My Mum did the cabbage soup diet in the 70's. She was allowed to eat as much homemade cabbage soup as she wanted. Then a small portion of a healthy supper. She was miserable, the house smelt of boiled cabbage, and she made us all insane. She did stick with it losing 50 lbs/23 kg. However, as soon as she gave it up the weight started coming back. It wasn't until she worked with a nutritionist she learned to eat healthfully. Now, 50 years later she's still a svelte elderly woman. What's more it led to her becoming a certified nutritionist. It can be done, do it properly, take care of you.
I did the cabbage soup diet, but I added other veggies to the soup and some tofu. My variation also allowed me to eat beets and cottage cheese. It did stick for me, but I'd only been aiming for 10-15 pounds, which was easier not to rebound from.
This channel is so fun, like I sat down with 3 mates, Danny telling us about some weird shit he found online, Simon chatting away and getting distracted by barely related tangents and Sam chiming in with memes and occasionally steering Simon back to the original topic, legends
And apparently wants help being an "e-girl" instead. Maybe that can be a new channel: "writer's room" podcast with the writers reacting as "vtubers" to Simon's reading of their scripts.
8:05 you mock potatoes in vinegar, Simon, but I know you know that the chips of fish and chips are potatoes, and I know you know that they are served with vinegar, and I know you know that they are delicious. Edit: also, Penn Jillette's potato diet was DESIGNED to be unsustainable, they called it a "potato famine" in the book for a reason. The point was not to lose weight with just potatoes, it was to get so used to bland nothingness that even small things like a lettuce leaf would taste like the food of the gods. The result was much greater enjoyment of healthy foods, thereby making the later healthy diet far more sustainable because he actually enjoyed what he was eating instead of hating it.
It's weird how little we pay attention to the flavor of food, I mean, we get used to certain flavors/ textures and don't notice them. I have a tendency to eat meal bars, and when I don't eat them for a few weeks, they taste disgusting, but the next meal I crave them. I'll get on a healthy food kick for a while, then eat something I used to love (like Jif Peanut Butter) and find it disgustingly sweet or awful in other ways.
Fun fact: the pill Simon wishes for around 13:40 that stops the absorption of fat in the diet actually already exists. Unfortunately it comes with the lovely side effect of steatorrhea, (also known as uncontrollable greasy diarrhea) because the fats you aren't absorbing simply get passed through your GI tract in a significantly more liquidous form.
"This cleansing of the system just seems like bs to me." Correct, Simon. "Cleanse" and "detox" are just marketing buzzwords. They don't mean anything. Just take care of your liver and intestines and it does all the cleansing for you.
Damn straight! It's pretty much the number one red flag. If words like "cleanse", "detox" or "toxins" appear anywhere in the first paragraph of diet plan, anything that comes after will most likely be pulled straight out of the author's ass.
I literally saw an ad right before this about Gummies that help with weight loss without diet or exercise. 😂😂 fyi in the small print it says “Results may vary depending on diet and exercise”.
Simon, in the US, heavily processed foods are cheaper than fresh foods you cook, because the corn industry is heavily subsidized and corn syrup is cheaper than dirt. "Just cook food" is actually a luxury here.
Not to mention food deserts where many areas in the US don't have access to fresh food that is affordable. Plus in suburbs/rural areas have little to no public transport system or safe cycle or walk ways so car culture rules reducing opportunities for incidental exercise.
This is a tired and stupid lie. Lentils cost much less than Doritos. Even gas stations sell vegetables. “Food desert” is a term invented by large groceries to lobby municipalities into subsidizing them and killing small locally-owned (mostly ethnic) grocers.
I freaking love cabbage soup; super cheap to make, can add whatever veggies you like, can make it spicy if you like (i like), and it freezes well. But dang, not for every meal, days on end. Just a good way to get a hot bowl of soup and lots of vegetables for cheap.
I accidentally ended up on the Sleep Diet. My doctor put me on a new medication when I was a teenager (that I didn't even need, and later found out that the company was paying doctors to prescribe. Risperdal, if anyone wants to look it up) and it didn't agree with me, and I was sleeping about 18-20 hours a day. I would literally fall asleep while walking, going up and down stairs, ect. The doctor wouldn't take me off it, on the ground that I was a teenager and didn't know what was best for me, but parents took me to a different doctor, thank god. I was lucky that my teachers were understanding when I started suddenly passing out in class, after having never done it before
I was misdiagnosed and put on that horrible drug, used to constantly have to stop myself falling down stairs as my body just wanted to be on the floor. Later discovered its due to the drug lowering blood pressure so much you get micro blackouts and the feeling of wanting to lie down was the bodies way of trying to restore blood flow to the brain. I was taken off that one and put on quentiapine (also due to missdiagnosis) which was even worse. It concerns me that people are walking around with this stuff in their systems, the stuff cross-wires emotions so when you are upset you start laughing even though you want to cry you just cant. I could have witnessed an accident or murder right in front of me and just laughed it off etc. Im sure it does more harm than good. Rispiridal, quentiapine and olanzapine were the 3 i got put on before the doctors realized it was fucking me up more than I ever was before.
Risperdal gave me awful twitches and tics. After consulting a different doctor than the one that had prescribed it, he was like WTF!, and told me taper off of it. I lucked out getting off of it when I did, apparently those tics can become permanent even after stopping use of the drug.
@@LegoDork I forgot about the tics, I kept yawning even though I wasn't tired and the action didn't draw in air. It's called tardrive diskensia and can be permanent even if you stop taking the drug. The doctor never told me that , which is concerning.
My grandpa, after getting diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, went on the cabbage soup diet in the late 90's. He did lose a lot of weight, along with a good amount of muscle mass. After this, he had a few falls and had to walk with a cane/walker for support
You can live off potatoes and sweet potatoes for a couple of years, they are kinda close to nutritionally complete but you will eventually need to supplement several nutrients if you want to continue living in them it just takes a long time before the deficiency becomes a problem.
