63 The Hidden Weight Loss Killer: Alcohol Explained

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Kevin Tejada: Drinking alcohol is a legitimately brain-dead activity, and I don't understand why people do it. (00:28):
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Kevin Tejada: I mean, I understand why. I just don't agree with it at all. (00:34):
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Kevin Tejada: And I'm going to get probably a lot of hate for this episode, but whatever. (00:38):
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Kevin Tejada: Perfect example of this is I was out at lunch with someone about two weeks ago. (00:43):
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Kevin Tejada: The topic of alcohol came up, and people were talking about, (00:48):
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Kevin Tejada: oh, their favorite alcohol, their cocktails, whatever. (00:51):
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Kevin Tejada: And for me my stance has been alcohol doesn't (00:55):
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Kevin Tejada: make sense to me because it tastes like acid and it makes you retarded so i (00:59):
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Kevin Tejada: don't get the appeal when i say this and i say well there are a lot of alcohols (01:03):
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Kevin Tejada: that taste pretty good and for me i i probably have a really low tolerance for (01:09):
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Kevin Tejada: because i taste alcohol in anything i think in my entire life i've had maybe half of. (01:14):
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Speaker1: A beer can (01:18):
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Kevin Tejada: Or three-thirds of a beer can of alcohol in total. (01:19):
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Kevin Tejada: You know, I've tasted it. I tasted these brandy wine chocolates before, horrible. (01:23):
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Kevin Tejada: There's even this ice cream, a bourbon vanilla ice cream. And I asked the guy (01:28):
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Kevin Tejada: like, hey, it's bourbon vanilla. (01:32):
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Kevin Tejada: Is there alcohol in this? And it was used in the creation, but you know, it was evaporated out. (01:34):
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Kevin Tejada: You can't taste it. I try it and I taste it. (01:39):
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Kevin Tejada: Just to make sure I'm not crazy, I tried it another time, another day. (01:42):
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Kevin Tejada: I still taste it. that alcohol tastes that weird burning acid thing i i hate (01:46):
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Kevin Tejada: it it ruins everything so whatever they want to bring up all this alcoholic (01:51):
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Kevin Tejada: beverage tastes good no it fucking doesn't because it has acid in it but beyond (01:56):
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Kevin Tejada: that even if it did taste good it still makes you dumb it literally, (02:00):
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Kevin Tejada: impairs your judgment it makes you stupid so at that point i'm like why if i (02:05):
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Kevin Tejada: want something that tastes good and doesn't make me stupid why don't i just (02:09):
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Kevin Tejada: drink juice and then they get defensive and say, oh, yeah, you drink your juice. (02:12):
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Kevin Tejada: I'll drink my whatever drink they said. I'm like, now you understand. (02:17):
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Kevin Tejada: I get more defensive. (02:21):
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Kevin Tejada: Yeah, I already understood. All right. Anyway, people get really, (02:24):
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Kevin Tejada: really uptight when you question the point of alcohol. (02:27):
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Kevin Tejada: But let me say this. If you're trying to lose weight in any way or trying to (02:33):
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Kevin Tejada: be healthy in any way, alcohol is fucked. (02:36):
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Kevin Tejada: It is a saboteur. (02:41):
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Kevin Tejada: Is that how you say it in French? It sabotages you. (02:42):
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Kevin Tejada: Alcohol has seven calories per (02:45):
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Kevin Tejada: gram which if you don't know proteins and (02:49):
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Kevin Tejada: carbohydrates have four calories per gram fats (02:52):
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Kevin Tejada: have nine calories per gram so essentially has the same amount of calories as (02:55):
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Kevin Tejada: a gram of protein and a gram of carbohydrates but there's no value to it whatsoever (03:01):
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Kevin Tejada: if you're trying to lose 30 to 50 pounds that's a huge deal you know it's also (03:06):
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Kevin Tejada: a big deal, you subscribing. (03:12):
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Kevin Tejada: That'd be super cool. Wink. (03:13):
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Kevin Tejada: The reason this is a problem is because empty calories suck. (03:16):
