When we’re out and my younger one can’t walk any more, I can pick her up and carry her. I was wearing size 3X shirts and now a medium fits perfectly. I’ve lost 100 pounds total and 38 since starting the Thrive Challenge. I’ll get cookies and cream yogurt and add fresh fruit as a topping. On my day off, I take the girls to get frozen yogurt - I call it my cheat day. And the kids love “cauliflower popcorn.” We roast tiny pieces of cauliflower. You just cook, then mash the lentils, mix them with oats, make them into burgers and grill them. We make sweet potatoes instead of fries, and great lentil burgers. My daughters help me cook and I’m teaching them to eat well. When the kids are with me we run around and play freeze tag. I exercise in the park, like jumping rope and doing jumping jacks. Now I’m running two miles and I’m much faster. I began by jogging slowly around the block for a mile. It’s amazing because I wake up without an alarm clock and have time to myself before work. Sleeping for eight hours has changed everything. ![]() A book that really helped me was Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins. I’ll listen to relaxing music or a meditation on the Thrive app, or do deep breathing. It was super hard at first, saying no to video games, but it got easier and now I go to bed at 9 pm. I was only sleeping about four hours a night. My first step was to stop playing video games late at night. I thought it could help me stick with my goals. Then, in April, I saw a poster for the Thrive app in the break room at work and decided to download it. I was working out and had lost some weight. I’d stopped eating processed food and became a vegetarian. I’m a 32-year-old divorced dad and my daughters, Malú Lani, who’s now seven, and Kiana, who is three, would say, “Come on Dad, let’s go outside to play.” I’d make excuses and say: “Not today.” It hit me how bad things were when I couldn’t carry Kiana on my shoulders or bend over to tie my shoelaces.īefore I started the Thrive Challenge, I’d already made some big changes. I would stay up late playing video games and I was eating the same food as my kids: Hot Pockets, Cup O’ Noodles, and pizza. “He had a family business which was a skating rink and a bar.A few years ago I injured my back in an accident and put on a lot of weight. “My dad didn’t really believe in us going to school,” he says. The scarring started happening inside the dungeon.”ĭavid goes on to explain how he was put to work at his father’s family business from a young age. Once he left that house, he was the nicest person on the planet, so no one knew who this guy was. The inside of that house was evil and horrible. No one knew anything about the inside of that house. He was really big on being a powerful man. “In the back of my mind I knew the real story ![]() “People starting seeing me as this amazing superhero,” David explains on the podcast episode. ![]() As we have already mentioned at the start of this article, David is an ultramarathon runner, ultra-distance cyclist, triathlete, motivational speaker and author.īut where did his story begin? David has been open about his difficult childhood in the past and he gave an insight into his struggles as a young boy when speaking on the Jay Shetty podcast in early 2019.
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