On the cabbage soup diet, OBGYNs in Japan are notorious for pressuring pregnant women into dieting and not gaining weight while pregnant. I started my first pregnancy at a normal weight, had gained only 8 pounds upon entering my third trimester, but my OBGYN yelled at me for gaining “so much weight”, said I would have too fat a vag to deliver naturally, said I was killing my baby by being so fat, and said I was only allowed boiled cabbage (cabbage soup) for the remainder of my pregnancy. I changed docs, but it’s incredibly common. Anyway, yeah, all the bad effects of the cabbage soup diet are exactly why I switched docs after that demand.
Fact boy. I command you to make an epic blaze for all of the 12 days of Christmas. I've sent the cocaine you'll be using before and during each recording. Happy holidays!!!
Fun Fat, Er I mean fact: From 1978 till 1999 "Weight Watchers" was owned by the H.J. Heinz Company. Yeah, THAT Heinz! (Source: From Pittsburgh. My family has been largely employed by some H.J. Heinz or Westinghouse division/company in some form since the 19th Century) LOL
Hey Simon. There was a time in my life when I would hear about the tapeworm diet. Did you ever hear about that well well it is one of those diets that was an old one and what they would do is they would insert a tapeworm into a woman’s stomach, well she would swallow it and it would hatch and the tapeworm would grow and eat all the food as you know, and once the tapeworm has gone in a certain size, they wouldn’t work they would medically take it out. That always sounds so disgusting. Just thought I would let you know.
Simon: Bell peppers come in Green (very unripe), then as they ripen they shift to a yellow, and then orange, and then finally red. They're all delicious, but red is the superior :)
Seeing Ronald Macdonald reminded me of a cartoon labeled Killer Clown Convention. It showed a room of creepy clowns, including Ronald. One of the others asked Ronald if he was in the right place, to which he answered "How many heart attacks do you think I have caused!"...
Aspartame does SEEM to cause cancer... in rats that receive total doses beyond what's expected for a human to intake, which in dose by weight (how it should be measured) is an overdose beyond limits. And that's only a "possible relationship". And relationships found in lab animals have to be proven for human subjects, given that relatively often the differences in metabolism are enough to make a rat carcinogen human safe and vice versa.
I've had a similar eating pattern as you for DECADES! I don't eat until dinner, but, turns out - that's a really bad idea and I've got all sort of digestion problems now and my metabolism is all confused...so yeah, don't do that, apparently lol!
Only after eating like this for years was I told it was actually an eating disorder. People think of an eating disorder just about anorexia or bulimia. An eating disorder is just eating in a disordered way that impacts your health. And same, my metabolism is shot to hell, I have digestion issues, and find it near impossible to lose weight. Fat people can have eating disorders, too (me, I am the fat person. Not necessarily you, OP)
I did a sensible version of the cabbage soup diet. The version I did had as much soup as you want and a different food group each day of the week. I shed about 15-20 pounds off my body. The caveat with the diet I followed is that it recommended to only do it one week and no more than two consecutive weeks. It was a good way to shed excess weight temporarily. I did it as a prelude to eating more balanced and going to the gym. I just wanted a bit of bulk shaved off for comfort on gym equipment.
Weight loss is pretty interesting to me. I've always been under the "right" weight for my height. I think so much of it has to do with your frame, or build and metabolism. After I had my 1st kid I obviously had more weight I too lasted about a week wo carbs completely miserable..wish I knew then that it always comes off eventually due to my metabolism...I truly do think that some of us are just lucky, and some unlucky. It's definitely not fair
Yo tell me more about this please, I'm at the beginning of my first winter training season in years, and could use the assistance of 10lbs gone for better mobility etc. (obv I'm in the gym but I'm VERY new so anything helps)
13:20 Funny thing, there actually is a pill you can take that prevents your body from absorbing fats in your diet. The generic name is orlistat, and it's been available for years now without a prescription in the USA and EU. The downside is, that dietary fat your body isn't absorbing still has to go somewhere, so you're quite likely to wind up with a case of the greasy shits whenever you eat anything particularly fatty. Though this could be considered an upside of sorts, as it contributes to the drug's efficacy for weight loss in a roundabout way: Some patients, noticing that fatty foods trigger this rather uncomfortable side effect, adjust their diet to avoid such foods, which reduces empty calories far more than the drug itself does.
I have a similar diet. Usually skip breakfast, snack or maybe light lunch, heavy dinner. I eat any food I want no matter the nutrition. I credit that, my physically demanding job and good genetics for not being hob sized. Edit: Saw the two replies including stats and figured I'd add mine. 5'9" ~180lbs. BMI says not so good but I wear size 34 waist and need a belt.
I sometimes even leave out dinner. I just constantly eat small portions of whatever the heck I want. But I also work in a physically demanding job so I sometimes accidentally loose weight If I end up skipping too many bigger meals in a row. 6ft 172lbs currently.
I was in hospital last year and a dietitian (a nutritionist with an actual medical degree) noted that I'd lost 13kg and just said "don't lose any more". So I didn't. Mmmm, food.
I remember like 10 or 15 years ago there was a story about a woman that found a doctor to put her in a medically induced coma to lose weight before her wedding.
Exactly when they went off the market. Mom bought them for me in HS 'cause I was a chonker eating my way through the state of being an unpopular child.
