Shmulik taking a break with his dogs.
“I followed all of your orders from last week.”
Welcome to week 12 of our reality podcast, with Eric O’Grey in Spokane, Washington coaching Shmulik Shwartz in Lehavim, Israel to lose 140 pounds in 10 months so the two can run the Jerusalem marathon together in March 2017!
Let’s check in with Shmulik on his current weight loss. He is at 127.4 kg, which makes a total loss so far of 23.6 kg, or 51.9 pounds! Shmulik made some changes to his diet last week and lost over 4 pounds, so let’s find out how he did it!
In this episode, Shmulik and Eric discuss the following:
- Last week, Shmulik eliminated all bread and oil
- In addition to lots of wild rice and beans, Shmulik tried edamame and loves it!
- Shmulik’s son has been inspired to join Shmulik in his plant-based diet.
- Some of Shmulik’s friends and family will hopefully appear on the show in the near future!
- Most of our listeners want to know more about plant-based eating, want to lose weight and eliminate medications, and want to know more about rescue dogs.
- Shmulik discusses the growth of dog therapy in Israel and the new facilities he is now visiting with his therapy dogs.
- Shmulik explains why he feels like smiling now!
- Shmulik has experienced ankle pain with his current exercise program.
- Eric advises Shmulik to NOT overdo his walking and risk injury.
- What are the best exercises in the gym?
- To minimize the risk to Shmulik’s ankles, Eric advises him to split his walks into two shorter sessions and not to overdo it on Saturday.
- More sessions of walking with shorter distances and 2 km runs mixed in
- Eric advises Shmulik to find an app that will track food intake and exercise in relation to calories consumed and calories burned.
- Shmulik reports that his dogs are doing well this week.
- Eric explains how the weekly weight loss will decrease as Shmulik moves toward his optimum weight.
