How I Lost 60 Pounds and Started Giving A F*ck About My Health

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Podcast

Mark Manson

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Over the past 5 years, I’ve completely changed my relationship to my health. Prior to that, I was overweight, pre-diabetic, and having chest pains in my mid-30s. I thought maybe eating a salad once a week and going for a run every now then would take care of it. I was wrong.

Since then, I’ve lost 60 pounds (~30kg). I now enjoy exercising regularly and I eat healthy and nutritious foods. My daily life is much more physically active and I get way better sleep. I’m happy with my health now—but it took a long time to get here.

I’m not going to share a bunch of workout routines or complicated diets. What worked for me might not work for you. But I can share what I went through to get here in the hopes that you, too, might change how you think about your health and take it more seriously. Because at the end of the day, your health is definitely something you should give a f*ck about.

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0:00.0	So as you know Drew, we've gotten a lot of comments over to last year about how skinny I am.
0:05.9	We have. That's such a weird way to start an episode. Have you all noticed how skinny I am?
0:12.1	Do I look good in these genes?
0:14.1	No, but seriously.
0:15.6	So over the past year, dozens and dozens of people
0:18.7	have commented and asked about the health journey I've been on.
0:22.2	For those of you who have been longtime fans who've been around for many years
0:26.1	You know that I used to be a little chunky little a little bit of a fat fuck
0:31.5	For being honest.
0:32.8	I'm not gonna sugar coat it.
0:34.8	I did plenty of sugarcoding in prior years.
0:38.3	I have lost almost 60 pounds in the last 4 to 5 years. That's 30 kilos for non-Americans. I went from over 40% body
0:48.4	fat, which is like very like you're in the red zone in terms of body composition health-wise to
0:55.6	under 20% body fat. My biomarkers are the best that they've ever been in my life.
0:59.2	I've been on a very long and intense health journey over the last five years. A lot of readers and
1:06.5	listeners have noticed a lot of people have asked about it. I want to preface
1:11.0	this episode by saying I'm not a fitness guru. I'm not a nutrition expert.
1:16.0	I'm just a guy who was horribly unhealthy for most of his adult life.
1:20.0	I fought tooth and nail to get my shit together over many many years. I tried a lot of things.
1:27.5	Most of them didn't work and so I just wanted to take an episode to talk through the psychological process that I went through as well as the things that I did.
1:37.2	There's going to be no, there's no diet here, there's no exercise routine, There's no hot fad secret process that did anything like this was a long arduous process. People keep asking me like oh oh my God, you look amazing, what did you do?
1:55.6	And my answer is like, I did 25 different things over four and a half years and half of them didn't work. So I don't know how to answer that question.
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