Mike Israetel
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1,094 appearances
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5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
Mike Israetel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, like can you imagine looking at like, you know, the, the outcast golf teen at school and is not doing his homework. And someone's like, you know, if we just hated him more and really let him know, he'd really fix his ways. I mean, I just don't think reality works that way. What you want to do. Cause you're ultimately your number one teammate is love yourself in a way.
That's not like, you know, weird Hollywood dystopian, like self-love where you just stay in a mirror for forever with those wide cult eyes, but love yourself in a way like, look, I'm on my own team. I want to live in a better body. It's a mechanics problem. How do I get the body that I want?
So we have things right now that are easier to get and easier to fix, but here it's just a matter of work and effort. It's not a matter of mystery. So for example, if you're in an outfit that you don't like, it's unlikely you're going to hate yourself for it. Like, look at you in this dress, Linda, you ****.
Like in the mirror to yourself, like you really thought you were going to look good in this dress. Almost no one does that. They go, oh, I look like, man, I don't like this. And what do they do? They go on Amazon. They do the returns. They return the dress. They get a better dress and they like it. They put it on. They go, boom, problem solved. They never have to hate themselves.
I would ask people to treat their bodies as kind of a style of clothing that they're wearing. It's just like robot thing that you exist in and you can change it just similarly to how you buy clothes. But what you'll be having to pay instead of money is diligence, effort, and time. Not a magic and psychotic amount of those.
These are all tractable problems that most people can get a big bite into and really change how they look. But that's kind of the payment process. And here's the thing. I'm not saying that people don't have all kinds of feelings about their bodies because they do. They have all kinds of emotions about how they'd want to look, about how they look. Do I look like this? Turn to the side. I hate this.
I hate that. All that stuff is valid. But like most feelings, at the end of the day, when you want to change something in the world, You kind of get a little bit, you rest with your feelings, you let them express themselves. You're not trying to like suppress anything. But then you ask the question of, how do I change the situation for the better?
And then that is really very straightforward process instead of having to cycle through your emotions and try to find who you really are deep down inside or something like that.
I would say, I'm not so sure if it's a principle, but I would say what to keep in mind is that you have scoped out a problem and assumed the solution was possible without doing due diligence on is the solution actually probable.
Like you can get out a map of the earth and the moon and you can draw a line from Houston all the way to the surface of the moon and draw a little picture of a rocket and go like, we're gonna make it. And in just the same way, people say, well, I wanna lose 25 pounds in four months And I'm just, it's like a line, it's like a straight line, right?
The reality is that up until the late 1960s, we just didn't have the technology to send rockets to the moon. And when we did, it cost billions of dollars.
And it's also true to say that because the human body has certain fundamental constraints on how quickly it's willing to lose fat while still keeping you sane and upright, it is highly unlikely that you will lose 25 pounds of fat in that amount of time, in four to six months. it is much more likely that you'll lose about half of that fat.
But if you try to shoot for losing that much, just like shooting a rocket into space without doing your calculations, you're likely to have a bad time. You're likely to burn out of the diet. You're likely to rebound out of the diet. Even if you don't burn out, you're likely to regain all of your lost weight or the vast majority of it while doing a whole lot of suffering.
But if you aim for roughly half of that amount during that time, then there's a high probability that you'll have great success and be able to keep it off. And keeping it off is good for two reasons. One, I don't suppose you want to just get fatter later. So it's good for the obvious reason. Like someone's like, hey, here's a million dollars. And you're like, great.
And they're like, but you don't get to keep it. You're like, what? So no, thank you. But the other really good reason is that your body doesn't like to lose a lot of weight at once. because of those, again, evolved evolutionary mechanisms, good God, evolved evolutionary, that's a hell of a phrase, those evolved mechanisms that kind of freak out on you and go, dude, we're starving.
I've noted this in my little body's notebook, and as soon as I get around food, I'm gonna blast you back up into the stratosphere with all the fat I can, because we're gonna fix this starvation problem. However, after you maintain your new body weight, let's say you lose weight over the course of three months, let's call it 15 pounds, significantly more reasonable.
You probably need about three months more of just maintaining that new low body weight. And then the first few weeks, your body's like walking up and down the hotel hallway, chain smoking about it. Like, oh God, oh God, how do we get this body fat back on? This is bad. This is really bad. Calling all the calls and all this stuff.
After a few weeks, your body's just kind of sitting in the hallway in like, you know, a little seat like, eh, nothing bad's happened yet. It kind of feels like a little bit normal, but still, if I get some food in me, I'm blown back up. And then about two to three months later, you catch your body in the street and you're like, hey, remember that whole weight loss thing? And it's like, what?
No, I got to go to work, man. I don't even know you. And it walks off and you're like, oh my God, it forgot. It didn't forget entirely because as it's walking away, it's going to be like, ah, I remember that guy. But it's going to be a faint memory. And so your body gets used to whatever weight you're at much more than right after you got there, after a few months.
And then you're able, if you like, to take another chunk out of that journey. So we lost 15 pounds in the first three months. Another three months we chilled. Chilling means you're still diligent about everything and making sure you don't regain the weight, which I have tons of tips on. And we have tons on our YouTube channel, all that stuff.
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