Mark Bell's Power Project - EP. 331 - Ethan Suplee - Childhood Obesity

Episode Date: February 18, 2020

The most requested guest returns to the podcast today to share some of the dark times growing up as a big kid. He and the crew talk about childhood obesity and how difficult life can be for a bigger k...id. Don't miss out on the first episode with Ethan here: https://lnk.to/ethansuplee1 Ethan Suplee is an American Film & TV actor from productions like Remember the Titans, American History X, Wolf of Wall Street, and Boy Meets World. Outside of his on-screen credentials, Ethan is the host of the podcast American Glutton, where he documents hisn weight loss journey (530lbs+ to 260lbs Jacked & Tan style) and helps others do the same. Subscribe to the Podcast on on Platforms! ➢ https://lnk.to/PowerProjectPodcast Visit our sponsors: ➢Icon Meals: http://iconmeals.com/ Use Code "POWERPROJECT" for 10% off ➢Piedmontese Beef: https://www.piedmontese.com/ Use Code "POWERPROJECT" at checkout for 25% off your order plus FREE 2-Day Shipping on orders of $99 ➢Perfect Keto: http://perfectketo.com/powerproject Use Code "POWERPROJECT10" at checkout for $10 off $40 or more! ➢SHOP NOW: https://markbellslingshot.com/ Enter Discount code, "POWERPROJECT" at checkout and receive 15% off all Sling Shots Follow Mark Bell's Power Project Podcast ➢ Insta: https://www.instagram.com/markbellspowerproject ➢ https://www.facebook.com/markbellspowerproject ➢ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mbpowerproject ➢ LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/powerproject/ ➢ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/markbellspowerproject ➢TikTok: http://bit.ly/pptiktok FOLLOW Mark Bell ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marksmellybell ➢ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarkBellSuperTraining ➢ Twitter: https://twitter.com/marksmellybell ➢ Snapchat: marksmellybell ➢Mark Bell's Daily Workouts, Nutrition and More: https://www.markbell.com/ Follow Nsima Inyang ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nsimainyang/ Podcast Produced by Andrew Zaragoza ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamandrewz

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Starting point is 00:00:00 What a podcast. We are ecstatic to announce that we've teamed up with our boy Todd Abrams and his company, Icon Meals. There you go. Good air horn. In case you guys ain't knowing, Icon Meals is a food prep service company that will ship directly to your door. Oh, man. They got some really good stuff. And now they're adding some keto stuff to their lineup.
Starting point is 00:00:18 They got some salmon. They got some burgers. My favorite thing to eat is they just have like a bacon cheeseburger. That's my favorite thing. I just throw that thing in the microwave for three, four minutes. You know, I, I try my best to have like my food always like ready to like cook and stuff, but sometimes you just mess up. You forget to thaw something out or whatever. These hang out in my freezer. They're ready to rock. And it just takes about four minutes, throw them in the microwave and they're ready to go. Yeah. Especially if you're super busy. Like I have a ton of clients that are super busy.
Starting point is 00:00:47 They work in an office all day. Yeah. They try to cook, but it's not always feasible because of kids, et cetera. So icon meals and like these meal prep companies are something that I always suggest because the meals first off, especially from icon taste amazing.
Starting point is 00:00:59 You can warm it up real quick and it's just great for on the go. The other thing I like is the family aspect of it. When I order from them and have ordered in the past, you know, I'll get my kids, they have like a brisket quesadilla. They've got a bunch of stuff. It's kind of hard to trick your kids into like eating things that are healthy,
Starting point is 00:01:14 but there's a lot more protein in most of the stuff that they have. And even like the peanut butter and jelly, I think it has like 41 grams of protein or something crazy like that. Yeah. Yeah. You guys need to head over to iconmeals.com right now. Create your own custom meal plan or order off of the weekly meals at checkout. Enter promo code PowerProject for 10% off your entire order.
Starting point is 00:01:33 Yeah. So I think a bavette steak, for people that don't know, I think it might be a little bit similar to a flat iron steak. But the bavette steak, man, that thing is really, really tender. So what I did the other day with it is I just – i showed it on my instagram so make sure you guys check it out so you can learn how to cook it but i just chopped it up with some scissors i threw it on my uh my grill and or griddle rather and it cooked up in like i think about three minutes whoa it cooked up super fast it was 16 ounces of meat 16 of fat, one gram of fat per ounce. And it was 100 grams of protein.
Starting point is 00:02:11 Country grammar. Wow. 100 grams of protein. That's incredible. That's why I look so jacked today. Yeah. So it's not the steroids. It's the beef.
Starting point is 00:02:19 But isn't it kind of like almost blasphemy to cut it with scissors and do all that? I think people get all worried about the way that you cut up, you know, the way you cut your meat and the way that you cook it and stuff. But I actually have been using scissors for a while. And if you cook it before you cut it, you get the luxury of having the meat like right away because it cooks so fast. And I know some people are like, oh, you know, it's going to be more tender. It's going to be more juicy when you cook it this other way. But it's just a different experience cutting it this way. The other thing I learned is that sometimes with like a grass-fed meat, which Certified Piedmontese has a lot of grass-fed, grass-finished meat as well,
Starting point is 00:02:56 sometimes there's going to be some parts that are kind of tough. And what we know from like Paul Saladino and Dr. Baker, like those guys want you to commit. They want you to eat the whole thing, right? They want you to eat even some of the weird wiry parts. But when you cut it up a certain way, you get to eat all that stuff without it being like weird or stringy or any of that stuff.
Starting point is 00:03:13 So it works out really good. I love it. Yeah, Certified Piedmontese, the absolute best beef on the planet. Head over to piedmontese.com. That's P-I-E-D-M-O-N-T-E-S-E.com at checkout, enter promo code POWERPROJECT for 25% off your order. And if your order is $99 or more, you get free two-day shipping.
Starting point is 00:03:30 Can you believe that? 100 grams of protein. And 16 grams of fat. It doesn't look like you're in belief, man. It still shocks me. It still does shock me. But it's true. 100 grams.
