'It Was Easier To Quit Heroin Than It Was To Lose The Weight' - The Truth About Weight Loss
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- Patrick Bet-David Podcast Episode 147. In this short clip, Ethan Suplee discusses whether it is harder to quit heroin or lose 300 pounds.
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I had accepted that I would never lose weight. I grew up as an athlete, was an athlete into my 20's and 30's. Then I went through a divorce, had a few injuries and I ate my feelings. I got up to 367 pounds and was close to giving up. I decided to give it one more shot and set smaller goals. I weighed in at 254 pounds this morning.
Weight loss is definitely hard, but every excuse is just that. An excuse. Set your sights small, take the small wins and they add up.
Congrats man that's awesome
Losing weight and keeping it off is a never ending war.
So is beating drug addiction
I’m the same way with addiction. It’s either go hard or I can’t do it. I beat heroin going on 10 years now without rehab or AA/NA. Now I’m on a health addiction and never been happier.
Same same, it's been 4 years off suboxone for me.
Hit it right on the head. This is a similar characteristic amongst certain people. I’m all in or all out. Same goes with anything else in life. I stopped using heroin/everything else, 9 years ago. There’s no, “on the weekends”, “sometimes”, “one last time”, etc.
The key is gym...the hard stuff that all the lazy diet obessed people never bring up
How? I’ve been dealing with a crazy oxy addiction for years. Literally no one knows besides my dealer. I only go “all out” when I’m alone at night. During the day I can take a half and maintain. It’s a love hate relationship. But I’d like to get off and be normally happy but it’s hard to picture at this point.
@@chrstphrluis2206 that’s what happens, that’s the point where you do it to feel normal. It’s expensive no matter what kind of opiate you’re doing. But you have to break down “going hard”, it has multiple meanings. Sure it means doing a lot of something but it could also mean just doing it daily. Like you’re either on or off. With opiates, there is no in between or I just do it on the weekends. It may start like that, some could even sustain that for a while, until it all catches up. I treated it like a gray area thing, once every few weeks or months. But over the years it became more frequent until it was a daily thing. And you’re also talking about Oxys. In theory they’re the same as heroin or any stronger opiate but when you cross that bridge and change the route of administration, things change drastically. Hence, on Oxy’s I could go to work and “do life”. But then when heroin and need les came into play, the WHOLE dynamic changes. That’s when life spins out of control and you continuously find yourself behind bars. As the kids say today, “there are levels to it”.
Consider two entities that live inside of you: Mr. Laziness and Mr. Proactive. You've always noticed Laziness wins every time you want to be Proactive. Days, weeks, months, and years have gone by and Laziness always beats Proactiveness. What is the issue?
The issue is that we give Laziness an unfair advantage over Proactiveness. We give Mr. Laziness the power of "just for now", while we heavily burden Mr. Proactive with the weight of commitments and expectations.
Do we make a schedule for laziness, promising to be lazy for 30 days? No. Do we promise to commit to a strict regimen of laziness? No. Laziness happens in the moment and it just compounds, one day at a time, without a thought. Before you know it, years have gone by. So, why not level the playing field and give this advantage to Proactiveness?
Throw away Mr. Proactive's schedules, commitments, and expectations and let him behave in the same way as Mr. Laziness does. Instead of thinking about tomorrow, think instead that you are being Proactive "just for now".
There's no tomorrow. There's no schedule. There's no expectation. There's just for now.
It's "just for now" every day, for the rest of our lives.
Sugar addiction is the worst for me
It's the worst
definitely
I call sugar my demon it’s crazy
You are in good shape then. Opioids physical addiction is beyond explaining how bad it is. That’s why junkies end up doing crazy things because they will do anything to not feel dope sick
How about getting your sweet cravings with fruit? Natural fructose is healthier.