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Kevin Tejada: If you're trying to lose weight and you're eating food, you're adding to your (03:19):
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Kevin Tejada: calorie budget, but you don't feel full, guess what? You're going to be hungry. (03:22):
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Kevin Tejada: You're going to want to eat more. (03:27):
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Kevin Tejada: You're probably going to go over budget because if you fill up your entire budget (03:28):
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Kevin Tejada: and you're still hungry because the food you ate wasn't satisfying in any way, (03:32):
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Kevin Tejada: you're going to be hungry, probably go over. (03:35):
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Kevin Tejada: So we're talking alcohol. That is a, that's a killer. (03:37):
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Kevin Tejada: Quite literally i know a lot of tech workers are categorized as heavy drinkers (03:41):
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Kevin Tejada: probably due to stress due to emails deadlines people not answering back to (03:48):
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Kevin Tejada: you so you can fix a fucking problem, (03:54):
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Kevin Tejada: long hours stressing about ai so some of these these people they're drinking (03:56):
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Kevin Tejada: like three to seven drinks per day and you know i'm not i'm not a drink expert (04:02):
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Kevin Tejada: i think a drink is like the amount of alcohol in a can of beer, right? (04:08):
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Kevin Tejada: So let's say an average of five beers per day for some of these tech workers who are heavy drinkers. (04:12):
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Kevin Tejada: That's kind of crazy. Sounds like alcoholism to me. (04:17):
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Kevin Tejada: A lot of people think, oh, I can just drink one night and it'll be fine. (04:21):
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Kevin Tejada: If you drink a bunch, that's a bunch of empty calories and it can undo basically (04:25):
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Kevin Tejada: days of your efforts for weight loss of your other calorie deficit. (04:31):
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Kevin Tejada: Or it can undo the whole week. Or if you're fucking what? No, you can't. (04:36):
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Kevin Tejada: If you drink, if you drink, no, if you, if you gain a pound, (04:39):
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Kevin Tejada: right, which if you're trying to lose weight, you normally lose about a pound, (04:44):
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Kevin Tejada: 500 calories of a deficit per day, right? (04:48):
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Kevin Tejada: So if you want to gain, let's say, a pound for the week, that'd be 3,500 calories (04:51):
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Kevin Tejada: extra over what your body needs. (04:56):
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Kevin Tejada: If you drink 3,500 calories of alcohol in a day, I think you're dead maybe. I don't know. (04:59):
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Kevin Tejada: Someone listening to this is probably like, oh, my God, this guy's a fucking (05:07):
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Kevin Tejada: pussy. He doesn't drink 300, 3,500. (05:10):
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Kevin Tejada: I could drink that in 20. Good for you, bro. A pint of a lager or whatever that is. (05:14):
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Kevin Tejada: That's a drink, right? A pint has the same calories as a slice of pizza and (05:19):
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Kevin Tejada: probably less fun to consume. (05:24):
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Kevin Tejada: And a large glass of wine has about the same amount of calories as an ice cream (05:26):
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Kevin Tejada: sundae, which is kind of crazy. (05:30):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, ideally, all of these things should be consumed immediately. (05:32):
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Kevin Tejada: Very infrequently, or in the case of alcohol, never. And the thing is, (05:37):
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Kevin Tejada: when you're losing weight, your body usually undergoes some recomposition. (05:41):
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Kevin Tejada: When you lose weight, you're losing a bunch of body fat. You're also losing (05:46):
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Kevin Tejada: a bit of muscle too. That's just how it works. (05:49):
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Kevin Tejada: You want to keep a lot of your muscle. You eat a shit ton of protein and exercise (05:52):
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Kevin Tejada: while you're losing weight, but you're still going to lose some. (05:55):
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Kevin Tejada: The issue with alcohol is your body treats it as a poison and it attacks it first. (05:57):
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Kevin Tejada: It prioritizes getting rid of the alcohol before touching the body fat as a process. (06:03):
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Kevin Tejada: Which means if you drink a lot, it's going to take a lot fucking longer for you to lose body fat. (06:10):
