Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
I just really feel like you might have a chance here to like.
really help some people that were big. You know what I mean? Like that in this pod, we might have a chance to like.
One million percent.
So I brought a bunch of notes about what I went through. So don't look at me like a super nerd today. But I wanted to make sure I got my, I want to help people, dude. I just, man, I never thought I'd lose this way.
I like a dude with notes. Especially a dude who lost 300 fucking pounds. Let's go, baby. Let's go. Look at you, dude. Dude, I feel great, yo. You should feel great.
I feel really, really good, dude.
You're a totally new human being.
It is, man. You know what's crazy? I don't want to get super spiritual out the gate, but I will because I think God wants me to right now because of you saying that. There's a scripture in the Bible that says, in Christ, all things are a new creation, which I thought was interesting because it didn't talk about restoring the old. It says that in God, we are a completely new creation.
You know what I mean? So like I was looking at it at first, like I'm restoring my heart. But then when you're saying that, I'm like, no, I didn't restore my heart. I got a whole new heart. This is a brand new heart, Joe. You know what I mean? Yeah. It might be cloaked as the old one, but God touched it. It's a whole new heart, baby.
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Chapter 2: How does Jelly Roll describe his transformation journey?
Different cell types have very different lifespans, and some last a lifetime. I think neurons last a lifetime. Seven-year figure is a rough average estimate of cell age. Oh, okay, so it's not a total myth. Not a fixed cycle where everything is swapped out all at once.
Some tissues renew very fast, while others renew slowly or hardly at all, which averages out to several years if you look at all the cells together. So intestine lining cells renew every two to five days. Wow. Stomach lining turns over roughly every two to nine days. Skin surface cells replace roughly every few weeks.
Um, liver cells are typically renewed on timescales of many months to up to a few years. Bone cells take up to a decade to fully remodel a skeleton. Muscles and cells. Anyway, cells are changing all the time. God, it's crazy. All the time.
It's constantly renewing, baby. Yeah. Feels good, man. A whole different human. We were talking about it. When I first came to your club, I couldn't even walk all the way up the steps.
without stopping like every seventh step and today was my um me and cam did my first 10k yesterday we did a little bit over we did six five so today was recovery run day i did two and a half miles just having a conversation with you while you're swinging kettlebells i was like look at who i am joe i'm a whole new guy yeah just chilling doing two and a half miles on a treadmill just watching the yeah the peter yawn fight again and you you uh fucking you had a nice pace you look casual doing it feel good
Yeah, you can tell you've been working. You know, it's not like a new thing. Your body's acclimated to it. You can really tell.
It's like, and I heard Tony Robbins once say that we grossly overestimate what we can do in a year and we underestimate what we can do in a decade. And for people that might be listening to this that are dealing with severe obesity, I want to give you this game. You will grossly
overestimate what you can do in 90 days but underestimating what you can do in a year when it comes to your health like it was right around my 30 i turned 41 three days ago and it was right around my 39th birthday that i started really considering taking the step to try to make a major change in my life and i thought about it around my birthday because i knew my next one was 40.
You know what I mean? And I was like, I don't think I've ever met a 500-pound 40-year-old.
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Chapter 3: What struggles does Jelly Roll face with food addiction?
You know what I'm saying? I've lost a whole nother, a whole nother. My chef said it best. He said when Charles Oliveira fell off of Michael Chandler's back, that was what you lost since the last time you've seen Joe. It would be like if a Michael Chandler just jumped off your shoulders.
Isn't that crazy?
It's crazy, Joe.
It's crazy. It's crazy. When I go walk with my dog, I put a 45-pound plate on a pack. And when I get done with the walk, I take it off. I'm like, whew. That ain't shit. You were walking around with an extra 300 fucking pounds.
Cam said this yesterday. It was so funny. He said, you know why you're inspiring so many people? He said, think about how much David Goggins inspired people because he went from 300 pounds to getting in shape. He said, and you've lost David Goggins at his biggest. I'd never even thought of it that way. I was like, wow. I was like, yeah, that's a whole.
You lost a whole David Goggins.
My surgeon said, I have 35 pounds of skin on me now. Wow. I mean, you've seen it. I showed you my shirt off stuff. But it's like, it's crazy, dude. That's crazy. Just 30 pounds, five pounds of extra skin. Just extra skin. That's crazy. It's just hanging off the front of me right now. And somebody said, doesn't that hurt? I was like, not as bad as the 500 that was hanging.
I'll take these 35 over that all day, dude. Way, way fair exchange.
So what was, you knew you were doing bad. You knew your body was not, it was not going to be able to function at that weight for very much longer. And so what was the pivotal moment where you made this decision?
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Chapter 4: How does Jelly Roll's experience with weight loss impact his life?
And they're like, no. She's like, you got to listen to this song and then you got to help him. So Gary called and Gary was like, and I said, Gary, I'm going to start. But he said, just start by trying to get 10,000 steps a day and get in a cold plunge. I'm like, dude, I'm 520 pounds, Gary. 10,000 steps a day is crazy talk.
But I got in the cold plunge for six minutes and I would go for a half mile walk. That first Monday comes, Joe, it is pissing rain. Pissing rain. I mean, cats and dogs, dude. And I wake up and I'm like... Shit.
