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Jerzy Gregorek

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  1. “So I explore everything possible, studied my diet. So no animal protein and strictly vegetarian and also no grains, just no grains at all, only vegetables, fruit and some seeds, nuts and making the bars. And after half a year, PSA five. Another half a year one another half a year, 0.1. And is this like this every year? So, my doctor checked the prostate smooth, nice, beautiful, young. I went back to urologist. He said, wow, is it the same prostate? I said, yeah, it's the same one. There's nothing to do. It's young, it's smooth, no nodules, nothing. So I don't know.”

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  2. “I started really researching and finding my best way of approaching how to deal from the food point of view. And then at the same time, I sent 23andMe to find out what my DNA and things on. So it comes. 33% chances prostate cancer. First killer. So serious stuff. Do you want to know really what would kill you? Like people say, do I need to know what can kill me, right? And some people don't want to know. I want to know because I'm going to do something about that. So if I die, then I have to know before that I did everything, so I wouldn't. I don't want to be dying and thinking, oh, if I did that and that and that, I don't want to be that person”

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  3. “Organs health and physical health. So they are two different things. So I I sat at that point, so she sent me to the urologist and he said, we have to do biopsy. I said, no, no, no, no. We slowed down now. We need to slow down because I read also, you know, You can trust people or not. But some people said that if you make a puncture, you can actually blood can travel and actually, if it is cancer there, it can spread it. So I said, oh, that's not a good idea. So I went to my doctor. I said, okay, give me half a year because he said, well, if it's the problem, it grows slowly and so on. Give me half a year and we'll come back. So, okay, so”

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  4. “And said, we need to check prostate and so on. So she checked and said, well, it's big. good so she said let's do psa came 9.5 holy moly this is a blood marker yes for prostate inflammation that's it not good so this is what i will talk later on about”

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  5. “Seven years ago, we went to Poland to find out because my grandfather was coming from Biaorosh. And so we We went there to, and nobody could find any trace what happened to the family when my grandfather came to Poland. So we went to engage others to go to Belarus and find the roots. Who we were? And because there is no trace. So we are there. We were the cemetery. And my mother had five brothers. I'm standing there, and then this family person is telling me that these are the, oh, here you can see here there are five, your mother's five brothers are there. And they all died at 55 and around that. And they died because of the same thing. I said, what was it? Prostate cancer. Oh, I was 55 looking at these graves. That's not good news. So when I came home, boom, I went to my doctor.”

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  6. “I love, let's say cauliflowers. You know, like if I eat the one thing, it will be either potatoes, cauliflowers. Broccoli, I will steam and put the salt on it big bowl of that. And that's my dinner. So sometimes we make mistakes because Natalie eats steaks or fish. So I can eat a little bit of that.”

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  7. “Self control, self coaching, which was created that way 25 years ago, but people were not getting that. You know, my generation was really had difficulties in that. They were more foody, more toward having fun, but no control. This generation is different. This generation has some kind of emotional intelligence, is willing to compromise, is willing to, and having fun with actually all this quantifying. I”

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  8. “Oh, yeah, I count that too. You see, the happy body is not a diet. The happy body is an approach for people to help them to control calories, volume, to achieve the body they want. Bigger body, smaller body, or maintain the body, but it gives these people a way of manipulating and food and the volume and the time and so on. So tech people This new generation people details people. They thrive on the happy path. Why? Because they love the numbers, they love, the quantifying, self-quantifying, all this, they love this. And the happy body is all numbers through. Yeah, so they really get it right away to the diet. They get to the exercise. They get to the detail of all exercise and the breathing and so on. They love this stuff. So it's a perfect system for independence.”

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  9. “What does it answer? Well, you know, I love French fries. And truly, my French fries is the best food on this menu. Nothing better than my french fries, really. You know, you have French fries, you have potatoes, you have vegetable oil, which is great.”

