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hello everyone I have a special guest uh

sometimes I do videos on a lot of

different topics today we’re going to do

one on a really amazing success story

from Bart Ratliff and so um this guy I

saw he sent a video and just literally

blew me away in five months he lost 90

pounds okay 90 pounds it’s incredible so

welcome Bart thanks for for being on Dr

Robert thank you so much it’s a it’s an

honor to be uh speaking to you number

one just because of all the wonderful

education he’d give me over the last uh

six months and uh the results

it’s produced wow well it’s quite

impressive I mean I know some people

might be watching and they might they

probably maybe they lost less than they

might be a little bit more frustrated

but you know what

um I want to cover some of the things

that you did and some of the barriers

that you ran into because people always

want to know like okay what did he do so

let’s first talk a little bit about

um what type of pattern of fasting did

you do did you do you know 16 hours 18

hours what type of fasting you do but at

the back by the way the way I jumped in

and this started on May 23rd of 22. I I

started at one meal a day and uh through

the education through videos I knew how

effective that would be for me and to

say the least my first couple of days

you know it’s a transition and of course

had the had the headaches the first day

or two but I knew that I took I was 100

committed and devoted because I knew

this would work performing and I kind of

just kind of held fast and stayed the

course and because I knew it would it

would I would no longer have that so one

meal a day I’m a ketogenic diet that’s

good I think um you did mention this

before and I want to bring this up I

mean you tried this a while ago but at

that time there was some stress involved

you know and I always bring this up like

um when you have family or spouses that

maybe are not on the same page it’s more

difficult I mean it’s crazy more

difficult because like uh kind of create

you know when are you gonna eat and then

you gotta be in front of the food or

just a lot of disagreements so I think

you did have a situation that through

you basically you started it a long time

ago and then it worked but then you got

off because of that for a period of time

so maybe you can just touch on that it’s

bad you’re bad a couple years ago and it

had some success I was actually referred

to a one meal a day by a friend of mine

uh effort out of Salt Lake City and I

said one meal a day are you nuts you

know and then I did some research on it

I I kept on hearing about this omad I

thought it was Oman I said this must be

some guy that created this plan you know

I said oh one meal a day it makes sense

yeah right so uh but yes we were uh

my significant other at the time we we

started it and we had uh success and we

were luckily I was I found you on

through YouTube on the ketogenic you

know to include that with the one meal a

day and then helped us stay focused and

then after several months you know then

there was some other ideas shared and uh

sometimes the uh uh negativity and the

environment that you’re in

um

sometimes it

she focuses you on your ultimate goal

even though you’ve seen how effective it

is and I let

um my um

I just we just kind of got off track and

I kind of got off track even though it

was working very well for me but when

you have other influences in your life

at the time it definitely can deter

somebody and and I was thinking more

about somebody else than myself and

that’s that’s kind of what happened but

luckily I found my way back so so a

couple years later you picked it back up

and then you you were at um your Peak

weight was like 313 pounds right well

that’s when I was started no my pick

weight I was I was 335 when I started a

couple years ago man and but luckily I

didn’t gain it all back and I was

sitting into 3 13 when I started back in

May at the end of May so um

question when you were in um High School

were you were you a thin guy growing up

in Chinese I

oh I was always a big guy

I grew up in high school I think I was

just thinking about this the other day I

was talking to a friend of mine that’s

also been inspired by my story and even

in high school I think my junior year

was 260. and um and then because I

wasn’t even I ended up going going to

six four I think it was my sophomore

year in college but it was only like six

two when I graduated but I was 260 then

I came down to 2 30. I was you know back

and forth a lot of pressure on my health

and uh my always on diets oh really

yours I you know so I went through the

yo-yo string over the years but um so

that that yeah I was a big guy in high

school and then I kind of slimmed down

and then when College happened you know

back in the 80s saying you know I I was

having a good time and it was certainly

not focused then on my health and

nutrition back then to say the least as

