Hi, I'm Ethan Sopli, welcome to American Blood. Outside of acting, my two favorite things

to do are diet and eat. I have a very complicated relationship with food and on this podcast,

we're going to talk about all of it. Food as entertainment, food as sport, food as fuel.

I'll talk to experts and the average person, just like you and me.

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in front. My guest today is professional mixed martial artist Garrett Faustick. You can find him

on Instagram at Fuzzy Fighting. Garrett Faustick, welcome to the American Glutton podcast.

What's up? How's it going? It's going good. Thanks so much for doing this.

Yeah, no problem, man. I mean, I see you in the gym training with Mark Weis all the time,

I saw that post of you, when you were heavier and I just was like, hey, you know, I was heavier

too. So I was like, I got a show on this too. I love you. Don't know that.

It's, well, you know, look, you went from very overweight to a professional athlete.

So that's something I'm super interested in. Like, how did that happen?

Well, so like, I've always been like kind of a bigger guy. I was never been like too tall

and wrestling and stuff like that. But I always wrestled around my whole life. But I was always like

that kind of like a butter ball, you know, big boy, but just moved well. And then,

so I've always been an athlete, but I've always just been a heavy athlete. And then probably after college,

you know, it's like long story short, I'm sure we'll get more into it. I just met a doctor and he

was like, listen, dude, like, you know, you really got to get a whole of that or like, you're just

going to live your whole life like this, you know, and I was like, well, I don't want to do that.

That I mean, like eating, eating as a heavyweight, you know, at 285 is kind of like a job. You work

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