Intermittent fasting, after a short period of time of hunger pangs, is miraculous. Low carbs, high protein. Exhaustive bilateral exercise. Helps keep me off of alcohol to deal with anxiety states, which drugs and alcohol inhibits. Keeps anxiety states at a lower level. And it's not that stressful to deal with; it becomes habit, replacing the habits of addiction.
I found a high protein low sugar diet w/fasting to be amazing for anxiety and overall health
Amen. Then making 1meal a day the norm has been incredible.
Hi guys, a regular listener. When I heard his favorite food was Lebanese, I was like they gotta come to my family’s restaurant in Naples Florida, Its Authentic Lebanese, and its called Moura Bistro.
I'll definitely stop by!
I live in Clearwater I’ll be down soon definitely come check your place out
I was gonna visit some friends in Florida, and being part Lebanese myself, I'll most certainly eat at your fams place! We got the best food, habibi
I am going to naples in a couple of months! I will look it up!!!
That place sucks don’t go very rude staff
Remember this guy from many movies, in real life he seems genuine and cool
3 years 1 month 9 days clean off coke.
Fighting alcoholism and winning. One day at a time folks. You got this.
You’re the man, Jake.
The internal struggles this man has survived is extraordinary. Always been a fan of all his shows and all his movies. Now he is a walking inspiration for so many people. Awesome
I’ve eaten some really expensive food all over the U.S., Europe, U.K. and Japan…still to this day, the TGI Fridays Jack Daniels chicken/sesame chicken strips can’t be beat…there’s crack in that sauce I swear
What helped me lose weight was making it out to be a game about how healthy I could eat. Cut out the sugar, look at the ingredients, treat myself like a lab-rat and less from a perspective of what I want to eat more what I should eat. I don't deprive myself of a cheat meal, but I also don't plan it into my life. I've found that bad food choices find me more often then not, so I don't have to seek them out.
I don't do desserts unless I am on vacation. I've found for myself it becomes a slippery slope, and I'm more of a salty/savory guy anyways.
Try Kinobody
Outstanding and honest. I'm similar on that I enjoy the game of cutting sugar and carbs.
I'm struggling when I eat "healthy" I undereat automatically, when I eat what I want I overeat
I recall being a moderate drinker with the odd weekend celebration. Then in my late 20’s, I started getting migraines and it was vaguely connected to alcohol and weather etc.
I had a choice to make: drink and get migrates… and on top of that have alcohol interfere with my migraine meds… or quit. I quit 100%…. About 25 years ago… literally not a drop. Don’t miss it at all!!
I kinda made the same decision. I used to be a HEAVY drinker in my early 20s, and I'd easily bounce back the next morning. As I felt my age creep up on me, I realized I just couldn't digest the stuff anymore, whether moderately or excessively. I might have one drink on New Years or Thaksgiving, but that's pretty much it.
I had a similar experience. I went off to college and binge drinking was part of the culture once I graduated from college I quickly realized life after college was not glamorous. I worked a shitty 9-5 still kept drinking regularly and heavily as I hit 25-26 I noticed that drinking made me feel like crap and the negative side effects. I hated waking up not remembering what I did the night before. Life started to get better for me got a better job and got really into martial arts, working out and eating healthy. I love the feeling of being healthy
deez ….really happy for you mate!…I certainly can’t think about what I would feel like by now had I continued!
I bet the migraines helped with that decision, I don’t miss migraines, I’d rather rip my toenails than have another migraine in my life
So glad you could make that decision and stick to it. I know addiction is complex but I honestly think there is a time like this in most addict/alcoholics life where they realize it's causing trouble and they could stop but they don't and there is some line that gets crossed that makes it incredibly hard or impossible to just stop.
great to see him being an example of self betterment, regardless of age 👏🏽
I agree,sticking to a diet is extremely difficult, like I lost ten kilos in six month through a healthy meal subscription, and gained most if it back when I stopped the subscription
I love how, clear careful and deliberate he speaks lol.
I’ve told people, drugs are probably easier because you can go to 0 drugs. But you still have to eat something, and have meals with people forever.
