Oct. 22, 2025
How Zach Lost 30 lbs in 100 Days at 40+ (Real Story) - 10
From “Just Once” at 199 to Living Lean for Life
In this episode of Driven For Health, Coach Brian sits down with Zach , a husband, father, and business owner in the tech industry who’s constantly traveling between New York City, Las Vegas, and Long Island.
Zach once had one simple goal: to see 199 on the scale just once in his adult life. But what started as a number turned into something much deeper. This transformation that’s helped him lose over 30 pounds, keep it off, and sustain it effortlessly while juggling a demanding schedule, family life, and business travel.
In this real and relatable conversation, you’ll hear:
How Zach finally broke free from the “all-or-nothing” diet mindset
The exact habits that helped him keep the weight off long-term
What it really looks like to stay lean while balancing family, career, and travel
Why sustainable systems beat motivation every time
Zach skipped the quick fixes listen in on what happens when you take ownership of your health and build a lifestyle that supports your goals year-round.
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- Welcome to Driven for Health, the podcast for men over 40 who are ready to take control of their bodies, their energy, and ultimately their lives. I'm Coach Brian Prana, and for over two decades now, I've been helping driven men lose fat, understand nutrition, build stronger biceps, and feel confident in a body they're proud to live in.
- In today's episode number 10, I am so very proud that you get to meet Zach, a husband, a father, a business owner in the tech industry who's constantly on the go, traveling between NYC, Las Vegas, Long Island, and beyond. Like many other high performing men, he juggles a demanding schedule, client dinners, long days, airplanes, and the constant pull of responsibility.
- But despite all that, Zach transforms his health, losing over 30 lbs. Yes, 30 lbs. And more importantly, keeping it off. He once had a goal of simply seeing 199 on the scale just once. He said, "Brian, I just want to see it once." Now he lives confidently between 197 and 198 with the energy, the habits, the nutrition, the lifestyle that matches his driven life.
- This episode was recorded just a little bit ago. He's actually down to that 197 198. Just want to throw that in there. This episode is really about what's possible when busy men take ownership of their health, the responsibilities that surround that. It's not about restriction, perfection, any of that discipline, willpower, motivation nonsense.
- What we did is KPIs for our guys. Gentlemen, you know what that means? We built sustainable systems that fit his real life. And if you're ready to do the same, to lose fat, regain that body, and lead as the man that you are built to be, come join me inside the call to rise. It's my 100 day fat loss challenge to lose 20 pounds in the next 100 days with a heavy focus on nutrition, fitness, radical accountability to do the things you know you need to do and actually follow through with it.
- This is for guys who want their body to reflect that internal drive that they have and the success that they find in so many other areas of their life. Come learn more at the calltorise.com. Looking forward to this. Enjoy this episode in its entirety. you know, no. Like, comment, subscribe, share this with other men that need to get motivated and take responsibility.
- Let's go. Welcome everybody. I bring Zach to you today and he is a father of one husband. He's also an executive of a tech company and doing all the things, tons of responsibilities. He actually lives in two different places from New York City, Long Island. He's juggling. He flies around a lot, too.
- Let's take it away, jump in and and talk about some of your successes because it's been pretty on my end easy to work with you because obviously you're a motivated individual, but you know, Zack, share with uh those watching in who are you? What are you about? What's going on in your world every day? >> Yeah, sure, man.
- Uh I appreciate everything you've done. It It's been It's definitely been easy. uh in a in like the in a real sense of the term, right? Like the first couple weeks are a little tough as you kind of migrate over. But anyways, we'll talk about that. But um who am I? I you know, I'm a dad. I want to be around for a long time for my kid.
- I want to take care of myself. I'm married to a beautiful wife and I want to, you know, show up in the best light for her. >> Same for my work, right? Uh I work a high stress job. You know, I know that like there's other factors in my life that put more stress on my body. So, I want to take care of myself. I want to be in my best like presentation of myself.
- I want to feel great and uh you know I want to like walk around proud you know and like that that's kind of what kind of got me here right to this conversation. Yeah, definitely. Definitely. Now, where were you? It kind of take us back to where you were at in the last say five years or so with health, fitness, activity, and ultimately kind of what got you into the position where you said, "Hey, I need to do something about myself.
