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I did before on YouTube in my late 20s mostly to show people that exercise is just as important as nutrition in weight loss and also because I used to excel in eating contests growing up.
One of them involved eating 30 McDonald's cheeseburgers in under 10 mins. It was only around 8000 calories but I was more about speed than maximum calories. If I took my time, I think I could have consumed 3 times that amount.
I think I can still do it these days but I'll feel a bit sick after.
My YouTube channel was called "Outrun Your Fork" to try to emphasize the importance of exercise. I really dislike people who say weight loss is 80% diet and 20% exercise. I wanted to show people that if we exercise a lot, we can eat whatever we want.
I didn't recommend for people to eat 30 McDs cheeseburgers though! I just did things like that weekly to prove a point. I recommended people eat whole foods and do try to work on the nutrition side of the equation as well, but not rely almost entirely on nutrition to lose weight.
I think people say 80% diet and 20% exercise are the ones who are wanting to take their training seriously, also not many people have the time to gym let alone burn off the calories they eat so to the people who can’t exercise much but want to eat whatever they want, they will gain weight. More often than not. There definitely are people out there that can hold that food. Personally I smell a bag of chips and gain weight… so personally I have to watch what I eat and work out. Both are important.
I wouldn’t recommend anyone eat 30 McDonald’s burgers either haha… that’s crazy. I think I’d finish two and feel stuffed! Think 5 and I’d be feeling sickk
The ones I see people doing these days over go over 15,000 calories. That's quite epic! I think I could do it. I'm up for the challenge if there's some sort of reward. 😅 These days I wouldn't want to do it for free though just for kicks since I know I'm going to feel bad after in my 40s even if I put it all away.
For me, it's just such a vague expression that's difficult to quantify. Yet I was following YouTubers' weight loss journeys and some of them were outright depressing, like there was this one girl who was trying to eat 1200 calories/day. Yet she would go over her target on a party and then to try to make up for it, avoiding eating for entire days, then go over again, then fast for the next entire day but then she ended up drinking a whole bottle of wine on an empty stomach, feel guilty and not eat the next day, etc.
So I think I might have overcompensated but seeing people like that made me want to suggest to people to relax the nutritional side of things a bit and try to train but with the goal of progressing each day/week/month, like working from casual walks to speed-walking to jogging to sprint intervals to sprint intervals up and down hills/stairs to sprint intervals up and down hills/stairs with weighted vests added to our bodies.
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Don't act like you can out exercise everything you eat no matter what it is. Hypothetical if you were to eat ramen ( cheap packaged one with powdered flavor packet), deep fried (candy bars, swiss rolls, oreos, hotdogs, bacon etc), cotton candy etc. Then to drink it's either alcohol (beer, vodka, scotch, whiskey etc) or pop with over 50g of added sugar. Then after 6 months lets seehere where the numbers are (LDL, HDL Triglycerides, A1C) lets also see if you are deficient in any nutrients. Lets see how your organs are functioning. Do you think you could out exercise that? You won't. I know its an extreme example.
@MysteriousDarkness I did something like that back then but it wasn't for the best. I was training around 4-6 hours/day back then going through around 12-packs of sodas a day, fast food for lunch, couple large pizzas for dinner, etc, since the time I was in my teens. I did it for around 30 years and then I had to take it easy. It would have been better if I ate healthier foods for sure.
Mostly the focus of my channel was targeted towards people aiming for caloric targets like 1200kcal/day. It wasn't focused so much on what we ate but the caloric input. Often I think too many focus entirely on the input side of the equation without focusing on output.
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What do you mean by focusing on input and not output?
@MysteriousDarkness An extreme example is someone going on 30-day water fasts, e. g., expecting the caloric output to remain constant.
Most people don’t have much time to work out. An hour is what a lot of people spend at the gym. I can’t burn off 1000 cal in an hour on the treadmill 😅 I think for the majority of people the 80/20 would be more realistic and work. My dad used to eat like a pig, eat so much and then would say but he can easily burn it off at the gym or on a walk. He never went to the gym and the walks he’d do were like 17 minute ones with no hardship so not much is burnt there. If you eat like crap and work out very little, the majority of people will gain weight unfortunately. If someone has a fast metabolism then yeah they’ll just stay the same or gain very little weight.
A problem I have is what does "20% exercise" mean? For example, since I'm a software dev, we have a very sedentary job that provides close to 0% exercise just sitting in front of a computer. So I've had 2 colleagues die already. One was in his 40s and he was an extremely skinny and pale vegan who died of a heart attack. He was one of those people always saying the 80/20 thing and I think at least he believed he followed it.
