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i have a question for you what did you eat today or actually better question why didn't you post it on social media because everybody

nowadays is trying to post their here's what i eat in a day videos and i've just seen so many of them i feel like an expert on

what people eat so today i'm going to be reviewing some of other people's what i eat in a day and i'm going to be

grading their diets on a 1 through 10 scale now keep in mind i'm not a dietitian i'm not a nutritionist i am an asshole so take

everything i say with a grain of salt this is what i eat in a day of course i'm gonna start my day with a donut absolutely

terrible this is the worst thing you can start your day with besides you know like crack or something but donuts are especially bad for breakfast

because they spike your insulin they give you so much dopamine that you're gonna lose motivation for the rest of the day you want to start out with like some protein or something that's gonna like Fuel your body for the day, not just give you a sugar high and then crash.

But anyway, let's keep going.

Terrible start, though.

Okay, got some big bites there.

For breakfast, I'm feeling something a little sweet.

I'm going to have my fruit.

You already ate something sweet, though.

Why do you need more sweet?

I don't think you just had a donut.

oh cheers but where where's the protein vegetables something you have to try this i don't new combo unlocked

trying a regular coke for the very first time more sugar yes and fries the first salty thing she's eaten all day

it's not good but you know at least it's not sugary for once they never put enough onions so i have these

well you know i can't be mad at extra onions because at least those are things that came from the ground

but might you throw some lettuce on that burger maybe you gotta ask for a side of big mark sauce i don't this is

what i eat today oh that's it okay wow all right i thought it was gonna get better at some point but um this is almost as bad as it can get.

The only thing she has going for her is that she's not eating more.

Uh, but the thing she's eating, you know, you, you want to think of, and again, I'm not a doctor, I'm just guessing, but the things you want to put in your body, you want to think of it as like putting gasoline in a car.

Like you want fuel.

That's going to make you go, go, go the places you want to go.

But this is like instead of putting gasoline in your car you're putting icing or you know baby oil or something like that like you want something that's gonna make your body move and and feel good

you need something other than the sweets in the mcdonald's so i'm gonna give this diet a two out of ten uh let's

see if we can get any better what i ate in my eight to

five so job for those of you don't know she's eating keyboards okay dunk

a latte i feel like there's gonna be a lot of sugar in that so but caffeine's good in the morning you know maybe not all the sugar breakfast sandwich

better than a donut i'm assuming there's some protein in there you know some some uh eggs maybe bacon.

What else we got?

Burrito bowl.

I see some green things there.

Alright.

And grapes!

You know?

This is going better than I thought it would.

Not bad.

That is a great lunch.

That's like a 10 out of 10 lunch right there.

Lemon ice water.

Sure.

Sounds good to me.

And and reading a book i didn't know that was part of your diet um books are good brownie

you know sure treat yourself you've had a long day at noon diet coke good diet

we love diets when we're on a diet great sure and uh and a bar you want to be careful with these

bars because sometimes it'll be like health bar and then it's like 50 grams of sugar but you know they're generally better than

slop that's it okay well much better than the last one i do like the burrito bowl a lot the breakfast is probably

not most ideal you want to get something a little lighter for breakfast to give you more energy um and then you know

brownie was maybe a little extra but overall much better than the last i'll give this a 6.6 out of 10 that's

not terrible hopefully we stay good everything i today as a fatty oh boy we're starting out the day with some breakfast what

is it with what is it with people's obsession with starting the day with a donut like i've seen a lot of people starting their day with a donut why would you start your day with 50 grams of sugar you're gonna be like ah sugar oh sugar crash

Don't do that.

I guess milk is something.

The milk is probably the only good thing about this.

Okay, fried food with ranch.

Also, maybe not the best.

That looks like a lot of sugar.

Okay, pizza.

Maybe not great.

And...

For dinner, we're eating a burka bowl.

Okay, burka bowl.

I don't know what that is.

But I see something green.

Some fries.

Listari.

Zero sugar, cranberry.

Okay, zero sugar, good.

We're ending the night with some dipping dots.

Okay, ice cream.

Maybe a little worse than you would have liked.

There was a good amount of sweets in there and fried food.

