The Highwire with Del Bigtree - HOW DEL LOST 30 POUNDS

Episode Date: February 13, 2023

If you’ve noticed Del’s recent weight loss, we’re spilling his secrets. Dr. Randy Johns and Dr. Rob Vasquez, co-founders of “The Happy Healthy Guys”, break down the diet plan customized for Del that focuses on metabolic health for long lasting weight loss.#HappyHealthyGuys #MetabolicBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

As many of you have probably recognized, you know, I had a health scare over a year ago. And from that moment, I've been trying to get things together. But every once in a while, I'll do a flashback and I'll see a side by side of like what I was looking like then and what I looked like now. And in some ways, it's embarrassing. It's also great because at least the better looking me is the one sitting here right now in front of you and not looking like some bloated deer on the side of a highway. But all of that takes a little bit of work. And I want to tell you recently, just after the holidays, I decided, or actually just right before the holidays, and coming in and getting through this, I was talking to some guys that kept running into out in the speaking cirque that I'm on. And they said, you know what?

If you did our program, you could lose 30 pounds in five weeks. And I said, you're kidding me. 30 pounds in five weeks. I said to myself and them, I can do anything in five weeks. In fact, a couple of us were all at dinner feeling a little bit pudgy. All of us jumped in and guess what? It worked for every one of us. So just so you get a sense of the happy, healthy guys and what they do out there,

I'll never push anything on you, you can decide. But if you've been asking, and many of you have, this is how I did it. Rob, Dallas, good to see you. Good to see you. Thanks for you. Well, are you ready? I think I'm ready. We're going to figure this out, break it all down.

and create a great strategy. All right, let's do it. Okay, so this is a bioimpedance test. What it's going to do is going to pick up all the electrical charges of your body, you know, bone, water, muscle, and fat and give us a breakdown with making up your weight. Okay. So it just takes a few seconds. In fact, it's ready.

If you want to step on there. Just like that. Straight ahead, breathe through your nose, out for your mouth. Just relax your body. All right, we got what we need? All right, perfect. Nice, good. All right, cool.

So what are we looking at here? All right, so there's good news, bad news, okay? The bad news is the numbers, they don't look perfect. So this is what I told you, I was thinking 205, came in at 206. Kind of where I've been at, I would say, the last couple months. I got really sick and everyone watched as I sort of had issues with inflammation throughout my intestinal system. I got that under control, spent a year, you know, being really cleaned my diet. I think I went from about 230 pounds under 195.

But then over the last, you know, a couple months, I haven't been as strict, you know. And so I sort of felt like if I live the way I want to, I'm back at like 205 and sort of plateauing there. In a world today, the hardest thing is there's like all these different diets. And you're bouncing around. I'm keto today. Tomorrow I'm vegan. And none of it seems to work, right? Metabolic death by all a cart, right?

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. What's the next trend? So that's where we can help because it's really not about what you're eating per se or how much you exercise. It's asking the question, how do I heal my metabolism? Okay, rather than thinking what we've all traditionally been taught, that it's about diet or exercise. So we have to look at your body qualitatively. How are the cells doing? How are they metabolizing what's coming in?

Which is why the system is designed to help heal your metabolism. So let's look at the good news. The good news when we look at these numbers right here is your muscle mass is all. 148.2 pounds, which is great. So the body fat percentage is 24.5%. Okay. So we want to drop that down. Okay, we want to get that somewhere between about 17 and 20%. Okay. Now, from a numbers perspective, as far as the weight goes, the body fat mass is 50.4 pounds. Every pound of body fat stores 3500 calories. That means that you have 176,400 calories that are being stored and not burned. Wow.

Okay. Crazy, right? So you've got all that energy sitting on your body that you don't even have access to. So you're burning sugar and you're storing fat. That's why the body fat is high. So a healthy metabolism can go in and out of fat burning whatever it needs to and isn't relying on sugar which is very inflammatory. So we're going to do a 180 with this and get you burning fat, get you fat adapted.

