Name: Ethan Suplee on Diet Culture and Learning Moderation
Uploaded: 2021-05-04T17:37:01.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ethan Suplee on Diet Culture and Learning Moderation' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-05-04. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ethan Suplee on Diet Culture and Learning Moderation' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-05-04. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience. Right now it's slightly difficult to talk about
weight
loss because I've been obese and now I'm not obese and I'm I celebrate not
being
obese I am much better off with the way I have structured my life because of
having lost weight but I can't tell anybody else to do that and I don't even
really want to if somebody wants to be overweight if that's a trade-off they're
willing to make yeah that's fine with me but I think for the most part most of
people I've spoken to they don't want that a lot of people seem to have goals
that generally line up with mine and then in talking to them now there's this
diet culture monster in the room where even that is attacked because there's a
whole new set of values that are born that must be enforced and at some point
there's got to be the recognition that we don't all necessarily have to want
the
exact same stuff yeah there's also so much biological variability right yeah
the things that would work on another person just don't work on you you know
the sure yeah including diet you know there's oh man arguing about diets is
another great one and this I I really like talking about diets simply because
there's at the end of the day it's so much safer than politics because there's
no military backing up a diet system but you know you talk about politics and
it's
like we have a fucking military to force you to do the shit we want you to do
right versus the other military that's gonna force you the other way but diets
it's like veganism versus carnivore if we're just talking about weight loss the
other thing some of these things get into like the minutia of health if you've
got a
guy who's got a 200 pounds to lose why are we focusing on the minutia of health
I
don't know that that's the right goal if the goal is just weight loss I don't
think
these are the same these are the same conversations yeah I think I mean I think
the variety there's so many different things that need to happen to a person to
force them into action what do you think is the key things is it is it
inspiration
is is motivation is sometimes is it that you don't want to die or you don't
want to
be sick any longer that you're fed up or is it being inspired by a guy like
David
Goggins or Cameron Haynes or someone like that for me for the very first time
in my
life I I was thinking about the future in a way in terms of what I wanted out
of
life versus just like what makes me happy right this second and I was seeing a
girl who I'm now married to we have a bunch of kids and and I couldn't have a
better life like 20 years ago if I described to you the life I wanted in that
moment I've way surpassed that that's awesome congratulations thank you very
much
much yeah I I like I have to take a step back occasionally and go check you out
look what you did yeah that's amazing that's amazing 500 pounds I was not
thinking I can be a dad I can be a husband I could teach little kids how to do
stuff like this was not part of my I can't I could take my wife on a hike I
could go to the beach with her and not you know sit under a towel in the back
because I'm scared of people looking at me these were not the thoughts I was
having so that spark spark of motivation of like what do I want out of life got
me
just so far because after an extreme diet when you've crashed your metabolism
and
you then and by the way the your body is fighting against you tooth and nail
doing
these things because this is your body thinks you're starving to death right
you
know and it's trying to slow everything down slowing everything down um over
long
periods you're not just consuming fat you're consuming fat and lean tissue like
it's fucking tough all your hormones are fucked up your your I forget the name
of
the hormone there's a hormone that makes you hungry this is skyrocketing when
you're on an extreme extremely caloric deficit diet and so then you go to like
just eating like a normal person and you're watching what other people eat and
you're eating this and you're fucking putting on weight again like at a rapid
pace and going like this doesn't make sense I thought I was cured I lost all
this
weight um I I watched a really fascinating TED talk by a guy named Mike
Israel about five years ago four five years ago and in it and I had tried I was
dead
convinced that I was allergic to carbohydrates and so I was like I'll never eat
a
carbohydrate for the rest of my life thought you were allergic to carbohydrate
I was convinced
that everybody yes that everybody was gluten intolerant that the way that we
made bread
in America with all the ingredients was just poisonous to the human body I was
totally convinced
of this and I watched this TED talk by Mike Israel and in it it's called the uh
the dietary
landscape of healthy eating and he just goes over like just be moderate that's
it just like
try to figure out moderation nothing's poisonous nothing's awful like salt if
you have no salt
you can die if if you're if sodium disappears from your diet you can die if you
have too much salt it
can kill you like there's a an amount five grams I think at one time and and
this was I believe this
study was done on small bodies can kill you it can be fatal so is that
poisonous or is it necessary
it's both this is food for me like um the way I was interacting with food the
idea that I'm a machine
like you you're a car guy you're not going to put diesel fuel in your gas car
you're not going to do
that because it's going to break it and and I had to start really thinking
about food in these terms and
going like I just have a bad relationship with food a relationship that is
giving me an outcome I don't want
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