Taken from JRE MMA Show #133 w/"Sugar" Sean O'Malley:
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You still overeat when you go out to eat much?

I know you've talked about it and I fucking resonated with that so much.

Like if I get high before I go out to eat, like, and I'm getting a good cheeseburger, like I might as well order 2 because I'm gonna eat that 1 and I'm gonna be hungry still.

Not even gonna fucking touch my, like, doesn't even phase me.

When you're always Dieting and cutting weight do you think that makes you like more prone to doing that

dude look at the reason patty the baddies It gets as big as he is cuz it's like you get this this mental disorder.

I strict this fuck for about 10 weeks before that fight like I'd have a little cheat meal on a Saturday But the closer we got to the fight 4 or 5 weeks out.

I was just eating so clean to where right after It's like I'll order 2 cheeseburgers Fucking Some appetizers and just eat until I'm so uncomfortable and so much.

god look at Patty I'm gonna send you a video Jamie this dude He posted today.

Yeah, Patty's and I think I'm not who am I to fucking say, but I just I mean I know that's just not Good for you the how much he gets up to 200 pounds That's like me getting up to like 190 or 185 yeah, that's a lot dude.

It's like that's not but it is it gives you this mental disorder from eating But Fuck do is if you take a couple puffs before dinner It's it depends on how you get there's levels of high if you just get a nice little high and you can the food just Tastes better you can really enjoy it or you get too high and you go in there And you just feel like a bottomless pit and you're eating the fucking bread and the appetizers then you're eating your fucking other appetizers and appetizers, then you're getting Fucking 2 cheeseburgers.

Michael Easter was actually just talking about that He's a guy who wrote this book the comfort crisis And he wrote this book about a study that they did where they took these guys and they purposely starved them.

So in that study I talked about a few weeks ago, they took 36 men, They put them in a lab for 6 months and they starved them, like really starved them because they wanted to know what happens to the human body when we significantly decrease our calories and lose a lot of weight.

What happens to all these different processes?

So it was a really enlightening study, told us a lot about weight loss.

But where it started to get interesting is that now they have to refeed these guys and bring them back up to a normal weight.

And the impacts of the weight loss were very lasting on these guys' behavior.

He had to go to the hospital for eating so much in a meal, and all of them were eating significantly higher calories than when they started.

It was on their mind all the time, just as it had been when they were starving.

There's a handful of other really fascinating things that happened that basically ended up bringing these guys above the weight that they started at.

So after this crazy diet, they actually ended up heavier.

This can tell us a lot about diets today, how we should approach them, how we should think about eating normally once we've lost weight There's a link in the bio if you want to learn more check it out

What I love Michael, but hey man that fucking the voiceover the captions.

There's the worst like transcription ever

it's doing it for free like if you had to pay someone to that

like what's the purpose of having it so you can read it if you can't read It like It's like if you're not listening to him and you're reading that you're like, what is he saying?

There's like he's missing like key words.

I'm guys behavior so for 1 They binge a 1 let's say and then it gets to this other 1 see here And he had to go to the hospital for eatings eating what yeah, and all of them were eating significantly What then when they started

better to not have it than to have it where you can't fucking read it because there's a bunch of words missing.

Well, have you ever watched captions normally?

Whatever program he's using, that program sucks.

it's probably just like a built-in, but interesting study that bad

That's a Dude, that's the it's so true every fighter will sit here and say the same thing After a fight if you'd cut a lot of weight, and you make weight, and then I mean even for me I still eat really clean leading up to the fight, but dude I see fighters at the fucking breakfast buffet eating paint like eating shitty fight day cuz they made way or after the after weigh-ins that night They're eating shitty I keep it clean all until after the fight and after the fight I let loose a little bit, but this has been the best I've done so usually because for me bread cheese Causes inflammation like I work with a nutritionist Dan Garner We do he's working on a Really really cool protocol right now a concussion protocol for me.

I've been working with him for like 5 years He has a ton of that on me, but we do a bunch of like right now We'll be in he's making a protocol for me outside of camp to Eat so he has all my all my data, but I've been doing a really good job Not overeating this each time it gets a little bit better, and it's just it's a knowledge thing in a discipline thing

Does he meal prep for you so he makes you

I have a meal prep company in Arizona all organics that makes my food.

so they give you the exact portions that portion Oh, that's great

I don't really cook Danny cooked she would you know full-time mom, and she does hair for a living so she'd work a couple days a week Besides of the other the recharge center in Arizona.

but this this 1 I mean I got out of this camp or out of that fight, and I was like I'm ready to go.

I want to fucking get back to the gym I know how hard of a fight Henry is, how hard of a fight Aljo is, how hard of a fight anybody in the top 5 is.

So I've been really a lot more disciplined.

