Ethan Suplee: 300 lbs Lost & 5 Years of Maintenance - What No Diet Book Tells You
RP Strength Podcast
Dr. Mike Israetel, Nick Shaw
4.7 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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00:00 - Intro & Welcome Back (5.5 years since last episode)
06:16 - Ethan's Backstory: First Diet at Age 5
09:00 - Hitting 536 lbs: The Freight Scale Story
15:50 - "Just Don't Eat Bread"
22:55 - Discovering Dr. Mike's TEDx Talk: Ethan hates it 😂
40:10 - The Maintenance Revelation: Harder Than Dieting?
51:15 - GLP-1 Discussion: Why Ethan Hasn't Tried Them
52:30 - Treating Weight Like a Chronic Condition (Sobriety Parallel)
59:15 - The Future of Dieting: Hunger as a "Solved Problem"
01:05:45 - Closing: "Life is Not Really a Struggle Anymore"
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to the RP string podcast. I am Nick Shaw and today joined by, man, it has been a while. |
| 0:11.1 | Folks, I went back and looked this up. We had on Ethan Soply and I'll let him kind of introduce himself. |
| 0:15.5 | But I will say that Ethan was an actor. It played a pretty damn large role in one of my favorite movies of all time. |
| 0:25.3 | Remember the Titans, that is. |
| 0:26.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:27.5 | Ethan Soplee, man, welcome back to the podcast. |
| 0:29.6 | Looked it up. |
| 0:30.1 | It's been like five and a half years since you were on before. |
| 0:32.9 | That's crazy. |
| 0:34.0 | That's a long, long time. |
| 0:36.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:41.1 | I actually am going to go back and listen to that episode from five and a half years ago just because I want to know if my thinking about diet has |
| 0:45.7 | evolved very much in five and I don't know that it has because I kind of haven't changed |
| 0:51.6 | anything since then. Yeah, well, but it would be interesting for me to hear that. |
| 0:56.2 | Yeah, I want to riff on that quite a bit. |
| 0:59.6 | So, I mean, back then, I think you were living in California. |
| 1:02.5 | So you just mentioned you're now living in New York. |
| 1:05.6 | Where do you train at in New York, man? |
| 1:07.0 | I lived in Manhattan for six years. |
| 1:09.8 | Oh, wow. |
| 1:10.7 | There's a little gym near my house called |
| 1:13.1 | Jim NYC, and there's, I think, five or six locations around the New York City area. But it's |
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