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Using Fat Acceptance to Sell Junk Food · THINK BEFORE YOU SLEEP

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Speaker 1: These are so unhealthy, I can't believe you're eating them. No,
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Speaker 1: they aren't. They're just processed sugar and carbs. You cannot
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Speaker 1: tell me that's healthy. You're describing something not being nutrient-dense. Which, true,
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Speaker 1: these aren't. But me eating one right now is health-promoting.
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Speaker 2: This is why I tell people to not blindly trust dieticians,
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Speaker 2: especially ones who are in the media.
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Speaker 3: A lot of them are trained with ideology that will
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Speaker 3: make you unhealthy.
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Speaker 2: Or they're being paid off by big food companies to
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Speaker 2: promote junk food, which, by the way, is something that
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Speaker 2: food companies have always done, like creating a food pyramid
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Speaker 2: that tells you that Frosted Flakes or other.
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Speaker 3: Garbage brand name cereals are good for you.
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Speaker 1: Me eating one right now is health promoting.
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Speaker 3: How?
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Speaker 1: I wanted one, so I ate one without guilt or
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Speaker 1: shame present. Well, until someone pulled up a chair. By
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Speaker 1: doing that, I actually crave these less and can eat
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Speaker 1: them in more moderation. I think that's pretty health-promoting.
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Speaker 2: That's like telling someone that smoking a cigarette promotes health
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Speaker 2: because it makes you crave them less. Yeah, until you
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Speaker 2: crave another one ten minutes later. Real quick though, this
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Speaker 2: video is sponsored by Rocket Money.
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Speaker 3: More on that later.
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Speaker 2: But junk food is designed to be as addictive as possible,
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Speaker 2: so it's full of excess sugars, oils, salts, and a
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Speaker 2: bunch of mystery ingredients that make it very difficult to
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Speaker 2: stop eating. Which is why junk food should be eaten
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Speaker 2: as sparingly as possible, preferably not at all when you're
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Speaker 2: trying to lose weight.
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Speaker 1: I bet I can find a high-protein copycat recipe for
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Speaker 1: those by my girly pop at healthbabe underscore xoxo. She's
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Speaker 1: got it all. You do you. I'll see you when
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Speaker 1: you ask me to share some of this one after
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Speaker 1: you've eaten eight of those trying to hit the spot.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so full disclosure, I'm going to tattle on myself
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Speaker 2: here just to not give the impression that I never
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Speaker 2: eat junk food.
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Speaker 3: I do eat junk food, but I do so.
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Speaker 2: On occasion, not daily like the average American, and it's
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Speaker 2: almost always the healthiest available version that the store sells.
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Speaker 3: Or I make it myself.
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Speaker 2: Anyway, I actually tried crumble cookie for the first time
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Speaker 2: a couple weeks ago, because it's come up in my
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Speaker 2: content several times recently. I have to say that this
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Speaker 2: was the biggest waste of money ever. The cookies were
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Speaker 2: extremely dry, and the frosting tasted like that chemical stuff
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Speaker 2: that they put on store-bought cupcakes. I ended up throwing
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Speaker 2: them out after only taking a bite of each cookie,
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Speaker 2: and it definitely did not hit the spot. Honestly, if
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Speaker 2: some of these people who eat this stuff learn how
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Speaker 2: to cook, then they would be so disgusted by low-quality
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Speaker 2: junk food that they would stop craving it. Nobody eats
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Speaker 2: McDonald's because they sell high-quality hamburgers. They eat it because
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Speaker 2: it's like a cigarette, or because they don't know how
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Speaker 2: to meal prep and it's convenient. That being said, this
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Speaker 2: is 32-year-old dietician Colleen Christensen, a person who has so
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Speaker 2: many ridiculous takes that she has a whole Reddit page
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Speaker 2: dedicated to them. But Colleen is known for her Instagram page, TikTok,
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Speaker 2: YouTube channel, and blog that probably no one reads. what
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Speaker 2: is thin privilege and why you need to know. As
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Speaker 2: a society, we're becoming more aware of our own privileges,
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Speaker 2: including white privilege and male privilege. Great, so she's a
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Speaker 2: racist and a sexist. Robbing people of their hard work
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Speaker 2: and saying that they must have had it easy because
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Speaker 2: they're white is not only racist ideology, but it effectively
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Speaker 2: demoralizes the people that it's supposed to help. The article
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Speaker 2: then goes on to talk about thin privilege, as if
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Speaker 2: you can't just change your weight, but let's look at
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Speaker 2: one of the advantages that thin people have.
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Speaker 3: Number three.
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Speaker 2: Are you able to go out to eat without worrying
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Speaker 2: about if the seating will accommodate your body size? Bro,
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Speaker 2: how big are you if you have to worry about
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Speaker 2: chairs breaking when you go to a restaurant?
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Speaker 3: Get some help.
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Speaker 2: Though thanks to people like Colleen, there is so much
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Speaker 2: cope to hide how unhealthy these people eat or what
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Speaker 2: they feed their children. Like this video here that is
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Speaker 2: literally child abuse. She's feeding her kid fried cake for breakfast,
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Speaker 2: but if you call it a donut, it's socially acceptable.
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Speaker 2: So no, I'm not shopping at an inclusive store to
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Speaker 2: mitigate my thin privilege. And I hope clothing stores charge
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Speaker 2: double for the bigger sizes or refuse to sell anything
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Speaker 2: over a large. I don't want to be a fat ally.
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Speaker 2: I want people to get healthy. Clearly, Colleen doesn't want
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Speaker 2: anyone to get healthy because she'll give obese people nonsense
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Speaker 2: copes What the set point theory?
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Speaker 1: Our bodies actually have kind of an internal thermostat. And
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Speaker 1: this is called the set point weight theory. Essentially, this
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Speaker 1: is our bodies have a weight rather a weight range.
