March 11, 2025 • 15 mins
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Kevin Tejada:
Carnivore diet is dumb, isn't it? And relax yourself, I'm going to talk about (00:29):
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Kevin Tejada: other diets too, because this episode is about fad diets. (00:34):
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Kevin Tejada: But I do want to mention the carnivore diet up front. (00:38):
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Kevin Tejada: Mostly because of the excuse and the reasoning that these people want to bring (00:42):
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Kevin Tejada: up. This is how our ancestors ate. They ate meat all the time. (00:46):
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Kevin Tejada: Bro, are you fucking stupid? You know how hard it was to catch an animal that (00:50):
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Kevin Tejada: could provide meat for a whole family or village? (00:55):
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Kevin Tejada: Our ancestors were eating fucking nuts and berries most of the time. (00:58):
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Kevin Tejada: They were eating fucking. (01:02):
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Speaker1: No, our ancestors did not eat (01:18):
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Speaker1: a bunch of meat all the time. Maybe if they caught a mammoth or something. (01:19):
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Kevin Tejada: But anyway, fad diets in general are usually meant for weight loss or improving (01:22):
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Kevin Tejada: your health by going on a very restrictive food plan that is not always backed up by science. (01:29):
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Speaker1: The issue with fad diets (01:37):
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Kevin Tejada: As a whole is that they're not sustainable. They do often work, (01:39):
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Kevin Tejada: but temporarily, because you got to do this weird, wild, very different, (01:44):
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Kevin Tejada: eating pattern, but you can't hold on to that forever. It's too odd for a human to do. (01:50):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm sure you've heard of many of them, a keto diet, paleo diet, (01:57):
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Kevin Tejada: Atkins diet, carnivore diet, like I said, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Now, (02:02):
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Kevin Tejada: but not in their pure form. If you want to take one of these, (02:11):
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Kevin Tejada: you're going to have to modify it to fit an actual human living a long time. (02:14):
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Kevin Tejada: As in if you're doing a carnivore type diet you can't literally just eat meat (02:18):
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Kevin Tejada: you can eat a bunch of meat hopefully not American meat and, (02:22):
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Kevin Tejada: but literally just meat and butter or whatever it is you're fucked your heart (02:30):
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Kevin Tejada: is going to explode in 15 years tops, (02:35):
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Kevin Tejada: same for a lot of other diets they eliminate a lot of stuff that you actually (02:38):
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Kevin Tejada: would benefit from a lot and would help you a lot more in your goal of the weight (02:42):
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Kevin Tejada: loss or the health increase, (02:46):
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Kevin Tejada: apparently an estimated 45 million americans go on a diet every year half of (02:48):
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Kevin Tejada: them choosing fad diets now. (02:54):
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Kevin Tejada: You eat so i personally recommend instead of going on a diet just change yours (03:06):
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Kevin Tejada: so it's better that way you can choose what you like and what's sustainable (03:12):
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Kevin Tejada: for you instead of doing some other weird shit that's not really meant for your specific body. (03:16):
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Speaker1: Type or goals or whatever it is. (03:21):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, out of these 45 million Americans who go on these fad diets. (03:23):
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Speaker1: They're usually doing it for rapid weight loss, (03:27):
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Kevin Tejada: Self-esteem issues, body image issues, or just trying to copy a celebrity or (03:31):
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Kevin Tejada: influencer or some other famous person. (03:38):
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Kevin Tejada: Consistently, though, fad diets do not work in the long term. (03:42):
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Kevin Tejada: They can lead to nutritional issues, hormone issues, and probably dying early. (03:47):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, most people who fall prey to these diets are, like I said, (03:54):
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Kevin Tejada: young people, usually young people. (03:59):
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Kevin Tejada: They're middle-aged people too, who are like, oh, that celebrity looks fit. (04:00):
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Kevin Tejada: They said they do this. And then I'm going to do that. (04:04):
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Kevin Tejada: Celebrities lie a lot. I don't know if you know this, but most celebrities are (04:08):
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Kevin Tejada: actors and acting is literally lying for a living. so when you see interviews (04:11):
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Kevin Tejada: of very muscular actors and you're like yeah man to get into the shape i had to. (04:16):
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Kevin Tejada: Damn decent but point is don't listen to a celebrity don't take their words (04:30):
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Kevin Tejada: at face value because they're doing other shit doing steroids doing facelift (04:36):
