What It's Like To Lose 300lbs & Adele's Transformation - Ethan Suplee - #184

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, people in Podcast Land. Welcome back. My guest today is Ethan Suplee, Hollywood actor extraordinaire and fitness animal. Today, we are talking about his amazing weight loss journey of nearly 300 pounds. From being 200 pounds at 10 years old, to peaking at probably around 550, to now walking around at 13% body fat at 260 pounds. The guy looks like the epitome of a badass. Got the trucker cap on, the hardcore beard and the biceps to go with it. This is so cool and amazingly inspiring. We also get to talk about the difference in the public's response to his transformation photo and Adele's recent controversy when she released a photo of her having lost quite a large amount of weight. And there's some really good insights there. We get into some of the specifics of diet and if you're someone who is looking to understand how to better control your eating, there is no better role model than Ethan. He has dug into the science. He doesn't stick to the ideologies. I really think this podcast could be a massive help to a lot of people. And it's just a cool story, man. The guy worked on The Wolf Of Wall Street with Leonardo DiCaprio, you know, he's a hero. In other news, this episode of the podcast is brought to you by the Modern Wisdom Ultimate Life Hacks List. That is right. I have finally released it after two months of compiling a list of every life hack we have ever featured on this show. That is more than 200 ways to upgrade your existence. The Modern Wisdom Ultimate Life Hacks List is finally live and you can get your copy for free. Simply head to chriswillex.com/lifehacks, chriswillex.com/lifehacks. And you can download your copy today. I'm so excited for this. I've been working on it for ages. It has been a few late nights and some sort of tears and blood and sweat and all that sort of stuff that's gone into it, but it's so sick. It's awesome for me to revisit all of the old episodes that we used to do. And I, you know, it would have probably been a much quicker project if I'd not been pissing myself or all of the different jokes and all of the weird hacks and stuff that Yusef, Johnny and myself have come up to. But this is two and a half years of condensed life hacks in one document. It, there will be so much stuff that you can take from this and apply to your life today. There's products, there's tools, there's apps, there's resources, there's websites, and there's just different strategies for ways that we think you can live a productive and efficient life. I feel like the world needs a little bit of fun and brightness at the moment, so this is free. I don't know if it's going to be free forever, so make sure that you go and get your copy now. While it is still free, chriswillex.com/lifehacks. And if you enjoy it, if you use it, if you get some of the stuff from it, give me a tag, let me know what you think of it. I would love to hear your feedback. But for now, it's time for the wise and wonderful Ethan Suplee.
What's your t-shirt saying?

**Ethan Suplee** (3:22)
It says, I killed my clone today.

**Chris Williamson** (3:25)
What's that a reference to?

**Ethan Suplee** (3:29)
There is a martial arts guy. I did a television show called Chance with a fellow countryman of yours, Hugh Laurie. And I played this character where I was basically my first official badass character.
And the character was based on a real guy who is actually a military and martial arts instructor. He teaches like the elite military dudes how to fight with knives. Like that's his job. And so in playing and in meeting him and spending time with him, I trained with him a bunch. And he had this whole philosophy about kill your clone. So every day you meet the clone of yourself from 24 hours in the past, and you have to fight to the death. And if you've improved yourself by one one thousandth of a percent that day, you will kill your clone. So the point is to kill your clone every day. So the shirt is saying that today I did that. I killed my clone.

**Chris Williamson** (4:37)
That's so sick, man. I'm gassed for today's episode, dude. I've just finished training. I nearly did this podcast without shorts on. I keep on nearly forgetting to put shorts on, but I put shorts on. We're here. I've got shorts on.
What's that guy's name? What's the...