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  10. “So we went to this Italian restaurant. So, yeah, we are inside. And I read all the menu. I don't like anything up there. And there are two other couples. Then I go out of the restaurant, go to the burger, buy my French rest, bring it back, and I eat over there, $1.65. That must have gone over well with the restaurant.”

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  11. “So we went to this when I arrived, there was nothing to eat. I ate French fries. So my snack, I don't have my bars. I ate French fries. At 1 p.m. went for lunch. I ate French rice. I love French fries. So if I can eat French fries, I will eat French fries. I wouldn't eat anything.”

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  12. “Paper toys. That's it. Yeah. That's it. So I love potatoes. I want more potatoes. It's not a volumeter. So, you know, we were just in Vegas and my daughter competed in gymnastics.”

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  13. “Dinner is interesting because dinner could be any combination of the protein and veggies or any different strategies. So now we have different strategies for eating dinner my way. So I love potatoes. So yesterday I boiled potatoes and I ate potatoes.”

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  14. “No, we have then I have about four o'clock snack. At four o'clock snack, I can have a juice, or I can have prunes or the dry fruit, or I can have some almonds or use the bar or soup. So, you know, I love soup, so I can eat soup three times a day.”

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  15. “So the bars are made out of apples, chocolate, prunes, all kind of spices like turmeric, can, cinnamon, ginger. Then added seeds to that, and the seeds can be flax seeds, sunflower seeds, pumpkins. Then everything is mixed. We can add some dates to it to bond everything together. And then I take it out of the foot processor and make everything put it together into this bread looking thing. It looks like a bread and I cut it into pieces. You can add after all the nuts to it and with the min or you can mix them in the food processor before or not to use them at all. People today prefer not to use nuts because the belief is that seeds are better for the skin, aging and nails and so on. So we have movement towards seeds more than nuts, but still we make both.”

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  16. “The pressure cook. Yeah. And Dan, you blunt and then you have your soup. So soups usually we have for lunch. Usually we cook always the soup. What Anniela did the soup that you're allergic to?”

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  17. “Parsnip. Yeah, that route. And the other half is the flavor of the soup that you want. If you want broccoli soup, broccoli. If you want cauliflower, cauliflower. If you want potatoes, potatoes up there. So that makes really strong tomatoes, tomato soup. And you call it that. Why? It's fantastic”

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  18. “I love all soaps, but potato when the potato is in the soup. I love it always. Because we make differently soup. We cook boil in the pressure cooker. It's really fast and then blend in Vitamix. So it's pure. And the subset we make is we put into the pad, half of it is carrots, onion, celery, and parsley. other half is parsley. Pars And other half partially root.”

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  19. “Achieve what they want, yeah, they get it. And they're happy that they lost weight or they are more flexible or they are stronger or their posture is better. They're happy because of it. But then after a while, also they are happy because they became the person that could do that. Could achieve that, so they became this mind of achiever. And once they do really the Apibadan, they achieve and they become this. This attractive body, something is attractive about the happy body people because they are not tired, they are not exhausted, they are happy, and there is something about them that attracts others to them. And so that is the third happiness, because you deliver happiness to the outside. Other people are happy when they look at you. And it's something about you that makes them happy. So I call it triple happiness. I like that you get.”

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  20. “Yeah, also, you know, it is created to deliver the daily hygien for the body. It's really brushing teeth. So you do the happy body. It was created to have this daily routine every day, every day into the habit and do it. And that would set up right away your mood, better mood, set up the way of becoming better over time, be proud of that. I call it that what happens to people when they really do it on daily basis, when they come through the door, right away they are happy. If they don't do, they are not happy. It's like with this winning and losing. So when they come, they are happy. And I recognize triple happiness. So I wrote in the, I got this in the book, triple happiness. A triple happiness happens when people”

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  21. “Training with him, my body was coming back, you know, and my master was waking up. And I... Really started choosing less drinking or drinking not so hard liquor, you know, sometimes not drinking and definitely more exercise, we started really lifting more and lifting more, lifting more. And after about five, six months, we were really lifting. And I didn't even notice the change. So they changed. So he pulled me out of the place. He saved my life.”