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Kevin Tejada: And I don't think that's fun for you. Let me discredit some myths about the alcohol thing. (06:15):
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Kevin Tejada: One myth is, I'll just burn up the alcohol calories with extra cardio tomorrow. (06:21):
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Kevin Tejada: Your body can't burn fat for a day or so after drinking because your metabolism (06:26):
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Kevin Tejada: is too busy attacking the ethanol. (06:31):
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Kevin Tejada: It's getting rid of that. And (06:33):
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Kevin Tejada: also trying to outwork extra calories is not going to work out for you. (06:35):
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Kevin Tejada: You need to prioritize having smarter intake to begin with. (06:41):
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Speaker1: Next myth is (06:45):
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Kevin Tejada: Light to moderate drinking won't affect my weight. This is ridiculous. (06:46):
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Kevin Tejada: Moderate drinking won't affect the weight. That's an interesting myth. That's fucking stupid. (06:51):
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Speaker1: I mean, here's the thing. (06:56):
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Kevin Tejada: If you drink and all of the drinking you do fits into your calorie budget, (06:57):
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Kevin Tejada: yeah, I mean, you won't gain weight. (07:03):
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Kevin Tejada: You're probably going to be a pudgy person, like a skinny fat, (07:06):
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Kevin Tejada: but mathematically, you won't gain weight. (07:09):
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Kevin Tejada: Might gain fat though, in terms of the composition. Next myth is the calories (07:12):
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Kevin Tejada: from alcohol don't count as much as food calories. (07:17):
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Kevin Tejada: This is one of the dumbest things I've ever read in my life. (07:19):
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Kevin Tejada: Instead of alcohol, think of it as juice or soda. Those calories still count (07:22):
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Kevin Tejada: as much as the food calories do. (07:26):
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Kevin Tejada: Next myth is I can drink during the week if I stay under the recommended limits. (07:28):
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Kevin Tejada: Mathematically, I guess you could. Now that's if you stay in your calorie budget, (07:33):
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Kevin Tejada: of course. If you don't, then you just drink under the recommended amount of (07:37):
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Kevin Tejada: alcohol consumption above your calorie limit for the day. You're going to gain weight anyway. (07:42):
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Kevin Tejada: Next myth is drinking helps me relax and sleep better. Alcohol does absolutely (07:48):
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Kevin Tejada: not help you sleep better. (07:53):
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Kevin Tejada: Maybe sooner and you pass out, but not better. That's definitely not the case. (07:55):
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Kevin Tejada: Helps you relax? Maybe. I don't know. I don't drink alcohol. (08:00):
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Kevin Tejada: Personally, for me, for me, I was never into that kind of thing. (08:03):
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Kevin Tejada: Like, oh man, you feel nervous. You want to work on your socialness. Drink alcohol. (08:08):
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Kevin Tejada: It's social lubricant. You'll feel a bit more at ease. (08:13):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm thinking, I don't want to fucking poison myself just to become better at interactions. (08:16):
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Kevin Tejada: Let me just fucking either take forever to get better at it or just throw myself (08:20):
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Kevin Tejada: into the situation if possible. (08:26):
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Kevin Tejada: Having a liquid crutch seems kind (08:27):
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Kevin Tejada: of not great for actual development (08:30):
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Kevin Tejada: so i wouldn't rely on it for relaxation or anything but that's that's not not (08:34):
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Kevin Tejada: my decision so mondays if you work in an office or in tech mondays you know (08:41):
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Kevin Tejada: always suck especially if you're in it or technology because shit happens. (08:46):
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Kevin Tejada: You know, you're usually the one solving a bunch of shit, right? (08:53):
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Kevin Tejada: But people are doing stuff over the weekend or checking stuff over the weekend. (08:55):
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Kevin Tejada: So they'll let you know about it and you'll find out on Monday. (08:59):
