Name: Gabriel Iglesias on Weight Loss and Almost Being an Ozempic Spokesperson
Uploaded: 2023-06-22T17:10:19.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Gabriel Iglesias on Weight Loss and Almost Being an Ozempic Spokesperson' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-06-22. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Gabriel Iglesias on Weight Loss and Almost Being an Ozempic Spokesperson' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-06-22. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience you said you you lost a lot of weight what did you do
in terms of your diet uh you know what I was very consistent I was able to eat
you know and have a plan like you know I'd have breakfast I'd have lunch I'd
have dinner whereas before God I was always on the road so it's like I never
wanted to eat before I went up on stage because then it would mess with like a
heartburn and you don't want to be burping or farting in front of crowd so
I wait until the end and then by the time the show's over what's available to
eat you know it's terrible food terrible and you're starving yes yeah and then
go to sleep and then it was just that cycle repeat and I just you know over
the years man it got good to me so I gained all that weight so being home for
a year you know I was having an actual regular clean breakfast of you know not
nothing crazy from the road it was all food that was store-bought and preparing
my own food you can get like a meal prep company that will make meals for you
that
are like yeah I've done those in that work I was into it for a couple weeks but
then it's like hot man I'm tired of fucking broccoli yeah what helped out a
lot too was that you know I was every day I was walking a lot and you know I
was
lifting weights three times a week well that's great and then again going to
see
my doctors getting on certain plans like you know I wear a monitor now for my
sugar mm-hmm you know so I'm always I'm able to keep tabs on my sugar whereas
before it was out of control you know I was I was averaging waking up at 400
which
is like you know what's going on normal you want to be somewhere between 80 and
120 at
least for me and so yeah it was I was I was writing the what they say the the
check engine
light on for too long that's good and so you know and then I got high blood
pressure and of
course you know you don't know it until they tell you or until you you know
check yourself so
then getting on medication for that getting on medication for diabetes and you
know now I'm
gonna sound like Jody hey you gotta cocksuck you gotta get the bad babies that
but uh getting my
health and in order with a doctor and with the food and with the working out
whereas I wasn't able to do that on the road mm-hmm or I would make a lot more
excuses because I didn't you know well so you want to have energy for those
shows
and sometimes when you work out really hard and when you're really tired it's
hard to
like fire back up to get ready for the shows especially if it's a new thing you're
doing you know if your body's adapted to it you can do it pretty easy but if
your
body's not adapted to it like a hard workout it's like what the fuck is this
mm-hmm and all my energy goes into the show so when I'm up there I'm hitting it
hitting it hitting it you know I'm not sluggish I'm not standing still right I'm
I'm I'm not I'm performing so it's like yeah but then when I get off yeah the
thing is if you did get healthy and you did get in shape it would really
genuinely help your
ability to maintain that because I mean just imagine if you said you lost 70
pounds imagine if you had to do your show right now with a 70 pound vest on oh
god
yeah I know yeah it sucks and that's the reality of weight yeah that's the
reality
of gravity my knees my hair everything everything breathing harder yeah I do
workouts with a 25 pound vest on and just a 25 pound vest on just 25 pounds it's
not
even that much like if you pick up 25 pounds doesn't seem like much that 25
pound
makes a giant difference do everything with that vest on and everything's way
harder farmers carries chin-ups push-ups dips bodyweight squats everything's
harder with just 25 pounds people gain and lose 25 pounds like it's nothing but
when
you're walking around with that 25 pounds on that is just you're carrying that
man
that's a lot of burden on your resources your biological resources your tissue
your bones your joints your hip your back
you're you just fatigue you know and then maybe the writing that you do maybe
your writing would be sharper maybe you'd have
more that you were thinking about if you had more pumping through your body you
know oh
believe me it's it's I agree 100% with everything that you're saying and you
got
it's not even a an issue of not knowing or not understanding or not seeing the
bigger picture
gonna get you on Adderall in Ozempic nice let's go I just got on Ozempic did
you oh yeah well here's
I want to hear something funny they uh I got approached by Ozempic early on
before they had
the fucking song oh boy and uh what's the song I didn't know they have a song
oh oh oh Ozempic
it's based on that old song yeah oh it's magic that song yeah it's so they uh
they approached me and
they wanted me to be their their spokesperson for Ozempic yeah and uh you know
we took a meeting and
everything and I mean you know I appreciated the fact that they actually
approached a diabetic
to to be the spokesperson diabetes medicine yeah I'm gonna be the new Wilford
Brimley you know
so uh it just it the deal didn't work out but you're still doing it so you're
on it what's funny
is I wasn't on it when I took the meeting and and you know it wasn't like I
said when 2020 hit and I
went to go see my doctor he goes I'm gonna put you on this thing called Ozempic
I'm like are you
freaking kidding me I'm like I could have been getting that shit for free but
uh yeah so it's once I
you know give myself a shot once a week some people use it to lose weight you
know like like you know
people that aren't necessarily really big yes we'll use that to you know
suppress their appetite and
stuff like that because it will make you a little nauseous like in the mornings
I wake up and I'm
like oh I gotta drink like a shake or so you only do it once a week when people
are on it for weight
loss do they do it like every day like how often they don't know what the cycle
is for using Ozempic for
for weight loss but I just know that when I first did it I dropped 15 pounds
like in god like
a week wow yeah so your body will react to it immediately but then of course
you plateau and
stuff like that they say that it limits your appetite that's what that's one of
the big effects
of it yeah because yeah I was I was waking up queasy and so you know you can
feel a little
nauseous you're not really trying it's crazy because it's everywhere like you
see all these ads for
it and even like Tony Hinchcliffe brought this up like CNN had a thing on it
but it seems like a
story but it kind of is an ad you know it's kind of an ad for Ozempic but it
seems like it's a story
about Hollywood celebrities but really just jazzing up the fact that everybody's
taking Ozempic like
it seems like there's something more going on there other than just just Ozempic
yeah yeah like
you're you probably got paid to do that that story you know because I'm telling
you I take it every week
and that initial first hit of the weight loss yeah it's true yeah but it doesn't
it at least it didn't
continue for me how often do people take Ozempic when they're trying to lose
weight Jamie it's still
once a week but it's like also you tapering off I think or yeah or maybe it
gets higher I think
maybe it's actually ramping up the dosage you know like you start well let's
say like 0.25 units up to
like one but there's supposed to be a time where you're supposed to get off of
it right uh as far
as like for if you're trying to cut weight with it I think the cut weight
people I don't know
it's supposed to they're pushing that it is like a cycle like you're supposed
to be like you're 10 12
weeks on probably 12 weeks off these motherfuckers are pushing that right but
it does help regulate
my sugar yeah so I I do I between the monitor because my monitor is always
checking my sugar
so for example right now I don't have the monitor with me it's in the car
because uh the honey the
honey honey spikes my sugar like like nothing sure but because my voice is a
little off right now so
I'm taking the the honey yeah um so do you watch like sugar like bread you
start you cut that stuff
after a while you start knowing exactly what does what so you already know like
uh I can eat that I
shouldn't and then you know you you see things and you're like all right this
is gonna set it off so
I also have my I take uh insulin oh okay so I'm trying to I play that game how
long you've been
doing that oh god over five years for sure so is this type 2 diabetes yes so
that's the type that you
can reverse with uh diet and exercise yes yeah and again it's not for lack of
knowing I already know
I get it bro and that's what sucks it's like I feel like everything that I've
ever attempted to do
for my career I've been able to do but I for myself my personal self losing
weight's been the hardest
thing the hardest fucking thing in the world