Hi, I’m Richard Gerber I have lost 240 lbs and have more energy than I have felt in many years. I am walking proof That anyone can lose weight and feel young again! Let me teach you the hidden secrets I learned. This is me! I finally Feel alive again after many years of trials. After trying just about everything out there I finally found answers.   This was the old me! In my old life I weighed between 475 & 480 lbs. My Story   My story begins on a hot day the 29th of August 1949, the day I came into this world. Shortly after I was born my parents decided to move to the country and buy a farm. I grew up on this farm and milking cows in Idaho. Just three years after my birth my parents were blest with a set of twins a boy and a girl making our family complete with three children. I grew up in my dads shadow always interested in farm equipment, especially the tractor. I wanted to be with my dad all the time and he took me with him quite often. I loved riding the tractor and spending time with him. It was on one of those warm summer days riding the tractor that I fell asleep as dad was rounding a turn and I fell of the fender. Dad looked back at the equipment as he always did when in a turn and at this point saw I was gone and stopped the tractor. He looked around and saw me on the ground just inches from being run over and crushed by the heavy tractor and equipment. We all felt that a guardian angel was watching over me. From that day on I felt had a special life ahead. It was however not to be an easy life emotionally and socially for this chunky farm boy. Life was good on the farm there was always plenty of hard work and chores to get done both before and after school. And of course the food was always good with hand-raised beef, fresh milk from the cows and chickens for fresh eggs to go with the bacon or ham and hash browns. We always ate hardy meals because of all the work that needed to be done. Farmers’ days start at 5 a.m. with chickens to feed, cows that need milking, crops to help put up and then school to attend. After school it was the same kind of routine, feeding animals and milking the cows, eating and doing homework all before bedtime. School a lot of the time was not a fun place to be, I always seemed to be a big kid and on the chunky side but the other kids were just down right mean most days. There was teasing, pushing and name calling, “fatty, fatty 2x4 can’t get through the bathroom door and the list goes on and on. I did not have many friends and most kids did not want to be seen with a fat kid like me. Those times were really tough on my self-esteem. Mom was concerned and we started the long road of weight loss way back then trying to find help for my problem. My mother took me to several doctors seeking help and advice. They tried giving me pills, shots and many other weight loss remedies of their time to no avail. The doctors inquired about my family history and background and when founding out that my grandfathers on both sides had been on the heavy side they said I didn’t stand a chance and left it at that. By the time I was a freshman in high school my weight was around 270 – 280 lbs. When I graduated from high school in 1968 I weighed 325 lbs.   I was married to my beautiful wife Joy in September of 1976, and I’m proud to say I am still married to this same loving beautiful woman. After marrying Joy the search for health and weight solutions still continued without any lasting rewards. I have had many challenges because of the weight, some of which were very severe and almost life threatening. My body’s immune system seemed to be weak all the time. I was diagnosed with sleep apnea in 1990. I went to Pocatello Regional Hospital where my breathing was monitored for a period of 12 hours. In the 12 hour time period I had quit breathing over 100 times while I slept. My oxygen level was only 17%, which should have been at 94% to insure health and welfare. The doctor asked me why I was still standing, that with an oxygen level that low I should be dead. They put me on a bi-pap and oxygen machine with no hope in sight of me ever getting better. In 1992, my right leg became hot and feverish all the time due to something I encountered at work, causing me much discomfort. I went to the hospital and was diagnosed as having some kind of flesh eating bacteria. It spread rapidly causing my leg to swell over half its normal size with an abundance of fever blisters all over it. They were not small blisters either; one was 4 inches in diameter and 1 ½ inches high on the calf of my leg. I ended up staying 10 days in the hospital with it not ending there. It seemed that it would re-occur off and on every year for the next ten years. When I asked for answers as to what it was, one doctor said it was strep while another said it was type of staff infection. What they both agreed on however was they had no cure for it. With getting no cure from the medical field I looked to herbs and other remedies. This helped keep it in check but it did not really improve my condition as far as it healing up or going away. My weight at this point was approximately 475 to 480 lbs. but it was hard to say what it really got to because normal scales will not go that high, I could weigh at some doctors offices or go to the feed store where they could weigh trucks and other large objects. I chose to guess most of the time. I work for J.R. Simplot Company at the Smoky Canyon Mine. My weight was to the point that when I went up the stairs at work I thought my heart would stop. It would pound so hard I could feel it in the top of my head. I knew I had to reduce my weight soon and a substantial amount or I as going to die. I tried the Atkins diet and found it was not the answer for a fit and healthy lifestyle. I then went to Weight Watchers, which seemed to help me shed some of the weight, but I still felt sick and tired most of the time. I knew there had to be an answer out there somewhere, then I thought, am I just supposed to feel this way; suffering more and more as the years go by? My wife one afternoon called a friend of ours, Gary Astle. She noticed he had lost weight and could see many changes taking place in him. Gary went from 280 to around 200 and seemed to have more energy and look in better health than he had for years. At first when Joy asked Gary what he was doing he was hesitant to say, Joy then said you have got to tell me I’ll be right over. She wasn’t only concerned about me but herself as well. Gary started by explaining his long search as well, and then told Joy it would mean a whole new life style change. Balancing the body to bring it into pH balance and not eating the foods most Americans love. Joy swallowed this hook line and sinker; as for me I was a little upset and thought it nuts. Joy could tell it worked because a friend was proof of it, she could see it. I finally gave in and changed my life style to eating and thinking different than the crowd and you know what, it does work! Me in my old bibs! I heard this saying and it now sticks in my mind “If you keep doing what your doing -You’re going to keep getting what you’re getting.” This statement has proven so true in my life. I now have energy to burn and feel like that pink bunny on TV, I can just keep going and going. Click here to see some of the secrete things I learned >>>> Gerb's Recipe for Life