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so hi everyone we have another six

amazing success LeAnn how are you LeAnn

great things I wanted to talk to you

because I saw you before and after and I

just said you know we need to find out

what you did because it obviously worked

it was a great success so I just wanted

to find out a little bit your are you

living in California right now Austin

Texas

okay similar yeah real close and then

you will you overweight your whole life

yes I was overweight since I can

remember I remember third grade I

couldn’t fit in my desk so I had to tell

my mom and she had to go talk to my

teacher about adjusting the desk I

remember wanting to learn how to

ice-skate and our the instructor told my

dad decide so limit like it was kind of

hard to support my weight on skates and

it was things like that all throughout

my my life until my early 20s well

actually in high school I did terrible

kind of dieting that girls do and it was

just up and down all the time Wow at the

time do you have any brothers or sisters

yes were they did they have a weight

problem - no well some of - to do to

don’t so it was just it’s been it’s been

kind of a study for me to see a

household where people have eaten the

same things and it almost felt like a

why me kind of thing for a while - what

about your parents do they have a way to

show yes both of them do interesting but

I was adopted so genetics are a little

different

so it’s been really interesting for me

to watch what’s your what’s your

nationality were you from originally I

will I’m Korean I was born in Seoul

Korea but I was adopted when I was about

three months old Wow

I just one little side point I had a

patient come in she’s from Korea and

very overweight she’s the only one in

the family overweight and which really

really sucked for her

her sister was mrs. universe just like

my life all right

my sister is like she’s gorgeous she’s

real thin and it creates this um it just

it was really hard yeah I couldn’t I

could only imagine because in fact this

patient she ate so much better than her

sister but you know right that’s that’s

that’s interesting okay so you went

along you hit your 20s and then what

happened then I tried to eat healthy and

exercise I think a lot of I was probably

220 I’m at my heaviest so a lot of the

way it was pretty easy to lose and then

once I got to a certain way it just I

kind of plateaued for years it was up

and down but probably till about 170 is

when it just plateaued and kind of it’s

just been up and down ever since

interesting and what are you what did

you start did you find something like if

you find the ketosis and in a minute

faster did you find that recently or is

that something you’ve been doing for a

while I just found it about four months

ago I had heard about it through to

people and I actually found it for

mental clarity and my my struggle with

my weight has been all the time and I

kind of never felt like there was a

light at the end of the tunnel it’s kind

of like I didn’t know in a month from

now am I going to be 10 pounds heavier

or am I going to be 2 pounds lighter I

have no I had no idea was this always a

crapshoot so it’s I found it for I cut

sugar out and then I started researching

and I found the ketogenic diet which is

so much fun like I had so much fun with

food ever since I started and it’s just

wet dieting before I felt like I was

always avoiding things with no fun stuff

on the other side but now I feel like

it’s just it’s delicious and it’s doable

and I don’t feel like I’m depriving

myself and I’m

I’m I love it Wow and has it helped you

in other ways health-wise

oh my anxiety I have anxiety some well I

do have anxiety and it has I have almost

no anxiety besides like the natural

anxiety nothing crazy like I used to get

and I I don’t know it’s been crazy for

me because it’s just been so helpful

with my mood and I do intermittent fast

I fast for sixteen hours and then eat

for eight and I by eleven o’clock at

work in the morning I feel like a body

buzz almost where I just it’s so crazy I

can just feel the effects I was fasting

and how it feels great and I never

thought that fasting would feel good

where I just feel energy and I just feel

like bouncing off the walls with

happiness it’s really weird

that’s very interesting now has it

helped you wait so far yes I’ve lost so

the first the first two months I lost

weight fast Ellis probably ten pounds

and now first I was trying to get the

first month I lost ten pounds and so I

was expecting it to go at that rate and

then it’s sort of plateaued but what’s

been awesome about the diet is that I

don’t want to eat any other way with

other diets it was like oh forget this

I’m not doing this anymore it’s not

working I’m going back to this or that

and now I’m just like I love the way

that I feel mentally that I don’t even

care like I just want to continue

honestly and I think of it this way if I

only lose two pounds like every month or

every other month in a year and a half

I’m going to be where I would want to be

and I don’t want to change anything

because of how it makes me feel mentally

Wow

it makes me feel great um the anxiety

it’s been and sweating for me I used to

think that I had body temperature issues

and ever since I started the ketogenic

diet

I don’t drip sweat which has been really

interesting it’s just been a complete

change in my body that’s amazing

what about your size inches are you

finding that you’re shrinking yes so I

actually have no idea how much I weigh

right now I’ve stayed away from the

scale because at one point where I was

feeling absolutely great I decided to

get on a scale and it didn’t move at all

in a month and I had felt inch inches

wise that I was definitely making some

progress but I hadn’t been measuring

myself so I said that I’m not going to

do anything until I start measuring

because the scale seems to be not a good

indicator where I’m at

based on how my clothes are getting so

that’s a good place to interject cause

I’m going to talk about that the main

thing with ketosis is you want to get

yourself in the fat-burning but the

thing is when you do intermittent