And I've been studying about lying to yourself, that when you tell yourself you're going to do something and you don't do it, your body then starts to know that you don't mean what you say. So now when you tell your body to do something, your body looks at you like, bitch, you ain't never meant what you said to me. You've never followed through. What do you think?
I'm going to run because you tell me to run. You lie to me all the time. And I was in that concept and I came out that morning dressed up in my stuff and I was like, man, that rains pretty hard in my family. And this wasn't them being a lack of support, Joe. This was just I think this was me lying to them for so many years.
You know, that they wanted to save me my shame again and my embarrassment. And they go, it's okay. I think my wife's like, it's okay, Papa. Or my daughter was like, just wait till the rain quits or do it on the treadmill or something. But in my mind, I was like, no, I'm going outside, you know. And I was like, I'm done lying to y'all and I'm done lying to me.
I told y'all I was going to go do this walk and I'm going to do this walk.
There's nothing wrong with emotions, brother.
I'm coming. I'm coming back from that walk. And I'm coming up my driveway. It's up a big hill. I'm bringing a camel, too. It's a huge hill. And I'm coming up the driveway to the hill. And all my family's out there cheering me on. clapping, hands up. I'd done nothing but lie to them for years about this weight. I'd done nothing.
I'd never proved to them that I was going to change and that I'd be a man of my word in any regard. They had every reason not to go out there and cheer me on. And that was like a big moment. That was the moment, you know, where I was like, damn. And I realized that in addiction, the family will kind of cater to the addict. It's nature.
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Chapter 5: What challenges did Jelly Roll face in his weight loss journey?
It's a big move.
Big moment when you're like, no, I'm hitting that fucking hill. You know, because I'm big. Fat people hate hills.
Scares.
We hate all that shit. So I'm like, I'm like, hit the hill. You know, and I'm walking and I'm stopping and I'm walking and I'm stopping and I'm walking and I stop. I just kept going. When I got to the top of it, there was a telephone pole up there and I went and slapped it. I've just slapped the shit out of it. And I was just, I felt so achieved.
And I came down the hill and then I took a left and I was going to go straight down to the stop sign and back. But if you take a left, you can go up another hill. So I was in my mind, I was like, I'm going to stop sign.
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Chapter 6: How did Jelly Roll's transformation impact his relationships?
I hit the hill. But as I was walking by that other hill, I was like, This is the new you. You hit the hill, dog. This is the new you. Today is the new you. You hit the hill. Left, hit the fucking hill. Come back down. On my way home that day, look up, see that hill. It's right by my house. I go, fuck it, I'm going to hit it one more time. You know what I mean?
And then it started becoming a thing where it's like, I started adopting that philosophy in life now, Joe. I hit the hill first.
Chapter 7: What lessons did Jelly Roll learn about addiction and food?
Whatever the hardest thing is, whatever scares me the most, whatever I think is going to be the most daunting of the day, it's like put that motherfucker on the table right now. Let me see that bitch first.
And it makes the rest of your life easier too. That's what's really important. When you elect to make these decisions, conscious decisions to do a difficult thing voluntarily, you elect to do that. then the rest of your life becomes way easier. Because the most difficult thing of your day is always the most difficult thing of your day, whether you decide to do it or whether life throws it at you.
And you can decide to give yourself some shit that's way harder than anything life's going to throw at you. And then the rest of life becomes easy. It makes you ready to deal with life. It's also very important for famous people.
Yes.
It's very important for famous people because... The pressures and the weirdness of fame, most people don't understand the psychological burden that that carries, how that hits you. It can really fuck with you.
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Chapter 8: What significant moment did Jelly Roll experience at the Grand Ole Opry?
And one of the best ways that I've found to keep it from fucking with me is to make the hardest part of my day my choice. I do it. I put myself through. So other stuff that seems difficult for other people that don't work out or don't take on challenging tasks.
Yeah.
It's not that difficult for me. It's easy. I'm already torturing myself every fucking day.
I feel weirdly more qualified to deal with shit when I do, though. When I have a really hard run, I walk into the house that day like, I don't care what comes at me today. Exactly. I am on fire. I'll give you another quick story.
There's nothing harder than what you're doing. You're barely alive. You're breathing so hard. Your heart is pounding. Nothing in life is giving you that. Nothing in life is giving you that kind of burden. No. So if you can do that to yourself, it'll make the rest of your life way easier.
And then, believe it or not, it gets funner. It goes back to my first year walking was miserable. I won't lie to people that are listening to this. I didn't enjoy one of those walks. You know what I mean? Not one. I didn't have one time. But when the weight started coming off and I started being able to breathe a little better, like I wasn't just fighting for oxygen every single step.
And that moment happens, though, if you're patient. The next thing you know, you're running with your friends and y'all are talking about the football game and you're firing on all cylinders.
Today, when you were on that treadmill, you were talking. We were watching the Volkanovsk, excuse me, the Pyotr Yan-Dvavish-Willy fight. We were giving commentary. Yeah. It's like you do it and it makes. As you were running, like, oh, I remember when that kick landed. Yeah, I was like, ooh, that was loud. I'm telling you, dude. As you're running.
I'm like just running and it makes me mentally ready now because I go out and I know David talked about this a lot, Goggins, but I go out there and beat that bitch every day. Yeah. All them negative thoughts, I deal with them on my run and my workout. Every one of those, you can't do it. And you know what else I've learned?
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