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Kevin Tejada: stuff doing lipo doing weight loss drugs as well. (04:39):
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Kevin Tejada: So they might be eating what they're saying, but they're not telling you the (04:43):
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Kevin Tejada: whole picture. So they're selling you a false image of what can happen. (04:46):
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Kevin Tejada: Sometimes they're just making money. There's this company or there's pushing (04:52):
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Kevin Tejada: this particular product or diet, whatever it is. (04:56):
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Kevin Tejada: And they just pay the celebrity and they just say, Hey man, this is a great. (04:59):
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Kevin Tejada: And people fall for it. Cause they're like, Oh, I like that guy in the movie. (05:03):
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Speaker1: Yeah. I listened to him. Okay. (05:06):
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Kevin Tejada: That won't end well necessarily people who (05:08):
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Kevin Tejada: fall prey to this are also people with limited nutritional knowledge which (05:12):
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Kevin Tejada: is most people especially americans they don't (05:15):
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Kevin Tejada: really know shit no offense that's just how the education system is be cool (05:18):
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Kevin Tejada: if in school they taught you about more about nutrition finances useful stuff (05:24):
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Kevin Tejada: like that that'd be really cool like for me i fucking thought that counting (05:29):
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Kevin Tejada: calories was a woman thing because i didn't learn about nutrition in school. (05:33):
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Kevin Tejada: I just saw commercials about women eating a hundred calorie bags of snacks. (05:37):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm like, oh, that's for women. (05:42):
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Kevin Tejada: I would have lost a hundred pounds (05:43):
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Kevin Tejada: way faster if I had proper knowledge of nutrition, but most people don't. (05:44):
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Kevin Tejada: So they fall for these things. They all just eat literally only beef liver. Yeah, sure. (05:49):
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Kevin Tejada: And the biggest victims usually of the fad diet are people with low self-esteem, (05:56):
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Kevin Tejada: body image issues. They're. (06:00):
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Kevin Tejada: When you're very overweight, you want to accomplish something. (06:11):
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Kevin Tejada: It's very easy to latch on to something that claims to be the solution. (06:14):
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Kevin Tejada: I remember back when I was losing weight before I figured out, (06:20):
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Kevin Tejada: figured out how to count my fucking calories. (06:24):
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Kevin Tejada: You ever heard of the one gallon of, what's it called? A gallon of milk a day, the go mad diet. (06:26):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't think I fully went into that, but I definitely went through a period (06:32):
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Kevin Tejada: where I was exercising and drinking a shit ton of milk, whole milk. (06:36):
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Kevin Tejada: Turns out that was bad because milk has a. (06:41):
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Speaker1: Lot of calories (06:44):
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Kevin Tejada: And also American cows are steroided out to hell. (06:46):
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Kevin Tejada: But I didn't know any better. My parents didn't either because they would have (06:49):
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Kevin Tejada: told me the right thing to do. (06:53):
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Kevin Tejada: But I didn't, they didn't. So that's where it fell. And that's a trap that a (06:55):
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Kevin Tejada: lot of people fall into. They just hook onto something because they're desperate. (06:59):
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Kevin Tejada: They really want this, but it's not always the best for their goals. (07:02):
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Kevin Tejada: Or any goals, sometimes. (07:08):
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Kevin Tejada: Might be different for other states or other countries. Actually, (07:11):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm sure that's the case for other countries. They have better nutritional education. (07:14):
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Kevin Tejada: But at least in New York, lower New York, where I grew up, nutrition wasn't (07:19):
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Kevin Tejada: a huge part of health class. I don't even remember anything really about that. (07:24):
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Kevin Tejada: It's possible I'm not remembering, but there was nothing useful because I was (07:29):
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Kevin Tejada: an obese teenager. or so. Obviously, it wasn't that. (07:33):
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Speaker1: Useful if anything about nutrition was taught. (07:36):
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Kevin Tejada: I know in Japan that they have actually healthy school lunches. (07:39):
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Kevin Tejada: And I believe after a certain age, whatever company you work for, (07:44):
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Kevin Tejada: they really encourage the employees to be fit because if they go beyond a certain (07:49):
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Kevin Tejada: waistline, they got to pay more, something like that. (07:54):
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Kevin Tejada: But I know in Japan, they're very encouraged to not be fat and to just overall (07:58):
