Episode 1977 – On this Saturday show, Damian Welch Abernathy joins Vinnie to discuss going from soft and succulent to lean and mean, beating disease with diet, incorporating exercise, and more.
DAMIAN’S STORY
- He has a broadcaster’s voice.
- Damian spent only a brief time on the radio.
- Check out his podcast: Phoneboy Speaks.
- https://phoneboy.com/ps
- Over the last few years, he’s really established his podcasting set-up.
- He also does webinars pretty consistently.
- Starting at age 10, he began to put on weight.
- He was a skinny kid, then the guidelines changed and he became heavy.
- In 2004, he probably weighed 285 lbs and found the Atkins story.
- He got down to 215 but wanted to get down to 180.
- He had a second child then fell off the wagon and gained a lot of the weight back.
- He got down to 215 but wanted to get down to 180.
BEATING DISEASE WITH DIET
- Eventually, in 2014, Damian was diagnosed with hypertension, Type 2 diabetes, and more.
- He was told to eat a lot of carbs each day and he knew that wouldn’t work for him.
- It was important to him that he get his A1C down.
- In 2017, he discovered Jason Fung and The Obesity Code.
- This lead him to keto — but pure keto, not commercialized keto.
- In 2017, he discovered Jason Fung and The Obesity Code.
- By 2019, he had lost 100 lbs.
- Then, he began running at 230 lbs. This supplemented the eating well.