it’s been like that for many many years

but uh but yeah I I was I think the

highest was in in high school even in

junior high when I was a I was bigger I

always played football but 216 was

usually 260 and then I I would go down

and then like come back up

so so a couple years ago when you

decided uh before you even started

looking and discovered like oh keto

um was there something that motivated

you that said you know what I need to do

this

uh actually my significant other uh she

had an event coming up and we decided uh

she was starting to uh uh to be better

and and do some working out and then I

of course I wanted to support my wife

and uh so I joined along with her and

then I as I was doing some research 20

years 20 years previous I had done uh

read a book called Body for Life by Bill

Phillips and of course his philosophy I

really loved his philosophy on the

strength training and the cardio doing

the high intensity uh hit hitch training

which I really loved but he was more of

a six Miller guy uh six mil a day guy

and that’s what my mindset has been all

these years up until a couple years ago

and um but that was one of the reasons

we started it and then there was a guy

that was featured in that body for black

book Everett happened to live in Salt

Lake and we got together and he told me

about the one meal a day and then uh we

started doing that then a couple weeks

later we got back together and I said

well I’m kind of tired all the time I

said we ought to do more fat he

understood you know find out you know do

keto and that’s how actually I found you

without the burger wow

um and then as far as

um

the meals that you ate during this

process

um

did you did you do it exactly like the

book or did you kind of have some times

where you fell off the wagon like uh you

know and like what kind of uh discipline

did you have as you gone gone through

this to keep your car can be enough for

my current Journey are you talking about

for my current Journey yeah okay oh well

you know what I I I focus in on my Mills

one of the things I always try to focus

in on are as you say especially on my

protein I will do a grass-fed uh uh

grass-fed grass finish uh hamburger I

mean hamburgers probably uh 70 of my

meals so I’ll do basically I’ll buy the

pound the grass-fed grass finish beef

I’ll cut it in half I’ll do eight ounces

one day and then I’ll do that two to

three but usually three to four days a

week and then I’ll mix in some salmon

some Wild Cuts salmon and then some eggs

and then maybe one day uh once every

couple weeks I’ll throw in eggs as my

protein and then of course I always do

my big salad and it’s kind of funny

over the last six months

I mentioned this in that video I sent

you but I I kind of start my day

watching one of your videos I love how

you you five to six days a week you

always update a new video so a lot of

times I’ll run through and kind of see

the videos that I might not have seen or

it’s been a while since I’ve seen but

one of the things I remember when I

started I was all Spanish I said you

know Popeye Your Spinach you know and

then I started saying you know the

benefits of the lettuce and of the

arugula and I said arugula I never

thought about that and I but now it’s

it’s it’s I always kind of more of a

plan day review I’m a consultant and a

strategist when it goes to marketing and

technology so I’m always big about that

with uh with the projects I’m working on

so I started really kind of focusing in

on that so now that’s one of the ways I

start my start my meals now I do my big

salad and uh you know you say five to

seven cups I had this massive bowl and

it I figured about seven ounces I get

the containers with the organic or

regular and the organic leafy greens and

so I just chop everything up I usually

try to find like a nice Red Pepper or

something like that and then I fill up

this big bowl it’s usually about seven

ounces I have no idea how many cups it

is but I know it’s a massive salad and

um at first I was doing like the blue

cheese and then the more I

saw your videos and I said oh wait a

minute you know how about the organic uh

the organic extra virgin olive oil so I

started buying that and then I just

recently saw the video of the olive oil

that you use so I finally said well I

need to upgrade my extra virgin olive

oil so I just I actually ordered some

luckily I found it on Amazon the exact

type that you use same with the uh with

the uh the um apple cider vinegar so I

was doing the Epic list of Braggs and

then you had had a video about the brags

and and the other the other I can’t

remember the name of it but I have it in

my cabinet right now so I upgraded that

it’s amazing the strength of that apple

cider vinegar how much stronger that it

is than than the ones that I was using

the mothers brag and then I went to the

one that you recommended it’s like twice

as strong so so what I’ll do I’ll add a

little organic lemon juice in that as