Its true but at the same time no food can give you the feeling of heroin, nothing can.
No it is just as simple. Reducing calories by about 300 per week. And doing resistance training
@@spartanghost_17 lmao if it was that easy there would be no fat people. Just exercise and eat less doesn’t work for the overwhelming majority. Your body wants to maintain a set weight.
@@davruck1 losing weight is simple, but it’s not easy
@@yeahbuddy8070 I would agree. It is simple. But just doing calorie restriction makes it hard. Detoxing your body actually works better than exercise and calorie restriction. Fasting helps to detoxify. Fasting, Sea moss, Spirulina, chlorella, work way better and also cleared up multiple other health problems. I still ate what I liked and my cravings disappeared. It was almost like magic.
By far my favorite guest!
Adam just hasn’t finessed communication. The decibels, the sharpness, and butting in just erodes this amazing channel.
Make valuetainment great again. Bring back Gerrard!
He really doesn’t add much and just derails conversations
Could not agree more. Not sure why he is on the show.
I remember seeing Ethan on remember the titans , blow, and American history x ,dude is a fantastic actor ,so glad he's lost the weight found himself and cleaned himself up
Great to see him doing good ,
Good talk
What a fantastic guest. Adam doing his best to ruin it as per
No Way did you just say Raffi’s? Broadway and Brand in Glendale, Ca. A friend she turned me on to this place about 20 years ago, I live just outside of Palm Springs. Me and my wife love the Luleh and the Gheimeh. Man what a small world. I’m not lying, I sometimes jump in my car and drive the two plus hours just for the Luleh, best food and restaurant on the planet. I’m retired law enforcement, so when we trained in Glendale I took my deputies to Raffi’s and now they have become figures at their favorite restaurant. Well if i ever run into you, Luleh is on me. You just made my day.
I surfer from schizoid personality disorder and one of the symptoms is a lack of interest in food in the pleasure senses luckily because of this Im able to have a healthy small portion low carb diet.
I'm glad he kept that "fat humbleness" after his weight-loss while still pursuing his goals
Could you imagine if we lost this man to drugs and couldn’t hear him sing “Aint no mountain high enough”
REMEMBER THE TITIANS
Food is used to escape just like any other drug. Many addicts find it harder to control their relationship with food then with drugs. Many people begin to use food as an escape much earlier in life then drugs, starting as a child. It’s usually much more ingrained in you to use food to feel good and it’s a lot more acceptable by society, so most don’t even see it as a problem.
My favorite movie of his is deffffff Remember The Titans!
What? American History X should be number 1 on everyone’s list
@@toosweet6046 very true. Didn’t think of that one off the top of my head. Yea he kills it in that movie. He’s super underrated.
@@lauralarocque8411 this guy is awesome underrated… He was Great in Titans Great in Blow Great in Butterfly Effect
Thank you. It takes years.
Losing weight is HARD! For everyone that says its easy they obviously never had a weight issue. Also there's so much stigma related to being overweight ,that makes it so much more hard to get help. In my experience personal trainers that have high empathy and know through personal experience how hard losing weight is are by far more successful, same thing with doctors in weight management. Losing and gaining weight varies so wildly, from person to person from their sex, age, underlying hormonal issues, emotional distress, personal glycemic resistance etc..
Try Kinobody
Actually losing weight is easy as long as you are consistent. 1 hour of cardio a day, plus eating less junk food and you will lose weight.
Only way Ive been able to keep my weight in check is intermittant fasting. eating 3 small meals makes me hate life
Dang man, that 33rd yr definitely hits you hard when you still have habit of eating like your 20yr old college athlete self. I'm always struggling with portion control
I’ve thought about this a whole lot and never heard anyone else ever discuss it.
Ethan is the man.
I used to eat a lot then I had a really hard mushrooms trip that should of killed me and now I only eat once a day for dinner
Food is more addictive than drugs. Drugs are optional, food isn’t.