The thing that worked for me the first time is spending three months tracking my calories and portions (that way it can become a habit) then after the 3 months I incorporate exercise. In a year I went from 265-180. Lost it all from December 2015- December 2016. Things went well until I got into a severely traumatic experience for almost a year from September 2018 - August 2019. The traumatic experience caused me to stress eat and gain it all back. Spent a few years trying it again, but it didn't stick and start working again until July of this year. Started doing small 9 minute walks in my neighborhood. And each week or two I'd up the distance. The 9 minute walk was 0.44 miles. By late September I was up to walking an hour and 30 min each day at over 3 miles. I've now transitioned to the gym since I don't like walking in the cold. Already lost almost 20 pounds. Went from 276-259. Goal is 180 again. Moral of the story is just because these well known diets work for people doesn't mean they'll work for you. (Not saying these fad diets won't work at all, just that they might not work for everyone. Im talking atkins diet, intermittent fasting, and weight watchers ect.) Start out slow when on a diet and little by little go up in intensity. Don't expect yourself to walk 3 miles on your first day. Start with small steps. If you try doing 3 miles your first day you'll be so overwhelmed and miserable you'll quit your diet right then and there. I usually try to burn 600-1000 calories a day and only eat breakfast and dinner. (Haven't really eaten lunch since high school in 2015.) Try your best to know what calorie intake you need a day, (the amount of calories you're allowed per day to lose weight.) and use that to determine what foods best work for you. Exercise as I've mentioned is another big factor. If you're doing everything right and STILL not losing a pound I'd get checked by a doctor. I used to have something called a metabolic syndrome, where it's next to impossible to lose weight until its corrected or cured. First month, month and half was tough as i fought back against my metabolic syndrome. There's many more health issues that could causing it to be hard to lose weight. Start out slow and work your way up. Best of luck to anyone trying to lose weight. You can do it!
You can survive on potato's only wit additional b12 which you can get from butter milk, 8 million Irish did, until the blight. You could try the celery diet, or the rabbit only diet or the milk diet. 🥔🥔🥔 🥨🍔🍪🍩🎂🥧🍯
I never really easily put on weight either and I ate immense amounts. I switched to intermittent fasting and it works well for me. I slipped a bit for few months from eating habits and training noticing I can also gain weight now. Got back on track and lost the gained 7kg in few weeks and weight went back to stable. I basically eat once a day but huge amount, besides on training days I eat two massive meals.
not sure what I do can be called "fasting", but I've never been a breakfast person, and at work I'm too busy to eat. Currently 9pm and I think I've eaten 2 apples. Getting ready to get home from work and eat a big meal :D I've been like this as long as I can remember, and I think I'm pretty healthy
I don’t need any medication to sleep 20hrs a day! It’s how my body functions. Unfortunately I also struggle to eat, due to gastrointestinal issues and achalasia. But I can thankfully digest sugar! So I am probably going to get diabetes eventually, but eating a high sugar diet is going to have fewer risks than tube feeding which is my only other option. (Unfortunately nasojejunal tubes don’t work well for me, so when I was on one, it was directly in to my heart). I have also literally been told by my doctors to stay the larger side of my ideal weight, because when I get really sick again it gives us all time to manage things before they become critical.
Ive been doing my PT exercises daily and that has overall helped me lose weight, It comes and goes around the holidays, but even small amounts of exercise are better then none; and even small amounts help build muscle, which is what I need for my medical condition. Standing leg lifts 30 each leg Side laying leg lifts 30 each leg Laying leg lifts vertical 30 each leg 20-30 squats 10 lunges 10 half pushups or 20 wall pushups Banded side steps 30 heel raises its not a ton but it helps
@@Waywardwindfall I never understood why the were referred to as that, I had bigger boobs then all the girls in my class in middle school, and i never got to do special push-ups. Mind you, I did end up losing a lot of weight....
I remember I had a chirurgical intervention where I couldn't eat solid food for a week. Because I was lazy (and didn't have a kitchen in my room), I bought baby food. I ate that crap for a week and first thing I though "no wonder babies are crying all the time, this stuff is disgusting". Thankfully I had a prescription for codein that helped a little bit
In Germany the stuff is actually kinda good, haven't had it in years but I remember it as tolerable. Don't know if I could sustain a diet purely consisting of it tho. Hope you had fun with the codeine 😂
I don't know what baby food you're eating but the ones I get my son are pretty delicious. I tell my wife after cleaning off the spoon, "Mmm, this is really good, I could eat a whole jar!"
Simon, I have no objection to better living through chemistry but the thought of s***ting out an *entire undigested bucket of kfc* is a million times worse than just dealing with the calorie consequences.
"Lord Byron, what are you up to???" is also what all of Lord Byron's friends would ask. Except Mary Shelley. Mary would just dream of a world where Lotd Byron doesn't exist
Back in 2014, I was 312 lbs (~141.5 Kg). I felt like trash and decided to do something extreme about it. So I limited myself to 500 calories a day and walked 5 miles (~8 km) every other day. This was a temporary measure in my plan...I planned to stop being so restrictive when I was under 200 lbs (~91 Kg), where I would be allowed 1200 calories a day until I hit my ultimate goal of 165 lbs (~75 Kg) and be allowed 1800 calories a day forever from that point. I dropped to 232 lbs (~105 Kg) in 6 1/2 months (about 13 lbs or 5.8 Kg a month lost) before I got incredibly sick, needed to take levofloxacin to cure the infection, and was put out of exercise commission by that drug's side effects for 3 months (joint inflammation that could be permanent damage if I did anything to strain myself). I also went back to actually eating food and stopped counting my calories. I went back to 275 lbs (~125 Kg) by the time I could start exercising again...but I never went past 280 again from that point on. It's been pretty slow-going since then, but I'm currently sitting at 229 Lbs (~104 Kg). I don't really count calories anymore...instead opting to just occasionally have a day where I either fast completely (no more than once a week...usually more like twice a month), or have a veggie day where all I eat is vegetables or low cal fruits (berries, sour citrus, sweet peppers, etc.). There was a while where I did literally nothing and was still losing about half a pound a week...and I didn't eat fewer calories or anything like that. I just started taking probiotic supplements, then fermenting my own kombucha and sauerkraut and regularly consuming them. It's not a lot of weight loss, and it will slow down with time...but you'd be surprised at how much healthier you can get just by fixing your gut flora when you've gone and thrown it out of whack with antibiotics, super high meat diets, and/or too much canned crap.
