#19 Gord Hunter – Lost 75 lbs in 6 Months on Keto…

…but the change on the inside was even greater.

BACKGROUND

In May of 2017, Gord Hunter saw a photo of himself from a golf match, and didn’t even recognize himself. He found the ketogenic diet and got started on a life changing journey.

Gord’s wife Amy and 2 children also adopted the keto diet, making it a true family affair.

Fast forward to December 2017, and Gord is down 75 pounds, thanks to the keto lifestyle.  This has been an emotional journey, as he helped his parents improve their health on Keto.

Gord read the book, You Were Born Rich, 30 times in the last few years. So, he decided to become a coach to share his vision. Combine this training with the health benefits of keto, and you are talking truly life changing.

“I truly love the man I’m becoming. I feel a sense of gratitude all the time and I believe that is why I get so emotional telling my story. Life is supposed to be an adventure, a game meant to be played. I am so grateful that through keto, I was able to get off the bench and start playing again.” ~Gord Hunter

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Favorite Quote

“God’s gift to us is more talent

and ability than we’ll ever hope

to use in our lifetime.

Our gift to God is to develop

as much of that  talent and ability

as we can in this lifetime.”

– Steve Bow

Favorite Recipe

Cheesy Chicken Fritters

• 3 large (or 1½ lbs) chicken breasts
• 2 large eggs
• ⅓ cup mayonnaise
• ⅓ cup Almond Flour
• 4 oz (or 1⅓ cups shredded) mozzarella cheese and extra old cheddar
• 1½ Tbsp chopped fresh dill
• ½ tsp salt and ⅛ tsp black pepper, or to taste
• Coconut Oil

Instructions

1. Using a sharp knife, dice chicken into ⅓” thick pieces and place them in a large mixing bowl. Tip: If chicken breast is partially frozen, it will be a little bit easier to slice.
2. Into the mixing bowl, add remaining batter ingredients: 2 eggs, ⅓ cup mayonnaise, ⅓ cup flour, 1⅓ cups shredded mozzarella, 1½ Tbsp dill, ½ tsp salt and ⅛ tsp black pepper, or season to taste. Stir the mixture until well combined, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate 2 hours or overnight.
3. Heat a large non-stick pan over medium heat and add 2 Tbsp oil. When oil is hot, add the chicken mixture a heaping Tablespoon at a time. I used a trigger release ice cream scoop for even portioning). Slightly flatten out the tops with the back of your spoon and sauté uncovered 3-4 minutes on the first side, then flip and saute 3 minutes on the second side or until outsides are golden brown and chicken is fully cooked through*

SHOW NOTES

• 51 years old
• Father or two teenage kids
• Canadian
• A husband to a beautiful wife

WHAT BROUGHT YOU TO WHERE WE YOU ARE TODAY?

• I was always been an athlete when I was in high school.
  After high school I joined in the military and that allow me to stay in a pretty good shape.
• And then age creeps up on you, and I ended up putting on a extra pounds
• I fought with it for the last 25 to 30 years
• I’ve tried everything under the sun
• I’ve tried any type of shakes
• It has been a really crazy journey which came into a point in May 27, 2017
• I was out in a golf tournament with my brother and some friends and I haven’t realized how big I’ve gotten until I saw the picture posted Facebook
• And it was at that point that I realized that, that isn’t me
• I was just under 300 pounds at that point
• My knees are in a horrible time
• It’s funny because I opened myself up to the universe and imagined what I wanted to look like.

How I felt in the inside, I put a picture around that and sunken in to my subconscious and fall in love with myself

• Once you asked it comes.
• On Facebook, a friend of mine is a body builder and he’d posting stuff.
  And all of a sudden his newsfeed was all lined up with my newsfeed and it was all about Keto
• I really don’t have any idea what Keto was, so I messaged him
• So I started doing a bunch of research
• I found a website, dietdoctor.com
  dove into it with both feet
• May 27^th was my before picture and on June 3^rd I started my journey
• I manifested it before and I think that’s what led me to finding Keto
• I’ve tried several different things to the point where I asked for help and it was provided
• My favorite quote is “God’s gift to us is more talent and ability than we’ll ever hope to use in our lifetime. Our gift to God is to develop as much of that talent and ability as we can in this lifetime. – Steve Bow”
• I researched of what foods am I allowed to eat, what foods I am not allowed to eat and I’ll be quite frank, as soon as I saw that I could have bacon and eggs I was like, “I’m in.”
• If fruit tasted like bacon, I probably would eat more fruit
• I understood the high fat low carb, but I wasn’t really sure.
  So I started digging into it.
• I watched one interview with a doctor and it was kind of funny because for years now, they have been trying to teach us that saturated fats is bad for us and he’s like being sarcastic
• And the I’m like, I got to the all the old paradigms and rebuild new
• We cut out dairy, but I did not cut out dairy completely
• I have always been a black coffee drinker but then I thought bullet coffee to the new level.
  I usually use the 34% heavy whipping cream in my coffee with MCT oil and I put a little sugar free vanilla just to put on a little extra taste