Depends on the person I get your point but I guarantee you if you tried heroin you would love it far more than any food in the world trust me..
Weight gain ain’t all about food.
@@davruck1 yeah it is.
Sugar is probably the worst chemical out there
I wish more people knew that some of the very best, most kind hearted people I knew became drug users. Everybody has their own story of how they got there but nobody just picks up heroin starting off. I was 16 and my best friend committed suicide. I was lost, hopeless, and felt like my life was over. When I returned to school a kid at lunch called my friend a.coward. I lost control of all logical thoughts and beat him up but also broke my hand. It swelled to the size of a baseball mit and I went to the hospital where they gave me opiates for the pain. Not only did they help my physical pain, but even more important to me at the pain I felt inside that I couldn't escape. They made me feel good. When the bottle ran out everything came back. I was desperate, and went to another doctor. BAM! I felt better. When they ran out this time not only did all the pain come back but 100x worse. Except, now I was dealing with withdraw too. That led to a decade of addiction and suffering. I've been clean for about 6 months, and only JUST NOW does my brain feel like it's regulating and I'm producing dopamine and serotonin again without the help of drugs. Most people don't know it's not just the physical withdrawal that are bad. The mental anguish feeling like you'll never be happy agains even harder, but it's possible, and worth it. Praying for ANYONE still struggling, I believe in you. Much love!
During the week I eat the same things so I know that my macros are around the same throughout the week, but during the weekend is when I like to get a burger or a pizza or some kind of ice crème
You don't have to use drugs to survive. However, you literally cannot survive whithout food. So, imagine trying to quit drugs while still having to take drugs. It's a monumentally difficult mental test.
what you've just said... is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point, in your rambling, incoherent response, were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.
that’s only the case if you’ve done hard drugs and know what they’re like.
I think Earl put this guy on his list to help him transform his body?
True.
Than.
1:10 can relate to this as a former daily stoner, mj is by far the least harmful psychoactive drug for you(especially compared to the legally sanctioned & promoted alcohol) but it's effects on your happiness and habits tied to ingesting the drug is bad psychologically and it takes a while to re-calibrate your brain after quitting.
I'll still do mj once in a while but never buy it to take home because I know it'll return to being a daily habit, unlike alcohol, which I'll do every couple weeks maybe and always need a break from it for a while after because of the effects the next day on your health.
Good comment and agreed, its a shame so many stoners defend it so militantly because the drug itself isnt technically harmful
😂😂😂 shutup
You can go through life without drugs, but have to eat to stay alive, so I’d say eating better is harder. Especially if you have an addictive personality. In my opinion.
I mainly eat Mediterranean and Thai. I also like Indian food.
100% just recognized this mans voice.
Spent 5 minutes looking for my phone to say. Good fkin job.
I never did drugs, but the answer is surprising. I figured that once you reached your weight loss goal, you would be over and done with it, and a heroin addict would fight the cravings for the rest of his life. Sure you would be surrounded with food for the rest of your life, but the cravings would be more manageable than heroin?
Hey Randy
I've had some Rehab people, i mean the addictions professional staff people tell me, privately, nothing annoys them more than the cliche of heroin being like the 'devil' and quitting it is discussed like THE most obviously insanely difficult dangerous thing on earth. They would say alcohol is way way more difficult. One suggested cigarettes or weed were more difficult to quit.
The big tuner like billy parcells
*I ENJOY FOOD BUT AT THE MOMENT; I DON'T WAIT FOR FOOD BECAUSE I HAVE A LIFE. I BALANCE WITH EXERCISE! NOW I'M LIFTING HEAVIER AND DOING HIGH INTENSITY INTERVAL TRAINING FOR AN HOUR SPRINTING AND WALKING ON THE TREADMILL 💪🏽AND I'M STARTING TO LIKE IT AGAIN! I LIKE LASAGNA TOO😉 YEAH, I'D HAVE A BIG FAT RIB EYE STEAK 🥩 GARLIC 🧄 ONION 🧅 JALAPEÑO🌶️ ROASTED ASPARAGUS, BROCCOLI 🥦 I'M GOOD FOR GYM STRENGTH AND TOMORROW'S GLYCOGEN RESERVES FOR HEAVY LIFTING WHILE FASTING.*
That dude is so cool
Food is harder since you *need* to consume it in order to survive, but then you have to control yourself with quantities.