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  22. “So he said that what we do, we create this Possibility for Uncomfortable situations to make them comfortable. So it's what happens, and then that's what happened to me, that I didn't want to lift ways and so on, but He invited me the right way. So I did a little bit. We went for the beer and then next day kind of the same. We were drinking and then we were lifting. And he was kind of okay with it. And so the days were passing. I was drinking with him, lifting with him and drinking. But as months started passing on, I noticed that I was getting stronger because of this lifting and stronger and stronger and my strength was coming back because I was also the lifter between 13 and 15 and a half. That's when I lost. I was in high school and fell really into darkness. So he”

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  23. “But he didn't do his workout on his own. So he tries to pull me in. He's a jersey. Come and do for the beer. Oh, yeah, I was just like, yeah, sleeping, kind of wrapping up and recovering. I said, no, no, no, just you go. No, no. Let's go. Do a little bit and go. So somehow he was inviting, you know He created this. Space for me to walk in the right way. So that's amazing. You know, and that space is created. You know, your friend, Dr. Mike. The doctor Michael McC”

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  24. “I am 19 So 18 and a half. So during this talk, when we are talking, there's another guy, and he's drinking with us and he says that his mother through his weightlifting equipment out of the house. And I said, well, you know, bring all of it to my house. I said, yeah, sure. Alcoholics, alcoholics always say everything, but they don't mean it. Or the next day they don't remember, right? But next day. I was always already drinking in the morning. So I'm drunk at 3 p.m. On my couch, and there is a knock on the window. And I go there and I open the window, Mirak is there. So what is it? And then he said, I have the equipment you told me to bring equipment that I can have it and train in your place. Clearly, I said Okay, bring it there. But I will take it up. So he brought everything in, set up everything.”

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  25. “Well, there's the story, the other story, right? So I am drinking with my buddies, and we are somewhere in the pap drinking beer and things.”

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  26. “Real alcoholic three years, three years losing my everyday blackout every day. So I was blackout sometimes for two, three days. I left on Wednesday. I came back on Sunday. I didn't know that day is wet before. It was Thursday. Three days, three years like that. And so You really have to be lucky.”

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  27. “Dominates suicidal situation, drug addicts that you cannot come out. You have to have help outside. That's how I was help in Poland that Mireik helped me to come out.”

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  28. “Rest choices there, the books of dialogues, how I came out with this book is that when people were coming here, I heard different voices. Since I am a poet, so I sense that who is talking and what is the power of the talk? Is it the fatalist? Is the fatalist is really strong or is the master or is how much master is there? 60% 40% fatal is and I started really hearing these dialogues within the head, in the mind, of the person, of my clients all over, all the time. I got the idea one day. To come out with five different voices. And then one would have the voice of the fatalist, 100% voice. So the picture is that the choice is up to the fatalist. 100%. This is the most traumatic situation for the person. The person cannot come out of that situation. So that's domestic.”

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  29. “Challenge is good. I'm a really task master, right? You know, like a lot of tasks at that time It's very difficult for us to be masters in that you predict the time that you are good in 10 years or five years. I am that way too. But to get there, you have to be also the master of this small task. So I am really good at eating and very fast. So I had to somehow trick myself to be the master with 30 minutes and eating as a secondary. So this whole book about mastering food choices, mastering exercise choices and so on.”

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  30. “No, no, no. You take 10 minutes to eat it. I take 10 minutes. Like I take 30 minutes to eat an apple. No, I would not. Wait. But that would not be fair.”

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  31. “You have to have a plan, you have to have strategy for that, and you can be, you can be everything, but you have to have some strategies how to deal with it. So I created this timing myself. So I will take a prune, let's say, and I will time 10 minutes. I will finish the prune in 10 minutes.”