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Kevin Tejada: make better choices, right? Now, let me give you some numbers. (08:04):
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Kevin Tejada: Apparently, 80% of New Year's resolutions, many of which involve weight loss (08:08):
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Kevin Tejada: and fad diets, fail by February. (08:14):
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Kevin Tejada: By the time you're hearing this, 80% of people, probably more, have just given up. (08:18):
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Kevin Tejada: Cynic in me wants to think that it's actually 90, 92% of people who give up (08:24):
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Kevin Tejada: their new year's resolutions, but I'm glad it's just 80. (08:30):
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Kevin Tejada: And like I mentioned up at the top, 50% of 45 million Americans who diet every (08:33):
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Kevin Tejada: single year use fad diets. (08:39):
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Kevin Tejada: So not only are millions dieting, which means making a massive change to their, (08:41):
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Kevin Tejada: their eating habits, instead of just changing eating habits gradually into something (08:46):
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Kevin Tejada: sustainable, they're just jumping onto something else. (08:50):
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Kevin Tejada: Half of them are doing something extra wild that's trendy or supposed to be (08:53):
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Kevin Tejada: over a very short period of time, not for life. So that's not cool. (08:59):
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Speaker1: Now, often fad diets lead to, (09:04):
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Kevin Tejada: As I mentioned before, they do work, but only short term. (09:07):
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Kevin Tejada: And the reason is because the person who goes on a diet, their normal everyday (09:10):
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Kevin Tejada: diet is probably dog shit. So any change at the, (09:15):
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Kevin Tejada: this, but when you lose a lot of weight, not only do you lose fat, (09:34):
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Kevin Tejada: but you do lose a bit of muscle as well. This is unavoidable. (09:38):
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Kevin Tejada: Way you can avoid losing muscle as you're losing weight is by losing weight (09:42):
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Kevin Tejada: very slowly and trying your fucking damnedest to stay as strong as possible. (09:45):
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Kevin Tejada: But even then, statistically, you will lose a bit of muscle if you lose weight. (09:52):
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Kevin Tejada: That's just how it is. The weight includes fat and muscle and water and all that shit. (09:56):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, one of the funnier examples for me about the fad diet stuff is a gluten-free (10:00):
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Kevin Tejada: diet followed by people who don't have celiac disease, which is the whole point of avoiding gluten. (10:06):
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Kevin Tejada: You have that disease and gluten is going to fuck you up. (10:11):
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Kevin Tejada: A lot of people think, oh man, I see gluten-free everywhere. (10:14):
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Kevin Tejada: Let me try that. That must be healthier. It's free of whatever that is. (10:17):
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Kevin Tejada: So it's probably better. (10:20):
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Speaker1: If you don't have celiac disease, gluten-free stuff, it (10:22):
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Kevin Tejada: Shouldn't really be a consideration. It doesn't really matter. (10:24):
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Kevin Tejada: It's not going to make a big deal. It's another example of people jumping on a fad. (10:28):
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Kevin Tejada: Right now, big deal, the gluten-free thing, (10:31):
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Kevin Tejada: but I don't know, five years ago in like 2020 around maybe like a bit actually (10:35):
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Kevin Tejada: pre-covid that was a big deal oh gluten-free yeah get if you want but if you (10:39):
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Kevin Tejada: don't have that if you don't have that specific disease it's not really for (10:45):
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Kevin Tejada: you just keep that in mind now. (10:48):
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Speaker1: At the end of these things i usually bring up some (10:52):
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Kevin Tejada: Solutions to the topic at hand this was pretty fucking easy how to save yourself (10:54):
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Kevin Tejada: how to survive a fad diet. (10:59):
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Kevin Tejada: Don't go on them. Like I mentioned before, don't say, hey, here's this X blank diet. (11:03):
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Kevin Tejada: Let me hop on that and then automatically make progress. No. (11:09):
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Kevin Tejada: Decide what your goal is. What do you want to lose weight? You want to get stronger? (11:15):
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Kevin Tejada: You want to have more stamina. (11:17):
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Speaker1: Whatever it is. Slowly change your current diet so that it includes (11:19):
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Kevin Tejada: Taking a shit, you probably want to add a lot of fiber in your diet. (11:43):
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Kevin Tejada: Stuff like that. Stuff that's practical and towards an actual goal that you're (11:47):
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Kevin Tejada: trying to reach. Not, oh, look, a pre-made diet for God knows who. (11:50):
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Kevin Tejada: Let's get on it. That doesn't make any sense. That's fucking stupid. (11:54):
