Tag: Keto

Fuel Your Soul

I believe we all MUST find something to do in our lives that fuels our soul.

That’s what BMX has been for me for more than half my life. Just typing that is crazy!

17 years now I’ve been on a BMX bike & it’s crazy how much the decision to pursue BMX as a career has taught me, the places around the world it’s brought me to, the people & experiences it’s led me to, & the ability it has to clear my mind & bring a smile to my face.

More importantly, it’s saved my life in more ways than one & is what’s helped me find the ketogenic diet & lifestyle that I believe can be a massively beneficial tool or a new way of living for most of us today as it has been for me & my clients.

It’s not a magic pill as most of us look for these days. I’m not 100% pro-Keto or 100% against other healthy approaches that do work for others.

My priority of adopting such a lifestyle is for the health, protection, & healing of my brain thanks to those fat burning by-products called KETONES. It’s a 100% personal choice.

My story and journey with Keto isn’t a weight loss story, although my body composition has never been better as well as easier to maintain. My journey with Keto represents my belief of health being internal.

Along the way, I’ve become passionate for sharing what’s helped me with others & I continue to do so because I want all of you to become the healthiest, happiest, & most successful versions of yourself.

-Josh P. 💚🧠✌️

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We All Have This Choice

I believe we all have the same choice in life when things go poorly or well.

It’s a choice that no one can take from us.🙏🏼

It’s a choice in perspective. To choose to see life as glass half full or glass half empty.

To choose to become a survivor rather than a victim.💪🏽

Two quotes I love are:

1- life doesn’t happen to you, it happens for you.

2- life is 10% what happens to us and 90% now we react.

That said, if you’re unhappy for any reason then I’d check your perspective. 🧐

Are you a survivor or a victim?

-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 coaching program.

Check this link 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/STiXqmRe/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

Stress

How do you alleviate stress in your life? 🌀
 
Stress is a major factor in why we as a society are sick, fat, and tired. 😕
 
Whether it be perceived (mental) or physical stressors (toxins, certain foods, exercise, injuries, etc.), the mind and body are so closely intertwined that either form of stress creates a physiological response in the body as seen here in the diagram thanks to Dr. Ryan Lowery 🤓
 
When I began this journey of holistic health, it was based on fear of the brain tumor coming back. The irony of that is that 4 more grew back over the following 7 years after brain surgery.
 
My journey led me to nutrition first, which I believed was the single most important choice we have on a daily basis.🥑
 
Then a torn ACL injury & surgery led me to the importance of fitness for the brain and body.💪🏽
 
Along the way, I was learning more about keto as well as the power of our mindsets and subconsciously picking up on new ways of thinking.🧠
 
Today, I believe the mind(set) is actually the single most important choice we have on a daily basis, closely followed up by nutrition and fitness. The mind(set) came last for me and I believe it was for a few reasons:
 
1- to show me my strength through the physical challenges.
 
2- those challenges gave me clarity on perspective & purpose.
 
3- I was building my mind(set) strength the whole time and now that I’m conscious to it, I am able to tie all 3 parts of holistic health together and share with all of you.
 
-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 coaching program.
 
Check this link for a limited time offer for first 10 sign ups as a launch celebration for my online coaching platform and thank you for the desire to become the change YOU want to see.
 
https://www.ketobrains.com/offers/STiXqmRe/checkout
 
DM me or 📲 josh@joshperrybmx.com for questions.

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. 💚🧠✌️

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.

Check this link 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/STiXqmRe/checkout

You’ll get:

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

👉🏼 personalized meal plans

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

👉🏼 personal fitness plans

👉🏼 VIP Facebook group access

DM me or 📲 josh@joshperrybmx.com for questions

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. 💚🧠✌️

BMX to Inspiration

It was a dream to become a pro BMX athlete one day and do this trick I grew up seeing Dave Mirra do.

A version of this trick (performed on the ramp to the left of this photo) actually saved my life when I fell and hit my head and needed an MRI. Backstory leading up to that point, I’d been in and out of the doctors office complaining of headaches, vision loss, and vomiting while also requesting a scan but denied and prescribed pain pills told “you’re young, in shape, and just have headaches”.

Fast forward to that crash I mentioned and the MRI that followed, who knew. I was diagnosed at the younger age of 21 with a massive brain tumor taking over half my brain and residing on my optic nerve and wrapped around an artery in my brian.

I’ve been able to transcend my dreams and inspire action in others around the world with nutrition, fitness, and mindset shifts from my experiences like what I just shared above, and I’m extremely honored and grateful for that fact.

Had I not set out to create my own path in life, who knows how many regrets I’d live with today and how many lives I may have not changed for the better.

Today, I live with 4 brain tumors (2 more brain tumor diagnosis since the original surgery) and have used Elekta Gamma Knife to shrink 2 and ketogenic diet and lifestyle to stabilize the other 2. I don’t compete anymore (personal choice) but I still ride at the same level (seen here), coach others, and am a motivational speaker.

-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

Stache Strong

Met some amazing people while out at the Biden Cancer Initiative Summit in D.C. the other week and got to chat survivorship and keto.

 

Give @stachestrong a follow on Instagram and check out what they are doing to make a difference in the world.

It’s an honor and pleasure to connect with like-minded people that are making efforts to support those in need. 💚✌️

-Josh P.

https://www.stachestrong.org/

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

Who is Josh Perry

Hey! My name is Josh Perry.

I’m a BMX athlete fighting 4 brain tumors, a motivational speaker, and a holistic health coach supporting people on their health and wellness journey.

I’m also an advocate for the Ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting, which is what I follow and guide my clients with as well.

My perspective on my life, health, and choices dramatically shifted when I was 21 and diagnosed with a brain tumor. That in combination with multiple head injuries led me on a path of challenging the status quo for my health and empowering myself to make healthier choices, ultimately leading me to sharing with others.

Today, I live with 4 brain tumors, coach others, share my story around the world, and strive to make a positive impact on the world by supporting others.

Have any questions about a Ketogenic diet, intermittent fasting, BMX, or anything else? Let me know! 💚✌️

-Josh P.

📸 Jackie Lauricella

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.comfor questions.