- " >> Interesting, man. It's I date back to the very first time we spoke. I was on a train going out to Long Island and you said something to me. You're like You're like, "What happens if you just keep gaining like a pound or two per year?" >> Right? cuz I was an athlete and you know trained really well and did a lot of hit exercises was big runner like all that jazz right but like I was just adding a pound or two a year and you increment that over like 15 16 years and all of a sudden you're like 30 40 lbs above
- target weight >> yeah you're looking like an overweight executive huh >> literally literally and you said that comment to me and I sat there and I was on the train I don't know if I even said this to you at the time but I was like man when I'm 60 or 70 I'll be like 300 pounds You know, I'm like, he's right.
- Like, you know, and I'm like, like, and in that moment, I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. This has got to stop like right now. This is out of control. Like, but it wasn't like it was it's like death by a thousand paper cuts, right? It's like I was running, you know, a few times a week, a couple miles, right? I uh would go to gym classes.
- Like, I was air quotes eating healthy, you know, marketing material, Instagram healthy, right? Uh, you know, but I wasn't like I wasn't doing my my plates were wrong. I was eating too many calories the whole nine. It was just it was just it was just like let's add another two pounds, right? I think I was like 228 or 230 or something like that when I first started.
- And uh I guess we can talk about where I am today, too. But I'm down at 202. And >> this is incredible. And your big stretch goal is 199 just to say you were there, right? >> Right. 199. You know, my wife like could care less. She's like, "You look great." You know, I'm like, "I just want a one. Like, I want to like be back in college.
- " You know, >> my wife doesn't care if I have abs or not. She says, "I'm with I have four kids." She said, "Don't die. >> I want to raise kids by myself. So, abs are no abs. It's stay fit and healthy." >> Literally, man. Literally. You know, but yeah, that's what's going on. So yeah, we're going for stretch goal right now, but then we're going to settle into a long-term sustainability looks like.
- So go back what got you interested in the first place of of getting going in our work together? >> Yeah, so two of my friends had met you, guy named Ryan and another guy named Devin. I've known them a long time. Ryan had done everything you could think of, right? uh keto and different diets and calorie restrictions and injections and like just everything on the face of the sun.
- Devin was like they were always like on these different programs and stuff and like doing them together. Anyways, Ryan tells me about you like I don't know four or five months before I met you and he's like yeah I'm thinking about getting this guy. He's a kind of a nutrition focus. He's a coach. He's got an education in this like he's trained professional and I was like dude that sounds like a really good idea right encouraging.
- I was like I was like versus the Instagram like uh you know guy who's like 22 like I think this is like like a guy who's been doing this for like 20 years. It's probably not a bad idea, you know. He uh so anyways he's like tell me about this whole thing. He's like yeah this guy's telling me about building a plate and then and I've lost like 20 pounds and I'm like dude good for you man that's awesome right? And then Devon gets hooked up with you and Devon's like, "Dude, he's telling me about building a plate and I lost five pounds and blah blah blah."
- And I'm like, "Wow, these guys have done this for more than a week, right? They're gonna hear this recording be pissed." But like and I was I was like impressed. And then I'm like I'm like, "Wow." Like this is like by the time I met you, I think Ryan was like four or five months in. I'm like Ryan is like consistent with this, right? And he's raving about you, right? And then Devon's like two, three months in, he's raving about you.
- >> Well, Devin was with Devon real quick. We got on a call and from that very first call to the time you actually took action was there was a little bit of lag time. It was just like testing water. Okay, I hear what you're offering. Let me let me think about it. And then the first week in after he finally committed he's down weight. He's feeling better.
- He's already he's just I I always said Devin you I don't want to like kick in the butt on this question but you probably are regretting a little bit that you you didn't just get started. Did you wait till >> man? >> Yeah, man. So, it was, you know, it was an interesting experience, right? But, you know, I um I heard what they were doing. I got bought in.
- I let you know and you made that comment to me. You're like, "What happens if you just stay on this path?" And I'm like, "If I stay on this path, nothing's changing. It's only getting worse. Nothing's going to change unless I do something right. Take some action." And like, you shifted my mindset.
