Helping Busy Parents Lose Weight Without Dieting with Yuri Doroshuk
Yuri is an expert in losing weight without dieting. He is passionate about helping busy parents, moms, and dads get back in shape and succeeds on their weight loss journey with his developed program called You 2.0 and his four A formula.
In this episode, John shared his story of being overweight and how he succeeded in his weight loss journey. He will also discuss the actions you should take in order to integrate a healthy lifestyle within you and your family.
When Yuri started to get his higher education, he began to gain weight due to eating cafeteria food. And as his life passed, he continued to gain weight.
His experience of having difficulty buckling the seatbelt on an airplane made him realize that something needed to be changed.
And so, over the year, Yuri began his weight loss journey, and he successfully made it. Being physically fit, Yuri notices that all aspects of his life have improved. He became a better husband, father, and his spiritual life also improved.
Yuri discusses his four A formulas: accuracy, awareness, acceleration, and advance. Using this framework allows Yuri to help his clients thoroughly and simply. It is not easy to lose weight, but it doesn’t have to be complex.
Furthermore, Yuri shares a story about one of his client’s weight loss journey. Through his program, he helps his client lose weight and change his sedentary lifestyle.
Yuri Doroshuk’s story is uplifting about a man who struggled with being overweight and has successfully changed his entire life through his journey. His experience proves that everyone can accomplish it and reap the benefits of living a healthy lifestyle.
Episode 269 of The Beyond Adversity Podcast is a must-listen for anyone struggling with their weight and desire to change–those who want help to get back in shape in a simple but effective strategy.
“The Beyond Adversity Podcast with Dr. Brad Miller is published weekly with the mission of helping people “Grow Through What They Go Through” as they navigate adversity and discover their promised life of peace, prosperity, and purpose.
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Transcript
Dr. Brad Miller 0:00
Today we've got an expert with us, Yuri Doroshuk,
Dr. Brad Miller 0:04
who is an expert in helping busy parents lose weight without
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dieting, particularly without gimmick dieting with his formula,
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which he calls the four A formula. Yuri, welcome to Beyond Adversity.
Yuri Doroshuk 0:22
Brad, thanks so much for having me. I'm super honored to
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be on your show to be able to serve your audience and just
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add value and help people on their health journey.
Dr. Brad Miller 0:31
Well, that is awesome. I appreciate it. And, and that's what
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we're talking about here a health journey. One of the many
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things that people go through when they are faced with some
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blocks in life, or some challenges in life is their health journey.
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And I know for instance, you talk about working with busy parents,
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I have a daughter and a son in law in their mid 30s. And they have
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two children, my grandchildren, my granddaughters, who are five
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and two. And what I hear from them quite a lot is we just don't
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have time to work out. We just don't have time to eat right.
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And they work at it. I know they work at it to some degree.
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But they always complain about not having time. So I want to
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get to their story here in just a minute. But let's hear your story.
Dr. Brad Miller 1:14
First, Yuri? What kind led you to get involved with this area?
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What's your story of some adversity of your own?
Yuri Doroshuk 1:24
Yeah, so back in 2005, I was a in person trainer. And then
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back in 2008, I moved from California to Texas, to get a
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higher education. And so during that time, as you know,
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when you're on campus, you're eating cafeteria food, life
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happens, you kind of gained some weight. I ended up getting
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married. We had three kids at that time. That was back in
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2018 now, and I realized, wow, I am 65 pounds overweight.
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I remember getting on an airplane, buckling my seat and
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I felt so much pressure around my midsection, I thought I
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was gonna explode. So I had to unbutton my pants belt, and
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button just so I could breathe. And I knew in that moment,
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something had to change. Brad, I was already on the larger
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set of clothes, you know how we have two sizes, kind of the
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normal. And then if we gain a little bit away, we have that
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second pair. So I was already growing out of my larger pair.
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I remember thinking there's no way I'm gonna buy even larger
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clothes. So I went on a weight loss journey. Because I was tired.
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I felt sluggish. I remember coming home after work, just looking
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at my watch wondering when's bedtime for the kids? And and so
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I knew it was not right. How am I the parent, three beautiful kids
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fourth on the way. And I can't wait until they go to bed. And so
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I knew I needed to get my health in order. So I went on my
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weight loss journey. And that year, I lost 65 pounds. And
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something magical happened, Brad, I got more energy, started
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showing up to work more powerfully had to pay raises, how
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to title promotion, my relationships got better. My marriage
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got better, my spiritual life got better. The Father, I felt better.
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I had more energy. I was engaging with my kids more. And I
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realized that when you look good and feel good. It has a meta
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effect on every other area of your life. It just it does. And
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so as a result of my transformation, people would come to
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me and say, how'd you do it? Give me some tips. Give me
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some pointers. And that led me to starting my own
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company, You 2.0. And so I serve online, I serve clients
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online, my company's virtual. And that's what I do I help
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people on their journey. I help people like your daughter
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and son in law, find that time so that they can become
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the best version of themselves in all areas of their life.
