June 10, 2025 • 25 mins
Welcome to the "You’re Not Gonna Make It" podcast, where I discuss topics that make you feel like humanity’s not gonna make it.
This episode: Say no to drugs kids.
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Kevin Tejada:
Are you aware of how dumb weight loss drugs are? I know literally my first episode (00:28):
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Kevin Tejada: of this was about Ozempic, but I fucking hate weight loss drugs so much, you guys. (00:33):
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Speaker2: I need to bitch more. So that's the topic, weight loss drugs. (00:38):
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Kevin Tejada: And if you don't know, I'm talking about stuff like Ozempic, (00:43):
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Kevin Tejada: Wegobe, Zep Bound, whatever else there is. (00:46):
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Kevin Tejada: What these do is alter your metabolism, appetite, or your fat absorption to, (00:50):
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Kevin Tejada: sense. The most popular form of this is the GLP-1 agonist, which I'm not gonna (01:07):
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Kevin Tejada: lie, I've heard this a million times, I never looked up what GLP stands for, I don't really care. (01:15):
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Kevin Tejada: The point is, people are taking drugs, they're injecting themselves, (01:19):
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Kevin Tejada: and it's fucking up their, (01:23):
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Kevin Tejada: And yeah, let's get this out of the way. There is a part of me that it's kind (01:35):
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Kevin Tejada: of like, damn, these people are cheating because I lost a hundred pounds myself. (01:39):
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Kevin Tejada: So when I see people injecting, losing weight, part of me is like, wow, that looks easy. (01:44):
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Kevin Tejada: I wish they kind of went through what I had to go through, not in a way that I want them to suffer. (01:49):
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Kevin Tejada: It's that I learned a lot in my experience. And I feel like these people are (01:54):
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Kevin Tejada: getting shortchanged in their weight loss. (01:58):
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Kevin Tejada: Does part of me wish I had this when I was younger? I mean, if you asked me (02:01):
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Kevin Tejada: when I was a fucking teenager, I'd probably say, oh, sure. Yeah. (02:05):
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Kevin Tejada: But with hindsight, I think it's. (02:09):
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Speaker2: It's fucking great that I went through that because that discipline, the habit building, (02:11):
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Kevin Tejada: It carried over to to everything i would be a completely different person if (02:15):
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Kevin Tejada: i had these drugs i'd still be like a fat lazy piece of shit i where i'd now i'd. (02:21):
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Speaker2: Be just a lazy piece of shit instead of fat so no i don't wish i had that (02:25):
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Kevin Tejada: As an option and yeah i kind of do want people to go through the actual process (02:30):
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Kevin Tejada: because it'll help them learn how to keep the results so yeah sure let's get this out of the. (02:36):
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Speaker2: Way for all the people who are saying you just want people (02:42):
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Kevin Tejada: To suffer you don't think is legitimate, blah, blah, blah, a little bit, (02:45):
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Kevin Tejada: mostly not, it's just, it's just not a great way to do it. (02:49):
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Kevin Tejada: I think, but sure. Just, you know, maybe like 5% that sure. (02:52):
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Kevin Tejada: The main reason I'm not a fan of these weight loss drugs is what I just said, (02:55):
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Kevin Tejada: you kind of miss out on building the habits and making sure this kind of thing (03:00):
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Kevin Tejada: lasts forever, your weight loss. (03:04):
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Kevin Tejada: It's like the people who get liposuction and then they gain the weight back (03:06):
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Kevin Tejada: because they didn't learn anything from the experience. They just got the fat sucked away. (03:09):
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Kevin Tejada: Same for gastric bypass or whatever. You kind of force the weight loss to happen. (03:14):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, these things may work for people. You might get a lipo, (03:20):
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Kevin Tejada: you might get a bypass surgery, and then you might just be on your merry way, never get fat again. (03:22):
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Kevin Tejada: But those experiences don't really teach a person how to lose weight, (03:29):
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Kevin Tejada: the science behind the thermodynamics of calorie counting and all that stuff, (03:34):
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Kevin Tejada: which is really simple, honestly. (03:38):
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Kevin Tejada: They just skip to the end and then the person just keeps on living their life, (03:41):
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Kevin Tejada: the life that made them fat to begin with. So you see where the issue comes in. (03:45):
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Kevin Tejada: But beyond that, there are a lot of other side effects, which I'll get into in a bit. (03:51):
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Speaker2: But here's where we are now. (03:56):
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Kevin Tejada: So Ozempic, Wegovi, Zepbound, and some other shit, they're becoming household names. (03:58):
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Kevin Tejada: I see ads for this shit on subway platforms. (04:02):
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Kevin Tejada: Just last week, I saw this ad while waiting for the subway of this overweight (04:07):
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Kevin Tejada: woman injecting herself and say, lose weight quick. (04:14):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm thinking, fuck me. (04:17):
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Speaker2: This became common real quick. (04:19):
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Kevin Tejada: The demand is skyrocketing, of course, because, wow, we get to lose weight easily (04:22):
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Kevin Tejada: with no effort. Holy shit, yeah. (04:27):
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Kevin Tejada: You know what's wild? I forget which comedian said something like this, (04:31):
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Kevin Tejada: but basically the whole rise of these weight loss drugs shows that the body (04:35):
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Kevin Tejada: positivity movement was full of shit. (04:40):
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Kevin Tejada: Remember that movement from like, you know, five, ten years ago, (04:44):
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Kevin Tejada: whatever, was, where people were like, yeah, being fat is beautiful, (04:47):
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Kevin Tejada: it's amazing, it's healthy, but, you know, as soon as you can lose weight with (04:51):
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Kevin Tejada: no effort whatsoever, you're all doing it. (04:54):
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Kevin Tejada: Never wanted to be fat it was a gigantic coping mechanism this (04:58):
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Kevin Tejada: whole movement or lack of movement i should say i mean at the very least at (05:02):
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Kevin Tejada: the very least society's coming back around to the idea that being overweight (05:08):
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Kevin Tejada: is not good so that's cool but the way they're dealing with it it's not cool, (05:13):
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Kevin Tejada: a lot of these things are becoming popular in social media as well these injections (05:20):
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Kevin Tejada: and that's driving interest as well every time i see this shit on instagram (05:24):
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Kevin Tejada: or any other social media i say, (05:29):
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Kevin Tejada: not interested don't fucking show me this shit again there are (05:31):
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Kevin Tejada: people out out there like hey guys he's (05:34):
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Kevin Tejada: ready to get fucking the glp1 meds get (05:37):
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Kevin Tejada: that shit on my fucking face zuckerberg i don't want to see that i'm constantly (05:41):
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Kevin Tejada: talking shit about weight loss drugs so i have no idea why why algorithms send (05:46):
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Kevin Tejada: that shit my way and people are so desperate they're doing off-label stuff as (05:50):
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Kevin Tejada: well i listened to a podcast where one of the hosts is like super fat he's doing like. (05:55):
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Speaker1: This this chinese knockoff of ozempic (06:00):
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Kevin Tejada: And it's not working too well but people are just going crazy shit and they're just doing going. (06:02):
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Speaker2: Crazy doing weird shit (06:08):
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Kevin Tejada: All because they just don't want to track their calories that's the main thing (06:09):
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Kevin Tejada: they don't want to do the work and they don't have the patience for it. (06:14):
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Kevin Tejada: Maybe they can track their calories for a week, but they don't have the patience (06:18):
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Kevin Tejada: to do it for months, maybe years, depending on how overweight you are. (06:21):
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Kevin Tejada: They don't have it. They can't do it. Patience is not there. (06:25):