I feel as though your organs aren't going to love it, but I did see some lettuce, and you know, you did a diet thing, so I'm going to give her a smooth 3.2 on that diet.

Not the worst we've seen, but far from the best.

Here's what I typically eat in a day.

I started my day with organic rolled oats for fiber with half a pound of ground chicken for protein, seasoned with...

Oats and chicken in the same bowl?

I mean, yeah, it's going to be absolutely fantastic for your body, but why would you put yourself through that torture?

Sea salt.

This is a complete meal for me and keeps me satiated for a while.

Yeah, completely going to make you throw up.

For a snack, I had a peeled cucumber from the farmer's market and two slices of sourdough bread with Shires, cashew, dairy-free cream cheese.

This looks pretty good.

To go with it, I also had a banana.

Bananas are good.

I love bananas.

I had a honey crisp.

Good!

More stuff from the ground!

nice and for dinner i have a pound of ground beef with cannellini beans and white rice a lot of protein so i only season with jacobson sea salt and that's all for today

now you know now we're talking this is this is somebody who's probably gonna have a lot of energy and feel good uh my only issue was

why are you mixing chicken and oats that sounds absolutely disgusting so i'm gonna have to dock you a point there but otherwise we're gonna go 8.7 on this diet.

Very well done.

Here's everything I ate in a day while on a health journey.

I started my day off with a spicy chicken sandwich from Casey's.

Bro, you didn't even make it out of bed yet and you're eating a spicy chicken sandwich.

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And yeah, I was still laying in bed.

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Well, technically on the couch because I fell asleep on the couch this night.

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My husband had woke up early and went to the gas station, got some food for all of us.

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And that's how we started the day off that's a bad way to start the day a while later i ended

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up making a greek yogurt bowl that had clustered all right wow wow this is the

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greatest turnaround since lebron beat the warriors after going down 3-1 um that's a good turnaround oops i

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don't even know what the heck you're starting recovery blueberries a banana and a drizzle of honey that was actually really good and i

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did end up yogurts actually if it's not like a super sugary yogurt yogurt's pretty goaded you're gonna get a lot

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of a lot of protein out of that i made the ground chicken wow with nor noodles broccoli

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this is the this is the greatest turnaround in human history she started her day eating

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a crispy chicken sandwich in bed and just followed up with absolute greatness sun-dried tomatoes i did eat all of that and after the baby woke up from a late nap i fed him

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i ended aren't babies supposed to be eating mush did my day with a nuri protein i don't know okay protein drink wow would have been a stunning 10 out of 10 had you not

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started off so so bad but i'll give that a 7.9 stunning turnaround what i eat in a day as a

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fatty who's trying not to be fat anymore glp wanted it doesn't appear that way 20 pounds down let's go for breakfast let's

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make this high protein chick-fil-a inspired breakfast scramble first let's make our water the cotton candy liquid i d let's make our water

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i don't think anybody's ever said that in the history of humanity and i know people are already gonna be like okay fat can't even drink plain water shut up oh why wouldn't you want your water to be blue water is Delicious on its own.

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You don't need anything else.

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So liquid IV just makes me feel so much better.

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All right.

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Meal prepping.

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Meal prepping is fantastic because then you already make the food when you're not hungry.

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So then you don't have to be like, oh, super hungry.

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I'm just going to go to McDonald's.

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Meal prepping is very nice.

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Very nicely done.

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You know you're fat when you collect your restaurant hot sauces like Pokemon cards.

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But who doesn't need a little Taco Bell sauce?

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you know this is like 560 calories and 50 grams of protein nice people all day for lunch let's make a high protein snack i don't think

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it'll keep you full all day if you're still eating at lunch but we're gonna have some this is this is pretty good cheese dip

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from trader joe's to dip we're gonna have some of these protein pretzels for something sweet we're gonna have a handful of these dark

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cherries it's like my favorite then we're gonna finish it off with two baby bells this is so cute and it's 50 grams that's a good looking

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lunch which is just nuts that's a good looking lunch for dinner what do we got the only thing that sounded good to

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me was a caesar salad very specifically was craving caesar salad and sweet potato fries you know what you earned you earned the sweet potato fries everything else was good you know what this was very soft I'm going to give this an 8.9,

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8, 9, 8, 9.