well to kind of help out help out with

that so oh yeah I tell you it’s uh you

know um you find all sorts of

interesting things I actually went to

this Farm where they make this olive oil

twice and uh I was just like

come on you got to be kidding you you

guys put that much care that much energy

into producing this I’m like

all right um you still be I’m gonna I’m

gonna use this so I I when I find

something like that I’m gonna tell

people about it because it’s so so

um healthy at many different levels so I

mean even if you don’t put on your salad

you should probably drink a couple

teaspoons a day or tablespoons it’s

because it’s like great but

um so you sounds like you’re kind of

just you know

you’re just kind of doing what someone

else you’re piggybacking off of someone

else’s success story which or successful

actions which which I’m doing because I

experiment with everything all sorts of

therapies I have three different

therapies I haven’t even told anyone

about I’m actually doing them myself

actually more than that and if it works

I will let you know well we’re very

excited to hear that right oh yeah oh

yeah so

um

so this is really good and then um what

about do you have um any problem like

social events parties things like that

that you kind of go off the program a

little bit here and there or or do you

just have any way of pushing through

that what do you have that right now I I

do I’m very well aware uh usually wants

to mental health how I’ll have to do a

business trip and a lot of them a lot of

times I mean I was just in Miami back in

uh back in September and uh

um happened to be my birthday a week as

well so I was uh hanging out so I I did

stay pretty focused uh I I think I might

have done

um one extra meal two different days and

I uh I did have a bite of birthday cake

and ice cream you know I mean I like a

couple by seven so I might have had a

couple of drinks but I one of the things

I did face out was specifically alcohol

it’s not like I’m a bit big drinker

anyway but but I do know I loved your

video and the benefits of alcohol that

was so funny and and also the cheat day

with Karen with the big uh the big guy

the big uh uh Hatchet that she had in

her head that was funny that’s one of

the great things I love about your

videos you do have a great sense of

humor and it’s very very easy to watch

and uh I I do appreciate uh appreciate

how you frame all those but uh but the

way how I handle that Dr Berg just like

uh on my most recent trip to Texas to

see a group of high school friends you

know

I um

um I do stay very focused on my eating I

might eat a little bit more than I

normally do on my one meal a day and uh

there might be uh you know if I have a

cold beer or something like that like I

said it’s just that I might have one but

the way I handle that when I get back

home I go back to my normal one meal a

day eating and then after two days of

eating my back on my process I’ll do a

48 hour fast and because they’ve been

that reset screen I’m back on the train

but uh but that first day after going

off my program if I incorporate if I

have a if I’m especially eating out

because I eat out every every meal when

I’m traveling and there’s always going

to be let’s face it garbage in the food

that they serve you even no matter how

careful you are but uh um but it does

that that first day back I mean you

definitely feel the effect of that not

eating properly and uh but that’s how I

do it I do two days I say steadfast and

like I’m normally eat but then I do a 48

hour and that usually just snaps it

right out I’m back in the back in back

in play again well I can tell you’ve

been watching my videos because you’re

doing all that you’re doing these

applying all these different things for

every one or two yeah right that’s great

what about um like um through the period

of time uh I think it’s uh you’re down

95 pounds right now total

um was it was it is it always consistent

you lose this much weight per week or is

it kind of like you lose more and then

less and then nothing and then more and

then less than what how did it go with

your losing weight well you know my

first four months I I took it off pretty

quickly and uh I I always incorporate uh

activity into into my game plan now for

of course at first I mean that that was

like 12 minutes and 12 minutes of of

walking on the treadmill and then I kind

of went up to doing the rowing machine

and then then I as as I got healthier

right because it really I mean it was

great that I was losing the weight but

it was more about feeling good and being

healthy because I know with good health

comes the weight loss so

I did lose more weight at first because

let’s face it I was 313 pounds I am six

foot four and it’s all what are you

carrying I said yeah I carry it but I’m

a whole lot I mean I had this jacket I

wear that I bought a couple years ago

and I mean I put it on now and it’s just

