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- 09:44 Kevin’s Story
- 14:51 The Rebooted Body
- 18:37 Nutrient Density
- 20:51 Regulation of Hormones
- 22:12 Improving Gut Health
- 24:43 Sleep and Regulation of Hormones
- 27:22 Sleep Tips
- 29:53 About the book, REM Rehab
- 30:37 Most pressing health issue in the world today
- 33:44 The Total Body Reboot
- 38:45 Contact Kevin
Wendy Myers: Welcome to the Live to 110 Podcast. I’m your host, Wendy Myers. You can find me on myersdetox.com and here is my co-host, General Leigh Lowery.
Leigh Lowery: Hi, everyone. You can find me at GeneralLeigh.com.
Wendy Myers: Today, we are interviewing Kevin Geary of RebootedBody.com. It’s a terrific site. He is a holistic health coach. He uses a unique blend of ancestral science and modern psychology to help men and women reprogram their body and mind for sustainable fat loss, vibrant health and peak performance. He’s going to be talking to us today about how to reboot your body.
Leigh Lowery: And first, we have to obviously do the disclaimer. Please keep in mind that this program is not intended to diagnose or treat any health condition or disease and it is not a substitute for professional medical advice. The Live to 110 Podcast is solely informational in nature. Please consult your healthcare practitioner before engaging in any treatment or diet that we suggest on this show.
So what was I going to tell you? Oh! Wendy, recently, I’ve been doing my online training. We talked a little bit about that recently.
Wendy Myers: Yes! How is that going?
Leigh Lowery: It’s doing really good. It’s awesome. Right now, I’m coming to the end of some of my 13 week clients and I have a few that are 26 weeks as well. I’ve had so much great success and I’m going to be posting some of those before-and-after’s of those 13-week online challenges of some of my clients at the end. In about three weeks, they’re going to be going up on my site, so I’m really excited.
I think we talked about I’m taking on a whole new group of people as soon as I finish with this specific group. So that’s been going really, really well. But I just wanted to like give props, I wanted to say and give props to some of my folks. I have a girl who really took the challenge, the 13-week online challenge seriously with me and she has gone – I think for the first time in ten years under the 200 lb. mark in weight.
Wendy Myers: Nice.
Leigh Lowery: I’m just so proud of her, so I wanted to say that. So that’s been great.
Wendy Myers: You’ve got some pretty dramatic results with those before-and-after photos?
Leigh Lowery: Yeah. I had some people who’s had a really good starting place. Really, they just wanted – I really try to talk to each individual person and make sure that we set goals that are achievable and then we achieve those goals.
So some people might start off at a really great starting place and already have that muscular development. We just need to work on their nutrition. Others are starting for the very first time. So I’m excited.
Anyone who’s interested in possible online training who’s not here in Los Angeles, California, you can go to GeneralLeigh.com and contact with me about that. I’d love to talk to you guys more about that.
Wendy Myers: Great! I just shot a couple of episodes of my Modern Paleo Cooking Show.
Leigh Lowery: Oh, I love it!
Wendy Myers: Yeah, I wrapped that up a couple of days ago. It’s going really well. I’m just trying to make it really funny and really educational and talk about how to eat the most nutrient-dense food, just throw in a little bit of education while I’m teaching people how to cook. It’s going good. I just cooked turkey and mushroom marinara with spaghetti squash rather than pasta.
Leigh Lowery: I love that. That’s one of my favorite – first of all, spaghetti squash or zucchini as pasta, the faux pasta is probably my favorite, but you have to have one of those amazing, really tasty toppings to go on top, so I would love to learn how to make that marinara sauce. That sounds great.
Wendy Myers: I love the mushrooms. Hmmm, they’re just so good. And the spaghetti squash, it has this really great texture. It’s kind of crunchy, a little bit crunchy. It comes out like a strand of spaghetti. It’s a really strange vegetable.
Leigh Lowery: I know, right? It is such a strange vegetable.
