Name: Lara Beitz' 40lb Weight Loss Transformation
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Lara Beitz' 40lb Weight Loss Transformation' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-04-03. Transcript available.

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Yeah, I did all that.
I went outside and I started taking it and I lost weight.
I didn't want to, and I haven't gotten it.
Good.
Aren't you happy you lost weight?
Don't you feel like lighter?
I feel lighter.
That's exactly how I feel.
Like you're moving around?
Yeah, dude.
Well, it's like, it's equivalent to like eight bags of potatoes.
And if I think about what it would be like to carry that around in a backpack,
like through an airport and then get to set it down.
How about take one of those 45-pound plates?
That's a heavy fucking weight.
Like you put on a barbell, one of those big ones.
That's what you lost.
My ankle weights and my hand weights together are 20 pounds.
And if I think about carrying that times two, or even across a room,
I would be tired.
And that's what you were doing.
And I feel so much better.
I mean, I had had back pain from the time that I was a teenager.
I'd had joint pain.
And I thought that I was just going to have it for my whole life
because I didn't think I was heavy enough that it was affecting my joints.
And that pain is all gone.
And it makes sense to me.
Because again, if I carry around a heavy bag through an airport,
like my back will hurt at the end of the day if I do that right now.
And to have to carry that weight around everywhere I go, everything I do,
even just sitting, having that extra weight, like I just don't want it back.
And I think part of it might be because I stopped eating flour and sugar,
which I've heard are inflammatory as well.
So I think part of it might be that.
But the other thing is just getting to set down the weight.
I feel awesome.
I think both are factors.
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, definitely.
It's just logical that the weight's a factor.
But for sure, sugar and flour and any processed foods like that cause
inflammation.
So what did you do for exercise?
I play tennis and swim.
And I do workouts that Stacia Patwell created.
She was a comic.
She ran a show at the store.
And she's a trainer.
And she started doing these classes on Zoom for female comics.
And a bunch of us have had before and after transformations
where like a bunch of fat comics have gotten hot because of her workouts.
She's on to something, dude.
She's so fucking funny.
And she can like work you out for an hour where I'm just like laughing.
I feel like I'm hanging out with a friend.
And she has this specific brand of tough love where she'll like,
she'll call me a pussy like right before I'm about to drop out of a plank.
And she'll be like, the world has enough pussies.
Don't be a bitch.
Don't bitch out.
What is her name again?
Stacia Patwell.
S-T-A-S-I-A-P-A-T-W-E-L-L.
Does she have an Instagram?
Yeah.
And her Instagram is just that.
It's all one word.
Jamie will find it.
She's a fucking monster.
And she called her thing school of thought.
T-H-O-T.
Oh, T-H-O-T.
That's hilarious.
School of thought.
She's a beast, dude.
Is that her right there?
Yeah.
She has the transformations in her highlights.
All right.
She's so fucking funny, dude.
She's nostalgic for Boston in the 90s right now.
Yeah.
She'll yell at you in her like Long Island accent and something about it.
I wouldn't tolerate half the shit she says to me.
Nothing better than East Coast in the 90s.
I'm telling you.
Something that wasn't funny.
Oh, there I am.
Look at that.
Oopsie doopsie.
Bitsy's in a bra.
Uh-oh.
Go to the far right.
Look at her.
Dude, you lost so much weight.
That's crazy.
Got my little cats in the background that I adopted so I wouldn't open my
wrists in a
bathtub.
There we go.
There she is.
I did not know I was that fat.
Boy, do I have egg on my face.
What did you think?
You just didn't check?
I thought I had 25 pounds to lose.
And so I set, I mean, I'm comfortable talking about numbers.
So my top weight was 180.
I set my goal weight at 155.
And now I'm 142.5.
Wow.
And I'm not, I'm in a healthy weight range.
So if my body stops like easily losing weight, then I'll be like, okay, this is
the weight
that my body wants to be.
But it's still, I'm still losing weight and it's not protesting.
