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Matt Loftus

Matt Loftus

Assistant Membership Director at the Pickens County YMCA in Easley, SC, and a Ketobiography podcast guest who lost over 250 pounds via NSNG after being told he'd never walk again.

Jul 9, 2026

4:00
While eating a keto carnivore diet after that.
4:04
Oh, yes, ma'am.
4:06
All right.
4:07
Well, I can share my story.
4:09
It's easy because I lived it.
4:11
But I've always been a big guy.
4:14
I'm kind of the guy that you read articles about where growing up in middle school, high school, I was big, but I was athletic.

19 MINS LATER

23:13
doing
4:00
While eating a keto carnivore diet after that.
4:04
Oh, yes, ma'am.
4:06
All right.
4:07
Well, I can share my story.
4:09
It's easy because I lived it.
4:11
But I've always been a big guy.
4:14
I'm kind of the guy that you read articles about where growing up in middle school, high school, I was big, but I was athletic.

19 MINS LATER

23:13
doing
14:44
So they're in a prime position, ready to start, and they do come in.
14:47
That's a great idea.
14:48
And, you know, it's not about...
14:51
It's not about judging the parents and carers or adults in the home about what they should or shouldn't do.
14:56
It's just recognizing that they're also feeling anxious and worried, and it's coming from a place of fear.
15:03
Whether they admit that or not is another thing, but they're concerned about the future of their own child, and it shows up.
15:11
So if they manage that feeling first, accept that actually how they would revise maybe isn't the way their child needs to revise.

7 MINS LATER

StuHOST
22:04
What, turning to a 15, 16 year old and just going, shelf it, it isn't going to work, is it? But what could you say to them? So it could potentially be the first exam they do, that it doesn't have that knock-on effect all the way through the rest of them.

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