Making Lifestyle Changes that Last with Norm Rieger

So, Norm, you've been on a transformative journey.

What was the moment or the realization... that made you recognize you wanted to make some changes in your life?

You know, I get asked this a lot and there wasn't a light bulb moment for me.

It was kind of like a trial and error like that most people go through.

You know, throughout my 40s, I had realized that, you know, I wasn't really happy with the way I was starting to look in my mid 40s.

I wasn't really happy with the way I felt.

Like everybody else, I often just attributed to, oh, I'm getting older.

You know, the bare belly is normal.

My metabolism, quote unquote, is slowed down.

Of course, it had nothing to do with me, right? I was, you know, we all dismissed that maybe we're not as active and maybe we're not paying attention to, you know, how we eat because our bodies used to be so forgiving.

And I was your average person.

I probably more than average in bad habits.

There was a time where I was smoking cigars quite regularly.

I think I was drinking alcohol almost every night.

I wasn't just a teetotaler on the weekends.

I was a couple glasses of wine every night with dinner kind of guy, eating your typical American diet.

I had tried gym memberships.

I tried taking up running.

I tried some of the trendy diets of 10 years ago, keto, carnivore.

My wife even tried Optivea and I tried that a little bit.

I tried intermittent fasting and I would have some success.

Things would work until they didn't work.

And, you know, I, so there wasn't a light bulb moment that I needed to transform.

I had dabbled like everyone else.

And then at some point I sort of came up with this method that finally made it all stick for me, that finally made it work.