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Kevin Tejada: Sometimes you're the one doing stuff on the weekend. Not good. (09:02):
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Kevin Tejada: But point being, Monday, there's a shit ton of stuff that needs to be done or addressed. (09:06):
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Kevin Tejada: And if you drink over the weekend, you're going to feel like shit on Monday (09:11):
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Kevin Tejada: and you're not going to be ready to tackle the week. (09:14):
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Kevin Tejada: Because alcohol affects your sleep, makes you feel fat. But I don't think that's (09:17):
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Kevin Tejada: a good combination for Mondays. (09:22):
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Kevin Tejada: As well, if you're using this for stress management, there are a lot of better ways to do so. (09:24):
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Kevin Tejada: Like probably literally anything else other than taking a chemical to feel better. (09:29):
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Kevin Tejada: So here's something that helped me. Over the summer in my day job, (09:35):
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Kevin Tejada: there was a huge project going on. (09:39):
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Kevin Tejada: It's going on for like two or three years. (09:40):
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Kevin Tejada: And it finally hit the climax, so to speak, of this project. (09:43):
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Kevin Tejada: And it was the most stressful shit I've experienced in years. (09:47):
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Kevin Tejada: Because not only were things going crazy, I didn't even know who to ask for (09:52):
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Kevin Tejada: certain things going on. (09:56):
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Kevin Tejada: I didn't even know who to ask, who to ask to ask for who to ask. (09:57):
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Kevin Tejada: Like I was completely fucking lost. (10:01):
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Kevin Tejada: But with this feeling of overwhelm, basically one big tip I can give you is, (10:04):
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Kevin Tejada: if you feel like there's too much going on in your head, take it out of your head and put it on paper. (10:09):
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Kevin Tejada: I say paper, you can type it if you want to, but paper, there's a greater connection, (10:14):
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Kevin Tejada: Between your brain and the words there So you can, you know, (10:19):
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Kevin Tejada: more directly Kind of leave it out of your brain If that makes sense And the (10:22):
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Kevin Tejada: habit has stuck even after that time Because nowadays when I have a task At work, (10:27):
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Kevin Tejada: I write it on a paper notepad And if something is not on a notepad I don't fucking care. (10:32):
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Kevin Tejada: Before I did this, all the things I would have to do the next day, (10:39):
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Kevin Tejada: I'd be keeping them in my head. I'd be holding them. They'd be occupying space and I'd be stressed. (10:42):
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Kevin Tejada: Once I just put it out there on the paper, it's out of my head and I can chill. (10:47):
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Kevin Tejada: I think that works better than drinking. That's me. (10:53):
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Kevin Tejada: Let's get into some stats over here. (10:57):
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Kevin Tejada: 36 hours is the length of time. It can be 24 to 36 hours is the length of time (11:00):
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Kevin Tejada: the alcohol blocks fat burning after consumption. (11:05):
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Kevin Tejada: Just as a general process. So that's not great. (11:09):
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Kevin Tejada: And again, per gram, alcohol is seven calories, closer to fats, nine calories per gram. (11:12):
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Kevin Tejada: So it's almost like, you know, imagine you were drinking something that's full fat, right? (11:20):
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Kevin Tejada: Imagine you're drinking olive oil straight out of the bottle. (11:24):
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Kevin Tejada: Probably wouldn't do that, right? Alcohol is not super different from that in (11:28):
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Kevin Tejada: terms of the caloric intake. (11:32):
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Kevin Tejada: And when you drink a lot, About half of your body's energy is diverted to just (11:34):
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Kevin Tejada: tackling that issue instead of doing other shit, just normal bodily functions. (11:39):
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Kevin Tejada: So you're probably going to be feeling like shit too. (11:45):
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Kevin Tejada: This that's wild. About a third of U.S. workers reported binge drinking in the past month. (11:47):
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Kevin Tejada: That's not good. A third of people are coping with a drug. (11:55):
