#178: Aarn Farmer

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Aarn Farmer has been a frugal blogger for over seven years at GroceryShopforFREE.com and GroceryShopforFREEatTheMart.com. At 40 years old he was over 400 lbs, had a blood pressure of 200/160 and was diagnosed with Metabolic Syndrome. His wife was also more than 100 lbs overweight and had Type II Diabetes. As he looked for a way to get his health under control, he found out that weight loss was primarily controlled by hormones and not calorie restriction as he previously thought. After more than two years of a low carb diet, followed by a ketogenic diet, Aarn has lost over 175 lbs, dramatically lowered his blood pressure, and no longer has Metabolic Syndrome. His wife has also lost over 100 lbs and no longer has Type II Diabetes.

Aarn shares his story at MySugarFreeJourney.com where he blogs about how insulin is the main hormone responsible for weight gain and teaches how to eat a healthy diet while being frugal.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast, featuring fresh and lively commentary on all things primal,
0:06.8	including Q&A sessions with Primal Blueprint founder Mark Sisson, special guest interviews hosted by Mark Sisson,
0:14.1	in conversations with Primal Blueprint authors and other health and fitness experts.
0:19.3	The show is presented by Damage Control, Master Formula, the world's most potent, multivitamin, mineral, antioxidant, anti-aging supplement, available at primal blueprint.com.
0:32.4	Past episodes are available for download or to review written summaries at blog.primalblueprint.com.
0:40.0	And now, introducing your host, L. Russ.
0:44.7	Hey, everyone. Welcome to the podcast. Today we have an amazing weight loss success story.
0:50.9	And also fellow sort of ketogenic in the world we're in sort of podcast my sugarfree
0:57.7	journey.com is the website and also the podcast of the same name hosted by Aaron Farmer. Welcome to the
1:04.2	show. Hey, thanks so much for having me. I'm glad to be here. You have a really incredible journey
1:09.2	you went through. I want to talk about several aspects of that, not just the major weight loss.
1:14.4	But let's talk about you almost pushing four bills, 388 pounds.
1:20.2	Well, actually, I was over 400 pounds at one point.
1:26.6	And I actually, I don't really know what my maximum weight was because the scale that I had at the time only went up to 400 pounds.
1:35.7	So, I mean, I joke that it was, it was just three E's.
1:40.0	And, you know, that was my way.
1:41.0	It was three E's because I couldn't because I couldn't figure it out.
1:43.4	And really, I avoided, I mean, I would never put myself in a situation where I would get weighed, avoiding doctors, that kind of thing.
1:50.3	But it was, it was, yeah, it was bad.
1:53.9	I mean, I was 400 pounds and I was sick and had metabolic syndrome.
1:57.9	And the one thing that I tell people that really kind of blows their
2:02.2	mind, and really it blows my mind today, is on just a normal day, my blood pressure was at
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