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Speaker 1: It's typically about 10 to 20 pounds. Most scientists say
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Speaker 1: that our body wants to be at, right? When our
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Speaker 1: weight dips too low, our bodies are going to want
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Speaker 1: to adjust internally. increased hunger, packing on some extra weight
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Speaker 1: to increase back to that range. Same thing happens when
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Speaker 1: our bodies go too high. Maybe our hunger level changes.
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Speaker 1: Our bodies want to feel more active. Bottom line, your
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Speaker 1: set point weight is the weight that you feel best
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Speaker 1: at mentally and physically where you're not obsessed with food,
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Speaker 1: where you can eat cookies and carrots and cupcakes in
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Speaker 1: ways that feel good to you. Not having any of
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Speaker 1: those biological or psychological needs to eat all of the things, right?
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Speaker 1: Eating becomes easy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not how that works. Like, it's very obviously
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Speaker 3: not how that works.
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Speaker 2: Again, Oreo cookies and cupcakes are like cigarettes. I mean,
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Speaker 2: half the foods that you see in the store are
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Speaker 2: just drugs. And if you have the addiction, then the
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Speaker 2: likelihood that you're going to be satisfied by going from
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Speaker 2: eating an entire container of Oreos every day to eating
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Speaker 2: two Oreos every day is very low. There's no set
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Speaker 2: point weight for someone who's on My 600-lb Life. They
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Speaker 2: never find calorie restriction easy, and they just keep eating
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Speaker 2: because the reason they are overeating has little to do
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Speaker 2: with biology.
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Speaker 3: It's a psychological issue.
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Speaker 2: This is why it's much better to just get rid
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Speaker 2: of those foods, replace them with something that's less addictive,
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Speaker 2: and organize your life so that you either don't eat
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Speaker 2: junk food at all, or eat it on rare occasions.
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Speaker 2: At the very least, don't eat it daily. But if
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Speaker 2: you thought that last take from Colleen was bad, then
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Speaker 2: wait till you hear the next one.
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Speaker 1: You gotta stop dieting. I'm not gonna sugarcoat it for
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Speaker 1: you guys. Dieting is, like I said, a predictor of
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Speaker 1: weight gain. Our bodies are much more concerned with that
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Speaker 1: thermostat dipping too low than they necessarily are with it
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Speaker 1: dipping too high, which is why dieting typically causes weight
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Speaker 1: gain because our bodies kind of go into like, it
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Speaker 1: starts like.
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Speaker 1: It starts to send off signals when that thermostat dips
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Speaker 1: too low. And it's going to, like I said, it's
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Speaker 1: going to be very, very concerned about that and want
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Speaker 1: to pack on that extra weight. We always hear about
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Speaker 1: yo-yo dieting and weight cycling where, yes, we might lose
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Speaker 1: weight initially, but it typically comes back and then has extra, right?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just an addict relapsing and going further into
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Speaker 2: the addiction. That happens with every addiction, whether it's alcohol, smoking, food,
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Speaker 2: or any other addictive substance.
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Speaker 3: I mean, this is such cancer.
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Speaker 2: Not only is she not addressing the actual issue, but
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Speaker 2: she's helping develop excuses that prevent people from getting better.
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Speaker 2: Where is the actual evidence that setpoints are a real
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Speaker 2: biological mechanism anyway? All these people are just saying, yeah,
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Speaker 2: this setpoints thing totally exists, but they never provide any
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Speaker 2: evidence of it, and all I've been able to find
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Speaker 2: are articles like this one that say, yeah, it's real,
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Speaker 2: followed by maybe some evidence, sort of, but not really.
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Speaker 2: When they talk about the body increasing hunger during weight loss,
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Speaker 2: I'm not seeing stuff like factoring in hunger management techniques.
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Speaker 2: For example, you can eat a little bit of food,
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Speaker 2: wait 10 to 20 minutes, and your body will shut
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Speaker 2: off the hunger cues that make you want to overeat.
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Speaker 2: A big problem with obese people is that when they're hungry,
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Speaker 2: they will stuff themselves with huge portion sizes super quickly,
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Speaker 2: like they're a competitive eater, before their stomach has time
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Speaker 2: to realize that it's had enough food. Try eating more slowly.
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Speaker 2: So from what I've seen, set point theory is really
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Speaker 2: just a guess, and my problem with weak science like
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Speaker 2: this is that experts will claim that it's biological fact
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Speaker 2: without showing any proof, and that distracts people from things
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Speaker 2: that actually help them solve their weight problem, like learning
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Speaker 3: Back to the main topic.
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Speaker 2: So it is genuinely hard for me to believe that
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Speaker 2: Colleen is not being paid to convince people to eat
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Speaker 2: junk food because in her own diet, she doesn't even
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Speaker 2: eat this stuff. she'll eat some of the most hippie
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Speaker 2: vegan health food like cauliflower rice.
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Speaker 1: So I'm going to go ahead and just add some
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Speaker 1: rice cauliflower in there.
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Speaker 2: I didn't even know that cauliflower rice was a thing
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Speaker 2: until this video. So Colleen will eat some of the
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Speaker 2: most hippie shit like ninja creamy vegetable smoothies, but then
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Speaker 2: in her Instagram content, she'll give the biggest justifications for
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Speaker 2: people to eat horrendous junk food. In this next video,
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Speaker 2: she's comparing an almond mom, which is like a TikTok
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Speaker 2: term for a woman with OCD about how healthy food is,
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Speaker 2: to a no food rules mom, which is a good
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Speaker 2: mom who follows a Colleen Christensen branding. Now, I will
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Speaker 2: suggest that you pay close attention during this segment, because
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Speaker 2: she kind of just quickly flips between the good mom
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Speaker 2: and the bad mom with no warning.