Dr. Brad Miller 4:13
And just to be clear in your own life, you're 65 pounds
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overweight, you lost that in about a year. Is that what you
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say? And have you have you been able to maintain that
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since that time he does a few years ago, I understand if
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you were able to personally maintain that.
Yuri Doroshuk 4:26
Absolutely. I maintained it and I created different goals. See
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the key to maintenance? Well, I'd say maintenance is an illusion.
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It does not exist. You're either growing or you're dying. And so
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the key to successfully keep your weight off is to constantly
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create new health and fitness goals. I think of weight loss
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as getting out of debt. There's nothing sexy about it. Nothing
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glamorous. And that shouldn't be the old About a financial
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goal, right getting out of debt, that's the start. So is weight
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loss? Once you get rid of that weight, then you begin to think,
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okay, how can I build muscle, maybe I want to run a half
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marathon, maybe I wanted to do X. But there are always other
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goals that we can create, once we get the weight off, and
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oftentimes, there's just so busy chase that 1520 pounds our
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entire life, that we just never get to T beyond that. And I
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believe everybody has a little tiger in them, once you
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unleash it, once you lose that weight, all of a sudden, you're
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now interested in some kind of mud run, or Spartan Race,
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or now for Thanksgiving, and instead of just going to parents
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house with the kids, you do a quick 10k run with the family
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and then go and have your afternoon lunch. So things change,
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we change we evolve when that weight goes off.
Yuri Doroshuk 6:03
And so for me, it was not.
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you use that phrase interesting about unleashing the tiger
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within which indicates you've got to be able to dedicate
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you are the unleash part of that means you got to take some
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action, you got to do something to do that, you know that
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it's pent up inside you. And if you release it some some incredible
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results, some remarkable results can happen. You lost 65 pounds.
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And I know from talking to us from clients who've done very
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well, I want to hear about those eventually here. But let's talk
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about some of the actions that you took that you advocate
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people taking, like my daughter and son in law to use as an
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example, what are some of the actions you can take to help
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break the tiger out of the change to unleashed Yeah,
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what are some of the actual actions?
Yuri Doroshuk 6:48
Absolutely. So first things first start small, the key is creating
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habits. A lot of times people don't take action, Brad, because
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they try to line up all their ducks in a perfect row. And until
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they get everything right, they're not going to take action.
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A big proponent for imperfect action, just take the action.
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So what that would look would look like practically for
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someone, start with 1015 minute workouts in your living room.
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With no weights, just body workouts learn to show up for
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yourself to get in some kind of routine. Because after three,
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four months, it's going to be much more easier to optimize
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what you've already been doing consistently, instead of trying
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to find the perfect workout plan. And for parents in particular.
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Oftentimes, we think it's just one more thing I need to do
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on top of the list, you know, the large list of other things I'm
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doing as a parent. And that's one way of looking at it. But I
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like to incorporate kids incorporate grandkids in the process.
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And the way that looks is well if you're working out at home,
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just have them hang out with you. They could you know sit on
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the couch, they'll probably be crawling around between your
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legs, but just expose them to mommy or daddy working out
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or grandma grandpa working out. Expose them. If you're more
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of like a gym going type of person, then take them to a gym
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that has kids club, that was my preference. So I took them
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to, to the gym with me check them into the kids club. And so
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we had some great time driving to the gym, I would check them
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in, I would go do my workout, they're doing their thing. They're
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peeking through the window, they're seeing daddy workout,
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we make eye contact. Meanwhile, my wife is at home with some
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downtime. So she was all for it and supporting me because
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she got a chance to just have some me time. And so if you're
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married, don't just leave your kids with your spouse and go to
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the gym that's just more work will create friction. alleviate that
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by saying hey, I'm gonna take the kids with me and you'll have
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a supporting spouse throughout the journey, start somewhere
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incorporate your kids on this journey with you.
Dr. Brad Miller 9:20
So I'm here to three least three things here in terms of taking
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action. One is to not see it as an excellent an extra but to
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incorporate it into your lifestyle. The second one would be
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to incorporate your children if you have children, intuitive
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you're working out at home let them just be around you if
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means crawling all over your whatever list incorporate that
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into it. And the third thing would be to take them to the gym
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or with a gym with a kids club which the lighter two it seems
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like would kind of also put an imprint upon the kids that this is
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the norm this is kind of the way we do our family. Is that a fair
Dr. Brad Miller:assessment of some things that you shared here about
Dr. Brad Miller:actions that you can take? And
Yuri Doroshuk:That's exactly right. I'm a person of faith. I bring my kids to
Yuri Doroshuk:church for a reason. We don't just, you know, do church at
Yuri Doroshuk:home, if you will, we drive, and I checked them into kit children's
Yuri Doroshuk:ministry, expose them to that environment. If we truly value
Yuri Doroshuk:health and fitness, we should probably do the same.
