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Slap Of Reality

Today wasn’t easy. Not gonna lie.

My mom & I drove to the police station that held my younger brother, Danny, belongings for nearly 10 months after he took his life a week after turning 26 last June.

Upon opening the container of his personal belongings, I was greeted with his phone covered in his own blood.

Although I thought I was prepared for this moment, I wasn’t. It was another slap in the face of reality that my little brother is no longer here with my mom & I. What’s worse, I can’t do anything about it. Of all the years growing up protecting my best friend, I wasn’t able to this time.

I have a ton of thoughts of regret for being so hard on him over the years as others just enabled him & allowed him to play small in life. I battle against those thoughts with my belief that I was doing what I felt was right in challenging him to live up to his potential from a place of sincere love.

I often get asked “how are you always so positive”?

I’m not. But, I also know that the mind is like any muscle in the body & daily practice, exercise, & recovery are required to ensure we have a chance at becoming what we desire.

I’m human & experience all the ups & downs that we all face but my perspective to be alive and have a chance at changing my tomorrow & sharing it with all of you is what keeps me moving forward.

The people I choose to surround myself with plays a huge role in giving me the courage to be vulnerable, not give up or feel sorry for myself, & allow me to be who I set out to become.

These people in the photos have become brothers from other mothers to me & I’m incredibly grateful for all of them & Jackie

Danny & I both cherished our friends equally as much as we cherish each other. We don’t believe family is solely blood related.

I want you to share your love for those you care about & know your life is what you choose to make it.

Inside & out.

Always strive for happiness but don’t ever think you have to be happy every day or that your broken.

Josh P. 💚🧠✌️

Keto Doesn’t Require Tons Of Fat.

There’s a misconception that Keto requires a ton of fat at every meal.

When you’re first beginning your ketogenic diet & lifestyle journey, you’ll be adding WAY MORE fat than most are used to consuming, which brings mindset obstacles, such as conditioning to believe fat makes us fat, to the surface.

That’s entirely false, while in the right context. When starches, sugars, & high-levels of carbohydrates are absent, fat allows our brains & bodies to thrive.

Again, while starting out on a ketogenic diet there will be an adjustment period that requires you to fuel your body with fat to satiety, thus meaning you’ll most likely be eating a fair amount of fat. But, once fat-adapted, you start to notice shifts in hunger, energy levels, mental clarity, weight removing, & improved sleep & digestion & no longer require a ton of fat at every meal.

The adaptation process takes time & is different for each individual.

The other piece of context is “what is your goal”? If you’re trying to maintain weight, or bulk, once fat-adapted, then you’re probably going to need a lot more fat at each meal (or in total for the day) then someone who’s trying to remove weight & body fat.

This meal represents effort to cut some body fat % as I’m fat adapted= not so much fat🔥

It’s all in context to the individuals goals & needs. There’s no one size fits all here.

-Josh P. 💚🧠✌️

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Check this link for a limited time offer (75% off) for first 10 sign ups as a launch celebration for my online coaching platform.

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👉🏼life-lasting tools & results that are enjoyable, efficient, & simple.

👉🏼 personalized meal plans

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Thermometer or Thermostat

I believe we all have a choice.

A choice to become a survivor or a victim. React to life or be proactive in life.

I love how Jim Kwik puts it as comparing a thermostat to a thermometer. A thermostat controls the environment and a thermometer reacts to an environment.

I know we can’t control our lives but we can control our choices, which will manifest a reality one way or another. Or choices in food, thoughts, and physical activity.

We can choose to be proactive and prevent unwanted realities, or we can live our lives in auto-pilot and react to events as they come. I choose to follow a ketogenic diet & lifestyle for my 🧠, choose to educate myself on a daily basis, choose to serve others and help support them, and choose to hold myself accountable for my reality.

I was living my life as a thermometer and just reacting to my environment until I was 21 and told I was going to die from a massive brain tumor taking residence on the left half of my brain. It took that life or death situation to audit my choices, foster self-awareness, and make the choice to become empowered over my reality.

I share not to brag, but to inspire you all to take action as a thermostat for your life rather than reacting to your life environment/reality as a thermometer.

I don’t want others to suffer as I did and be forced to react to a situation. I want your choices to come from move rather than fear.

-Josh P. 💚🧠✌️

Burn Fat

🔥If you want to burn body fat, you gotta eat fat. 😋 And, limit/temporarily eliminate starches, sugars, and amounts of carbohydrates to reach your goals.

