Ethan Suplee's Amazing Weight Loss Journey

the jurogan experience if i didn't know who you were and i ran into you i would have no idea that you're the same guy it's crazy you're a [ __ ] completely different human yeah you went from this guy that looked like you're really in bad shape to a guy who looks like a guy on a void in jiu jitsu i'm like [ __ ] that guy let me get away from him he's too big you look [ __ ] great that's awesome this is the greatest compliment i've ever gotten thank you very much by the way all i want is to look like a big dude who's not just gigantic and fat that's all i want dude you look like a gorilla you look like a dangerous human being like how did you do it uh well over the past 20 years i've gone back and forth with dieting i've i've lost a [ __ ] little weight i've gained a [ __ ] little weight back um how did i do it i think that the the thing that i've done that has been sustainable is undoing kind of look a lot of diets come in and say just do this and you'll lose weight but we're not focused at all on how we got to whatever point we were at that we considered non-optimal that we want to change and so undoing the bad habits that i had that i would associate with allowing myself to get up to 550 pounds is really more important than anything that i could say this is what i did to lose weight does that make sense yes yes um so when did the process start so you kind of went back and forth but you've obviously been on a very steady course for how long now 20 years 19 years 2002 was the first time i thought i really want to change my life and i started then and how much weight have you lost since then 2002 i went from 550 i did a liquid diet for two months and lost 80 pounds that 80 pounds i've never dipped back into but so i was 450 and i went down to close to just under 300 then went back up to 400 then went down to 200 then back up to 350 and for the past five years i've been around the weight i'm at now so i've i've really gotten that under control and what are you at right now 270. that is incredible that is that's so incredible so you've lost more than 200 pounds oh yeah yeah i mean solid i've lost 200 pounds a couple of times but you've also put on muscle like you're a different you're you're different all like you're unrecognizable yeah i think listen the other strange thing about weight loss is when you're building fat and you're storing fat your body is naturally building lean tissue too just to support that fat so under every obese person there's a person with more than average muscle um so because they have to carry around all their weight yeah you're you're naturally building muscle just by like raising your heavier arm yeah you say that to ralphie may because ralphie may was so heavy and i was like look at your legs dude i go you'd be able to kick someone through a [ __ ] wall if you just lost weight yeah like is the that just to be able to carry around i have gnarly calves i bet you do dude that's one of the few things that like i i train sometimes with bodybuilders now and my coach is a professional bodybuilder george jared feather shout out to him um and he has a lot of calf emphasis and i'm like i don't really need to do that bro my cows are good yeah you carried around 500 pounds for years yeah let's go to can you show me a photo of ethan when he was at his heaviest so find me so has this affected your work because you know you were getting roles for so long as an actor when you were large yeah i think so yeah it has there was a time if we go back to like 2015 um and i had been really thin and when i say really thin i mean 200 pounds but for me that was extraordinarily thin that's what i weigh it which is crazy and you're a lot bigger than me it's crazy to see i looked i thought i looked um gaunt god that since look at those two [ __ ] pictures like like if a girl broke up with you when you were on the left and then ran into you you know at the [ __ ] airport when you were on the right i mean that is bonkers man yeah it's incredible yeah i mean truly truly incredible that's my favorite picture and that's not even down lighting i i was an idiot and i'm not super thrilled with my hair and my head and i wouldn't shave my head because i thought the hat looked better with a little bit of hair poking out and then it got in the way of down lighting so that's not even as good a picture as it could have downed lighting that's what everybody wants for abs yeah they want down lighting yeah see the guns um so your your training regimen must be like pretty strict though look at that [ __ ] picture that is so bananas dude yeah what what movies i from remember the titans wow yeah that that that wasn't even the heaviest that that's not the heavy i mean i was probably close to 500 there but no that's that's not even the heaviest i i don't know what to point to like this picture down here is i believe after remember the titans and i'm certainly a little bit heavier yeah wow when you look at that and you know how far you've come i mean it has to be incredibly satisfying it's incredibly satisfying but you know look the reality is that um i don't i i have mental illness and i can't i don't look at myself and think like god i look great i i see nothing but negative stuff every day and i try to convince myself i try to find something that i'm happy with usually it's my traps i can look at my traps because it's lean there's not a bunch of loose skin hanging there they're not all scarred up from surgeries and i look at my trap and i go like okay that looks good and based on that i can then start to feel okay about myself looking at those pictures you know that's also a long time ago and i just don't i cannot relate to how i lived then wow it it it's it's it's very bizarre now when you say you have mental illness meaning that you're aware of this right so you're aware you have a distorted perception of yourself yeah very much so and what it what do you think is what's fueling that distorted perception i when i go back to like my childhood i was put on a diet when i was five and prior to that i had no sense of self there i existed and clearly i i had fun and i played but i was not aware of my body as a thing kind of if it is external to me as a separate component to me or or just as a thing itself it just was and at five i was put on this diet and all these uh parts of me were pointed out as being super negative and so i just at five years old yeah and and i really and by the way in fairness if you look at the average five-year-old today i i wasn't like i wasn't obese at five i was a chubby five-year-old but i was super active and i wasn't eating junk food all day long and you're growing in your body too yeah that's the thing about five-year-olds it's like i've seen kids that look kind of chubby and then you run into them a few years later like look at you you're a beanstalk yeah yes i have four kids myself and and you watch them they kind of go in different directions wide and then tall and yeah there isn't a sad thing um but i i spent most of my life feeling wrong like literally that i was wrong or bad or there was some some just super negative about myself and so i still have to fight through that today catch new episodes of the joe rogan experience for free only on spotify watch back catalog jre videos on spotify including clips easily seamlessly switch between video and audio experience on spotify you can listen to the jre in the background by using other apps and can download episodes to save on data cost all for free spotify is absolutely free you don't have to have a premium account to watch new jre episodes you just need to search for the jre on your spotify app go to spotify now to get this full episode of the joe rogan experience

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Length: 9min 4sec (544 seconds)

Published: Tue May 04 2021