Well, if Simon is that upset about buying fancy baby food AND he thinks the solution is to just cook your own food, prepare for the latest Simon Whistler RUclips channel- 'Cooking with Fact Boi- 100 recipes to Blaze Your Brain'.
Just in case nobody has pointed it out Penn jillette's potato diet consisted of just potatoes, but you could not prepare them any way you wanted you could only have them baked, stemmed, or boiled. No seasonings, no oils, no butter. Just the potatoes. It's only for 2 weeks then you add in more normal foods, but you're supposed to go to a whole plant diet, and stay on a plant-based diet from then on.
I knew a guy who would do this thing where before starting a diet plan of any kind he would eat nothing but boiled unsalted potatoes for a week before starting the diet. His logic was that after eating nothing but unseasoned, boiled potato, any food at all would be exciting and tasty.
I actually do the same thing, just drink coffee up until dinner, and then have one proper meal. Difference is though that I have my coffee with sugar and cream, which adds to my total daily calorie content quite a bit. Although still rarely enough to put me at a calorie surplus. It also is the reason I have close to zero energy and high cholesterol at age 33. But I mean... it worked for about a decade.
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Simon we need DTU March 8 1994 Michigan Please make it happen
Does hello fresh deliver liquid diets though
@@pineappleinspace it does if you don't wash the vegetables before making your salad
@@michaelmayhem350 haha! so true!
holy crap there might be time for more content if you didnt jiba jaba so much
My Mum did the cabbage soup diet in the 70's. She was allowed to eat as much homemade cabbage soup as she wanted. Then a small portion of a healthy supper. She was miserable, the house smelt of boiled cabbage, and she made us all insane. She did stick with it losing 50 lbs/23 kg. However, as soon as she gave it up the weight started coming back. It wasn't until she worked with a nutritionist she learned to eat healthfully. Now, 50 years later she's still a svelte elderly woman. What's more it led to her becoming a certified nutritionist. It can be done, do it properly, take care of you.
I did the cabbage soup diet, but I added other veggies to the soup and some tofu. My variation also allowed me to eat beets and cottage cheese.
It did stick for me, but I'd only been aiming for 10-15 pounds, which was easier not to rebound from.
This channel is so fun, like I sat down with 3 mates, Danny telling us about some weird shit he found online, Simon chatting away and getting distracted by barely related tangents and Sam chiming in with memes and occasionally steering Simon back to the original topic, legends
Sam slipping help messages into the memes is pure gold. He has learned to blink Morse code while saying everything is fine.
And apparently wants help being an "e-girl" instead. Maybe that can be a new channel: "writer's room" podcast with the writers reacting as "vtubers" to Simon's reading of their scripts.
8:05 you mock potatoes in vinegar, Simon, but I know you know that the chips of fish and chips are potatoes, and I know you know that they are served with vinegar, and I know you know that they are delicious.
Edit: also, Penn Jillette's potato diet was DESIGNED to be unsustainable, they called it a "potato famine" in the book for a reason. The point was not to lose weight with just potatoes, it was to get so used to bland nothingness that even small things like a lettuce leaf would taste like the food of the gods. The result was much greater enjoyment of healthy foods, thereby making the later healthy diet far more sustainable because he actually enjoyed what he was eating instead of hating it.
yeah, saw Penn explain it himself, After one of those Gastric surgeries.
It's weird how little we pay attention to the flavor of food, I mean, we get used to certain flavors/ textures and don't notice them. I have a tendency to eat meal bars, and when I don't eat them for a few weeks, they taste disgusting, but the next meal I crave them. I'll get on a healthy food kick for a while, then eat something I used to love (like Jif Peanut Butter) and find it disgustingly sweet or awful in other ways.
That makes more sense. I just remember it vaguely from a mate telling me about some potatoe diet he was trying
@@brainblaze6526 potatoe? Taking spelling lessons from Dan Quail?
Fun fact: the pill Simon wishes for around 13:40 that stops the absorption of fat in the diet actually already exists. Unfortunately it comes with the lovely side effect of steatorrhea, (also known as uncontrollable greasy diarrhea) because the fats you aren't absorbing simply get passed through your GI tract in a significantly more liquidous form.
So basically "Olestra 2: Where's the nearest loo?"
@@Badgerofoccam Precisely lol
@@Badgerofoccam is that the stuff in sugar free gummies....those things can go right to hell
@@chadp363 No, the demon-bears owe their infernal qualities to lycasin. Olestra left its smeared skidmark on history courtesy of Lay's fat free chips.
The fat just walks away...
Byron's horrific vinegar-soaked diet and body dysmorphia transitioned immediately into a Hello Fresh commercial 🤦♀
A dream team video! TangentBoi narrating, Danny the wordsmith and Sam as ever the memeologist!
A second Brain Blaze in two days? What a treat. 🎵It's beginning to look a lot like Sponsor-mas. 🎵
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Obviously going thru them like an Olympic sprinter
Lol Simon has spent years telling us about the milkshakes he has instead of lunch…
Don't forget the Magic Spoon (Peanut Butter).
Too bad he can't enjoy Hello Fresh.
I don't think those supplements are milkshakes. If you saw the consistency, you probably wouldn't drink it.
He did it for the mooonnneeeyyy
I thought that. He's also said he'd eat a meal in pill form if possible(it's not)
Inside joke I guess.
I feel like someone in Simon's life has been pressuring him to stop drinking aspartame.
There's someone like that in EVERYONE'S life!
The wildest thing is that one person who felt most strongly about this is my aunt, who is a full on career scientist (in the public health world).
@@brainblaze6526 oh god Simon has become what we all fear
@@brainblaze6526 Oh shit. You might wanna to listen to her.
@@ShanniBananni except the data doesn't back her opinion. Studies over people opinions no matter what.