like I wrap it around I mean it’s just

that oh my God I can’t believe that I I

just how much I filled that thing out uh

over the last couple months I’ve been

averaging about 10 pounds per month and

one of the things I don’t do I do not

weigh every day that’s uh you know

because I know I mean you drink a couple

bottles of water the night before your

way so they go up a couple pounds I mean

it’s it’s it’s still uh intense but I do

try to focus in maybe once or twice a

month away and uh but uh but like I said

I mean I’m extremely happy at the weight

I am I mean my God I can walk into a

store and I can buy I’m buying jeans in

the 30s I’m very serious wow and uh you

know it’s so weird because it they feel

snug but it’s not there’s nothing like

hanging over I mean I’m I’m just it’s

just it’s just absolutely mind-blowing

to me uh to be at that point because

like I said 20 years ago I did lose

Sydney significant amount of weight say

the body of Life Body for Life and it

was a great time and but then I I just

put it right back on that was the whole

six mil Gay Day concept I said my God if

I would have only had this education 20

years ago I mean

there’s there’s people there’s women

watching this going wow uh that that

wasn’t my case I can’t seem to lose 10

pounds uh per month I just want to

mention one thing if there’s any women

watching this is

um

uh you have um a situation where men

typically have it in the midsection less

than the hips and the thighs right well

the type of fat

that is uh hips thighs buttocks is um is

usually more superficial fat versus the

fat around the organs in the midsection

and the thing to know is that it’s uh

it’s less influenced Believe It or Not

by this insulin problem now

what can we do with that information

well

if you do the diet okay you’re going to

lose the stomach for sure in this whole

thing but if you have more hip and thigh

weight you you’re going to have to

actually add more exercise especially to

get more lean muscle to burn more

calories and that’s that’s going to have

to be um

more than even someone that doesn’t have

that weight like if you have more hip

weight you’re going to have to also add

some pretty serious workouts to the

point where you um you recover don’t

ever exercise over a recovery but

definitely you’re gonna have to

add that exercise component in there

more than

anyone else so I just want to add that

in there and then you will see more

change but just to rely just in the diet

you may lose your gut but you may not

lose the hip weight

um I also wanted to for those of you

that are watching

um

what would be like

the biggest tip that you would tell

people or advice if you had to give like

one tip if someone

thinking about this but they’re they’re

not quite sold on it yet what uh what

would you tell them

um to motivate them to get started

well actually uh educate yourself

educate yourself on the on the process

and I highly recommend I mean your your

YouTube channel is phenomenal uh one of

the things I do if I do have any

specific questions I’ll go to YouTube

and I’ll just I’ll type in my question

and put Dash Dr birds and a great thing

99 of the time there’s a video that

addresses those specific questions and

uh one of the things uh it’s really kind

of stay tuned and stay dialed in and

really understand your why on why you

want to move forward with this with this

health transformation or this lifestyle

change for yourself I mean my whole deal

was number one

um look I’m 57 years old you know I

certainly I I’ve not been fortunate

enough to have a family and that’s

something that you know in the right

situation that would be something that

would just be lovely for myself to to to

start a family you know and that’s

something and I that I keep in my back

of my mind but the biggest thing

um

is when I start my day I I do I really

do I pull up when I get up in the

morning uh of course I do my scoop of uh

my scoop of wheatgrass I do my scoop of

uh uh uh

um

um oh my gosh

the um I totally went blank I think you

you mentioned electrolytes electrolytes

thank you so much yeah I mean that’s how

I start my day every morning and then

I’ll I’ll pull up the I’ll pull up the

YouTube channel normally by the time

because I’m on the mountain time you’ve

already uploaded your video for the day

even though it might not really apply to

me a lot I’ll watch it because a lot of

times I’ll get great tips and tricks on

how to stay more dialed in I mean this

is how my transition the way I ate six

months ago to the way I eat now I’m

being more dialed in and more conscious

I’m buying organic to grass-fed do

grass-finished meat uh what type of

apple cider vinegar what type of olive

oil I mean I buy the organic balsamic

vinaigrette too you know and I I read

the labels and one thing I don’t do

doctor I don’t do these this all these

keto bars and keto stuff that’s in the

stores good

I don’t I don’t do those I don’t do

those I I mean every now and then I’ll