We’ve been brain washed to believe fat makes us fat and we NEED carbohydrates to stay alive and fuel our brains and bodies.🙈

🤓The science is in…carbs are not essential for life and fat doesn’t make us fat, in the presence of low insulin levels and fat-adaptation. High levels of insulin makes us fat, which is a result from eating too many carbohydrates and not burning the glucose. 🤓

In short, insulin is secreted when carbohydrates are consumed. Insulin buffers glucose (blood sugar from breaking down carbs) to cells for energy (or storage as fat) as well as amino acids (protein) for muscle synthesis.💪🏽

When we have chronic high levels of insulin, we are what’s referred to as “sugar burners” and fat-burning comes to a halt.😢

💪🏽Carbs can be a tool if consumed appropriately for our goals. They’re not the enemy. There just needs to be an understanding for the biology behind carbohydrate consumption and clarity around our goals and what it takes to manifest those goals.

🔥If you want to burn fat, you gotta lower insulin levels, eat more fat, and initiate the adaptation process to become fat & keto-adapted.

Following a ketogenic lifestyle is the best way to burn fat efficiently, enjoyably, and it also supports your brain.

-Josh P. 💚✌️

Want help improving your health, removing excess body fat, increasing sustainable energy levels, and/or support with reducing inflammation?

Go to www.KetoBrains.com to enroll in my 12-week program and check this link in my bio for a limited time offer (75% off) for first 10 sign ups as a launch celebration for my online coaching platform. 🙌🏼

https://www.ketobrains.com/offers/ae6R48zv/checkout

You’ll get:

👉🏼life-lasting tools & results that are enjoyable, efficient, and simple.

👉🏼 personalized meal plans

👉🏼 weekly coaching calls with me to ensure you’re always supported

👉🏼 personal fitness plans

👉🏼 VIP Facebook group access

DM me or 📲 josh@joshperrybmx.com for questions

Second Chances

I had a large brain tumor taking over my life and 4 currently trying.

Health is internal.

I learned the hard way after a BMX crash led to a life-saving MRI where they found the first tumor taking over half my brain.

Wrapped around an artery and my optic nerve, the surgery complications led to a 6hr surgery. When I woke up, it was the best moment in my life.

Almost like second chance.

For the first time in about a year or so, I wasn’t in pain and could see, hear, and move my body after signing paperwork acknowledging all those risks on top of death being a possibility.

The story doesn’t end there and to be short, I’ve been diagnosed 2 more times since the original surgery leaving me with a total of 4 tumors in my skull today. 2 in which shrunk thanks to Gamma Knife and the other 2 haven’t progressed since changing my life.

The last 8 years of experiences have led me to a ketogenic diet and lifestyle, learning about the importance of mindset, perspective, choices, the ego, and consciousness, and has given me clarity around my purpose.

-Josh P. 💚✌️

Thanks to Mark Metry for the conversation and opportunity to share! 💯🙏🏼

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LerJFa8k8mY

Adapt Your Life Speech

Honored and privileged to speak at Dr Eric Westman’s Keto Summit last weekend. 🙏🏼

I got to show my recent video for Gladiator Mouthguards thanks to Madicarus Media before I went on the stage. 🙌🏼

I shared my story of ditching school and my job when I was 17 to move to North Carolina for my BMX dream, and how a crash one day saved my life because it revealed a massing tumor taking over my brain. Had I not fallen, I’d be dead after suffering even more than I already had. 🌀

I shared about how Gamma Knife Radio Treatment shrunk 2 re-occurring tumors due to the original tumor wrapping around an artery and my optic nerve.

I shared how this whole brain tumor experience led me to a ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting, and adopting it as a new way of life for me after I was diagnosed for a third time in 2017 with 2 additional tumors on the opposite side of my brain.

Today, I live with 4 brain tumors, coach others, speak around the world, and ride BMX at the same level as I did when I made top ten in the UCI x Fise WORLD Tour in 2016 as my last year competing.💪🏽

This journey taught me 3 things:

👉🏼 perspective is essential.

👉🏼 health is internal.

👉🏼 our reality is a manifestation of our choices.

-Josh P. 💚✌️

Want help improving your health, removing excess body fat, increasing sustainable energy levels, &/or support with reducing inflammation?

Go to www.KetoBrains “dot com” to enroll in my 12-week program.

You’ll get:

👉🏼life-lasting tools & results that are enjoyable, efficient, and simple.

👉🏼 personalized meal plans

👉🏼 weekly coaching calls with me to ensure you’re always supported

👉🏼 personal fitness plans

👉🏼 VIP Facebook group access

DM me or 📲 josh@joshperrybmx.com for questions

Exercise=Health

Exercise isn’t all about strength, bulk, or what gym or equipment you use.💯

🌀It’s about overall health and well-being, as well as a great tool to ramp up the fat & keto-adaptation process while following a ketogenic diet and lifestyle. It’s also great for the mind as it’s proven to relieve stress and facilitate new mitochondrial growth (mitochondrialbiogenisis) that supports energy production and reduced risk of disease. 🤓

😎You don’t need to do Olympic lifts to become a fat-burning machine or to get healthy, lean, and fit. I enjoy this style of training and it compliments my BMX riding. Don’t get intimidated by this video thinking you need to workout how I work out to get results.💪🏽

Basic functional body movements with some sort of regular resistance (weights or just body weight) training is just fine to burn up stored carbohydrates (glucogen) as well as lingering glucose/insulin levels to facilitate ketones production (in the liver) and fat-burning mode on top of a proper formulated nutrional intake.🔥

If you want to burn fat, you gotta lower insulin levels, burn up lingering glucose (blood sugar), & eat more fat to initiate the adaptation process to become fat & keto-adapted.

