How Ron Funches Lost Weight AND Kept it Off

You got double water bottles. One water, one protein shake. Oh, you're not fucking around. No, you know, last time I wasn't aware how long I would be here. Now I'm prepared, I'm going to settle in, I'm not going to be hungry. My wife got me all set up. Water, protein shake. Make sure that your blood sugar doesn't drop. Maintain energy levels. You are a man who has done one of the most difficult things a person could do. You lost a ton of weight. Yeah, and then maintain keeping it off. That's the harder. Right, that's the hard part. Yeah. Yeah, the momentum of losing the weight is good, but most people, they get to a point and they want to take a break. And then once they take a break, then it all slides. Yeah, it's a bit of both. Sometimes they want to take a break, but then I want to get to that next level. So then I get back on it. Well, we were talking about Gucci Mane before we started the podcast. Gucci is the guy who's done that. He's maintained and looks fucking amazing. He took it to that next level. He was a big fella at one point in time. When he had Burr tattooed on his face. The ice cream cone. Yeah. Yeah. And now he's shredded. Yeah, he got rid of that ice cream. Well, you were saying it was the lean, right? Yeah, for sure. Yeah, Cody will put a lot of weight on him. Look at the difference, man. That is crazy. Well, he wasn't too fat in the other one. Yeah, that's kind of like him mid losing weight in that one. You can find some real chunky pics of him. Yeah, he got thick. Yeah, he now shredded. Yeah. My inspiration. Yeah, me and my wife all the time. We look at him and his wife, the pictures they take, what they do. And I'm like, I'm going to head in that direction. What do you do for working out? My trainer about three days a week, sometimes two days a week. And then on top of that, and we'll do just different circuits, back, chest, whatever, whatever, legs. And then the other days, I'm always just trying to make sure I hit the treadmill twice a day for two miles on an incline. Twice a day? Yeah. Really? You do it twice a day? Otherwise. So especially now, a lot of my stuff is sitting in front of a computer, podcasting, playing games on Twitch and stuff like that. So I feel like, oh, I've only spent that long, I got to start the day, treadmill, end the day with treadmill. That's discipline. I like that. It is. I fucking hate it. So it definitely is discipline. But you like the results. Yeah. I like how I feel. I like the compliments. I was doing this thing the other day, and Jake Johnson, the guy from New Girl, I'm in a cartoon with him. And that's like, he's like a leading man, dream boaty guy. And he's looking at me, he's like, man, he's like, you're looking fucking good, man. You just got your shit together. You're about to lead your own show. And I hear shit like that. And I'm like, okay, I better get on that treadmill again. Yeah. Yeah, that helps, right? It really does. Yeah. The positive feedback and positive energy. That's one thing that I like about what you do. You are very positive. You're very warm and friendly. Like all the shit that you do online, you're all smiley and positive and friendly. It's cool. It gives off a good vibe. Like when I look at your Instagram posts or read something that you post, it's like, Ron is on the good path. Yeah, I tried to, you know, because it's just it's so easy to go the other way. And you caught up in what other people are doing and what you think you should be doing, which I battle all of that too. I don't ever try to act like, oh, I'm just like, oh, everything's great. It's like, of course I go through shit all the time. But like, I think I choose to support my friends. I choose to support positive things because that's what I can control. And that's to me fighting against that negative as opposed to like just joining everybody in the fray. Yeah. What do you mean by like, how do you feel like when you say like, do you feel that too? Like the field, you feel the draw to the negative? I mean, because we all like, you know, we just want things, you know. So I wanted a Netflix special. I want to be a lead in a show. I want my own show, you know. And I've already do a lot of great things. But and that's why I have to balance it all because I'm like, oh, man, I'm in such a great position. I do so many wonderful things. What always helps me actually is talking to people like you or talking to people like Bert, talking to any comedian that's been doing it like 20 years plus when I'm at like 14 now. And when I talk to them and then they are like, oh, hold on. Slow the fuck down, man. Like you look at where you are and what you're doing for how long you've been doing it. You're fucking aces, man. So chill the fuck out and play it out. Don't freak out. And that that always, you know, having faith, that always helps me out.