- I can't even tell you how like 180 my mindset is. It's hysterical. And my wife is like, you know, she knows it now and like she's totally bought in and like Right. >> It cracks me up, man. It's it's uh everything you didn't know that you should have known. I should have taught you this in like high school. Like I don't know what the hell they were teaching us, but >> Right.
- Right. Right. Exactly. Right. At my best, I am a pattern interrupt. I'm just standing next to you looking in the bathroom mirror saying, "Zack, what do you want? What is it that you want to see in your body, in your life, in your mind? And and then let's start executing on the habits, behaviors, the routines, creating the lifestyle that that delivers that look, the body, body, the feel that you're going for.
- And that's essentially what we've done. You have two different lives of at home and then at work. And then also you travel quite a bit and and of course work responsibilities, but you're what 228 or 202 now. Had you tried anything beforehand or just you were just doing stuff and it was and and just kind of ended up getting up to that weight or had you tried anything in the past? >> A couple of times like but like nothing really super seriously to be honest.
- I was just like, you know, I was athlete and I just kind of rolled with that, right? And I kept the exercise going, the workouts going and like, >> right, >> air quotes ate healthy, right? Uh clean eating or whatever you want to call it, but like wasn't doing the right things to be fair, >> right? >> What about some of the of course you said no matter what you do, anything new, even I have a coach and the first two weeks felt like five weeks of effort.
- I'm like, "Oh my gosh, there's just things that of just >> this is the course that we need to create and and and and just different thought processes." And ultimately, I always encourage people to think about this is habits are created how long? A lot of people say 21 days or 3 months or blah blah blah. They can be created today.
- They can be created right now and you can set forth on a course that has changed and you don't look back. So, what were some of the the early on things that really created that momentum? The whole point of like what I call my program, but that started creating that initial momentum for you and the progress. >> That's a good question, man.
- So, I've lost like 26 pounds in three months, say pretty consistently each week. >> Yes. >> And if you I haven't broken it down exactly like an Excel sheet, but I'm kind of a data geek. If you did, it's about a pound and a half, two pounds, right? Um that is all in my opinion because of the habit. And what happened for me was, and this is a lot of listening to you and Ryan and Devon and like, you know, and they're just inversely listening to you, right? So, but like make it really, really simple.
- >> Yeah. >> Make it repeatable. Make it super quick, right? If your lifestyle is anything like mine, I will be on something like 8 to 10 hours of calls today. >> Yeah. >> Pretty much straight throughout the entire day, right? Um, and those calls probably will end somewhere around 6:00 to 8:30 tonight, you know? Mhm.
- >> And there's like a three and a half minute blip in there somewhere to steam some broccoli, some rice, and get some chicken out of the fridge. Right. And then scarf that down while I pray pray that someone doesn't need me on a video Zoom. Right. Like so I can just like eat. Right. >> Right. >> And someone else take control of the meeting right now.
- I need to eat for two minutes, please. >> Literally. Right. It's like so I can think about it like do you some people call it optimizing or what have you, but like what I really think about is like how do I just make it repeatable and easy and then just keep doing the same thing over and over again and then you find all these little tricks to make it like flavorful and change it.
- But like if you keep that base the same that makes it really easy. The second thing I found was that like helps with the habits. I don't know if I told you this before, but like I think about like, okay, living next to a park in the city. Like, if I loop the park, it's like uh 1500 steps, >> right? >> And so I know mentally like, all right, if I can get out and do a phone call at 11:00 a.m.
- , 8 a.m., you know, 2:00 p.m., right? I can knock out uh 4,500 steps without having to leave my apartment, right? Like generally, >> right? Right. Right. >> And I like mentally build these blocks in. I'm like, "All right, if I walk to the office, that's 4,000 steps there and back, >> right?" >> Guaranteed. So, it's like I look at those as like guaranteed payments into the the deposit.
- >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. To the health bank, right? >> Exactly. And so, I think about it every day. I'm like, if I need to go to the office, that's going to give me 4,000 guaranteed. If I'm just working out of the apartment, I can get myself 4500 guaranteed by walking the park three times. >> And then all the other stuff adds up.