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  32. “I switch because I'm a taskmaster. So I switch my brain from Taskmaster of eating the apple vervas to actually waiting 30 minutes to eat it. That became my task. So actually eating fast the apple became secondary. So now I do it all the time to help myself. And I have a lot of people here my way because people who are social, they are I call them social beasts. Like I'm a social beast. I love people. I love to go for dinners and parties and so on all the time. I'm a social beast. So drinking and eating and so on. So how you can be this? And you can be lean and you can be certain body type and so on. So you have to have data.”

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  33. “You have your vices. So, you know, my challenge is a master here is coming in. You cannot let the fatalist really win with you because if you do, your life is not going to be good. So what you want has to happen. But for me, to control the volume is really tough. So I can eat 10 apples within 10, 15 minutes and another 10 follow with another 10, right? Until my teeth cannot really make it. So I stop. So I had to come out with strategy how to eat an apple. So I came up, I told you before, say came with the really strategy for it. So I drive with my daughter to Santa Clara from our home to take her to gymnastics. Thanks about it. 30 minutes. So I said, okay, I will take the apple and I will finish that apple there. For me, it's a big challenge. You know when I actually”

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  34. “Was 11 p.m. 8 in the morning or seven in the morning, we were back in the restaurant and Otto was sitting in front of the milk with rice, probably more than a gallon, two gallons. And people were laughing and saying, Otto, what do you eat? Of course, you want a bed and started bedding. Otto ate the whole thing.”

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  35. “And to set will eat it in one hour. I said, no, come on. And then, oh, come on, Jersey. We'll eat it. Okay, we'll try it. So they started betting, and the coach said, No, no, no, I know you guys one hour, no, 30 minutes. Oh, 30 minutes. We set up on eventually 30 minutes. I said, okay. So we ate and we started eating, and we were fast in this, and then It was about left maybe now like two pounds left. I couldn't make it”

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  36. “The whole thing, yeah? So we started laughing. I said, Otto, come on. I said, no, Otto, we cannot eat this. You know, it's just too much of food. So when you actually put the spoon down vertically. On the tip of the spoon was seen. And the basin was between when we sat in front of us was between my legs and his legs. It was so big.”

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  37. “And then we always wanted to eat more, of course. My friend Otta, I said, you know, we could eat the whole thing. And the others were laughing. It was about 40 guys. And then you cannot eat this. Yeah, wait, it was before 40.”

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  38. “He's just the worst one, that one. I said, okay, next day he didn't eat his second and dessert. I ate his second and I ate my soup, my second dessert and dessert. Next day she started from the second, yeah, like pork chop and potatoes or something. So he left the soup. So I ate his soup and dessert. So he said, oh, I don't want to do it anymore. I said, well, if you don't want, you have to pay. So he paid. It was a lot of money. It was like two months of work. We became really great friends. When we bet we bat. You know what? One day we went this Olympic weightlifting seaside during the summer and they were always bringing food to us and they brought one day this cabbage stew with meats and so on in this basin, you know, like really big, probably about maybe 20 pounds of it.”

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  39. “And I couldn't really live without my mama, you know, like I was always like making the way that I would be home. So I'm sitting as I'm looking for the place. So I found this place. The three guys are sitting and they are from all from Warsaw. And I sat there. And one of them is really this street smart guy, right? I eat, I eat slowly and so on. But there's not much food. So everybody wants more food that they really serve. So he tells me this. You know what? I have the idea. And I said, what is it? Whoever will finish first will help the other to finish the food. I look at him and I'm just thinking, laughing and say, this is, you just pick up the worst probably person in this world.”

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  40. “And I said, not anymore, it's over. I said, I don't believe that you just did it. It's impossible. I said, well, come on. You want bet? Oh, everybody was happy about the bets because, you know, weightlifters are always bad, you know? So athletes, you know, we bet always you make it or not, you know, imagine so on. So we started betting so we bet. Then of course he ate half of the soup and I ate a whole thing. And that was it. The other story is this so I go to Warsaw and fast eating. We go to Warsaw and in Warsaw I go to the academy, the fire protection academy. And this is my first day. I'm depressed. You're depressed. Without my mama, my mama. And that was my son, you know, always.”