You can burn more fat and more importantly burn the fat off your body versus continuing to store it. Okay. number we'll look at is going to be the visceral fat rating okay visceral fat that's going to be the fat that we carry around our belly okay it's also the fat that's on the inside of the body that's used to protect things like your heart your lungs your pancreas medical system grades it out on a point system you're right at 11.6 so 12 is the cutoff really but it's kind of like standing on the edge of a cliff and looking over that's what you're doing right so I'm in the I'm in the

high end of normal you like yes your precipice right I'm feeling it. I mean, feeling all the fat, like right here. Like, no matter what I do, you know, just I'm wearing a tire everywhere I go. And that's really a liver disrupted metabolic type. But the great news is once we get you fat adapted on the program, we'll see about a three to five point drop in visceral fat in the five weeks. And then the next thing is metabolic age.

Your metabolic age is 51, so that just means physiologically your body is metabolizing as a 51 year old man. Now you're 52, okay? Yeah. The good news is by going through this and allowing your metabolism to function better, it can go way down. Let the journey begin. Oh, man, I really appreciate it, guys.

I'm really looking forward to this. It's great. All right, I'm going to be honest with you. I do a lot of speaking live at all sorts of health events, talking about the vaccine issues and the things that we've covered on this show. On one of the speaking engagements I was on, I ran into the happy healthy guys, Dr. Randall Johns and Rob Vasquez, and we were at dinner. And I was saying, you guys look fantastic.

What is it you do exactly? And they're like, well, we work on your metabolic health. And, you know, a lot of times that leads to weight loss. And, you know, in your case, Dell, we could probably knock 30 pounds off of you in about five weeks. Now, I've heard of a lot of claims, but I thought, you know, 30 pounds in five weeks, I'll give that a shot. I can do anything for five weeks. And so that's actually what I did. I want to be clear.

There are plenty of great workout and health treatments out there and weight. I'm not going to try and sell you on one. I just want to talk about one that I did and the guys that helped make that happen for me. So I'm honored and blessed to be joined now by the happy healthy guys, Dr. Rob Baskes, Handel Johns. Looking good, brother. Oh man, I'm feeling good. I really am feeling great. But before we get into what that whole process was like, and there's been a lot of people asking me, like, what are you doing? Just let's talk about health because I think it's so important right now. It's why I want to wanted to have this conversation, which is, you know, during COVID, I was talking to doctors that were, you know, dealing with us in the hospitals, and they were saying, look, people that are overweight, diabetic, these are such major precursors. Those are the ones we're really having

issues with. And I even talked to doctors, they're all saying, I'm losing weight myself. They were so afraid of what they were seeing. And we've all had reasons to get healthy before, but tell me about, like, how you see health. Like, what is it in this sort of metabolic system that you're talking about. For us, for us health really is an inside job. It's really about being healthy, cellularly speaking. So really it's about how our body is functioning on the inside and how our body is expressing health, right? Health really is our bodies being at 100% state or maximizing ourselves chemically, physically, and emotionally. It's not merely just being the absence of disease or the absence of symptoms. It's really being

healthy, holistically speaking, our whole entire body. Now, I would say, I mean, prior to going through this diet process, I really consider myself a pretty healthy eater. I mean, I don't, there's no American cheese in our house, there's no soda or things like that, but you really started me having a look at oils and things. I mean, I get organic corn chips and organic potato chips, but as I started looking at those things,

there was a lot that I was clearly taking, because I was like, how am I? I mean, how did I get to a place where I'm so out of shape? And really, honestly, I had accepted that my days of doing pull-ups were over. My day, I mean, and when I was younger, I was a gymnast, competed in track, soccer, all of this at rock climbing. I mean, if I would try to imagine rock climbing, you know, two years ago when I was unhealthy, I would not have been able to hold onto a rock.