- You hit the 10,000 steps, etc. >> U, but yeah, those are like the two things, man. make the meals super easy, super quick, and then like build these just little like mental blocks of like, okay, here's how I get my guaranteed this many steps so I can get to the 10,000 plus every single day. Yeah. >> And and what Zach is referencing is one of the very first formulas I introduce people to.
- I move this much, I eat this much, and this is what my body does. So, the movement, I'm a big 10K step. Zach likes to work out. Whether you like to work out or not, that's not really the point. I don't send people into the gym to do the Arnold Schwarzenegger program if they hate going to the gym. Like it doesn't make sense. But we need to move.
- And for the busy guy like Zack and a lot of people, can we take some of these face- toface conversations and take them to a phone call, especially in your situation? Not every single one needs to be face to face or computer facing in a sense. You can get on and just have a conversation and and use leverage that net time that no extra time in your day to get out and move.
- And then all of a sudden you get to the end day and instead of moving 2,000 now feeling really good about yourself and you're like oh I've got a 2hour walk ahead or something you're already at 8,000 9,000 or even completed the goal of of getting to that 10k. Then the the the food piece. So building a simple plate and and some of the very simple paradigms I'm looking to create a balanced meal protein fibrous carbs meaning fruit and vegetables and starchy carbs and that that's it.
- just like two, three, four, possibly five ingredients broken down in the easiest way possible. Zach loves broccoli. He and I are uh very much alike. A frozen bag of broccoli, four cups in the microwave, three and a half minutes if I just need to get it done or four. I'm so lazy like I will press 333. Well, I don't go 300.
- I go 333 push play on the microwave. I'll do 444 and just keep it just like even that and just so but we love broccoli and and it's funny the pictures we sent back and forth of how much broccoli is on our plate. Like we got to enjoy that stuff. The last point that that makes it simple here is decision fatigue is a real thing in your world, right? You only have so much faculty to make decisions because they're reserved.
- you're trying to reserve them for bigger pieces in your day and and bigger problems, not what am I eating right now or I haven't eaten forever. Oh, great. I'm going to go over eat or over consume. So, outside of the traditional standard meal like chicken, broccoli, and rice, which you chose to eat.
- You don't have to, but what were like one or two other go-tos that that were really simple to to give some folks here ideas? >> Yeah. Two things I would say. Number one is lead with protein. >> You know, if you get like high protein there with the high fiber carbs, right, like you get you get like a really full feeling.
- So, if you like if you think about optimizing that, >> yeah, >> the result is a little more satiating in my opinion. Um, secondary to that, uh, be open-minded is what I would say. Like, like just because I've always done something a certain way and I've eaten a certain way, like it's okay to change it. >> Yeah.
- You know, like I went from eating like 99% turkey to 93% turkey, ground turkey, because a couple guys were just like, "Hey, man, it tastes better. It's like better in the fridge." Blah blah. I did it. Wham. Life's better. I've been doing it for 3 months. Lost a bunch of weight, right? But like things that that I eat a lot are like uh Greek yogurt, >> right? >> All the time. I love Greek yogurt.
- You put some berries in there. Berries are like God's pack to this >> D. They're the kings of the fruits, >> literally. and they're led by their friend the strawberry. They're like, "You can eat so much strawberry for so low calorie count with so much flavor." You know, it's crazy. Like, uh, the powdered peanut butter PB2 or whatever the other one's called.
- I can't remember the name of it, but like, you know, the powdered peanut butter stuff is like a great way. You put one little like tablespoon in there and it's like 30 calories and it totally just adds flavor, changes the thing up, you know? Egg whites, added those recently. That's like a great like windfall. You know, I eat oatmeal every morning.
- every single morning I eat oatmeal and I had four egg whites. But like and then like you know leverage Brian like crazy, right? Like I text Brian like I can't tell you Brian I know you I'm talking to you directly but like >> to everyone that's listening to this like you text Brian and you're just like hey uh thinking about eating bacon, right? And he's like hits you back with all these labels and you're like oh my gosh I should go eat Canadian bacon.
- Which by the way I've never eaten in my life which is weird considering I live in New York and New Jersey people love it. I never eaten it in my life. I have two packages of it in my fridge right now and three slices of Canadian bacon. I don't remember the exact number, but it's like 80 or 85, maybe 90 calories.
