Ben & Lisa, successful clients of Charles D'angelo- h4

0:00Yo, boys, it's soothing. Well, that guy's DGS on KMOX, a few minutes past 4 p.m., we have Ben and Lisa in and what they have in common is they have both lost a lot of weight with Charles D'Angelo. And Charles was going to be on today and he said, you know what, I'd rather have a couple of my guys on and they can just say anything you want to say and just straight from the horse's mouth. And so that's what we're going to do. Lisa, start with you. Just kind of introduce yourself to the audience. Hi, everybody. My name is Lisa. I started working with Charles a little over two years ago and I've lost about 170 something pounds with Charles and never looking back. That's great. What, like, what led you to that, the two Charles? To Charles? I adhered his advertisements more than once and hadn't picked up the phone.

1:00And I kind of call it a little bit of a god moment. I got a new puppy and I wanted to go check out a new dog park and when I parked to go check out the dog park, I had to walk maybe a couple hundred yards, wasn't very far. And I couldn't get there without sitting down. Wow. And that was a big wake up call for me. And so I got back in a car very dejected and depressed and drove home and as I was pulling into my garage, his advertisement came on again and I said, ah, what have I got to lose? And so I filled out the form, thinking, never hear from him. And five or 10 minutes later, he was on the phone and I joke and I say he must have heard the right amount of desperation in my voice because we were off to the races and never looked back. Had you always struggled with your weight your whole life or was it a fairly recent thing? No, it had always been but had not gotten that bad. I was pretty much a shudden by that point. I had isolated myself for almost a solid decade. My gosh. I had mobility issues. I had knee back hip issues.

2:02Was afraid to leave my house because if I came home, I was afraid I wasn't going to be able to get up the stairs again. Yeah. You know, lost lots of friends because I just wouldn't go do things with them because I was afraid wherever we went, will I fit in the booth? Will I be able to sit in the chair? You know, it was just really a very sad and isolated life, you know, and then I finally just had enough. I mean, life is completely different now. That's great. So I don't mean any of these questions would be offensive. I've been 60 pounds. Have you ever, I am now. Kebs been 60 pounds heavier than he is now. What did it feel like being 175 pounds heavier than you are now? Just physically, what did it feel like just navigating life? Well, it was miserable. Like I said, I mean, I barely left the house because I was afraid I couldn't get back up the stairs. Just getting up the stairs. I mean, grabbing onto the banister for dear life and literally dragging myself up the stairs. It was bad. I spent most of my time either sitting at my desk working or because I work from home or

3:02laying in bed watching TV. There was virtually no activity. I was miserable all the time. It was just, you know, let's get enough calories in so that I'm basically going into a food coma so that I can fall asleep for a while so I can forget about what all of this was. Did you try a bunch of stuff before Charles? Over the years. Oh, yeah. Yeah, but they never lasted very long because they were extreme, you know, maybe I'd have a little bit of success and then I'd break it because I was so emotionally tied to the food and my emotions were so bad because I was so low and so depressed anyway. So it was just a trap that I absolutely was stuck in. Yeah, I remember my main negative emotion when I was 60 pounds heavier was on any given day. I can eat these donuts or I cannot. And if I don't, I'm not going to wake up any, any lighter. It was just such a, whoah.

4:03Devicious cycle. Yes. It's so self-defeating. Yeah. And what your mind does to you is the real enemy. Yeah. For me, I had to work with somebody like Charles because he doesn't just work on the physical with you. He's done it himself. Yeah. So he's heard every excuse. He's thought of every excuse and he can anticipate it before you even bring it up. I can tell you so many times that I thought I had just the right thing to say to get me a cheat or get me something and he cut me off at the pass and I got off and picked up the phone and called a friend and said, oh, he caught me again. I'm so tired of this guy. Why does he always know the right thing to say? Yeah. He's just great. But it's what I needed. Ben, how about you? Yeah. So I'm Ben. I'm 34 years old. I lost 300 pounds actually with Charles. 300. 300. Oh my God. I was whopping 500 pounds. That's amazing. Yeah. And I lost that over about a year and nine months and I've been maintaining for a little over a year now. See, I, you're just a normal dude.

