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Jonah Hill sure is looking good

Sanjuro said:
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Hello darkness my old friend...
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why am I drawn to his lower arms, hairy? CGI? bad light IDK..
 
Dude looks fucking great.

I know he's had some struggles keeping it off but good luck to him. I notice he's gained some muscle this time as well which should help as it looks like its not just a diet crash but a lifestyle change.

Props man
 
statham said:
why am I drawn to his lower arms, hairy? CGI? bad light IDK..
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I imagine Jonah has never been the kind of guy to get more than a nerd's/farmer's tan, and the California sun can turn even the palest people a smooth gold/tan

That or he's recovering from a muay thai spar.
 
There's a difference with just losing weight via dieting and transforming your body due to diet and exercise. Being fit is not just being skinny. He looks like he's getting fit, whereas last time, it looked like he was trying to get skinny.
 
Is he doing it for a movie again?

I can't tell if he drops weight if he wants to or just does it with whatever role

as long as he's at a weight where he feels healthy tho
 
David H Wong said:
That's how it works. Without surgery or some other kind of medical intervention, you have about a 1 in 1000 chance of keeping that kind of weight off. Losing it is common, keeping it off is nearly impossible without a major change in your biology (surgery, a disease, a drug habit, etc). Most gain it back with in 2 years, virtually everyone gains it back within 5 years.

EDIT: Some data:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...attaining-a-healthy-body-weight-10394887.html

Explanation of the mechanisms at play:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-fat-trap.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

It is effectively impossible to permanently cure obesity with diet and exercise. Statistically, the weight loss is always temporary. The exceptions are so rare as to be statistically insignificant.
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That sounds... Depressing.
 
David H Wong said:
That's how it works. Without surgery or some other kind of medical intervention, you have about a 1 in 1000 chance of keeping that kind of weight off. Losing it is common, keeping it off is nearly impossible without a major change in your biology (surgery, a disease, a drug habit, etc). Most gain it back with in 2 years, virtually everyone gains it back within 5 years.

EDIT: Some data:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...attaining-a-healthy-body-weight-10394887.html

Explanation of the mechanisms at play:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-fat-trap.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

It is effectively impossible to permanently cure obesity with diet and exercise. Statistically, the weight loss is always temporary. The exceptions are so rare as to be statistically insignificant.
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I lost a ton of weight have slowly been going back up. It's been about two years also but I have stopped exercising and not so strict with my diet. I gotta get back on it.

Oh and you are David Wong from cracked. Cool
 
David H Wong said:
That's how it works. Without surgery or some other kind of medical intervention, you have about a 1 in 1000 chance of keeping that kind of weight off. Losing it is common, keeping it off is nearly impossible without a major change in your biology (surgery, a disease, a drug habit, etc). Most gain it back with in 2 years, virtually everyone gains it back within 5 years.

EDIT: Some data:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...attaining-a-healthy-body-weight-10394887.html

Explanation of the mechanisms at play:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-fat-trap.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

It is effectively impossible to permanently cure obesity with diet and exercise. Statistically, the weight loss is always temporary. The exceptions are so rare as to be statistically insignificant.
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Then why are some cultures so low in obesity, like Japan and France? It's not just genetics, it's also diet and food supply because I cannot even keep track of how many Americans I know lose weight when they visit a slimmer country without changing their behavior only to gain it all back when they return to the states. My friends who just went to Asia for 3 months lost 30 lbs not exercising or eating less. Meanwhile, I see people visit the US and gain weight because of portion sizes and high calorie foods here. Our food supply here is abominable.

The food supply in America is saturated with sugar, people eat it culturally, and they have metabolic and weight issues as a result. We know the grehlin response and other metabolic hormones are fucked up with diets having excess sugar, which Americans love to eat. People also way underestimate the calories they ingest.
 
David H Wong said:
Explanation of the mechanisms at play:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-fat-trap.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

It is effectively impossible to permanently cure obesity with diet and exercise. Statistically, the weight loss is always temporary. The exceptions are so rare as to be statistically insignificant.
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I can certainly understand why that second study failed. Putting people on a crash diet with shitty tasting food doesn't teach them anything about how to maintain a weight loss. The only reasonable way you can go from morbidly obese to normal and stay that way is to completely change your eating habits on a permanent and lifetime basis. For most people that's a hard thing to do, but starting out with an unsustainable diet in the first place is probably doing more harm than good to the results.
 
David H Wong said:
That's how it works. Without surgery or some other kind of medical intervention, you have about a 1 in 1000 chance of keeping that kind of weight off. Losing it is common, keeping it off is nearly impossible without a major change in your biology (surgery, a disease, a drug habit, etc). Most gain it back with in 2 years, virtually everyone gains it back within 5 years.

EDIT: Some data:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...attaining-a-healthy-body-weight-10394887.html

Explanation of the mechanisms at play:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-fat-trap.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

It is effectively impossible to permanently cure obesity with diet and exercise. Statistically, the weight loss is always temporary. The exceptions are so rare as to be statistically insignificant.
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You're the guy who wrote one of the most motivational articles I've ever read. These statistics feel like the complete opposite of that.
 
David H Wong said:
That's how it works. Without surgery or some other kind of medical intervention, you have about a 1 in 1000 chance of keeping that kind of weight off. Losing it is common, keeping it off is nearly impossible without a major change in your biology (surgery, a disease, a drug habit, etc). Most gain it back with in 2 years, virtually everyone gains it back within 5 years.