fasting you preserve protein and muscle

in the body you actually can regrow more

muscle which is more dense so you’ll be

shrinking but the scale might stay the

same the main thing is are you shrinking

do you feel good if you feel good

mentally your hunger cravings are gone

that means you’re in ketosis it’s

working but I imagine with you Leanne if

you have this problem your whole life

and you’re 18 years old now yeah then

that means that it takes a little longer

to be able to get to your goal but yeah

if you’re seeing changes along the way

man ride the wave and then you could

always start to okay work on seven hour

window okay good you got that down six

are going to do it gradually and then to

your point where your four-hour window

of eating which takes time to graduate

into but more hours of fasting but yeah

I agree the feeling when you’re fasting

you’re living off your own fat it’s a

mental clarity there’s less stress

there’s less waste products for the

brain I mean can you imagine how many

people that could get off psych drugs if

they went on this I mean Prozac and

Ritalin

I mean just or other psych drugs like

wellbutrin and abilify which is the

number one psych drug out there it’s

amazing

I used to rely on xanax sometimes for

cute anxiety and I I wouldn’t want to

touch it because it would mess with

where I’m at now and I just feel great

almost all the time that I don’t want to

I don’t want to drink I don’t want to

take anything for anxiety I don’t want

to do anything besides feel what I feel

now and it’s been it’s almost shocking

because I never thought there was a

point in my life that I could get where

I didn’t have an edge that needed to be

taken off and it’s definitely due to the

ketogenic diet and it just makes me kind

of I’m trying to be over minded about

carbs but it almost makes me know that

they just don’t work for me

weight wise and mentally right I mean

that’s why I was recommend the vegetable

carbohydrate because you need the

vitamins and minerals somehow and that’s

you can get them from organ meats but a

lot of people just don’t want to eat

liver kidney and brain anymore so then

we have vegetables left right when did

you when did you find my videos Oh

probably when I first started the

ketogenic diet so like form four months

ago and they definitely wear my goat my

go-to for because everybody has their

different opinions that aren’t really

science based on science or it’s based

on experience and I felt like you kind

of gave me the facts like I didn’t

really have to wonder about more of an

opinion it was all just scientific facts

it felt like awesome well it’s obviously

working and so you know he want to ride

the wave and so can you give me an

example of what you would eat on a given

meal for breakfast at noon I usually eat

either sausage and bacon and eggs

guacamole that I make just with avocado

and salt and lime juice and a little bit

of garlic powder and then I’ll do sour

cream sometimes depending on where I’m

at how I’m feeling sometimes I’ll try to

be low on fat I’ve definitely learned

that fat is not a target it’s funny

because when I first started the

ketogenic diet I was like mmm fat

everywhere but I was I realized more

that it’s not a goal for the day it’s

kind of just like a guide so depending

on how I feel I’ll eat the sour cream

with it and I’ve been trying to do more

vegetables with breakfast which is kind

of hard because it seems like tomatoes

and onions are the ones that I usually

go with and those are higher in carbs so

it’s been vs. has been interesting I’ve

been baking kale and putting it into my

scrambled eggs more but it’s definitely

been a challenge to find vegetables and

put it into my breakfasts that aren’t

high in heart yeah it really is I’ll

probably do a kale shake usually and

then what about for dinner what would

you have dinner my go-to is mashed

cauliflower with butter and cream I love

that and salad a lot of taco salad so

that just romaine lettuce with hamburger

meat and wok and usually just a little

bit of salsa and or I’ll do a Cobb salad

salads are awesome for me and once I

started a cute ketogenic diet my palate

became very just wanted really simple

things so it’s been really easy just to

buy like maybe ten staples every time

every week and then just use them I just

think about what I was going to eat all

the time or where I was going to go or

and it was always like Chinese or pasta

or something high in sugar carbs and now

I just eat whatever at there have been

opportunities where we could go out to

eat multiple times and I could pick

anywhere and I’m like I want to eat at

home I don’t want to eat anywhere

because I just love an avocado just

playing with some salt and a spoon it’s

like one of my favorite things ever so

it sounds to me like you’re gravitating

to healthier foods like your body is

like creating health to

great and I never thought that that

could be possible it’s just you I don’t

I think it’s something that you don’t

understand until you feel it because

it’s just it’s amazing how I just don’t

crave anything anymore especially I used

to be addicted to Sour Patch Kids and

Diet Coke like those are many things

that I just and I wouldn’t touch either

one of those now or when my boyfriend

doesn’t do the ketogenic diet all the

time he definitely is opening his eyes

but when he orders pizza I like a Friday

night I don’t want anything to do with

it and I don’t I don’t even feel a fight

because it was in myself because I loved

I wouldn’t want to knock myself out of

ketosis after all work that I’ve written

that I’ve put into it and then I just

love the mental clarity so that’s so

awesome I mean it seems to me like if

you were to summarize it up here you’re

just you’re more control of what goes

into your body you’re eating for health

you who’s not controlling you anymore

great if someone craves the sour patch

kids or a lemon that’s usually a choline

deficiency and choline is the key

mineral B vitamin to help you with a

fatty liver so it’s interesting and

believe it or not egg yolks are loaded

with choline so you would think that

that would be the opposite but now it