Following a ketogenic lifestyle is the best way to burn fat efficiently, enjoyably, & it also supports your brain. Then comes basic, full-body, functional movements.💚✌️

-Josh P.

Want help improving your health, removing excess body fat, increasing sustainable energy levels, &/or support with reducing inflammation?

Go to www.KetoBrains.com to enroll in my 12-week program.

You’ll get:

👉🏼life-lasting tools & results that are enjoyable, efficient, and simple.

👉🏼 personalized meal plans

👉🏼 weekly coaching calls with me to ensure you’re always supported

👉🏼 personal fitness plans

👉🏼 VIP Facebook group access

DM me or 📲 josh@joshperrybmx.com for questions

Eat Fat & Burn Fat

🔥If you want to burn body fat, you gotta eat fat. 😋

We’ve been brain washed to believe fat makes us fat and we NEED carbohydrates to stay alive and fuel our brains and bodies.🙈

🤓The science is in…carbs are not essential for life and fat doesn’t make us fat, in the presence of low insulin levels. High levels of insulin makes us fat, which is a result from eating too many carbohydrates.🤓

In short, insulin is secreted when carbohydrates are consumed. Insulin buffers glucose (blood sugar from breaking down carbs) to cells for energy (or storage as fat) as well as amino acids (protein) for muscle synthesis.💪🏽

When we have chronic high levels of insulin, we are what’s referred to as “sugar burners” and fat-burning comes to a halt.😢

💪🏽Carbs can be a tool if consumed appropriately for our goals. They’re not the enemy. There just needs to be an understanding for the biology behind carbohydrate consumption and clarity around our goals and what it takes to manifest those goals.

🔥If you want to burn fat, you gotta lower insulin levels, eat more fat, and initiate the adaptation process to become fat & keto-adapted.

Following a ketogenic lifestyle is the best way to burn fat efficiently, enjoyably, and it also supports your brain.💚✌️

-Josh P.

Want help improving your health, removing excess body fat, increasing sustainable energy levels, and/or support with reducing inflammation?

Go to www.KetoBrains.com to enroll in my 12-week program.

You’ll get:
👉🏼life-lasting tools & results that are enjoyable, efficient, and simple.
👉🏼 personalized meal plans
👉🏼 weekly coaching calls with me to ensure you’re always supported
👉🏼 personal fitness plans
👉🏼 VIP Facebook group access

DM me or 📲 josh@joshperrybmx.com for questions

Correlation or Causation?

Correlation does NOT mean causation.

There’s a lot of hype around a ketogenic diet (high fat, moderate protein, very low carb) and eating a lot of animal foods.

1) the ketogenic diet is not a high-protein diet.

2) the nonsense coming from these people saying eating animal foods, especially whole eggs, is toxic to the human body comes from correlation studies, if backed by anything.

This simply means the studies looked at a random group of people and correlated who ate animal foods to who died at whatever age or got sick.

This doesn’t exclude whether or not the person was an alcoholic, ate processed foods every day, was addicted to sugar, smoked, was sedentary, what source and quality the animal foods were, how much protein they ate a day, and so on.

On the contrary, there’s an abundance of studies using control studies showing eating a proper ketogenic diet or quality animal foods in optimal amounts does not cause harm to the body and in fact it can help people with a plethora of issues.

I personally follow a ketogenic diet with a focus on plenty of organic, non-starchy veggies followed by plenty of healthy fat, quality sources of moderate amounts of protein, and making sure to get enough sodium (salt) in my diet.

I have been learning more and more to question studies leading people to saying irrational things like keto or animal foods make you die sooner. P.S., you can follow a vegan ketogenic diet, it’s just very difficult and costly.

Stay open minded, love yourself, do your research, and reach out for support. 💚✌️

-Josh P.

Interested in learning more and how to make changes TODAY?

DM me or 📲 josh@joshperrybmx.com

Pork Chops

Simplicity for the hurricane. 🙃

Local NC pork chops, local zucchini and mushrooms sautéed in @kerrygoldusa with @redmondrealsalt on top 😋

Not pictured, an avocado on the side for more fats 🔥

-Josh P.

Want to learn more about making changes TODAY to improve your brain’s health, remove excess body fat, gain more energy, improve sleep & recovery, clear up inflammation & digestive issues, and put cravings at bay all while worrying less about food?

DM me or 📲 josh@joshperrybmx.com 💚✌️