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Kevin Tejada: It's ironic. These people don't have patience, but they will become patients. (06:29):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm sorry. I'm addicted to just finding puns in wordplay. I'm sorry. (06:33):
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Kevin Tejada: But to throw a number your way instead of words, I will tell you that this market (06:38):
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Kevin Tejada: is expected to reach $100 billion, $100 billion with a B by 2030. It's five years away. (06:43):
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Speaker2: So this is not going away. (06:52):
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Kevin Tejada: Who's the biggest victim of this stuff? Overweight people, of course. (06:55):
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Kevin Tejada: Actually, I think probably people (06:59):
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Kevin Tejada: who are slightly overweight or not overweight might suffer from this. (07:01):
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Kevin Tejada: I can imagine, hey, you can lose more weight with no effort. (07:05):
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Kevin Tejada: There'll be people who are maybe a normal weight, but they have body dysmorphia (07:08):
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Kevin Tejada: of some kind, and they want to lose even more weight, get close to underweight. (07:14):
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Kevin Tejada: Not feel like eating. This food noise is a huge issue for people. (07:22):
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Kevin Tejada: I remember one of the funniest things that's ever happened is that I talk shit (07:27):
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Kevin Tejada: about weight loss drugs online, saying that they fuck up your body and your (07:31):
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Kevin Tejada: mind to make you not hungry. (07:35):
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Kevin Tejada: And that's how you lose weight Because you're forcing yourself to not eat, (07:36):
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Kevin Tejada: And I got a comment One of the funniest comments I've ever seen in my life They (07:41):
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Kevin Tejada: replied to me saying A person who has never been overweight And tried to lose (07:46):
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Kevin Tejada: weight Nor experienced food noise I about fucking exploded with laughter When I saw that shit, (07:50):
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Kevin Tejada: bitch was crazy. As someone who lost a hundred pounds and still deals with what (07:58):
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Kevin Tejada: they call food noise, as in, Hey, it'd be cool to eat right now. (08:03):
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Kevin Tejada: Yeah, I understand. I understand this very well. (08:07):
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Kevin Tejada: The thing is, I also understood that getting to a healthy weight is possible (08:10):
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Kevin Tejada: and doable and controllable by me. (08:14):
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Kevin Tejada: So I did that and I still do that to this day. But for some people, (08:17):
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Kevin Tejada: the food noise is too loud. (08:21):
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Kevin Tejada: You know what? Fair enough. It's hard. (08:24):
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Kevin Tejada: Is the only way around this is fucking stupid. So dumb people are also at risk (08:38):
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Kevin Tejada: of, you know, using weight loss drugs. (08:44):
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Speaker1: Desperate people, people who truly, truly, truly think that their body is special. (08:47):
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Kevin Tejada: Their body breaks the laws of thermodynamics and calorie counting doesn't work (08:53):
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Kevin Tejada: for them, and that drugs are the only way. (08:57):
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Kevin Tejada: Basically, people who are desperate or dumb or impatient are the ones who fall for this, mostly. (08:59):
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Kevin Tejada: So let's step on the statistical scale and look at some numbers. Shall we? (09:04):
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Kevin Tejada: 15 to 20%. That's how much weight loss clinical trials show with some of these drugs. (09:10):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, in real life, this differs because a lot of people experience plateaus (09:16):
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Kevin Tejada: after the initial success of the drug. (09:20):
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Kevin Tejada: And you can imagine why because they didn't learn shit and as i mentioned before (09:22):
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Kevin Tejada: with liposuction and some other surgery some people actually go back to the (09:28):
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Kevin Tejada: initial weight that they were at before they got the surgeries why you ask well (09:32):
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Kevin Tejada: as like a broken record i'll say they didn't fucking learn anything, (09:37):
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Kevin Tejada: some of them are so rich they don't give a shit i imagine there are some people out there who, (09:41):
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Kevin Tejada: if you have that mindset. Yeah. Hey, if you're rich enough, whatever. (09:48):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't know. That's a, that's a weird way to live, but maybe I'm too broke to understand. (09:54):
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Kevin Tejada: Maybe effort is for broke people. (09:59):
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Speaker2: Peasants, but it doesn't surprise me that, you know, a lot of people experience plateaus, (10:02):
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Kevin Tejada: Even rebound, rebound with Zetbound. (10:06):
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Kevin Tejada: For me, I had to understand that my body needed a certain amount of energy and (10:11):
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Kevin Tejada: I need to reduce that amount of energy, a certain amount until my body adjusted (10:15):
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Kevin Tejada: and adapted to that new amount of energy. (10:20):
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Kevin Tejada: And then it became closer to what I wanted it to be. (10:23):
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Kevin Tejada: And to this day, I still understand that if I eat like a person who is 300 pounds, I will become that way. (10:26):
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Kevin Tejada: If I eat like a person who wants to be, you know, 170 pounds, (10:32):
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Kevin Tejada: my body will become that way. (10:36):
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Kevin Tejada: That's literally how it is to fake it till you make it. That's what, (10:38):
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Kevin Tejada: that's what losing weight is. (10:42):
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Speaker2: Yeah. (10:43):
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Kevin Tejada: The calories of a person of the weight that you want to have, (10:45):
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Kevin Tejada: and you will become that person. (10:47):
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Kevin Tejada: So if you don't understand what it takes to change in that way, (10:49):
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Kevin Tejada: then if you take a shortcut surgery, well, your habits are just going to bring (10:53):
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Kevin Tejada: you back to where you started. (10:58):
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Kevin Tejada: 44% of WeGoV users report nausea, 30% experience diarrhea, and 24% suffer from (11:00):
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Kevin Tejada: vomiting. That sounds horrible. (11:08):
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Kevin Tejada: Much. Damn, this sounds worse. (11:26):
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Kevin Tejada: In terms of the dropout rates, about one fourth of patients stop these medications (11:30):
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Kevin Tejada: in the first year due to the side effects. (11:36):
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Kevin Tejada: And imagine, you know, vomiting and diarrhea-ing so much, it's probably not, (11:38):
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Kevin Tejada: it's not appealing for most people. (11:42):
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Kevin Tejada: And we come to probably the most underrated or rather, I should say, (11:45):
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Kevin Tejada: least talked about side effects of these drugs. (11:52):
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Kevin Tejada: So normally when you lose weight, you eat less and your body shrinks. (11:55):
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Kevin Tejada: That's basically what it is, right? (11:59):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, ideally when you're losing weight, you want to exercise. (12:01):
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Kevin Tejada: So you keep a lot of strength and muscle on your way down. (12:04):
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Kevin Tejada: Because when you lose weight, you lose body fat, you lose water, (12:07):
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Kevin Tejada: a little bit of bone mass sometimes, and a little bit of muscle. (12:12):
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Kevin Tejada: But if you exercise properly when you're losing weight, you will retain a bunch (12:15):
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Kevin Tejada: of muscle and lose weight in a healthy way. The issue with these drugs is. (12:19):
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Speaker2: That most people, (12:23):
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Kevin Tejada: Say with me, they don't fucking learn anything. So when they're losing this (12:25):
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Kevin Tejada: weight, they're not making any kinds of changes to become healthier, (12:29):
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Kevin Tejada: or such as exercising or whatever. (12:33):
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Kevin Tejada: If you're a fat, lazy piece of shit and you get on these drugs, (12:35):
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Kevin Tejada: you're just gonna lose weight. You're still gonna be a lazy piece of shit. (12:37):