Starting point is 00:03:41 Wow. His pants are are gonna come off again just halfway what are you talking about anyways let's just get back
Starting point is 00:03:54 to this podcast I don't know what Jessica's over here spewing about yeah everybody listen to daddy over there why'd you call me daddy you weirdo
Starting point is 00:04:02 see what I mean about these two very frisky. This was highly flirtatious. They're after each other big time. That's what I think's going on, but I don't know. Just all kind of speculation. Hey, I got a question about acting, because I sometimes wonder, like, when you shoot a scene and it's funny,
Starting point is 00:04:22 or even if something just strikes you funny, maybe the scene's not that funny, how the hell do you make it through it when you start getting giggly and start getting silly? Because sometimes once you get the giggles like that, you can't stop. Do you have to walk off set sometimes and regroup? Sometimes you do have to walk off and regroup and sometimes um they will have you they'll notice like if you and i are doing it and you and i are making each other laugh they'll be like okay you fuck off it's like in school you gotta be separated right now say it to like we're gonna draw an x on the camera or with tape it gets that bad sometimes yeah yeah it gets bad damn that's pretty cool i always wanted to know that because i was like how do they how do they sometimes get through this stuff?
Starting point is 00:05:07 You know, sometimes on like Saturday Night Live, they might just kind of play through it. Yeah. It's live and they laugh and then it makes everyone else laugh and it actually makes the skit kind of funnier. I love it when they break on Saturday Night Live. It's some of my favorite parts where you start to see them laugh. Yeah. One guy's just laughing. He can't do it anymore.
Starting point is 00:05:25 That's where you start to see them laugh. Yeah. One guy's just laughing. He can't do it anymore. That's fantastic. So we just talked to you about your weight loss journey and, you know, being, you know, 550 pounds or whatever you weighed at the top. You're not really sure. And you got all the way down to 220. And then you found a happy medium where you're a little happier with your current body weight, but you still have a lot of goals and stuff and you want to get abs and things like that. But for this show, I'd love to really talk about, you know, the difficulties of growing up being heavy. And I think you mentioned to me that you were around 10 years old when you were 200 pounds. around 10 years old when you were 200 pounds. Some of the information that we have here says you kind of recall being put on a diet at a very young age. And all this is very hard stuff to
Starting point is 00:06:11 talk about. And I know a lot of people have maybe kids in their family that struggle, or maybe they are young themselves and they're struggling. And there's just so much that's tied into all this. And when you watch Biggest Loser or a show like that, you're kind of sometimes like people that have never been in those shoes before, they may not understand. Like, why are these people crying? Why don't they just eat less and move around more, right? Like they don't, maybe don't have a lot of compassion towards it because they might not understand it.
Starting point is 00:06:42 So I think it's great to have a resource of somebody that's been through it. What are some of your early recollections of being maybe a little different than the other kids? When I was five, I went and stayed with my grandparents and they lived in Vermont and it was like a summer thing where I was just going to spend some time with them for the summer. And at that point, I don't think I'd ever had any perception that I was different than the other kids. I didn't think of myself as fat or overweight or anything And they, I had to, they had, they, they, I remember their reaction when they saw me was like shock. Maybe they didn't see you for a while. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:32 They hadn't seen me for a year or something like that. They saw me, they were in shock. They had me take my clothes off and get on a scale and they were just, there was so much. and they were just there was so much and by the way my being overweight at five when i look at pictures i see myself as looking total i'm like that's a normal looking kid i well you know compared to what i became i wasn't just an American kid that maybe enjoyed food a little bit. Right. I wasn't spilling out of my clothes at five. And then there was a very deliberate intent that they were openly talking to me about restricting my food. openly talking to me about restricting my food. And, you know, my grandfather, my favorite meal to this day that I have such fond memories of are my grandfather's lasagna. And they made this lasagna the day I arrived and then gave me a little piece of it and said, that's it. You can't
Starting point is 00:08:43 have any more. And I remember the first time I ever snuck food was in their kitchen, getting another serving of this lasagna and eating it really quickly. And I think that's where kind of it began for me. Now, my parents were super into health food and we were always kind of on something but it wasn't they weren't talking to me like you have to lose weight my dad did say if you get to be 200 pounds i'm putting you on a diet and at 10 i was 200 pounds and that and then i did i think it was called opti fast at the time maybe there's some version of it now called slim fast kind of like a liquid yeah basically liquid diet and i didn't hate doing that but i i didn't do it for very long and my mom was like this can't be healthy we're not going to do this and i remember going but but it's working every time i go into this place i'm less weight so why stop yeah losing
Starting point is 00:09:41 weight and uh being a child they don't sound like they go together. Right. I think most people would think, no, that's wrong. Your kid shouldn't be, your kid shouldn't even want to lose 10 pounds. But if they're really heavy, I don't know where else he would go. Yeah. And the first memories I have of like feeling, so it was five where I had suddenly, uh, some kind of, uh, introversion about my body and, and how I looked. And I was like, Oh, suddenly there's going to be a lot of control and things I don't want. Um, but I also remember the first time, like outside of my grandparents feeling uncomfortable was being 10 and you know whatever
Starting point is 00:10:29 i guess that's like elementary school walking by the preschool kids who have no filter and who are all kind of like what's wrong with him or look at him you know know, that, so I would avoid preschool little kids cause they, they don't hold back, you know, but, um, so that's, those are my first memories of being fat. And were your grandparents just, uh, well-meaning people or they mean people or what, what do you think? I, I think they were well-meaning. I think they looked at me and saw something that they didn't think was right and they were trying to correct it in the way that they knew how to
Starting point is 00:11:13 correct it um they weren't mean i mean i i didn't like having my food restricted um but i don't think it was like an abusive like i'm not going there again spend time with them again yeah no but and then i and then i and then i would wind up going there again and and and it was always a thing yeah when you were growing up like i don't know like did you have access to these foods all the time like were they in the house and you had access to it or did you have to like did you go out and get it somewhere else like how did that they in the house and you had access to it or did you have to like did you go out and get it somewhere else like how did that work in the house in in well like there there wasn't a lot of like sugar and stuff in my house as a kid because my mom was super into like health food yeah like the the the most hippie granola-y version of a whole foods would be what
Starting point is 00:12:09 we were buying then it was prior to whole foods existing but there were little health food stores that we would shop in so we our cereal tasted like crap and was like not sugary um but i would just eat to eat much more than i needed to eat and i would you know when people weren't looking i would eat more and if i was told to clear the table i would eat food off of somebody else's plate and stuff like that okay yeah as a young kid for me and something that's still hard for me to like overcome is you know i just always had a habit when i was done with dinner i always wanted to eat more yeah i don't know why because it's like i just ate you know it's it's almost like it's almost like when you wake up in the morning there's people that are like i need to have a cup of coffee like you just slept slept for like eight hours like that's not enough like why do you need
Starting point is 00:13:02 a cup of coffee and i think sometimes these thoughts that we have are they're kind of irrational but they're hard to control and if you're not aware of them then you and you you end up you know gaining weight because you're just like you know i think for me i think a lot of what happens even today when i have a meal i always kind of like want the opposite you know i have something kind of salty and something kind of savory especially because i don't eat a lot of carbohydrates. And I'm like thinking about, man, it'd be great to get something sweet to kind of finish things off. Yeah. And that's not like a big person thing. Like my daughter, she's in amazing shape and she's 11, but she'll do the same thing too.
