Mike Israetel

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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth · 2595: Mike Israetel Unplugged (Explicit Content) · 12 May 2025 podcast

Like you're not trying to go out of your way on your way to work. You're trying to cut with your car the fastest route. But if you understand that all of the routes are blocked except for the difficult. And going down the difficult route is how you're going to get in shape.

And then after that, you can back up to a maintenance lifestyle, live your best life, have your mimosas, dip your fucking salmon in whatever bullshit fat that you want and still have that look, which is going to take 12 weeks of low key, some fucking effort and some restriction. You either buy it, you take the red pill and you do the shit. Or you don't.

And if you don't, you can just be like you were five years ago and like you're going to be in five. Same shape you were in, making fucking bullshit excuses every time you meet a fit person. Dope. That's cool. I don't care. I think you look great either way. But you give a shit. So it's time for you to step up and do the shit or not. So well said.

Fuck. Yeah. Right. How long do you have? Uh, one is a meal frequency. I used to think that if you weren't eating every two hours, you're just an idiot. And that eating four meals a day was not the way to get jacked. Like about 800 studies later. And my own experience and tons of bodybuilders is like, Oh, actually, if you eat four times a day, you're almost certainly covering all of your bases.

That is a huge one. Um, Another one is the if it fits your macros thing is something that works really well on paper. Like if you just combine whatever foods you need and get your macros, you're good to go. But it turns out that eating mostly healthy foods, like kind of traditional bodybuilding clean foods, is such a huge energy leveler. And a huge reducer and controller of appetite.

Like if you have to eat a fuckload of broccoli and kale and a bunch of chicken and brown rice, you're just not like, you're not going to overeat that. Yeah. Good luck getting fat on that. 100%. No one's doing it. And so the idea that I can have potato chips and still succeed in my diet is cool.

And if you ignore the temptation of junk food to eat more of it and you ignore the hunger signaling part, it works. But the hunger signaling and that shit is real. And so... As I've been, when I matured more in the industry, I realized, you know, there is a reason that bodybuilders eat like they do.

And maybe we should all be eating a little bit healthier with more protein, more veggies and stuff like that. Even though it's not sexy, it's not super convenient. Sometimes if it's your macros, great. When you're in maintenance, when you're in bulk, and it's awesome when you're like, oh, fuck, I have to get some food in me somehow. Let me just do macros. That's cool.

But as far as like a sustainable thing that really causes change, eating meals that are high in veggies and fruits, whole grains, lean meats, healthy fats, all that bodybuilder shit. it really does produce results. And it's not a thing I want to admit. I wish we could just protein shake and Snickers bar our way into better physiques.

But unless you're fucking slamming a ton of semaglutide or something, it's much easier said than done.

Krispy Kreme.

Tons, yeah. It just, in many people, causes a reduction in want. generally, it fills that hole. It quiets not just food noise, but desire noise. And it's not a guaranteed thing. It doesn't happen for everyone to the same extent, but it is a meaningful, meaningful effect. And so people will quit smoking by accident. They'll reduce or quit drinking by accident. Another thing is...

these drugs are insanely powerful systemic anti-inflammatory drugs and that is incredibly beneficial for almost every aspect of health another really great part of these drugs is indirectly foods that are very processed they're very tasty that are very high in calories and fat in a very dense package and

tend to gel very poorly with these drugs because if you dump a fuckload of calories really fast in your stomach and you're on these drugs, you get sick because your gastric emptying rate is really slow. The food ends up sitting there and your body's like, that's not supposed to be sitting in there. I'm going to make you feel like you need to throw it up. And so it turns out that

Whole foods, foods that are pretty filling, and healthy foods just feel way better on these drugs than the alternative. And so it's kind of the softer nudging effect to gay to eat better. So a lot of people, you know, personal trainers and fitness industry people often have a lot of feelings about these drugs because – They just have a lot of feelings about a lot of stuff.

And so, like, this drug's a fucking cop out, man. You got to earn this shit. I'm like, why do you have to earn it? You didn't design a microchip, but you use it every day on your cell phone, you hypocrite asshole. But that shit aside is they'll be like, people could just eat junk and fucking still lose weight. I'm like, first of all, what's wrong with that?

Second of all, they can't because most people will figure out that. They really can't tolerate junk nearly as much. They feel worse eating junk than before. There was that drug back in the day called Tantix or whatever. It was like a smoking cessation drug. And if you tried smoking on it, you felt fucking incredibly awful and sick. And you're like, fuck that. That doesn't work anymore.

So the low key, some of these drugs do that for food. And so they actually encourage a healthy lifestyle. They're crazy systemic anti-inflammatories. They improve your blood glucose control independent of weight loss. They improve your blood lipids independent of weight loss. There's tons of other benefits of them.

They really are like kind of not panaceas, but like just ubiquitously really awesome for your health. And. A lot of people have a problem with that because they exhibit what's called the naturalistic fallacy, the argument for nature, that anything that is natural is good and anything that is artificial is bad. And it's just not true.

There are some natural things that are amazing, whole foods, good clean water. That stuff is fucking dope, sunshine and shit, children's laughter, all that bullshit. That's awesome. But then there's artificial shit that… there's natural shit that's bad for you. You know, you don't see like a bear out in the wild and you're like, it's natural. It's fine, honey. Like, fuck that. Like, don't do that.

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