Wendy Myers: Yeah! And my website is going to be done by the time this podcast airs. It is a miracle. I had to hire all kinds of guys from India at the last minute to correct all the things that weren’t going right. There’s basically a whole team behind this website. People had been working on it 24/7 for a couple of months.
Leigh Lowery: Oh, I can’t wait! When do you say it’s going to go up? When is the anticipated ETA?
Wendy Myers: Hopefully, May 1st. I’m thinking no matter what happens, it’s just going to go live and then we’ll just keep working on it. I don’t know. I’m not getting a whole lot of sleep right now. I’m kind of loopy and crazy right now.
Leigh Lowery: No, I totally understand. Well, I also saw just recently on your Facebook and I’ve been wanting to ask you (I’ve been sick, so I haven’t been able to talk to you as much), I saw something about purple broccoli.
Wendy Myers: Mm-hmmm…
Leigh Lowery: I really need to know what is up with that? What is going on with purple broccoli?
Wendy Myers: Well, you know what? I actually very recently discovered (maybe about five years ago), I had no idea that purple broccoli existed because they don’t sell it at the grocery store. There’s a lot of people that have not ventured forth from the grocery store, so they only know the conventional vegetables that are in the market. Those are usually the ones that keep really nicely or they travel really well or they last a long time. It’s a certain species that’s convenient for sitting on a shelf for a long time and not going back.
But if you go to your farmer’s market, when it’s in season (and it’s in season right now), you can find purple broccoli.
Leigh Lowery: That is so cool!
Wendy Myers: It’s really good. I mean, it’s a little bit more bitter than a regular broccoli, which is not bad because that means it just has more calcium in it and other bitter compounds that are healthy for you, but it’s not that bitter, it’s just a little bit.
But when you eat purple vegetables, purple vegetables have the most nutrition in them. Green runs a distant second and then it’s red – it’s just generally. In general, this is true. That’s what I talk about in my book, the Modern Paleo Survival Guide, how to choose the most nutrient-dense vegetables. As long as you’re going to be horsing down plates of vegetables, you might as well have the most nutrition in them.
Leigh Lowery: That’s so funny. That’s such a good point. I don’t know, at one point, I picked out this white asparagus that was like $5 more than the average green asparagus. I thought, “Oh, I’m going to really be doing my body good.” So I went and I bought it and I made it, it tasted terrible.
And then I found out later, I started googling why in the world is this – I thought more expensive equals more nutrient-dense, but it was white because the soil is not rich, it’s grown under the shade, so it’s expensive because it’s rare, but it’s also not as healthy for you.
So I love the fact that purple, obviously – it’s kind of like the easy indicators. The more beautiful and brightly colored something is, typically, the more nutrient-dense it is.
Wendy Myers: Yeah, that’s why it’s brightly colored. It’s had to protect itself from the sun and it develops antioxidants to do that. That’s why any natural sunscreens have essential oils or the antioxidants in them because it naturally protects your skin from the sun and damage and free radicals. That’s what plants do. They produce these bright colors to protect themselves from the sun, so the more color they have, the more antioxidants they have.
Leigh Lowery: So interesting. Okay, I’m going to ask you a question off the cuff. You might not have the answer. I might have to come back to this (but knowing you, you do know the answer). I get this asked all the time. Yams, sweet potato, orange or the white variety, is there a difference or a better choice when it comes to your sweet potato or your yam?
Wendy Myers: Well, it’s really interesting because if you’re comparing regular potatoes like white potatoes to yams or sweet potatoes (which are orange), they actually have about the same nutrient content except the sweet potato has a lot more vitamin A because orange potatoes and vegetables usually have a lot of vitamin A. But I actually love purple potatoes because purple potatoes have more than all of those.
Leigh Lowery: That’s so interesting. Alright! Well, I’m going to go and find myself – you mean the purple skin of the potato or…?
Wendy Myers: No, actually the flesh, when the flesh is purple.
Leigh Lowery: Oh, wow! Well, I’m going to have to go find myself a purple potato and some purple – maybe I’ll just have a purple night. We’ll have everyone come over and you can have every assortment of purple food that I can find on the market and we know that we’re going to be eating something that’s nutrient-dense and rich for us.