I mean, the idea, and I had let that go, that I'm going to be able to hold up my own body weight. Now, all of that's shifting. But is it just about how I look? You know, how do we know if we're healthy? Yeah, no, it's a great question. And it can be so frustrating, Dale, if you're that person, and you are really diligent with your nutrition, yet you just can't seem to move the needle. Or even worse, you're cutting your calories, you're trying to eat better, you're going to the gym hours and hours a day,

yet you can't seem to crack the coat. So why would one person eat whatever they want and be thin? And one person count every morsel and can't even lose any weight? It's something bigger. So we always say, stop asking how do I lose weight? Start asking, how do I fix my metabolism? Metabolism is the name of the game. If it's healthy, you burn thousands of calories,

you can stay at a good weight. If it's unhealthy, and I think that's really what happened with you, the calories weren't being burned. What happens when you eat food? Does it burn the calories, or does it store the calories? And that's 100% independent on the health of your metabolism. And so when I thought about that, I mean, And as I had sort of said, I think I was about 2.30 when I went to the hospital.

Everyone, if you haven't watched the show, go back, it's very embarrassing, all the things that happened. But intestinal inflammation leading to a major hemorrhoid issue, there it is. I've said it again. I even made headlines, by the way. You guys know that? There was like headlines on my hemorrhoids. That's how you know when you've made it, you know? You know you've made it when your hemorrhoids make headlines.

But really what I realized was I was inflamed through my whole body. And one of the things I found interesting in, you know, when you guys sort of focused me on the diet, which was very sort of specific. In my case, I know there's different body types, but for me, it was mostly just white fish twice a day, a vegetable and a fruit. It was pretty easy to do it. I have to say it wasn't super difficult. But what I'll tell you the most shocking thing was coffee. Coffee. Coffee, I content, it's hard to not drinking. I know I probably shouldn't at all,

but, you know, when I drink coffee a lot of times I get acid reflux and acid indigestion and things like this, okay, you had too much coffee. And I found that, you know, one of the things on this diet was like, you guys said, you can have some coffee. And I never got any indigestion at all. I was talking to some friends that were chefs. Like, well, it's because you probably don't have any inflammation anymore that's being exacerbated by the course. coffee, how many of us really are dealing less with weight and more about just inflammation? Yeah, no, that's a great point. Inflammation's at the heart of everything you don't want. You know, think about all chronic illness has an inflammatory, metabolic component from heart

disease to cancer, to stroke, to diabetes, even to brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. So when you start looking at this, one of the part of the program really is to help heal the gut and get you fat adapted to reduce inflammation. Because when you're burning fat for fuel, you can really drop those inflammatory markers. So I think that was kind of a cool thing to see for you. It's like, hey, I'm dropping weight, I'm feeling better, I'm not getting this acid reflux.

That's very common to see those things improve as you start improving metabolic health. Now, when we think about metabolics, I think about age, right? I had just assumed, and I told you guys when we started this, I was skinny. I couldn't gain weight through. I remember high school taking a weightlifting class. I was like, can I just, am I going to get more ripped than like the bony, skinny stuff

I already am. And then I hit 40 and it was like my whole world change. And I felt like I got so used to eating like an athlete, which is I can eat whatever I want. And now suddenly I suppose, you know, I was sitting behind a computer. Now I'm sitting a lot working on Dr. Philo's show and then the doctor's. So maybe more of a sedimentary life. But how much is that that age moment? I always talk about that 40.

I'm now 52, but does age, is there, is there a transfer that happens there? Well, I think a lot of people think that because it does get harder as we get older, right? But when we also see other people, we know people who are older than us and thinner than us. We also know people that are younger than us and heavier than us.

