carbohydrates. But we lived on a farm we cook from wheat and all that good stuff. So literally I have struggled with my weight all my life until January 3 2019. When I took my life back with Christy Code Red.

 

Cristy  10:21  

This is incredible. Did you start with the book? Or did you start right with the challenge?

 

Unknown Speaker  10:26  

I bought the book and I started reading the book. I bought the audible, I listened to the audible every day, I would wake up to you on Instagram every morning and listen to what you had to say on Instagram and joined the January 3 challenge that then got pushed to the 14th but I was all in January 3 and that’s when my challenge started.

 

Cristy  10:50  

And then you went on to get a custom program.

 

Unknown Speaker  10:52  

I did, like 10 days in I sat down with deck and here. I mean it was a tough conversation to have because I Spent. I did Isagenix. I spent $2,000 a month on Isagenix that didn’t work. And so to have a conversation with Dick now that I want to spend more money on his custom program, and he said, I have no doubt you’re going to do it. You’re so different this time all in and you’re either gonna do it, and that’s when that there’s no try. You’re either gonna do it or you’re not. And if you’re gonna do it, then let’s do it all in. So all in I went and

 

Cristy  11:29  

why was it resonating with you this time? What was it about code read or me or the book or something? Or it was good timing?

 

Unknown Speaker  11:38  

Honestly, no, bullshit. Yeah. And you scare me a little. I’m not gonna lie. Yeah. I said, you know, there’s something about it, and I tell everybody that I have been able to influence if you’ve never met Christie, you need to go meet Christie, because she is what she is. There’s no bullshit There’s no you don’t beat around the bush and I think that’s what I needed. I needed the accountability. I needed somebody to know that I had to check in every week. And I started with Sean and Mindy Brown, who lives you know, two and a half miles from me. And I was convinced they were going to stop in my house and look at my pantry.

 

Cristy  12:23  

How soon after you started did you start to feel relief and result in know that your body was healing? And

 

Unknown Speaker  12:31  

I’d like to say almost immediately, because I don’t remember I went from feeling sluggish, lethargic, no energy to Oh my god, I love life again, and working. So where I work there break room was like a Costco. Literally, and every time I’d walk to the printer, there’s a bowl of candy that sat right on the end so July to October every time I walk to the printer It was like, Oh, well, that one’s got for me. So I would have a bite candy on the way back to my office on January 3, when we went back to work after the holiday. That candy meant nothing to me. I stayed out of the break room unless I absolutely had to go in there. And I got the mentality that if it doesn’t have Debbie’s name on it, it’s not Debbie’s, and now you’re stealing from the company. And you know what, there was never any Little Debbie snacks or so there was nothing that had my name on it. And you said you were battling type two. And so when you went back into your doctor, did your doctor just flip out? Well, and and the good news is, is that my doctor in the beginning, supportive co bred, okay. I mean, I had mendy brown on my side anyway, but then my family doctor also knew about Code Red, was she all in? No, but at least she knew about it and she knew that that’s what I was doing. And so she was not a bit surprised to see my numbers go down my triglycerides sets and there again I remember being 15 and that was the one thing they were concerned about was my Hydra triglycerides. Nobody knew why but they were in the three hundreds Christy.

 

Unknown Speaker  14:15  

And now I’m at three.

 