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Kevin Tejada: And the result of this is that you're gonna lose a lot of lean muscle mass along with that fat. (12:41):
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Kevin Tejada: So you're just gonna become more like a skeleton. You're not gonna become a (12:46):
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Kevin Tejada: fit person just by not eating. (12:49):
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Kevin Tejada: That's not how it works. You need to exercise as well and you need to eat properly too. (12:53):
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Kevin Tejada: There's this issue that I think is gonna crop up, (12:57):
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Kevin Tejada: the health of a lot of these people who take these drugs is going to get worse than before, possibly. (13:01):
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Kevin Tejada: Like cut out the multiple issues that obesity causes. (13:07):
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Kevin Tejada: And I think they're going to have a lot of other issues. And let me explain. (13:12):
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Kevin Tejada: So if you're really overweight, like really, really overweight, (13:16):
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Kevin Tejada: you probably eat dog shit, right? (13:19):
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Kevin Tejada: You eat a bunch of Twinkies, Doritos, Cheetos, hot dogs. Maybe you'll have some chicken here and there. (13:21):
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Speaker2: Right? (13:28):
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Kevin Tejada: So, you know, maybe you get some decent stuff like chicken and eggs in there, (13:29):
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Kevin Tejada: but the majority of what you're eating is dog shit, right? (13:32):
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Kevin Tejada: Now with these drugs, they make it so you eat less. (13:35):
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Kevin Tejada: Now notice I said eat less and not eat better. (13:40):
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Speaker2: So now what I think is going to happen is a lot of people are going to eat less, but (13:43):
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Kevin Tejada: Understand proper nutrition. They didn't learn it. That's not what these drugs (14:07):
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Kevin Tejada: do. They don't teach you anything. (14:12):
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Kevin Tejada: They just make you not hungry. So I predict a lot of people in the future are (14:13):
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Kevin Tejada: going to be not fat, but they're going to be fucking dying. (14:18):
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Kevin Tejada: We're going to have a lot of weird zombies in the future. (14:20):
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Kevin Tejada: A smaller amount, but it's still going to be dog shit. So you're going to have (14:27):
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Kevin Tejada: all these people who they're not exercising, they're not eating properly, (14:31):
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Kevin Tejada: they're just eating less. (14:34):
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Kevin Tejada: So their insides are going to be mush. They're going to have no muscle. (14:36):
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Kevin Tejada: And that's going to cause a lot of other issues. (14:39):
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Kevin Tejada: Anyway, let's get to the actual number. So up to 40% of weight loss. (14:42):
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Speaker2: On these drugs may come from lean muscle mass rather (14:47):
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Kevin Tejada: Than fat tissue. That's fucking alarming. That's insane. So about one third (14:50):
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Kevin Tejada: of the weight you may lose on these drugs, if you don't exercise at all, (14:54):
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Kevin Tejada: it's going to come from muscle. (14:59):
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Kevin Tejada: Not to be fair, if you just eat less in general and don't exercise at all, (15:00):
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Kevin Tejada: you're also going to lose a bunch of lean muscle mass. (15:04):
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Kevin Tejada: But I think you lose more with this because the weight loss is forced here. (15:06):
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Kevin Tejada: You're not making any adjustments that may inadvertently. (15:10):
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Speaker2: Lead to better fitness. You're just eating less. (15:13):
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Kevin Tejada: Rebound effect, like I mentioned, you rebound with ZipBound. (15:18):
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Kevin Tejada: Studies show 66% of lost weight returns within about a year of stopping the medication. (15:20):
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Kevin Tejada: Who fucking knew? Take away the shortcut, go back to your normal habits, (15:28):
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Kevin Tejada: or rather, you never stopped your normal habits. (15:32):
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Kevin Tejada: And you go back to how you were. Wow, it's almost like, you know, (15:34):
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Kevin Tejada: fucking diets, basically. (15:38):
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Kevin Tejada: This is a forced caloric deficit. It's a diet you can inject, (15:39):
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Kevin Tejada: but even worse, because you're still eating the shit that got you fat to begin with. (15:45):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, I didn't know about this, but apparently a lot of these medications have (15:51):
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Kevin Tejada: neurological effects too, and about 10% of users report depression or anxiety. (15:54):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't know if it's from the drug itself, the chemicals from the drug. (16:00):
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Kevin Tejada: Could be other reasons maybe just the (16:06):
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Kevin Tejada: process of changing your body or maybe the guilt from doing it a (16:09):
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Kevin Tejada: shitty way i don't know and and (16:13):
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Kevin Tejada: i should have waited to talk about talk about the the the zombie issue before (16:16):
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Kevin Tejada: but now we're getting to the stat regarding nutritional deficiencies so a significant (16:21):
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Kevin Tejada: reduction in calorie intake can lead to you know vitamin and mineral deficiencies in like. (16:29):
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Speaker2: One-fifth of the users. (16:34):
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Kevin Tejada: So like I was saying before, usually when you're losing weight, (16:36):
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Kevin Tejada: you kind of are learning what your body, how your body can thrive actually. So you'll be, (16:40):
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Kevin Tejada: they're going to have a rude awakening in a couple of years, I think. (17:12):
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Kevin Tejada: I mean, I'm pretty sure these drugs were around for a while, (17:16):
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Kevin Tejada: but they've only exploded in popularity recently and. (17:20):
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Speaker2: I fucking hate it (17:24):
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Kevin Tejada: Even if I did not help people lose weight myself I would still hate this shit (17:25):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm not like oh my god I'm gonna I'm gonna be replaced no, (17:30):
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Kevin Tejada: about that there are people who are basically doing something like liposuction. (17:36):
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Speaker2: At home but less effective (17:42):
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Kevin Tejada: And with more side effects and this is not even getting into the cost of this (17:44):
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Kevin Tejada: stuff without insurance this shit costs a. (17:49):
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Speaker2: Thousand dollars a month or (17:53):
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Kevin Tejada: More you want to pay midwestern rent because you don't want to make any changes (17:55):
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Kevin Tejada: whatsoever that's fucking crazy by the way with this stuff, (18:01):
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Kevin Tejada: plastic surgery, liposuction, all this kind of stuff, (18:07):
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Kevin Tejada: you're not going to change your mentality. (18:10):
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Kevin Tejada: And I'm not talking about, you know, your habits and stuff like that. (18:13):
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Kevin Tejada: If you hate yourself because you're fat, you're just going to hate yourself when you're less fat. (18:17):
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Kevin Tejada: If you were to go on this journey yourself, slowly, naturally, (18:23):
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Kevin Tejada: it's possible you may grow to appreciate your body, its adaption, (18:28):
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Kevin Tejada: the changes you've made, the improvements you've made, and you'll grow to appreciate yourself more. (18:35):
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Speaker2: But again, if you take a shortcut, (18:41):
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Kevin Tejada: You're not actually working on anything. Mentally, you're still going to fucking (18:43):
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Kevin Tejada: hate yourself. Probably because mentally you haven't changed. (18:46):
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Kevin Tejada: There are tons of reports of people who go through plastic surgery because they (18:50):
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Kevin Tejada: think it'll make them feel better about themselves and it doesn't work out that way. (18:55):
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Kevin Tejada: They still fucking hate themselves because they didn't do any mental work. (18:59):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, when you go through a weight loss journey, I got to tell you, (19:02):
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Kevin Tejada: a lot of physical changes happen, but there's a lot of mental work that happens. (19:05):