So if it was an age thing, well then everybody, you know, older than us should be overweight and everybody younger than us should be thin. And that's really just not. the case what really is happening just as we were just talking about the inflammation the longer that inflammation is inside the body the more damage that that causes to the cells over time it makes it harder for metabolism to happen because what metabolism is that's just taking whatever goes into our body and

then our body is transforming it into a form that it can be used inside the body and one of the byproducts of that is energy for example which is then called a calorie which is why we talk about basal metabolic rate it's all related inside there so it's the efficiency as to how our body is transforming what's coming in to be able to be used in the body for all of the different functions that literally thousands of functions inside the body so I think as we get older the more damage that there's there inside there it just doesn't get better on its own so sometimes we have to take a look see what's going on inside there and then be able to customize something that's specific for that person so they can be able to overcome that and then their cells are healthier. What is the biggest, I mean, are there some sort of central things that you know when someone walks in? Here's probably what's wrong with your diet when you don't know. What is like the essential mistakes that we're all kind of making right now? Yeah, you know, we're really leaving in a different generation now than our ancestors.

Really what nourished us for thousands of years has changed dramatically, especially since the industrial revolution. And we really believe that one of the worst things you could possibly do has been the integration of nut and seed oil into our diet. You think about that, that was never anything you could have consumed, you know, hundreds of years ago because you didn't have the machinery, the chemicals to extract, extract oils from seeds. You know, you could definitely churn butter, you know, churn the milk and make the butter, but you didn't have access to these industrialized machinery oil.

So things like canola, corn, soy, safflower, sunflower. These are seed oils that are omega-6. They're called linoleic acidil, and they're very dense. to the metabolism, to the mitochondria, to even break your own fat cells. It causes real big problems. I think even for you, one of the reasons we kind of made some dietary changes even in that regard

with the fats was because I think over years and years and years and years you can start to build this up, and seed oil will build up in your body over many, many years. It takes almost 400 to 500 days to even get rid of this stuff sometimes. Really? Really, really dangerous. Listen, processed sugar is no good. Processed grain and flour no good.

no good. I really believe that the introduction of these refined machinery oils, these seed oils, has really damaged our metabolic state. I was even, you know, yesterday going to grab a few pistachios, and I just looked at the packs. I was like, let me just check. And it was like sunflower oil. There you go. Like that's just loaded with linoleic acid. Right. Highest forms, yeah. Which is a huge part of the diet. I won't get into too many details. I know people that want to like get into the dire to do something like that. We're going to set up a way for them in the contact you, but really take away all the oils, took it all the way. I didn't cook with oils, cooked like lemon juice and things like that. Actually learned some things about cooking that I've

still held on to, but let's just go ahead to my way. And it was five weeks, I think five weeks and three days was sort of the whole process. And so I remember standing in my house. And let me just tell you, you know, I was like wondering, you know, should I go a few more? Like, because once you're there, like you're really rocking it out. And, um, you know, you're just, you know, you're just And I really kind of wanted to hit that 30 pound mark. We talked about it. I was right about there. And I went and I play a racket sport called Padel.

And that day I went and played, and I'll admit, like, you know, playing a racquet sport while you're in the middle of a diet, it's probably not the best idea. And those days I was kind of light, like, I'm going to do it anyway. And by the way, you guys said don't work out. Like, we don't want you working out, which I found fascinating. But ultimately, I went and I found myself like I was jumping through the air, like to hit. and overhead like I was flying and I was so dialed in and I said you know what I don't care what I weigh in the morning we've done it and we've done it and this is what I discovered in the morning when I decided to step on a scale so this is how it ended over at my house take a look at this all right well

it's the moment of truth I've just finished the five weeks and the three days of the diet so today is the day I find out my base weight I have to say it really does even matter matter what I weigh in it right now. I feel better than I have felt in so long. I was even saying to my wife last night, I just feel clear and clean and vibrant and energetic. So it's just been an incredible experience. But let's find out what my actual base weight is. Here we go. 179.2. Sweet. You know, I think originally I thought it'd be really cool to be 185 again. I really thought. I really thought like, like breaking and there was that moment coming up to 190 it kind of like stole there's like oh man I'm never gonna like break through that space and honestly uh coming in at really 180 and and before we did that pre video right about like going on the diet I went out and toured for another month and probably put on I would say a good three or four more pounds before I finally