I think it's been a month now since the fight, but not eating as much cheese and or eating as much bread if I go out go out to eat Just because I know that fucking causes inflammation in my body And I know that's gonna make take a little bit longer to get back to training or if I am training And I eat you know too much cheese And bread it's gonna cause that inflammation risk an injury or just be fucking more sore than I need to be But yeah eating disorder from cutting weight is a real fucking problem.

I If I fought at my natural weight class I'd fight at 155 If I didn't cut weight and walk around 58 59 whatever I'd fight at 155 There's no fucking chance that I'm gonna say you know what I'm just gonna do that.

I'm gonna fight Justin Gaiji I'm gonna fight Charlie like there's no way I could go fight at 145.

I believe and be successful I'm not a tiny 35 or those guys would still even be a little bit bigger, but cutting the 45 I wouldn't cut into 35 fucking hard you feel like you're dying your heart is pounding You're laying in bed,

you a hundred percent are dying like I talked to my body I have to tell it like hey You know what we're going what we're doing fight week like we're gonna start You know cutting cutting weight, and I thought I try to tell myself like we know we're not gonna actually die, we're gonna feel like that or whatever, but I could cut to 45, it'd be a lot easier.

Obviously 55 would be the easiest, but I wish more guys would but then again like Aljo he weighs how much right now?

again He's gonna do it again He said he was mad at me for saying that I didn't think he's gonna be at 25 again But

but when you're a certain height I feel like you have like you have to but then again look at Henry He's fucking 5'3, and he's fucking doing it.

Yeah, so I guess it depends on how thick you


Speaker 0: The Jerogen experience. You still overeat when you go out to eat much? I know you've talked about it and I fucking resonated with that so much. Like if I get high before I go out to eat, like, and I'm getting a good cheeseburger, like I might as well order 2 because I'm gonna eat that 1 and I'm gonna be hungry still. Not even gonna fucking touch my, like, doesn't even phase me.

Speaker 1: Gluttony. God damn it.

Speaker 0: That's such a pain in the ass.

Speaker 2: When you're always Dieting and cutting weight do you think that makes you like more prone to doing that

Speaker 0: dude look at the reason patty the baddies It gets as big as he is cuz it's like you get this this mental disorder. I strict this fuck for about 10 weeks before that fight like I'd have a little cheat meal on a Saturday But the closer we got to the fight 4 or 5 weeks out. I was just eating so clean to where right after It's like I'll order 2 cheeseburgers Fucking Some appetizers and just eat until I'm so uncomfortable and so much. Oh my

Speaker 2: god look at Patty I'm gonna send you a video Jamie this dude He posted today.

Speaker 0: Yeah, Patty's and I think I'm not who am I to fucking say, but I just I mean I know that's just not Good for you the how much he gets up to 200 pounds That's like me getting up to like 190 or 185 yeah, that's a lot dude. It's sad. It's like that's not but it is it gives you this mental disorder from eating But Fuck do is if you take a couple puffs before dinner It's it depends on how you get there's levels of high if you just get a nice little high and you can the food just Tastes better you can really enjoy it or you get too high and you go in there And you just feel like a bottomless pit and you're eating the fucking bread and the appetizers then you're eating your fucking other appetizers and appetizers, then you're getting Fucking 2 cheeseburgers. Yeah bad sometimes

Speaker 2: Michael Easter was actually just talking about that He's a guy who wrote this book the comfort crisis And he wrote this book about a study that they did where they took these guys and they purposely starved them. Play it so he could he could say it. Michael underscore Easter.

Speaker 3: The time was over. Scientists had to call it off. So in that study I talked about a few weeks ago, they took 36 men, They put them in a lab for 6 months and they starved them, like really starved them because they wanted to know what happens to the human body when we significantly decrease our calories and lose a lot of weight. What happens to our bodies? What happens to our minds?

What happens to all these different processes? So it was a really enlightening study, told us a lot about weight loss. But where it started to get interesting is that now they have to refeed these guys and bring them back up to a normal weight. And the impacts of the weight loss were very lasting on these guys' behavior. So for 1, they binge ate.

1 guy ate 11,000 calories a day. He had to go to the hospital for eating so much in a meal, and all of them were eating significantly higher calories than when they started. Second is that they obsessed about food. It was on their mind all the time, just as it had been when they were starving. There's a handful of other really fascinating things that happened that basically ended up bringing these guys above the weight that they started at.

So after this crazy diet, they actually ended up heavier. This can tell us a lot about diets today, how we should approach them, how we should think about eating normally once we've lost weight There's a link in the bio if you want to learn more check it out

Speaker 2: What I love Michael, but hey man that fucking the voiceover the captions. It's like missing all these words

Speaker 0: I know that was weird.

