Losing weight almost never equates to getting healthier

Because the body is far smarter than we are in how it should balance itself

I was watching a video on Youtube yesterday when I saw a new video popup in my recommended list by MrBeast.

It’s title is “Lose 100 LBs, Win $250,000”.

Apparently MrBeast offered an overweight guy named Majd a chance to win $250k if he could lose 100 lbs in a year.

The catch was that he had to live in this red circle below till he was done. Haha

He would also be given lots of tools to help him. For example he had:

• his own gym and basketball court

• unlimited healthy food

• a personal trainer

And in the end.. he achieved it. He lost 100 lbs and even won $417k for doing so.

Victory right?

But is it?

I don’t think so.

I sat there shaking my head at the screen thinking how stupid this was to glorify this type of forced weight loss. Because I think it will be found to be complete and utter bullshit.

I particularly felt like I wanted to puke when at 34:24 it says “And according to his doctor, if he keeps this up, he’ll have extended his lifespan by about five years.”

I was like “What?????”

Where is this ‘doctor’ getting this data? He is pulling it out of his ass… that is where.

The reality is that there is no correct experiment that proves this in history because you never really know what would have been had the person taken the other route.

For example… obese person loses a lot of weight, manages to keep it off, and dies at age 70. Would they have died at 68 if they hadn’t lost the weight? Or maybe they would have died at 72 and the weight loss actually cut their life by two years?

Nobody knows! They can only guess.

There are just correlations… they conclude things by saying things like “well a person with weight in this lower range tends to live longer.” But that is completely logically flawed.

Because that correlation was built on the back of data that consisted of a lot of people that probably had better structure and thus stayed in that lower weight range naturally.

That data set does not predict what happens to a person that forces them to lose weight to be at that lower weight.

Here is the video in case you want to check it out.

Does losing weight improve structure?

That is the real logical question you need to answer. Because if it does.. then there is some validity to dieting.

But my experience based on observing this exact question for nearly a decade and probably reading ‘structure’ far better than most people is… ABSOLUTELY NOT.

Let’s look at this guy, Majd, in MrBeast’s video. Did Majd improve his spine by doing this?

No, his body is as twisted at the end as it was when he started. And probably even more so.

Just look at where his head is and the posture of his neck on this pic below. This was his ‘amazing’ end state. Are you kidding me?

Do i think he got healthier at all? No.

I bet his immune system hasn’t improved one bit and so he probably gets sick with the same or even higher frequency in this skinnier state.

Also, I see no neurological improvement in how he behaves.

When I think about how my neurology evolved the past few years as I improved my structure.. it has been massive. I read people better, I get along with people easier, I communicate far more confidently, etc etc.

Even though it’s a short video… I don’t see any of this in Majd’s supposed “transformation”.

The coach passed away

At the end of the video they flash this on the screen and it made me curious…. wait a minute the coach passed away?

Who is this ‘Coach Tyler Wall’ and why did he pass away?

So I asked ChatGPT.

His 38-year old coach died of an ‘accident’ caused by mitragynine toxicity?

Now i don’t know much about this… but why is such a young person dying unexpectedly like this? Especially given that he’s a trainer and therefore according to society he is the ‘ideal’ of health.

Except i know the truth.

He’s not the ideal of health because that is not how our body works.

Rather he is a prime example of what happens when you try to manipulate the human body. Forcing it into a shape that it doesn’t want to be in while probably consuming lots of chemicals to aid the process.

I would not be surprised if that is the ‘real’ cause of death of this 38-year old.

I probably feel the healthiest I’ve ever been

I am 48 years old and I feel great each and everyday.

Probably better than I’ve felt my entire life.

Each day i am energized, happy, and can work like a machine. Which I do only because I enjoy it.

Also it is now about five years since I’ve been sick.

I achieved this state while doing pretty much no exercise in five years and eating whatever I want each day. I listen to my body. That is my only rule.

Do I look like i’m in perfect shape according to societal standards? No. I’ve probably put on 30+ lbs in the past four years but it is all solid.

If you were to try to pinch fat anywhere on my body there is almost nothing to pinch.

But the structure is not yet fully corrected and so it doesn’t ‘look’ like i’m in great shape just yet.

Don’t worry however… the aesthetics will follow soon enough. I will fix that by the time I ‘finish’ and i will bury all the naysayers in the process.

Then they will have to hear me laugh at them for years to come. I’m gonna gather up all their comments and then mock their sorry asses one by one.

He who laughs last laughs the longest. As they say ;)

Closing thoughts

My main point in this post is that the body is far far smarter than we are at how to remain healthy.

Forcing it to diet or forcing it to exercise is a bad idea.

Because you’re pulling it out of it’s homeostasis. The body is very intelligent at how to keep us alive and healthy.

That is the one rule that has become crystal clear to me this past decade.

Thinking you can manipulate it and make it ‘healthier’ is actually pretty foolish when you reflect on it. Our bodies have access to a ton of data that we are oblivious to.

It’s going to make the best decision given this data. And I advise you to listen to it.