Unknown Speaker  14:19  

Let’s see was 2007 open to my own practice and doing bioidentical hormone replacement? That was my first one in 2008. It was, you know, changing women’s lives and balancing their hormones and really just channeling it on that. But then there were women who weren’t really getting better than weren’t responding to the hormones, and we’re still overweight and still couldn’t get it dialed in. So then, my first book I read was Dr. Perlmutter the green brain that one was a super meaty book, I just fell in love with him. And that was my whole beginning in more metabolic medicine, learning how to fix the body and heal it from the inside out a little bit more because I was missing the boat on just hormones I could perform as I can do more All day long. So had a couple years in between where I kind of quit doing hormones, just some life changes happened. And then 2015 I believe I started back up, but also realize that I still need to do fix the gut because I was learning more from Dr. Perlmutter than I read Dr. William Davis, you know, the wheat belly. So those were the two biggest ones. Then I got into Dave Asprey and biohacking and reading these incredible books on insulin resistance and learning so much more because we’ve been trained so differently on diabetes and let’s give them Metformin and insulin and they’re not insulin deficient. They already have a ton of insulin which I proved by doing all the lab work, which is so awesome that it’s something tangible. So I started doing, let’s see, we they started my practice that I have now metabolic medicine, and started really working on healing the gut. Of course, we can do all these extravagant labs. They’re expensive, but it still wasn’t really getting to the crux of the issue because they can’t fix anything. Oh, well. This After thousands and thousands of dollars on advanced cardio metabolic studies, advanced nephrology, all of this, and I have another like a diplomat status and American Academy for anti aging for metabolic medicine. I spent probably $10,000 on this extra education. And at the end, it all came down to I cannot fix one single thing on any of these people, unless I fixed what they put in their mouth. And it just, it didn’t matter. If I can’t help them with that. Their autoimmune disease won’t heal, their diabetes won’t heal, their hypertension will heal, nothing their brain won’t heal. So that started the path on ketogenic diets. I have every gadget breath ketone monitors blood ketone monitors, blood sugar,

 

Unknown Speaker  16:49  

pan on strips, anything you could imagine still didn’t lose a single pound. So then we did fasting intermittent fasting then comes in Dr. Jason Fung, who is another one My heroes in the fasting group got to meet him and Megan Ramos and was just thrilled to death are just incredible. And so doing fasting intermittent fasting up to 72 hour fast study, lose a pound. Like you’ve got to be kidding. So then the picture that you see on the my before and after, it was so humiliating, so embarrassing. After a 22 year break in service, I came back to the military to get commissioned and that was the day that I officially was commissioned. And my dad was there and everyone was there, but I was nothing fit. I did not have a single thing in my closet except fat scrubs that fit was like what the hell What happened? Like I just, I don’t even know what happened. I weighed when I started the challenge January 2019, I weighed 150 pounds. mortified. I’d always weighed 134 all my life, whether I was skinny fat, or you know fit didn’t matter. So let’s see then I was after those. I didn’t even post those people. On the internet have to celebrate that day cuz I was so embarrassed about how I look, it was terrible. So then I went up to the base, and the slight nurses that I had seen were really overweight. It was kind of surprised. So probably within a six month period, I kept seeing them and I’m like, wow, they’re kind of shrinking. You know what’s going on. And they shared with me that they had been doing code read and personally I Great. Okay, another gimmick diet. Awesome, because I’m not going to do that in my clinic or share that. So then I’m not wanting to ever not research something. Because one thing I found in my profession is there’s no room for not being humble and not having humility. Because as soon as ego comes in, or any arrogance, you’re humbled so quickly, and it’s usually not very pretty. My humble wings aren’t pretty so I’d rather just come to the plate humble. So I did some research told my nurses in my business with me said let’s just let’s try this and it was the January challenge and lost 10 pounds. We both did that. And I thought, you know, why can’t I just keep going because I never felt like I was really where I wanted to be pretty much ever. And so then I bought the custom program and then finished losing the 25 pounds, I was going to make my goal 134 because that’s what I always was. And then I thought, well, why limit myself? I’m putting a limit on me. So I made it 128 and he agreed with it, and it’s like, Alright, well, guess Here we go. And then I got down to 125 because it just keeps going because then it’s body comp. It’s like, well, I got a little more here. Yeah, I could lose and, and then then life happened a little bit. So I probably stayed right at 130 then went to military training that next January, came back with about seven pounds extra on we had the most horrible chlorinated water every day that we had to drink. It was the smell was so strong, it was horrible. When we could finally get stuff ordered in I got the ultimate and I would sneak it in. Hope nobody’s gonna watch this. We would sneaking into the only thing that helped. And then the food The only oil they had, they didn’t have butter, the oil they had was this orange grill shortening. It was horrible. So I came home. And I’m like, Okay, I’m I’m certainly above where I want to be. And I know me. And the amazing thing about Code Red is it’s reproducible. And in my business, I want stuff that’s reproducible that I can get the same results every single time, came back, got on maintenance, went back to my custom program numbers. And because I knew I needed that accountability, which is amazing to how much code read provides a phenomenal resource for that. And then the weight comes off and now I’m in maintenance and still on accountability because I know I need to be. I’m not mentally it’s not ingrained yet. I tend to push the boundaries a little bit. So being accountable for me and being accountable to my patients is phenomenal. All my patients are taught code read. I mean, it’s just You can provide them code read provides them that community to provide them far more than what I ever can as a single person.