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Speaker 1: Um, those are not muffins, those are cakes. Way too
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Speaker 1: many carbs for the morning.
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Speaker 3: Ooh, I love these.
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Speaker 1: They may not give as long-lasting energy as, say, a
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Speaker 1: bowl of oatmeal, but we can still enjoy them.
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Speaker 2: The first one was correct. It's a cake, not a muffin.
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Speaker 2: You're eating a cupcake for breakfast without the frosting, but
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Speaker 2: now it's socially acceptable because you called it a muffin.
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Speaker 2: try the chocolate chip one and tell me that you're
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Speaker 2: not eating a brownie for breakfast. Not just that, but
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Speaker 2: when you eat a lot of these store-bought foods or
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Speaker 2: get coffee from Dunkin' Donuts, you have to understand that
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Speaker 2: if the product contains added sugar, there are typically trying
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Speaker 2: to put the maximum amount of sugar they can get
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Speaker 2: away with. The amount of sugar they put in this
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Speaker 2: girl's coffee is just ridiculous, and that's pretty much standard
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Speaker 2: for the American diet.
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Speaker 1: How are they even selling this junk that's filled with
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Speaker 1: toxic artificial coloring?
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Speaker 3: These were my fave as a kid!
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Speaker 1: The amounts of additives in our food are regulated to
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Speaker 1: safe amounts. I can serve and eat these guilt-free.
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Speaker 2: Okay, she's definitely being paid, right? How exactly did they
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Speaker 2: determine that all these mystery chemicals like trisodium phosphate or
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Speaker 2: tartrazine are not toxic? Sure, they can say, hey guys,
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Speaker 2: this random factory chemical won't kill you unless you have
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Speaker 2: this much of it. And certainly that might be true.
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Speaker 2: But are they studying the long-term health effects of these chemicals?
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Speaker 2: Do we know if they're retained anywhere in the body
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Speaker 2: that might have an additive effect that gets worse over
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Speaker 2: time as you consume more of it? Do we know
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Speaker 2: if there's a combined negative effect on the body when
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Speaker 2: you mix coal byproduct A with stain remover B? No,
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Speaker 2: because that would be horrendously expensive to study considering that
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Speaker 2: there are like 300 of these different chemicals in every
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Speaker 2: mainstream food. So because we don't entirely know if these
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Speaker 2: factory chemicals are safe to consume long term, it's best
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Speaker 2: to limit the number of mystery ingredients that are in
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Speaker 2: your food. Keep in mind that these chemicals aren't for you,
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Speaker 2: they're for the company. The preservatives are there so that
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Speaker 2: the products have an endless shelf life, and things like
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Speaker 2: dyes and sugar are there to help pass off low-quality
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Speaker 2: food as palatable. This is why they add a mountain
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Speaker 2: of sugar to your Starbucks coffee. It's so you don't
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Speaker 2: realize that they are using low-quality burnt coffee beans. And
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Speaker 2: that's not the only product they do that to, by
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Speaker 2: the way.
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Speaker 3: Sugar is a very.
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Speaker 2: Easy way to mask a low-quality ingredient. Also, cereal is
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Speaker 2: junk food.
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Speaker 1: Um, peanut butter with added oil and sugar? Never would
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Speaker 1: I ever. That is so bad for you. The added
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Speaker 1: oil keeps it from separating, and the sugar adds a
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Speaker 1: touch of sweetness. If I prefer this kind or it
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Speaker 1: better fits my budget, that's okay.
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Speaker 2: Are we still confused about why people are fat? You're
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Speaker 2: taking foods that are specifically designed to be as addictive
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Speaker 2: as possible, and you're saying, Bro, just control yourself. Tell
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Speaker 2: that to an alcoholic. Just have one beer, man.
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Speaker 3: It's easy.
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Speaker 2: No, they can't. That's why they have to stop drinking entirely.
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Speaker 2: Peanut butter does not need sugar to taste good. Neither
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Speaker 2: does stuff like marinara sauce. Those things are already good
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Speaker 2: on their own. Sugar is added to name-brand products like Jif,
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Speaker 2: among other reasons, to make it more addictive so that
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Speaker 2: you buy more of it. If you want to actually
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Speaker 2: get control of your weight, then the first step is
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Speaker 2: to remove these super addictive foods from your daily routine.
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Speaker 2: The easiest way to do that is to cook your
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Speaker 2: own food, and if you don't have lots of time
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Speaker 2: for that, then buy some glass containers and meal prep.
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Speaker 2: But surely, if Jif is so healthy, then why don't
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Speaker 2: you eat it, Colleen? All I've seen you eat in
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Speaker 2: your videos is the sugar-free organic Costco peanut butter.
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Speaker 3: Why is that?
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Speaker 2: Don't you want Jif because of those healthy genetically modified
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Speaker 2: seed oils that make it so that you don't have
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Speaker 2: to stir the peanut butter before you use it?
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Speaker 3: So unhealthy.
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Speaker 1: Give yourself a death sentence, why don't ya? Do better, Costco.
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Speaker 2: This whole thing is almost to imply that Costco doesn't
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Speaker 2: have any healthy food. Costco has tons of healthy food
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Speaker 2: and healthier snacks. It's one of the prime ways that
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Speaker 2: you make it affordable to purchase food without a ton
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Speaker 2: of chemical additives. Now at this point, I have to
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Speaker 2: say that the more you watch Colleen, the more it
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Speaker 2: becomes apparent that she is very physically ill. Actually, it's
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Speaker 2: so obvious that some of you might have already noticed
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Speaker 2: that Colleen is anorexic, which is not a problem in
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Speaker 2: itself outside of it being a terrible disease to have. However,
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Speaker 2: the moral problem here is that she's trying to hide
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Speaker 2: her anorexia by lying to her viewers and pretending to
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Speaker 2: be recovered so she can be an anorexia recovery expert
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Speaker 2: on the internet and sell people her food journaling app.
