Does Weight Cutting Give Fighters Eating Disorders?

You still overeat when you go out to eat much? And they've talked about it and I fucking resonated with that so much. Like if I get high before I go out to eat, like, and I'm getting a good cheeseburger, like I might as well order two because I'm gonna eat that one and I'm gonna be hungry still. Not even gonna fucking touch my, like, doesn't even faze me. Gluttony. God damn it. That's such a pain in the ass. When you're always dieting and cutting weight, do you think that makes you, like, more prone to doing that? Dude, look at, the reason Paddy the Batty gets as big as he is, because it's like, you get this mental disorder. I strict this fuck for about ten weeks before that fight. Like, I'd have a little cheat meal on a Saturday, but the closer I got to the fight, four or five weeks out. I was just eating so clean to where right after, it's like, I'll order two cheeseburgers, fucking some appetizers, and just eat until I'm so uncomfortable and so much pain. Oh my God, look at Paddy. I'm gonna send you a video, Jamie. This dude, um, posted today. Yeah, Paddy's, and I think, I'm not, who am I to fucking say it, but I just, I mean, I know that's just not good for you. How much, he gets up to 200 pounds. That's like me getting up to, like, 190. Or 185. Yeah, that's a lot, dude. It's sad. It's like, that's not, but it gives you this mental disorder from eating. But fuck, dude, if you take a couple puffs before dinner, it's, it depends how high you get. There's levels of high. If you just get a nice little high, and you can, the food just tastes better, and you can really enjoy it, or you get too high, and you go in there, and you just feel like a bottomless pit, and you're eating the fucking bread and the appetizers, then you're eating your fucking other appetizers, and then you're getting fucking two cheeseburgers. It's bad sometimes. Michael Easter was actually just talking about that. He's a guy who wrote this book, The Comfort Crisis, and he wrote this book about a study that they did where they took these guys, and they purposely starved them. Play it so he could, he could say it. Michael underscore Easter. The study was over. Scientists had to call it off. So in that study, I talked about it a few weeks ago, they took 36 men, they put them in a lab for six months, and they starved them, like, really starved them, because they wanted to know what happens to the human body when we significantly decrease our calories and lose a lot of weight. What happens to our bodies? What happens to our minds? What happens to all these different processes? So it was a really enlightening study. I've told this a lot about weight loss. But where it started to get interesting is that now they have to refeed these guys and bring them back up to a normal weight. And the impacts of the weight loss were very lasting on these guys' behavior. So for one, they binge it. One guy ate 11,000 calories a day. He had to go to the hospital for eating so much in a meal, and all of them were eating significantly higher calories than when they started. Second is that they obsessed about food. It was on their mind all the time, just as it had been when they were starving. And there's a handful of other really fascinating things that happened that basically ended up bringing these guys above the weight that they started at. So after this crazy diet, they actually ended up heavier. This can tell us a lot about diets today, how we should approach them, how we should think about eating normally once we've lost weight. There's a link in the bio if you want to learn more. Check it out. What I love, Michael, but hey, man, that fucking the voiceover, the captions, it's like missing all these words. I know that was weird. That's the worst transcription ever. It's doing it for free. Like if you had to pay someone to that. Well, pay for it. Because what is this? You're cutting off all these words. What's the purpose of having it so you can read it if you can't read it? If you're not listening to him and you're reading that, what is he saying? It's like he's missing key words. It's also better than not having it. Incorrect. What's just him making it sitting at his chair? The hijacks of weight loss were, what does that mean? And guys' behavior. So for one, they binge ate, and then it gets to this other one. See here? And he had to go to the hospital for eating what? All of them were eating significantly what than when they started? What? What if you can't hear and you can't read that? It's better than not having it. You're out of your mind. No. You're out of your mind. No, it's better to not have