Name: Gad Saad on Maintaining His 86 Pound Weight Loss
Uploaded: 2022-05-11T17:11:03.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Gad Saad on Maintaining His 86 Pound Weight Loss' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-11. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Gad Saad on Maintaining His 86 Pound Weight Loss' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-11. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience you look like you've lost a large child for your body
86 pounds that's right that's a large child I know that you want to take
credit for it because fat shaming works exactly but I can't give you all the
credit no you deserve all the credit I didn't do anything so because I just was
concerned for your well-being and so I was just saying if you really are saying
that you want to get healthy and you really are saying that you want to play
soccer and do all these things again like a friend has to be brutally honest
with
you yeah well that's a hard one that's a hard one because nobody wants to hear
they're gaining weight or they've gained weight or that they have to make
radical
changes to their life I'm actually at the lowest weight since I think 88 that's
incredible size waist 33 how much better do you feel phenomenal outrageous isn't
it incredible like if they could give you that in a pill just the feeling how
it
feels to be 86 pounds lighter exactly oh my god I mean just to give you a sense
so
that we could put it into metrics when I was overweight our lovemaking session
was
only an hour and a half of whereas now I've doubled it congratulations thank
you
how do you have so much time it's incredible it's my wife is Lebanese she's
spicy she demands a lot of me what did you do other than exercise and like
would it
like how did you shift your diet so two things number one 15 to 20 thousand
steps a day no matter
what no matter what so it's been almost now two and a half years that I haven't
done a single day of
less than 10,000 steps now the steps could be treadmill it could be walking
outside it could be running
vigorously on the you know whatever it could be biking but I always have with
me this actually
is it one of those pedometers those pedometer things and I'm obsessive about
maintaining so
just by having this clear objective that I have to reach makes it that no
matter what I've got to get
off you know off the proverbial couch and walk around it's minus 20 in Montreal
I'm walking outside until
I reach down so that's but I was always quite physically active of course much
of your weight
loss comes from keeping this guy closed yeah that's the thing that people need
to work it's very very
very very difficult to exercise your way to weight loss exactly and so what I
did uh so my wife who's
here who you've known her for many years she's a amazing woman she turned into
the diet gestapo she's
she's got she's got this uh my fitness pal they're getting I guess free
publicity on the number one show
in the world so through my fitness pal she would she enters till today every
single thing that goes into
this gorgeous body wow so at the end of the day she says don't have any snacks
you're at 1727 and you
were supposed to get under 1700 so by having that uh feedback loop that's
always keeping you in check
plus the so the third thing is I weigh myself once a week so that the auto
corrective mechanism comes
in not when I've now when I'm now 227 in terms of weight but if I've come to
Texas and then I go on
the scale and I've gained three pounds well now I need I know that I need to
correct the following week
so these little changes I mean there's nothing magical just doing that I guess
if I can add a
fourth thing I remove the all or nothing mindset in the past I mean I the
highest weight I reached
you can you and you won't offend me can can you from from knowing me for many
years do you know
how heavy I got I guess you can calculate well if I look at you now you look
like you weigh about
a hundred and sixty-five pounds I'm 170 ah very good I'm good at weight classes
a lot of years exactly
um and I would imagine the heaviest you got was probably close to 300 pounds
256 yeah okay so that's
that's the 86 pounds so 256 for that's the heaviest that's the heaviest that I
maybe I could have been more
that I'm aware of that I've actually seen it on the scale was 256 I had gone
for my yearly physical
and I got on the scale and I was 256 which is the average weight for a six foot
four middle linebacker
yeah who's you know eight inches tall you know right that's scary and so so I
removed the all or nothing
mindset and that I need to lose all the weight by next Tuesday you know my
mindset was as long as
every day I'm a bit better eventually you know the old baby steps thing and so
I get on I'm now 10
pounds that's 20 pounds hey let me try to get under 200 I am and then bit by
bit magically here I am
for a message if you have a message to anybody out there that's trying to do it
what would it be
what's the most important thing it's that there are 1000 different temptations
in a day for you to
violate your goal and you can almost never fail you don't have to be so
punishing but
997 out of the 1000 bifurcations in the road you have to take the right road
and so do that enough
days enough times get 997 out of a thousand and suddenly you'll be 30 40 50
pounds later just trust
the process trust the process and that's that's what's hard for people to do
because they really do want
immediate results and uh the way I always describe it there's a there's a
gambling term that you have
to get better the same way you get sick it's like uh if you're gambling say if
you and I were playing
pool and I was ahead 100 games and you said double or nothing I would say no no
you got to get better the
same way you got sick right because I'm up 100 games why would I get why would
I risk losing
it all in one one shot no no no yeah and that's that's how it is with weight
loss you got to get
better the same way you got sick slowly over time and it's been now you know
the the usual thing is
that you put it back on uh I've now helped you know had it off for for for
quite a while so I'd
like to think that I'm in my steady state now but well you've become aware now
of the value of being thin and healthy
and you've become aware of how good it you feel yeah I don't think you're a
smart man you're not
going to go back exactly have you did you ever have any trouble with your
weight I mean I've been
like five pounds overweight before 10 pounds overweight that's it yeah and then
I always like oh you fat
fuck and I lose the weight now is that is that because of your gluttony no no
not putting why didn't
you ever put on more weight just I don't it's not an option I'm not getting fat
is it is it literally a
vanity issue uh no it's a health issue I work out I do martial arts yeah if I'm
fat I can't I can't
work out like if I can I I feel it it's like I put sludge in my engine yeah you
know like the fattest I
ever got I think I got to like 207 one time and it's you know for me it goes
right here it goes on my
sides and in my belly and if it's also is eating a lot pasta which is just not
for me whenever I do
that I always feel like and uh I just overeat but I work out a lot so it keeps
it in check for the most
part but I can get it it can get away from me if I'm stupid because I just uh I
still eat like a
teenager I eat like I eat as much as I want like I eat large amounts of food
but you you do mainly the
protein stuff right yes mainly mainly I eat meat but I eat mostly meat and fish
and uh fruit that's
mostly what I so I guess the fifth element of when you asked me what how do I
lose weight I also removed
all the carbs almost all of it once in a while I you know I have a bit of
something but so what is a
daily meal for you like so breakfast I may have one or two boiled eggs lunch
might be my wife and I go to
the Peruvian rotisserie place that we probably go to four times in a week which
I'll get a quarter of a
chicken with a bit of coleslaw vinegary coleslaw not creamy coleslaw I might
have one or two snacks
around mid-afternoon which might be things like 100 grams of frozen raspberries
a little yogurt of 70
calories and then dinner will be a fantastic salad that if you looked at the
volume you'd think my god how are
you losing so much weight but it only has you know five six ounces of protein
but it's voluminous so
that I feel full I may have another you know a little snack at eight o'clock 70
80 calories
and I've reached my 15 16 1700 calories