• When I got home and I told my wife that this is how I need to eat to get my body right. And she thought I was crazy.
  So she started doing her own research and she’s like, “I think we need to change the way the whole family eats.”
• Having everybody on board really helped
• We don’t force the kids to be strict Keto
• I don’t track my macros
• I am a total carb guy. I try to keep my total carb down below 20 a day
• I would give myself treats, and then I would go to my net carbs. I still watch my net carbs.
• One of my favorite things that my wife make are these cheesy chicken fritters

WHAT MADE YOUR KIDS TO ADAPT THE LIFESTYLE?

• I think just seeing the difference in me
• When you first get going is tough, but once you switch over to burning Ketones your energy level is right up to the roof. And my kids can’t keep up with me anymore.

DID YOU EASE INTO IT?

• I dove in with both feet. Just jumped off the cliff
• I absolutely got Keto flu
• I was nauseous. If I stoop up so quickly I get dizzy.
  I went from being constipated to going completely to the other way
• After the third week, I can almost feel my body saying thank you.
• I drink about a litter and I use no salt and I put it sodium, and I take a supplement
• I was seriously addicted to sugar

WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE THINGS ABOUT KETO AND YOUR BIGGEST SUCCESSES?

• My biggest success is my parents.
• I inspired them to get on board with Keto.
• My mother is a breast cancer survivor and she has problems with her lower back and her kidneys.
  She saw how good I was doing so I walked her through it, and coached her to get going. It was a little rough on her until her kidney functions are back to normal.
• She’s 71 years old
• My dad jumped on board.
  He’s done Atkins in the past. So it took some convincing to make him understand that you need high fat and keep your protein moderate to make that full switch.
• I’ve lost 75 pounds in 6 months
• There were time that I get so frustrated because I don’t see any difference on the scale, but I got through it
• My knee was still bad so I am a student of DDPYYoga

• WWE wrestler Diamond Dallas Page blew his back and was able to heal himself with yoga and a little help with his therapist
• So he developed his own yoga program which incorporates dynamic resistance so you get some strength training and tons of flexibility
• Since I started that program I gained 3 quarters and an inch height back
• He’s got a website and an app

• I started exercising on September
• The weight was coming off anyway
• I was down about 40 pounds when I jumped on the exercise bandwagon
• The energy I have now is mind boggling
• I can’t remember the last time I have watched TV because I was into learning about me

HOW ARE YOU LEARNING ABOUT YOU

• I think it was you years ago who sent me a link to Bob Proctor’s book – You Were Born Rich
• And I have read that book probably 30 times for the last 6 months
• I started studying it
• I feel connected to the universe for the first time in my life

• I decided that I make this calling
• My calling is to help people just like what you’re doing
• I am just actually just finishing up going through training with the Bob Proctor Gallagher institute to be a consultant and a coach for their thinking into results program

• I dove into the program in the beginning of December
• It will be 24 weeks
• I do it online, I’ll be going to Toronto to meet Bob and the other consultants
• The courses is designed to wherever you are to wherever you want to go

WHAT ADVICE DO YOU GIVE?

• Do your research
• Trust that it works
• If the flu hits you, fight through it. Because when you break through the other side you’ll feel like a million bucks
• I jumped in right away, but my wife Amy took, her first couple weeks starting back and off
• I’m not yet on my goal
• My goal is 210 pounds which would be a 90 pound loss
• I’m only 12 or 13 pounds away

FAVORITES

• My favorite book is You Were Born Rich
• My favorite recipe is the Cheesy Chicken Fritters
• My wife makes the absolute most amazing cauliflower cheesy hash brown.
  We cook it in the waffle maker and we’ll have a couple eggs on top of it, bacon, and covered up with hollandaise and béarnaise sauce
• It feels like my compass. My personal compass is finally going where it is suppose to go

WHAT FINALLY SOLD YOU ON KETO?

• The dietdoctor.com website and their doctors
• And I went through some of the transformation stories about how people are losing.
• This isn’t a diet, it is an eating lifestyle
• I remember watching extreme transformations and everything they do to lose a 100 pounds training with best trainers in the world
• I was borderline type 2, my blood pressure my sky high
• On August my blood pressure had gone 155 over 105, it was high and now I run steady at 122 over 82 and my blood sugar is perfect.
  My doctor was happy.
• I told my doctor I switched to a Ketogenic diet and he said, “I wish more people would.”

WORDS OF WISDOM

• The greatest change is the change within
• Fall in love with the person on the inside, the outside will take care of itself

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