Wendy Myers: Oh, yeah. I love the Peruvian purple potatoes. You can find them at farmer’s market. Sometimes, they’re at the grocery store, but typically, I’ve only found them at the farmer’s market.
Leigh Lowery: Very good. I love it.
Wendy Myers: They’re usually little. They’re usually look like little purple potatoes.
Leigh Lowery: I love it.
Wendy Myers: Yeah. So it’s just like I said, just in general, there’s lots of things in green vegetable like sulfur and things that we need. You have to eat the whole colors of the rainbow – the whole ‘darker the vegetables’ is just kind of a generalization.
Leigh Lowery: I love it! Well, I will be having, like I said, purple night and I’ll take a picture. It might be a purple potato and some purple broccoli.
Wendy Myers: Our guest today is Kevin Geary. At one point, Kevin was 60 lbs. heavier than he was today. What he learned in his struggle to lose weight and keep it off has been incorporated into his Total Body Reboot Program. Kevin is going to tell us how one reboots their body with diet and fitness, focusing on the mindset and psychology of the whole process.
So Kevin, thank you for coming on the show.
Kevin Geary: Yeah, thank you so much for having me.
Wendy Myers: Well, why don’t you tell the listeners a little bit about your story and why you became a health coach.
Kevin Geary: Yeah. So about 2009, I was 220 lbs. or a little over that mark. I gotten that way basically by following conventional wisdom through the kind of yo-yo dieting process where I would lose some weight because I had a short-term goal of maybe getting ready for the summer. At one point, I was getting ready for getting married. I had all these little short-term things where I would go on a 4- or 5-month focused expedition to lose weight, but I was following the traditional ‘cut calories, do a bunch of cardio exercise’ and it was running my body to the ground. By the time I got close to the goal, I would just have to basically let loose from all of that because it was just unsustainable.
Through that process, every time I lost weight and got to whatever goal I had, I would gain back not just that weight, but more. So through the four or five rounds of that, I ended up at 220 lbs.
I was sitting in my doctor’s office doing just a normal physical. He was basically telling me that I have high blood pressure and I’m a borderline diabetic. Of course, my grandfather died of diabetes, so it runs in my family. I’m high-risk for that. That kind of hit home a little bit and I decided that I really need to start taking this seriously because I don’t want to continue to fail, I want to succeed and I want to be able to sustain this long-term. This is not a process that I enjoy.
So I set out basically on a mention to find somebody that was saying something different than what I have heard before. I basically set a rule for myself that if I come across somebody who is saying anything remotely similar to what I already know and what I’ve already tried, then I’m just going to skip them and I’m going to move on. I want somebody that’s saying something completely different.
And I found that in the ancestral health movement. I started putting their principles to practice. I got great results. I got down to about 180 lbs. At that point, I started getting some psychological and emotional road blocks and hurdles that I was having trouble dealing with and it actually derailed me and I went back up to about 190 or 195 lbs. It was through that I found that people can have all of the right information and absolutely still fail because information is just a small piece of the puzzle. Everybody thinks that’s the big secret. I just need the next big thing. I need the research paper. I need the next fact.
The truth is, it’s usually about conquering these mental and emotional roadblocks. That’s what’s going to get you to your goal. Having the right information is important, but if you don’t know how to conquer the mental and emotional roadblocks that everybody pretty much deals with, then you’re simply not going to succeed.
Wendy Myers: Yeah, that’s so true because even for my own self, I know how to lose weight and I know that if I eat a tub of ice cream, then I’m probably not going to meet my goals, but that still doesn’t prevent me from avoiding the ice cream.
There’s so many mental and emotional triggers so many people have that prevent them from meeting their health goals. I think it’s really important to be able to try to identify some of those triggers to get a hold of them.
Kevin Geary: Yeah, absolutely. And when I was doing this process, there wasn’t anybody talking about the mental and emotional side. There wasn’t anybody talking about how to overcome these triggers and they are very pervasive. Everybody knows the feeling of really just not being in control where your brain is telling you to do one thing and you’re simply behaving and acting in a different way from that. It doesn’t matter how good your intentions are, it doesn’t matter how focused you are, it doesn’t matter if you believe you have a lot of will power, it doesn’t work until you actually deal with the underlying stuff.
