UNSHRINKABLE

In honour of World Ob*sity Day, Asher talks about how are bodies aren't meant to shrink and how much easier it is to take up space once we've come to this realisation. You can learn about Asher's new course Unshrinkable here. 

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Welcome to episode 9. It's been a while since I've recorded a podcast, cause I was kind of a ahead of myself for a change.

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So it's good to be back. And if you're watching on YouTube, then you are going to see me do a lot of eye rolling and a lot of quotation marks.

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If you're listening to the podcast you're going to hear the word obesity trigger warning for that word a lot today that's because I am going to be talking about world obesity day.

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So I know what is triggering, but I want to know even if you can't see me that I'm doing a lot of eye rolling.

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And a lot of quotation marks here because as you know I do not like that word. So let's get into it.

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Well. Monday? It's Wednesday night on Monday was World Obesity Day and if you follow me on social media you will know I had a lot to say about that.

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Oh, other busy day. What first of all, why do we have a day? Celebrating obesity.

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I mean, I'm awful celebrating being fat. But but that's not what this day is about.

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The origin story. Well, as much as I can, as much as I can tell the origin story about World War II day is it was started by the World Obesity Federation.

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And if you're a tricky like me, like Federation has very positive connotations and these people ruined it for positive connotations and these people ruined it for me.

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So I just want to point out right from the start. But the Federation, I think it's a, yeah, UK-based organization, actually the Federation.

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There are lots of obesity charities out there. And when I say charities, it's an odd thing because to me charity means helping people.

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And helping individuals. Trying to find a way to make their lives better to improve their lives in some way, you know, whether it's providing food or clean water or you know looking after animals or whatever it is charities generally.

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Have people all. animals, people are they, well, you know what I mean?

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They have, they have individuals, communities at heart. That's what they're there for they have individuals communities at heart that's what they're therefore to serve communities.

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They You're BBC Charities are not there to, so community. I mean, they, they pretend to, obviously, but they don't do anything good for people.

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So not sure how. They can possibly claim that. Yeah, if you go to world obesity day.org, I think it's or, or whatever.

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It's a very fancy website. I'm not that fancy, actually. They could have put more effort into the website.

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The amount of money they make, you'd think they'd spend a bit more money on the website, but they didn't.

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They don't need to because it's a bit of like a It's it's not it's not really air As I said, it's not really a charity that's helping people.

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So I doubt that many people access their website. And if you look at it, there's all sorts of fact sheets and this and there and join our community and there's a special place for young people because yeah young fat people are gonna go and wanna join a World Obesity Federation.

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Website, whatever. I have teenagers that doesn't sound like something they would do. But Yes, they claim to be reshaping the story of obesity.

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I don't know if that's the federations website or whether it's the World of Waste today but they're linked basically the 2 are linked together.

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Reshaping the story. Mmm, already. That has some red flags. Because yet they have been reshaping the story for a very long time.

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Whether or not his group existed that far back. I couldn't tell you, don't know how long it existed, but there have always been.

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Quick charities, organizations that have been trying to shape, not reshape, shape the story. They, and they created it in the first place.

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So of course They wish to control the narrative and they wish to control the shape of the story. And When you look at the World Obesity Federation, if you look at the website and you go, I didn't spend too much time on it because that the kids.

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But, I did spend some time there and when you look They, they're 3 things.

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That they in them involved in their mission. Their mission involves 3 things. The first is better food systems.

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Better food systems because as we all know We are fat because of the food we eat, right? You'll know that by now, surely you've been paying attention.

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You will eat too much and don't exercise enough. I say you, not me, I'm I'm the exception to the rule.

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You know, it's all about the junk food that you're eating. Yeah, the fried food, the roasts, the ultra prewriting process anyways, ultra process now.

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It's ultra processed feed. That's what's all about folks. Such an interesting thing.

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I mean, there has to be in every story. Because they're reshaping the story, remember?

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So in every story there has to be a villain and the villain. Is food. Certain types of food especially.

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A lot of people benefit from that narrative actually in the food industry because they charge, there's an entire industry now that's dedicated to the healthy food.

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And oftentimes it's more expensive, right? The process or the ultra process stuff is the cheap stuff which we demonize and then the the healthy clean food costs 3 times as much.

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So the food industry is benefiting from this, don't for 1 s think they're not.