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Speaker 2: So there's a reason why she almost never wears short
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Speaker 2: sleeves in her videos. It's because she's trying to hide
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Speaker 2: how thin she is, or it's because she's always cold
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Speaker 2: because her body fat is too low.
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Speaker 1: There's a reason why she knows what cauliflower rice is.
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Speaker 1: It's because it's like one-eighth the calories of actual rice.
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Speaker 1: It's anorexia food.
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Speaker 2: I mean, she eats so much hippie whole food stuff
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Speaker 2: in her videos that she literally is the almond mom
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Speaker 2: that she's making fun of in her Costco video. It's
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Speaker 2: kind of disgusting to watch her promote cancer like Froot
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Speaker 2: Loops when she obviously knows how unhealthy they are, and
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Speaker 2: she clearly doesn't eat chemical stuff like that herself on
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Speaker 2: any sort of regular basis. Last, there's a reason why
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Speaker 2: she looks like she's aged 10 years in a period
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Speaker 2: of two years. Anorexia will age you, and if I
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Speaker 2: didn't know that she was 32, I would have said
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Speaker 2: she's in her mid-40s. It's really kind of sad to
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Speaker 2: see someone do this to themselves. But people might say, hey,
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Speaker 2: you're cutting things out of context. Look at how much
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Speaker 2: food she eats in this video here.
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Speaker 1: I have my oats.
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Speaker 3: The bowl's really hot.
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Speaker 1: So lunch is made, and I'm going to show you
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Speaker 1: what we got. So we made the easy avocado egg salad,
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Speaker 1: air fried carrots, and I made this red honey buckwheat bread.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to grab a yogurt. These are bourbon cream
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Speaker 1: cheese brownies. So good.
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Speaker 3: And look at this ice cream. That's a ton of
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Speaker 3: food volume.
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Speaker 2: Except most of this ice cream is made with stuff
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Speaker 2: like spinach, so it has a lot of volume without
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Speaker 2: very many calories. Sure, it looks like she eats a lot,
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Speaker 2: but I did an estimate based on everything I saw
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Speaker 2: her eat in this video, and it came around to
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Speaker 2: 1550 calories, which is below maintenance for a woman. Not
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Speaker 2: to mention that this is assuming that she actually ate
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Speaker 2: everything in the video. I had noticed that Colleen likes
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Speaker 2: to cut away a lot before she actually finishes the food.
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Speaker 2: So we really don't have evidence that she eats all
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Speaker 2: the food or doesn't just spit it out when the
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Speaker 2: camera cuts away. And that's important because anorexics lie a lot.
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Speaker 2: And it's not just me who noticed the low calorie counts.
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Speaker 2: There was a person on Reddit who also trapped the
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Speaker 2: calories of what she ate in a video of hers. Spoilers,
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Speaker 2: it was barely anything because it was all super low
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Speaker 2: calorie foods like freeze-dried apples. The Reddit post finished off with, Lady,
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Speaker 2: I've been anorexic. You cannot fool me. Not to mention
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Speaker 2: stuff like her incredibly small portion size in a video
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Speaker 2: where she gets Costco pizza.
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Speaker 1: So I ended up having like one and a third
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Speaker 1: slices of the pizza. I like pizza, but it's just
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Speaker 1: not like a delicious food for me.
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Speaker 2: Who the hell only eats one and a third slices
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Speaker 2: of pizza? Now, I don't think she has kids because,
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Speaker 2: you know, she doesn't weigh enough. Here's a Reddit post
15:57
Speaker 2: being snarky about that. But did her husband eat the
15:59
Speaker 2: rest of that pizza or did they just throw it out?
16:02
Speaker 2: Or did she save it and eat it for like
16:03
Speaker 2: the next five days? Why not just buy a single
16:06
Speaker 2: slice if you're going to eat so little of it?
16:07
Speaker 2: And it's not like even eating half of that pizza
16:09
Speaker 2: would harm her. She's severely underweight, and she exercises a ton.
16:13
Speaker 1: So this morning, it started off by going to the gym.
16:16
Speaker 1: And today, I went to a high-intensity attack class. It's
16:22
Speaker 1: Les Mills. I'm not really sure how to say it.
16:24
Speaker 1: We take Theo for a pretty long walk, like an
16:27
Speaker 1: hour walk every night.
16:28
Speaker 2: An hour of Les Mills plus an hour dog walk
16:31
Speaker 2: every day? That's a ton of exercise for someone who
16:34
Speaker 2: is that thin. This moment came from that video where
16:36
Speaker 2: she ate roughly 1,500 calories. Les Mills classes are typically
16:40
Speaker 2: some sort of total body aerobics workout, so with the
16:43
Speaker 2: dog walk, she probably burned anywhere from 400 to 700
16:46
Speaker 2: calories with those two workouts, which means she possibly netted
16:49
Speaker 2: under 1,000 calories that day. That's really bad. Now, the
16:53
Speaker 2: typical anorexia cocktail is to eat tons of low-calorie foods
16:57
Speaker 2: or a diet consisting mostly of vegetables, exercise a lot,
17:00
Speaker 2: take laxatives, and vomit if you happen to break your
17:03
Speaker 2: super low-calorie diet. So when you hear no food rules,
17:07
Speaker 2: you're supposed to think it's about removing restrictive dieting habits,
17:10
Speaker 2: but really it's more like no food rules, and it's
17:13
Speaker 2: Colleen saying that not eating is awesome. She's out there
17:15
Speaker 2: taking Brian Johnson-sized bites of her food and telling people
17:19
Speaker 2: that she's recovered. We saved some extra calories for today
17:22
Speaker 2: so I could nibble on the chocolate, but only nibble.
