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.

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Today I'm talking to Tony at Bloom Training about some of the misconceptions that we commonly hear

in social media about weight loss. You can find him on Instagram at Train Bloom.

Tony Bloom, welcome to the American Glutton Podcast.

Glad to be here. What's up, man?

I've been looking at your IG and I really admire what you do and I want to know how you got here.

How you escaped the noise of fat diets that are kind of omnipresent in this space and how you

arrived where you were. I'll try and give a cliff notes version. I'll try and shorten it up a

little bit. I mean, I've been in this industry for probably over just about 10 years now.

Honestly, when I first got started when I was a younger kid and it was probably stemming from

some places of insecurity growing up, getting picked on or whatever that was, but I think when I

started to notice getting into fitness a little bit more and I'm wondering if you went through the same.

I really got frustrated when I would spend a lot of my time and effort and energy in doing

something. It was when I was first started working with a coach or a trainer and you put a lot

of effort and energy into something and months down the road, you're not seeing any results and

any progress. Income to learn, you've been doing the wrong thing this entire time and that would

frustrate the heck out of me. I mean, one example, I think when it was a new fat, even though there's

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