Yuri Doroshuk:But oftentimes we don't.
Dr. Brad Miller:So modeling it and print it in also, you also mentioned
Dr. Brad Miller:how it becomes a factor in your marriage. It sounds like
Dr. Brad Miller:had been giving your like perhaps if you've done the opposite
Dr. Brad Miller:of at the kids home with your wife while you went and worked
Dr. Brad Miller:out, that might not have been as good a thing as you taking
Dr. Brad Miller:the kids with you to give her some some me time the least that
Dr. Brad Miller:you know that it didn't hurt that you did that in terms
Dr. Brad Miller:of your marital relationship? Is it? Is that fair?
Yuri Doroshuk:Yeah, otherwise, you know, you you work an eight to five job and
Yuri Doroshuk:then you have to go to the gym by yourself. You're not coming
Yuri Doroshuk:home till seven o'clock, let's say 6:37 o'clock. And so yeah, that
Yuri Doroshuk:type of schedule does feel like me losing weight, me getting
Yuri Doroshuk:in shape is taken away from my family.
Dr. Brad Miller:Now, perceived a little bit selfish could be
Dr. Brad Miller:perceived as selfish, I would think
Yuri Doroshuk:100%. And now my 10 year old that works out with me.
Yuri Doroshuk:So for the last four years, she's been in kids club with her
Yuri Doroshuk:little brothers. And now she's at the age where she's able to
Yuri Doroshuk:do some workouts with me. And so I didn't ask her. She's like,
Yuri Doroshuk:Dad, I'm ready, I want to get on the treadmill a little bit, I
Yuri Doroshuk:want to lift some dumbbells. And so we work out together
Yuri Doroshuk:now. And so it has long term benefits of for kids
Yuri Doroshuk:and their chances of exercising,
Dr. Brad Miller:and can be a bonding a special thing with your kids as well.
Dr. Brad Miller:I know that my son is now almost 30 years old. But when he
Dr. Brad Miller:was younger, we used to work out lifting weights together
Dr. Brad Miller:and things like that. And that was a good, a good a good thing
Dr. Brad Miller:I do have one. One day I do want to retired pastor, one of the
Dr. Brad Miller:dads one of our churches, he was not unusual to see him take
Dr. Brad Miller:his about eight or 10 year old daughter and do a kind of a, I
Dr. Brad Miller:guess I would call it a cheerleader type handstand, he put the girl
Dr. Brad Miller:hands and hold her up and she'd do a handstand on his hands.
Dr. Brad Miller:And a lot of his require, that's kind of scary, but they see in the
Dr. Brad Miller:knew what they were, were doing. So I'm hearing you say make
Dr. Brad Miller:this a family experience. Because when you say something like
Dr. Brad Miller:I don't have time, well, they want to hear you say you got to
Dr. Brad Miller:reframe your time, everybody's got the same 24 hours a day.
Dr. Brad Miller:But you have to reframe it in terms of how you see your time,
Dr. Brad Miller:and also see maybe multi, kind of a multifaceted approach
Dr. Brad Miller:to this. So your let's get into something we've least touched
Dr. Brad Miller:on here for a minute. You've mentioned some of the actions
Dr. Brad Miller:that you took personally, to lose 65 pounds and how that had
Dr. Brad Miller:impact on your family. And that unleashed the tiger and so on.
Dr. Brad Miller:That that's awesome, fascinating. But you've also mentioned
Dr. Brad Miller:how taking them to church and being able to kind of have a
Dr. Brad Miller:your amount of faith. How has a walk of faith impacted or
Dr. Brad Miller:good or bad? This just transformation to get yourself in shape.
Dr. Brad Miller:And to be a part of the you know, working with with your
Dr. Brad Miller:family? How it's a spiritual life and inner life connecting to
Dr. Brad Miller:something greater than self, your spiritual veil. But is any of
Dr. Brad Miller:it related at all? And if so, let's go there share with me how it's related.