 

Unknown Speaker  21:08  

So here I am at what is it 188 in 1990 and by 1990, probably 1995 when I got out of the Navy, I’m 245 pounds again, as a vegan. Oh, so I went away I did some training in a post secondary for a year when I first was born. And I learned marine construction and, and I look at pictures there and I’ve got this great big belly I’m wearing busting out of my bib overalls, a 247 pounds, injured my knee. I think I wrote this to carry a meniscus tear. In my knee, I end up on disability for three months had to wait for surgery. I go into rehab and I’m, I want to say 250 260 pounds. And I’m in you know, part of rehab When they’re trying to get your knee work and again and gradually building up the weight you can carry you talk to them about the kind of work you do. And they try to simulate it in the room is the sit down about nutrition. And the lady who’s conducting the meeting is talking about nutrition. And then she talks about vegetarians and vegans, and how, you know, their diets aren’t sustainable. You know, and, you know, the whole p 12 thing that cliche or scripted type stuff, you know, and this is not what we’re talking about nowadays, one or the other. And then I put my hand up, because I’m thinking I gotta defend being a vegan, right? I put my hand up and she said, Yeah, and I said, action NZ. And like, everybody’s like, Yeah, right. And I said, No, I’m vegan. I’ve been vegan for what was it six years by that point? Seven years. And everybody’s like, no, and the guys that I was hanging out with during rehab, were like, No, and I say yeah, I’m vegan strict vegan, no meat, no dairy, no eggs. No. And the guy looks at me the guy I was good buddies with and he looks at me says you are the fattest vegetation. In I have ever seen. Oh, Dan, and of course, kind of breaks my heart now to say it. But you know that we’ve talked about this, these defense mechanisms we build to get ourselves through those situations. My response was, I’ll take that as a compliment. Because I know it was meant as a compliment. That’s what his heart was trying to be complimentary. But mine was broken. So that was 25 years ago, you know, My son was a year old. So I kept teaching my kids those habits, teaching my kids the stopping for coffee, teaching my kids that, you know, grab something on the way out of town, stop at the gas station or bags of chips that I just kept teaching. I feel you know, responsible for that. Um, all those bad habits that they adopted, you know, oh, Because of my what I know now my emotional reaction to stress and to urgency and, and all those things around God eat in case I’m going to be hungry. Go ahead.

 

Cristy  24:14  

So Dan, let me just ask you real toad. Was there ever a point where you said, Hey, I’m vegan, but I’m way overweight and I don’t feel good. Did you ever question the vegan lifestyle?

 

Unknown Speaker  24:26  

And actually it happened in about 2004 2004 I moved here Port Angeles, Washington. And the guy my boss, Bruce was an avid sports and fishermen always talking about fish. And I’d always said kind of in the back of my mind if I ever go back I’m going to go back to fish and if I ever go back to fishing gonna go back to wild caught fish. So Bruce is always bringing these fish in and I’m working in a bit in an industry that has commercial fishermen and they’re always you know, giving you the extra fishes they’re unloading freezers. You Working on their boats. And one day Bruce says, uh, you know, they had the donut Fridays, you know, and I didn’t participate in the donut Fridays for the first couple years. I was vegan. And then one day I’m looking at this salmon on the barbecue. And he said, You should try some and I said, Did you catch it? You know, I was qualifying trying. I didn’t want it from a store, right? And he said, Yeah, I caught it this weekend. And I tried it. I thought, I just took a little tiny bite, and I thought that’s good. And I said, What’s that other one and it was it was black. I don’t know if you’re a black guy, but it’s a really rich fish. And I took a piece about I don’t know, you know, the size of before. And it was pretty intense. But I liked it. And then I didn’t probably touch it for a few more months and then there was a big festival in town here and they had barbecued salmon on the grill. And, and it looked good. Like my heart said, I want that. barbecued salmon, you know, crispy on the surface and everything. And so I said, that was like 2007, maybe 2008, something like that. Seven. And so I ordered it at the barbecue, big fundraising barbecue and I had it was delicious. And from that point on, I said, Okay, I’m going to eat wild caught local caught fish or fish from the commercial guys, when they bring it in that sort of thing. I wasn’t going to go out, you know, eat it from the store and that sort of thing. So I did that I went back to fish a few years before I went back to dairy. and years and years before I went back to eggs, but it was at that moment where I was looking at Bruce and Bruce was eating paleo at the time. And he’s telling me all about it and like, Yeah, I got it. I’m vegan. I’ve got the answer. 250 260 270 pounds. So that here’s the moment, but a good friend of mine, a really good friend of mine. I love him, draws this picture. You see that? Yeah. And he hands it to And he says, You know what that is? I said, No, no idea. He said, That’s Dan hiding behind the telephone pole. Hmm.