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Kevin Tejada: Your diet as a whole has to include some of kind of everything, if possible. (11:57):
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Kevin Tejada: Like I mentioned before, if you're trying to gain muscle, for example, (12:03):
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Kevin Tejada: like a lot of muscle, you would prioritize protein, of course, (12:06):
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Kevin Tejada: but you're not going to ignore carbohydrates. (12:09):
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Kevin Tejada: You're not going to ignore fats. You need all that. You need all that. (12:12):
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Kevin Tejada: They all serve different functions. You need them all. You need all this kind (12:15):
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Kevin Tejada: of stuff. You need to eat some kind of vegetables. (12:18):
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Kevin Tejada: You need fiber in general. You need all this stuff. It's just a matter of what (12:21):
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Kevin Tejada: you're trying to accomplish, including what you actually need for your body. (12:24):
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Kevin Tejada: And you change the amounts, the proportions to make it work for you. (12:28):
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Kevin Tejada: But do it slowly and just jump on some fad or else it's not going to last. (12:34):
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Kevin Tejada: Fad diet, more like fat diet. (12:40):
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Kevin Tejada: And speaking of, be very wary of diets who claim, oh, you'll lose weight super fast on this diet. (12:43):
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Kevin Tejada: There's no diet that inherently makes you lose weight more or faster than any (12:48):
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Kevin Tejada: other one because the weight gain and weight loss comes from calories. (12:53):
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Kevin Tejada: So you can just drink only milk like a weirdo. (12:57):
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Kevin Tejada: You can eat only vegetables you can (13:01):
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Kevin Tejada: eat only meat it's about the calories and it's always about the calories now (13:04):
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Kevin Tejada: obviously some foods have lower calories so it's easier to eat more of that (13:11):
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Kevin Tejada: and not eat in excess of calories but there's no one particular diet that's inherently, (13:14):
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Kevin Tejada: easier and faster to lose weight on that's not how food works not how energy works. (13:22):
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Kevin Tejada: A lot of doctors want you to get on drugs rather than change your life too much. (13:28):
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Kevin Tejada: But if you ask them, they can tell you, hey, based on my last blood test, (13:32):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm not low in this. Like, what should I eat? (13:36):
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Kevin Tejada: They can help a bit with that. And you can even help yourself. (13:38):
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Kevin Tejada: Take your blood results, look at it, see what you're low in, (13:42):
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Kevin Tejada: what you're high in, whatever it is. Ask the internet, (13:45):
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Kevin Tejada: is your health matters not just what your (13:57):
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Kevin Tejada: goal is your health overall should be your goal so you got (14:00):
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Kevin Tejada: to keep up top in terms of knowledge with (14:02):
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Kevin Tejada: your actual health too like your blood tests your other ailments and (14:05):
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Kevin Tejada: stuff basically keep in mind your long-term health and not your short-term pleasure (14:09):
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Kevin Tejada: health goals whatever if you have a goal you're going to change your whole way (14:15):
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Kevin Tejada: of eating just because you want to accomplish something in about six weeks drop (14:19):
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Kevin Tejada: that shit immediately think on a way longer. (14:23):
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Speaker1: Scale maybe six decades (14:27):
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Kevin Tejada: Instead of six weeks and then slowly adjust your eating to the most optimal to get there and. (14:29):
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Speaker1: Yeah it's got to be slow some people can just switch (14:36):
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Kevin Tejada: Wildly but most people would benefit from just taking it slowly because when (14:40):
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Kevin Tejada: you should do slow changes it's easier. (14:45):
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Speaker1: To adapt to them (14:47):
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Kevin Tejada: If you make a bunch of big changes in the short-term, it's not going to last (14:48):
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Kevin Tejada: because it's just too different. (14:52):
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Kevin Tejada: It's just, you're not that person. You need to slowly become that person. (14:53):
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Kevin Tejada: You need to build that person. (14:56):
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Kevin Tejada: So yeah, basically if you think long-term, you live long-term. (14:58):
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Kevin Tejada: In short, don't be dumb. Write in the comments, what is a fad diet that you've tried before? (15:01):
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Kevin Tejada: Like I said, I was almost touching on the go mad, gallon of milk a day before. (15:07):
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Speaker1: But yeah, that didn't work out for many reasons. (15:11):