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It's just that they're also the villain in the story they need to be because every story needs a village.

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And of course fat people are the real villains, but it's fat greedy people and then the narrative at the moment is to stop shaming and blaming fat people.

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That's part of reshaping story. I'll talk about that later.

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This, excuse me, I've got a bit of a running, I've got a bit sniffles and I've got a bit of a cough today which is not great but there you go I didn't even bring my water.

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I did not prepare. So the second thing that they are all about this federation. Second time of course now, sorry, is improving health systems.

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Now this to me is a fucking joke. Improving health systems. Translation. Making weight loss.

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Financially beneficial to as many people as possible. And penalizing and oppressing fat people. That's what they mean by improving health systems.

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Under no circumstances are they interested in improving access to health care for fat people. Quite the opposite. They want to sell us weight loss.

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So the only health system they're trying to improve is the weight loss lost component of the health system.

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They're not doing anything else. And then of course my favorites tackling childhood obesity because for of the children.

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Do you remember that I was in? I mean it's definitely something in the Simpsons when Who is it?

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Maud, I think. Maud Flanders or one of one of the Christians always clutches her pills and says, think of the children and this is you know again part of every story.

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You've got your villains. You've got your heroes or champions who are trying to improve the health system.

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And then there are like the victims and the story, the people we most were supposed to most feel sorry about.

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And that's usually children animals or like vulnerable people. So, yeah, they've picked children.

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I'm, they are moving in on animals to be fair, but there's not much money to be made.

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But yes, it's children tackling childhood abuse. All they've managed to do in the last 30 years is make more people, more children fat and that's because they're putting them on diets younger and younger and younger.

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They have not succeeded in tackling anything. They're just making it worse But you know, like I said, every story needs a victim and children are the victims.

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And of course their fat parents Once again, are the villains. The fat parents that buy them. Ultra processed foods and junk food and convenience food because of course that's what makes them fat.

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And for those of you who don't get my sarcastic ways, I'm being super sarcastic right now.

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I do not believe any of that shit. Okay, children. Do not they do not need tackling. We are not at war.

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We are not in a crisis or an epidemic. We need to leave children the fuck alone. There's nothing wrong with process for you.

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There's nothing wrong with ultra processed food. It's not a real thing, but if it was, there's still be nothing wrong with it.

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You're not fat because of what you eat. That is ridiculous. And, you know.

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The rest is all bullshit too.

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Sometimes I deal with things. Piss me off with sarcasm. So anyway, the World Obesity Federation, absolute cox.

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I wanted to look up who their corporate sponsors are because they do have corporate sponsors, but there's a big thing in the UK at the moment and you can tell from their website.

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They're being very careful. About who sponsors them and admitting who sponsored them so much so that it's coming soon to their website that it's not there anymore.

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And that's because this organization is a charity in the UK and the UK has very strong rules and recently the ABPI, which is the pharmaceutical industry's kind of regulatory rules and recently the ABPI which is the pharmaceutical industries kind of regulatory body.

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Have had some very strong words with Nova Nordis and have expelled them basically for 2 years or suspended them for 2 years.

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Because of the dodgy dealings and so you can tell this website and this organization are now like hoo, we can't we can't machine to be working with them.

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So NOVO is not sponsoring World Obesity Day this year, 2,004 or didn't.

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Gone now, forget. But Lilia's, Lily, who are the other weight loss drug manufacturers and there's a reason Novo isn't and that's all to do with the drama that's gone but lots of other drug companies have sponsored it and they have no problems accepting money from drug companies they just won't accept money from food, the food industry.

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Because they're the villains, so they can't take money from the food industry, but for the drug companies are fine.

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Let a joke. So yeah, let's just say, World Obesity Day. It really pisses me off.

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And really boils my piss. Yes. And so. As you know, or if you're funny around social, as you know, I sort of came up with the, with my version of, it's not an antidote, that's not the way I'm looking for.

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A counter protest almost. Which was unshrinkable. I really, really love the name and shrink but I also love the pictures.

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I don't know if you've seen My website, yeah, and if you've had a look, please do.

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Go to that dot.dot.uk slash, that's less unshrinkable. And there's the pictures that I created with flat superheroes which I'm just totally and utterly in love with.

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So yeah, if nothing else, the imagery alone makes me so happy. But yeah, we are unshrinkable folks.