Also what does 80% nutrition mean? Like cut our calories down to 20% of what we eat, like if we're eating 3000 calories a day, reduced that to 600 calories a day? It's just a very strange idea to me that I think is very problematic because so many people in the weight loss community are failing left and right. Even among the few who succeed, I've encountered a paper suggesting that around 80% of the ones who successfully go from obese to normal weight regain all the weight back within a 2 year period.
So I think a litmus test that might be practical is if someone can jog a mile in 10 mins or less. That's actually just around average among noncompetitors. Really skilled runners can cover that mile in less than half the time. That shifts emphasis to a functional goal rather than a small number on a scale which isn't necessarily indicative of a very functional body. Someone could be really skinny and on the verge of a heart attack.
However little or much training someone needs to reach that goal, I think they're in decent shape once they reach it. Healthy nutrition also helps here to better reach that functional goal but someone who barely ever exercises can't reach it.
Also my channel didn't attract just overweight people. Actually at least the majority of the ones dropping comments were underweight and suffering from what appeared to be anorexia, or at least severe eating disorders. So I wanted to encourage those ones to consume more calories and not be afraid of gaining some weight as long as they're exercising and working towards an athletic goal. The way I see it is that nutrition without an athletic goal is like filling up a car tank with no plans to ever drive anywhere.
So I believe in 100% exercise and 100% nutrition and not see it like one should come at the cost to the other.
But also I see people with whom I suspect to have the 80/20 mindset talk about Japan. There are so many videos focusing on how Japan has the lowest obesity rates among developed nations and then they try to explain why. And they focus predominantly on what we eat here (and they don't even represent it accurately; Japanese consumes tons of fast food, love ice cream, alcohol, etc -- they conveniently skip all that).
What they rarely mention and if they do, just as a footnote, is that the average Japanese walks or cycles around 2 hours/day since we're not a big car culture so everyone just walks a lot to commute, to shop for groceries, etc.
That first person you brought up clearly doesn’t know what the 80/20 is nor did he practice it.
You can use the exact number 20% or 80% minus form your actual day… it’s also not meant to be a diet but a life style, a healthy one. Personally I weight train and gym for 2 hours a day and I eat clean, Monday-Friday. So I eat meats, eggs and veg and some fruit. The number on the scale hasn’t changed much because of my training.
Less calories doesn’t = no food. When I lost weight I consumed about 1200 cal and depending on what you eat, you can actually have full meals, it just takes researching what is full of calories and what is not. People are just too addicted to the bad stuff that they struggle to eat clean hence why they can only eat small amounts of high calorie crap which means they starve the rest of the day or they binge. I’ve been there.
The other 20% of your eating can be small treats here and there, rather than overindulging and it’s healthy.
80% of your results come from your eating.
If you eat healthy and work out a little, you’ll lose weight. I actually never ever went to the gym, starting my job was hard enough and I ate healthy majority of the time, some strawberry milkshakes in the weekend but I lost so much weight from doing that! It’s an easy way to lose weight.
If you ate like shit and work out you’ll either stay the same or gain weight slowly over time, you won’t burn off anything near to the numbers you eat. A medium chocolate milkshake is 364 calories… now imagine people eat up to like 2500+ calories a day… that’s why there’s so much obesity.
Now like I’ve said, there definitely are people out there that have fast metabolisms and they stay the same even if they eat crazy amounts of crap.
Don’t use the 80\20 numbers too seriously like “how do I minus 20% from my day or up something to 80%
If you don’t personally like the 80/20 lifestyle, you definitely don’t have to follow it but I wouldn’t shit on it in my opinion. It does work and is completely safe if the person does their research.
Eating ridiculously small amounts of high calorie foods is dumb.
The same thing for if you want to bulk and help with muscle growth, you need to be eating a lot of food- a clean bulk. You can workout all you’d like but you won’t see results or at least absolutely nothing near to what you’d want. You should see people doing dirty bulks vs clean bulks.
All the gym bros know you won’t see results in the gym if you eat like crap daily.
People can have different bodies so people can react differently to this of course. This is for a majority though.
For sure, but the problem is that I think most people don't really practice it. They interpret it the way they want. Like 2 hours/day of training might be too much for some people. That might be like "72% exercise" for them. They might only need 20 mins/day. Maybe that's "20%" for them.
With Japanese, the average young Japanese man eats over 2500 calories/day while being 21.5 BMI (5'7 and 138lbs). Here we don't have this 80/20 idea. We place equal focus and effort on exercise and nutrition and I think that works better.