Speaker 2: There's the worst like transcription ever

Speaker 1: it's doing it for free like if you had to pay someone to that

Speaker 2: well pay for it

Speaker 0: Cuz what is this

Speaker 2: you're cutting off all these words

Speaker 1: like what's the purpose of having it so you can read it if you can't read It like It's like if you're not listening to him and you're reading that you're like, what is he saying? There's like he's missing like key words. It's also better than not having it

Speaker 2: incorrect

Speaker 1: What's just him making it sitting in

Speaker 2: tax of weight loss were vote. What does that mean? I'm guys behavior so for 1 They binge a 1 let's say and then it gets to this other 1 see here And he had to go to the hospital for eatings eating what yeah, and all of them were eating significantly What then when they started

Speaker 0: what what you can't hear?

Speaker 1: It's better than not having it.

Speaker 2: You're out of your

Speaker 0: mind. No.

Speaker 3: You're out

Speaker 2: of your mind. No,

Speaker 3: it's

Speaker 2: better to not have it than to have it where you can't fucking read it because there's a bunch of words missing.

Speaker 1: Well, have you ever watched captions normally? They are about, you know.

Speaker 2: Not that good. Not even that accurate. Or not that bad, right? That's pretty bad. Whatever program he's using, that program sucks.

Maybe he didn't know Yeah,

Speaker 0: it's probably just like a built-in, but interesting study that bad

Speaker 2: Yeah, very interesting.

Speaker 0: That's a Dude, that's the it's so true every fighter will sit here and say the same thing After a fight if you'd cut a lot of weight, and you make weight, and then I mean even for me I still eat really clean leading up to the fight, but dude I see fighters at the fucking breakfast buffet eating paint like eating shitty fight day cuz they made way or after the after weigh-ins that night They're eating shitty I keep it clean all until after the fight and after the fight I let loose a little bit, but this has been the best I've done so usually because for me bread cheese Causes inflammation like I work with a nutritionist Dan Garner We do he's working on a Really really cool protocol right now a concussion protocol for me. He's done 10 plus labs for me. I've been working with him for like 5 years He has a ton of that on me, but we do a bunch of like right now We'll be in he's making a protocol for me outside of camp to Eat so he has all my all my data, but I've been doing a really good job Not overeating this each time it gets a little bit better, and it's just it's a knowledge thing in a discipline thing

Speaker 2: Does he meal prep for you so he makes you

Speaker 0: he he lives in Canada. He writes it out. I have a meal prep company in Arizona all organics that makes my food. Oh, that's great the entire fight camp

Speaker 2: so they give you the exact portions that portion Oh, that's great

Speaker 0: Changed the game. Oh, yeah, no think about it right. I don't really cook Danny cooked she would you know full-time mom, and she does hair for a living so she'd work a couple days a week Besides of the other the recharge center in Arizona. They fucking it changed the game.

Speaker 2: That's amazing Yeah,

Speaker 0: but this this 1 I mean I got out of this camp or out of that fight, and I was like I'm ready to go. I want to fucking get back to the gym I know how hard of a fight Henry is, how hard of a fight Aljo is, how hard of a fight anybody in the top 5 is. I need to get back to the gym. So I've been really a lot more disciplined. I think it's been a month now since the fight, but not eating as much cheese and or eating as much bread if I go out go out to eat Just because I know that fucking causes inflammation in my body And I know that's gonna make take a little bit longer to get back to training or if I am training And I eat you know too much cheese And bread it's gonna cause that inflammation risk an injury or just be fucking more sore than I need to be But yeah eating disorder from cutting weight is a real fucking problem.

Speaker 2: It's a real thing right

Speaker 0: I If I fought at my natural weight class I'd fight at 155 If I didn't cut weight and walk around 58 59 whatever I'd fight at 155 There's no fucking chance that I'm gonna say you know what I'm just gonna do that. I'm gonna fight Justin Gaiji I'm gonna fight Charlie like there's no way I could go fight at 145. I believe and be successful I'm not a tiny 35 or those guys would still even be a little bit bigger, but cutting the 45 I wouldn't cut into 35 fucking hard you feel like you're dying your heart is pounding You're laying in bed,

Speaker 2: which kind of are dying

Speaker 0: you a hundred percent are dying like I talked to my body I have to tell it like hey You know what we're going what we're doing fight week like we're gonna start You know cutting cutting weight, and I thought I try to tell myself like we know we're not gonna actually die, we're gonna feel like that or whatever, but I could cut to 45, it'd be a lot easier. Obviously 55 would be the easiest, but I wish more guys would but then again like Aljo he weighs how much right now?

Speaker 2: I don't

Speaker 0: know 160 to 170. How about Davidson?

Speaker 2: Davidson Figueredo?

Speaker 0: I wonder if he goes at 35. Oh, he's fighting. He's fighting. 25

Speaker 2: again He's gonna do it again He said he was mad at me for saying that I didn't think he's gonna be at 25 again But

Speaker 0: he's sure he's

Speaker 2: talked about that.

Speaker 1: He's stacked

Speaker 0: is he I've never really been around him

Speaker 2: guy He's thick

Speaker 0: but when you're a certain height I feel like you have like you have to but then again look at Henry He's fucking 5'3, and he's fucking doing it. Yeah, so I guess it depends on how thick you

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