Yuri Doroshuk:Yeah, when I realized that, working out been in the
Yuri Doroshuk:best shape of my life was a spiritual act. And that glorified God,
Yuri Doroshuk:that motivated me even more, because I think many people,
Yuri Doroshuk:they disconnect their kind of weight loss journey from quote,
Yuri Doroshuk:unquote, spiritual things, right, the secular sacred divide. But
Yuri Doroshuk:Paul talks about do all things for the glory of God, whether
Yuri Doroshuk:eating or drinking the most mundane things he brings up do
Yuri Doroshuk:for the glory of God. And so when I realized, Wait, my body
Yuri Doroshuk:is the temple of the Holy Spirit. And so God actually cares how
Yuri Doroshuk:I look how I feel, and that is a spiritual act. Then Honestly, my
Yuri Doroshuk:journey was almost for His glory. And that was my intent. And so
Yuri Doroshuk:I was actually even more focused, more driven, because I knew
Yuri Doroshuk:I was doing it for him, not just for me, and that he was excited
Yuri Doroshuk:to walk with me on this journey, that it wasn't something that
Yuri Doroshuk:I had to do on my own. And I was just going to put God in my
Yuri Doroshuk:Sunday box. But this was an everyday thing. So I think biblical
Yuri Doroshuk:theology does support this idea that no like us Christians, being
Yuri Doroshuk:healthy is a godly spiritual thing. And we should fight for it the
Yuri Doroshuk:way we fight for other things. Like our spiritual growth, spiritual
Yuri Doroshuk:disciplines, or devotional time, like, we usually think those are
Yuri Doroshuk:the spiritual things we do during the day. But changing diapers,
Yuri Doroshuk:taking kids to school, go to the gym, those are like mundane kind
Yuri Doroshuk:of things that we must do. No, not at all. Those are spiritual.
Yuri Doroshuk:And if you believe that, listen, or if you believe that how you look
Yuri Doroshuk:how you feel, your ability to jump out of bed full of energy is a
Yuri Doroshuk:spiritual thing, then that kind of might give you a different perspective,
Yuri Doroshuk:and maybe kind of that motivation for change. So that was
Yuri Doroshuk:one of the most spiritual things I did in 2018. Was lose weight.
Dr. Brad Miller:Yeah. So the integration of I'm hearing you say this, you're
Dr. Brad Miller:a integration of your spiritual life with your physical health,
Dr. Brad Miller:your emotional life, your relation, your life, with your spouse,
Dr. Brad Miller:and your your kids are all they're all. It's all part of a balanced
Dr. Brad Miller:life and lifestyle. Is that what I hear you say? You, you really need
Dr. Brad Miller:that spiritual element to be a part of the of the whole?
Yuri Doroshuk:That's exactly right. Yep.
Dr. Brad Miller:I think that's an important step, I think, from my perspective,
Dr. Brad Miller:and what I like to teach is that you really need to incorporate,
Dr. Brad Miller:you know, physical action, you know, the movement, you got to
Dr. Brad Miller:move the body, you got to, you got to take the walk, you got
Dr. Brad Miller:to lift the weights, you've got to, you know, to breathe, and eat
Dr. Brad Miller:properly, that's a part of your physical self, and that you do
Dr. Brad Miller:need to connect to a higher power to have a spiritual life,
Dr. Brad Miller:they have transformation as well. And then I also believe that
Dr. Brad Miller:there's a cognitive piece of this, that's kind of the, the imprints,
Dr. Brad Miller:you know, the mental part of it, the, the incorporated new
Dr. Brad Miller:habits, the process, if you will. So I'd like to talk to you
Dr. Brad Miller:about that for a few minutes. Now, you're about the process
Dr. Brad Miller:that you use, you know, you mentioned in at least whatever,
Dr. Brad Miller:you kind of have the get out of debt part to lose weight.
Dr. Brad Miller:And as the rest of the life that you apply, and I know you
Dr. Brad Miller:have something called the for a formula. So let's talk about
Dr. Brad Miller:that for a minute. How you how you live life dead, you know,
Dr. Brad Miller:how you live life. And I want you to, I want you to pretend
Dr. Brad Miller:like you're talking to my daughter, my son in law, and they
Dr. Brad Miller:have a five year old and a two year old. And there's lots of
Dr. Brad Miller:other people, they're not listening to audience who they're
Dr. Brad Miller:in a similar situation. They don't have enough time.
Dr. Brad Miller:They need some direction, four A formula, go.
Yuri Doroshuk:Yeah, so for a formula, there's four phases. The framework goes
Yuri Doroshuk:like this. The first phase is your awareness phase. Brad, there
Yuri Doroshuk:are things that we know that we know, right? I know who I'm
Yuri Doroshuk:married to. I know what city I live it. That's an example. There
Yuri Doroshuk:are also things I know that I don't know. So I know that I don't
Yuri Doroshuk:know how to perform brain surgery. I know, I can't speak French.
Yuri Doroshuk:There's a third area. And it's the things we don't know that we don't
Yuri Doroshuk:know. And once we discover those things, we have that aha moment,
Yuri Doroshuk:right. That's why you could read that verse for the 100th time, and
Yuri Doroshuk:then have that aha moment. And so it's the same for our nutrition,
Yuri Doroshuk:and health. There are things that we don't know that we don't
Yuri Doroshuk:know. And so in the awareness phase, it's figuring out what I'm eating,
Yuri Doroshuk:how much am I eating. So we would log that we would track
Yuri Doroshuk:what we're eating, what we're not eating. And then we would
Yuri Doroshuk:have a better picture understanding of what we're consuming,
Yuri Doroshuk:because this is the wild thing. There's not a single client that
Yuri Doroshuk:comes into my program that says Yuri, I am eating way too
Yuri Doroshuk:much. That's the craziest part. It's always like this, Yuri, I don't
Yuri Doroshuk:know why I'm not losing weight. I don't eat a lot. That's how
Yuri Doroshuk:the conversation typically goes. And so I believe they're sincere,
Yuri Doroshuk:they're genuine, they really believe that they're not eating
Yuri Doroshuk:a lot. And so we started tracking what they're eating.