17:26
Speaker 3: Yep, tastes nice. Look at this.
17:28
Speaker 2: Now people are saying that the crumble cookie was actually
17:30
Speaker 2: a fake. This person thinks that it was a slice
17:33
Speaker 2: of keto bread cut into a circle, with Greek yogurt
17:35
Speaker 2: on top. Apparently crumble cookies are like 700 calories each,
17:39
Speaker 2: so nobody believes that she actually ate one. Then someone
17:42
Speaker 2: said that she admitted that it wasn't a real crumble cookie,
17:45
Speaker 2: but the image link was broken, so I put on
17:47
Speaker 2: my internet stocking glasses, checked like 50 comments, and found
17:50
Speaker 2: her saying that the cookie was a fake because she
17:52
Speaker 2: didn't have any.
17:54
Speaker 3: What? This is psychotic.
17:56
Speaker 2: Those cookies are only a few dollars each, which is
17:58
Speaker 2: a small budget for a video. but she spent all
18:00
Speaker 2: that time to make an imitation and I guess just
18:03
Speaker 2: randomly had a crumble cookie box on hand for the video?
18:06
Speaker 2: The amount of work that went into faking this was
18:08
Speaker 2: just excessive. So this psychosis over a few bites of
18:11
Speaker 2: a real cookie that she could have just spit out
18:13
Speaker 2: was very strange to me, especially considering that in that
18:16
Speaker 2: same video she made a snarky comment against her opposition
18:20
Speaker 2: about a healthier alternative cookie and she craps on healthier
18:23
Speaker 2: alternates frequently. Because of this, I ended up searching for
18:26
Speaker 2: further answers and found this podcast where Colleen talks about
18:30
Speaker 2: her anorexia recovery. Of course, she's lying about being recovered,
18:33
Speaker 2: but what she says here is interesting.
18:35
Speaker 1: I tried like most people to just, okay, I'm going
18:38
Speaker 1: to let myself eat. I'm going to allow myself to
18:41
Speaker 1: eat the cake. And I have what I call my
18:43
Speaker 1: chocolate cake incident. And I specifically remember I was a
18:47
Speaker 1: junior in college at this point. And I told myself,
18:50
Speaker 1: I'm going to eat a piece of chocolate cake and
18:52
Speaker 1: it's going to be fine. I was in my sorority house.
18:54
Speaker 1: No one else was there. I had some chocolate cake
18:56
Speaker 1: and I ended up eating the whole thing. I felt
18:59
Speaker 1: so out of control. I felt like it proved to
19:01
Speaker 1: me like, okay, well, like you need your food rules
19:04
Speaker 1: because you can't do this. I just kept trying that.
19:06
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, just let yourself eat. Just let
19:08
Speaker 1: yourself have the things. And it just kept happening to
19:12
Speaker 1: where I would eat. I would feel so horrendous. It
19:15
Speaker 1: was a binge. It was a full on binge. It
19:17
Speaker 1: was like, okay, that happened. I'll do better next time.
19:19
Speaker 1: The same thing happened.
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Speaker 2: I would actually say that a lot of the specifics
19:23
Speaker 2: on treating anorexia are a blind spot for me since
19:25
Speaker 2: my dietary knowledge is more specialized in overeating. Anorexia is
19:29
Speaker 2: far less common, which is why I focus on it less.
19:32
Speaker 2: But it seems to me like Colleen has obsessive behavior,
19:35
Speaker 2: which is a part of anorexia. She's a diagnosed anorexic,
19:38
Speaker 2: by the way. But a part of that obsessive behavior
19:40
Speaker 2: is the fear that if she isn't overly stringent on
19:43
Speaker 2: her dietary habits, then she will start binge eating, and
19:46
Speaker 2: that's why she couldn't just spend a few dollars door
19:48
Speaker 2: dashing a real crumble cookie for her video. And yeah,
19:51
Speaker 2: this is the prime reason why I tell people to
19:53
Speaker 2: not do extreme calorie restriction to lose weight. Either you'll
19:56
Speaker 2: end up anorexic, or you'll be so starved all the
19:58
Speaker 2: time that you'll end up binge eating back to where
20:00
Speaker 2: you were the second that you allow yourself some extra food.
20:03
Speaker 2: Or worse, you'll binge eat enough to weigh more than
20:06
Speaker 2: what you did before you started the diet. Now, I'm
20:08
Speaker 2: not an expert on anorexia, but Colleen is so dangerously
20:10
Speaker 2: underweight that personally I think she should just give in
20:13
Speaker 2: to the.
20:13
Speaker 3: Binge eating for a bit.
20:29
Speaker 2: Until she can learn how to move away from a
20:31
Speaker 2: life of extreme calorie excess or extreme calorie restriction. I mean,
20:35
Speaker 2: she is so underweight that it would take a minimum
20:37
Speaker 2: of several weeks of daily binging just to hit a
20:40
Speaker 2: healthy body fat percentage. Surely she can figure out a
20:43
Speaker 2: healthy meal plan with a therapist before she becomes obese.
20:46
Speaker 2: But more importantly, she really has no business giving health
20:49
Speaker 2: advice when her own eating is so obviously disordered. Something
20:53
Speaker 2: like that might have you create an app for anorexics
20:55
Speaker 2: that encourages them to journal everything they're eating and how
20:57
Speaker 2: they felt about it, which definitely is not going to
21:00
Speaker 2: activate their OCD at all, right? Or being a dietician
21:04
Speaker 2: who hasn't fixed her disordered eating might have you spreading
21:07
Speaker 2: a ton of dietary misinformation. Speaking of bad information, let's
21:11
Speaker 2: talk about diet culture, starting with Colleen's description of it.