Starting point is 00:13:37 Like we'll have dinner and she'll like kind of poke through the fridge and like, hey, what are you doing? Are you still hungry? She's like, well, I want something sweet now. So I think you're right mark it's just the opposite of whatever we just had you know is kind of what our body's like hey you should probably go tackle some of that now right yeah i think it's a real problem with availability you know that if something is available to us i i and and i don't know if this is universally true, but for me, whatever was available, I would consume it.
Starting point is 00:14:07 Even if it wasn't my favorite food, I was eating everything on my plate and then maybe some more. You know what I mean? I wasn't, I wasn't eating. There was no like, I'm going to eat until I feel like I'm not hungry. And once I feel like I'm not hungry, I'm done. That didn't happen. It was just what's here. I'm not hungry. And once I feel like I'm not hungry, I'm done. That didn't happen. It was just what's here.
Starting point is 00:14:26 I'm going to consume it. When you were in school, were you the biggest person? Yeah. By a lot. And, uh, by a lot.
Starting point is 00:14:34 And what was that? I mean, what was that? That must've been difficult. What was that like? It there. When I was a kid, I,
Starting point is 00:14:42 I don't think that there was, uh, there were not a lot of other obese kids. So it was just me in my school and I remember not seeing kids that looked like me wherever I went. looked like me wherever I went. Um, so I, you know, I always just kind of thought that this was a unique thing to me. You know what I mean? It wasn't, I had no idea that, and, and, you know, I knew other kids weren't eating as much as me, but I wasn't, I wasn't thinking in those terms, me, but I wasn't, I wasn't thinking in those terms. You know, I don't think as a kid, we're often thinking through stuff as we're just kind of operating on impulses sometimes. I also think as a kid, like you just want to kind of, uh, you want to kind of blend in, you know, that's, that's kind of the hope for a lot of kids.
Starting point is 00:15:40 They just don't want to be doing something weird or look a certain way. They just't want to like end up kind of sticking out like a sore thumb and and uh and look different from the pack did you get teased a lot you get made fun of a lot not not i mean you're a pretty big person in general yeah no i i i there were a handful of times if somebody said something, somebody called me fat or something like that, we would just have a fight. And so kids didn't do that very much because I would just get mad and fight them. So there are only a few times in my life where I can remember that happening. You know, I, I,
Starting point is 00:16:29 and I just would get into a fight with somebody about it. Did like the early exposure to dieting when you were 10, did that shit, like, I guess, did it change the way you looked at dieting and weight loss as you were getting older? Did it make you in the back of your head,
Starting point is 00:16:44 any resistant, have any resistance to it or not really? No, I think there was a huge period of my life. I think I went way off the rails when I got a car and I had some freedom and suddenly it wasn't just the food that was in my house, which I was still overeating. It was now I can have the food in my house and I can also go eat fast food, which was not something we did a lot of as a kid. that kind of moment of maybe this person is judging me that lasts like a minute. They, they take your money and they give you the food and then you drive away really quickly. So the, the idea of going into a fast food restaurant and ordering what I would want to order and sitting in there and eating it, that was never going to happen. I would rather have this one uncomfortable moment where they could see me in my car we could have the transaction and then i'd even just go pull into the parking lot and sit and eat it i
Starting point is 00:17:52 still feel super guilty doing stuff like that even when if i'm just like feeling like just eating whatever you know i go to the grocery store and you start loading up on some candy and ice cream and people like what the fuck's going on over here totally like you're you feel like you're being judged and you maybe rightfully so. Maybe people are kind of like, Hey man, that's a lot of food. Yeah. Yeah. No, I know.
Starting point is 00:18:10 I putting rice in my cart, buying bread. I'm always like, are people looking, you know, like this is, I still have. An alarm goes off. Yeah. I have years of thinking this stuff is like going to make you fat. And here's a fat guy buying a big bag of 20 pound bag of rice. And it's like, ah, you know, I wonder what that kind of paradox is, is because like, you know, a lot of parents when they're raising their kids, they keep them away
Starting point is 00:18:36 from like a lot of sodas and sugary foods. And you said your mom was health conscious and my mom too. She was super health conscious. I never had soda, didn't eat much fast food but eat once i got the freedom to go and like have that stuff there's a period of time where i just ate a fuck ton of it i could i couldn't control myself because it wasn't something i was allowed as a kid so i'm trying to wonder like what what should you do or how should you help kids out in that realm like do you think you would have been better off if you were educated? Like, did your mom try to educate you about food or did she just give you this and tell you not to eat that? I don't think I ever got an education in what the use of protein is in the body, what the use of carbs are, what the use of fat is and what the use of fiber is. And then whatever
Starting point is 00:19:22 micronutrients you need. i my mom you know if we got sick she'd hand me a handful of vitamins which i think only discolored my p that's all i got out of that you know what i mean there was no there was no i don't remember you know physical education or health class i don't remember ever talking about those things. I remember the food pyramid, but it was basically just you need to eat these things in these ratios. But they're not even that well-defined. Yeah. They talk about it in just super general terms.
Starting point is 00:19:59 They do talk about calories and protein and stuff. They don't really give you any details on actionable items that you could potentially utilize to be healthier really none at all i i didn't know any of that i i knew periodically we would have this aha moment collectively in los angeles of this is the culprit we're all gonna kind of like the health conscious people are all gonna generally stop consuming this and and then nothing would change for me you know what i mean i i would be the guy who wouldn't his mom would not allow nightshades or saturated fat or you know egg yolks are bad and then suddenly egg yolks are good and we're adding egg yolks to our omelet.
Starting point is 00:20:46 And like it's so confusing rather than here's what your body does with protein. Here's what your body does with carbohydrates. Here's what your body does with fats. Here's the way your body deals with excess calories. Here's how your body deals with a caloric deficit. Like that for me would have been a valuable health lesson or a valuable physical education, like physical education. I don't remember being actually educated on anything. It was just like run laps. You're
Starting point is 00:21:18 going to move and you're going to have a kind of a not nice guy yelling at you and telling you you're not working hard enough. Like, why are we doing this? Where's the actual education? Yeah, I get you can be training your body and that worked for some kids that did not work for me. And does anybody even know how to run? You know, it's like, did you even show like running is kind of like an innate thing. Like we know how to run, like skip, jump, like there's certain things you kind of know how to do, but someone can teach you a more efficient way of doing it. And they can say, hey, like this is a, this is a better way to run. And the reason why it's good to learn a better way to run is so we don't hurt ourselves.