Yuri Doroshuk:And then you have those aha moments. Let me give you an example.
Dr. Brad Miller:I want to give an example. But by tracking you may,
Dr. Brad Miller:literally physically writing it down is what I'm hearing you say?
Yuri Doroshuk:Correct. There's, there are free apps. Let's take my fitness pal,
Yuri Doroshuk:that's a free app. There are other apps as well, where it's a
Yuri Doroshuk:digital food diary that you actually search the food by the
Yuri Doroshuk:brand and auto populates. And it'll tell you how many calories
Yuri Doroshuk:it has, how many, how much protein, carbs, fats, all of that
Yuri Doroshuk:data is already in the database. So you just got to enter it
Yuri Doroshuk:and save it it. And so we start tracking, I look at what they're
Yuri Doroshuk:eating, and I get to see what they're eating. And so my aha
Yuri Doroshuk:moment was, so I went to Chick fil A, because that's God's
Yuri Doroshuk:chicken, right. And I used to get a, I used to get a sandwich.
Yuri Doroshuk:And I would dip every bite into God sauce, right, the Chick fil A
Yuri Doroshuk:sauce. And I would love that. And I would see something very
Yuri Doroshuk:interesting that the chicken sandwich, the lady particularly
Yuri Doroshuk:had 350 calories. But each packet of Chick fil A sauce was
Yuri Doroshuk:close to 140. And I'd have about two of those packets. So
Yuri Doroshuk:then I saw Wait a second one sandwich is 350 calories. But
Yuri Doroshuk:two packets of sauce was 280. That was almost that was
Yuri Doroshuk:almost the same thing. 352 ad. So I thought to myself, wait
Yuri Doroshuk:a second Yuri, I can eat two sandwiches, no sauce, and it
Yuri Doroshuk:would almost be the same amount of calories. And I had
Yuri Doroshuk:that aha moment. It's not so much how much food we're
Yuri Doroshuk:eating. But it's how many calories we're eating. And oftentimes,
Dr. Brad Miller:in some ways you're gaming the system as it were telling
Dr. Brad Miller:me I don't understand what you're doing here.
Yuri Doroshuk:Yes, because, yep. Because at the end of the day, the weight
Yuri Doroshuk:loss works is there's a certain amount of calories your body
Yuri Doroshuk:burns every single day, depending on your lifestyle, your
Yuri Doroshuk:movement, how much walking, you're doing, whether you're
Yuri Doroshuk:sitting, you're your body's digesting food, so your body is
Yuri Doroshuk:burning X amount of calories in order to lose weight,
Yuri Doroshuk:you just got to eat less than what you're burning. If that
Yuri Doroshuk:happens, you create that deficit, and you're going to lose
Yuri Doroshuk:weight. That is the basic science.
Dr. Brad Miller:And so in some ways, it's in some ways as simple as you Yuri,
Dr. Brad Miller:you just got to consume less than you burn. Is that kind of
Dr. Brad Miller:ultimately, it's it's simple, simple body. Physics, right? Or? Yes.
Dr. Brad Miller:So all right. So that's the first A is to be aware, right? Is that awareness.
Yuri Doroshuk:And so when a client has those aha moments, we move them
Yuri Doroshuk:into that second phase, and that is accuracy. Once we see kind
Yuri Doroshuk:of how they've been eating, I start helping them make small
Yuri Doroshuk:tweaks to what they're currently doing. See, Brad, for me,
Yuri Doroshuk:weight loss needs to be sustainable and realistic. It's not
Yuri Doroshuk:enough that we just lose weight. And we realize like, this isn't
Yuri Doroshuk:sustainable. I can't keep going like this forever. So how you
Yuri Doroshuk:lose weight is very important. So I'll meet the person where
Yuri Doroshuk:they're at, I'll look at what they're eating. And then we'll
Yuri Doroshuk:say things like, okay, let's make this small tweak, you're
Yuri Doroshuk:adding a lot of oil or butter to your aches, what if we just
Yuri Doroshuk:use the nonstick spray, and then ate that way. And so we've
Yuri Doroshuk:drastically cut calories without necessarily taking away
Yuri Doroshuk:the amount of food that they've been eating and making
Yuri Doroshuk:workweeks makes it much more sustainable. So accuracy
Yuri Doroshuk:is getting them into that calorie deficit consistently. And as they start losing weight.