“Is it harder to lose weight or differentiate a schooner and a sailboat?”
I've battled obesity all of my adult life. My best treatment has been intermittent fasting works great 👍 and its free 👌
I got large but I'm over 40 now. I don't eat sugar and don't eat much if anything in the day. My problem is I take sleeping pills and 20 mins later I would eat lots then go to sleep. I'm trying to use ice now instead like ice pops to fill me instead.
@@dannyloftus5441 that's the strangest thing !! I'm the exact same way. I have to take sleeping pills and right before I go to sleep I will eat. Not really a lot but still I'm breaking my fast when I eat before bed. Maybe taking pills on an empty stomach 🤔 leads to physical hunger ?
lol Man you guys like to name drop. Every doesn't need to know you're friends with powerful people brother.
Great content however, as always
Lebanese is my favourite cuisine too! Yeah Ethan Suplee!
I love rice. The entire cuisine in my country goes with steamed white rice. I can do without bread or potatoes in my life but rice? No way. Pasta would be difficult bec I love it but noodles? That's another hard one. When I eat, 50% is steamed white rice, 25% viand and 25% vegetables.
Losing weight just takes absolute discipline and dedication and most people won't do it. Calorie restriction and exercise will cause anyone to lose weight. Intermittent fasting works because of the calorie restriction not because you get three cheat days a week. People who over eat can't be trusted with cheat days, that's already been proven. And, if you try and assign reasons to lose weight you'll probably fail. It needs to be something you've decided to do because you want to do it. Your wife, husband, kids, some chick or some dude aren't the ones going to the gym every day or wishing they could eat a slice of birthday cake: it's just you. Plus you don't need the added stress of worrying that you're disappointing someone because you're doing it for them. The nice thing is once you get to a reasonable weight you can go back to having a slice of cake, as long as you never stop exercising. Or never eat the cake and quit exercising but you can't do both.
You hear that at the end? Enjoy it while you can boys, the body isn't always invincible.
I've been to Raffli's before as a recommendation from a co-worker. It was a nice place and great atmosphere but man oh man was I let down by the food. It was my wife and I with my friend (who was my best man) and his wife. We were so disappointed. I got the lula kabob and my wife got fish skewers. My lula kabob was average which was the best dish we all had. My wife's dish of fish skewers was literally the most tasteless thing I have ever eaten. Like styrofoam. I had to give my wife some of my dish so she can taste something.
I am willing to admit that maybe the chef was having a bad day or whatever but our experience with the food was so bad that we would not want to try it ever again.
Now to really put my money where my mouth is. The best place for this kind of food has to be Maral Cuisine in Agoura Hills. Anyone who wants that kind of food should go there. BTW just in case anyone is wonder they DO have Ghormeh Sabzi.
Wszyscy dobrze wiemy , że uzależnienia są oznaką ludzkiej słabości , pytanie moje brzmi :
Jeżeli wiemy , że coś nam zaszkodzi to jaki jest sens to " coś " próbować albo brnąć dalej w dane uzależnienie ?
Dla mnie brak jakiegokolwiek sensu .
Micro dosing ibogaine gives you control over compulsions
Never heard of it, interesting tho!
@@victorhanson5799 not many know about ibogaine or how to use it right.
I do.
For food?
@@Kevin-kj5th yes, it works on that part of the brain that control addiction, depression and compulsion. It doesn’t matter if it’s drugs, porn or food.