I'm certainly not starving myself.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
So it was just a matter of eating the right food and just forcing yourself to
do rigorous
exercise.
Yeah.
I joined a support group for overeaters and I weigh, measure and write down
every single
thing I put in my body and eat balanced portions that were given to me by a dietician.
So I measure out like protein, grains, fruits and vegetables, fats.
And then my goal that I, uh, that I try for is to be in a caloric deficit of
about 250 calories
a day, which averages out to, uh, about a half a pound a week of weight loss.
And I don't do it perfectly, but like that's enough where I'm not starving all
the time.
I'm satiated, but so it's sustainable, but I'm also like steadily losing weight
and it's
been, I mean, I haven't had pizza in a year.
Like I haven't had any added flour, any added sugar in, um, like 10 months.
Well, you're a disciplined person.
You know, I really admire your work ethic and I know I've told you this before
because
you would come to the store with your notebooks.
I'm like, look at your notebook is like, you're fucking like meticulous.
Like all your shit would be like super written out.
And so many comics are so impulsive and sort of scatterbrained and they don't
focus.
And I really admire that you're focused.
I always admired that.
I thought it was cool.
Thank you so much.
I admire that about you too.
So that means so much coming from you.
I admire your work ethic.
Yeah.
I pretty much like took the energy that I had been putting into standup and
just applied
that same thing to this.
Cause it's like, if you really want to do something, why fuck around?
Why waste the effort?
Like what would be the point?
And I spent so long trying to like diet without weighing and measuring and
having like an
intention that it's like, I just put up a shitload of boundaries to where it
was unfuck
upable because I believe in taking like little actions in the direction of the
thing that you
want.
But it doesn't help me if I'm like, I'm going to try to just eat better, which
is such a
general concept.
And then if I'm stepping on the scale once a week, then what happens when my
weight is
up?
Because as it stands now, I'll step on the scale and my weight could be up
three pounds
and that's fine.
And I don't trip because I wrote everything down.
I know that I'm in a caloric deficit and I know it's water or salt, whatever.
I don't understand that stuff.
But then I step on the scale the next week and it'll be down, you know?
And so I thought that like a weight loss chart went like that, but it really
goes like that.
And I think especially for women, I mean, mine's just been up, down, up, down,
up, down.
But the general trend is, you know, if you could take the energy that you like,
the good
that you feel from losing weight and getting healthy and just somehow or
another, like put
it in a VR, like put it in someone's head, like feel, just fucking feel this.
Just feel this.
Ready?
Put it on.
Like, oh my God, I feel so good.
Like, you can get there.
You can get there.
Like, you can get there.
But the problem is everybody wants to get there so quick.
They want to get there immediately.
They want to take a pill.
They want to listen to Dr. Oz.
They want to get there quick.
You can't fucking get there quick.
Yeah.
It doesn't work.
And the crazy thing is like, you got to get sick the same way or you got to get
better
the same way you got sick.
Like, it takes time to get overweight and it takes time to lose weight.
If you're not going to just starve yourself and lose it all because your body's
going to go
in a deficit, you're going to freak out.
Your metabolism is going to crash.
Then when you eat, you're going to pack it on quick because your body's getting
like,
oh my God, we might starve to death.
Like, I have to slow my metabolism down.
Yeah.
I think a huge part of it too is like the action has to be the reward.
So, like, I love doing my workouts because she makes me laugh.
It's built right into my routine.
I eat my oatmeal.
I meditate and then I do one of her workouts and it feels good.
It feels good for my body.
And the same thing with food.
Like, I don't eat most of my favorite foods from before anymore.
But I love everything I do eat because I've learned how to cook stuff, brown
rice, vegetables,
proteins.
I've learned how to cook food the way that it tastes good to me.
And so, I'm not doing workouts I hate.
I'm not eating food that I hate.
And so, it's sustainable.
That's awesome.
I throw this off the table.
You got crazy.
Got a little crazy.
It's sustainable.
Everybody gets electrocuted.
Yeah, it's good to see.
I'm very happy for you.
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