Dr. Brad Miller:So that's accuracy, we've got awareness
Dr. Brad Miller:we've got accuracy, what's the third A?
Yuri Doroshuk:third a, accelerate. So now that they're doing it, the car is
Yuri Doroshuk:moving, it's rolling. Now, we asked the question, well, how
Yuri Doroshuk:can we speed this process up? And that is accelerate? And so
Yuri Doroshuk:I'll ask them the question of well, do you think you could work
Yuri Doroshuk:out an extra day? Or what if we added 10 minutes of just
Yuri Doroshuk:walking on the treadmill? After your weightlifting session? We
Yuri Doroshuk:asked questions of what more can you do notice that's the
Yuri Doroshuk:third phase, not the first phase, it's already overwhelming to
Yuri Doroshuk:start the journey. And so sometimes it's a matter of just
Yuri Doroshuk:parking at the end of the parking lot at a grocery store, and
Yuri Doroshuk:no longer taking the elevator or escalator taking stairs.
Yuri Doroshuk:And doing that over time, can add up. So that is the
Yuri Doroshuk:accelerate, we start speeding up the process.
Dr. Brad Miller:And it seemed like being consistent would be a part
Dr. Brad Miller:of this accelerated process. What It not?
Yuri Doroshuk:100% Consistency is key most people fail is because
Yuri Doroshuk:they're not consistent, right? And they give up too soon.
Dr. Brad Miller:So we've got awareness, we've got accuracy, we've got
Dr. Brad Miller:accelerate, what's our fourth A?
Yuri Doroshuk:And the fourth is advance, we begin to ask questions like what
Yuri Doroshuk:is the best type of food to eat? Can we substitute this type of
Yuri Doroshuk:food that you're eating for a much more nutritious food? Notice,
Yuri Doroshuk:Brad That's the fourth phase. Mo program most diets, they
Yuri Doroshuk:begin with that, oh, you eat white rice, rice, you can't do that you
Yuri Doroshuk:have to have brown rice. Oh, you have you're doing this, you
Yuri Doroshuk:can't eat that you must start eating this and it becomes so
Yuri Doroshuk:overwhelming that it's just not realistic. It's ideal, but not realistic.
Yuri Doroshuk:So that is advance once the person is exercising regularly, they're
Yuri Doroshuk:in a calorie deficit, the now watching and noticing that their
Yuri Doroshuk:clothes are more loose, they've downgraded a few sizes, they have
Yuri Doroshuk:more energy, once they have all that momentum, then bringing
Yuri Doroshuk:up the question of okay, look, I've noticed you're eating this type
Yuri Doroshuk:of food. Now you're still losing weight by eating it. But if you
Yuri Doroshuk:really want to fuel your body in a way, that's just going to just
Yuri Doroshuk:take you to the next level, would you like to consider this
Yuri Doroshuk:food option? They may say yes, they may say I'm not ready
Yuri Doroshuk:for that change. And that is okay. But eventually we go to
Yuri Doroshuk:more advanced nutrition to optimize their health and just
Yuri Doroshuk:make sure that they're kind of performing at a high level.
Dr. Brad Miller:Also, this is the place where your formula at the this
Dr. Brad Miller:advanced stages where it is just because a part of who
Dr. Brad Miller:you are, and is part of your lifestyle and who your life is.
Dr. Brad Miller:At that point. Is that a fair assessment of your, you know,
Dr. Brad Miller:the graduated nature of your system here that you want
Dr. Brad Miller:people to in the advanced stage to live this life?
Yuri Doroshuk:Yeah, yeah. And notice, I didn't give you the timeframe for
Yuri Doroshuk:each of the phases because it's different, right? It's different.
Yuri Doroshuk:Some people don't get to advance until two years in. And, and
Yuri Doroshuk:so research shows 66 days for something to become a habit.
Yuri Doroshuk:But do you know how long it takes for something to become a
Yuri Doroshuk:lifestyle, 18 months, 18 to 22 months. And most people, they can
Yuri Doroshuk:create a habit of exercise, January, February, they hit the year
Yuri Doroshuk:strong, what ends up happening after that they stop, because
Yuri Doroshuk:creating a habit is not everything. It's creating a lifestyle. And
Yuri Doroshuk:to create a lifestyle, you need to be doing this for about 18
Yuri Doroshuk:to 22 months. At that level, you're now excited to bring your
Yuri Doroshuk:workout clothes on your vacation, because you're going to be
Yuri Doroshuk:that crazy person that's now exercising early morning in Cancun.
Dr. Brad Miller:And that's I think it's all true. And I do some research on that.
