There is no "easy" weight loss: vegan or carnivore.

so I tweet the other day a baby is
actually a couple months ago Wow not the other day but it was a tweet that was like hey stop promoting veganism as you know an instant like weight loss tool or like oh your skin's gonna instantly clear up and you're gonna be like this amazing perfect person and the blah blah blah I definitely agree with that I definitely used to advertise veganism as this as well but I feel like oh like go vegan you lose weight your skin will be perfect blah blah blah and that's definitely not the case and I say this sometimes with different comments that I get but I get comments that are like Sonia like you're vegan why is your skin not fair Sonia you're vegan why are you not skinny and that's because veganism is not a body type or a skin type the first thing that may make you a bit suspicious about this video is that I'm sitting a little bit further back from the camera and that's because this video is about the body and it actually does include my body my body is in some small part questions its video the body health fitness the vegan activism no intro new outro no edits let's just go with this look it crossed my desk that Jordan Peterson world famous philosopher and political leader Jordan Peterson is now on a 100% meat diet if you look at the blog kept by his daughter she is boasting about how his depression and anxiety have improved dramatically just two days after going on to the the 100% meat diet sorry so at the time that blog entry had been written he'd only been on the diet for a few days but I'm not sure how many months have passed you can look into the details if you like um on her Instagram and in the video I had some clips from you also see her boasting about how she has managed to recover and retain an aesthetically appealing body on this 100% meat diet just five months after pregnancy and childbirth okay these are messages that will set the imaginations of many viewers and Peters on fire okay this is a propaganda claim which above all else is immediately familiar to me from veganism this is the same crap I've seen on vegan YouTube in vegan magazines even in vegan academic discourse since I first got involved with this movement it's no different when people are promoting the 100% meat diet or when people are promoting the 0% meat diet they called themselves carnivores we call ourselves vegans astoundingly we have this in common and the basic message I've come up with on this channel again and again and again is the bikini body discourse has to die it is neither more nor less [ __ ] in the problems of our times when we do it as vegans for a good cause then when the carnivore people do it from their perspective they are doing it for a good cause they're doing it I mean in the case of Jordan Peterson and his daughter they're promoting eating meat because they sincerely believe that it's the cure for depression oh and he thinks that postmodern Marxism is implausible oh it's a lot easier for me to believe that one day the workers are gonna rise up and tear down the rich the mr. me to believe that the cure for the cure for depression is to be found in a bowl full of beef ye gods anybody look with with that aside I'm joking around a little bit because it's it's a serious issue and I got messages sent in to me from a few different people which could put one on camera saying in effect am i insinuating that everyone who says they lost weight effortlessly is a liar everyone who makes this this type of claim is being dishonest so yeah this is where my my body comes into it we digress briefly okay currently by my own standards I am in shape I'm not an athlete but I am by my standards in shape alright there's a lot of strength in the shoulder because the mean exercise I rely on is doing push-ups with my feet elevated almost in my shoulder level so it's my whole-body waiting list lifted on my knuckles with every push-up and that's also when my knuckles are discolored all the time and I can do 200 in a day i benchpress over 200 pounds I'm 39 years old I'm not an athlete I spent all the rest of my time with books and languages you don't want to know well I wish I had a job digging ditches I'd probably better shape but I don't have a physical I reduced job I'm not an athlete it never was and never will be it would be very easy for me to say to you as many of these people say on the internet that they lost weight and gained body strength gain muscle effortlessly but precisely the job of a journalist a reporter or an intellectual or a scientist for actually doing you know research into this topic would be to establish what effortlessly really means those of you who follow my channel when I first moved from Canada to Kunming well that's actually it's not the first time I moved it couldn't make but anyway well the first time I did so while I had a youtube channel I moved to Kunming I lost weight and a gain muscle mass I already had quite a bit of strength and went over but people saw the percentage of my body fat go down and I was not just lifting more it was going to the gym more often I was doing set of exercises I didn't do when I was back in Canada when I was in Canada I had only a home gym and here I was working on a real gym so my appearance changed it felt effortless it seemed from my perspective that of Zephyrs and it might you know casual conversation a coffee shop I might let it slip that it was easy for me to make that transition to lose that body fat and gain that strength but if you just say okay let's take out a pen and paper let's just draw a flowchart of what you actually did in a week okay the reason why it felt effortless was because the other sources of stress in my life were overwhelming and terrible distractions while I was there in conveying I was stressed out as hell about my divorce I was stressed out as hell about getting what are called custody rights but they're really visitation rights to see my daughter in connection to my divorce dealing with the lawyers I had a court case going on completely unrelated core case going on in Thailand I was in class face to face with the teacher for four hours a day five days a week very intensive learning schedule every day I would write or rewrite an essay a writing assignment in addition to the time spent in the class I was pouring an enormous amount of energy into the study of languages I was pouring a lot of energy into this YouTube channel and you know I had a lot of very real emotional anguish it completely dwarfs the the physical equus of going to the gym two and three times a day it seemed relaxing and easy for me to go to the gym two or three times a day but it's ridiculous and there's no way I can say to anybody with a full-time job oh you can get the same results I did on a vegan diet all you have to do is subsist on nothing but green vegetables and rice you can see videos are back then everyone should go to the gym two or three times a day benchpress over 200 pounds 200 push-ups you know dips upright row I can list all the exercise sucked in right and a lot of people look at that and say if you consider that effortless what do you