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  41. “This is boiling soap. This is not really hot. So my father was really good in that too for some reason, but I was a lot better than him. I could eat really a bowl of soup extremely fast boiling. So when that was a weight live through in Parliament, we had this group of athletes that we hang out and we went to have soup and we went to this bar and we got tomato soup hot, you know, really steaming. We started eating. And I finish, and the guy on the other side of the table. Look at me, and he was surprised. He said, You finish? You ate your soup? I said, Yeah. Cannot be. And said, Water cannot be. And he said, I'm the fastest Nobody was ever faster than I.”

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  42. “Wild, yeah, but you know, when you are open to this. You use this metaphor, and I use this metaphor with you, but I remember that my father and working on that hinge, and it's a juxtaposition, right? And those juxtapositions, we use constantly in poetry and in life to help people to imagine.”

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  43. “Master, he was really showing me how to break that hinge the right way, not to break it completely, but to open it, to restore it, to rejuvenate it, and eventually after about half an hour, that hinge was moving with oil and everything like new.”

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  44. “And It's funny how things happen to us like Naval, you said about that. I know so many things and came from many things, but we remember things in life. So my father was the locksmith. He was a steelworker and he was a locksmith. And I remember I was probably five years old. And he was showing me with the rusted really hinge and how we work with it. It was beautiful. You know, like he put some oil and moved it a little bit, gave me and I was working with it. I sense where it was stopping and helped me to feel how much really to push it. I still remember it. And you see, like, so when I talked to you, he was my.”

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  45. “But those of us that can choose difficult choices, they will have progress and they will have improvement and they will have easy life because of that. But you have to be okay with it. And I was faced with this first time really in weightlifting. Coach me that way and I counted that this fine line of searching for difficulties but that difficulties Cannot be too much difficult. It has to be just slightly so you get the good feeling, you get better, and then you go to the next day and do the same and get better. And then eventually the quantum shifts happen when you actually progress a lot, right? And then back up a little bit and so on.”

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  46. “For the tires to slide, yeah, so you're not pushing that direction. You don't know where it is even. And because of that, you don't have progress. I have people who sometimes come here and then, oh, I exercise for 10 years and I didn't change. Well, there is no change because there is no progress. There is no reaching. There is no hard choices. It's so difficult choices. easy life, right? So we are all good with easy choices. Actually, easy choices is fun. You know, like we will always choose what's easy. That comes naturally for us. Fantastic. You know, everybody is good about that. Everybody can write a book about that. It's so easy choices. So of course we will do everything but not difficult. Well, because of that, we cannot progress in life.”

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  47. “And the masterpiece here is to lose the traction, catch up, lose the catch up. So when you're on the happy body, you're the same way. You are supposed to come always to reach for something more just slightly, you know, like a quarter inch or something, and then you know where you are and you're reaching for it. That is the athletic brain. The fitness brain is to exercise without it. So the whole fitness today is just kind of that way. You go to the gym and you just exercise, but you are not really bringing yourself to the”

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  48. “You getting stronger in it or more flexible if you sense that something is wrong, you go back. So the masterpiece is how to find that place, where is it, really? Where is that place? And you cannot really, because if you spin too much, you completely lose the speed and you lose, right? don't bring yourself to that place then you cannot improve So the only way to improve would be to have progress.”

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  49. “To lose the traction and on and on and on and on. I can only progress when I am in that area. So that is the same with all athletes and whatever we do, right? So that's the difficult choice. You bring yourself to the losing traction. So when you imagine, let's say a weightlifter will be the same story. You have to come to the place where the records are and you break the records very little. And if something happens, you go back to catch the traction. When you heal injuries, it's the same thing. You go to the place where it's difficult and you try to stay there. If the body lets you, you stay there.”

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  50. “So, when I talked to him, he said, You know what? It's like this. I understand this way. When When I raise the car, so I have to bring the car to the place of when the tires are spinning, losing the traction. Then I slow down to capture the traction. And then I have to speed up again.”

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