 

Unknown Speaker  27:09  

And oh my gosh.

 

Unknown Speaker  27:14  

I love the guy. And I laughed. And my family knows the stories or at least like Kim in the kids do. And it was at that moment where I kind of went off, man. Well, this is just not right. And then I began to kind of try, you know, this was probably 2010, maybe 20, maybe, maybe 2009. And I tried, I tried to watch my food. I said to Kim, you know, we got to keep this out of house. We got to keep that out of the house. I didn’t know. I didn’t know I was there was an East Indian restaurant in town. I go get East Indian food at lunch and I would pack it in and 15 minutes on my half hour lunch break. And I love Indian food vegetarian, right. And I just pack it in the lentils, the chickpeas. A putti which is the deep fried bread, topologies and samosa is and you know, all that kind of stuff, which is all just packing it in. And I kept thinking I could change something about, you know, and I tried running again, I tried different ages. I didn’t know what it was that I needed to change about me. I knew I ate too much quantity wise, but I didn’t know why. And I didn’t know how much was too much

 

Cristy  28:28  

for your medical, the medical things started kicking in about this time.

 

Unknown Speaker  28:33  

So right around that time is when I you know, I talked to you about the the basal cell carcinoma started to emerge in about 2009 2008. I’d had some other issues, carpal tunnel, and I had benign prostate hyperplasia. We had just bought the house that we’re in right now. So I’m 2009 so I’m 44 years old, middle of February. I get into bed, got to get When people get into bed got to get up and pee, I mean like 11 times in the night, like what the hell is wrong with me? You know, I thought bladder infection or whatever I didn’t know. So I fought with it for a couple of days and I mean as a 44 year old guy you know needing to pee every three minutes is not something you can get away with too easy. So I’m calling in sick and stuff. So I call the doctor the doctor sends me the urologist. I call him Dr. Jelly finger, checks me out for the enlarged prostate, you know, explains does a PSA test PSA test is clear. He says Yep, you got an enlarged prostate you’re going to have to be on prostate meds gives me the whole discussion on what the future holds for me and everything he prescribes. A couple of different things I end up landing on doxazosin as my medication that I’ve been on for the last 11 years, well 10 and a half years, until May. Now in May, I don’t know my numbers in front of me Christina, I think I was like 247 while I started my, I started really, let’s say 250 pounds, you know, I started Code Red at 305.6. So I think I was 250 pounds. And I was really always bad at refilling my prescriptions like Oh shit, excuse me. I’m out. So if it’s on at home, no big deal, go to the pharmacy get it. And I was always going to the pharmacy thinking, Oh, I hope it’s renewed. Right? Hope I don’t have to call the doctor and go back in for another inspection. To find out if I still need the medicine. You have to do that every couple of years. So it turned out we went out of town and four days into being out of town. I said to Kim, I forgot my prescription. I haven’t taken four days. She says well how do you feel? I said I’m okay, well, we’re gonna be home tomorrow. So I’ll get it tomorrow. I get home and busy. You know it’s summer or not summer in spring or you know, getting getting outside and And I forget and I forget and I forget, I don’t know if I forget if ISIS redirected but I didn’t forget, because I didn’t have to go pee. It wasn’t reminding me that I needed my medication. So I go a week and I go two weeks and I go three weeks, four weeks, five weeks, and it’s been me I think this is April 4 was the renew roof refill, or may 1 or something like that. Anyways, May, June, July, August. Now it was April, it was April, April on there. So four months drinking 100 and actually 175 ounces of water. And then now I’m down to 150. I drink two good cups of coffee a day. First ones usually like an espresso. And it’s just not there. I just don’t have it now. I’ve lost tons in my gut. I mean, I lost touch. Here’s a prop for you. This is the belt that I had to buy when the belt I had was too small. Don’t put it on for you. Just around. This is the hole I was at when I bought it. Oh my gosh.