qualify as effort alright anyone who tells you this that they lost 50 pounds effortlessly etc you have to look at this context you have to take that next step if what we're doing is real social science research or even just real reporting as journalists when I look at I mean originally I was criticizing a specific film clip from plant-based news when I look at the photographs and film footage they show there a lot of these women have breast implants have undergone surgery to have breast implants okay that's self-evident can you call that effortless like what is that word mean if you've undergone surgery to change your appearance now further there's no cross examination there's no asking them what were the efforts they made that were outside of and supplemental to a vegan diet which are very important especially to get specific claims like quote-unquote veganism cure your acne you've got to go through what are the other things they were doing they could have been on three medications and a medicated facial scrub at the same time that they went through thinking that could all just be passage of time a lot of women have hormonal acne when they went through puberty and then in those couple of years after when they happened to also become vegan hormonal acne will clear up its sorts for most for very large ginger people you can look up the side of their face yourself it's a phase of life that you grow out of with their without medication but they also may have been a medication I have one female friend who is a gym manager and I remember she was talking me through the performance enhancing drugs commonly used by women now women do not use the same steroids the same performance enhancing drugs that male bodybuilders use but they use a lot of performance-enhancing drugs many people just say it's an epidemic that you know it's such a large percentage of people it's it's shocking horrifying and I heard that from her perspective as a gym manager she was saying look when you look at these results you know that women are showing whether it's on Instagram or in magazines were to have you there really needs to be hard questions asked about what performance-enhancing drugs they're using whether those are drugs to lose body fat or to maintain a lot of muscle while but you know leaning out while keeping a really lean physique well losing losing body fat okay and if you're talking about someone who is already obviously engaged in plastic surgery and Photoshop to alter their appearance why would you start with the June supposition that there are not going to be any performance-enhancing drugs well we don't do that with men anymore it seems like as IDO and within veganism guys like vegan games really carried the flag for that of saying hey we've got to think critically about what are the male body images we're presenting here how natural or unnatural are they how many hours go into them at the gym right but then beyond that like I just said when I was living in Kunming going to the gym was the only pleasure I had in life so it's easy for me to say to you it felt effortless to lose the fat and to gain those'll I can say that but and subjectively maybe it even feels like it's true but objectively it's utterly utterly wrong and whether we're looking at men or women in this case we're looking at women the women who were in those videos promoted by plant-based news of course there are many other YouTube channels that do this even if they say that for them subjectively this feels effortless I think I think it is our role the call [ __ ] on that and to say no how many hours a week are you putting in at the gym how much work is it to have this look to be so lean and so muscular and to make your to either be a fitness competitor or you know a bikini model or the various chops these women are who could possibly claim that this is effortless and further who can claim that it is any more effortless for the vegans that it is for the people with a meet a meet inclusive diet who get the same results every day I go to the gym the gym has plenty of guys who lift more weight than me who are in better shape than me and none of them are vegan right pick up I've said this a million times pick out any magazine like Cosmopolitan magazine it's full of women who are getting these same results as bikini models or what have you and who are eating meat every day all right so it is possible it is achievable on a meat-based diet and here in this video I'm addressing an example which is the most extreme this is someone on a 100% meat diet no vegetables no grains just beef is her diet and she claims she does zero exercise I can believe that looking at the pictures and these are the results she gets five months after pregnancy all right she's taking your physical appearance she's making a kind of propaganda claim out of it and I think she is going to reap the same rewards of fame and notoriety that so many vegan leaders including most obviously most odiously freelee the banana girl did with their wild and wacky but you know diet claims with their claims they could eat I mean look which is more absurd the claim that you can eat an unlimited amount of calories as long as their sugar that's freelee the banana girl and durianrider unlimited calories while losing weight while maintaining that big bikini-ready body beach beach beach bikini by whatever turf they use sorry or is it more absurd to claim you can calorie restrict and eat a meat-based diet whether that's 100% meat or 50% meat or what have you which one of those really is more observed right they're both stupid but actually the diet fads we've had go on within veganism are more absurd than the claims that are being made by meat eaters and the claims being made by meat eaters will always win because they're covered by Cosmopolitan magazine by fashion television by I don't know surfers television channels I've never watch every Channel about athletes and models and actors and actresses every day is broadcasting the information about how you yes you can have a bikini body now now now effortlessly easily by doing kung-fu by doing Brazilian Jujitsu when ten easy steps with 200 push-ups eat what I eat feel like I feel look like I look and you know what you can set goals for yourself and you can achieve those goals but the questions we have to ask as vegans are are you taking ethical responsibility for what is you doing with your life are you taking ecological responsibility for what you do in your life and do you even care about your physical health long-term because if you don't that one's got to come off the list altogether I got bad news for you guys Jordan Peterson he's not about to drop dead of scurvy just like historical populations that existed in Mongolia and northern Canada you actually can survive for quite a long time on a meat-based diet honey we're not all gonna get the satisfaction of sitting back and saying I told you so after only a couple months of these nutcases being on this diet as not how it works okay read the history of Mongolia you know what we've got to argue for is that people should do the right thing because it's the right thing to do [Music] evolution