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I genuinely genuinely believe that and I'm not saying that because it's wishful thinking I'm not saying that because you know it just helps my narrative.

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I'm saying that because I've done a ship kind of research into this. And the I'm convinced.

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We are unshrinkable. And there's lots of reasons why I'm convinced that we're unshrinkable.

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Our bodies are not meant to shrink. We know this because Over the last 100 years we've been doing study after study looking at intentional weight loss and so far They've all been unsuccessful.

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And I suppose it depends on how you measure success. Some people have managed to lose weight. In the first 3 months, 6 months a year, of course.

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In fact, most people lose weight in the first few months. How much weight is different? Once part time, people like, yeah, let's try and get to 20%.

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They soon realize that was almost impossible. Then they went to 10% and they realized that wasn't possible.

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Then they went to 5%. They realized that wasn't possible. Nowadays, 5% is the goal for many of these papers.

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Oftentimes the results are more like 2 to 3%. So if you look at, for example, the samagatized trials, the we goVI trials.

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They had 2, arms, right? So one was the Wi-Fi, but the other one was just to diet and exercise arm.

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So that was just people who are on a 500 calorie deficit. Plus 150 min of exercise a day plus counselling, weight loss, counselling, weight loss.

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Yeah, weight loss weight management type stuff, right? So speaking to a weight management professional on a regular basis, everybody in the trial was doing this was following this for a year.

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So, okay, forget the Wikovi arm. Look at the control arm that were just doing this.

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They were getting placebo injections so they would have thought that they were on you know the path to weight loss they thought they were talking about taking a weight loss drug.

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Perfect conditions for weight loss if you ask me, according to every kind of health organization out there. They'll tell you 500 calorie deficit.

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Ask regular exercise plus weight management. That's the ideal conditions for weight loss. Yeah, look at how successful they were.

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They managed about 3%. 4% and they started regaining almost straightaway.

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So it doesn't work. And I mean, that's not the only study. Every study shows that.

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5%. Oh yes, if you go to for bariatric surgery, if you go for these new weight loss drugs, it's more than 5% but It's not really impressive.

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All that hard work for a year can imagine starving yourself for exercising for a year and managing 3% of your body weight.

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I mean that's as some people point out, I could do a really big shit and manage a few pounds.

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So Yeah. My point is it's not Easy and it's not really possible and and even if you do manage to lose the weight you manage to gain it again, you manage to gain it again, you will start regaining.

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And again, this is even if you've had bariatric surgery, you manage to gain it again, you will start regaining.

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And again, this is even if you've had bariatric surgery, even if You will start regaining weight.

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You reach the peak of weight loss, which is called the Nadia, the Nader, the nadir, however you want to say it's built NAD I.

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When you hit that peak, you will start regaining again. And people are like, yeah, yeah, yeah, but then you go into weight and then you go into maintenance, the maintenance phase.

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There's no such thing. There's no such thing. I mean, there's a podcast dedicated to this.

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There is no such thing as a maintenance phase. You start regaining and you keep on regaining and the studies show that almost everyone will have regained all the weight back within 5 years and in fact up to 2 thirds of people will end up heavier.

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Within those 5 years. So it's just unsustainable, it doesn't work. We are unshrinkable.

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But even if you were one of the, 2, 3% or whatever the percentage are, that was able to lose weight.

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And maintain it. Or even if you're like, okay, it's gonna be unsustainable, but At least I'll have a year of it or 2 years of it or if I do bariatric surgery, maybe even a few years of being smaller.

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Not necessarily small, not necessarily thin because don't forget a lot of people will lose 10% of their body weight, 15% of their body weight, whatever it is.

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And still be in thee. Obese category again, big. Quotation marks there and eyebrows.

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Obese category. So you're not necessarily going to become thin, but you'll become thinner.

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So you might say, all right, well, okay, it's not sustainable forever, but it's sustainable for some time and surely that's good for you.

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Well, no, not really. I'm yet to find a paper that shows that weight loss is effective.

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In improving long-term health outcomes. I can find tons of papers that show, your blood pressure will come down a little bit or your liver function will come down a little bit or you'll cholesterol can I mean you know sure So, in the first year, no problem.

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I believe you. Long term, doesn't have any Real her real life in partner. It doesn't.

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I mean, find me, so, me a study that shows it does. You won't. I've looked for them.

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No alcoholic fatty liver disease, high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease, cancer, you name it.