I don’t think you understand how the 80/20 works… 80% of the time eat clean and work out which you don’t need to do excessively if you’re eating clean.
2 hours for me because I don’t follow the 80\20 since I’m weight training. Your average person goes for 45minutes to an hour at the gym. So my 2 hours at the gym can't be an example as I’m not trying to lose weight, I’m eating a fuckton of food in my day and I do intense workouts.
No one can say this is how much you need to eat exactly and this is how long you have to work out for. The 80% and 20% will look different for people because… and drum roll… ✨we all have different bodies and different goals✨
As for different countries, many countries don’t allow certain ingredients in foods like other countries may. For instance, Cadbury from New Zealand tastes different from it in the uk. This includes fast food places.
I’ve also seen a lot of people form the US say they eat like shit, takeouts all the time etc but they go over to Italy or really anywhere in Europe and they say they actually lost weight and skin has cleared up but they’ve eaten the same there too… major differences in the foods around the world. That along with walking around more, yeah they will lose weight.
I'm saying other people obviously don't understand how it works because it's failing most Americans.
>> The 80% and 20% will look different for people because… and drum roll…
Precisely, but then how can you say my vegan friend who died of a heart attack did it wrong? My channel at least offered a real way to set goals and measure progress without some extremely vague and subjective notion of 80/20. It's to iteratively work on exercising more and to eat better, to whittle away at excess both sedentary and food-wise. To focus on both reducing caloric input and increasing caloric output iteratively and always with room for further improvement.
Because the 80/20 doesn’t mean be unhealthy… like your friend who you said was extremely skinny and pale. That doesn’t sound healthy at all! 80/20 doesn’t support severely skinny pale people. Meat is so incredibly important… no disrespect but I’m not surprised he was so skinny and pale. I’ve seen vegans faces before and then after they start eating meat and they look fuller and more alive, more colour and just overall healthier.
80/20 isn’t vague though. It tells you what you need to do and you have to apply it to your life. You might as well say a calorie deficit is vague too because that too, you have to apply to your life which can look so differently for others, food and exercise wise. You might as well say the keto diet is vague too for the same reasons.
These ways of losing weight are simple, they will all look different for everyone. We all live different lives with different goals and different bodies. That’s not to say they aren’t efficient or good. They take time of looking at your life and planning, researching and then doing it.
The thing I'm looking for is a way to be able to tell people who are struggling with weight loss that they're doing it wrong in an objective and concrete way. It's hard to say with an 80/20 mindset when taking someone 300lbs who's doing keto and getting 5K steps/day and has plateaued whether they're overfocusing on nutrition or underfocusing on nutrition or overfocusing on exercise or underfocusing on exercise, you know?
If we just tell them to seek further improvements to both and to continually seek improvements to both until they reach their goal, we don't have to try to come up with an exact idea of what 80/20 exactly means to them with their precise bodies, goals, lifestyle, etc, to see if they're doing it right or wrong. There's often merit to a simpler idea that's easier to follow, especially for struggling people who lack a PT to guide them with a very specific plan.
People who are struggling to lose weight will never be honest about why. People who really want to lose weight, will and those that don’t want it as bad or are lazy, won’t.
I literally lost so much weight from eating better and some amounts of exercise which was mostly walking.
People have to track what they eat so you simply can’t tell a person why they aren’t losing weight. You aren’t there to track the three massive meals and snacks they eat in a day but expect to lose weight from excessive eating.
Losing weight and following these guidelines are actually so simple. People just struggle to let go of eating bad, sugar and processed foods are a real addiction.
I think some people might not be aware of just how much calories they can add to a meal just through condiments like a calorie-dense ranch dressing, or using too much oil in cooking, etc. I always want to err on the side that they're at least trying to be honest about it. At least they seem to be making a genuine effort recording these weight loss journeys.
If you search for "weight loss journey" on YouTube and especially sort by upload date which will show you the most amateurish attempts, it's really depressing to me. You see so many people who seem so good-hearted and kind but seriously obese and they almost never succeed. I used to follow them for years and most just tended stay roughly the same, maybe slight improvement.
But one of the most depressing things to me is that I see a lot of those people cry after they binge at their own Birthday party, for example, and they think they've erased weeks or months of effort because they gained 10lbs in what was most likely predominantly water weight.
So one of the reasons I did the Mukbangs on my channel is that I wanted to encourage people to relax, take it easy, not so easy that they are binging all the time but to show them as living proof that even a binge a week isn't going to destroy our progress. There's like a balance in psychology where we want to be able to bounce back from failures and not lose to despair and quit, but also not get too used to failures as well. I tried my best to encourage that kind of mindset like, "Take it easy, don't sweat it, but just try not to do it again. Each new day is a chance to do better than yesterday."