- It might even be too high there. Which is like a fair amount of food for very little calories for the same impact like you know you want. And it was like it was a text with you or a phone call with you where you were like, "Dude, uh pork bacon, you know, turkey bacon and then like Canadian bacon.
- " And I was like, "Wait, why have I never known this?" And like you think of clean eating, you think of turkey bacon, right? turn pretty actually calorie dense. Um >> and so anyways, it's like things, >> right? >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it's eating your It's like also look at your um your like cheat sheets that you send out, you know, like the guides.
- Take 50 seconds and read the guide and you're like, "Oh, I can do this thing to these pancakes and make them into protein pancakes." Like one thing I do is I put Greek yogurt on top of the pancake. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. >> You know, in like >> Yeah. You get really good protein out of the pancake. I'm making pancakes for my kid on Saturday.
- It's something we do all the time. >> Yeah. >> Throw some Greek yogurt on top. No syrup. Like, don't be messing around with, you know, 10,000 calorie maple syrup, >> you know? Throw some Greek yogurt on top and some >> on top and you got yourself a a really slamming pancake. >> You're cooking. Like, what's wrong with you? >> That's what my 15-year-old says now.
- I'm cooked. I'm cooked. We got to get cooking, man. Like, okay. Are we going to the kitchen? No. No. We're >> Yeah, that that's that's awesome. And every time you would send me a text, I got a I got a text for that >> every time. >> I got I got an answer for you immediately. Right. You would you would text and I would send you something back promptly and it would solve the answer and you like, I'm good.
- I don't need anything else. And off you go. And and and that's something that's important is you're here and I recognize I I've been doing this for 20 years. So I recognize where people are at. You want to get here. We just need to fill in the gap of what's missing in all these steps. Some people only have they can just hop and leap to get to this which is kind of your situation.
- Whereas other people you Devin or or Ryan's doing good. Devin I had a I had a a good conversation with him this past weekend. Hey, I understand family's first, boss is second, but then he's I got all these new reports. He's 12 new people. And I said, Devin, why is Brian at at 15? Why is Brian not at three? Family, wife, kids, boss, Brian, and then everything else.
- Because if if I'm paying attention to my health, which is what my job is to better his his his body weight, his energy, his productivity, his mindset, his focus, his impact. All those 12 people are going to get exactly what they need because this guy can show up and not just, oh, I had 18 meetings today and I didn't stop and eat.
- >> Devin, that's poor planning. That's that's it. That's just poor planning. and you're not executing on the plan that you have for your own health and therefore we're you're you're not effective at all and then oh that's great you're going to then go overeat and then go show up in front of your wife and then just have no energy and fall asleep on the couch because you're exhausted and poor choices Devon or any other person that does that right but we had a good conversation this past weekend on on prioritizing
- who what's important to him and and work is important but if he's not showing showing up and taking care of himself, then it's just second second best opport. >> I agree with you, man. It's uh you you're referencing something I haven't talked about and I should have talked about. I apologize.
- Like the program and the process that you set up builds accountability into it. >> Yeah. which is like sure you could go watch all the Brian Prana info and read all your material and there'd be a lot of things you would learn doing that but there's an accountability aspect of it of sending you the screenshots every day and like giving you a read into what you're eating and you're like calling the person out.
- You called me out in the early days, right, of like fix this, fix this, boom, boom, boom, right? And all of a sudden you're like you're like all right, I got to get this 10,000 steps because like I don't want to deal with Brian, >> you know? But it's like that's what a coach is for, right? like you you're there to be that guide and that accountability matters a ton in my opinion.
- >> Yeah. >> It's not just the knowledge and the program that you've built and all the material you have. It's the accountability aspect that you have built into it too that like takes this thing and launches it to another level, right? Because it's like, >> you know, you're not like you're not stop starting.
- You know, you're not like, "Oh, I'm on the path for two weeks. I'm off the path for three days. I'm on back on for a week. I'm off for two weeks." It's like you're boom boom boom boom boom throughout the process. you know, the weekly check-in calls, like these sheets, you know, you have expectations and it's it's really good for, you know, someone like me, right, who does well in that type of thing.