Dr. Brad Miller:And some of the book I'm writing which shows a in my case,
Dr. Brad Miller:it's about kind of a minimum of the six weeks or so to get to begin
Dr. Brad Miller:to turn the corner a little bit or 40 days, six weeks, they will
Dr. Brad Miller:have a 40 day way. But it has to do with you need that time
Dr. Brad Miller:to be focused and concentrated on this and what I'm hearing you
Dr. Brad Miller:say and the awareness and the accuracy stages. You got to work
Dr. Brad Miller:to get out of debt as it were you got to really be conscious of it
Dr. Brad Miller:be forking at it is good a lot of work to do your processes
Dr. Brad Miller:or not at least initial stages. Is that fair?
Yuri Doroshuk:It is. it's work, nothing good comes easy or free.
Dr. Brad Miller:What do I put on we'll get it out is a lot of gimmick diets, a lot
Dr. Brad Miller:of gimmick approaches would say it's super easy to lose weight
Dr. Brad Miller:and to get into shape by this pill or this EQ piece of exercise
Dr. Brad Miller:equipment or this program many times easy is somehow and
Dr. Brad Miller:other incorporated into the to the marketing of the other product.
Dr. Brad Miller:What do you say to people who talk about you say this is not a
Dr. Brad Miller:gimmick program? So what are you then What the What are you
Dr. Brad Miller:especially in comparison to those programs, which may,
Dr. Brad Miller:you may think are gimmicks?
Yuri Doroshuk:Yeah. So when I think of weight loss, when I'm creating someone's
Yuri Doroshuk:program, I don't ask the question of how can so and so lose the
Yuri Doroshuk:weight, a lot of diets, a lot of programs out there, that's what
Yuri Doroshuk:they're concerned about how can so and so lose weight. And
Yuri Doroshuk:so the way that they help them lose weight is just ridiculous,
Yuri Doroshuk:and just not sustainable, very low calorie intake for the day.
Yuri Doroshuk:You're always feeling hungry, you're miserable, and then just
Yuri Doroshuk:go on a bench because it's just not sustainable, or they have
Yuri Doroshuk:you do endless cardio, nonstop every day. And so the way
Yuri Doroshuk:I think of weight loss is this, how can so and so lose weight in
Yuri Doroshuk:such a way that once they reached their goal, there's nothing
Yuri Doroshuk:else to go back to because the way they lost weight was realistic,
Yuri Doroshuk:sustainable and enjoyable. So the process to me is
Yuri Doroshuk:very important. And every single individual has their own lifestyle
Yuri Doroshuk:has different amount of kids or no kids. It just looks completely
Yuri Doroshuk:different. And they deserve their own strategy. You can't put
Yuri Doroshuk:somebody else in somebody else's box. Everyone is different.
Yuri Doroshuk:And so for me, my hats As simple plant serious results, so it's
Yuri Doroshuk:not easy to lose weight per se, because then everybody would
Yuri Doroshuk:lose weight. But it doesn't have to be complex. And sometimes
Yuri Doroshuk:the industry, they make it so complex that it paralyzes people
Yuri Doroshuk:to take action. I simplify weight loss, it does not have to
Yuri Doroshuk:be complex. It's actually very simple what I'm
Dr. Brad Miller:here to say it's simple but unnecessarily easy. It does take us
Dr. Brad Miller:right over to the process here. So let's, let's go out to the people
Dr. Brad Miller:that you serve, let's talk about, let's say you're going to be let's say we,
Dr. Brad Miller:that my daughter and son in law, their family, we're going to look
Dr. Brad Miller:okay, you're a You're the man for us are, what are, what do you
Dr. Brad Miller:offer? How do you serve? Families who are in this situation?
Dr. Brad Miller:What do you offer to people? How can people be a contact
Dr. Brad Miller:with you and understand what you're, what you're all about that way?
Yuri Doroshuk:Yeah, so a few things that kind of come in my coaching.
Yuri Doroshuk:Number one, they get a custom exercise program, I have an
Yuri Doroshuk:app that I customized our workout, the type of workouts, how
Yuri Doroshuk:many sets, how many reps, what the rest time, all of that I take
Yuri Doroshuk:the guesswork out for that person. So whether they're at the gym
Yuri Doroshuk:working out or at home, we create a program around that,
Yuri Doroshuk:then I provide nutrition coaching, again, it's not diet, it's more
Yuri Doroshuk:of like a flexible dieting is what I call it. And that means I meet
Yuri Doroshuk:that person where they're at, I show them how they can make
Yuri Doroshuk:small tweaks to what they're already doing, that will get them
Yuri Doroshuk:into the calorie deficit. As a busy mom or dad, you don't have
Yuri Doroshuk:to create separate meals from the rest of the family. And so
Yuri Doroshuk:the family's eating quote, unquote, normal food. And here's
Yuri Doroshuk:the dieting parent eating bunch of you know, spinach
Yuri Doroshuk:in the corner, like, it's not sustained.