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Kevin Tejada: Let me know yours and I'll see you next time. (15:15):
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Kevin Tejada: other diets too, because this episode is about fad diets. (00:34):
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Kevin Tejada: But I do want to mention the carnivore diet up front. (00:38):
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Kevin Tejada: Mostly because of the excuse and the reasoning that these people want to bring (00:42):
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Kevin Tejada: up. This is how our ancestors ate. They ate meat all the time. (00:46):
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Kevin Tejada: Bro, are you fucking stupid? You know how hard it was to catch an animal that (00:50):
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Kevin Tejada: could provide meat for a whole family or village? (00:55):
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Kevin Tejada: Our ancestors were eating fucking nuts and berries most of the time. (00:58):
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Kevin Tejada: They were eating fucking. (01:02):
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Speaker1: No, our ancestors did not eat (01:18):
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Speaker1: a bunch of meat all the time. Maybe if they caught a mammoth or something. (01:19):
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Kevin Tejada: But anyway, fad diets in general are usually meant for weight loss or improving (01:22):
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Kevin Tejada: your health by going on a very restrictive food plan that is not always backed up by science. (01:29):
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Speaker1: The issue with fad diets (01:37):
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Kevin Tejada: As a whole is that they're not sustainable. They do often work, (01:39):
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Kevin Tejada: but temporarily, because you got to do this weird, wild, very different, (01:44):
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Kevin Tejada: eating pattern, but you can't hold on to that forever. It's too odd for a human to do. (01:50):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm sure you've heard of many of them, a keto diet, paleo diet, (01:57):
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Kevin Tejada: Atkins diet, carnivore diet, like I said, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Now, (02:02):
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Kevin Tejada: but not in their pure form. If you want to take one of these, (02:11):
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Kevin Tejada: you're going to have to modify it to fit an actual human living a long time. (02:14):
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Kevin Tejada: As in if you're doing a carnivore type diet you can't literally just eat meat (02:18):
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Kevin Tejada: you can eat a bunch of meat hopefully not American meat and, (02:22):
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Kevin Tejada: but literally just meat and butter or whatever it is you're fucked your heart (02:30):
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Kevin Tejada: is going to explode in 15 years tops, (02:35):
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Kevin Tejada: same for a lot of other diets they eliminate a lot of stuff that you actually (02:38):
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Kevin Tejada: would benefit from a lot and would help you a lot more in your goal of the weight (02:42):
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Kevin Tejada: loss or the health increase, (02:46):
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Kevin Tejada: apparently an estimated 45 million americans go on a diet every year half of (02:48):
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Kevin Tejada: them choosing fad diets now. (02:54):
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Kevin Tejada: You eat so i personally recommend instead of going on a diet just change yours (03:06):
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Kevin Tejada: so it's better that way you can choose what you like and what's sustainable (03:12):
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Kevin Tejada: for you instead of doing some other weird shit that's not really meant for your specific body. (03:16):
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Speaker1: Type or goals or whatever it is. (03:21):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, out of these 45 million Americans who go on these fad diets. (03:23):
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Speaker1: They're usually doing it for rapid weight loss, (03:27):
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Kevin Tejada: Self-esteem issues, body image issues, or just trying to copy a celebrity or (03:31):
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Kevin Tejada: influencer or some other famous person. (03:38):
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Kevin Tejada: Consistently, though, fad diets do not work in the long term. (03:42):
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Kevin Tejada: They can lead to nutritional issues, hormone issues, and probably dying early. (03:47):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, most people who fall prey to these diets are, like I said, (03:54):
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Kevin Tejada: young people, usually young people. (03:59):
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Kevin Tejada: They're middle-aged people too, who are like, oh, that celebrity looks fit. (04:00):
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Kevin Tejada: They said they do this. And then I'm going to do that. (04:04):
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Kevin Tejada: Celebrities lie a lot. I don't know if you know this, but most celebrities are (04:08):
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Kevin Tejada: actors and acting is literally lying for a living. so when you see interviews (04:11):
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Kevin Tejada: of very muscular actors and you're like yeah man to get into the shape i had to. (04:16):
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Kevin Tejada: Damn decent but point is don't listen to a celebrity don't take their words (04:30):
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Kevin Tejada: at face value because they're doing other shit doing steroids doing facelift (04:36):
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Kevin Tejada: stuff doing lipo doing weight loss drugs as well. (04:39):