it than to have it where you can't fucking read it because there's a bunch of words missing. Have you ever watched captions normally? They are about... Not that good. Not even a cent. Or not that bad. Right. That's pretty bad. Whatever program he's using, that program sucks. Maybe he didn't know. I built an Instagram. Yeah, it's probably just like a builder. Really? But interesting study. Did that bad? Yeah, very interesting. That's, dude, that's the, it's so true. Every fighter will sit here and say the same thing. After a fight, if you cut a lot of weight and you make weight, and then, I mean, even for me, I still eat really clean leading up to the fight. But, dude, I see fighters at the fucking breakfast buffet eating pink, like eating shitty fight day because they made weight or after weigh-ins that night, they're eating shitty. I keep it clean until after the fight. Then after the fight, I let loose a little bit. But this has been the best I've done. Usually, because for me, bread, cheese causes inflammation. I work with a nutritionist, Dan Gardner. We do, he's working on a really, really cool protocol right now, a concussion protocol for me. He's done 10 plus labs for me. I've been working with him for like five years. He has a ton of data on me. But we do a bunch of, like right now, we'll be in, he's making a protocol for me outside of camp to eat. So he has all my data. But I've been doing a really good job not overeating this. Each time it gets a little bit better and it's just, it's a knowledge thing and a discipline thing. Does he meal prep for you? So he makes you- He lives in Canada. He writes it out. I have a meal prep company in Arizona, All Organics, that makes my food- Oh, that's great. The entire fight camp. So they give you the exact portions that you need? The exact portions. Oh, that's great. Changed the game. Oh yeah, nothing to think about it, right? I don't really cook. Danny cooked. She would, you know, full-time mom and she does hair for a living so she'd work a couple days a week. But certainly the, yeah, the recharge center in Arizona, they fucking, it changed the game. That's amazing. But this one, I mean, I got out of this camp or out of that fight and I was like, I'm ready to go. I want to fucking get back to the gym. I know how hard of a fight Henry is, how hard of a fight Aljo is, how hard of a fight anybody in the top five is. I need to get back to the gym. So I, you know, I've been really a lot more disciplined because I think it's been a month now since the fight, but not eating as much cheese and or eating as much bread if I go out, go out to eat. Just because I know that fucking causes inflammation in my body and I know it's gonna make, take a little bit longer to get back to training or if I am training and I eat, you know, too much cheese and bread, it's gonna cause that inflammation, risk and injury, or just be fucking more sore than I need to be. But yeah, eating disorder from cutting weight is a real fucking problem. It's a real thing, right? If I fought in my natural weight class, I'd fight at 155. If I didn't cut weight, walk around 58, 59, whatever, I'd fight at 155. There's no fucking chance that I'm gonna say, you know what? I'm just gonna do that. I'm gonna go fight Justin Gaethje. I'm gonna go fight Charles. Like there's no way I could go fight at 145. I believe and be successful. I'm not a tiny 35er. Those guys would still even be a little bit bigger, but cutting to 45, I wouldn't. Cutting to 35 is fucking hard. You feel like you're dying. Your heart is pounding. You're laying in bed. Well, you kind of are dying. You 100% are dying. Like I talk to my body. I have to tell it like, hey, you know what we're doing? What we're doing, fight week. Like we're gonna start, you know, cutting weight. Like I try to tell myself like, we know we're not gonna actually die. We're gonna feel like that or whatever, but I could cut to 45 would be a lot easier. Obviously, 55 would be the easiest. But I wish more guys would. But then again, like Aljo, he weighs how much right now? I don't know. 168, 170. Davidson. Davidson Figurato. I wonder if he goes at 35. Oh, he's fighting. He's fighting. 25 again. He's gonna do it again. He said he was mad at me for saying that I didn't think he's gonna be at 25 again. But he's sure. But he's talked about that. He's stacked though. Is he? I've never really been around him. He's a thick guy. He's thick. But when you're a certain height, I feel like you have to. But then again, look at Henry. He's fucking 53. He's fucking doing it. Yeah. So I guess it depends on how thick you are. But how tall is Figurato, Jamie? 55. He could fight at 35.