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Kevin Tejada: There's a humongous mental journey that goes through it. (19:09):
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Kevin Tejada: Most of weight loss is mental. (19:12):
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Kevin Tejada: You need to make the correct choices. You need to make the correct changes. (19:15):
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Kevin Tejada: You need to live with those for months, for years, maybe forever. (19:18):
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Kevin Tejada: That changes a motherfucker okay so (19:23):
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Kevin Tejada: if you went through this naturally you might not you might hate yourself less (19:28):
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Kevin Tejada: now i won't lie a lot of people who lose weight they still kind of hate themselves (19:31):
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Kevin Tejada: they have that body dysmorphia they're like oh it might never be enough i'll (19:35):
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Kevin Tejada: never love myself i need to get fitter thinner that still exists what i'm saying (19:38):
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Kevin Tejada: is you have a better chance of appreciating the one body that you have, (19:43):
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Kevin Tejada: if you go on that journey with it, if you inject self-control, (19:48):
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Kevin Tejada: there are no guarantees in any actual improvement. (19:53):
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Speaker2: So I don't recommend this shit at all. (19:56):
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Kevin Tejada: And I'll tell you this, if in the future, let's say these drugs, (19:59):
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Kevin Tejada: they get into a place where they have absolutely zero side effects. (20:02):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't know if that's possible because you're fucking up and tricking your body to not be hungry. (20:05):
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Kevin Tejada: So I feel like there's always going to be some side effect With that but let's (20:10):
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Kevin Tejada: pretend No side effects whatsoever you just Inject take a pill you're not hungry (20:13):
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Kevin Tejada: anymore I don't know I don't know If that is that I mean there's nothing bad (20:17):
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Kevin Tejada: about It so I guess maybe I'll make a big Ass apology, (20:21):
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Kevin Tejada: About saying fine do it whatever. (20:25):
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Kevin Tejada: Not doing it, but I'll talk less shit about it for sure. But as of now, (20:29):
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Kevin Tejada: there are way too many side effects that are just going to result in bigger (20:34):
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Kevin Tejada: and different problems later on. (20:37):
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Kevin Tejada: So I wouldn't recommend doing it. Here's what I recommend instead. (20:40):
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Kevin Tejada: Track your calories. That's it. (20:44):
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Kevin Tejada: Now for a lot of people who use this, let me actually, let me, let me, okay. (20:47):
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Kevin Tejada: There is an argument to be made. If you're on the show, 600 pound life, (20:52):
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Kevin Tejada: you weigh like 900 pounds, (20:56):
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Kevin Tejada: maybe this could be useful for you to stop you from dying tomorrow but even (20:58):
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Kevin Tejada: then i i hesitate to even say that because in those situations those people (21:02):
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Kevin Tejada: are still bed bound they can't do this shit to themselves make themselves gain (21:08):
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Kevin Tejada: weight they have enablers who are giving them extra food, (21:14):
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Kevin Tejada: so that they still at that point don't need the drug so i can't think of a legitimate. (21:18):
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Kevin Tejada: Situation where this would be recommended is doing (21:23):
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Kevin Tejada: a drug instead of doing like literally anything else i don't (21:27):
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Kevin Tejada: know okay here's one let's say (21:30):
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Kevin Tejada: there's a person a person you love they will (21:33):
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Kevin Tejada: not fucking stop eating and they're gonna they they so they told you i'm gonna (21:37):
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Kevin Tejada: keep eating until i fucking die fuck you i love being fat and you're like damn (21:41):
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Kevin Tejada: that sucks maybe every every week in the middle of the night you inject them (21:46):
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Kevin Tejada: with something and then they they they don't eat as much because they're gonna (21:50):
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Kevin Tejada: kill themselves otherwise maybe then you know that might be, (21:53):
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Kevin Tejada: one fucking cartoonish situation, but yeah, man, in general, don't do this shit. (21:57):
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Kevin Tejada: I wouldn't even recommend it as a, as a temporary thing. (22:03):
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Kevin Tejada: Just if you got time to try out drugs, you got time to try out caloric deficits, (22:07):
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Kevin Tejada: different foods, tracking your food in just any way whatsoever. (22:13):
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Kevin Tejada: Like I said, you gain so much from this. You gain so much discipline. You gain the. (22:17):
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Kevin Tejada: You develop a better relationship with your body because you've gone on a journey with it. (22:28):
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Kevin Tejada: In Lord of the Rings, when Sam and Frodo go all the way to Mount Doom, (22:33):
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Kevin Tejada: their relationship deepens. (22:37):
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Kevin Tejada: You're Frodo and Sam is your weight loss journey. It's going to be so, (22:40):
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Kevin Tejada: or rather, it's your body, I guess. Whatever. (22:45):
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Kevin Tejada: Sam is your body. You're going to have a way better relationship with your body (22:47):
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Kevin Tejada: if you go through something with it. You make these changes with it. (22:52):
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Kevin Tejada: Imagine Frodo just teleported to Mount Doom. His relationship with Sam wouldn't (22:57):
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Kevin Tejada: really change that much. (23:01):
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Speaker2: It would just (23:03):
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Kevin Tejada: Be cool when he got back to the Shire saying, Hey, I did it. (23:04):
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Kevin Tejada: That'd be cool, but he wouldn't like, you know, they wouldn't have learned anything (23:08):
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Kevin Tejada: about each other, wouldn't have grown as people. (23:10):
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Kevin Tejada: Go on the journey. It'll help you out. You'll find that that discipline comes (23:13):
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Kevin Tejada: in handy in every other part of your life. (23:18):
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Kevin Tejada: Please try it out. while everyone else is becoming a weird drug addicted zombie (23:21):
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Kevin Tejada: with shit nutrition and no exercise habits you can become a, (23:26):
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Kevin Tejada: better maybe you can become an example for them too you can (23:43):
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Kevin Tejada: lead by example they offer you drugs remember dare they offer you drugs you (23:47):
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Kevin Tejada: say no i'm just gonna eat less just do it just try please you don't want your (23:51):
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Kevin Tejada: would you give your kids fucking whatever i actually read things about uh read (23:56):
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Kevin Tejada: things recently about kids being on these drugs so yeah i guess i. (24:01):
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Speaker2: Guess you would give your kid drugs right whatever please don't (24:04):
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Kevin Tejada: Please go to a calorie calculator putting information find out how many calories (24:08):
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Kevin Tejada: you need to maintain yourself. (24:15):
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Kevin Tejada: Eat about 300, maybe 500 calories under that per day, maybe 600 if you're really overweight, 700 maybe. (24:16):
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Kevin Tejada: Figure it out, like find out what works for you. Go on that journey. (24:24):
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Kevin Tejada: Do that for weeks, months. Keep track of your weight, take pictures. (24:27):
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Kevin Tejada: And that journey will be much, much, much more beneficial than paying a thousand (24:31):
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Kevin Tejada: bucks for drugs that you will have to keep being on if you want those results. (24:36):
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Kevin Tejada: You're basically leasing those results you're not owning them if you want to. (24:42):
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Speaker2: Own them eat less and then maybe you'll make it (24:47):
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Kevin Tejada: But if you take a bunch of weight loss weight loss drugs i don't think you're (24:50):
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Kevin Tejada: gonna make it let me know in the comments do you take any drugs if so why that's (24:54):
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Kevin Tejada: not cool man anyway make sure you subscribe to this so that you can make it (25:00):