5:05I would never meet you and go. I bet that guy was 300 pounds here. A lot of people are kind of shocked. Yeah. It was also a picture of my former self. They're like, wow. Well, tell me. Tell me your story. How did you get to 500 pounds? Yeah. So 500 pounds, it was a lot like Lisa. It was just a lot of coping where it was in a very isolated life. I don't know exactly why I started getting that way. Yeah, I worked on that with Charles, but it was just over the years going from a very active person. I ran across country in high school and then even in college, I played a lot of sports. And then just as I got a desk job, you kind of sit down and you stop taking a lot of steps. You just start eating a little more, go out to lunch a few times, your buddies, all of a sudden you're putting on the pounds. You're like, hmm. We have to do something about this. And then you try to do something. I did keto once, lost 100 pounds, put it right back on. And this over the years, it starts to keep, go, it's just like an vicious cycle. Yeah. And before you realize it, you've put on that much weight and you kind of isolate yourself and you cope with the food, which is just, it takes even deeper.

6:06And that's enough weight where you literally have to think about, am I going to be alive in a couple of years? Yes. I mean, that's life threat thing. Yes. Yeah. That was the big change for me was we went on a family vacation to the Grand Canyon. And when I got there, I got like altitude sickness or some form of COVID or something that hit me and just took me down and I was struggling like Lisa to even just walk a few hundred feet to go see the view. My family were all just going down a few hundred feet to go see this beautiful, gorgeous view. I just sit up on a bench just trying to catch my breath. Damn. And it was just, wow. And then, you know, my family had heard about Charles Yangelo. My mom works at CBC and she, which Charles came from. And she was recommended that I go see him and it still took about six months of them kind of gently pushing me. Yeah. I finally went and saw him and then look back. Rachel can't jump anywhere you guys want to. What was it? And I don't expect you to, I mean, I don't think there's any secrets.

7:07That's one thing with Charles. It's not like he's got a little potion or something and he's always very upfront about, I can tell you what to eat and when to eat it in 10 minutes. But where's the magic that you found with Charles? What made it work? It was the structure. Meaning the knowledge that you're going to be eating the same thing and doing the same thing every day. It really helps you establish a trust with yourself and helps kind of reduce what I call the food noise around your life where a lot of times you'd be thinking, oh, what am I going to have for lunch today? What am I going to have for dinner today? What can I have for a snack? Just that constants, what am I going to eat? No way you're going to eat the same thing day in and day out and establishing that trust where I am going to eat the same thing over and over again. It just helps reduce that food noise to the point where you're not going to be thinking about it. It just becomes a background thing that you're doing as part of your daily life to keep going. It's a comfort and you don't have to put a lot of thought into it because like you said,

8:07you've already prepped you know what it's going to be and it keeps you from making bad choices. Yes. At least it did for me. How are you guys now? Like I said, hey, we're going to Capitol Grills, it's my treat. Do you still stick to the program or are you able now to go? I'm going to have a ribeye. I have established trust myself and I know exactly how to eat so to speak, where I've over the last year really kind of found my boundaries and I said, look at food more as a fuel now to kind of fuel like I do a lot of workouts, do weightlifting, running, all that fun stuff. And I've kind of mapped that out and tracked it calorie wise, but just really taking control of it. That's what I think what Charles has really helped me with. It was getting the self respect to trust myself and build that discipline and I can actually trust myself to have fun foods every once in a while, but then know when I need to dial back. I know a lot of people who are sober.

9:09My own son got sober about four years ago now, very proud of him. It sounds a lot like that. It is except that it's something you can't quit cold turkey. You can't quit food cold turkey. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's a very impressive thing. But it's that's what kind of makes it difficult is you cannot fully quit food. Yeah, you have to moderate it. You have to learn how to moderate it. You can't just stop. How do you feel now? Amazing. I have a ton of energy about Eulisa with this. Oh gosh. Yeah. I mean, I have an enthusiasm for life that I had lost. My curiosity for life is back. I met one of my major goals in life, which was to play pickleball. I now do that twice a week. I'm not saying I'm any good at it, but I am loving every minute of it and, you know, doing my charity events and, you know, I don't fret over those stairs anymore. I'm up and down those stairs. Sometimes I'm shocked how many times of the day I'm up and down those stairs. It's amazing. Yeah. Not just bring up bad memories, but the 10 years that you spent sort of as a shut-end