"This cleansing of the system just seems like bs to me."
Correct, Simon. "Cleanse" and "detox" are just marketing buzzwords. They don't mean anything. Just take care of your liver and intestines and it does all the cleansing for you.
exact-a-mundo
Damn straight! It's pretty much the number one red flag. If words like "cleanse", "detox" or "toxins" appear anywhere in the first paragraph of diet plan, anything that comes after will most likely be pulled straight out of the author's ass.
there are products that can void the bowels or increase kidney function but that is far from "cleansing all toxins"
in many cases, it’s just a fancy way of saying ‘sh!t yourself continuously and only lose water weight’
Oh good old Simon. Don't you ever change you magnificent overlord of RUclips! Bringing knowledge and enjoyment to the millions!
I can't imagine the meme rabbitholes Sam has to go thru to find the perfect memes for every ocasion
I love watching Simon’s slow descent into madness!!
I literally saw an ad right before this about Gummies that help with weight loss without diet or exercise. 😂😂 fyi in the small print it says “Results may vary depending on diet and exercise”.
I think it always comes down to diet and exercise.
Simon, in the US, heavily processed foods are cheaper than fresh foods you cook, because the corn industry is heavily subsidized and corn syrup is cheaper than dirt. "Just cook food" is actually a luxury here.
Unfortunately, it's getting like that in Europe as well.
A frozen pizza is often cheaper than organic vegetables of the same weight.
It’s also easier to make when you get home from work late and have to sleep early.
Not to mention food deserts where many areas in the US don't have access to fresh food that is affordable. Plus in suburbs/rural areas have little to no public transport system or safe cycle or walk ways so car culture rules reducing opportunities for incidental exercise.
This is a tired and stupid lie.
Lentils cost much less than Doritos.
Even gas stations sell vegetables.
“Food desert” is a term invented by large groceries to lobby municipalities into subsidizing them and killing small locally-owned (mostly ethnic) grocers.
@@Incoming1983 don't buy organic you fool, Christ.
Importantly sustaining to hear an introduction from Danny's life again, even if brief.
I know, I miss the introductions
Maybe one day we'll even get ETA back!!!
@@StevenLockey 🥺
I freaking love cabbage soup; super cheap to make, can add whatever veggies you like, can make it spicy if you like (i like), and it freezes well. But dang, not for every meal, days on end. Just a good way to get a hot bowl of soup and lots of vegetables for cheap.
Great script from Danny, love the way he always frames the facts with a narrative. Absolutely one-of-a-kind writing style, brilliantly executed.
6:10 - Chapter 1 - The vinegar diet
10:45 - Mid roll ads
13:05 - Chapter 2 - The reducing soap diet
17:20 - Chapter 3 - The infinite cabbage soup diet
20:55 - Chapter 4 - The sleeping beauty diet
25:35 - Chapter 5 - The baby food diet
What’s the last two? Thank u on behalf of all the blazers out there :)
@@julia-jn5zx baby FOOD, not foot LMFAO
What....no one else eats only baby foot?
It's the fabled witch diet, pairs nicely with orphan tears
A true youtube user hero!
I really wish all channels had chapters!
@@julia-jn5zx My bad, i was tired and i typed *foot* instead of *food*
I accidentally ended up on the Sleep Diet. My doctor put me on a new medication when I was a teenager (that I didn't even need, and later found out that the company was paying doctors to prescribe. Risperdal, if anyone wants to look it up) and it didn't agree with me, and I was sleeping about 18-20 hours a day. I would literally fall asleep while walking, going up and down stairs, ect. The doctor wouldn't take me off it, on the ground that I was a teenager and didn't know what was best for me, but parents took me to a different doctor, thank god. I was lucky that my teachers were understanding when I started suddenly passing out in class, after having never done it before
Im sorry that happened to you.
I was misdiagnosed and put on that horrible drug, used to constantly have to stop myself falling down stairs as my body just wanted to be on the floor. Later discovered its due to the drug lowering blood pressure so much you get micro blackouts and the feeling of wanting to lie down was the bodies way of trying to restore blood flow to the brain. I was taken off that one and put on quentiapine (also due to missdiagnosis) which was even worse. It concerns me that people are walking around with this stuff in their systems, the stuff cross-wires emotions so when you are upset you start laughing even though you want to cry you just cant. I could have witnessed an accident or murder right in front of me and just laughed it off etc. Im sure it does more harm than good. Rispiridal, quentiapine and olanzapine were the 3 i got put on before the doctors realized it was fucking me up more than I ever was before.
Risperdal gave me awful twitches and tics. After consulting a different doctor than the one that had prescribed it, he was like WTF!, and told me taper off of it. I lucked out getting off of it when I did, apparently those tics can become permanent even after stopping use of the drug.
@@meetoo594 I'm completely convinced that at least half of the "Karen" episodes we see online are directly related to prescription medications.
@@LegoDork I forgot about the tics, I kept yawning even though I wasn't tired and the action didn't draw in air. It's called tardrive diskensia and can be permanent even if you stop taking the drug. The doctor never told me that , which is concerning.
Killing them with kindness means you beat them to death with a care bear
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*smiles.
I got me a bat. Named it kindness.
Sam's edits are 11/10 in this video. Some of these reaction memes had me wheezing from laughter
Sam is a genius with his memes.
The editing makes this video 900% better than it would be otherwise. Pay him more!
You mean feed him more
@@Jessepigman69 Same thing.
@@realkarfixer8208 if you’re locked in a basement money isn’t much use but food is. Definitely not the same thing you pedantic prick 😂
My grandpa, after getting diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, went on the cabbage soup diet in the late 90's. He did lose a lot of weight, along with a good amount of muscle mass. After this, he had a few falls and had to walk with a cane/walker for support
You can live off potatoes and sweet potatoes for a couple of years, they are kinda close to nutritionally complete but you will eventually need to supplement several nutrients if you want to continue living in them it just takes a long time before the deficiency becomes a problem.