got around to getting started because I was like you know I had to go I was like I went to Joel Salatin's forum, which is amazing, but I'm doing steaks and eating, you know, because it was just amazing. So I think I started around 208, 209, and then to come out there at 180. But it is transformative. I mean, I honestly didn't think that I would be at that space again. And what it does to your life in that moment, in fact, just yesterday, I had to have someone come in and re, you know, I'm having a lot of my vests and my suits and things. have he brought in the guy said to me he was out here you know fitted some of the suits before he's like your waist is two inches less than it was and my neck shrunk an inch yeah who knew you had fat you're like I mean you don't really think of that you know yeah it's truly astounding so I would say

right around 28 pounds right there where you said 30 pounds yeah is that kind of I mean you look to me is everyone that you're working with having those kind of results that they you know stick to it We have a lot of evidence at this point, Dale, so we've really been able to see, wow, we know what we can and can't do. If we have the right criteria in place, we've got the right numbers, the testing's been done. Now it's just putting in the work. So once again, kudos to you, man, because you really put the work in, which really with any program that you do, really it revolves around your commitment to following through and keeping integrity with yourself. But yeah, if we've got the right criteria and we can bring you, invite you into the program, and test you, and customize everything, and you follow it, absolutely.

Those are the results we see typically with men who need to lose it. Now women are probably seeing maybe five to 10 pounds less, but still 20, 25 pounds if they need to lose that as well. Men typically lose more weight, they have more muscle, a higher basal metabolic rate. So ladies, that's not your fault. But it's really typical to see those results.

And this is over a five-week period. Now, listen, we can't legally say that, just so you know the FTC says, you can't guarantee any more than three pounds in a week. So three times five is 15. That's our legal number, but we like to over deliver. So exactly what we do, those are typical results. All let me show everybody, since you're probably wondering,

I wasn't sure I wanted to do this because it's not, you know, you like to show yourself, but I did take some before and after, so just to give you a sense of what it looked like. This is, I mean, just take a look at that for a second. No working out, except for I was sneaking out to play some Padel a little bit here and there. But honestly, folks, and I wasn't sucking anything, and I just thought let's be real five weeks. I mean, that is pretty, pretty phenomenal.

It's really, there's not much you can say about that. Yeah, and we just got to. And I think, you know, when we look at my face, I think we have it before, like just recently, there was like recently just on the show. Look at the difference right there. All that inflammation. You were so swollen.

Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. In fact, what was funny about this is my executive producer is like, did you, like it's like your nose is straighter. I guess the fat in my nose wasn't hanging off one side of my nose as much. It's really a trip.

It's really a trip. Now, you know, we decided to sort of look at the metabolics and how those are chipped, not just by weight, you know, but how did all the, you know, sort of where's my visceral fat? Where is my age? Now my metabolic age. So this is what that looked like. Let's take a look.

All right, guys, moment of truth. Now, I know I saw my own scale, which said, I got down to 179, but I really want to know like what happened internally, right? And that's what this is all about. We ready for this? Let's do it. All right. Drum roll please, right?

What can be achieved in five weeks? Right, let's take a look at the new numbers. Okay. All right. So do you remember what your body fat percentage was before? I think I wrote it up over here for myself. My body fat was 24.5%. Look at check it out.

So now I'm at 18.7%. So you had said, I think you said somewhere I'm going to say, said somewhere that's 17 to 20, so I'm right smack in the middle now. You dropped 6% body fat in five weeks. That's amazing. Incredible. Yeah, great job. That's really awesome guys.

So cool. And speaking of fat, so let's take a look at the visceral fat. Remember we talked about that before? That's that stuff like around my organs and things like that. Exactly. I was at 11.6. Okay. Right.

Now you're 8.9. Okay, excellent. Yeah, so huge drop right here. Where you want to be. Nearly three points. Yep, that looks really good. Yep. Right.

So let's take a look at your metabolic age. Yeah. Do you remember what your metabolic age was? In my metabolic age, I had it at 51 years old, just one year shy of what I actually was. Shut this out. Holy cow. That's the best number right there.

