Cenk, Grace Baldridge, & Brett Erlich watch a TYT clip about Cenk’s dieting tips. Cenk maintains that the 1/3rd diet works and Brett and Grace talk about their diets.
Jacqueline Onassis ate lunch every day at the same place, and had the same thing: a baked potato with caviar. I’m sure it was delicious, but somewhat expensive for most of us. No sour cream and no butter, about 125-150 calories.
I disagree with the line of thinking about wasting food. You can’t deliver it to your local food kitchen nor send it abroad to feed starving poor people. Throwing it out rather than eating it means you’re not using your body as a garbage can. JMO
If you’re watching this, and it’s making you laugh, you MUST watch Old School. This is exactly what it’s like, other than the clip. Except, Old School is an hour.
I’m in total agreement with Grace on the food poisoning thing. (I was once food-poisoned by an all-day McDonalds breakfast sandwich. I have never been so miserable, and will never eat there again)
Loved watching this! It is one of my favorite tyt classics. I agree with Cenk about the 1/3 diet. I never called it that or anything, but I started consciously eating about 1/3 less than what I was eating before and I lost a good amount of weight. I would either put less on my plate if i was at home or i would get a to-go box and only eat a portion of what was on my plate. It really helped a lot. I’ve never tried paleo, but i have eaten a vegan diet before and it was hard. It is really difficult for me to eat vegan without planning all my meals out in detail and that was too much for me to keep up at the time. I’m trying to incorporate vegan meals back into my diet, but i’m going to do it gradually this time instead of trying to stop eating meat and dairy cold turkey.
Sorry but that is such an american diet, in a bad way. Trying to lose weight while still eating utter rubbish with so many chemicals and trans fat and GMOs etc etc and also wasting food by throwing it away. SOOOO american. Sorry.
I totally get where you’re coming from, but i want to clarify a few things. First, I didn’t say anything about wasting food or throwing it away. I said I put 1/3rd of the amount of food on my plate that I normally would, or put half in a to-go container. Most of the time I’ll eat the rest the next day for lunch. I try to throw away as little food as possible. Second, the food that I eat varies, some of it healthy and some of it not healthy. The point of trying to eat lessor put less on the plate, is portion control. Very few people eat 100% healthy food 100% of the time. It isn’t feasible for a lot of people, but also it isn’t enjoyable. Eating cookies or desert or whatever with no limit is obviously not good. But not eating them at all seems unnecessarily restrictive. Controlling the amount eaten is a good thing.
I commend you for eating partially vegan anyway. I am trying to reduce my animal products also, its hard especially if there is a good goats cheese around or some strawberries with cream. And its really hard to make a good cake without eggs. I was commenting more one Cenk’s thing than on you. I also eat a lot of cake and some days I just want pasta and bread. No one eats healthy all the time but I do feel like american fast food is beyond unhealthy and borders just not being worthy of being called food. Its kind of a pet peeve for me though so dont mind me.
Great show everyone. The obesity epidemic is still a huge issue in the U.S. It took me a year to lose 90 lbs (5’10’ male) and kept it off for over a decade. During that time I learned two things:
1) Culinary art school graduates like myself have a better education in applied nutrition than 70-75% of all U.S. medical schools.
2) The line between nutrition fact and nonsense is blurry at best as the mainstream media continues to beat the dead horse of diet and exercise faddism. Don’t get me wrong wrong, I love that more than half of americans want to hear about the latest topics in nutrition. But what’s the use of having this dietary guidelines without some way to apply them; basic gastronomy and culinary skills.
btw; Cenk is spot on about the 1/3rd diet. However, Dr. Jack Kevorkian came up with an idea similar to that but i think it was reducing meal size by 50%.
The most weight I ever lost in a short period of time was when I lost 25+ pounds in three months dealing with the grief and depression over the loss of my dog Dexter… But I wouldn’t recommend that diet to anyone
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Jacqueline Onassis ate lunch every day at the same place, and had the same thing: a baked potato with caviar. I’m sure it was delicious, but somewhat expensive for most of us. No sour cream and no butter, about 125-150 calories.