On the cabbage soup diet, OBGYNs in Japan are notorious for pressuring pregnant women into dieting and not gaining weight while pregnant. I started my first pregnancy at a normal weight, had gained only 8 pounds upon entering my third trimester, but my OBGYN yelled at me for gaining “so much weight”, said I would have too fat a vag to deliver naturally, said I was killing my baby by being so fat, and said I was only allowed boiled cabbage (cabbage soup) for the remainder of my pregnancy. I changed docs, but it’s incredibly common. Anyway, yeah, all the bad effects of the cabbage soup diet are exactly why I switched docs after that demand.
I wonder when thinness started to become the norm in many East Asian countries.
Fact boy. I command you to make an epic blaze for all of the 12 days of Christmas. I've sent the cocaine you'll be using before and during each recording. Happy holidays!!!
I'm easily amused. I still say, "My cabbages!" when I run by those Skyrim carts.
Fun Fat, Er I mean fact: From 1978 till 1999 "Weight Watchers" was owned by the H.J. Heinz Company. Yeah, THAT Heinz! (Source: From Pittsburgh. My family has been largely employed by some H.J. Heinz or Westinghouse division/company in some form since the 19th Century) LOL
I've been watching from very beginning Business Blaze days. I beg you, please put chapters.
Danny is the storyteller we need and the writer Simon deserves. XD
He truly is my fave too. Love the rest but Danny and me see eye to eye on so much.
Hey Simon. There was a time in my life when I would hear about the tapeworm diet. Did you ever hear about that well well it is one of those diets that was an old one and what they would do is they would insert a tapeworm into a woman’s stomach, well she would swallow it and it would hatch and the tapeworm would grow and eat all the food as you know, and once the tapeworm has gone in a certain size, they wouldn’t work they would medically take it out. That always sounds so disgusting. Just thought I would let you know.
So it sounds like Simon is into intermittent fasting. This was a great episode, guys.
The “F YEAH!!” at 13:35 slew me!! I was drinking and choked a bit!
Simon: Bell peppers come in Green (very unripe), then as they ripen they shift to a yellow, and then orange, and then finally red. They're all delicious, but red is the superior :)
Seeing Ronald Macdonald reminded me of a cartoon labeled Killer Clown Convention. It showed a room of creepy clowns, including Ronald. One of the others asked Ronald if he was in the right place, to which he answered "How many heart attacks do you think I have caused!"...
Aspartame does SEEM to cause cancer... in rats that receive total doses beyond what's expected for a human to intake, which in dose by weight (how it should be measured) is an overdose beyond limits. And that's only a "possible relationship". And relationships found in lab animals have to be proven for human subjects, given that relatively often the differences in metabolism are enough to make a rat carcinogen human safe and vice versa.
The “I drink your milkshake” clip is genius! ❤️👍❤️
I do the same diet as Simon and it works perfect. If you don't eat, you won't get fat.
All I want for Christmas is an epic OG Brain Blaze. AM I RIGHT PETER!!!
I hope you cover this established titles stuff on BB soon xD seems kinda crazy how many youtubers didnt look far into it
I've had a similar eating pattern as you for DECADES! I don't eat until dinner, but, turns out - that's a really bad idea and I've got all sort of digestion problems now and my metabolism is all confused...so yeah, don't do that, apparently lol!
Only after eating like this for years was I told it was actually an eating disorder. People think of an eating disorder just about anorexia or bulimia. An eating disorder is just eating in a disordered way that impacts your health. And same, my metabolism is shot to hell, I have digestion issues, and find it near impossible to lose weight. Fat people can have eating disorders, too (me, I am the fat person. Not necessarily you, OP)
LMAO 13:30 got me good, well played Sam
I did a sensible version of the cabbage soup diet. The version I did had as much soup as you want and a different food group each day of the week. I shed about 15-20 pounds off my body. The caveat with the diet I followed is that it recommended to only do it one week and no more than two consecutive weeks. It was a good way to shed excess weight temporarily.
I did it as a prelude to eating more balanced and going to the gym. I just wanted a bit of bulk shaved off for comfort on gym equipment.
Weight loss is pretty interesting to me. I've always been under the "right" weight for my height. I think so much of it has to do with your frame, or build and metabolism. After I had my 1st kid I obviously had more weight I too lasted about a week wo carbs completely miserable..wish I knew then that it always comes off eventually due to my metabolism...I truly do think that some of us are just lucky, and some unlucky. It's definitely not fair
Yo tell me more about this please, I'm at the beginning of my first winter training season in years, and could use the assistance of 10lbs gone for better mobility etc. (obv I'm in the gym but I'm VERY new so anything helps)
13:20 Funny thing, there actually is a pill you can take that prevents your body from absorbing fats in your diet. The generic name is orlistat, and it's been available for years now without a prescription in the USA and EU.
The downside is, that dietary fat your body isn't absorbing still has to go somewhere, so you're quite likely to wind up with a case of the greasy shits whenever you eat anything particularly fatty. Though this could be considered an upside of sorts, as it contributes to the drug's efficacy for weight loss in a roundabout way: Some patients, noticing that fatty foods trigger this rather uncomfortable side effect, adjust their diet to avoid such foods, which reduces empty calories far more than the drug itself does.
“Flesh Reducing Soap” sounds like a B-rate horror flick😂(and not of the so bad it’s good variety😳)
I have a similar diet. Usually skip breakfast, snack or maybe light lunch, heavy dinner. I eat any food I want no matter the nutrition. I credit that, my physically demanding job and good genetics for not being hob sized.
Edit: Saw the two replies including stats and figured I'd add mine. 5'9" ~180lbs. BMI says not so good but I wear size 34 waist and need a belt.