Starting point is 00:21:55 And the reason why running is good is because it can be very healthy. It can help you burn calories. And if you make a habit of running or swimming or any of these activities that we show you, these could be options. The more options you have, the kind of, if you could ride your bike, you could lift some weights. The more options you have, the more likely you are to probably stay active and to keep moving throughout. It'd be great if you could move from now until, you know, the day you pass on. Yeah. The options are key because we're not all the same. So if there's something I like to do that you don't and we're supposed to spend some
Starting point is 00:22:32 time actually moving our bodies around, why should we be doing the same thing that maybe neither of us like to do? You know what I mean? I never liked running laps. I never did run laps. I would walk very slowly and get yelled at. But like, why was that my physical, that, that, that to me is not a good physical education. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:22:53 When I talk to my kids now, we talk about how enhance, how the body does better when you move it more. You know what I mean? And like, let's figure out stuff to do. body does better when you move it more. You know what I mean? And like, let's figure out stuff to do. Okay. You want to make Tik TOK videos as your form, you know, as your form of exercise for that's perfectly fine. You can dance for two hours if you want to, you're moving. That's great. You know, somebody's going to like something. And how do you explain nutrition to your kids? Is there, And how do you explain nutrition to your kids? Is it like a lead by example type but also having come from a, a basically a dry household as a kid. Um, and then having the problems I had with drugs and really feeling like I was not able to talk to my parents
Starting point is 00:23:59 about it. Um, though, though I'm sure, and I know that they were like, please talk to us. We're not gonna, it's not going to be a problem. Just talk to us. I just didn't feel comfortable. I'm trying to create an environment in our house where there's nothing off limits. As long as you talk to us about it, you know what I mean? If I get a call from one of my kids saying I'm at a party and everyone's drunk and I don't know how to get home, they're not going to be in trouble because they
Starting point is 00:24:31 told me about it. Now, if they get in a car with a drunk person, somebody is going to get their head torn off, you know, verbally. Yeah. So like you're just trying to keep as like, uh, the communication as open as possible, keep the dialogue open so they can feel like they can come with you with anything. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And on their terms. Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 00:24:50 Okay. Yeah. With my children, my son, he's 16. And with him, he's asked questions about drugs before. asked questions about you know drugs before and rather than being like drugs are bad you know rather than jumping down his throat you know he would he would ask it in today's you know in from from a lot of stuff going on today uh people talk pretty openly about um psychedelics and stuff like that joe rogan and people like that right and so those were some of his questions and he's like oh i heard it can enhance this i I heard it can do that.
Starting point is 00:25:25 And I said, well, absolutely. I said, oh, there's a lot of, there's, I said, some of the greatest music, some of the greatest art, some of the greatest screenplays, some of the, some really amazing things have come out of people being high. And they've come out of people being drunk. But I said, a lot of those things can spiral out of control where you're no longer in control and they can also cause a lot of problems. I said, you know, you lost, or I said, I lost my uncle to it. You lost your uncle to it. You almost lost another uncle to it. Um, there's a lot of drug and alcohol addiction in the family.
Starting point is 00:25:58 And so it's just something that you should always know that, uh, you know, I, I'm kind of a believer that it sort of does run in the family. And so if you ever think about doing any of those things, you should be very cautious. You should be really paying attention. And, you know, then we just, it just started up more conversation. We just started talking about other stuff. And he was like, you know, I don't really think I'm even that interested in it. But he just, he just said, I think it's really neat that it can expand your mind and stuff like that. He's like, I think it's kind of cool.
Starting point is 00:26:26 Yeah. I think it's important to be able to talk. I think the minute, especially with kids that we just build a wall and say, this whole subject is taboo. We shouldn't talk about it. It's just bad. I know for me as a kid, that would just make me more interested in that. And, and so I, I want to do anything but that. So really stuff like that is like, it's all kind of fair game in our house.
Starting point is 00:26:55 We just want to be able to talk about it. Because you had like a bad experience with like drugs and alcohol when your kids, maybe when they did come to you with that type of stuff, how do you approach that with them? Do you tell them about your past and what you've dealt with or like, yeah, how do you deal with that? Yeah. I mean, there's some things where I would say like, look, there are some drugs that really are not good for you that I can't, I've never heard a sane argument for. I'm, I'm totally, I can, I've heard great arguments for legalizing them, but I've not heard great arguments for taking them. The rates of addiction are super high. So I've had those conversations with my kids, but then also, I mean, I have kids in college
Starting point is 00:27:36 who we've had conversations about certain drugs that I very openly cannot participate in. Yeah. And I'm like, let's talk about your experience with those. What was it like? Now, if I start to see your grades slipping, maybe we have to have another conversation. And I don't even have to say that. I'm just like aware of this. And by the way, I'm playing it super cool with them.
Starting point is 00:28:01 Meanwhile, I'm terrified and going like, I hope what I'm doing is right. It has been so far. We haven't had any big problems, but we've had, we've gone through that. And like, you know, thankfully I haven't seen that kind of like a propensity for addiction in my kids that I have, but my, my wife is also very temperate. Um, so I'm hoping that more of her is rubbing off on them than me yeah she might be uh maybe more aggressive or more to the point uh with some of those things yeah i think she just comes from more of a place of certainty and and and and we're we've kind of made this
Starting point is 00:28:42 decision to allow our kids you know we're're not going to criminalize anything within our household. But her and I have had conversations where it's like, look, if we start to see a problem, clearly we're going to have to step in and say, this is a problem. That hasn't happened. Yeah, with my kids, too. with my kids too, I've been sharing with them since they've been very young about, I started out by just saying, Hey, look, you know, if, if you continue to eat that, if you continue to eat some of these foods, like I just flat out told them, it's not good. I just flat out would say they're bad. I would flat out tell them that it makes them fat because kids understand like black and white, you know, that's not very healthy for you.'s not a great option um i would say things like um you already had a soda today you know like let's try to balance this out and make sure we're
Starting point is 00:29:31 not you know eating too much like they've known from a very young age and now they're they're older now so i don't say any of that stuff they're teenagers like it just would wouldn't be appropriate but they know from when they were younger all the stuff that I've been teaching them along the way and I have said, like, they'll ask questions. They'll say, hey, does this make me fat? And I'll say, hey, let's back up a second. Let's talk about that and let's make some sense of it. And I'll say nothing really makes you fat except for yourself, except for like overeating the food, you know, the ice cream that you have. There's a lot of potential to overeat that ice cream.