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Kevin Tejada: and i'll see you next time. (25:06):
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Kevin Tejada: of this was about Ozempic, but I fucking hate weight loss drugs so much, you guys. (00:33):
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Speaker2: I need to bitch more. So that's the topic, weight loss drugs. (00:38):
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Kevin Tejada: And if you don't know, I'm talking about stuff like Ozempic, (00:43):
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Kevin Tejada: Wegobe, Zep Bound, whatever else there is. (00:46):
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Kevin Tejada: What these do is alter your metabolism, appetite, or your fat absorption to, (00:50):
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Kevin Tejada: sense. The most popular form of this is the GLP-1 agonist, which I'm not gonna (01:07):
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Kevin Tejada: lie, I've heard this a million times, I never looked up what GLP stands for, I don't really care. (01:15):
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Kevin Tejada: The point is, people are taking drugs, they're injecting themselves, (01:19):
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Kevin Tejada: and it's fucking up their, (01:23):
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Kevin Tejada: And yeah, let's get this out of the way. There is a part of me that it's kind (01:35):
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Kevin Tejada: of like, damn, these people are cheating because I lost a hundred pounds myself. (01:39):
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Kevin Tejada: So when I see people injecting, losing weight, part of me is like, wow, that looks easy. (01:44):
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Kevin Tejada: I wish they kind of went through what I had to go through, not in a way that I want them to suffer. (01:49):
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Kevin Tejada: It's that I learned a lot in my experience. And I feel like these people are (01:54):
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Kevin Tejada: getting shortchanged in their weight loss. (01:58):
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Kevin Tejada: Does part of me wish I had this when I was younger? I mean, if you asked me (02:01):
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Kevin Tejada: when I was a fucking teenager, I'd probably say, oh, sure. Yeah. (02:05):
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Kevin Tejada: But with hindsight, I think it's. (02:09):
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Speaker2: It's fucking great that I went through that because that discipline, the habit building, (02:11):
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Kevin Tejada: It carried over to to everything i would be a completely different person if (02:15):
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Kevin Tejada: i had these drugs i'd still be like a fat lazy piece of shit i where i'd now i'd. (02:21):
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Speaker2: Be just a lazy piece of shit instead of fat so no i don't wish i had that (02:25):
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Kevin Tejada: As an option and yeah i kind of do want people to go through the actual process (02:30):
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Kevin Tejada: because it'll help them learn how to keep the results so yeah sure let's get this out of the. (02:36):
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Speaker2: Way for all the people who are saying you just want people (02:42):
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Kevin Tejada: To suffer you don't think is legitimate, blah, blah, blah, a little bit, (02:45):
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Kevin Tejada: mostly not, it's just, it's just not a great way to do it. (02:49):
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Kevin Tejada: I think, but sure. Just, you know, maybe like 5% that sure. (02:52):
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Kevin Tejada: The main reason I'm not a fan of these weight loss drugs is what I just said, (02:55):
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Kevin Tejada: you kind of miss out on building the habits and making sure this kind of thing (03:00):
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Kevin Tejada: lasts forever, your weight loss. (03:04):
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Kevin Tejada: It's like the people who get liposuction and then they gain the weight back (03:06):
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Kevin Tejada: because they didn't learn anything from the experience. They just got the fat sucked away. (03:09):
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Kevin Tejada: Same for gastric bypass or whatever. You kind of force the weight loss to happen. (03:14):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, these things may work for people. You might get a lipo, (03:20):
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Kevin Tejada: you might get a bypass surgery, and then you might just be on your merry way, never get fat again. (03:22):
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Kevin Tejada: But those experiences don't really teach a person how to lose weight, (03:29):
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Kevin Tejada: the science behind the thermodynamics of calorie counting and all that stuff, (03:34):
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Kevin Tejada: which is really simple, honestly. (03:38):
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Kevin Tejada: They just skip to the end and then the person just keeps on living their life, (03:41):
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Kevin Tejada: the life that made them fat to begin with. So you see where the issue comes in. (03:45):
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Kevin Tejada: But beyond that, there are a lot of other side effects, which I'll get into in a bit. (03:51):
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Speaker2: But here's where we are now. (03:56):
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Kevin Tejada: So Ozempic, Wegovi, Zepbound, and some other shit, they're becoming household names. (03:58):
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Kevin Tejada: I see ads for this shit on subway platforms. (04:02):
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Kevin Tejada: Just last week, I saw this ad while waiting for the subway of this overweight (04:07):
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Kevin Tejada: woman injecting herself and say, lose weight quick. (04:14):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm thinking, fuck me. (04:17):
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Speaker2: This became common real quick. (04:19):
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Kevin Tejada: The demand is skyrocketing, of course, because, wow, we get to lose weight easily (04:22):
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Kevin Tejada: with no effort. Holy shit, yeah. (04:27):
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Kevin Tejada: You know what's wild? I forget which comedian said something like this, (04:31):
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Kevin Tejada: but basically the whole rise of these weight loss drugs shows that the body (04:35):
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Kevin Tejada: positivity movement was full of shit. (04:40):
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Kevin Tejada: Remember that movement from like, you know, five, ten years ago, (04:44):
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Kevin Tejada: whatever, was, where people were like, yeah, being fat is beautiful, (04:47):
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Kevin Tejada: it's amazing, it's healthy, but, you know, as soon as you can lose weight with (04:51):
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Kevin Tejada: no effort whatsoever, you're all doing it. (04:54):
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Kevin Tejada: Never wanted to be fat it was a gigantic coping mechanism this (04:58):
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Kevin Tejada: whole movement or lack of movement i should say i mean at the very least at (05:02):
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Kevin Tejada: the very least society's coming back around to the idea that being overweight (05:08):
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Kevin Tejada: is not good so that's cool but the way they're dealing with it it's not cool, (05:13):
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Kevin Tejada: a lot of these things are becoming popular in social media as well these injections (05:20):
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Kevin Tejada: and that's driving interest as well every time i see this shit on instagram (05:24):
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Kevin Tejada: or any other social media i say, (05:29):
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Kevin Tejada: not interested don't fucking show me this shit again there are (05:31):
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Kevin Tejada: people out out there like hey guys he's (05:34):
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Kevin Tejada: ready to get fucking the glp1 meds get (05:37):
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Kevin Tejada: that shit on my fucking face zuckerberg i don't want to see that i'm constantly (05:41):
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Kevin Tejada: talking shit about weight loss drugs so i have no idea why why algorithms send (05:46):
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Kevin Tejada: that shit my way and people are so desperate they're doing off-label stuff as (05:50):
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Kevin Tejada: well i listened to a podcast where one of the hosts is like super fat he's doing like. (05:55):
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Speaker1: This this chinese knockoff of ozempic (06:00):
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Kevin Tejada: And it's not working too well but people are just going crazy shit and they're just doing going. (06:02):
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Speaker2: Crazy doing weird shit (06:08):
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Kevin Tejada: All because they just don't want to track their calories that's the main thing (06:09):
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Kevin Tejada: they don't want to do the work and they don't have the patience for it. (06:14):
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Kevin Tejada: Maybe they can track their calories for a week, but they don't have the patience (06:18):
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Kevin Tejada: to do it for months, maybe years, depending on how overweight you are. (06:21):
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Kevin Tejada: They don't have it. They can't do it. Patience is not there. (06:25):
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Kevin Tejada: It's ironic. These people don't have patience, but they will become patients. (06:29):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm sorry. I'm addicted to just finding puns in wordplay. I'm sorry. (06:33):