I disagree with the line of thinking about wasting food. You can’t deliver it to your local food kitchen nor send it abroad to feed starving poor people. Throwing it out rather than eating it means you’re not using your body as a garbage can. JMO
Damn Cenk’s not even 5’9 really?
If you’re watching this, and it’s making you laugh, you MUST watch Old School. This is exactly what it’s like, other than the clip. Except, Old School is an hour.
I cried laughing this entire clip.
I’m in total agreement with Grace on the food poisoning thing. (I was once food-poisoned by an all-day McDonalds breakfast sandwich. I have never been so miserable, and will never eat there again)
Brett kicked that girl out?
Looks like I’m less of a dick than I thought I was.
You guys are funny. Thanks!
Loved watching this! It is one of my favorite tyt classics. I agree with Cenk about the 1/3 diet. I never called it that or anything, but I started consciously eating about 1/3 less than what I was eating before and I lost a good amount of weight. I would either put less on my plate if i was at home or i would get a to-go box and only eat a portion of what was on my plate. It really helped a lot. I’ve never tried paleo, but i have eaten a vegan diet before and it was hard. It is really difficult for me to eat vegan without planning all my meals out in detail and that was too much for me to keep up at the time. I’m trying to incorporate vegan meals back into my diet, but i’m going to do it gradually this time instead of trying to stop eating meat and dairy cold turkey.
Sorry but that is such an american diet, in a bad way. Trying to lose weight while still eating utter rubbish with so many chemicals and trans fat and GMOs etc etc and also wasting food by throwing it away. SOOOO american. Sorry.
I totally get where you’re coming from, but i want to clarify a few things. First, I didn’t say anything about wasting food or throwing it away. I said I put 1/3rd of the amount of food on my plate that I normally would, or put half in a to-go container. Most of the time I’ll eat the rest the next day for lunch. I try to throw away as little food as possible. Second, the food that I eat varies, some of it healthy and some of it not healthy. The point of trying to eat lessor put less on the plate, is portion control. Very few people eat 100% healthy food 100% of the time. It isn’t feasible for a lot of people, but also it isn’t enjoyable. Eating cookies or desert or whatever with no limit is obviously not good. But not eating them at all seems unnecessarily restrictive. Controlling the amount eaten is a good thing.
I commend you for eating partially vegan anyway. I am trying to reduce my animal products also, its hard especially if there is a good goats cheese around or some strawberries with cream. And its really hard to make a good cake without eggs. I was commenting more one Cenk’s thing than on you. I also eat a lot of cake and some days I just want pasta and bread. No one eats healthy all the time but I do feel like american fast food is beyond unhealthy and borders just not being worthy of being called food. Its kind of a pet peeve for me though so dont mind me.
Great show everyone. The obesity epidemic is still a huge issue in the U.S. It took me a year to lose 90 lbs (5’10’ male) and kept it off for over a decade. During that time I learned two things:
1) Culinary art school graduates like myself have a better education in applied nutrition than 70-75% of all U.S. medical schools.
2) The line between nutrition fact and nonsense is blurry at best as the mainstream media continues to beat the dead horse of diet and exercise faddism. Don’t get me wrong wrong, I love that more than half of americans want to hear about the latest topics in nutrition. But what’s the use of having this dietary guidelines without some way to apply them; basic gastronomy and culinary skills.
btw; Cenk is spot on about the 1/3rd diet. However, Dr. Jack Kevorkian came up with an idea similar to that but i think it was reducing meal size by 50%.
This was amazing, great episode! Diet talk is usually unbearable, not this time! :D
The most weight I ever lost in a short period of time was when I lost 25+ pounds in three months dealing with the grief and depression over the loss of my dog Dexter… But I wouldn’t recommend that diet to anyone
If the 1/3 diet worked, wouldn’t Cenk be as thin as he was in that clip? I liked Jill for pointing out that it was really a 2/3 diet.
I think Jackie Kennedy would say that you should eat exactly what you want-just eat half of it.
But it did work. I think the problem was that he stopped doing the diet and the weight came back.
OK, I guess if something works temporarily, you can technically say that it works.