Dr. Brad Miller:I've seen that and experienced that. And that's, that's weird
Dr. Brad Miller:for one thing, and it makes life a little there's some tension
Dr. Brad Miller:with that, too. Okay, so how can people get a hold
Dr. Brad Miller:if they want to get ahold of you.
Yuri Doroshuk:So I live on Instagram and Facebook. If you're on Instagram, just
Yuri Doroshuk:search for coach, Yuri underscore, you'll find my profile there,
Yuri Doroshuk:I have a lot of free content and materials that I just give out in
Yuri Doroshuk:my Instagram stories. So I had people just send me a DM saying,
Yuri Doroshuk:Hey, I've been consuming your free content. And I've already
Yuri Doroshuk:lost 15 pounds. So I'm a big believer, and just giving,
Yuri Doroshuk:I don't hold anything back my value, Brad is actual the coaching,
Yuri Doroshuk:and going and walking, walking and holding someone on a daily
Yuri Doroshuk:basis to get them to their goal. As far as information. I'm not
Yuri Doroshuk:smarter than chat GPT or Google. And so I'm not going to sit
Yuri Doroshuk:there pretend that I have some kind of knowledge that you
Yuri Doroshuk:can get anywhere. But I can do as a coach and as be that guide
Yuri Doroshuk:that motivator that takes you from feeling stuck, and alone
Yuri Doroshuk:in this journey, and putting you in a community with other like
Yuri Doroshuk:minded moms and dad to our mission to become healthier
Yuri Doroshuk:and happier. And walk this journey with you to ensure that
Yuri Doroshuk:you actually reach your goal and not just lose that 10 to 15 pounds,
Yuri Doroshuk:you can you know losing your whole entire life. So coaching is the value.
Dr. Brad Miller:It will put links to your Instagram and our website, Dr. Brad miller.com.
Dr. Brad Miller:So just one more thing, a Yuri. Let's give you talk with us.
Dr. Brad Miller:My thoughts on Allah is that example here. Well, let's hear
Dr. Brad Miller:about someone that you have worked with, who have seen
Dr. Brad Miller:success with your with working with you to hear a testimonial.
Yuri Doroshuk:where to begin, where to begin. Okay, let's talk about Elijah.
Yuri Doroshuk:He started at 280. All right. And so he was doing my program
Yuri Doroshuk:for about he's he's been with me for quite some time because
Yuri Doroshuk:we've had other we've had other goals since he's lost it but he
Yuri Doroshuk:went from 280 went down to 176. So he lost all of his fat. And
Yuri Doroshuk:this is the most amazing part. This guy used to come home
Yuri Doroshuk:after work, he works construction, and he would drink two
Yuri Doroshuk:bottles of wine every night. And then just go to bed and then
Yuri Doroshuk:repeat. That was his life. And so we got him to not only lose
Yuri Doroshuk:almost 100 pounds, we got him to stop drinking all together.
Yuri Doroshuk:And he went from just a sedentary lifestyle. It's just day
Yuri Doroshuk:in day out doing not a whole lot to now he travels to different
Yuri Doroshuk:towns and he does Spartan Races and he doesn't now with
Yuri Doroshuk:his wife, the family has become way more active. And so
Yuri Doroshuk:he's lost all of his fat and then he's like you're not done. I want
Yuri Doroshuk:to put on about 15 pounds of muscle. So we took next like
Yuri Doroshuk:seven months of just putting on muscle, and now he's in the
Yuri Doroshuk:phase of now cutting back and getting rid of a little bit of
Yuri Doroshuk:that excess fat that you naturally get when you put on muscle.
Yuri Doroshuk:So he's kind of taken the whole journey of not just losing
Yuri Doroshuk:weight, but then putting on muscle and now cutting back
Yuri Doroshuk:down again. And his lifestyle is completed.
Dr. Brad Miller:Yeah. And you've seen a change to man because of that.
Dr. Brad Miller:And that is affirming to you that what you're sharing works
Dr. Brad Miller:and that's a good thing. Well, good stuff here. It's a
Dr. Brad Miller:real need out there. We know that I know that not only from
Dr. Brad Miller:my own family as I shared, but I know it's a need out there
Dr. Brad Miller:for many, many people to add, it's on their mind a lot, whether
Dr. Brad Miller:they admit it or not, to you know, lose weight, get in shape,
Dr. Brad Miller:and how it's integrated with other aspects of your life. You know,
Dr. Brad Miller:your marital life, your family life, your mental health, your
Dr. Brad Miller:spiritual health are all interconnected. And so you've done good
Dr. Brad Miller:work here and appreciate it is to form a formula. And his
Dr. Brad Miller:name name is Yuri Doroshuk, and it's all about helping busy
Dr. Brad Miller:parents to lose weight without dieting, and he's been our
Dr. Brad Miller:guest today on Beyond Adversity with
Dr. Brad Miller:Dr. Brad Miller. Thanks for being our guest Yuri.