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Kevin Tejada: Here's something, by the way. I don't want to shit on everyone. (12:01):
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Kevin Tejada: I mean i feel like a fucking weirdo i see no appeal in alcohol (12:04):
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Kevin Tejada: whatsoever but i may i (12:07):
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Kevin Tejada: can here's the thing if you drink and you're coping you're thinking oh man helps (12:10):
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Kevin Tejada: me socially whatever that you know you should work on yourself that's what i (12:14):
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Kevin Tejada: think but if you're like man i fucking love the taste you have burning sensation (12:18):
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Kevin Tejada: i fucking love it fair enough you know what i can't i cannot say anything although (12:22):
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Kevin Tejada: here's a recommendation. (12:28):
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Kevin Tejada: Try kombucha. I don't think it's (12:30):
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Kevin Tejada: the same exact thing. I hear it's kind of similar. I don't really agree. (12:32):
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Kevin Tejada: Kombucha has kind of a, I don't want to say burning, but kind of that feeling, (12:36):
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Kevin Tejada: but it's more like a sharp carbonation rather than the acid shit that alcohol has. (12:40):
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Kevin Tejada: Try drinking kombucha, low calorie, and it might have a similar feel for you and it tastes better. (12:46):
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Kevin Tejada: Try that. But if, you know, alcoholic drinks have basically that, (12:52):
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Kevin Tejada: because I like kombucha like that, That kind of sharp carbonation or whatever the fuck that is. (12:56):
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Kevin Tejada: It's nice. So if it's similar to that for alcoholics out there, (13:01):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't think you should continue. But I get it, I guess. (13:04):
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Kevin Tejada: And if you can't get that satisfaction from kombucha or whatever, then okay. (13:08):
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Kevin Tejada: I guess have fun with the other thing. So I would understand that. (13:15):
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Kevin Tejada: But for other purposes, you're like, oh, yeah, it tastes good. (13:18):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm really trying to get drunk, though. (13:21):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't think that's the best thing to do. If you're like, oh man, (13:22):
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Kevin Tejada: I need it I need it for social purposes I don't think you do You think you need more faith in yourself, (13:26):
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Kevin Tejada: But maybe my faith is misplaced I don't know I think you have it in you So if (13:33):
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Kevin Tejada: you're a drinker And you understand it's not great for your weight loss or health (13:38):
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Kevin Tejada: in general Here's some stuff you can try out. (13:42):
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Kevin Tejada: First things first, what I recommend is Just try logging some of this stuff, (13:45):
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Kevin Tejada: I know if you're a fucking alcoholic You're probably not weighing your drinks (13:50):
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Kevin Tejada: or anything like that But a lot of these drinks, they come with barcodes or (13:52):
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Kevin Tejada: clear ounces on the packaging, the bottle, can, whatever comes in, right? (13:55):
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Kevin Tejada: Put that into MyFitnessPal or whatever. Just try. Just only track the alcohol. (14:02):
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Kevin Tejada: If you think the food's too much, just track the alcohol. (14:08):
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Kevin Tejada: Do that for a few days and look. See, is that cool? (14:10):
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Kevin Tejada: Is that okay with you and your goal? Is it? Is it? (14:14):
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Kevin Tejada: If it isn't, then, you know, go for it. But if you look at it, (14:19):
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Kevin Tejada: it might give you more clarity on what's actually going on with this. (14:22):
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Kevin Tejada: And then you add your regular food into there as well. (14:25):
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Kevin Tejada: And you can see the budget being stretched. (14:28):
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Speaker1: And if you don't go over your budget, (14:31):
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Kevin Tejada: You can still see how much of the alcohol takes up of your budget because that can be helpful, too. (14:32):
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Kevin Tejada: If you're like, oh, yeah, I'm still in my, you know, 1950 calorie range, (14:38):
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Kevin Tejada: but the alcohol took up about 600 calories. (14:42):
