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Before, I’d be like, “I worked out all week. I can party all weekend and have 15 beers, nachos, pizza.” Then you’ve kind of blown your whole week. You can still do that now. But if you track it, you know you had a couple pieces of pizza; don’t have six pieces of pizza and five beers. You can have two pieces of pizza, two beers, and call it a day.
This is something that I think a lot of young men need to hear. There’s a pervasive thought out there that as long as you’re working out, you can kind of eat whatever.
You can, to an extent. There’s just different seasons of life. Sometimes you’re like, “You know what? I’m going to care less for the next few months. I’m on vacation. I’m in Italy. I have to live my life!” That’s how I felt when my wife was pregnant. I kept joking that my goal was to be bigger than she was, and I succeeded. Did I win the race? Yeah, I did. I’m not saying that I’m number one at getting larger than my wife when she was pregnant, but I was. I think I gained 28 pounds and she gained 26 pounds. She’s now lost more weight than I have.
With exercise, I think a lot of men have told themselves that there’s certain things they do like and certain things they don’t like, and they just stick to that forever. Have you had any of that flip? Something that you thought you hated, but once you tried it in your 40s, you realized it’s not that bad?
You know what I started to do that I thought wasn’t going to do anything? I’m an athlete. I don’t need to do this little girl workout.
Can I guess?
Please.
Pilates?
Dude. You nailed it. It kicked my ass. I’m not that flexible of a person. I was so tight, just from working out and doing so much CrossFit. I started to do that, and now I’m a little more limber. It’s also very hard. You look around and you’re like, “Why was I shitting on this exercise? All of these women in here are freak athletes, absolutely shredded. I should have been taking a page out of their playbook!” A lot of guys lift weights and they get so tight. They can’t even bend down to tie their shoes. What is the point of having all those muscles if you can’t use them correctly?
I just want to look like a 50-year-old Pilates mom. That’s my ideal body type right now. That’s a sexy, hot way to look. Just covered in Lululemon and drinking from my Stanley cup. I’m wearing a quarter zip right now. This is full dadcore.
Are there any foods that you used to really hate that you’ve started to embrace?
Salmon, dude. I eat it all the time now. Rotisserie chicken, I eat that constantly. I’ll get three rotisserie chickens at the top of the week. My wife is like, “What are we doing with the rotisserie chickens? There’s no room for anything else!” I’d eat the rotisserie chicken on the first night, the next I would put it in a low-carb burrito wrap. I use chicken for everything.
There’s something carnal about ripping it apart, too.
Over a decade ago, I went on a few dates with this girl. It was going great. I thought it could really work. Then she saw me eat chicken wings. Ghosted me. Never talked to this girl again. How disgusting I looked eating those chicken wings made her be like, “I’m out.”
Oh, I’m not going to put all the blame on you there. She might have had her own thing going on, maybe looking for a way out, and just decided the chicken wings were the last straw.
[laughing] She saw me and was like, “I gotta get away from this guy. I don’t know why I keep agreeing to go on on these dates. I’ll take him to a Buffalo Wild Wings and say that’s the last straw.”
I think if I were to ever enter an eating contest it would be chicken wings. I feel like I could really eat a lot of chicken wings.
Yeah, until a professional eater gets in and they’re dunking them in water, getting the flavor out. But I believe in you.
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