isn’t but yeah choline if you if you if

you actually get the supplement : and

suck on them they taste

lemony sour and lemony and if you take

some of that like some like sour candy

they’ll just like eat does like candy

that’s just a vitamin it’s choline so

just a side note yeah and the other

thing is that I think that when you

start to do a ketogenic diet and doing

it a minute fasting people generally

need more dietary fat because they they

have a blood sugar issue and they can’t

go from one meal to the next so they’re

going to have to increase the fat to

sustain them and then when you actually

get it adapt to ketosis you’re burning

your own fat which you don’t need to add

as much and you can just go

longer because you can switch to your

own fat a lot faster as your meal

awesome yeah that’s awesome so I just I

just want to say thank you for doing

this this interview I think it’s going

to give a lot of people just motivation

to think they can do it too especially

from where you came from

I’m it’s doable and all these extra

benefits I mean I don’t know why someone

wouldn’t want to jump on that and start

doing it you know do you you find

friends or family are like looking at

you like what are you doing and big and

interested or what what happens with

that right definitely my best friend is

she is kind she started trying to ease

her way into it slowly and it was funny

because when I started the ketogenic

that my boyfriend was kind of like um

what do you doing

of kind of freaking out about all the

fat that I was buying and everything and

I was like just give me a month I was

like just let me like don’t tell me how

you feel about this don’t knock me off

track just give me a month and I

remember I was in the kitchen on a

Friday night and he was on the other

side of the apartment and he looked at

me he’s like oh my god he was like you

were losing so much weight and and at

the same time I’m like eating a thing

abri you know it’s just been so much fun

it’s been it’s almost like he knows who

wasn’t as bad as what adapting wasn’t as

bad as I had thought and it was so I’ve

you keto it was absolutely amazing

because the transition was really easy

and my cravings went away really fast

and my family has been kind of so I’ve

always been dieting my whole life so to

them this is probably like oh she’s

doing another one of these things so I

this one I’ve been kind of I haven’t

felt the need to like preach about it

like I had before and I think it’s

because I’m more secure in it I’m just

like whatever so I’m just quieter about

it because it’s more fun kind of to

change quietly for me and I notice that

people are kind of turned off by because

they just don’t understand the science

behind it so they think that it’s just

this crazy thing that you’re doing so

I don’t I feel really bad when I see

people in the morning like how I would

well I would do the same thing I would

make like a fruit a fruit smoothie with

like a banana and like a strawberry and

I would end up like washing down

breakfast with it instead of it being my

breakfast and I could never understand

why and just the science behind it all

it makes complete sense and I I don’t

crave the way that I used to or I used

to eat a giant meal and then I want ice

cream and cookies and I wouldn’t even I

would never I couldn’t understand it it

just didn’t make sense and now it makes

complete sense to me and I that’s what

helps keep me away from sugars I don’t

ever want to feel that way ever again

because it was just it so it’s like this

blind hunger that you just don’t get no

matter you don’t understand no matter

how much you eat you can still be hungry

it was just it was amazing

that’s some good advice for some people

that been overweight their whole life

and they’ve dieted so many times in

their menopausal I will tell them to do

this but then to shoot for just one meal

a day just because they’re like the

thyroids so weak and they’re going to

need they can’t I mean they just

couldn’t they can actually be so

efficient on small amount of calories so

so I do put a series of you know a

handful of people on one meal a day and

day basically thrive they do great and

they get their body back but that’s one

thing you could do if you actually do

not have any more metabolism you tried

everything and nothing’s work you want

to start three meals no snacks two meals

no snacks two meals within a four-hour

window and then eventually one meal over

a period of months and then that will

work for them so for those of you

watching you might want to try that well

thank you so much for doing this and I

think it’s it’s an amazing

transformation and we’ll have to do none

of one another one of these maybe in

like several months from now just kind

of see the changes until you’re totally

100 percent satisfied with like okay I

hit my ultimate goal right and it’s

awesome because I before I was in a

hurry to get to my goal and of course I

want to stay focused doing this but I

not I think people are in a hurry

sometimes because it’s either one or the

other it’s like if this is not working

for me right now I’m going to go eat my

starfish kids and drink my diet coke and

I just feel like this is the most study

thing that I’ve done where I just feel

confident in what I’m doing and I feel

great along the way that if it happens

to be a year and a half instead of six

months which it shouldn’t be but if it

does um then I’m okay with it because

it’s I know I’m going to feel great

mentally the whole the whole time so

it’s not like a one or the other kind of

thing anymore right yeah you’re not

suffering you’re great you’re enjoying

it and it’s not hard so that’s awesome I

feel I feel for these people that are

struggling trying to diet and they don’t

have a clue they’re eating the small

month but they’re still eating carbs and

I’m like oh my gosh I don’t know how

they do it that’s rough I think they

must be starving all the time hmm

starving and oh my it’s just torture so

right well thank you so much I

appreciated you your time and I think we

have a great interaction so all right

we’ll have a nice day and I’ll talk to

you soon okay okay bye bye