21:14
Speaker 1: So first of all, what is diet culture? Well, it's
21:16
Speaker 1: based on the idea that our bodies are valued by
21:19
Speaker 1: their size and that smaller is better and smaller is healthier.
21:23
Speaker 1: Both are 100% false, by the way. It's not 100% false.
21:27
Speaker 2: A person who is 160 pounds is going to be
21:30
Speaker 2: a lot healthier than someone who is 400 pounds. You're
21:33
Speaker 2: a dietitian, you should know that, and this is medical misinformation.
21:37
Speaker 2: Obesity being unhealthy, especially morbid obesity, is scientific fact and
21:41
Speaker 2: it is very irresponsible of her to say that it's
21:43
Speaker 2: not unhealthy as a medical professional. This is like a
21:47
Speaker 2: doctor telling people that smoking every day is good for
21:49
Speaker 2: them and won't cause them health problems in the future.
21:52
Speaker 2: As for the term diet culture, it's kind of an
21:54
Speaker 2: outdated worldview that stems from every asshole producer and tabloid
21:57
Speaker 2: calling women obese if they were three pounds above an
22:00
Speaker 2: anorexic body fat percentage. I think some people have some
22:03
Speaker 2: very valid criticisms of that era, but I don't think
22:06
Speaker 2: they're super relevant today, especially considering that people like certain
22:10
Speaker 2: animation storytime YouTubers are using the term diet culture to
22:14
Speaker 2: discourage any weight loss, even if the person's obese, and
22:17
Speaker 2: also considering that Colleen's evidence of diet culture comes from
22:21
Speaker 2: data that's 20 years old.
22:22
Speaker 1: These Miss America winners that we've had have gotten thinner
22:26
Speaker 1: and thinner over the years.
22:28
Speaker 2: I mean, I agree that some people were ridiculous in
22:30
Speaker 2: the 90s and the 2000s, but I also find it
22:33
Speaker 2: funny that during that time on the chart that she used,
22:36
Speaker 2: weight is trending upwards. Apparently Colleen can't read a simple graph.
22:40
Speaker 2: But as I said, the real problem is when people
22:42
Speaker 2: start mixing this diet culture idea with the fat acceptance stuff,
22:46
Speaker 2: and start spouting nonsense like this.
22:48
Speaker 1: Based on the earliest sculptures, voluptuous and well-nourished was the
22:52
Speaker 1: ideal 25,000 years ago. And later, Aphrodite, the Greek goddess
22:58
Speaker 1: of beauty and pleasure, was lovingly portrayed in all.
23:02
Speaker 3: Of her glory, which included her stomach rolls.
23:05
Speaker 2: Look, we found a statue of an obese person that's
23:07
Speaker 2: really old. It must mean that morbid obesity was considered attractive.
23:12
Speaker 2: But in reality, uh, we have no idea what the
23:15
Speaker 2: meanings of these statues are, or why they were made,
23:17
Speaker 2: because they were made before recorded history. For all we know,
23:21
Speaker 2: they could be a warning against gluttony. Speaking of more
23:23
Speaker 2: recent history, I looked up Greek statues, and of course,
23:26
Speaker 2: all the guys were super fit just like store mannequins.
23:29
Speaker 2: Then I looked at the female statues, and all the
23:31
Speaker 2: women were pretty fit too. Even this statue of Aphrodite
23:34
Speaker 2: that Colleen's talking about. She's not fat, she's just crunching
23:37
Speaker 2: a bit. Unless you have very low body fat, roles
23:40
Speaker 2: are going to happen. So Aphrodite looks like she's still
23:43
Speaker 2: pretty thin here. Definitely thinner than the average American in
23:46
Speaker 2: the modern day. And I bring this up because they'll
23:48
Speaker 2: take these depictions of people who are still pretty thin
23:51
Speaker 2: and put them in the same category of people who
23:53
Speaker 2: are so obese... that they have to worry about breaking
23:55
Speaker 2: a chair at a restaurant.
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Speaker 1: Here are a few examples of the effects of diet culture, i.e.
24:00
Speaker 1: thin is best. Obese individuals have a more difficult time
24:04
Speaker 1: finding clothes that fit at regular shopping malls, and they
24:07
Speaker 1: may also be charged more. Plus-size furniture also costs more
24:12
Speaker 1: because most furniture is made for people under about 250
24:15
Speaker 1: pounds who are in the minority of the U.S. population.
24:18
Speaker 3: The fat tax is real.
24:20
Speaker 2: Here are five examples that prove it's more expensive to
24:22
Speaker 2: be plus-sized. Gee, I'm surprised that food wasn't in this
24:25
Speaker 2: article because binge eating every day is expensive. But how
24:29
Speaker 2: are they being oppressed here? It's more expensive to design
24:32
Speaker 2: sturdier furniture, and if you're too big to fit in
24:34
Speaker 2: a normal-sized airplane seat, then why should an airline company
24:38
Speaker 2: have to miss out on selling a seat because of you? Wait,
24:41
Speaker 2: I hate how small airline seating is. Maybe we should
24:43
Speaker 2: grip to say it's fatphobic to only have six inches
24:46
Speaker 2: of leg room. Outside of that, this is where we
24:48
Speaker 2: get into the ridiculous behavior where obese people are complaining
24:51
Speaker 2: about furniture breaking. Like I said earlier, if you're so
24:55
Speaker 2: big that you're worried about a regular chair being able
24:57
Speaker 2: to support your weight, then it's time to get treatment.