Wendy Myers: Yeah, will power does not overcome biology. It’s not going to happen.
Kevin Geary: Absolutely not.
Wendy Myers: I love it that you take an ancestral approach because if you don’t feed your body the right nutrients, biology is going to make you eat certain foods. Some people are attracted to fast food to try to get fats. Their body is really just trying to get fats and salt. They taste like they’re getting that, but they’re not. So that’s really, really important.
Wendy Myers: So what is a ‘rebooted body’. I love the name of your program, The Total Body Reboot. I love the website too. It’s amazing. I wanted to sign up for it. It just looks so sharp and it’s so well-presented. Tell us a little bit about what exactly is a rebooted body.
Kevin Geary: It’s basically reprogramming our body to behave the way it was designed to behave. I guess the easiest way I could say is a lot of people are walking around or most people are walking around and their metabolism is shot from years and years of just abusing it like you said with fast food, with a lot of sugars.
Their metabolism is actually changed to the point where they need sugar to get through the day and they’re really going from sugar spike to sugar spike to sugar spike. So as their energy crashes, they just eat more sugar. And then a few hours later, it crashes again, so they eat more sugar. This is just a cycle.
This is one of the reasons why we’re seeing the obesity epidemic. I mean, there’s a bunch of factors, but this is one of the reasons. A lot of these are preventable health outcomes. It’s the reason I was dealing with high blood pressure and pre-diabetes.
So it’s about reprogramming our body and taking it back to the way it was designed to work, which is to basically rely on fat for fuel. The first stage of Total Body Reboot is dedicated to making that transition. We make that transition very simply through real food.
And unlike other programs, in stage one, I don’t have people exercise at all. The only thing that they are suggested to do is a lot of walking. The reason for this is because when people are just eating kind of like whatever they want and just trying to limit the intake – counting calories, Weight Watchers would be a good example of this – they’re not giving their body what it needs, they’re giving their body a lot of garbage and on the flipside, they’re trying to out-exercise everything as well.
What their body really needs is simply real food and rest. It needs to recover from all the abuse that’s been done to it and I want to give people a good 30-day window for that recovery period.
And then what we start doing is we start building in functional exercise. We learn to exercise smarter, not harder. Through the whole process, we’re also working on changing our relationship with food, overcoming these mental and emotional hurdles. So it’s not just reprogramming your body, but it’s reprogramming your mind as well.
Wendy Myers: I love that, that you tell people not to exercise in the beginning or keep it minimal because [00:17:41] with all of my clients. They all come to me, they have adrenal fatigue and thyroid issues, they have low energy. The last thing they need to be doing is expending more energy working out. They need to rest their body.
Kevin Geary: Yeah, and the other side of that too is if people are coming and they’re trying to overcome cravings, if you go out and continue with a running program, for instance, because you love running, that is a great way to make your body extremely hungry and increase those cravings. So it also helps on the mental side to give your body time to rest because it calms down and it doesn’t require so many calories.
Wendy Myers: Yeah, I’ve pretty much been doing a 2-year reboot. I’m stuck in the stage one of your reboot.
Kevin Geary: Nice!
Wendy Myers: I’m exercising, but not anything like I used to. I’ve definitely learned the value of less is more when it comes to exercise. Do more gentle stuff.
Wendy Myers: One of the main pillars of your program is teaching about nutrient-density, which I love. It’s so important. So what message exactly do you try to teach about nutrient-density?
Kevin Geary: Well, first, I try to get people transitioned to just a higher fat diet. I get them to take out the worst things. We’re talking about getting rid of gluten, getting rid of added sugars, getting rid of simple starches even to help make that transition.
People have to be introduced to this a little bit slowly. I talk about food quality and source quality in stage one, so they have the option if they want to go seek out things like grass-fed beef and organic fruits and vegetables.