Starting point is 00:30:04 There's a lot of potential to overeat your calories for the day and have that end up being body fat. But ice cream is fucking awesome. You know, let's enjoy the ice cream and not really sweat it too much. But we don't want to have a lot of influence of processed foods every day. And what I do share with them is I say, I hope that you don't ever have to really be on a diet. Because if you don't eat fried food, you don't eat fast food, you don't eat a lot of desserts and you don't need a lot of processed foods, you don't really need, and you eat, you know, you eat an adequate amount of protein.
Starting point is 00:30:35 You're going to be okay. That's your plan. Like, that's it. You don't have to. And of course, yeah, we need some movement, but like those, that's like four or five rules. It's not that bad. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:44 That's not that hard to follow. And especially if you do it your whole life, you never accumulated a lot of body fat. So now you're not up against it and you have to always figure out the next latest, greatest diet. Yeah. I made the mistake with my littlest kids from the time they were babies, basically, when we'd drive around and we'd see McDonald's or something like that. I'd say, we don't eat that. That's poison. And I said this to them over and over. And at some point we were on a ski trip and you got kids and the lines for food are insane. And so I'm like, I'm going to
Starting point is 00:31:18 take the little kids. Well, I'm not going to deal with this craziness. So we're going to go find something, drive around. Restaur around restaurants are full i see a mcdonald's and i'm like the kids are about to turn into gremlins i gotta get something in them and we pull in and they're sitting in the back of this car and one of them starts crying and i'm like what is going on with you and she said you're gonna poison us that's crazy and so i think they're happy and and this was just me going like i'm gonna try i'm gonna try to lead them away from this meanwhile mcdonald's has fantastic french fries you know chicken nuggets are delicious like yeah and it also has options where the calories don't have to be that crazy right you get i think like
Starting point is 00:32:02 a egg mcmuffin or something like that it's i don't know it's like under 300 calories i think i think it's fairly reasonable now if you get the hash browns and giant orange juice with it maybe you're running into some problems but they do have options there that aren't too crazy yeah i i think i had gone to an extreme that i shouldn't have gone to you you know what i mean i think there there can be a path where it's like if you learn to make good decisions i i think your protein thing is really really valid as long as you're if you front load the protein you're not going to be as hungry for other stuff your body's going to be nourished like that's really smart um you know and and and as long as we're not being completely insane on something where like all the food we're eating is fast food or none of the food we're eating, we pretending like I was that it's truly poison, which I think that if you're getting a hundred percent of your calories for McDonald's, you're doing it wrong. Like, I don't think that's healthy, but I think there has to be, I don't think it's actually poison, you know?
Starting point is 00:33:05 Yeah. And trying to have, um, good options for your children is hugely important, you know, rather than buying some weird bastardized version of cereal, just don't have cereal, just, you know, explain like, Hey, look, if you, you know, want something in the morning that represents cereal, you can have some oatmeal with some brown sugar and some butter in it. But let's not – we're just not even going to buy cereal. It's not an option. But you can have potatoes. You can have fruit.
Starting point is 00:33:34 You can have cottage cheese. You can have milk. I mean, there's so many good, healthy kind of natural options that you can eat to the point where you don't really need a lot of those other i realize that i realize that there's like snack foods there's like cheez-its and things like that but you know kind of the honest truth on some of those things you don't really need them for any particular reason there's they're they're completely unnecessary let's just say what it is right however if your kids still want those things and you want your kids to be like other kids and not feel weird that they have weird food with them uh maybe you try to put them in single
Starting point is 00:34:11 serving packets or maybe you buy them in single serving packets so it's like there's 100 calories here's your turkey and cheese sandwich so we have a nice source of protein here's some yogurt you know here's a couple pieces of like celery and carrots or whatever you know and then they have a meal that's start and and some milk and they have a meal that starts to look like uh something that has a decent amount of protein in it still satiating and satisfying because they get some of those other flavors of eating you know goldfish or cheez-its or whatever and they yeah and they feel like they're not the odd man out. Yeah. Which I never got, I never got Cheez-Its and I always felt weird and I still, I was still fat. So it's like, there's, I think there's gotta be a healthy balance. And, and I think accessibility is super key because for a kid, kid's not going out to the drive-thru at five years old it's just the kids eating whatever you give it you know too much celebrating too i think oh you know we're just going out this one
Starting point is 00:35:10 time but it's like well you were out yesterday too and two days ago was so-and-so's birthday and the day before that was christmas like you know we're we're celebrating like what are we what are we celebrating right and why are we celebrating in such a destructive way? And why is every celebration about consuming food? Like, why don't we go on a hike as a celebration? You know what I mean? Like, with our day off. Why isn't it that? Yeah, the celebrating is out of hand.
Starting point is 00:35:38 Out of hand. It's really interesting how, and I'll hear this a lot, especially on, uh, parents that are trying to like, uh, change their lifestyle and, and get healthier themselves. They won't allow themselves to eat certain things, but they'll still have certain food in the house for the kids. And you'll, you'll ask, well, why is that? They're all, you know, my kid likes to eat that. But if you wouldn't feed that to yourself, then why are you necessarily keeping this here for your child? It's kind of warped. Like you're taking care of that being you're gonna have let them have these things that even yourself you wouldn't let yourself have a lot of that too yeah it's kind of odd it is yeah well i i remember with babies with little kids hearing a lot of like well you're gonna gain weight because you're
Starting point is 00:36:22 just gonna eat their food and their food is always going to be like pasta and macaroni and cheese and chicken nuggets and stuff. And I, and I was just kind of like, I don't eat that. That's not what I eat. Why would I give that to my kid? I did wind up like, I'm not saying I wound up not doing it, but I think you're, I think you're really right. It's like when i present my kid with a nice salad and a baked chicken breast and and some sweet potato or rice or something like that they're very happy they love a nice healthy meal uh they also like pizza you know what i mean and and it's on me what they eat because they're not getting pizza on their own right and it's just more convenient sometimes for people to, you know,
Starting point is 00:37:06 give their kids kind of like, you know, they just heat up a frozen pizza. That's true. You know, and it's like, well, they, and, you know, the other thing with your children though too is like, they're not going to starve, you know, they're smart. And, you know, this, like, I remember my parents saying like, that's what's for dinner. Right.
Starting point is 00:37:21 And I'm like, I don't want to eat that. And they said, all right, you're dismissed. And then it's like, well, then you try to go in the kitchen again and there, you know, you don't have other options, you know? And so I think that sometimes you do have to take that hard stance. It might not be comfortable, but your kid at seven is not going to know his best dietary options. He's going to have a lot of impulses and see how his friends react.