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Kevin Tejada: But to throw a number your way instead of words, I will tell you that this market (06:38):
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Kevin Tejada: is expected to reach $100 billion, $100 billion with a B by 2030. It's five years away. (06:43):
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Speaker2: So this is not going away. (06:52):
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Kevin Tejada: Who's the biggest victim of this stuff? Overweight people, of course. (06:55):
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Kevin Tejada: Actually, I think probably people (06:59):
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Kevin Tejada: who are slightly overweight or not overweight might suffer from this. (07:01):
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Kevin Tejada: I can imagine, hey, you can lose more weight with no effort. (07:05):
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Kevin Tejada: There'll be people who are maybe a normal weight, but they have body dysmorphia (07:08):
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Kevin Tejada: of some kind, and they want to lose even more weight, get close to underweight. (07:14):
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Kevin Tejada: Not feel like eating. This food noise is a huge issue for people. (07:22):
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Kevin Tejada: I remember one of the funniest things that's ever happened is that I talk shit (07:27):
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Kevin Tejada: about weight loss drugs online, saying that they fuck up your body and your (07:31):
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Kevin Tejada: mind to make you not hungry. (07:35):
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Kevin Tejada: And that's how you lose weight Because you're forcing yourself to not eat, (07:36):
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Kevin Tejada: And I got a comment One of the funniest comments I've ever seen in my life They (07:41):
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Kevin Tejada: replied to me saying A person who has never been overweight And tried to lose (07:46):
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Kevin Tejada: weight Nor experienced food noise I about fucking exploded with laughter When I saw that shit, (07:50):
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Kevin Tejada: bitch was crazy. As someone who lost a hundred pounds and still deals with what (07:58):
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Kevin Tejada: they call food noise, as in, Hey, it'd be cool to eat right now. (08:03):
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Kevin Tejada: Yeah, I understand. I understand this very well. (08:07):
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Kevin Tejada: The thing is, I also understood that getting to a healthy weight is possible (08:10):
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Kevin Tejada: and doable and controllable by me. (08:14):
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Kevin Tejada: So I did that and I still do that to this day. But for some people, (08:17):
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Kevin Tejada: the food noise is too loud. (08:21):
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Kevin Tejada: You know what? Fair enough. It's hard. (08:24):
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Kevin Tejada: Is the only way around this is fucking stupid. So dumb people are also at risk (08:38):
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Kevin Tejada: of, you know, using weight loss drugs. (08:44):
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Speaker1: Desperate people, people who truly, truly, truly think that their body is special. (08:47):
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Kevin Tejada: Their body breaks the laws of thermodynamics and calorie counting doesn't work (08:53):
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Kevin Tejada: for them, and that drugs are the only way. (08:57):
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Kevin Tejada: Basically, people who are desperate or dumb or impatient are the ones who fall for this, mostly. (08:59):
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Kevin Tejada: So let's step on the statistical scale and look at some numbers. Shall we? (09:04):
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Kevin Tejada: 15 to 20%. That's how much weight loss clinical trials show with some of these drugs. (09:10):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, in real life, this differs because a lot of people experience plateaus (09:16):
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Kevin Tejada: after the initial success of the drug. (09:20):
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Kevin Tejada: And you can imagine why because they didn't learn shit and as i mentioned before (09:22):
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Kevin Tejada: with liposuction and some other surgery some people actually go back to the (09:28):
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Kevin Tejada: initial weight that they were at before they got the surgeries why you ask well (09:32):
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Kevin Tejada: as like a broken record i'll say they didn't fucking learn anything, (09:37):
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Kevin Tejada: some of them are so rich they don't give a shit i imagine there are some people out there who, (09:41):
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Kevin Tejada: if you have that mindset. Yeah. Hey, if you're rich enough, whatever. (09:48):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't know. That's a, that's a weird way to live, but maybe I'm too broke to understand. (09:54):
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Kevin Tejada: Maybe effort is for broke people. (09:59):
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Speaker2: Peasants, but it doesn't surprise me that, you know, a lot of people experience plateaus, (10:02):
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Kevin Tejada: Even rebound, rebound with Zetbound. (10:06):
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Kevin Tejada: For me, I had to understand that my body needed a certain amount of energy and (10:11):
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Kevin Tejada: I need to reduce that amount of energy, a certain amount until my body adjusted (10:15):
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Kevin Tejada: and adapted to that new amount of energy. (10:20):
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Kevin Tejada: And then it became closer to what I wanted it to be. (10:23):
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Kevin Tejada: And to this day, I still understand that if I eat like a person who is 300 pounds, I will become that way. (10:26):
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Kevin Tejada: If I eat like a person who wants to be, you know, 170 pounds, (10:32):
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Kevin Tejada: my body will become that way. (10:36):
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Kevin Tejada: That's literally how it is to fake it till you make it. That's what, (10:38):
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Kevin Tejada: that's what losing weight is. (10:42):
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Speaker2: Yeah. (10:43):
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Kevin Tejada: The calories of a person of the weight that you want to have, (10:45):
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Kevin Tejada: and you will become that person. (10:47):
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Kevin Tejada: So if you don't understand what it takes to change in that way, (10:49):
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Kevin Tejada: then if you take a shortcut surgery, well, your habits are just going to bring (10:53):
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Kevin Tejada: you back to where you started. (10:58):
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Kevin Tejada: 44% of WeGoV users report nausea, 30% experience diarrhea, and 24% suffer from (11:00):
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Kevin Tejada: vomiting. That sounds horrible. (11:08):
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Kevin Tejada: Much. Damn, this sounds worse. (11:26):
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Kevin Tejada: In terms of the dropout rates, about one fourth of patients stop these medications (11:30):
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Kevin Tejada: in the first year due to the side effects. (11:36):
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Kevin Tejada: And imagine, you know, vomiting and diarrhea-ing so much, it's probably not, (11:38):
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Kevin Tejada: it's not appealing for most people. (11:42):
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Kevin Tejada: And we come to probably the most underrated or rather, I should say, (11:45):
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Kevin Tejada: least talked about side effects of these drugs. (11:52):
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Kevin Tejada: So normally when you lose weight, you eat less and your body shrinks. (11:55):
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Kevin Tejada: That's basically what it is, right? (11:59):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, ideally when you're losing weight, you want to exercise. (12:01):
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Kevin Tejada: So you keep a lot of strength and muscle on your way down. (12:04):
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Kevin Tejada: Because when you lose weight, you lose body fat, you lose water, (12:07):
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Kevin Tejada: a little bit of bone mass sometimes, and a little bit of muscle. (12:12):
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Kevin Tejada: But if you exercise properly when you're losing weight, you will retain a bunch (12:15):
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Kevin Tejada: of muscle and lose weight in a healthy way. The issue with these drugs is. (12:19):
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Speaker2: That most people, (12:23):
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Kevin Tejada: Say with me, they don't fucking learn anything. So when they're losing this (12:25):
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Kevin Tejada: weight, they're not making any kinds of changes to become healthier, (12:29):
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Kevin Tejada: or such as exercising or whatever. (12:33):
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Kevin Tejada: If you're a fat, lazy piece of shit and you get on these drugs, (12:35):
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Kevin Tejada: you're just gonna lose weight. You're still gonna be a lazy piece of shit. (12:37):
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Kevin Tejada: And the result of this is that you're gonna lose a lot of lean muscle mass along with that fat. (12:41):
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Kevin Tejada: So you're just gonna become more like a skeleton. You're not gonna become a (12:46):