There are no requirements. There are no rules inside of Total Body Reboot. My goal is I make suggestions, I give people the why behind those suggestions. I help them follow through with those suggestions. And then I hope is that when they see the difference and they feel the difference, they will buy into that lifestyle.
So rather than creating a bunch of rules that people follow, my goal is to try to achieve buy-in. And as they progress through the program, we talk more and more about eating nose to tail as far as animals are concerned. People eat a lot of muscle meat, but they need to really [00:20:02] out and do things like bone broth and organ meats.
I work them through that later on in the program. I have a nutrient-density module where we go through and actually learn what foods are the most nutrient-dense for real. When you tell somebody to eat ‘nutrient-dense’, they think, “Oh, I need a bunch of vegetables.” Well, if you actually look on a nutrient density chart, organ meats are light years beyond the nutrient density of vegetables. A lot of people don’t know that.
So that’s something that we learn inside the program as well. I teach what is the truth about nutrient density. That allows people as they get comfortable with the whole process, they can start picking and choosing and optimizing their choices.
Wendy Myers: Yeah. Another one of your pillars that you teach in your program is about the regulation of hormones. Can you explain that a bit about how you help your clients to regulate their hormones?
Kevin Geary: Yeah. One, like I said in the beginning, we’re mainly focused on the satiety hormones and blood sugar hormones and stress hormones. So those would be leptin, grelin, insulin, cortisol. What we’re trying to do is fix the derangement that is going on inside of most people. That’s just the starting point.
So we want to get that cortisol level starting to come down. We want to make sure that leptin is functioning properly so people are actually getting full when they eat and not just eating and eating and eating. We want to get insulin under control so that fat is allowed to come out of the fat cells and they’re able to use the dietary fat that they eat for energy.
So a lot of work there. It’s not just food, but the rest helps as well. We talk about a lot of other lifestyle factors. When I say it’s a holistic approach, I’m talking to people about their jobs. I’m talking to people about their family. I’m talking to people about their entire life and how all of it has to do with their eventual success with eating and with exercise.
Wendy Myers: And another one of the pillars on your program is improving gut health, which I think is so important. I think so many people today have digestive issues for various reasons. It’s from diet, it’s from toxicity, it’s from all kinds of issues going on in the gut – leaky gut. Why is this important for weight loss and for rebooting your body.
Kevin Geary: Well, a lot of people, they don’t understand how important the gut is. I hate to carp on Weight Watchers, but if you join Weight Watchers, there’s going to be nothing on the pamphlet about your gut health. It’s just all going to be about their rules and their counting and all these.
This is kind of a new thing to a lot of people. I want people to understand that your gut is basically like your second brain. The complexity is enormous, a hundred trillion microbes in the human gut, a thousand different species of those microbes.
We’re talking about something that controls literally everything in your body. And then if we look at what’s happening to our gut through our lifestyle and our diet – I mean, 60% of men and women have undiagnosed digestive issues and food intolerances. This is contributing to low energy. It’s contributing to their inflammation, their joint pain, their weight gain. Seventy percent of the calories that we take in come from foods that attack and damage the gut.
So part of Reboot is talking about how to reverse that and how to start to heal the gut. And of course, 80% of our immune system is housed in our gut. This really controls everything. A lot of the problems that we’re seeing are stemming from doing damage and harm to the gut through what we’re eating and how we’re choosing to live life.
Wendy Myers: Yeah, and it’s such a huge issue today. I think so many people have damaged gut microbiom. That’s really one of the reasons (one of many reasons) why two-thirds of United States is overweight and has problems with obesity. It’s just our gut health is so deranged.
Kevin Geary: That affects digestion as well. When you’re digestion is not functioning properly, you’re not assimilating vitamins and nutrients into the body. You’re going to have trouble with fat storage. Like I said, everything is affected if your gut is off.
Wendy Myers: Yeah, absolutely. One thing I really love about what you were talking about with regulating your hormones is that definitely sleep is a big part of regulating your hormones. And so you’ve written a new book called ‘REM Rehab’. Can you tell the listeners a little about that and why you wanted to write a book on sleep and aiding sleep to improve health?