Same. No breakfast, if I eat lunch it’s not much then beer for supper and I’m a healthy looking 6ft 2in 230lb stud muffin 😊
I sometimes even leave out dinner. I just constantly eat small portions of whatever the heck I want. But I also work in a physically demanding job so I sometimes accidentally loose weight If I end up skipping too many bigger meals in a row. 6ft 172lbs currently.
I often wake with a food aversion. To eat before lunch I usually have a breakfast shake.
I'll go days w/out eating...?
@@muddy1052 Bet you save a lot on take out.
I was in hospital last year and a dietitian (a nutritionist with an actual medical degree) noted that I'd lost 13kg and just said "don't lose any more". So I didn't. Mmmm, food.
I remember like 10 or 15 years ago there was a story about a woman that found a doctor to put her in a medically induced coma to lose weight before her wedding.
I went on the cabbage soup diet and farted so much I got a warning from the International Space Station.
5 minutes in, I still have no idea what you are talking about. Love it.
Simon Says: "Mommy, look I have a fever!" **puts thermometer under hot water**.....*cough cough* "Mommy, I can't goto school today "!
Really great episode. Laughed all the way through, well done!
OMAD is the king of diets. Also 48 and 72 hour fasts on the regular. Unless you have a health issue, you won't die.
We now have proof that Danny, Sam and the rest are locked in the Blazement eating KFC leftovers that Simon chucks down the stairs for them once a week
I imagioned a deep trap door pit, bucket on rope situation, in the Blaze-ment.
YESSS!!! Back to 6m+ intros!
Stick it to the Man, Danny!
Blazement Revolution!
You know what ACTUALLY works? Surgery... Surgery. That's it. Nothing else. My wife has lost 60lbs in 7 months. She's down to 145 now
I can't wait till he covers FTX.
It's up there with Enron.
I just found this channel but I’m already smitten. Don’t ever change 😂
The instant I saw the title of this video, I knew Danny named it (he makes good use of that Cockney rhyming slang, which is appreciated).
Oh, it's a Danny episode, that's why it's good
That might’ve been the best “learning stuff with fact boy” ever
There were the diet candy chews called Ayds. They probably quit selling in the ‘80s. 😏🤭🤫
Exactly when they went off the market. Mom bought them for me in HS 'cause I was a chonker eating my way through the state of being an unpopular child.
Rip to Simon's vocal cords at the beginning
Lol I still think this is one of Simon's best channels. Casual Criminalist is close second.
watching this while eating a nice big meal,,, just as simon intended
Sleeping all the time would cause your muscles to degenerate.
Also love that this is preceded by an ad for a fad diet pill
Am I right PETER!!! Enjoy your trip Master Simon!!!
Going to sleep right now Factboi.
I'll watch tomorrow.
The thing that worked for me the first time is spending three months tracking my calories and portions (that way it can become a habit) then after the 3 months I incorporate exercise. In a year I went from 265-180. Lost it all from December 2015- December 2016. Things went well until I got into a severely traumatic experience for almost a year from September 2018 - August 2019. The traumatic experience caused me to stress eat and gain it all back. Spent a few years trying it again, but it didn't stick and start working again until July of this year. Started doing small 9 minute walks in my neighborhood. And each week or two I'd up the distance. The 9 minute walk was 0.44 miles. By late September I was up to walking an hour and 30 min each day at over 3 miles. I've now transitioned to the gym since I don't like walking in the cold. Already lost almost 20 pounds. Went from 276-259. Goal is 180 again.
Moral of the story is just because these well known diets work for people doesn't mean they'll work for you. (Not saying these fad diets won't work at all, just that they might not work for everyone. Im talking atkins diet, intermittent fasting, and weight watchers ect.) Start out slow when on a diet and little by little go up in intensity. Don't expect yourself to walk 3 miles on your first day. Start with small steps. If you try doing 3 miles your first day you'll be so overwhelmed and miserable you'll quit your diet right then and there. I usually try to burn 600-1000 calories a day and only eat breakfast and dinner. (Haven't really eaten lunch since high school in 2015.) Try your best to know what calorie intake you need a day, (the amount of calories you're allowed per day to lose weight.) and use that to determine what foods best work for you. Exercise as I've mentioned is another big factor. If you're doing everything right and STILL not losing a pound I'd get checked by a doctor. I used to have something called a metabolic syndrome, where it's next to impossible to lose weight until its corrected or cured. First month, month and half was tough as i fought back against my metabolic syndrome. There's many more health issues that could causing it to be hard to lose weight. Start out slow and work your way up. Best of luck to anyone trying to lose weight. You can do it!
That milkshake meme was spot on, Sam.
You can survive on potato's only wit additional b12 which you can get from butter milk, 8 million Irish did, until the blight. You could try the celery diet, or the rabbit only diet or the milk diet. 🥔🥔🥔 🥨🍔🍪🍩🎂🥧🍯
Sam, Can you drop in a clip from the Brail (skateboarding) Chanel. Were they say "first try" when Simon succeeded on a take.
I never really easily put on weight either and I ate immense amounts. I switched to intermittent fasting and it works well for me. I slipped a bit for few months from eating habits and training noticing I can also gain weight now. Got back on track and lost the gained 7kg in few weeks and weight went back to stable. I basically eat once a day but huge amount, besides on training days I eat two massive meals.
I slip for the holidays and my birthday…but it’s been the easiest thing for me.
not sure what I do can be called "fasting", but I've never been a breakfast person, and at work I'm too busy to eat. Currently 9pm and I think I've eaten 2 apples. Getting ready to get home from work and eat a big meal :D
I've been like this as long as I can remember, and I think I'm pretty healthy
Simon's ability for alliteration = first take. Simon's ability to read the next sentence.....
I don’t need any medication to sleep 20hrs a day! It’s how my body functions. Unfortunately I also struggle to eat, due to gastrointestinal issues and achalasia. But I can thankfully digest sugar! So I am probably going to get diabetes eventually, but eating a high sugar diet is going to have fewer risks than tube feeding which is my only other option. (Unfortunately nasojejunal tubes don’t work well for me, so when I was on one, it was directly in to my heart).
