Success Story: HooftyPrimal’s Phillip Williams

Not long ago, we were fortunate enough to connect with Jonathan and Phillip, founders of HooftyPrimal. If you’re not yet familiar with HooftyPrimal, I really encourage you to check them out. I’m sure they offer what most of you are looking for: an amazing selection of 100% grass-fed and finished meat. I won’t dive into the topic of the importance of eating grass-fed meat now, but you can read this article we published a while back and learn all about it.

Upon meeting Jonathan and Phillip and hearing about both their personal and business backgrounds, we knew we had to team up with them. We got them involved in a contest we ran a while back and they were extremely generous in providing a $100 gift certificate to a lucky participant.

Aside from their generosity, Phillip also brought something else to the table that we needed to share and it just so happened to line up perfectly with what our intentions were for the contest we asked them to be involved in. Everyone has a story and Phillips is one that will both inspire and interest anyone who comes across it. Take a moment to read his amazing journey. Although it’s just in its early stages, he’s truly an inspiration to all when you see how far he has come.

“My journey into the paleo lifestyle started on January 13th when I watched The Perfect Human Diet on Amazon.

Prior to that I had never heard of this way of eating and to be honest I was blown away. I called my business partner, Jonathan Yale, and asked if he had ever heard of such a thing. It turned out that he was a bit more dialed in than I was and proceeded to tell me a little about this way of living.

My way of living for the past couple decades was not working. I have succeed in making the fast food chaines a bit wealthier with my vigilant detection and commitment to destroying all evidence of my former athletic body. I had grown to nearly 300lbs and was not slowing down. This had to end, but I was afraid. I was afraid I would loose the weight as I had a few times in the past. Most recently when I had reached my all time high of 250lbs. I lost 65lbs in 3 months and was feeling great. I was at the gym every day and ate like a bird, a very very small bird. That was the start of what continued to be a self-destructive cycle of loosing and then gaining back all, and more, of the weight.

I had developed a fear that if I was to go on a diet I would be hugely successful at lossing the weight; however, I knew I would not keep it off and the aspect of seeing the scale exceed 300lbs terrified me (and it still does)! I had to get some plan to continue after I lost at least the weight of my dog Austin, a beagle hound. Kinda of strange, I know, but it was my goal non-the-less. This is where I started thinking about the documentary and the narrator, C.J. Hunt, talking about Paleo being for life. This was something different.

It is that something different that made me take notice. I had the confidence to actually step foot in the gym, that I had been a member at (for over a year), for the first time. My mind was swimming with ideas of what my life would be like if I could loose some weight and how my health would improve. I am, by the way, a typical obese American with Hypertension, Type 2 Diabeties, and High Cholesterol. My dreams of loosing weight started to come out when the scale was displaying my steady weight loss. Even though I continued to eat a fair amount of food. This something different was GREAT! Now I need to learn where to take it next.

My journey is now approaching 3 months of transitioning to a healthy workout schedule and a more aggressive paleo diet. I have cut out all dairy, grains, and processed sugars (actually all processed anything). I have not completely moved to a full Paleo lifestyle but I am discovering, learning, experimenting, and exploring my options. I have dropped down to 246lbs and feel optimistic that I am ready to take the next step in my new lifestyle.

Phillip Williams
co-founfer
HooftyMatch, LLC”

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