do a pint of rubble I love the rebel

okay I mean or or something like that

but that’s very rare maybe once a month

I’ll treat myself or do something like

that but uh but having that stuff around

people think and then you see all this

stuff on Facebook and Instagram all

these rules on these keto experts and

all they’re doing is showing me how to

make snacks snack snack snack snack

snack I mean what uh hello

I mean it’s it’s it’s actually

comical to see all this stuff I mean it

looks delicious I mean if you’re gonna

mix like a little keto treat I mean

there’s some great ways you can make it

yourself not by the

stuff on my on the shelves I mean I’m

not going to say garbage but I did

mention that word but uh but yeah

there’s it’s it’s quite fascinating when

you look at this and they put keto on

the label people say oh I could buy that

well look at the label it’ll really open

your mind and uh one of the other things

I I don’t know if I mentioned this um as

far as my my big why you know besides uh

wanting a long healthy life is both of

my parents were greatly affected by

Alzheimer’s all the times and uh my lost

my mom in 2006 and at the young age of

73 years old okay and then my dad it was

about to turn 89 this is in 2014 but I I

helped care for them both my mother and

my father and uh that was very difficult

for me to see them go through that and

uh and my sister

my lovely sister Margaret she’s uh uh we

both experienced that and she has always

been more Health minded than myself and

uh and it’s just so wonderful uh

catching up and chatting with her and

she just loves seeing my journey and I I

have so much support from my friends and

I have a tremendous amount of friends

that are lucky enough to develop some

tremendous relationships over the last

35 years and and my sales and

Consultants speaking

um and it’s just so nice to to see such

encouragement uh through my

transformation and luckily another great

thing about it it’s uh apparently I’ve

inspired a whole lot of people I love

hearing people’s progress my friend AJ

down in uh Florida and Chris a high

school buddy of mine they reach out to

me ask me and I just said well this is

what works for me and this is how I

found out how to do this a lot of times

if they have questions I’ll just Google

Dr Berg and just put it in there and

I’ll send them the video to help them be

on track so but it’s uh but that’s as

far as yeah that’s uh one of the videos

I mean uh the keto Basics how to

supercharge your prolonged fasting I

love that video uh any but anytime and

by the way when I do those 48 or the 72

hours which I try to do at least 172

hour a month and I’ve done that for the

last couple months uh I’ll watch the

videos the day before I plan on doing

that and then the next morning I watch

that video every single morning you can

really help me stay focused and on track

on the race I’m not doing this to lose

additional weight I’m doing it

for the health benefit

well I have to say bar you’re definitely

the epitome of the what I’m trying to do

with people get give them the right

tools and you’re applying everything

that I’m telling you so well done very

well done

proud of you great job I think you’re

going to inspire a lot of people from

this video so

um so I do want to thank you for your

time and going over this because people

are going to definitely you know there’s

probably a lot of people are just going

to get started just because they want to

lose weight too and now you kind of made

it broke it down so it’s easy for them

so

anyway I appreciate your time and uh

we’ll have to do a post video when you

get down to 150 I’m just being sarcastic

we’re not going to go that low but I

love it but now I uh uh now I I

appreciate uh I appreciate taking the

time to speak to me and uh you know one

of the I I have a really a big service

mentality and this is one of the things

I really enjoy uh about sharing my uh my

transformation and my and my updates I

used to do a little post on Facebook

every two weeks and it’s not the picture

I need to sell anything and you see so

much of that in this industry in the

health industry it’s just it’s just

really disturbing sometimes to see that

and uh but I do that in the fact that

there there is a solution uh no matter

how old you are or what your health

level is I mean you know 57 years old I

was you know plus over 300 and uh you

know if you kind of follow the follow

the plan and educate yourself and stay

focused uh it can certainly happen to

you even when you hit those soft spots

the uh the one of the barriers and then

that’s when you you can just push

through those take assistant and do not

give up exactly well thank you so much I

appreciate your time and this is great I

think you’re going to help a lot of

people from just telling your story this

is awesome thank you Dr Berg it’s been a

pleasure and I look forward to the

update awesome all right have a great

day you too