bro bro this story was insane
what's going on everybody schuyler diehm here men's fitness coach
and in this video i wanted to talk about the incredible inspirational amazing ethan suplee
now if you don't know who ethan suplee is he was in remember the titans
american history x and more recently the wolf of wall street and if we refer back
to remembering the titans just take a look at that take that in look at what he looks like now
dude this transformation is insane so when he started off he's six one so six foot one inch he
was five 536 pounds and about three years ago in 2018 he was able to drop down to 255 pounds at 11
body fat so not only is that a weight loss of 281 pounds but 11 body fat which means it's not all
muscle right he he bulked up he's got a lot of muscle on his frame right now so what i wanted
to do in this video is really take a look at how did he do it right because ultimately i want you
to understand no matter what your fitness level is if you're working on just bulking up and getting
muscular and you're having a hard time or you are severely overweight or somewhere in between
this shows that it is possible for you to make a change ethan suplee is a normal guy he struggled
and struggled and struggled and we'll get into a story in a bit but what you need to understand
from this is that he threw himself into the fitness game and made a massive change so i dove
into ethan's story a little bit and ethan shared that he started out as a professional dieter
and over the course of his journey before losing it before losing the weight before keeping it off
he literally said he gained and lost over 1000 pounds in his journey which is insane to think
about think about how many times you have to gain weight think about how many times you have to lose
it to regain it to lose it to regain it to get to a thousand pounds but ultimately what i think is
most important here is that ethan didn't give up and when he was speaking about what created the
shift for him he saw a ted talk by none other than dr mike israetel who i literally created
a video about a few videos ago and what the ted talk was about was about a relationship with food
right understanding that there aren't really bad foods that aren't really good foods it's
just there's foods that are more nutritious and less nutritious and that a well-balanced diet
plan includes an emphasis on the nutritious foods and includes those non-nutritious foods as well
but in moderation and so what ethan said is that his entire journey he had been just cutting
things out labeling things as bad being super guilty when he ultimately did cheat on his diet
and with his new approach now he started to go at it from a very balanced angle
and so like i said he had been trying for a while but what ethan suplee hit was his breaking point
right and this is something we call the threshold that when things get painful enough
you get to the point where you will do whatever it takes to make a change and so ethan had
congestive heart failure and when he had to go in and be weighed he was actually so heavy that he
had to weigh himself on a freight scale literally couldn't even weigh himself on any of the scales
provided at any offices and so what ethan did is when he finally hit that threshold when he decided
to make a change he started by counting calories right he started to just understand okay what is
the amount of energy contained in each of these foods and then slowly over time when he started
realizing that the methodology was even smarter and more intentional and more holistic he started
to take a look at food quality and so this is something massive right like calories in calories
out does not matter if you're eating processed foods if you're eating foods that aren't good
like yes the rule applies yes technically if you are consuming less calories than you burn
you will lose weight but it's going to be really really hard because of your hunger signaling
it's going to be difficult to calculate because calories out is a number that can fluctuate a lot
and then also it's probably not going to be sustainable because you're going to feel
like garbage all the time and so once ethan made this shift that's when he started to see results
now he didn't just do a diet change right he changed his exercise routine as well
and what he did he started lifting weights six days a week for an hour now i really love this
strategy again i believe for most people there has to be some sort of balance there like if you
haven't hit threshold if you're not at that point where you just say f this i'm ready
to make a change you should probably start off a little bit slower right six days a week even seven
days a week of only 30 minutes you know including some of those workouts as just walks or something
that's a little bit lighter of intensity to reduce resistance but ethan went full in he dove in he
started lifting weights for an hour a day six days a week and i think what's also really important to
note here is he wasn't running on the treadmill six days a week i think most people tend to think
that cardio is what's going to create fat loss and it can but usually lifting weights is a better
strategy because it alters your resting metabolism which means that you'll be burning more calories
while doing nothing throughout the day which is obviously a good thing and so if we were to break
that down so far we had he hit his breaking point right he hit threshold where he said f
this it's time to make a change number two he had a shift in the way that he looked at food
and he started focusing on the quality of foods that he was consuming and number three he had an
exercise routine now what i think is the most important aspect here is this next point which
is ethan focused on transforming his identity now identity is something i talk about over and
over and over but our identity is basically one of the strongest driving forces in our life our
need to stay consistent with identity will make us do crazy things even if we identify as someone who
doesn't work hard as someone who's lazy as someone who's not good enough or not motivated enough
we will act in alignment with that identity and so ethan said that he his identity of someone who is
overweight and someone who is stressed and guilty around food started when he was five years old
his grandparents put him on a restrictive diet when he was five which if you know anything about
the subconscious the mind identity those younger ages from the ages of like two to seven are when
you're most impressionable and when small things like that can make such a massive impact and so i
don't even want to say that's a small thing right that's a massive thing to put a five-year-old
on a restrictive diet of saying you know you can't eat this you can't eat this you can't eat this
because that's going to create some guilt and shame about wanting to eat that thing and so
when ethan started losing weight and he started seeing some results what he did that was really
strategical and i i'm really honestly curious if he did this on purpose or if this just happened