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And some recurrence. Anything you could possibly imagine, arthritis of the hip and of the knee.

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Any any condition Idiopathic Integrated or Hypertension or it's going to I'm just going to go off on one now.

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Lipidema. Any musculoskeletal condition, diabetes, pre-diabetes, pre-breed IBCs, pre-PP, pre-diabetes, listen.

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There is no evidence that weight loss is going to impact outcomes in the long term. I'm not talking about measures of success because we can measure the success of weight loss in many ways.

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Most studies measure success by measuring how much weight people lose. Some studies will go and measure success by looking at things like I said blood pressure cholesterol liver function whatever they'll let you some other marker But when you're actually looking at health outcomes In other words, Is this going to stop me from getting sick?

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Or dying or getting sicker? Whatever, then no, just no, there's just no evidence.

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It doesn't exist. So, even if you did lose a ton of weight, it wouldn't improve your health.

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Now, it would improve the way that people treated you. There's no doubt about that until you started regaining weight again and then you're back to you know square one Maybe you take 2 steps forward and 4 steps back because sometimes losing the approval and losing the goodwill and losing the you know, the kind of Acceptance into society.

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Sometimes that's harder than not having inf first place, but that's a conversation for another time.

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It's unsustainable, it's ineffective.

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And also by the way folks is highly dangerous. Did you know that intentional weight loss has lots of risks associated with it?

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I can talk about short-term side effects, I could talk about short-term risk, long-term risk, psychological ones, physical ones, we could talk about weight cycling, the impact on the body.

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I mean, I could go on and on and on. Just if you want to know the impact. Of reducing your calorie intake.

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Look no further than the Minnesota semi starvation experiment. This is almost, it's not quite a hundred.

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It was 80 years old. What I mean have we not learned anything? The Minnesota semi starvation experiment showed.

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That people who drop their calories by half for a period of 6 months. Became really unwell. Not only do they lose a ton of weight.

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Because in the first 6 months people, you know, almost always do. But they were deeply unhappy.

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They had several physical physiological problems talking about resting heart rate, metabolic rate, all sorts of things went down, mood, cognition, everything was impacted.

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They became obsessed and preoccupied with food, which we know happens every time you restrict yourself.

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It becomes an obsession. Restrict yourself for a week, you're okay. 6 weeks maybe you can handle it but you go longer than that and you become obsessed with food.

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Bird obsession is definitely a risk for eating disorders. S dieting. By the way, any form of dieting risk for an eating disorder.

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Has a massive impact. In your, on your serotonin levels, on your dopamine levels.

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On any of your on your oxytocin levels any of your happy chemicals in your brain so you're going to be low It actually impacts.

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Your memory and your concentration especially low carbs. Massively impact your memory and concentrations. You become slower, less effective.

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When you go to work, I mean, how many of us have been to work on a diet? I have.

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I worked through fucking kovat. On a strict calorie-controlled diet.

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And it was just like it was so hard to just do my job. It was it was mentally and physically exhausting.

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I was losing a ton of weight. Everyone was like, oh, it's okay. But it didn't stop kind of the.

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Oh, the impact on my well-being. And it drove me to despair literally into a bout of severe depression.

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And then long term, weight cycling. My goodness. There are studies now that are showing that the long-term consequences of intentional weight loss are far worse.

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And the short-term benefits. Come on, Netflix. It's unsustainable for almost everyone.

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It is ineffective when it comes to our health. And it is harmful. And last but not least, I want to point out that it is really unfair and unjust.

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For lots of reasons. But the main one being that fat people are being punished for being fat. As if we have some control over this.

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As if we made ourselves fat. Cause that's what the world believes, right? That's what world the World Obesity Federation believes.

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It's all about the food and some will say the lack of exercise but mainly the food. They think we're lazy and we lack real power and we You know, we're just lesser beings.

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Lesser mortals. If you will. And so they blame us and then they punish us.

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They say you can't have this until you lose way. You can't have this operation. You can't have this medication.

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You can't have this investigation. That's completely and utterly unfair. We're being blamed for something that isn't our fault.

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We're unshrinkable. That's what we are, we are unshankable.

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Our bodies are not designed to shrink. Every time you try to shrink your body, You pay a price.

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And those of us who have tried to shin for up shrink our bodies regularly like myself. Have paid that price.