10:12must have just been so difficult and dark. Very. Yeah. Oh, well, you know, I mean, it would not be an exaggeration to say that I was slowly and painfully committing suicide. Yeah. And I truly believe that that day in the car when I decided to fill out that form, I was making a choice. I had to decide right then from that old movie, Get On With Living or Get On With Down. Yeah. Yeah. And I made the choice to live. So. If you guys are just tuning in, we're talking to Ben and Lisa, both of whom are clients of Charles D'Angelo. Lisa lost about 175 pounds, Ben lost 300 pounds, weighed 500 pounds at one point. You know, you're talking to the whole K-Mikes audience out there, many of whom, whether they have 100 pounds to lose or 30 pounds to lose, when you're not comfortable in your own skin, it's important to you. Talk to them. What would you say to them? Don't wait. That's what I would say. My only regret is I waited too long. I would have loved to have done this 10 years ago when I had a smaller weight problem and

11:16could have gained so much more time back. I think about what I could have accomplished over the last 10 years and, you know, and I wasted that. So don't let the hard work put you off. It is absolutely worth every minute of it. Absolutely. It's hard to change the person that you are and to see yourself as a different person, but it is definitely worth the work. Or have people who are out there thinking, yeah, I don't have what you have. I don't have the willpower. I've tried everything. I've done Atkins. I've done zone. I've intermittent fasted. I've tried starving myself. I can't do it. Yeah. If we could do it, you can do it. Yeah. You can't start with somebody more stubborn than me. My friends will be happy to tell you that. There are many times I said, sorry, Charles, where I said, he's delusional, there's not going to work for me. There's no way I can live this life. And then I went out and did exactly what the man told me to do. And it was fine.

12:17Down to the point of taking a travel blunder with you on a business trip. I thought that was rude and crisp. And it worked. Except I did find out you cannot take that in a carry on. Okay. I don't know. Check it out. I was still some surp object. Check it out. That was a blunder and I thought, thank you guys so much. If anyone wants to talk personally to Charles, simply go to trialsdeangelolo.com. As Lisa said, who probably get to you within minutes. And yeah, I have no trials for 20 years. He's a force of nature. Thank you guys. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You're right. Love it. You'll be free. 426. 7G-S. Happy Thursday. I'll be here tomorrow. I'll be in Jupiter next week. I'll call in a couple days. Yeah, you're going to be reporting and you're going to be our reporter from spring training. I will. I'll call into rush hour. All right. I'll try to cause a scene because Matt won't be there next week. Yeah. I mean, obviously Tom will be our guy on the scene there. So you could just, you could be Tom's like pinch hitter.

13:18You can step in for him when it's time to get a different opportunity. Yeah. Tom may, Tom may have an accident before him. Dave's like, I have a new career. It's all I'm saying. Play by play by Dave Glover. Want to do some throwback? Yes. March 5th back in the day 66 years ago in 1960. Sergeant Elvis Presley was discharged from the US Army. He served for two years. 63 years ago in 1963, Patsy Klein died in a plane crash in Tennessee. And also 63 years ago in 1963, Arthur Spud Melon, the co-founder of WAMO patented the Hula hoop. Over 25 million Hula hoops were sold in the first four months. They were on sale. Man, I wish I was in that Spud family. It's a good old Spud. Yeah. WAMO is such a big part of my growing up. Oh, yeah. Frisbee's, right?

14:20Didn't they do the Frisbee that was, like, hollowed out ring? That's a Hula hoop. No, you don't throw those, Andrew. Andrew, come on. Go lick a battery or touch a fence. You know what, I just had delivered a still in the box. 1973 glow in the dark, Duncan Yo-Yo. Oh, boy. And it was like eight bucks. Couldn't never do those. Yeah, I was a Yo-Yo guy for about a month, you know? Like I could get it, you know, the regular up the down thingy and that was about it. I had no tricks. You can do, like, people could, like, walk the dog and do all kinds of things. Yeah. That's for you guys ever, Yo-Yo losers. Yeah, they had a Yo-Yo guy come to our school and show us tricks and I was like, this is gonna be my new career.