25:00
Speaker 2: We don't need every restaurant to hire an engineer to
25:02
Speaker 2: design chairs that support a 600-pound body, and you don't
25:05
Speaker 2: have to cry discrimination at every avenue.
25:08
Speaker 1: So obese job applicants are less likely to be hired,
25:11
Speaker 1: even with the same qualification. And this does affect women
25:15
Speaker 1: to a greater degree than men.
25:17
Speaker 2: Yes, and that certainly has nothing to do with a
25:19
Speaker 2: 500-pound woman not being able to handle a labor-intensive task.
25:23
Speaker 2: such as standing up for more than 10 minutes in
25:25
Speaker 2: a row, right? Or having to walk 100 feet down
25:27
Speaker 2: an aisle in a retail outlet without stopping.
25:29
Speaker 3: For a break.
25:30
Speaker 2: There are a lot of reasons for why an obese
25:32
Speaker 2: person is less likely to be hired, namely because they're
25:35
Speaker 2: less qualified for many jobs simply by being too overweight. Also,
25:39
Speaker 2: let me add a meticulous side note because it makes
25:41
Speaker 2: a point of Colleen's ability to research and critically think.
25:44
Speaker 2: This study she cites is terrible evidence of her claim.
25:47
Speaker 3: For one, it contains less than 200 people.
25:50
Speaker 2: Which is a very low sample size to describe a
25:52
Speaker 2: population size of over 300 million, which means it's highly
25:56
Speaker 2: subject to error. Second, and more importantly, this study wasn't
26:00
Speaker 2: even done in America where Colleen lives. It was done
26:03
Speaker 2: in three separate countries which could all have cultures that
26:05
Speaker 2: express beliefs about obesity that are different from America. There
26:09
Speaker 2: are more problems than that, but I don't want to
26:10
Speaker 2: spend the whole video on this study, but understand her
26:13
Speaker 2: lack of ability to critically think and research, especially when
26:16
Speaker 2: she says this.
26:17
Speaker 1: Now, we know diet culture is a big industry also,
26:20
Speaker 1: and I mean like really big. Here's the sad news, gorgeous.
26:23
Speaker 1: The diet industry is grossing more than 7 billion, yes,
26:29
Speaker 1: that is billion with a B, each year. How gross
26:32
Speaker 1: is that?
26:33
Speaker 3: Literally gross. Oh shit, really? 72 billion? That's a lot.
26:37
Speaker 2: But remember the junk food cereals that you promoted in
26:40
Speaker 2: the Costco video? Well, Kellogg's owns those brands, and that
26:43
Speaker 2: single company that sells tons of junk food profited $ 12
26:47
Speaker 2: billion last year. But those are small numbers. How much
26:50
Speaker 2: did the fast food industry profit last year? Oh look,
26:53
Speaker 2: it says $ 387 billion, which is five times as much
26:57
Speaker 2: as the $ 72 billion that she complained about. I mean,
27:00
Speaker 2: this lack of critical thinking is almost criminal, and I'm
27:03
Speaker 2: surprised by how many fat activists that I've seen repeat
27:06
Speaker 2: this stupid line of, look how much the diet industry
27:09
Speaker 2: is worth, it must mean that they're evil. Meanwhile, the
27:12
Speaker 2: junk food industry is probably 10 times the size of
27:15
Speaker 2: the diet industry. Not to mention that a number of
27:17
Speaker 2: these diet foods that are listed in this report are
27:19
Speaker 2: actually ultra-processed junk food like SlimFast. These are the ingredients
27:23
Speaker 2: of SlimFast. It's literally just a scoop of processed sugar.
27:27
Speaker 2: So I really wonder how much of that $ 72 billion
27:30
Speaker 2: is actual health food and not just junk food disguised
27:33
Speaker 2: as health food. But do you know what's super ironic
27:35
Speaker 2: about this statement from Colleen? She profits off the diet industry.
27:40
Speaker 2: She sells a food journaling app for the low price
27:42
Speaker 2: of $ 40 a month. Not to mention that I've also
27:44
Speaker 2: watched her take sponsorships from companies like Clif Bars.
27:48
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
27:49
Speaker 2: So I looked up who owns Clif Bars and Wheat Thins,
27:51
Speaker 2: and it's owned by a company called Mondelez International. a
27:54
Speaker 2: company that also owns Oreos, Nilla Wafers, and Cadbury, which
27:58
Speaker 2: is one of the biggest candy companies in the world.
28:00
Speaker 2: She's literally a paid show for a junk food company.
28:03
Speaker 2: I don't care if Clif Bars are organic. This shit
28:06
Speaker 2: is still a candy bar full of sugar and seed oils,
28:08
Speaker 2: and it should be eaten sparingly. Organic alcohol is still alcohol,
28:13
Speaker 2: and an organic cigarette is still a cigarette. This is
28:16
Speaker 2: what I was talking about in the Dove Real Virtual
28:18
Speaker 2: Beauty video with the junk food companies promoting fat acceptance
28:21
Speaker 2: to sell more junk food. It's so obvious that's what's happening,
28:24
Speaker 2: and just a short while after I was made fun
28:27
Speaker 2: of by Noah Sampson for saying that, we get a
28:29
Speaker 2: Washington Post article exposing dietitians for being paid off by
28:32
Speaker 2: junk food producers to promote an anti-diet ideology. Interestingly enough,
28:38
Speaker 2: this article talks about a woman who was paid by
28:40
Speaker 2: the Canadian Sugar Institute who told people to reduce their
28:43
Speaker 2: sugar cravings by eating junk food, as in the exact
28:46
Speaker 2: line that Colleen said about Crumble Cookie at the start
28:48
Speaker 2: of this video.
28:49
Speaker 3: What a coincidence.