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I've paid that price over and over and over again.

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And there's nothing we can do about that. That's, I mean, it's in the past, it's done, we can't reverse it.

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But there's something massively liberating. About recognizing that you were unshrinkable. Once you recognize that you are unshrinkable, you begin to take up space.

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Space that you didn't think you had the right to take up. Until that moment. When you are blaming yourself.

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When you're thinking to yourself, if only I was smaller, this wouldn't have happened to me if I wasn't as big.

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I wouldn't have got this diagnosis. You know, I would be able to move better. I would be more flexible.

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I would, I would, I don't know, whenever you're telling yourself these stories you're telling yourself, if only I was smaller, if only I could shrink.

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Tony I wasn't this big in the first place. Then it's really difficult to take up space.

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It's very difficult to take up space in your in life in general and definitely in your in the medical consultation in your health care journey.

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And that's not fair. Just not fair I don't know what else to say. Sucks.

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So I came up with this course, unshrinkable. It came almost like overnight honestly I was like it was, was prior to the full moon. I'm trying to think.

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Was the end of Aquarius season, beginning of PC season.

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I don't know what happened. I was just, I was a good place. I'd sort of, I was, I was just.

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I don't know. I was just thinking I'm not on a dog walk it started when I was out on a dog walk and the and the word came to me first unshrinkable.

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And then boom, it was like this course presented itself to me. Was like. I had it all, I had to come home at the way down really quickly so I didn't forget.

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At every single like thing planned out. When and I started, I had an, I even had it in my mind a vision of what I wanted the kind of, like you know the image the like the landing page or whatever whatever you want to call it I'm not good with all this technical stuff.

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But, I had an idea what I wanted to look like. Unapologetically fat people.

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In superhero cross teams. I don't know why but just like I just really liked this idea.

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So that that's the story. That's the story of World Obesity Day and that's the story of unshrinkable and that's the story of how It's my way of standing up to.

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These. Corporate monstrosities. Who are trying to ruin our lives. Yeah, I'm not I'm not naive.

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I don't think that I can change the world. That's certainly not, you know, overnight, but I can try and help people.

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To feel better about themselves and to take up space and I think You know, when you when you go on a course like this, yes, it's primarily Geared towards health because That's that's where that's where I That's where I operate.

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That's where I'm comfortable. That's the lane that I choose to stay in, but.

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As I said, when you begin to acknowledge and accept. That you are unshrinkable, it changes the way you see yourself and the way you behave.

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And the way you the way you operate. Everywhere in the workplace in at home with your friends with your family.

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When you really believe in your heart, you are on shrinkable. This course is going to give you resources.

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Some of you, you need the evidence, you need to see, okay, Some of you are thinking, but I think I'm the exception.

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Like a lot of people, a lot of people will say to me, yeah, okay, fine, what you're saying is fine.

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But what about if you're 600 pounds and they love 600 pounds and you'll know why 600 pounds is because of some stupid TV show program.

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So they'll all come up with this one number. Not 5, 7, 5, not 6, 1, 5, 600 pounds.

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What about your 600 pounds? The You know, they want an exception. They want me to say, well, these people are shrinkable.

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I'm not giving you I'm not doing that. I am not doing that. I am not making exceptions for people.

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I don't want you to do that either. I don't want you to see yourself as the exception to the rule.

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And some people need the evidence for that. Some people need to, you know, see. To be presented with the facts and I'm going to give you facts, lots of facts.

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Don't worry about that. But it's more than just facts. It's also, Well, it's also lift experience and it's also, I don't know.

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My take on things, I guess.

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So yeah. If you wanna, if you want to join, you can still sign up, I believe.

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I think you got, I'm trying to think when this comes out. Zephyr Z. 9.

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I'm doing maths. I think you've got a week and a half to book. I might be wrong.

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But I hope to see some of you there. Thank you all for listening. I hope that, you did something to celebrate to, to.

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Stick your, you know, 2 fingers up at. The world of East today and I hope you enjoyed this episode.

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I don't know if it's long or short or the right amount of time, but I think I've said everything I can to say.

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So I'll see you next week. Where I will be talking about. hang on, let me turn the page because I have it all planned.

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You see, sometimes I just write everything down. Oh, I will be, yes. I will be talking about all about doctors.

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And it's not what you think it is. It's not what you think it is. So definitely tune in.

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See them.