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Yeah, this was all very good.

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I mean, I would not be surprised if she keeps losing weight.

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You got satiating meals, lots of protein, all good things, all good things.

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Let's see what we got next.

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This is a full day of eating 10,000 calories.

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We first broke our fast in the morning with a jar of mayonnaise and four lamb chops.

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I actually finished the whole entire jar, guys.

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Don't worry.

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And then after that, I was hungry, so I had a little stick of butter, just a half of it, nothing crazy.

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But I decided to wash it down with a glass of butter as well, which is just melted butter, just to be safe.

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And then after that, we had a protein waffle, which was just basically ground beef and a little bit of potato.

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And we had that as well.

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I made some liver to be really, really healthy today.

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And then I went to the store and dropped my wiener on a table and didn't eat the other half.

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And I'll never skip dessert, obviously, especially if you have a raw-testing meat cake in the fridge.

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So we had a slice of that as well to put us at 10,000 calories on the day.

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That is a 0.06.

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And you're only getting the 0.06 because of the protein from the lamb chops.

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This is one of those people that you see on the street and then you walk the other way.

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And that's just all it is.

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That's all we got.

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What if A.E.

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did a dais, a pregnant plus-sized body?

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Okay, this does not look good.

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Saltines Starting the day with cereal, lots of sugar No matter what It always slaps Make it make sense, my stomach hurts so bad Let me have some milk

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Your stomach hurts so bad, are you sure it's not just the baby?

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I lasted like a whole 30 minutes That that stayed down And the only thing Now you can also see where I had my hood up The only thing that even sounds remotely good is pickles But then I also have some of this peanut butter Left over from my road trip

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absolutely disgusting but you know healthier than a lot of stuff you'll see so we'll take it cheers

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what do you spray to zero zero good zero calories might have been the greatest invention in human history is zero calorie sodas for all the fatties who love soda

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Everything tastes weird.

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I'm actually feeling a little bit better.

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I'm actually hungry.

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I'm so excited.

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My man made me some chicken with some ketchup.

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Alright, you know, not the worst thing on the planet, but we're still only at 1pm.

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We're trying to figure out what would sound good that I would actually eat.

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And this just bear chicken with some good old ketchup.

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You ask me now.

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I'm still hungry, so I'm having some lima beans.

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I don't know why.

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Beans are good.

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Come from the ground.

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sure why not a lot of sugar there but the yogurt's good 60 calories i might be

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completely wrong this is what people get wrong they're like oh this is only 160 calories i'm eating a super healthy snack right

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now and then they have like a strawberry lemonade from chick-fil-a i shit you not you gotta look at these these like lemonades you hear lemonade you're like oh lemon it's healthy

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and then it ends up being like 500 calories 100 grams of sugar you gotta be careful with the drinks but yeah theoretically

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yogurt is good peach yoplait yogurt i'm pretty sure this stuff isn't even really yogurt for dinner we're having fish tacos with coleslaw

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and i have a little side of uh bad not bad i hope i hope she's side note i hope she's been drinking water at a certain point This maybe not.

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And a scoop of ice cream.

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Okay.

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Not great.

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I mean, you know, I don't know how diet affects the baby that's growing inside of you, but probably would be a good idea to maybe ease up on the process and the sugar and, I don't know, it's just not the worst I see.

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I'll give it a 4.9.

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But, you know, hopefully your kid ends up healthy and alive and whatnot.

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what else we got this is a realistic what i eat today as a plus size person starting off with breakfast i had one of these little chocolate donuts i did

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heat this up and people need to stop eating donuts for breakfast and look there's pastries on the bottom so this is going to get even

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worse you can't be starting the day with sugar it's not good and i just love them heated up but i think i warmed this up too much because

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it was really really hot and then the icing started falling off and literally just fell all over the place well clearly that didn't stop you from eating it

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so we're fine but that's okay it was still very very yummy for my alani new of the day i had a sherbet swirl energy

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drink 200 milligrams of caffeine maybe you know i love caffeine as much as the next guy but you can't be over doing it awful with

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that chocolate donut but um i did drink that later and it was delicious per usual and then i had four of these little breakfast scramblers and these are the ones that

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have like the bacon egg and cheese on the oh okay it's not sugar okay it's not sugar okay little better little better it was super duper yummy but i

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do regret that because that made my stomach hurt and then i wonder why i had 10 of these little mini corn dogs and then a handful

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of those little white cheddar cheese cheetos oh my gosh i don't even know cheeto puffs oh my gosh that's the name and then i had ketchup and

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that's a bad dinner with my corn dogs and this was oh that's a bad dinner but i'm not gonna lie to eat anything after that because those little scrambler breakfast things hurt my stomach so bad definitely will not be getting those anytime soon.