Kevin Geary: Yeah. Well, we just talked about how critical gut health is and the fact that really, nobody is talking about it – I mean, people in the ancestral space, but outside of that, there’s not much talk about it. Well, sleep is another area that’s not talked about much.
I think a lot of people tend to think it’s a more boring subject. We have a society where everybody is trying to cram in productivity or entertainment or watching television until 11 p.m. or midnight. We’re getting six hours of sleep. And then we’re wondering why we have all of these issues.
One of the reasons I decided to write the guide was because my clients kept coming to me and they kept saying, “Kevin, I’m following your nutrition protocol and your suggestions and I’m following your functional exercise suggestions, but the weight is not budging. I don’t feel that much better.”
So I start to poke around and I start asking more questions and it comes to sleep. I say, “Well, how is your sleep?” “Well, I’ve had so much stuff going on lately. I’m getting a good six hours, but yeah, I toss and turn a little bit…” and they start going through this whole spiel about how basically their sleep is completely disordered.
That’s the turning point where I say, “You know what? You can eat exactly how I suggest you eat and you can exercise exactly how I suggest you exercise, if you don’t get that sleep dialed in, all bets are off. You are going to fail. You’re not going to see your changes.”
People, they’re in two camps basically. The first camp is like I just said, they’re cramming in productivity. They don’t understand how important sleep is or they just don’t value it. That’s the first camp. The second camp is, “I do value sleep and I really wish I could get good sleep, but there’s something preventing me from doing that.”
So we wrote the guide to solve both issues. If you’re in the first camp, the guide talks you into valuing sleep. If you’re in the second camp, the guide shows you how to fix your sleep derangement basically.
Wendy Myers: Yeah, that’s so important because the foundation of your health and your waistline is getting adequate sleep every night.
Wendy Myers: So what are your top sleep tips that you could tell the listeners so that they could start working on improving their sleep?
Kevin Geary: I guess the first one that a lot of people are unaware of is artificial light after dark – especially blue spectrum light. If you think back (and this goes way, way, way, way, way back), if you were after dark hanging out, what kind of light would you be exposed to? Well, you’re talking candles, camp fire, the moon, things like that. You’re not going to be exposed to iPads and iPhones and televisions, computer screens.
So all of these artificial lights (and especially blue spectrum lights) is really screwing up our rhythm. What’s supposed to happen is the body, after sunset, the orangeness of the sunset kind of cues the body to start this routine. It’s supposed to start scaling down certain things. Cortisol levels are supposed to taper off.
But the fact that we are getting all of these light into our eyes and the fact that we are stressed from all these productivity we’re trying to cram in, that is seriously screwing up the rhythm. So what happens is that cortisol never tapers off. Other things happen inside the body as well that don’t gear up for sleep, so we run into problems with falling asleep in a timely manner, we toss and turn at night and this is all due simply to the light that we’re being exposed to after dark. Now there’s a whole bunch of other factors, but that’s one of the major ones. One of the tips we give is to block all blue light after sunset. We do that with a free computer program called Efflux. We also do that with UVEX glasses. We suggest that people put on UVEX blue-blocking glasses as soon as the sun goes down. And then you can watch your TV, you can play on your computer or your iPad or whatever and not be affected at least by that blue spectrum light.
And then we just want people to turn off all devices a couple of hours before they go to bed and simply switch to different activity maybe reading or meditation. One of my favorites is self physical therapy. So just making some basic changes like that is key. And then there’s a whole guide for eating for sleep. Of course, there’s a whole chapter on supplementing strategically. This is a really comprehensive guide.
Wendy Myers: Yeah. And you wrote that with Evan Brand. I’ve had him on the show a couple of times. I’ve done his podcasts. I love Evan. He’s great. So how did you guys decide to co-author this book together?
Kevin Geary: Well, when I was telling Evan that I had some clients coming to me saying, “Hey, I’m doing everything right, but I’m not making progress,” and I kept – sleep was the common thing, the common theme that kept coming up and I was talking to Evan about this, he mentioned, “I’m kind of running into the same thing with a lot of people I talk to” because people just either can’t fix their sleep problems or they don’t value it enough.