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Kevin Tejada: fit person just by not eating. (12:49):
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Kevin Tejada: That's not how it works. You need to exercise as well and you need to eat properly too. (12:53):
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Kevin Tejada: There's this issue that I think is gonna crop up, (12:57):
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Kevin Tejada: the health of a lot of these people who take these drugs is going to get worse than before, possibly. (13:01):
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Kevin Tejada: Like cut out the multiple issues that obesity causes. (13:07):
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Kevin Tejada: And I think they're going to have a lot of other issues. And let me explain. (13:12):
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Kevin Tejada: So if you're really overweight, like really, really overweight, (13:16):
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Kevin Tejada: you probably eat dog shit, right? (13:19):
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Kevin Tejada: You eat a bunch of Twinkies, Doritos, Cheetos, hot dogs. Maybe you'll have some chicken here and there. (13:21):
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Speaker2: Right? (13:28):
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Kevin Tejada: So, you know, maybe you get some decent stuff like chicken and eggs in there, (13:29):
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Kevin Tejada: but the majority of what you're eating is dog shit, right? (13:32):
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Kevin Tejada: Now with these drugs, they make it so you eat less. (13:35):
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Kevin Tejada: Now notice I said eat less and not eat better. (13:40):
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Speaker2: So now what I think is going to happen is a lot of people are going to eat less, but (13:43):
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Kevin Tejada: Understand proper nutrition. They didn't learn it. That's not what these drugs (14:07):
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Kevin Tejada: do. They don't teach you anything. (14:12):
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Kevin Tejada: They just make you not hungry. So I predict a lot of people in the future are (14:13):
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Kevin Tejada: going to be not fat, but they're going to be fucking dying. (14:18):
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Kevin Tejada: We're going to have a lot of weird zombies in the future. (14:20):
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Kevin Tejada: A smaller amount, but it's still going to be dog shit. So you're going to have (14:27):
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Kevin Tejada: all these people who they're not exercising, they're not eating properly, (14:31):
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Kevin Tejada: they're just eating less. (14:34):
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Kevin Tejada: So their insides are going to be mush. They're going to have no muscle. (14:36):
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Kevin Tejada: And that's going to cause a lot of other issues. (14:39):
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Kevin Tejada: Anyway, let's get to the actual number. So up to 40% of weight loss. (14:42):
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Speaker2: On these drugs may come from lean muscle mass rather (14:47):
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Kevin Tejada: Than fat tissue. That's fucking alarming. That's insane. So about one third (14:50):
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Kevin Tejada: of the weight you may lose on these drugs, if you don't exercise at all, (14:54):
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Kevin Tejada: it's going to come from muscle. (14:59):
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Kevin Tejada: Not to be fair, if you just eat less in general and don't exercise at all, (15:00):
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Kevin Tejada: you're also going to lose a bunch of lean muscle mass. (15:04):
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Kevin Tejada: But I think you lose more with this because the weight loss is forced here. (15:06):
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Kevin Tejada: You're not making any adjustments that may inadvertently. (15:10):
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Speaker2: Lead to better fitness. You're just eating less. (15:13):
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Kevin Tejada: Rebound effect, like I mentioned, you rebound with ZipBound. (15:18):
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Kevin Tejada: Studies show 66% of lost weight returns within about a year of stopping the medication. (15:20):
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Kevin Tejada: Who fucking knew? Take away the shortcut, go back to your normal habits, (15:28):
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Kevin Tejada: or rather, you never stopped your normal habits. (15:32):
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Kevin Tejada: And you go back to how you were. Wow, it's almost like, you know, (15:34):
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Kevin Tejada: fucking diets, basically. (15:38):
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Kevin Tejada: This is a forced caloric deficit. It's a diet you can inject, (15:39):
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Kevin Tejada: but even worse, because you're still eating the shit that got you fat to begin with. (15:45):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, I didn't know about this, but apparently a lot of these medications have (15:51):
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Kevin Tejada: neurological effects too, and about 10% of users report depression or anxiety. (15:54):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't know if it's from the drug itself, the chemicals from the drug. (16:00):
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Kevin Tejada: Could be other reasons maybe just the (16:06):
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Kevin Tejada: process of changing your body or maybe the guilt from doing it a (16:09):
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Kevin Tejada: shitty way i don't know and and (16:13):
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Kevin Tejada: i should have waited to talk about talk about the the the zombie issue before (16:16):
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Kevin Tejada: but now we're getting to the stat regarding nutritional deficiencies so a significant (16:21):
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Kevin Tejada: reduction in calorie intake can lead to you know vitamin and mineral deficiencies in like. (16:29):
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Speaker2: One-fifth of the users. (16:34):
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Kevin Tejada: So like I was saying before, usually when you're losing weight, (16:36):
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Kevin Tejada: you kind of are learning what your body, how your body can thrive actually. So you'll be, (16:40):
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Kevin Tejada: they're going to have a rude awakening in a couple of years, I think. (17:12):
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Kevin Tejada: I mean, I'm pretty sure these drugs were around for a while, (17:16):
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Kevin Tejada: but they've only exploded in popularity recently and. (17:20):
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Speaker2: I fucking hate it (17:24):
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Kevin Tejada: Even if I did not help people lose weight myself I would still hate this shit (17:25):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm not like oh my god I'm gonna I'm gonna be replaced no, (17:30):
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Kevin Tejada: about that there are people who are basically doing something like liposuction. (17:36):
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Speaker2: At home but less effective (17:42):
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Kevin Tejada: And with more side effects and this is not even getting into the cost of this (17:44):
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Kevin Tejada: stuff without insurance this shit costs a. (17:49):
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Speaker2: Thousand dollars a month or (17:53):
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Kevin Tejada: More you want to pay midwestern rent because you don't want to make any changes (17:55):
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Kevin Tejada: whatsoever that's fucking crazy by the way with this stuff, (18:01):
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Kevin Tejada: plastic surgery, liposuction, all this kind of stuff, (18:07):
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Kevin Tejada: you're not going to change your mentality. (18:10):
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Kevin Tejada: And I'm not talking about, you know, your habits and stuff like that. (18:13):
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Kevin Tejada: If you hate yourself because you're fat, you're just going to hate yourself when you're less fat. (18:17):
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Kevin Tejada: If you were to go on this journey yourself, slowly, naturally, (18:23):
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Kevin Tejada: it's possible you may grow to appreciate your body, its adaption, (18:28):
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Kevin Tejada: the changes you've made, the improvements you've made, and you'll grow to appreciate yourself more. (18:35):
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Speaker2: But again, if you take a shortcut, (18:41):
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Kevin Tejada: You're not actually working on anything. Mentally, you're still going to fucking (18:43):
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Kevin Tejada: hate yourself. Probably because mentally you haven't changed. (18:46):
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Kevin Tejada: There are tons of reports of people who go through plastic surgery because they (18:50):
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Kevin Tejada: think it'll make them feel better about themselves and it doesn't work out that way. (18:55):
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Kevin Tejada: They still fucking hate themselves because they didn't do any mental work. (18:59):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, when you go through a weight loss journey, I got to tell you, (19:02):
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Kevin Tejada: a lot of physical changes happen, but there's a lot of mental work that happens. (19:05):
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Kevin Tejada: There's a humongous mental journey that goes through it. (19:09):
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Kevin Tejada: Most of weight loss is mental. (19:12):