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Kevin Tejada: So they might be eating what they're saying, but they're not telling you the (04:43):
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Kevin Tejada: whole picture. So they're selling you a false image of what can happen. (04:46):
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Kevin Tejada: Sometimes they're just making money. There's this company or there's pushing (04:52):
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Kevin Tejada: this particular product or diet, whatever it is. (04:56):
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Kevin Tejada: And they just pay the celebrity and they just say, Hey man, this is a great. (04:59):
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Kevin Tejada: And people fall for it. Cause they're like, Oh, I like that guy in the movie. (05:03):
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Speaker1: Yeah. I listened to him. Okay. (05:06):
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Kevin Tejada: That won't end well necessarily people who (05:08):
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Kevin Tejada: fall prey to this are also people with limited nutritional knowledge which (05:12):
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Kevin Tejada: is most people especially americans they don't (05:15):
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Kevin Tejada: really know shit no offense that's just how the education system is be cool (05:18):
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Kevin Tejada: if in school they taught you about more about nutrition finances useful stuff (05:24):
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Kevin Tejada: like that that'd be really cool like for me i fucking thought that counting (05:29):
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Kevin Tejada: calories was a woman thing because i didn't learn about nutrition in school. (05:33):
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Kevin Tejada: I just saw commercials about women eating a hundred calorie bags of snacks. (05:37):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm like, oh, that's for women. (05:42):
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Kevin Tejada: I would have lost a hundred pounds (05:43):
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Kevin Tejada: way faster if I had proper knowledge of nutrition, but most people don't. (05:44):
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Kevin Tejada: So they fall for these things. They all just eat literally only beef liver. Yeah, sure. (05:49):
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Kevin Tejada: And the biggest victims usually of the fad diet are people with low self-esteem, (05:56):
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Kevin Tejada: body image issues. They're. (06:00):
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Kevin Tejada: When you're very overweight, you want to accomplish something. (06:11):
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Kevin Tejada: It's very easy to latch on to something that claims to be the solution. (06:14):
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Kevin Tejada: I remember back when I was losing weight before I figured out, (06:20):
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Kevin Tejada: figured out how to count my fucking calories. (06:24):
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Kevin Tejada: You ever heard of the one gallon of, what's it called? A gallon of milk a day, the go mad diet. (06:26):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't think I fully went into that, but I definitely went through a period (06:32):
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Kevin Tejada: where I was exercising and drinking a shit ton of milk, whole milk. (06:36):
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Kevin Tejada: Turns out that was bad because milk has a. (06:41):
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Speaker1: Lot of calories (06:44):
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Kevin Tejada: And also American cows are steroided out to hell. (06:46):
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Kevin Tejada: But I didn't know any better. My parents didn't either because they would have (06:49):
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Kevin Tejada: told me the right thing to do. (06:53):
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Kevin Tejada: But I didn't, they didn't. So that's where it fell. And that's a trap that a (06:55):
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Kevin Tejada: lot of people fall into. They just hook onto something because they're desperate. (06:59):
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Kevin Tejada: They really want this, but it's not always the best for their goals. (07:02):
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Kevin Tejada: Or any goals, sometimes. (07:08):
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Kevin Tejada: Might be different for other states or other countries. Actually, (07:11):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm sure that's the case for other countries. They have better nutritional education. (07:14):
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Kevin Tejada: But at least in New York, lower New York, where I grew up, nutrition wasn't (07:19):
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Kevin Tejada: a huge part of health class. I don't even remember anything really about that. (07:24):
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Kevin Tejada: It's possible I'm not remembering, but there was nothing useful because I was (07:29):
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Kevin Tejada: an obese teenager. or so. Obviously, it wasn't that. (07:33):
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Speaker1: Useful if anything about nutrition was taught. (07:36):
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Kevin Tejada: I know in Japan that they have actually healthy school lunches. (07:39):
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Kevin Tejada: And I believe after a certain age, whatever company you work for, (07:44):
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Kevin Tejada: they really encourage the employees to be fit because if they go beyond a certain (07:49):
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Kevin Tejada: waistline, they got to pay more, something like that. (07:54):
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Kevin Tejada: But I know in Japan, they're very encouraged to not be fat and to just overall (07:58):
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Kevin Tejada: make better choices, right? Now, let me give you some numbers. (08:04):