 

Cristy  32:07  

Oh my gosh. So you’ve lost I mean, I’m looking at you. You look phenomenal. You’ve lost 70 115 pounds

 

Unknown Speaker  32:16  

today.

 

Cristy  32:18  

Oh my gosh, you had immediate and sudden onset of this massive swelling is immediate and sudden onset of this severe abdominal pain that would also cause optical blindness, these optical migraines that would cause these temporary blindness you had to move to be closer to the hospital. You have numerous emergency surgeries, they took out your gallbladder they misdiagnosed you with pancreatitis or maybe you had it but that wasn’t

 

Unknown Speaker  32:45  

and they wasn’t the cause. And nobody was

 

Cristy  32:48  

talking about your food and nobody was in your just unit you’re massively swollen you don’t feel good ever and has just completely taken over your life to where you almost losing your job. So yes, this severe, severe things happen in your life at such a young age.

 

Unknown Speaker  33:05  

And I forgot to tell you so in was 2014. At the very end, my husband’s burned in a house fire. So I stopped my job to take care of him because he couldn’t even do anything for himself because it was 20% of his 20% of his body was burned. So when he finally got better was like two days later, my brother was put on life support. This is my heart. He was put on life support because of complications of obesity.

 

Unknown Speaker  33:36  

And I don’t care what people tell you doctors ignore what they don’t like to address. It’s uncomfortable. And I have proof of that. But I’ll tell you that in a minute. So my brother went on life support on Christmas Day in 2014. And I am the closest family member to where he’s living. So my husband had just been released to go In public because of the burns had healed enough, because you know, ICU hospitals are the worst place. That’s where you’re going to get sick. So I went to visit him. And at this point they couldn’t. He couldn’t respond because they had made mistake. They didn’t do a simple for four years, he’d been telling them something’s wrong. Something’s wrong, though. Oh, it’s an allergic reaction. They never addressed his weight. My father went to the doctors, can you tell my son, he’s overweight? Can you explain all the problems, but they didn’t want to be uncomfortable. They wanted to just be friendly and nice. They didn’t want to address him say something that might hurt his feelings. But so you let my brother die. So in the hospital, he went finally to the ER again, and they said oh, you have sleep apnea, didn’t even address this way and put him on a sleep apnea machine. While they didn’t check his otu they didn’t even do a simple test. But because he’s overweight, there’s discrimination period. And because when they put him on a C pap machine, and because of his Oh, two levels, it put his brain asleep. And that’s what they had to put him on life support. And because he was so large, a month later, they couldn’t intubate him, because you can only keep somebody on life support without a trait for one month, and there’s other complications. So there was no way to keep him alive. There was no way to wake him up, because the damage had been done. I told him, I said, You killed my brother. Because one you wouldn’t address the problem to you ignored the problem when it came to the ER, and three, you’ve never told him how to weight problem. I mean, it was obvious, but the doctors today ignore it, because they don’t know how to deal with it. So we had to unplug him from life support in January 2015. So I went to my doctor, my ob gyn And for a checkup and I said, Okay, so well what about my weight? And she says, was a new ob. And she says, Well, you really you know your age, not really that overweight? And I said, Yes I am. I said, Do you understand? I my brother just died because of obesity. So the Dr. Oz kreiger often said the doctors would not tell him he was fat. They didn’t want to hurt his feelings. She said, The doctor told me she says, well, patients get mad at me when I tell them that. And I said I am begging you. I’m begging you. Will you put down that I am an obese, overweight? Will you help me when you give me medicine? Give me something. So she put it down right there in my chart. She showed me that I was obese. And she started me on a medication that made me very sick had very bad side effects, but I lost 12 pounds in about a month. But I still felt sick. I didn’t feel better. The pounds. Yeah, that’s good, but gained it back within a year, because it didn’t resolve the problem. And so, like I said, I had the surgery they took the mass out was the same doctor. So he took it out. They thought it was cancer. In the meantime, it was very scary. Anyway, so they took it out. And then I started that diet. And I lost, it didn’t feel better, it still had the pain was still going to my gi doctor. And again, he said, Well, you have IBS and I argued, I argued so much. He got mad at me and fired me as a patient and then I got humble and said, okay, just tell me what you want me to do. I did everything. You told me. I still had problems. My stomach would just distend like I was pregnant with twins. The pain was horrible. And at this point, I wasn’t eating a lot of food, but I was still gaining weight. I couldn’t explain it. I was just shocked. I was sick. I was tired. I was sick and tired. I was afraid you No, I already had a scare with cancer just a few months before I needed to change something. So, right before my surgery, I’d actually run into Katie Huber, you know her. So I had known her for years. And I saw her and this is right before my surgery. And of course, I was pretty, pretty big. So I felt pretty comfortable saying that you’ve lost weight. And she’s like, yeah, she’s real quiet. And I’ve been doing this new thing. She didn’t say anything. And then later, I went to a convention that she was at, and her family has a business, and we work with them. And they offered us this training that you know about, and you were one of the speakers and you were one of the main things that they focused on. And I was like, Huh, maybe God’s talking to me because I’ve been begging, begging, just wanting some solution. And I saw Katie’s results. I was like,

