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The Rich Roll Podcast

How Adam Sud Lost 100 Pounds, Kicked Adderall, Reversed His Diabetes & Found A Life

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.713.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2015

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

I love the everyman stories. Adam Sud isn't famous. He's not a world-class performer. And he's not schilling a book. He's just an average dude living a pretty normal life. But look deeper and you'll find a rather extraordinary story. The story of a guy who completely lost himself in the bleak darkness of drug and food addiction. Hopelessly hooked since high school on the superman rush provided by Adderall, Adam spent most of his twenties isolating and high — up all night playing video games and binging on fast food. The heavier he got, the more he isolated, until he stopped caring altogether. Life shrank to a cycle of getting high, finding more Adderall, and repressing his increased depression and anger with more and more fast food — a lifestyle that left him over 300lbs with Type-2 diabetes on a crash course with an early grave. Out of cash, unemployable and alienated from friends and family, Adam finally faced a choice: live on the street or reach out for help. After extended stays in rehab and sober living facilities Adam found sobriety, peace of mind and a new lease on life. Oh yeah — he also lost over 100 pounds, reversed his diabetes and repaired his physical health wholesale. How? By adopting an active, plant-based lifestyle. Today, Adam lives a conscious, purpose-driven life devoted to helping others achieve and maintain a holistic, healthy lifestyle. Not surprisingly, this is a conversation about drug addiction, sobriety and nutrition. But it's also a conversation about cross-addiction, low self-esteem and an important issue rarely discussed — body dysmorphia and eating disorders in men. I'm inspired by Adam's tale of everyman redemption and I think you will be too. I sincerely hope you enjoy the exchange. Peace + Plants, Rich

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When I reversed my type 2 diabetes, it was when I saw the weight coming off that I felt self-worth for the first time and I felt like there was somebody worth saving and I had enough self-confidence to say,

0:13.0

all right, you know what, I'm going to drop the ego with my therapist and say, I don't know what to do. The way that I know how to live my life clearly isn't working as far as an emotional individual.

0:24.0

Maybe I should just do what they're saying I should do and see what happens.

0:28.0

And that's Adam Seud and this is the Rich Roll Podcast.

0:33.0

The Rich Roll Podcast.

0:38.0

Hey, what's up everybody? How you guys doing? I'm Rich Roll. I am your host. This is my podcast, the podcast where I sit down with the outliers,

0:55.0

the big forward thinkers across all categories of positive, paradigm breaking, culture change, what's the aim? The aim is to help all of us simply unlock and unleash our best most authentic selves.

1:07.0

So thank you so much for tuning into the show. Thanks for subscribing to the show on iTunes. Thanks for checking out my weekly newsletter and subscribing to that for giving us a review on iTunes and for always making sure to use the Amazon banner at at RichRoll.com for all your Amazon purchases. Thank you so much.

1:23.0

So one of the things that I think kind of makes this show unique that distinguishes it from a lot of the other interview shows out there is that every once in a while I bring on somebody who I think could barely be characterized as in every man.

1:39.0

I had Josh LaGiani on a couple of times you remember him. You know, the story of somebody who is basically not a superhero, not some kind of world class hyperformer, but just like an everyday average person having a human experience who has faced and overcome some specific obstacles on the journey towards becoming more fully, more fully expressed.

2:03.0

And so today is one of those guys, Adam Seud, again, he's not a world ranked athlete. He's not a renowned expert in any particular field. He doesn't have a book coming out. He's just a guy. He's a dude. He's a human like everyone out there listening, but it just so happens that this human has a pretty amazing story. And I'm really looking forward to sharing it with you guys today.

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All right, Adam suit today's every man guest. So I don't want to give away too much about this conversation in this guest, but I will say this. Adam is a really good guy. He's a very grounded guy. He's a young guy, but not too long ago.

4:10.0

He was also a guy who was pushing over 300 pounds type two diabetic with a nasty nasty drug addiction. His drug of choice was a adder all, which is a pretty interesting drug of choice. I have to say.

4:23.0

And this is a guy who was pretty much on a crash course with an early grave, but he turned it around. He got sober. He lost the weight. He became an athlete. He became a holistic lifestyle coach and a whole number of additional things. His life has blossomed.

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So how did he do it? Well, you're just going to have to listen in to the story. And it's a pretty compelling story. He is quite a dynamic young man, but it's also a story that I hope you can emotionally tap into and perhaps relate to a little bit more intimately than some of the other guys simply because Adam isn't some, you know, superhero or world class performer or, you know, somebody with a massive social media following and like that.

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