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Kevin Tejada: Apparently, 80% of New Year's resolutions, many of which involve weight loss (08:08):
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Kevin Tejada: and fad diets, fail by February. (08:14):
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Kevin Tejada: By the time you're hearing this, 80% of people, probably more, have just given up. (08:18):
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Kevin Tejada: Cynic in me wants to think that it's actually 90, 92% of people who give up (08:24):
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Kevin Tejada: their new year's resolutions, but I'm glad it's just 80. (08:30):
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Kevin Tejada: And like I mentioned up at the top, 50% of 45 million Americans who diet every (08:33):
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Kevin Tejada: single year use fad diets. (08:39):
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Kevin Tejada: So not only are millions dieting, which means making a massive change to their, (08:41):
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Kevin Tejada: their eating habits, instead of just changing eating habits gradually into something (08:46):
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Kevin Tejada: sustainable, they're just jumping onto something else. (08:50):
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Kevin Tejada: Half of them are doing something extra wild that's trendy or supposed to be (08:53):
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Kevin Tejada: over a very short period of time, not for life. So that's not cool. (08:59):
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Speaker1: Now, often fad diets lead to, (09:04):
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Kevin Tejada: As I mentioned before, they do work, but only short term. (09:07):
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Kevin Tejada: And the reason is because the person who goes on a diet, their normal everyday (09:10):
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Kevin Tejada: diet is probably dog shit. So any change at the, (09:15):
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Kevin Tejada: this, but when you lose a lot of weight, not only do you lose fat, (09:34):
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Kevin Tejada: but you do lose a bit of muscle as well. This is unavoidable. (09:38):
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Kevin Tejada: Way you can avoid losing muscle as you're losing weight is by losing weight (09:42):
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Kevin Tejada: very slowly and trying your fucking damnedest to stay as strong as possible. (09:45):
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Kevin Tejada: But even then, statistically, you will lose a bit of muscle if you lose weight. (09:52):
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Kevin Tejada: That's just how it is. The weight includes fat and muscle and water and all that shit. (09:56):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, one of the funnier examples for me about the fad diet stuff is a gluten-free (10:00):
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Kevin Tejada: diet followed by people who don't have celiac disease, which is the whole point of avoiding gluten. (10:06):
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Kevin Tejada: You have that disease and gluten is going to fuck you up. (10:11):
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Kevin Tejada: A lot of people think, oh man, I see gluten-free everywhere. (10:14):
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Kevin Tejada: Let me try that. That must be healthier. It's free of whatever that is. (10:17):
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Kevin Tejada: So it's probably better. (10:20):
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Speaker1: If you don't have celiac disease, gluten-free stuff, it (10:22):
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Kevin Tejada: Shouldn't really be a consideration. It doesn't really matter. (10:24):
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Kevin Tejada: It's not going to make a big deal. It's another example of people jumping on a fad. (10:28):
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Kevin Tejada: Right now, big deal, the gluten-free thing, (10:31):
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Kevin Tejada: but I don't know, five years ago in like 2020 around maybe like a bit actually (10:35):
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Kevin Tejada: pre-covid that was a big deal oh gluten-free yeah get if you want but if you (10:39):
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Kevin Tejada: don't have that if you don't have that specific disease it's not really for (10:45):
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Kevin Tejada: you just keep that in mind now. (10:48):
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Speaker1: At the end of these things i usually bring up some (10:52):
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Kevin Tejada: Solutions to the topic at hand this was pretty fucking easy how to save yourself (10:54):
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Kevin Tejada: how to survive a fad diet. (10:59):
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Kevin Tejada: Don't go on them. Like I mentioned before, don't say, hey, here's this X blank diet. (11:03):
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Kevin Tejada: Let me hop on that and then automatically make progress. No. (11:09):
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Kevin Tejada: Decide what your goal is. What do you want to lose weight? You want to get stronger? (11:15):
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Kevin Tejada: You want to have more stamina. (11:17):
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Speaker1: Whatever it is. Slowly change your current diet so that it includes (11:19):
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Kevin Tejada: Taking a shit, you probably want to add a lot of fiber in your diet. (11:43):
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Kevin Tejada: Stuff like that. Stuff that's practical and towards an actual goal that you're (11:47):
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Kevin Tejada: trying to reach. Not, oh, look, a pre-made diet for God knows who. (11:50):
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Kevin Tejada: Let's get on it. That doesn't make any sense. That's fucking stupid. (11:54):
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Kevin Tejada: Your diet as a whole has to include some of kind of everything, if possible. (11:57):