Starting point is 00:37:48 He's going to see commercials on TV all day long about all these foods. You're going to see these foods everywhere all the time, and they're not going to be able to have any, they're not going to be able to make sensible decisions. Yeah, and I think that we turn over responsibility to our children to feed themselves, think that we turn over responsibility to our children to feed themselves and it usually begins with stuff like cereal or a microwave pizza or a microwave burrito or something like that that's easy for a younger person to figure out doing like okay cereal is just pouring stuff in a bowl this microwave thing is just pressing a few buttons i don't actually have to let them
Starting point is 00:38:22 use knives and turn on fire and stuff like that and so and then you couple that with the accessibility and you couple that with convenience and you couple that with how much celebrating we do and it's like a recipe for people being overweight and one convenient hack is to you know just try to have fruits around and like they can go bad and stuff like that but but you got to just, you know, hopefully they eat enough of them. So it's not a huge problem, but if your kid ate like two oranges or something, you know, it's a decent amount of food to get through, you know, if you have options in your fridge that are allowing them to reach for some of these things as snacks. I mean, they're absolutely delicious. I think you were mentioning earlier,
Starting point is 00:39:06 you said your kids have never turned down like a fruit salad. Never. And who would? Who would turn it down? They're amazing. They taste really good. Throw some cinnamon on there or throw some cream on there
Starting point is 00:39:15 or something like that and it's outstanding. Yeah. You put a little lemon on a fruit salad and let it sit for a little bit, it almost creates its own syrup. You know what I mean? It's like a canned fruit salad. It's really good. And all you've done is put some acid on it
Starting point is 00:39:29 from some lemon. You know what I mean? Like it's super easy. Those hacks are great. I've done diets where I did, I do a little lemon and, and, uh, and even, um, cinnamon on a sliced apple. And suddenly you've got something that's not quite an apple pie, but those flavors are there. You know what I mean? Like you can do that. And kids will like that. I like that. Was learning how to cook. Was that something that, uh, that maybe, maybe helped you? Or I don't even know if you did learn how to cook, but you know, learning that you can make a healthy options tastes good. Was that part of a process or did your wife mainly handle the food no i mainly handled the food i i went kind of the wrong direction as like a a guy who uh is a an addict and who wanted to like still have some contact with the thing i had given up
Starting point is 00:40:19 when i went on my um uh liquid diet almost 20 years ago, 18 years ago, I watched Food Network quite a bit and would try to recreate these meals. So suddenly I was cooking all this stuff. Like, what do I want to eat today? I want to eat cassoulet with, you know, sausages and beans and duck fat and all of this. I'm going to make that for my family. I'm not going to eat it, but I'm going to cook it for them. Fresh made pasta and all of this. I'm going to make that for my family. I'm not going to eat it, but I'm going to cook it for them. Um, fresh made pasta and all of this.
Starting point is 00:40:47 And, and so there was a lot of time that I spent cooking, making stuff taste really good. I now try to not make anything taste too good for myself. And suddenly my family is feeling that burden too, because they'll be like, what's for dinner. And I'll say a chicken breast and rice with no, because they'll be like, what's for dinner? And I'll say
Starting point is 00:41:05 a chicken breast and rice with no seasoning. And they're like, why are you torturing us? You know what I mean? And I'm, I'm like, this is what I've cooked. I've cooked 20 chicken breasts and 20 cups of rice and you can have whatever you want. I think from like an evolutionary standpoint, like that's kind of the way that we're meant to eat and once you start to mix a lot of flavors together now you're overriding the body's ability to identify like hey you had enough yeah start to that's like the dorito effect right you know you can't stop eating them you can't only have one type of deal and you don't want your food to be gross by any means you don't want it to be too bland but uh you know if you start to mix in a lot of different flavors, then you end up potentially being able to overeat and even overeat on something that's healthy.
Starting point is 00:41:49 Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Chicken teriyaki. It's a lot easier to eat too much chicken teriyaki than it is to eat chicken and rice with no sauce on it. When you look back at being a kid, what do you think would have been maybe, other than the education aspect that we talked about, what could have been something that I guessed wouldn't have allowed you to gain as much weight as you did? What do you think an influence or an influence your parents could have had that would have changed that for you? I want to say both my parents worked. And so I think back, if I had been more active with them, if we had done more stuff.
Starting point is 00:42:28 Listen, I say that, and it's possible that my dad was constantly trying to get me outside to play ball with him. But I just think that I didn't spend enough time outside actively. That wasn't important to me. And then growing up, it was never important to me. I didn't have that feeling of total wellbeing that I get now when I'm active. I never remember experiencing that as a kid. So I think if I had kind of tapped into that more earlier, and I don't think it works when you're telling a kid you have to run around the track monotonously for no reason just do it because i said to i think it involves creating a game
Starting point is 00:43:14 out of it somehow yeah they dive for a ball and they're like yeah playing volleyball ain't half bad right it's kind of cool and they spend an hour doing it yeah yeah yeah i think it's um you know when it when it comes when it comes to parenting i think uh we had uh a very very strong power lifter uh on our podcast at one point his name is jp price and jp weighed like mid 400s or so and he and he's done a great job losing a lot of weight as well but he thought a major contributing factor and i never really heard anybody say this before but he said exactly what you just said right there. Both his parents worked and, you know, he, he's a believer kind of like in some old school principles. And he's like, I think having mom at home kind of cooking the meals and kind of, or somebody regulating, uh,
Starting point is 00:44:01 the nutrition he thinks is really impactful. And if you, if you look at what has happened in America, there are more situations where both parents are out of the house, where both parents are working. Now, you know, we're fortunate where more people are working. Some people are working from home and stuff like that too. But that has to have an impact. Like there's not someone there to really cook the meal. The kid's at school all day.
Starting point is 00:44:24 The kid probably didn't get breakfast. The kid's probably very hungry, probably ate some junk at school. They're insanely hungry as soon as they come home. And then even if somebody does cook something, the kid barely wants to eat hardly any breakfast because they just they snacked like a madman as soon as they got through the door. They don't eat hardly any breakfast, but there's still hardly any dinner and they're still hungry and then what do they do they want dessert yeah you know and it just keeps starting the cycle over so it's like they're very um i don't think people identify this but they're very like malnourished even though they could potentially still be overeating they could potentially be adding body fat but they still don't have the
Starting point is 00:45:04 nutrients necessary to like to feel satisfied they certainly don't have the nutrients necessary to like, to feel satisfied. They certainly don't have the protein. That's for sure. Yeah. Yeah. I think all those could be factors. I don't know what the solution is if both parents have to work. So I don't know, you know, that's a, that's a real tricky one, but somebody, I know that somebody has got to be taking care of the kids and thinking these things no i've heard a lot of oh i was just saying it's just like what about just something as simple as like icon meals like when i grew up we had frozen corn dogs in the fridge that's what i went for frozen burritos well it would have been awesome if there was something like icon meals around back when i
Starting point is 00:45:45 was a kid to be like oh throw an actual meal in the microwave like a meal prep company or something yeah yeah exactly yeah you ever mess with that or no i don't know icon i know but do you ever mess with meal prep companies or you still handle all your own stuff i i've tried um i tried meal prep companies i tried i tried I tried something, but I, but I was doing keto and I didn't think they, they, this was years ago and they didn't, they didn't understand those principles.