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Kevin Tejada: You need to make the correct choices. You need to make the correct changes. (19:15):
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Kevin Tejada: You need to live with those for months, for years, maybe forever. (19:18):
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Kevin Tejada: That changes a motherfucker okay so (19:23):
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Kevin Tejada: if you went through this naturally you might not you might hate yourself less (19:28):
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Kevin Tejada: now i won't lie a lot of people who lose weight they still kind of hate themselves (19:31):
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Kevin Tejada: they have that body dysmorphia they're like oh it might never be enough i'll (19:35):
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Kevin Tejada: never love myself i need to get fitter thinner that still exists what i'm saying (19:38):
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Kevin Tejada: is you have a better chance of appreciating the one body that you have, (19:43):
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Kevin Tejada: if you go on that journey with it, if you inject self-control, (19:48):
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Kevin Tejada: there are no guarantees in any actual improvement. (19:53):
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Speaker2: So I don't recommend this shit at all. (19:56):
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Kevin Tejada: And I'll tell you this, if in the future, let's say these drugs, (19:59):
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Kevin Tejada: they get into a place where they have absolutely zero side effects. (20:02):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't know if that's possible because you're fucking up and tricking your body to not be hungry. (20:05):
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Kevin Tejada: So I feel like there's always going to be some side effect With that but let's (20:10):
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Kevin Tejada: pretend No side effects whatsoever you just Inject take a pill you're not hungry (20:13):
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Kevin Tejada: anymore I don't know I don't know If that is that I mean there's nothing bad (20:17):
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Kevin Tejada: about It so I guess maybe I'll make a big Ass apology, (20:21):
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Kevin Tejada: About saying fine do it whatever. (20:25):
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Kevin Tejada: Not doing it, but I'll talk less shit about it for sure. But as of now, (20:29):
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Kevin Tejada: there are way too many side effects that are just going to result in bigger (20:34):
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Kevin Tejada: and different problems later on. (20:37):
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Kevin Tejada: So I wouldn't recommend doing it. Here's what I recommend instead. (20:40):
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Kevin Tejada: Track your calories. That's it. (20:44):
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Kevin Tejada: Now for a lot of people who use this, let me actually, let me, let me, okay. (20:47):
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Kevin Tejada: There is an argument to be made. If you're on the show, 600 pound life, (20:52):
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Kevin Tejada: you weigh like 900 pounds, (20:56):
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Kevin Tejada: maybe this could be useful for you to stop you from dying tomorrow but even (20:58):
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Kevin Tejada: then i i hesitate to even say that because in those situations those people (21:02):
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Kevin Tejada: are still bed bound they can't do this shit to themselves make themselves gain (21:08):
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Kevin Tejada: weight they have enablers who are giving them extra food, (21:14):
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Kevin Tejada: so that they still at that point don't need the drug so i can't think of a legitimate. (21:18):
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Kevin Tejada: Situation where this would be recommended is doing (21:23):
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Kevin Tejada: a drug instead of doing like literally anything else i don't (21:27):
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Kevin Tejada: know okay here's one let's say (21:30):
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Kevin Tejada: there's a person a person you love they will (21:33):
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Kevin Tejada: not fucking stop eating and they're gonna they they so they told you i'm gonna (21:37):
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Kevin Tejada: keep eating until i fucking die fuck you i love being fat and you're like damn (21:41):
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Kevin Tejada: that sucks maybe every every week in the middle of the night you inject them (21:46):
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Kevin Tejada: with something and then they they they don't eat as much because they're gonna (21:50):
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Kevin Tejada: kill themselves otherwise maybe then you know that might be, (21:53):
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Kevin Tejada: one fucking cartoonish situation, but yeah, man, in general, don't do this shit. (21:57):
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Kevin Tejada: I wouldn't even recommend it as a, as a temporary thing. (22:03):
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Kevin Tejada: Just if you got time to try out drugs, you got time to try out caloric deficits, (22:07):
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Kevin Tejada: different foods, tracking your food in just any way whatsoever. (22:13):
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Kevin Tejada: Like I said, you gain so much from this. You gain so much discipline. You gain the. (22:17):
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Speaker2: Skill of habit building (22:23):
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Speaker1: Habit changing. (22:27):
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Kevin Tejada: You develop a better relationship with your body because you've gone on a journey with it. (22:28):
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Kevin Tejada: In Lord of the Rings, when Sam and Frodo go all the way to Mount Doom, (22:33):
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Kevin Tejada: their relationship deepens. (22:37):
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Kevin Tejada: You're Frodo and Sam is your weight loss journey. It's going to be so, (22:40):
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Kevin Tejada: or rather, it's your body, I guess. Whatever. (22:45):
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Kevin Tejada: Sam is your body. You're going to have a way better relationship with your body (22:47):
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Kevin Tejada: if you go through something with it. You make these changes with it. (22:52):
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Kevin Tejada: Imagine Frodo just teleported to Mount Doom. His relationship with Sam wouldn't (22:57):
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Kevin Tejada: really change that much. (23:01):
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Speaker2: It would just (23:03):
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Kevin Tejada: Be cool when he got back to the Shire saying, Hey, I did it. (23:04):
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Kevin Tejada: That'd be cool, but he wouldn't like, you know, they wouldn't have learned anything (23:08):
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Kevin Tejada: about each other, wouldn't have grown as people. (23:10):
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Kevin Tejada: Go on the journey. It'll help you out. You'll find that that discipline comes (23:13):
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Kevin Tejada: in handy in every other part of your life. (23:18):
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Kevin Tejada: Please try it out. while everyone else is becoming a weird drug addicted zombie (23:21):
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Kevin Tejada: with shit nutrition and no exercise habits you can become a, (23:26):
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Kevin Tejada: better maybe you can become an example for them too you can (23:43):
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Kevin Tejada: lead by example they offer you drugs remember dare they offer you drugs you (23:47):
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Kevin Tejada: say no i'm just gonna eat less just do it just try please you don't want your (23:51):
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Kevin Tejada: would you give your kids fucking whatever i actually read things about uh read (23:56):
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Kevin Tejada: things recently about kids being on these drugs so yeah i guess i. (24:01):
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Speaker2: Guess you would give your kid drugs right whatever please don't (24:04):
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Kevin Tejada: Please go to a calorie calculator putting information find out how many calories (24:08):
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Kevin Tejada: you need to maintain yourself. (24:15):
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Kevin Tejada: Eat about 300, maybe 500 calories under that per day, maybe 600 if you're really overweight, 700 maybe. (24:16):
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Kevin Tejada: Figure it out, like find out what works for you. Go on that journey. (24:24):
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Kevin Tejada: Do that for weeks, months. Keep track of your weight, take pictures. (24:27):
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Kevin Tejada: And that journey will be much, much, much more beneficial than paying a thousand (24:31):
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Kevin Tejada: bucks for drugs that you will have to keep being on if you want those results. (24:36):
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Kevin Tejada: You're basically leasing those results you're not owning them if you want to. (24:42):
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Speaker2: Own them eat less and then maybe you'll make it (24:47):
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Kevin Tejada: But if you take a bunch of weight loss weight loss drugs i don't think you're (24:50):
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Kevin Tejada: gonna make it let me know in the comments do you take any drugs if so why that's (24:54):
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Kevin Tejada: not cool man anyway make sure you subscribe to this so that you can make it (25:00):
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Kevin Tejada: and i'll see you next time. (25:06):
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