- So, >> yeah, definitely. And you you have expectations of all the people that are under you. Going back to Devon, it's like, "Hey, Deon, I'll text you, but I I don't hear back from you for like three days." If your boss texts you when you get back to him, >> yes, >> pretty promptly, right? Well, I'm I'm your boss in health.
- I'm your boss in taking care of yourself. I'm in your boss and creating the mindset around health being a priority in your life because for the last sometimes just a year or two but five 10 I've had people that basically their whole life they've been overweight and then we go through this process of actually having real conversations with her where they're at to help unlock some of these situations or these patterns of behaviors.
- I spot them. I had a talk with Jose very very this weekend. It was again this weekend. Um felt like it was on fire. But he has a couch on the left side of the couch. If he sits down, it's close to the fridge. It's TV viewing chair. And this this happen. He get he's super productive. Gets up at 5. We have a a morning prioritize himself first thing before he gets lunch in his day.
- He gets up, he walks, then he's going through his day being productive, doing the things, and then by 4:30, 5:00, he gets home. And he has an option. Sure, everyone can have some downtime, some you need it. It's we're humans. You can't be productive thousand% all the time. It's just not possible. But if he sits on the left side of the couch, the likeliness of him ending up there an hour or two in consumption mode of food and and mindless things on the TV that don't really give him anything burst.
- If he just literally sits on the other side of the couch, the other side, there's a lamp, there's a desk, there's a space to read or write. He wants to be a writer as as well, but we got to get him past being 260 lbs. He needs to be in a body to have healthy energy and mindset to be able to put all of the energy in there now.
- So, literally, he has a fork in the road every day when he gets home at 4 4:30. Do I sit in this chair or I do sit in this chair? And what ends up being the outcome of that? If he goes left, he's likely to consume. If he goes right, he'll have that downtime, but it's a there's a fulfillment to it. It's a a self-satisfying thing that that rejuvenates and recharges his body and his his mind for the rest of the day, which is family time.
- And he also guy's a go-getter, but he's taking classes. He's an East Coast guy in Florida, taking West Coast classes that start like 8:00, which is 11 p.m. Eastern. So he's getting home at 5 and not wrapping up school until after midnight someday like two twice a week. So there there's this thing and and we had just a real conversation and I said, "Jose, you literally have a fork.
- How is the next two hours going to end up being if you go left or you go right?" Huge insight and ability to then make better choices. And so with you, it wasn't too hard. you are you are ready to go and and didn't have some of those hurdles. But uh so as we wrap up, I I really appreciate this conversation.
- It's this fills me up. This is why I do what I do. I love the impact change because I dropped the pebble in your pond. It's rippled out to your family, your wife, your son. It's rippled out to your your closest of friends, right, Ryan and Devon. And you guys have this chat thread going on. And I just I'm not in it, but I don't need to be in it.
- But I laugh when I hear you guys talking about what what you guys are doing in there and jazzing each other and just poking and and and showing encouragement to each other. And then of course the people in your work and your employees and and then other people that you impact on a day basis just being around and you can actually show up New York City present and and actually fulfill on what your responsibilities are.
- So, um, yeah. Any last things that that you have on on top of your head here or that you would tell someone else that is in a not so healthy spot and has been there for way too long and feeling kind of bad about it. You know, what do you have? >> The last thing I'd say is, you know, you feel great, you look great, but it's uh it's sustainable.