So the opportunity was there. We looked around and we said, “You know what? Not a lot of people are really talking about this,” so we decided to tackle it.
Wendy Myers: I have a question I like to ask all of my guests. What do you think is the most pressing health issue in the world today?
Kevin Geary: It’s got to go back to food, right? We have a society that’s cramming fast food in their face sometimes two times a day, three times a day. We’re not cooking a lot of meals. We’re eating in restaurants all of the time.
When we do cook meals, it’s still not quality ingredients. We’re eating crap meat. We’re eating vegetables sprayed with chemicals. It’s just food, food, food. It always comes back to that I think.
Wendy Myers: Yeah, it’s so insane in our world today how much bad food we’re constantly exposed to and bombarded with and served. It really is a challenge to eat healthy in the western world today.
Kevin Geary: One of the suggestions (trying to oversimplify it for people) is eat real food. The fact is, even what’s considered real food isn’t even real food anymore. Just going to the store to pick up some steak, maybe way back in the day, that was real food. Today, that’s not even real food. That’s CAFO meat where the animals are treated poorly. They’re injected with a bunch of stuff. They’re eating grains. That’s not real food.
So saying ‘eat real food’ is an oversimplification to get people to understand what we are really after, but then there’s a lot of education on, “Okay, now how do you really sort out what’s real and what’s not real?” It starts to get to the point where if people aren’t in the right mindset yet and they’re not in the right place, they just don’t want to hear that stuff.
Wendy Myers: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I agree. It’s tough. It takes a little bit of money and it takes time to make real food. It takes a really concentrated effort to dedicate your life to eating real, healthy food.
Kevin Geary: Yeah. One of my biggest lessons that I try to teach people is putting more margin in their life. That’s basically room to breathe in the key areas of your life.
This is what I tell people, if you’re overscheduled, if you’re not getting good sleep, if you are a people-pleaser (so you’re always doing things for others), there’s no room in that lifestyle to take care of yourself, which means you’re never going to spend the time and the resources putting good food in your body, cooking meals for yourself, for your family.
None of that stuff, nothing that you want is ever going to happen because there’s simply no margin. You’re too stressed. You don’t have enough time. Everything is haywire in your life. If your relationships are out of order, that causes disordered eating.
I try to tie all of these in for people and show them how this is a holistic approach meaning every facet of your life has to be looked at. Trying to improve that constantly is the real key.
Wendy Myers: So that exactly sounds like your Total Body Reboot Program.
Kevin Geary: Yeah. Yeah, there it is.
Wendy Myers: So why don’t you tell the listeners a little more about it. What’s involved with that? How much is it? How long is it?
Kevin Geary: Yeah, it’s a 6-month program. We’re not in any races here. We’re trying to be patient and take a long-term approach and just go through it step-by-step. It is a module-based online program. The key part of this is I thought when I launched this, I was like, “Well, maybe I should write a book because that’s really popular to do. Maybe I should make an online course” and I started looking at all the online courses that are available.
I just kept seeing pitfalls in everything. If I write a book, I’m not communicating with people. They’re just reading what I wrote and it’s like you have to write in the last page, “Good luck.”
And then there’s these online courses where they go through the course, but there’s nobody on the other side of the course so if they have a question or they have a concern, who do you turn to? You could turn in a support ticket, but I don’t know who’s going to respond to that.
So I decided. I did this group program in Atlanta where I was working personally with people. It was the same curriculum and there was that personal relationship with the client that was really getting them to the end because I was able to deal with them one-on-one on breaking through the emotional hurdles and jumping over the mental roadblocks. All of these stuff, I was able to personally walk the through it.
Kevin Geary: So I decided, “Alright! If I take this online, that component has to be there. The support component has to be there. So when people get started, they do a client profile form, it comes to me and it starts a one-on-one conversation with me and we start working together from the very beginning.