But I really just want to find something that will work better on more people. The 80/20 mindset doesn't seem to be working on enough people in my estimate. It definitely works for some as you can attest, but I want to find a mindset that can work for even more that's easy to teach in generalized form and easy to follow.
I think a lot of the people who genuinely seem to struggle most with those weight loss journeys (the worst-case scenario) also tend to be too specific. They're like, "I'm doing keto/atkins/paleo/HCLF/etc [insert fad diet here] and walk 10K steps/day". Then they start to despair when they're having a very hard time sticking to it and also not seeing the results they wanted.
So I had a way more pragmatic approach.
Overweight Person: How much exercise should I do?
Me: More (doesn't necessarily mean longer) than you were doing before.
Overweight Person: How much better should my nutrition be?
Me: Better than you were consuming before.
When the person makes progress and comes back to me and asks me the same question, I give the same answer. It's a very simple system.
But I'm also opposed to the advice of fitness models and gym bros for very ordinary people who are struggling, because the problem isn't prescribing a technique that works but a technique they'll faithfully follow. Of course we can just tell people to eat and train like Usain Bolt and if they actually did, they'd start to resemble an Olympic world champion. Yet most people lack the discipline and willpower to do it.
So for me it's all about seeking the easiest-to-follow ways, not the ways for optimal results but the ways that are easiest for the people who most struggle to follow such things to follow and continually follow for sustainable results.
Oh hell yeah, I did a pizza one once, it was fun
💀 sometimes I wish I could be full after 2 soft tacos. Barely anything touches the sides these days for me
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Probably not. But mukbang is also fetishy content, so not always just eating food but making noises most people wouldn't make while eating food. I have thought of before of eating food on a camera as a way to make money, but after seeing what it does to some people, I'm glad I never did. I wouldn't mind being a person who just loves food and stuff related to it though. Maybe not as a mukbang or ASMR thing though.
No way! I can’t eat that much! don’t eat fast food much, but when I do my limit is like a quarter pounder, whopper, or 1/4 single and fries. I’m more likely to order a Wendy’s jr. cheeseburger and small fries, a chick-fil-a sandwich with small waffle fries and skinny lemonade or Raisin’ Canes 2 finger snacker combo.
Yes easily once I start eating I don't stop, which is why I monitor strictly what I eat everyday and my portions.
everyone is always shocked at the amount of what I eat since i'm so thin to them.
I wouldn't be able to finish the first hamburger. 😂
No. Don't get me wrong. I like junk food. There are days that I only consume junk food. However, I can only eat small amounts.
With pizza being the only exception.
Let me start by saying, I have only had one Big Mac before, and it had a slither of plastic inside the meat. I wouldn't eat at MacDonalds again whether there was a camera around or not!
Never, I have a sleek body and low food requirement I can't even finish a full plate if I am eating solo I have to divide the meals in 2 parts both lunch and dinner I would never be able to eat that much
u Disgusting! On every level I can imagine. Food for me has to have quality, not quantity that I shovel around like unearthed dirt.
u my record for how many tacos... was 56
and I was second place... lol
Oh, I can definitely do it, but it would be much more exciting to watch a woman do that;)
I would if it was a tiny portion. I think it's a waste of food and kinda gross when people do mukbangs with 10 burgers, loads of fries or five boxes of pizza and five desserts.
No, I rarely eat. I wouldn't eat at all if it was possible.
Mukbangs to me are disgusting because it is extreme gluttony. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you always should.
No, I'd burst like Nikocado or whatever his name is
Could i eat a lot of food? Sure. Would I film it? Probably not. Unless in an ironic way
Never! I don't eat much normally. It makes me feel sick just thinking about eat that much. Eww!!
I'd say Yes Totally only to get my hands on free delicious food.
"able to": sure. "willing to": fuck no xD
Of i was really hungry maximum one burger 🍔 whit frais
Yes I can is there a time limit I can do it with an hour and a half or less
Nope, i like to enjoy my meal without being watched and i'm not a whale to swallow tons of food 😂
I would gladly do it haha.. I love delicious food.
Sure if I'm protein loading I can eat a dozen eggs but once I ate 40 McDonald's nuggets
Heck no! That's too much food in one sitting.
No. I don't even understand why someone would want to do that.
Not even close to that much food could I eat.
Make it waffles. I would be all over it.
At one time, maybe, but not now at 70.
Surely not I am nto much of an eater
The hell nooooo
I'm not sure about sharing my girls
nah not interested
No fucking way.
Nope
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