 

Unknown Speaker  38:53  

ooh.

 

Unknown Speaker  38:54  

So that was for March 23. And I thought I’m desperate. I can’t wait. So I called the office I said, Hey, I know we’re going to be meeting this person. You’re having the presentation and all that. I said, but I it’s an emergency. I need help. I can’t do this anymore. I feel like I’m gonna die. I mean, it was horrible. I, I couldn’t sleep at night. Oh, and this is the worst. I didn’t even tell you this. For the past, oh, five, six years. I could not lay down or sit down with that being in severe pain. I couldn’t stand up or walk. I’ve tried that. I tried to walk and it was like, and it worked. It was horrible. Because trying to sleep, I couldn’t sleep. I would have to stand up that was or even running, walking was fine, but sitting and lying down where you rest couldn’t do it. And I also had this annoying to the point that people like Excuse me, I said, Do you mind waiting? No, no, no, it’s not you was about to, I’d gone to mayo clinic for three years trying to get this cleared up, the stomach cleared up, I got a special I had surgery to kill the nerve in here to help with the pain because nobody could help me. I mean, that’s crazy. Then they were about to until I got Code Red, they were going to cut my sinuses and trim everything down because they couldn’t even get a scope in my nose because I was so swollen. Well, now that I know Code Red, why didn’t they check for food allergies for something I was eating? Anyway, so I called I said, I can’t wait, what can I do? They said, We can get the book. You can watch on YouTube. You can watch her on Instagram, which I don’t have. So I started watching your YouTube and podcasts listening. If I couldn’t watch I would listen and started just following what you said in three weeks before make March 23. I’d already lost 11 pounds. I started sleeping through the night. I two weeks in no more pain. None. Gone. Yes, completely healed. Within two weeks, I stopped I was on 26 different medications 26 different things. Plus, that doesn’t count the four different kinds of narcotics that I was taking for pain, which didn’t help, which that causes other problems when you slow down your system. So two weeks of Code Red painfree no stomach problems. Nothing. I felt amazing not because I lost it because someone had said, Oh, it’s because you lost the 11 pounds you don’t have pain. 11 pounds is not going to help with the fat itself. I was having physical internal intestinal My bones, my joints. I couldn’t even like this clean on a table. I could no way I could do a push up. Because my arm was so swollen I was when the chiropractor three, four times a week. And he would you know, it was just horrible. I was like someone that was because my grandmother is 99 years old. So I have to say, Have you like 116 year old person that because my grandmother doesn’t have a lot of problems, but I was like an old person. And I mean like really like 100 or older. And code read saved me. It changed my life. And I’m able to do my work. And I was a person that I could not I was so tired. They had diagnosed me at Mayo with what’s that chronic pain? It’s Fibromyalgia or whatever. No.

 

Unknown Speaker  42:53  

Yeah, no,

 

Unknown Speaker  42:54  

no pain, pre diabetes in two weeks off my medicine now. Normal everything I was supposed to go in for surgery for my back, I didn’t need it everything and you can imagine my doctor bills like for one ER visit it was like 1600 dollars so I had stopped doing that and I started self medicate legally medicine that they give me the Why are they giving me medicine when there is a cure for what was making me sick.

 

Cristy  43:26  

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