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I want to see you eating some like scrambled eggs instead of, you know, this pre-made, it hurt your stomach cause it's pre-made.

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It might've been the donut that hurt your stomach, but anyway, you know, not an egregious amount of calories, just, you know, what you eat has got to be a little more maybe from the ground or something, you know, some, some vegetables and whatnot.

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This, this wasn't great.

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This is a 3.8, you know, not overeating, but not great.

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And we got one more.

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Let's see what we got.

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I see lettuce already.

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Okay.

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That's a protein.

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Absolute life hack.

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Using a protein shake instead of creamer in the coffee.

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That's a good idea.

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That's a good idea.

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So far, so good.

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For breakfast, I'm drinking my protein coffee and then we have potatoes and egg white bites.

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Alright, not bad.

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Not bad at all.

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I'm on my lunch break, and yeah, I'm eating chicken tendies again.

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Are the chicken tendies I use, they're the famous chicken fingers from Walmart.

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Yeah, the Walmart chicken tenders probably aren't going to be great for the soul, but at least she's got lettuce.

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All right.

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I get it, you're eating it, you can move on.

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I'm also drinking a cranberry poppy.

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I'm almost out, so I'm getting a little sad.

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Okay.

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I know these are like prebiotic sodas, so they're not super sugary, not bad.

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Yeah, not great, but, you know, I see some greenery and protein.

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A little bedtime snack?

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That's not.

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No, no, no. I was going to give you a good score.

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The worst, well, not the worst thing you can do.

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Something that's not good, I learned, is if you have something that's super high in sugar or fat right before you go to bed, it highly interrupts your restorative sleep.

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So if you're going to go with the ice cream, don't do it right before bed.

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We got Christmas cookie and eggnog.

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It's Christmas cookie, but this isn't a gift for your body.

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Might as well get a chunk of coal.

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Okay, well, not terrible, but you're eating processed or not great things with each meal.

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I'll give it like a 4.6, 4.6.

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So I think that's the last one.

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And that's going to be it for this video.

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Interesting diets people do.

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It's interesting to see because everybody has different eating habits.

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Some good, some bad.

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But, you know, at the end of the day, I like to think about it this way.

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Keep it simple.

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Protein, the less processed, the better.

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Things that come from the ground are going to be good.

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And that's it.

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Just exercise and eat that stuff.

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You'll probably be all right.

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Keep it simple.

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So I hope you enjoyed the video.

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Maybe you learned something.

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Maybe you laughed.

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Maybe you cried.

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I don't know.

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But that's all I got for today.

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See you folks in the next one.

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Peace.

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Context & Background

The video titled "Rating People’s Weight Loss Diets" features a casual yet critical review of various diets shared by individuals on social media. The speaker provides insights into the nutritional value of these diets while infusing humor and personal opinions. He emphasizes the importance of making healthy choices for optimal energy and well-being, even as he humorously critiques the poor dietary decisions people often make. This dialogue serves as a relevant resource for English learners aiming to enhance their conversational skills, particularly in topics related to health and nutrition.

Top 5 Phrases for Daily Communication

“What did you eat today?” - A simple inquiry that can open up discussions about food and health.
“Take everything I say with a grain of salt.” - An idiomatic expression indicating that one should not take a statement too seriously.
“Start out with some protein.” - Suggesting a nutritious food choice, valuable for health-related conversations.
“You want something that’s gonna make your body move.” - A motivational line to encourage healthy living.
“Might you throw some lettuce on that burger?” - An informal way to suggest healthier options in a fun manner.

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Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	i've just seen · you've had · i've seen
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	lunch which is · well, which is · waffle, which was
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	is just melted · was just basically ground

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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