Hi, I'm Ethan Sopli, welcome to American Glutton. 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 is entertainment, food is sport, food as fuel.

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

My guest today is Nima Van, who you may know from Bravo's Shahz of Sunset. He is here with

us to talk about the physical transformation he made after his divorce and share some things

about food and weight loss that he hasn't talked about before. Nima also has a podcast

under the action park media umbrella called Off Brand with Nima Van. You can find him on

Instagram at Nima Van.

Welcome to the American Glutton podcast. Thank you for having me. How are you, man?

I'm good, man. How are you? Good. Now, look, I want to say first, I do not think that divorce

is a necessary component to changing your life, but it kind of was in your case. It's a cliche.

Right. It's a total cliche and it's not one that I'm like always proud of, but yeah, I went through

a divorce and then for like a year afterwards, I just continued unhealthy habits. And then

I would always complain about it to friends. And then one day, one of my friends, who much

like you was like super intense workout guy, was like, dude, either do something about this

or shut the fuck up. And I was like, that was my moment. I was like, yep, I'm going to

do something. I want to know though, before you were married, what was your life like?

Were you active prior to that? No, I think it's just a combination of putting on some

weight in college. And then there's such a connection for me with like mental health

and physical health. And I don't think it often gets, it gets glossed over a lot. So I love

what you do for that. I think it was just fouts of depression, not really having enough

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