33 years old, what did I tell you guys? I said I'm back to the weight I was when I was in my 30s. There you go, you did it. There you go. That's why you felt like that. That is phenomenal. It had them in the obese category. Okay, so you're now in that healthy category

with all these numbers coming back into form. Wow. So body fat ranges in the healthy zone and that was crazy. When I saw, you know, I had done, I think, you know, through some of the issues I went through when I saw the word obese written. And for me, I mean, I was a skinny kid. I was like, what happened? Yeah.

Nobody wants to hear that. And last thing too, we didn't talk about the body fat mass. So your body fat mass was 50.4 pounds of fat in your body. Yeah. And you look at this now, your body fat mass is 35.8. Wow. So you literally dropped about 15 pounds. you just pure body fat.

Just pure body. Yeah. So, then that's, and you maintain the muscle, you improved your hydration, you dropped your metabolic age. Yeah. You lost the body fat. Yeah. Amazing.

I really feel great. Congratulations. That's amazing. I can't thank you guys enough. Really, really awesome. Preasures for a few weeks. What I say? I'll train them for five weeks.

It was absolutely worth it. Yeah, he did it, man. Congratulations. Great job. All right. So, you know, lastly, just because, you know, I wanted to, you know, I wanted to just show you know what we had gone through working with me and by the way jimmy who travels with me my manager he lost uh about 30 pounds patrick is looking amazing i've been watching his jeans

he's 46 pounds yeah i mean really really amazing uh results with those around me fab mancini who introduced us has some incredible results and and so those are the things that sort of work for you right like you look around and go oh my god you know look at how well they've done so to finish it up. I wanted to see if you guys could just offer something up. I mean, look, if people want to get involved in a program, that's an investment. But is there something that people can do? And you said, yeah, let's just get your audience off to the right of start. So tell me about what we have, we can do for them. So here's what we have. Okay. So the first thing is, is they've got to have a mind, you've got to have a mind shift that I'm ready and I'm ready to do

whatever it's going to take. So as long as somebody's ready to do whatever it's going to take, we're ready. We're ready to help you. So what we did is we designed a challenge specifically for your viewers. Okay. Called the H2 Thin Challenge. So they just go to H2ThinChallenge.com. Okay. It's gonna start February the 20th.

Okay. So what that means is... So just a little over a week from now so that people can get signed up, get prepared, get in the mental state for it. You gotta be committed. It took some commitment, I'll have to say. And then what we'll do is over the course of four days, we're gonna lay out a road map. or a blueprint so that they know the things that they can be doing so that they can be able

to start their weight loss journey as well, getting themselves healthy from the inside out. We always say we want to get people healthy so they lose weight versus what we've all been taught is I'm going to lose weight to get healthy. Let's get healthy. Let's get you healthy. So over those four days, we're going to be doing that, giving you information to be able to do that, specifically just for your viewers, h2 thin challenge.com. They can be able to register for that.

We're gonna be there ready and waiting for them on February the 20th. Well look guys, you know, I wanna thank you for coming up here, taking time. Now I know that we sort of had a direct interaction, but what's beautiful about the work you're doing is that anyone can do it all around the world. It's fairly virtually integrated.

You know, the books show up. The diet was written in a book, it's very clear day to day, the different, some of the minerals and things that you provide, all that seem to work really well. But I wanna thank you just for being out there, and making people healthy and being such a good representation of what it means to be healthy. You have honestly made a difference in my life.

It is truly spectacular. In the sports that I'm playing, in being there for my kids, you know, knowing that I have got a much better chance at longevity now and I'm going to continue to do that work. So I really just want to thank you again. Yeah, man, thank you. Your work's so important what you guys do. So we're happy to invest in you, Dale. It's awesome to see the results, man. Thank you for your trust and a continued success.

We're with you, brother. We're all on this journey together, right? Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you. Very cool. My brother. All right, great.