but he started to just make health a part of his life he didn't just think that going to
the gym and eating healthy food was going to be the answer he knew he had to integrate this
new identity on a very very deep level and so he started consistently posting on social media about
his workouts he started consistently communicating with health experts having conversations wanting
to learn about health and then what i think is really cool is he started a podcast that's
called american glutton which is basically where he explores everything about health so i mean
if you look at this dude like look at this dude right here this is a man that has fully integrated
the identity of being someone who takes care of himself he's working hard at the gym he's eating
healthy foods he's taking care of his mind taking care of his body and he's being disciplined on a
daily basis but what i think is really important to note here is he did not start this way so
there's four things right there right he had his threshold he had his breaking point he shifted
the way he looked at food and started focusing on food quality he started lifting weight six days
a week and he had a massive massive shift in his identity over time now before i wrap up this video
i think there's one more important thing i want to mention so ethan had an interview and we'll roll
the clip in a second where he mentioned that even with where he's at with his body even the massive
transformation that he's had he still doesn't love his body so we'll roll the clip for a second 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 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 it it it's it's it's very bizarre and so this is both frustrating and a little bit
upsetting but also in some weird way refreshing right i think so many people especially in today's
age where you know we broadcast our body on social media we broadcast our life on social media
we can sometimes withhold our happiness and our love for ourselves until we reach a point that
we want to get to right so specifically reach the point of a change in your body but for a
lot of people right and that could be finances right until you reach a certain amount in your
bank account you're not going to feel good about yourself or happy or satisfied that could be in a
relationship you know you may be single and you're looking to get in a relationship and you're not
going to be happy until you are but there's this weird dichotomy of like part of it makes you feel
awful but then part of it shows you that you can actually make the decision to change that pattern
right and so a really good piece of advice is if you suck with your self-image like you
struggle you do not like your body you don't like who you are no matter how hard it may be
finding time at least once a day to find one good thing that you like about yourself and one reason
of why you should be happy in your life and so if it comes to your body one good thing
that you like about yourself maybe it's your smile maybe it's your eyes maybe it's how your
body has changed even if it's only been 10 20 pounds right you know the effort you put in
how you've been able to go to the gym or stick healthy to a diet and then also the things that
make you happy you know maybe you don't have any overwhelming health issues maybe you see
how it could be worse maybe you are just grateful because you live in a world where you have access
to food whenever you need it so you don't have to worry about starving so there's these small little
shifts but at the end of the day they all add up to make this massive transformation so if i could
really sum that up it's the always grateful never satisfied attitude right basically being grateful
for you are bring being grateful for everything you have in your life every ability of action
you have to take what action you have taken but then never being satisfied always wanting
more right like i've achieved a pretty awesome body for my age for you know if i look at other
people around me and my job field and everything that i'm doing i've achieved a pretty incredible
body i would say i'm very very above average but i'm never satisfied right i'm always going to
the gym i go to the gym pretty much every single day i'm always pushing myself in my workouts i'm
always seeking more of trying to eat healthy foods and going on these hikes and moving my body and
you know the other night i tried jiu jitsu for the first time to push myself and so it's this never
ending journey and that may seem overwhelming especially if you're just starting it may seem
frustrating like you don't want to adjust to that lifestyle but just like ethan did he changed his
identity step by step by step over time you're not any different you may think you are you may have
those beliefs swirling around in your head but i promise you you're not i promise you that you are
specifically created in a certain way that allows you to make a change in your life and the only
way that that could not happen is if you tell yourself the story over and over that you're not
good enough and or if you give up so i encourage you you know ethan's transformation is one of the
most absolutely impressive ones that i have ever seen in terms of not just changing his body but
change of who he is and his identity so i really challenge you and encourage you to take these
parts take these little lessons and implement them day by day in your life by then you might see that
you make awesome awesome progress in a pretty short amount of time compared to what you think
compared to what you may believe and so with that being said if you are really really struggling if
you're having a hard time and you're looking for guidance you're looking for accountability you're
looking for a community make sure you check the link in the description of this video where we
have a free guide and it's going to walk you through the exact system that we use with our
clients to help them see awesome results you know first person that comes to mind is a client i'm
working with now jack jack is about four weeks into our program and he struggled for years and
years and years i believe he said over 20 years with trying to lose weight unsuccessfully and
within the first two weeks he had gained massive control of his eating he implemented fasting which
is what we teach and within the first four weeks implemented a 36 hour fast where he was able to
not eat anything which sounds crazy but i promise it's possible without starving
yourself without feeling tired and he just made a massive transformation he got a compliment from
his wife that his face looks skinnier his pants are starting to get looser he's walking upstairs
without aches and pains in his body and it's coming from what i believe is the best strategy
for people who really struggle with weight loss to see sustainable change and that's a combination of
fasting strength training and mindfulness so check out that guide we explain in depth what
we do besides that i appreciate y'all i'm feeling great today i hope you are and of course as always
make sure to eat smart move more sleep deep and be grateful for this moment see you in the next video