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Kevin Tejada: That's really important information to know because maybe you'll think, (14:45):
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Kevin Tejada: hey, maybe a third of it, you know, a third of my budget being on something (14:48):
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Kevin Tejada: that's not fulfilling is probably not ideal. Maybe I can change it. (14:53):
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Kevin Tejada: That's one thing. Just literally knowledge is power. (14:57):
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Kevin Tejada: Now I'll just have to battle, know it. (15:01):
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Kevin Tejada: And then you can act on it. Especially because most people underestimate. (15:04):
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Kevin Tejada: They think, oh man, I didn't drink too much. Meanwhile, 900 calories later, (15:08):
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Kevin Tejada: same with the people who go to Starbucks, drink that, the parfait thing, right? (15:13):
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Kevin Tejada: If you love it and you know it's hundreds of calories, have fun. (15:18):
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Kevin Tejada: But if you're thinking, I'm just gonna have this just a little bit, (15:22):
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Kevin Tejada: no bro, no sis. it is thick with hundreds of calories. (15:25):
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Kevin Tejada: Just know that. If you're crazy with the drinking too, you don't have to cut things out. (15:31):
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Kevin Tejada: I am someone who, if you have a bad food habit or a food habit that's not helpful (15:36):
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Kevin Tejada: to your goals, I almost never recommend just straight. (15:41):
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Speaker1: Up cutting it out (15:45):
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Kevin Tejada: Cold turkey. For some people that works. For most, it doesn't. (15:45):
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Kevin Tejada: So what I recommend, instead of cutting things out, I recommend adjusting. (15:49):
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Kevin Tejada: Either do a swap or adjust the amount and then see how you feel. (15:54):
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Kevin Tejada: You'll see what your comfort level is like and you can act on that going forward. (15:59):
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Kevin Tejada: For example, one way this could work is if you buy, I don't know, (16:04):
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Kevin Tejada: six pack, 12 pack of beer, put it in your, (16:07):
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Kevin Tejada: it in there. Because oftentimes we just do things out of habit. Oh, another beer. (16:12):
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Kevin Tejada: I mean, just open the fridge, grab one. That's a habit, right? (16:16):
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Kevin Tejada: But if you only have one and you finish that one, that hassle of going to the (16:18):
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Kevin Tejada: store and getting some more might prevent you from just binge drinking that day. (16:23):
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Kevin Tejada: And if you're drinking to deal with stress, as I recommended, (16:28):
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Kevin Tejada: kind of writing what your issues are out on paper so you can see them quite (16:32):
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Kevin Tejada: literally in black and white It can help you observe it from a bit of an outside perspective. (16:35):
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Kevin Tejada: Many times I've written things out. I'm like, huh, this isn't that serious, (16:41):
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Kevin Tejada: actually. Or I can see a clear way to deal with this right now. (16:45):
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Kevin Tejada: So let me, you know, start on that. (16:49):
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Kevin Tejada: But if you keep things in your head, something that's pretty unorganized, (16:51):
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Kevin Tejada: disorganized, whatever. (16:55):
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Kevin Tejada: Going to jumble around in there and it's not going. (16:57):
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Speaker1: To feel great also another thing if (16:59):
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Kevin Tejada: You're stressed on the weekend because you got all these fucking emails coming in turn (17:02):
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Kevin Tejada: off notifications on the weekend if you (17:05):
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Kevin Tejada: have an iphone or whatever it is i don't know how that works but on android (17:08):
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Kevin Tejada: you can control notifications for outlook team slack whatever they have do not (17:10):
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Kevin Tejada: disturb functions on there and if you you don't want to do that for whatever (17:15):
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Kevin Tejada: reason or if some things get through in android you have the option literally (17:18):
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Kevin Tejada: hold the app icon then you see a little thing called app info, (17:23):
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Kevin Tejada: go there, go to notifications, turn them off. (17:27):