I have also literally been told by my doctors to stay the larger side of my ideal weight, because when I get really sick again it gives us all time to manage things before they become critical.
I used to love that plums & apples gerber baby food. When my mom would get food for my sister I’d ask her to get a few of them for me.
That stuff tasted great. Blueberry Buckle was great, too.
Ive been doing my PT exercises daily and that has overall helped me lose weight, It comes and goes around the holidays, but even small amounts of exercise are better then none; and even small amounts help build muscle, which is what I need for my medical condition.
Standing leg lifts 30 each leg
Side laying leg lifts 30 each leg
Laying leg lifts vertical 30 each leg
20-30 squats
10 lunges
10 half pushups or 20 wall pushups
Banded side steps
30 heel raises
its not a ton but it helps
Thank you for not calling them girl push-ups.
@@Waywardwindfall I never understood why the were referred to as that, I had bigger boobs then all the girls in my class in middle school, and i never got to do special push-ups. Mind you, I did end up losing a lot of weight....
Sam, I gotta say, I love that new "fuck yeah"
I remember I had a chirurgical intervention where I couldn't eat solid food for a week. Because I was lazy (and didn't have a kitchen in my room), I bought baby food. I ate that crap for a week and first thing I though "no wonder babies are crying all the time, this stuff is disgusting".
Thankfully I had a prescription for codein that helped a little bit
In Germany the stuff is actually kinda good, haven't had it in years but I remember it as tolerable. Don't know if I could sustain a diet purely consisting of it tho.
Hope you had fun with the codeine 😂
I'll have you know that Nigel Gloop is a fine chap... lol 😆
It sounds like Simon says "Daddy" instead of "Danny", and I giggle each time.
I don't know what baby food you're eating but the ones I get my son are pretty delicious. I tell my wife after cleaning off the spoon, "Mmm, this is really good, I could eat a whole jar!"
Sam's memes this episode: 🧑🍳😚👌
I absolutely love Simon but his channels don’t have near the amount of subscribers as he should. Need to get those numbers up. He deserves it.
Yes Simon! I do the same diet as you, works a treat 😂
Fun fact: In Illinois, fries with vinegar (as a topping?) are a mainstay at the County fair.
Simon, I have no objection to better living through chemistry but the thought of s***ting out an *entire undigested bucket of kfc* is a million times worse than just dealing with the calorie consequences.
"Lord Byron, what are you up to???" is also what all of Lord Byron's friends would ask. Except Mary Shelley. Mary would just dream of a world where Lotd Byron doesn't exist
Back in 2014, I was 312 lbs (~141.5 Kg). I felt like trash and decided to do something extreme about it. So I limited myself to 500 calories a day and walked 5 miles (~8 km) every other day. This was a temporary measure in my plan...I planned to stop being so restrictive when I was under 200 lbs (~91 Kg), where I would be allowed 1200 calories a day until I hit my ultimate goal of 165 lbs (~75 Kg) and be allowed 1800 calories a day forever from that point. I dropped to 232 lbs (~105 Kg) in 6 1/2 months (about 13 lbs or 5.8 Kg a month lost) before I got incredibly sick, needed to take levofloxacin to cure the infection, and was put out of exercise commission by that drug's side effects for 3 months (joint inflammation that could be permanent damage if I did anything to strain myself). I also went back to actually eating food and stopped counting my calories. I went back to 275 lbs (~125 Kg) by the time I could start exercising again...but I never went past 280 again from that point on. It's been pretty slow-going since then, but I'm currently sitting at 229 Lbs (~104 Kg). I don't really count calories anymore...instead opting to just occasionally have a day where I either fast completely (no more than once a week...usually more like twice a month), or have a veggie day where all I eat is vegetables or low cal fruits (berries, sour citrus, sweet peppers, etc.). There was a while where I did literally nothing and was still losing about half a pound a week...and I didn't eat fewer calories or anything like that. I just started taking probiotic supplements, then fermenting my own kombucha and sauerkraut and regularly consuming them. It's not a lot of weight loss, and it will slow down with time...but you'd be surprised at how much healthier you can get just by fixing your gut flora when you've gone and thrown it out of whack with antibiotics, super high meat diets, and/or too much canned crap.
Well, if Simon is that upset about buying fancy baby food AND he thinks the solution is to just cook your own food, prepare for the latest Simon Whistler RUclips channel- 'Cooking with Fact Boi- 100 recipes to Blaze Your Brain'.
Just in case nobody has pointed it out Penn jillette's potato diet consisted of just potatoes, but you could not prepare them any way you wanted you could only have them baked, stemmed, or boiled. No seasonings, no oils, no butter. Just the potatoes. It's only for 2 weeks then you add in more normal foods, but you're supposed to go to a whole plant diet, and stay on a plant-based diet from then on.
Now Simon nibs on Magic Spool covered in instant coffee powder after getting to the office/studio before going back home for dinner.
Sleep diet works. I did it by accident when coming off meds. I often consider doing it to enforce fasting, since I love food too much to diy.
Business Blaze: 10 minutes in and the introduction is over.
Brain Blaze: 10 minutes in and the ad read begins.
I knew a guy who would do this thing where before starting a diet plan of any kind he would eat nothing but boiled unsalted potatoes for a week before starting the diet. His logic was that after eating nothing but unseasoned, boiled potato, any food at all would be exciting and tasty.
A shot of Cider vinegar followed by some water is how I was taught to calm acid reflux, tastes terrible but it seems to work.
I actually do the same thing, just drink coffee up until dinner, and then have one proper meal. Difference is though that I have my coffee with sugar and cream, which adds to my total daily calorie content quite a bit. Although still rarely enough to put me at a calorie surplus. It also is the reason I have close to zero energy and high cholesterol at age 33. But I mean... it worked for about a decade.