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Kevin Tejada: Like I mentioned before, if you're trying to gain muscle, for example, (12:03):
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Kevin Tejada: like a lot of muscle, you would prioritize protein, of course, (12:06):
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Kevin Tejada: but you're not going to ignore carbohydrates. (12:09):
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Kevin Tejada: You're not going to ignore fats. You need all that. You need all that. (12:12):
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Kevin Tejada: They all serve different functions. You need them all. You need all this kind (12:15):
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Kevin Tejada: of stuff. You need to eat some kind of vegetables. (12:18):
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Kevin Tejada: You need fiber in general. You need all this stuff. It's just a matter of what (12:21):
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Kevin Tejada: you're trying to accomplish, including what you actually need for your body. (12:24):
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Kevin Tejada: And you change the amounts, the proportions to make it work for you. (12:28):
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Kevin Tejada: But do it slowly and just jump on some fad or else it's not going to last. (12:34):
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Kevin Tejada: Fad diet, more like fat diet. (12:40):
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Kevin Tejada: And speaking of, be very wary of diets who claim, oh, you'll lose weight super fast on this diet. (12:43):
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Kevin Tejada: There's no diet that inherently makes you lose weight more or faster than any (12:48):
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Kevin Tejada: other one because the weight gain and weight loss comes from calories. (12:53):
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Kevin Tejada: So you can just drink only milk like a weirdo. (12:57):
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Kevin Tejada: You can eat only vegetables you can (13:01):
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Kevin Tejada: eat only meat it's about the calories and it's always about the calories now (13:04):
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Kevin Tejada: obviously some foods have lower calories so it's easier to eat more of that (13:11):
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Kevin Tejada: and not eat in excess of calories but there's no one particular diet that's inherently, (13:14):
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Kevin Tejada: easier and faster to lose weight on that's not how food works not how energy works. (13:22):
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Kevin Tejada: A lot of doctors want you to get on drugs rather than change your life too much. (13:28):
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Kevin Tejada: But if you ask them, they can tell you, hey, based on my last blood test, (13:32):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm not low in this. Like, what should I eat? (13:36):
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Kevin Tejada: They can help a bit with that. And you can even help yourself. (13:38):
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Kevin Tejada: Take your blood results, look at it, see what you're low in, (13:42):
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Kevin Tejada: what you're high in, whatever it is. Ask the internet, (13:45):
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Kevin Tejada: is your health matters not just what your (13:57):
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Kevin Tejada: goal is your health overall should be your goal so you got (14:00):
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Kevin Tejada: to keep up top in terms of knowledge with (14:02):
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Kevin Tejada: your actual health too like your blood tests your other ailments and (14:05):
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Kevin Tejada: stuff basically keep in mind your long-term health and not your short-term pleasure (14:09):
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Kevin Tejada: health goals whatever if you have a goal you're going to change your whole way (14:15):
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Kevin Tejada: of eating just because you want to accomplish something in about six weeks drop (14:19):
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Kevin Tejada: that shit immediately think on a way longer. (14:23):
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Speaker1: Scale maybe six decades (14:27):
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Kevin Tejada: Instead of six weeks and then slowly adjust your eating to the most optimal to get there and. (14:29):
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Speaker1: Yeah it's got to be slow some people can just switch (14:36):
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Kevin Tejada: Wildly but most people would benefit from just taking it slowly because when (14:40):
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Kevin Tejada: you should do slow changes it's easier. (14:45):
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Speaker1: To adapt to them (14:47):
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Kevin Tejada: If you make a bunch of big changes in the short-term, it's not going to last (14:48):
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Kevin Tejada: because it's just too different. (14:52):
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Kevin Tejada: It's just, you're not that person. You need to slowly become that person. (14:53):
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Kevin Tejada: You need to build that person. (14:56):
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Kevin Tejada: So yeah, basically if you think long-term, you live long-term. (14:58):
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Kevin Tejada: In short, don't be dumb. Write in the comments, what is a fad diet that you've tried before? (15:01):
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Kevin Tejada: Like I said, I was almost touching on the go mad, gallon of milk a day before. (15:07):
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Speaker1: But yeah, that didn't work out for many reasons. (15:11):
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Kevin Tejada: Let me know yours and I'll see you next time. (15:15):
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