#1816 - Gad Saad

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience. You look like you've lost a large child from your body.

Gad Saad (0:16)

Eighty-six pounds.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

That's right, it's a large child.

Gad Saad (0:19)

I know that you want to take credit for it because...

Joe Rogan (0:22)

Fat shaming works.

Gad Saad (0:23)

Exactly, but I can't give you all the credit.

Joe Rogan (0:26)

No, you deserve all the credit. I didn't do anything.

Gad Saad (0:30)

So because...

Joe Rogan (0:30)

I just was concerned for your well-being, and so I was just saying, if you really are saying that you want to get healthy and you really are saying that you want to play soccer and do all these things again...

Gad Saad (0:42)

A friend has to be brutally honest with you.

Joe Rogan (0:44)

Yeah, well, that's a hard one. That's a hard one because nobody wants to hear they're gaining weight or they've gained weight or that they have to make radical changes to their life.

Gad Saad (0:52)

I'm actually at the lowest weight since I think 88

Joe Rogan (0:57)

That's incredible.

Gad Saad (0:57)

I'm at a size waist 33

Joe Rogan (1:00)

How much better do you feel?

Gad Saad (1:01)

Phenomenal, outrageous.

Joe Rogan (1:03)

Isn't it incredible? Like if they could give you that in a pill, just the feeling, how it feels to be 86 pounds lighter.

Gad Saad (1:09)

Exactly.

Joe Rogan (1:09)

Oh my God.

Gad Saad (1:10)

I mean, just to give you a sense so that we could put it into metrics, when I was overweight, our lovemaking session was only an hour and a half of vigorous sex, whereas now I've doubled it.

Joe Rogan (1:20)

Congratulations. How do you have so much time?

Gad Saad (1:23)

It's incredible.

My wife is Lebanese. She's spicy. She demands a lot of meat.

Joe Rogan (1:27)

What did you do other than exercise? How did you shift your diet?

Gad Saad (1:33)

Two things. Number one, 15,000 to 20,000 steps a day, no matter what.

Joe Rogan (1:39)

No matter what.

Gad Saad (1:40)

It's been almost now two and a half years that I haven't done a single day of less than 10,000 steps. Now, the steps could be treadmill, it could be walking outside, it could be running vigorously on the outside, whatever. It could be biking, but I always have with me, it's actually at-

Joe Rogan (1:56)

Is it one of those pedometers?

Gad Saad (1:57)

It's one of those pedometer things, and I'm obsessive about maintaining- so just by having this clear objective that I have to reach makes it that no matter what, I've got to get off the proverbial couch and walk around. It's minus 20 in Montreal. I'm walking outside until I reach that.

But I was always quite physically active. Of course, much of your weight loss comes from keeping this guy closed.

Joe Rogan (2:23)

That's the thing that people need to recognize. It's very, very, very, very difficult to exercise your way to weight loss.

Gad Saad (2:29)

Exactly. And so what I did-

so my wife who's here, you've known her for many years, she's an amazing woman. She turned into the diet Gestapo.

She's got this My Fitness Pal. They're getting, I guess, free publicity on the number one show in the world. So, through My Fitness Pal, she enters, till today, every single thing that goes into this gorgeous body.

So, at the end of the day, she says, don't have any snacks. You're at 1727 and you were supposed to get under 1700 So by having that feedback loop that's always keeping you in check, plus the- so the third thing is I weigh myself once a week so that the autocorrective mechanism comes in not when I'm now 227 in terms of weight, but if I've come to Texas and then I go on the scale and I've gained three pounds, well now I know that I need to correct the following week. So these little changes, I mean there's nothing magical, just doing that. I guess if I can add a fourth thing, I removed the all or nothing mindset. In the past, I mean the highest weight I reached Joe, can you- and you won't offend me, can you, from knowing me for many years, do you know how heavy I got? I guess you can calculate.

Joe Rogan (3:44)

Well, if I look at you now, you look like you weigh about 165 pounds in my rank.

Gad Saad (3:50)

I'm 170

Joe Rogan (3:51)

Ah, see, I'm pretty close. I'm good at weight classes. A lot of years of calling fights.

And I would imagine the heaviest you got was probably close to 300 pounds.