- All you're doing is just modifying what you're already doing, which is the most like mindblowing part of this thing. It's not like you're going to like some Orange Theory or Barry's Foot Boot Camp or Pilates or like >> all organic or something or you're going some weird diet thing. >> Yeah. You're not like just drinking juice and feel like you're going to fall over at 2:00, right? You're just like literally like, "Okay, if you just shift the play like that and and all of a sudden you're down two pounds in the first week, you're like, "Oh my" like
- and you're just addicted, right? Uh and then >> you just you just increased your activity, right? like I just changed the activity type that I was already doing and modified it which again it didn't make sense to me cuz I thought I knew what I I didn't know right honestly I'm not a nutrition professional I'm not Brian like you know I just I needed that coaching I needed a guy like Brian and I'll just leave you with one last thing like I just we'll share this from my doctors you know I I like at the beginning of year I have all my like
- annual check-ins right and I'm like yeah I'm doing tracking all this and I'm doing this and all this cardio and they're like that's incredible Yeah, like the the one guy's like he's like can I see your app like for the for the macros tracking? He's like this is great. He's like like like looking through right and he's commenting on he's like he's like man you're killing on the fiber and like you know and and like my primary care doctor I've had him for years and you know like he's you know like he's looking at my weight he's
- like man you're you're down like 10%. Like that's that's awesome right? like and he's been like saying to me like for the last 5 years at least like you know you're in good health but if you could like lose 20 pounds that'd be great right and I and I'm like but I'm running and I'm eating healthy right and he's just like every year it's like the same thing it's like if you could just lose like 20 pounds you know and like just to like see their reaction and them like how positive they are right and like how they're like wow like man you are doing
- the right things you know like getting that activity every single day right like and it it feels Good to be in the doctor's office and be able to say like, "Yeah, getting activity every single day, right? I'm eating right." >> You know, that when doctor reports come in, people text me. They're like, "Oh, I felt like I knew more about nutrition than my doc did.
- " >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> I you had a text that you sent me in the last couple days, but what was Give me the context of that. Like, >> oh, I'm down in Miami and one of my friends looks me dead in the eyes. I couldn't believe this guy said this to me. He goes, "Did you have work done?" I go, "What? I love it. I love it. I love it.
- >> Yeah, man. It cracked me up. I was like I was like, Sam, now I have work done. I've lost like 25 pounds, man. You know? >> Oh, I love it. I love it. Lastly is, you know, Ryan is still in all fat loss phase. This guy, he's he He's gonna be right standing right next to the Red Hawk. Man, this dude is so muscular and going from 240 250 to uh he's two he's under 220 now and we're going to settle in under 210 at by summertime.
- You know, summer bodies are started in in March and he's been obviously working a long time. So, this dude is going to be impressive button and and Devon's on his way. But you're already there. you're at the destination and and we're going to be start soon as you hit that 199 we're going the opposite direction in terms of calories and and creating not only sustainable lifestyle but also how many calories can I get Zach to eat? I I theorize that I might be able to get you to eat at least 500 a day more maintaining your what I call a 5 pound weight range, right? Is
- we're not going to say 199. That's just like a big stretch goal, but probably around say 204 207 somewhere around there, but where it's just it's easy to maintain that. And if it goes up to 207, you're like, "Hey, I probably should knock off the nonsense and and just eat this.
- " and then it goes right back down and you don't have to work hard to keep it there. But at least 500 calories a day, maybe even more. I I almost guarantee it because the the your activity level, how tall you are, the just all the things that we've been doing. You might be like, "Brian, dude, I I I don't want to eat anymore. Those simple easy meals have now been they take an extra five minutes to eat and I'm out of time.
- " So I I honestly like question even eat that much food because I'm eating like a large quantity of basically cool food just very calorie light. >> We'll switch it. You're gonna have more. So we're gonna So you tweaked you tweaked the plate like this and then we're going to tweak it back like that. >> And then like wow I can you're going to take a picture and send to your guys.
- >> Dude, look how much rice I'm eating right now. Because they both love rice. But you're gonna have this like mound of rice and they're gonna have this like tiny little bit of rice and it's gonna be amazing. So, well, dude, I really appreciate you taking time to share the experience and all. If anyone's listening in, Zach just showed up.
- He took action and we just talked together. That's where the real value lies of just having conversations and getting direction, accountability, support, and all that stuff. So, I've been incredibly excited working with you. You've been a lot of fun. the amount of laughter that we have back and forth is just I know that when Zach gets on the phone, I'm going to get a good laugh in because we just have a good time talking and and working together. So, let's keep it up.
- We got big calories to get in here at some point here in the next couple of weeks and thank you so much. Again, if you watch this and you felt inspired by his story, then reach out and go to my website or just knock on my door. Pretty prompt as Zach would agree responding. So, uh but I'd love to see how I might be help. All right, catch you all later.
- Thank you, Zach, so much. Very appreciate it so much and for all the hard work and and just camaraderie even. So, thank you. Off you go. There you go. Bye-bye.