28:51
Speaker 1: I could afford with the money offered to me from
28:52
Speaker 1: greens powders, not one, not two, not three, not four,
28:55
Speaker 1: not five, not six, not seven, eight of these little
28:58
Speaker 1: bags I've been wanting if I took those deals.
29:00
Speaker 2: I can't wait until more of this gets exposed. If
29:03
Speaker 2: tobacco companies got caught paying off doctors to endorse cigarettes,
29:07
Speaker 2: then of course major food companies are going to do
29:09
Speaker 2: the same. And look at this Forbes article that says
29:12
Speaker 2: that there were mergers between tobacco companies and food companies
29:16
Speaker 2: to produce stuff like Oreos.
29:17
Speaker 3: What a coincidence again. Conveniently, the company that.
29:21
Speaker 2: Now owns Ritz and Oreos is also the same company
29:24
Speaker 2: that was paying Colleen Christensen to shill ultra-processed foods at
29:27
Speaker 2: a dietician's convention.
29:29
Speaker 3: What a small world!
29:30
Speaker 2: Who could have guessed that people would spread bad information
29:33
Speaker 2: to sell you addictive and unhealthy food? So anyway, that's
29:36
Speaker 2: why I say don't listen to a lot of dietitians,
29:39
Speaker 2: especially the ones who promote fat acceptance or health at
29:41
Speaker 2: every size. Now outside of that, if you're chronically obese
29:45
Speaker 2: and cannot lose the weight, then understand that there are
29:47
Speaker 2: probably a lot of behavioral changes that you'll have to
29:49
Speaker 2: make before weight loss will seem like common sense to you.
29:52
Speaker 2: You have to do things like make sure that you
29:54
Speaker 2: get enough sleep and don't take on too much work.
29:56
Speaker 2: Not taking care of those two things will make resisting
29:59
Speaker 2: eating too much food a lot more difficult. That being said,
30:02
Speaker 2: some of the best strategies for learning how to change behavior.
30:05
Speaker 3: Are in a book called Atomic Habits.
30:07
Speaker 2: That book is basically a step-by-step guide on how to
30:10
Speaker 2: psychologically manipulate yourself into adopting good behaviors and getting rid
30:14
Speaker 2: of bad ones. One of the best strategies that I've
30:17
Speaker 2: found that is relevant to weight loss is a strategy
30:19
Speaker 2: called Habit Tracking. Essentially, you create a scoreboard that catalogs
30:23
Speaker 2: every success that you've had. So if I need to
30:26
Speaker 2: lose weight, what I'll do is open up an Excel
30:28
Speaker 2: document and write down every day that I've been successfully
30:31
Speaker 2: in a calorie deficit. If I screw up and overeat
30:33
Speaker 2: one day, I reset the chart and try to beat
30:35
Speaker 2: my record. So if my record was 3 weeks on
30:38
Speaker 2: the first try, then I might go for 5 weeks
30:40
Speaker 2: on the second try. The best part of this is
30:43
Speaker 2: that for beginners, it gives a metric to focus on
30:45
Speaker 2: that's not their weight. Because weight fluctuates all the time,
30:48
Speaker 2: even if you are in a calorie deficit and especially
30:51
Speaker 2: if you're weighing yourself every day, which I never recommend
30:54
Speaker 2: to beginners. Honestly, unless you're a bodybuilder and you're very
30:57
Speaker 2: experienced at losing weight, I would not recommend weighing yourself
31:01
Speaker 2: more frequently than once every one or two weeks, preferably
31:03
Speaker 2: every two weeks. Otherwise, you'll flip out and quit your
31:06
Speaker 2: diet because you drank an extra glass of water the
31:08
Speaker 2: previous day and weighed half a pound more on your
31:11
Speaker 2: daily weigh-in. But the whole point of habit tracking is
31:13
Speaker 2: that I'm not trying to lose 20 pounds, I'm trying
31:16
Speaker 2: to stay in a calorie deficit for 90 to 120 days.
31:19
Speaker 2: You can check the scale every so often to make
31:21
Speaker 2: sure that you're on track and actually lowering your calorie
31:24
Speaker 2: intake enough, but ultimately, if you're in a calorie deficit,
31:27
Speaker 2: you will lose weight, so you don't have to constantly
31:30
Speaker 2: check the scale. Personally, I think it's better to have
31:33
Speaker 2: a marker of success that is less dependent on random
31:35
Speaker 2: factors like how much water you drank the previous day,
31:38
Speaker 2: how you're balancing on the scale, or if you had
31:41
Speaker 2: a bowel movement that day before you weighed yourself. This
31:44
Speaker 2: is why I say only weigh yourself once every two weeks.
31:47
Speaker 2: By then, you'll have lost enough weight to make it
31:48
Speaker 2: so that random stuff doesn't cause the scale to read
31:51
Speaker 2: higher than your previous weigh-in. For example, if you lost
31:54
Speaker 2: four pounds, then drinking extra water the previous day is
31:57
Speaker 2: probably not going to make the scale read higher than
31:59
Speaker 2: your last weigh-in. Now, if you screw up and break
32:02
Speaker 2: your diet, it's not the end of the world. Just
32:04
Speaker 2: get right back to it the next day. If you
32:06
Speaker 2: break three weeks of dieting with one day of overeating,
32:09
Speaker 2: but the next day you get back on track and
32:10
Speaker 2: make it five weeks without overeating, then you're still going
32:13
Speaker 2: to lose a lot of weight. The worst thing that
32:15
Speaker 2: you can do is let a single failure derail your
32:18
Speaker 2: diet for like two months. So if you do mess up, relax,
32:21
Speaker 2: take a breather for a day, get back onto your
32:23
Speaker 2: diet the next day, and keep pushing towards your goal. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: thanks for watching, follow me on Twitter, and I'll see
32:29
Speaker 2: you in the next video.