Starting point is 00:46:12 I think they probably know them now, but now, I mean, listen, if somebody said, we'll hit your macros and your calories, exactly. I would do that because it free up so much of my time.
Starting point is 00:46:24 Right. I just haven't, every time I look, it's like, here's your plan and you can, and it's roughly, and I'm like, I don't want roughly. I want exact. Right. Yeah. And maybe like the other hard thing is too, is like most of those companies, they make like snacks and they make little treats and stuff.
Starting point is 00:46:40 And then, I don't know, you just start kind of lowering your, you put your hands down a little bit, you ease up a little bit. And then next thing you know, you're kind of lowering your you put your hands down a little bit you ease up a little bit and then next thing you know you're kind of back to some of your old habits yeah we did that do um for my parents uh we got them uh meal deliveries and it was super helpful for them but they didn't have they had zero dietary restrictions it was just like they just need food that's made and we can't go to their house and make it every day so yeah i do find that really interesting though how you purposely you said you purposely make your food really really bland because you know that if it's too good it opens up doors for you and i think i don't think we've talked much
Starting point is 00:47:20 about that on the show before like making your food not that tasty but it makes a lot of sense especially if you know that you have an issue with that like with that happening we pretty much just cook very simply and we use salt yeah but i think that's tasty as hell yeah yeah salt i use salt i do use salt yeah um but i use salt and i have this excuse that at one point when I was cycling, some guy was like, I see you. I know you eat salt. Give up salt and you'll lose weight. And I did. But like four days later, I collapsed. And then the doctor was like, your sodium levels are shot.
Starting point is 00:47:56 You need to eat salt. You're a big dude. You sweat. Eat salt. So that's my rationalization for salt. But, yeah, salt is helpful. I don't want it to be like work to get through food. I just don't want it to be super comforting.
Starting point is 00:48:11 Gotcha. Yeah. Salt. And if you throw a mustard on something, we're having a party. Yeah. Lots of mustard. Yeah. Ethan, how do you handle social media with your kids?
Starting point is 00:48:22 Oh, man. old social media with your kids oh man they're um the older kids are adults so they can do whatever they want with social media there's a there's a restriction on the younger kids phones so they get a certain amount of time on social media each day and then it's and then it's kind of shut off um that's that's basically how I handle it. I wanted to be the guy that didn't let them have social media. And my older kids got phones at like 16, I think. And I was like, the little kids will not get phones until they're 16. And now, you know, every eight-year-old has a phone.
Starting point is 00:49:00 And so they all have phones. I mean, they didn't get them when they were eight, but, you know, you know right yeah how much more difficult would it have been when you were a bigger kid if social media was around probably insane yeah i cannot imagine because people generally say stuff that they won't say to your face on social media although i do find that people are nicer on instagram than they are on Twitter for the most part. Um, I don't know why that is. Social media is weird. Yeah. People are pretty mean on YouTube too. Sometimes really mean. Yeah. Right. Because it's, they're not, there's no picture of them connected to it. Right, right, right. For yourself, is there anything that you, uh,
Starting point is 00:49:42 also purposely make a little bit uncomfortable because you said that you kind of like that discomfort of your food. Do you do that in any way with your workouts or anything else you do? I like suffering a little bit. I find that anything, the end of suffering is usually more rewarding than the end of just being comfortable. than the end of just being comfortable. Now, I mean, I say that, and then you could look at, like, the difference between a first-class seat and a coach seat going to Europe and, like, no, I feel better at the end of that flight when I've slept. But you made yourself uncomfortable to get the first-class seat.
Starting point is 00:50:19 Right, exactly. So I think there's some effect to suffering that I think is beneficial when you, when you have to work hard and, and push yourself past comfort. And if that's with food or a workout, you know, like what we did at the end of the workout where it's like, I'm uncomfortable, I'm not going to do this anymore. Okay. Can I? Yes, I can. anymore okay can i yes i can that is more beneficial to me than having quit at the
Starting point is 00:50:47 point just before discomfort yeah i think workout wise like what i always think in my head is like i worked really hard to get to this spot right here these next few sets are gonna suck but you know put your chin strap on your seat belt on and kind of get ready for a rough one. Like it's going to be hard, but you spent the last maybe 20, 30 minutes warming up. Maybe you drove to a coffee shop or maybe you had a pre-workout. You've been thinking about the workout a little bit the night before. You know, there's a lot of things that have to happen and fall into place. You know, I dropped my kids off at school and then I get here. It's like I did all these other things.
Starting point is 00:51:24 I set up everything good. I had a good meal last night. And then I get here. It's like, I did all these other things. I set up everything good. I had a good meal last night. Everything's ready to go. And then when you get to that point where you're kind of a little bitchy and you're like, oh, my elbow hurts or shoulder hurts or this hurts or that hurts, you know,
Starting point is 00:51:37 you got to kind of shake that out. I mean, I'll literally sometimes when I get underneath the squat, I'll move my head around rapidly, like shake out, shake it out, like boom, shake out the self-doubt and wake the fuck up and let's push into this. Because this is the moment that can really help you improve, you know, and to some extent maybe help, you know, I have maybe some weird views on it, but like to separate you out from the rest, to set you out from the pack. like to separate you out from the rest, to set you out from the pack. Somebody recently on our podcast, Ron Partlow, he said, you know,
Starting point is 00:52:12 to lead an orchestra, you've got to turn your back on the crowd. And I was like, whoa. I was like, I like that. That sounds really cool. But in order to be a leader, in order to be kind of like, you know, out in front, showing people the way that you believe is the way, that's what you've got to do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:26 I think so. I think so. I love that thing about turning your back on the orchestra because nothing sounds more uncomfortable than that. Right. It's a great visual. Awesome. Andrew, close it out for us, buddy.
Starting point is 00:52:39 I was looking for the video of you shaking out your head. This actually did catch my attention. I've never seen you shake it this hard right here. Shake it like a Polaroid picture. Oh, I moved over. Sorry. Anyways. Why don't you shave your chest, Mark?