"Then?"🤔
Carb diet is a weight loss bullet. I eat only carbs and I'm very skinny
The orphans of the spirit are our concern, those who, without the thread of contact with deity, remain wedded to an unwholesome environment, those to whom the real purpose of life is never revealed; for the crystallization of their intellectual concepts and the hardness of their hearts, rooted in selfishness, do not open the cosmic doorway to our domain.
If you are physically addicted it’s not black or white, with opioids you are sick beyond explanation. Now when you get through the sick part I agree with him but the first 2-4 weeks is not just mental it is physical.
(For you) not everyone else
Mental is physical.
The gym is key....the hard topic that all the lazy diet obessed people always avoid mentioning
Heroin withdrawal can kill. Doughnut withdrawal cannot
PBD for GOV🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Those systems he was speaking of is Coping mechanism?
I knew a guy that was super addicted to junk food and weed. He started micro dosing and stopped smoking weed and started eating healthy. Priming up for a fast is prob the best way though.
Talk about musk and Twitter please
No
1:10
Try a Nasi Goreng in Bali, Indonesia.....you'll never look back
Zankou chicken. Yum.
Check coach Greg on youtube. His perspective on diet and workout is much better.
Losing weight takes way wayyyyyyyy longer then withdrawing of course it's harder
Losing weight is ridiculously easy. You just take out about 1/3 of every meal and over time that adds up to a huge number of calories. Also it's sustainable because anybody can stick to it. Hell gaining weight is what's hard. I've tried all my life to gain weight and can't do it.
Gaining weight is very easy, you just eat more
@@coreycollins6917 I've done that many times...it doesn't work for some people.
Your experiences are not everyone’s experience
We all have different genes buddy.
If losing weight is easy by eating 1/3 of every meal(more on that in a moment) then gaining weight should be just as easy by eating 1/3 more, but it doesn't work like that, does it. Let's say a breakfast of 4 pancakes with butter and syrup, 3 eggs with cheese and a couple sausages is going to be 2200 calories or so. A third is about 700 calories. Two more meals and we'll be at best the number of calories needed maintain weight. Plus, the blood sugar will be impacted with the pancake. A fat person isn't losing weight with that.
قرمه سبزی
Does anyone else think this guy looks like triple h?
3:30 damn dude let the man tell the story. hate when ppl do this
Spellnig msitkae in teh titel 🙄
Than NOT Then.
😂🤣
I didn't know he was a junkie, but damn he looks so good compared to years ago. God knows how he kept the weight on junk?
Not gonna listen to the entire vid but just based on the ridiculous statement in the thumbnail I had to comment. If quitting heroin was easier than weight loss he wasn’t really addicted to heroin… heroin is the fucking worst to quit (alcohol is a terrible time as well). Heroin withdrawal is a nightmare and feels like your skin is crawling and melting off, you feel nauseous, you have hot and cold flashes, you’re not hungry, can’t sleep, can’t sit still, sweating like a pig… etc
I’ve never related to no one more then anyone else then to vaders son
Heroin is not easy for anyone to quite this is extremely dangerous title!
No one dies from eating less; remember that!
Many die from quitting herion from the withdraws!
This dude could of shrunk his stomach with surgery! Much easier
Biofilm, endocrine, Etc. Healthcare is the shaaaaaaadiest trojan horse
Huh
Love Lebanese food
I love hearing a word I've never heard before! Ethan sprinkled "predilection" into a sentence.
How much money did he have when he gave up heroin?
Damn. I can't stand Adam. This podcast would be 10 times better without him.
Addicts are all the same....food can be harder...we need to eat...its different.
If it was easier to quit heroin, he wasn't using good heroin.
He looks like HHH
Lebanese baby please!
Lebanese food 🤦🏻, it’s Mediterranean food. Lebanon was taken over by Alexander the Great, who’s mother was Albanian. Their culture, food, and music are all European
Ghorme sabzi in the House..!!😋😋😋
I wanna see this dude eat 5000 calories or 1.8kg of ribeye steak