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Kevin Tejada: This way you literally cannot be notified from that app during the weekend. (17:30):
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Kevin Tejada: So you don't get stressed out, want to drink and gain a bunch of weight and feel dumb and bad. (17:35):
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Kevin Tejada: Just remember to turn it back on on Monday or don't, whatever's better. (17:39):
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Kevin Tejada: Whenever I go on vacation or if I have like a three or four day weekend, (17:44):
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Kevin Tejada: I literally put a reminder on my phone, turn off notifications for X, X, X, X, Y, Z. (17:47):
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Kevin Tejada: And then I have another one on the morning of that I go back to work, (17:53):
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Kevin Tejada: turn it back on. Because between then, I don't want to hear shit. (17:57):
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Kevin Tejada: Do not reach me. I don't want this stress. (18:01):
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Kevin Tejada: I guarantee you, you open your (18:03):
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Kevin Tejada: phone and you see a thing from Outlook and you're like, fuck, fuck, fuck. (18:05):
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Kevin Tejada: The stress just comes. You're like, I need to drink for whatever reason. (18:08):
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Kevin Tejada: Get rid of those notifications. (18:11):
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Kevin Tejada: And I guarantee a lot of your drinking will go down if you drink for that purpose. (18:13):
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Kevin Tejada: Just try to adjust or reduce this because it's not helpful. You're trying to (18:17):
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Kevin Tejada: lose weight, be healthy, feel good for Monday. (18:20):
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Kevin Tejada: It's It's not great, to be honest with you. And here's something from, I'm 33 years old. (18:22):
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Kevin Tejada: As I said, my entire life, I've had maybe like two-thirds of a cup of can of (18:28):
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Kevin Tejada: beer in my entire life of alcohol. (18:32):
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Kevin Tejada: I remember the specific times to, here it is. When I was 12 years old, (18:34):
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Kevin Tejada: I was in the Dominican Republic, and everyone in the car was drinking. (18:37):
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Kevin Tejada: I was like, oh, can I taste... (18:42):
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Kevin Tejada: And my dad was giving me something I could see. He was like, (18:45):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't know if I should be doing this. Maybe we'll see what happens, I guess. (18:47):
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Kevin Tejada: I tried it, spit it right back in because it tasted disgusting. (18:50):
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Kevin Tejada: And from that moment, I was like, yeah, I don't know why these kids want to (18:54):
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Kevin Tejada: drink, want to underage drink so badly. This shit is disgusting. (18:57):
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Kevin Tejada: So I'm actually thankful for that experience. It made me realize, (19:02):
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Kevin Tejada: holy shit, this tastes bad. (19:05):
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Kevin Tejada: Then I drank, well, not drank. I had a brandy wine chocolate one Christmas years later. (19:08):
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Kevin Tejada: I was like why does this chocolate taste horrible And I saw it Oh that burning (19:13):
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Kevin Tejada: sensation is the brandy one And then I had I think A sip of wine to taste it (19:18):
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Kevin Tejada: Years ago at a New Year's thing I'm like this tastes bad Or maybe I refused I forgot, (19:23):
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Kevin Tejada: Another time on my 21st birthday I remember walking back from college And I (19:29):
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Kevin Tejada: stopped at a store I'm like let me buy Let me try this beer let me taste it, (19:34):
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Kevin Tejada: That's pretty non to drink it I just wanted to kind of taste it just because (19:39):
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Kevin Tejada: there'd be like no issue, (19:41):
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Kevin Tejada: period. And I was sipping. (19:44):
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Speaker1: About half of (19:46):
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Kevin Tejada: It while I was on the phone with my friend. And I'm like, this tastes like kind (19:47):
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Kevin Tejada: of like Red Bull, but bad if you don't like Red Bull. Imagine that, but worse. (19:51):
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Kevin Tejada: And I was like, this kind of sucks. And I just threw it away. (19:56):
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Kevin Tejada: And I think after that, one other time, I think I accidentally ate a Brandywine chocolate again. (20:00):