Starting point is 00:52:52 It's so nasty. I know. A lot of dudes want me to shave my chest. Maybe I can have Ethan help me out with that. Listen, as an aspiring fitness model, I did shave my chest once. My wife was furious. Yeah, it can really create a lot of friction if you can picture what we're talking about. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:53:15 Was it this one? No, it's the next one. Anyways, it comes up eventually. Yeah, yeah, it's the next one. Got it. I just wanted to show Ethan what, right here. There you go. Yeah. a little head shaking yeah 505 not bad it's awesome not bad for being for uh grizzling myself up so many so many years yeah um real quick um this is actually exciting to tell ethan about it but
Starting point is 00:53:41 um shout out to piedmontese beef so you right now being on a lower fat, higher carb, higher protein, I'm sure you're like, okay, I can eat fish, I can eat chicken. I would like a fatty cut of steak, but it doesn't fit the macros. So Piedmontese Beef is actually higher protein, lower fat. Really? So my favorite cut is the flat iron steak. It's the type of cattle that they have. Yeah. They're very lean. Great. So 90 grams of protein, 8 grams of fat for the whole cut. Wow.
Starting point is 00:54:10 I know. We'll get something sent down to you. Is that like a pound? That's like a pound of meat. So no, that one is a little bit smaller. It's only like an 8-ounce cut right there. Wow. 90 grams of protein in 8 ounces?
Starting point is 00:54:23 Dude, yeah. This flat iron steak that they have, it cooks up in like 4 or 5 minutes, and it's all protein, and it tastes awesome. That sounds incredible. It's almost like a thinly cut New York strip without any
Starting point is 00:54:38 of the fat on there. Right. It's so good. Do they do a ground beef? They do a ground beef, but I think they just do a traditional like 85-15, but like They have a leaner ground beef? They do a ground beef, but I think they just do a traditional like 85-15. They have a leaner ground beef as well that tastes for some weird, like when I first started buying, I mean, this is like they support the podcast. So we're going to promote the hell out of them. But when I first bought their like 96 or whatever beef that they have, I was like, this is going to, you know,
Starting point is 00:55:05 this is going to taste like crap, but I already bought some of their other stuff that was very lean and it didn't taste like crap. It tasted awesome. And when I cooked up their ground beef, I was like, I, okay,
Starting point is 00:55:14 maybe they're just, you know, maybe the fucking line about the stats. I don't know what's going on here, but there's certainly not. It's they have, they have just really, really good products.
Starting point is 00:55:21 Um, and again, it's the type of cattle that they have. If you go on their website and you check out some of the stuff, the cows are jacked and tanned. They look like bodybuilders. I got to check this out. I do eat beef, but very rarely now, and I miss it quite a bit.
Starting point is 00:55:36 I was trying to find the name. It's a blue something, right? Yeah. So I don't know if you've ever watched a bigger stronger faster chris bell's documentary so he's next to one of those gigantic belgian blue belgian blue oh yes we're yoked yeah so that's it's uh they're similar to those yes but they that's the visual you know that's what it looks like and like in sema like the uh the ribeyes have like i mean half the amount of fat also yeah it's like a half the amount of fat that a typical ribeye would have.
Starting point is 00:56:06 So like you can definitely fit those into your lower fat. Yeah. A lot of bodybuilders use that because they tend to have to eat lower fat too. So it's good stuff. Even their filet, it's going to be super tender and it's, you know, it's still going to taste really good, but have about half the amount of fat. Right. Yeah.
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Starting point is 00:56:56 I'm going to eat it. Yeah dude it's dude for your low fat right now I'm excited. It's a huge treat for sure. Guys make sure you check out the other episode
Starting point is 00:57:04 that we did with Ethan. It's an honor to have you here. This was absolutely outstanding. It's a huge treat for sure. Guys, make sure you check out the other episode that we did with Ethan. It's an honor to have you here. This was absolutely outstanding. It was fun to get that workout in today as well. And thank you for being so open and sharing so much. I know it's not always easy to talk about the different struggles and different issues you've had, but I think that this is going to be monumental and this is going to help thousands of people. So thank you so much.
Starting point is 00:57:23 Thank you for having me. This has been awesome. What a great day. Where can people find you? that this is going to be monumental and this is going to help thousands of people. So thank you so much. Thank you for having me. I, this, this has been awesome. What a great day. Where can people find you? Uh, Ethan supply on Instagram and Twitter and the American glutton podcast.
Starting point is 00:57:34 And SEMA. And SEMA inning on Instagram and YouTube. And then SEMA yin yang on Tik TOK and 12. Andrew, did you tell us where you're at? Not yet, but I am Andrew Z on Instagram. And please make sure you're following the podcast at Mark Bell's Power Project. Mark, where are you at?
Starting point is 00:57:48 At Mark Smiley Bell. Today is day number 34, I think, or maybe 35 of World Carnivore Month. I extended it out to just do 100 days of carnivore. So that's why I extended it out beyond the month. And feeling good, feeling strong, feeling amazing with it. Ethan was asking me today if I feel any dip in energy or anything like that. I certainly don't. I feel awesome.
Starting point is 00:58:12 I feel really good. We've talked about on the show before, it's kind of hard to quantify that. It's like a very general thing. But for me and for the moment, it's working amazing. I recently brought in more dairy. I recently got rid of fasting and not because, uh, fasting wasn't working for me.
Starting point is 00:58:29 It was great. Uh, I just wanted to switch things up. And the weird thing is I'm, I'm eating. Um, I feel like I'm eating more, but I could potentially not be eating more,
Starting point is 00:58:38 but I, I with bringing in dairy and with not fasting, um, it only has made like a couple of pounds difference in my body weight. So it felt like before with fasting, it felt like it was, you know, it wasn't always easy to make it through every day to do 18 or 20 hours of fasting. And I so far have been a similar body weight.
Starting point is 00:58:59 So I'm kind of interested to kind of see, I'm going to keep pushing it. I'm going to try to eat more. And I think I might even just see if I can bulk doing this diet. I don't even know if I can because it's hard to eat that much meat. A lot of meat, a lot of eggs, and feeling amazing. I'm at Mark Smelly Bell. Strength is never weakness. Weakness is never strength.
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Starting point is 00:59:54 for right now uh sean says best in the game mark andrew and sema have set the bar from training to business to life lessons this is a go-to podcast for motivation and advice on in all aspects of life. Seriously. The only podcast you really need to listen to. Thanks guys for all that you do. It doesn't go unnoticed. Thank you so much. That's so cool.
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