Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1816 - Gad Saad
Uploaded: 2022-05-11T00:00:00.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1816 - Gad Saad' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-11. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1816 - Gad Saad

the Joe Rogan experience you look like you've lost a large child from your body
86 pounds
that's right it'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 an 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 love
making session was only an hour and a half of it 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 20 000 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 that's actually I'm sure is it one of those pedometers
those pedometer things and
uh 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 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 17 27 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 you
from from knowing me for
how 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 am I right I'm 170 ah see I'm pretty
close 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 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've gone
from 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 yeah 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
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 like 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 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 if you're
gambling say if you and I
were playing pool and I was ahead a hundred games and you said double or
nothing I would say no no no
you got to get better the same way you got sick right because I'm up a hundred
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 usual thing is that you put it back on 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 that's 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
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 no not putting why didn't you ever put on more weight it's not
an option I'm not getting fat 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 for me it goes right here goes on my sides and in my belly
and if it's also was eating a lot pasta
which is just not for me whenever I do that I always feel like shit 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 eat so I guess the fifth element of
when you asked me what
how to lay this 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 a hundred
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
and I'm mr slim man are you trying to lose more are you going to maintain this
yeah because you look
great thank you that's very kind uh I just want to see a one and a six I haven't
reached it I've gotten
to 170.4 last time I checked I was 171 I just need to see a steady state of you
know 165 167 and now the
actuarial tables by the way for a guy my height they put me at 155 which
strikes me as a bit that's
pretty thin that's pretty thin that yeah I don't those those tables the bmi
tables are they don't
account for mass and weightlifting and also you did soccer for many many years
you have strong legs
exactly yeah I think that um one thing that can help you I don't know if you've
done intermittent
fasting have you tried that so what kind of window 16 8 like 16 yeah I like 16
so I've done that
for three days just because I'm trying to recover from having gone on a trip
but I'm guessing you're
suggesting that I do it for a longer period correct well I just that's what I
do always yeah I do 16
um I mean I occasionally violate it if I feel like it but it's only because I
know I can get away with
violating it because I'm so consistent right you know um but that's that's my
move are you as
disciplined in other aspects of your life as you are in your weight management
I mean certainly in your
work ethic you are but other things or or do you your punctilious nature only
manifest itself in a few
domains and you're completely carefree in others no no I can't I I this is me
this is me with
everything you're exactly yeah I mean I take days off I relax I I can I know
how to relax I'm good
at that but I'm I think discipline is a very important thing for a person I
think it's a very
important thing to uh take care of the thing it's like not taking care of the
things causes you so much
more pain and anxiety than taking care of the things right so take care of the
things no matter
what it is whether it's your body or your work or whatever you got to do
fucking off is not good for you it's like you need if you're a professional
just do your work and
you should be a professional with your body be a perfect like is uh there's a
great book called uh
I think it's called going pro it's Steven Pressfield the same guy who wrote the
war of art
I'm in the middle of his second book which I don't like as much as a war of art
but
turning pro and the whole idea is about approaching your work like you know you
decide that you're a
professional show up when you're supposed to show up you you you put in the
time and this is in
regards he's a writer but it's I think that's applicable to almost anything
with you a painter
or you know like yourself an intellectual you could be whatever whatever it is
whether you're dealing
with your physical body whether you're dealing with hobbies just do the do the
work do put it in
the discipline so I can I can apply what you're saying to being an author when
you try to write a
book look I do two types of authoring I write academic papers but those papers
have a very clear
template right you start with an intro then you've got uh the hypotheses the
literature review the
methodology the results so the content is not a priori determined but the
template is clear when you
write a book you're going on an open-ended journey I mean you you do have a
outline you have a book
prospectus of the things you want to say but how you fill these in you have no
idea and so one of the
things that I tell people when they write to me and say how did you become a
successful author
discipline every single day rain or shine I decide that I have to write no
matter what 300 words
they may be great words they may be things that I edit but there is no I'm not
feeling good today
there is no my throat is itching I feel a bit down no matter what I'm writing
300 words an