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Kevin Tejada: Or I think that happened. Then the bourbon vanilla situation, twice I told you about. (20:06):
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Kevin Tejada: And in Japan recently There was this sake here It was like an apple juice one (20:12):
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Kevin Tejada: My girlfriend tasted it She said oh this is basically apple juice I'm like okay (20:17):
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Kevin Tejada: let me This is Japan stuff It tastes like juice Let me take a sip of this A (20:19):
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Kevin Tejada: little sip I'm like ugh This tastes like fucking alcohol Fuck. (20:23):
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Kevin Tejada: She's like you're crazy this tastes like juice and i'm like no i i taste the fucking alcohol, (20:28):
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Kevin Tejada: i don't know what it is with alcohol and caffeine i just any little (20:33):
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Kevin Tejada: bit of it i'm like i i sense this deteriorating (20:37):
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Kevin Tejada: my soul i don't like it what's my point with (20:40):
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Kevin Tejada: all this point is i don't drink and i gotta tell you (20:43):
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Kevin Tejada: on a day-to-day social basis nobody fucking cares (20:46):
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Kevin Tejada: anyone who hears all right i don't drink or whatever so (20:49):
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Kevin Tejada: okay the only people that i can barely remember (20:52):
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Kevin Tejada: who have like an issue they're like oh why not why don't you drink (20:55):
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Kevin Tejada: or whatever they were i don't remember what happened to (20:57):
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Kevin Tejada: them they're not in my life anymore because either they they weren't friends (21:00):
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Kevin Tejada: to begin with or they're just super immature i (21:03):
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Kevin Tejada: don't know what happens it's not like if someone questions my (21:06):
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Kevin Tejada: my drinking i stop being friends with them it just so happens (21:09):
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Kevin Tejada: that these people who i for life i (21:12):
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Kevin Tejada: can't remember specific people who asked about this but i (21:15):
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Kevin Tejada: think they were just acquaintances or something they just they weren't actual (21:18):
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Kevin Tejada: friends because everyone i can remember who i ever say oh i (21:22):
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Kevin Tejada: don't drink they just say oh okay because nobody nobody really (21:24):
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Kevin Tejada: cares i think the times i'm talking about were when i (21:27):
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Kevin Tejada: was in my early 20s or something when everyone's like a fucking drunk from (21:30):
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Kevin Tejada: college but yeah in real life no nobody nobody fucking cares so if you're scared (21:33):
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Kevin Tejada: oh man people people pressure me blah blah blah um the people who only want (21:37):
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Kevin Tejada: to hang out to drink they're probably shit friends no offense if you can't hang (21:42):
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Kevin Tejada: out doing something else then you guys probably We aren't really meant to hang (21:46):
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Kevin Tejada: out too much, to be honest. (21:50):
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Kevin Tejada: But if you're worried about not drinking being an issue, it's really not. (21:52):
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Kevin Tejada: Just fucking drink water, get juice, whatever. It doesn't matter. (21:57):
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Kevin Tejada: Like, nobody cares. If they do, that's kind of their problem, not yours. (22:01):
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Kevin Tejada: So, you know, stop drinking so fucking much if you want to lose some weight. (22:05):
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Kevin Tejada: It's not really helpful. It doesn't make you feel good. It's not great. Try water. Try Red Bull. (22:10):
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Kevin Tejada: Try, well, I'd recommend kombucha or Red Bull, but... (22:14):
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Kevin Tejada: In the comments. Have you tried kombucha before? I thought it was kind of a (22:19):
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Kevin Tejada: lame one of those stupid drinks that health nuts drink. (22:22):
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Kevin Tejada: But it's actually great. It's pretty healthy too with the fermented elements of it. (22:27):
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Kevin Tejada: Let me know if you know what the fuck kombucha is. Also subscribe. (22:33):
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Kevin Tejada: Or you're not going to make it. Alright, see you next time. (22:37):
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