So they get unlimited email support. They’re constantly in contact with me. They get a personal support group that’s private and they get to go in and basically interact with every other rebooter. I have rebooters in 17 different countries in the world. They get to go in and interact with people who are on the same journey as they are and ask questions and get feedback and get support that way.
And then I do two monthly live coaching calls per month where people can call in and we all have a big discussion and answer a bunch of questions. So there’s that.
And then as far as the actual program goes, they go through six different stages and each stage is 30 days. I broken it up that way just to prevent information overload. So every 24 days, the next stage is unlocked for you, so you can go in and start looking around at the new information that’s there for you. You just kind of go step-by-step through the program and you get support the whole time until your’e finished.
Wendy Myers: Yeah, I think it’s great that you have it stretched out for six months. I think everyone knows, it goes without saying, you cannot change in 30 days. You cannot completely overhaul your diet and your lifestyle and your fitness. It takes small, incremental changes.
Kevin Geary: Yeah. Well, people don’t realize this. You can get three months into something and feel pretty comfortable and on-board with it and that is when the mental and emotional stuff really starts to creep in and that’s when you need the support – and that’s when a lot of other programs will be done. You will be considered finished with that program.
The six months is the perfect timeframe that I found because if you get to the 6-month mark, you’ve got a pretty good handle, you’ve done a lot of really good work at that point.
And by the way, my program is a lifetime program. So once somebody completes the program, they’re a member forever. They have access to the program forever and the private support group forever. They can always come back if they need to.
But if you make it to that 6-month mark, you’ve got a pretty good handle on stuff, you’re pretty strong, you’ve come out the other side, you’ve been through a lot and you’ve made some really, really awesome changes, you look a lot different, everything is different about you. Most people will have the confidence to go forward and just continue on with everything they’ve learned.
Wendy Myers: Well, that sounds great. Definitely myself, I honestly want to check out your program because it just sounds really, really amazing. It’s so sleek. I just love how you have everything organized and I totally get why it’s been so successful.
Kevin Geary: Yeah, thank you. I mean, it’s my baby. It’s not like I created this program and now I’m going off to work on a thousand other projects or a new program. I’ve kind of decided that this will be the only program. I write action guides. I’m working on a couple of books, but the program is being constantly updated and revamped and basically just streamlined and optimized.
The more clients I work with, the more stuff I learn and the more feedback I get. It just makes the program better and better and better every year.
Wendy Myers: That sounds great, Kevin.
Wendy Myers: Why don’t you tell the listeners a little bit more about you and where they can find you? I know you do a lot of videos and you have your own podcast and blog, et cetera?
Kevin Geary: Yeah, I have a podcast at RebootedBody.com/podcast. I just launched RebootedBody.tv, which is my YouTube channel. They can find that at tv.rebooted.com. I am also on Twitter @therebootedbody and they can also find me on Facebook at rebootedbody (without the ‘the’). I think that’s it. I’ve got so many channels. It’s hard to keep track of them.
Wendy Myers: I know. I know how you feel.
Kevin Geary: But the podcast, the blog, they’re going to find at the full site. But the podcast and the Rebooted Body TV are probably the two best places for them to go first.
Wendy Myers: Okay. Well, Kevin, thank you so much for coming on the show. That was really informative and educational. Listeners, I definitely encourage you to go over and check out his program with Total Body Reboot. It looks amazing. It sounds amazing.
Kevin Geary: Thank you so much for having me. It’s a great opportunity.
Wendy Myers: Okay, thank you so much, Kevin. If you want to learn all about detox, the modern Paleo diet or healing your health conditions naturally, go check out the new and improved myersdetox.com that just got a facelift. You can follow me on Facebook and Twitter at iwillliveto110. I’m also on YouTube. That’s where you can find Modern Paleo Cooking Show at wendyliveto110. I’m also on Instagram, Google+ and Pinterest at Liveto110 as well.
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Wendy Myers: And thank you, listeners for tuning in. Go check out Kevin at RebootedBody.com if you want to reboot your body and your butt. So thank you so much for listening to the Live to 110 Podcast.