EDIT: Some data:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...attaining-a-healthy-body-weight-10394887.html

Explanation of the mechanisms at play:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-fat-trap.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

It is effectively impossible to permanently cure obesity with diet and exercise. Statistically, the weight loss is always temporary. The exceptions are so rare as to be statistically insignificant.
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What's the moral of this story? Don't bother trying?
 
I wonder if he's had any surgery for excess skin at this point. This is an incredible weight loss, and he looks like he's putting in the work on the actual fitness side too, but I have to imagine going from War Dogs size to this new trim physique is going to bring some unfortunate, unavoidable flab. Good on him though, either way.
 
He's got some definition on his arms too which I doubt he's had before.

He looked weird in the CoD trailers a few years back so he's put the work in this time.
 
David H Wong said:
That's how it works. Without surgery or some other kind of medical intervention, you have about a 1 in 1000 chance of keeping that kind of weight off. Losing it is common, keeping it off is nearly impossible without a major change in your biology (surgery, a disease, a drug habit, etc). Most gain it back with in 2 years, virtually everyone gains it back within 5 years.

EDIT: Some data:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...attaining-a-healthy-body-weight-10394887.html

Explanation of the mechanisms at play:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-fat-trap.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

It is effectively impossible to permanently cure obesity with diet and exercise. Statistically, the weight loss is always temporary. The exceptions are so rare as to be statistically insignificant.
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Well that's depressing.
 
David H Wong said:
That's how it works. Without surgery or some other kind of medical intervention, you have about a 1 in 1000 chance of keeping that kind of weight off. Losing it is common, keeping it off is nearly impossible without a major change in your biology (surgery, a disease, a drug habit, etc). Most gain it back with in 2 years, virtually everyone gains it back within 5 years.

EDIT: Some data:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...attaining-a-healthy-body-weight-10394887.html

Explanation of the mechanisms at play:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-fat-trap.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

It is effectively impossible to permanently cure obesity with diet and exercise. Statistically, the weight loss is always temporary. The exceptions are so rare as to be statistically insignificant.
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I used to be 120kg (265), I've been anywhere between 83-88 (182-195lbs) for the last couple of years.

I think the highest I got back to was 92 (205lbs) or something, but that was after a holiday period eating like shit. It took effort, but I look a lot better now (and I'm actually gaining muscle now so weight is gonna go up, but body looks completely different).

It was hard, and it still is. And not too long ago it hurt when a girl I was seeing said 'don't you work out' when I took off my shirt for the first time.

That shit cut deep (and it was uncalled for), and it's one of the reasons I started working out more.

What I'm saying is: good on you, Jonah.
 
Red Liquorice said:
WOW. That is a huge differnce, good on him and whatever hellish Hollywood fitness routine he's been on.
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To be fair in that photo he'd purposefully put on a load of weight for War Dogs. That was filmed well over two years ago so it's not like he's done a crash diet.
 
I've weight cycled mostly within a 45 pound range (235-280) in about the last decade so I understand the struggle.

Monkeyball said:
What's the moral of this story? Don't bother trying?
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Try to be the one in 1000 I guess!

Just from a quality of life standpoint, I'd rather lose a bunch of weight and gain it back very, very slowly over time instead of just staying obese.
 
David H Wong said:
That's how it works. Without surgery or some other kind of medical intervention, you have about a 1 in 1000 chance of keeping that kind of weight off. Losing it is common, keeping it off is nearly impossible without a major change in your biology (surgery, a disease, a drug habit, etc). Most gain it back with in 2 years, virtually everyone gains it back within 5 years.

EDIT: Some data:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...attaining-a-healthy-body-weight-10394887.html

Explanation of the mechanisms at play:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-fat-trap.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

It is effectively impossible to permanently cure obesity with diet and exercise. Statistically, the weight loss is always temporary. The exceptions are so rare as to be statistically insignificant.
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Allow me to chime in on this as I just reached a significant milestone related to this. Back in 2005 I was up to 290 lbs and had written off any sort of healthy lifestyle. I was obese, I had no energy, and I was always grumpy, probably because I hated myself. I saw a doctor pretty regularly since I was on three medications, and blood tests would always come back the same: high cholesterol, high blood pressure, etc. One day the doctor's office called and said my blood came back normal. That didn't sound right at all and I couldn't believe it. For some reason I decided to capitalize on that; I guess I saw it as a chance to start over or something. Being a creature of habit, I knew I couldn't change everything at once or I would revert back to my old ways, so I picked one little thing and started from there.

First, I added salads to my diet. I never ate veggies but I could stomach lettuce, and it actually made me feel better if I ate a salad at the end of my meal. So after every dinner I had a bowl of lettuce with some dressing. After a month or so of that I decided to stop drinking soda. First I just went to juice or tea, but eventually I went to all water. Hard at first, but definitely doable. So after a few months of that I decided to stop eating after 6:00. Keep in mind I would still eat like crap throughout the day, but once I had dinner (and dessert) I was done for the night... no chips, no ice cream, no nothing after 6:00. As the result of these small changes, I started to feel better... my indigestion started to abate... my blood pressure went down a bit... and my lab results still came back normal.
My goal was never to lose weight; rather, my goal was to feel better, maybe get off some meds, and make some healthy changes. As a side effect of this, the weight came off and I lost about 50 lbs. that year.

So during this time my second kid was on the way and I knew I needed to get more energy. Remember, I was still eating badly and didn't do anything active... I was a lazy guy. So I set a new goal to get more energy and I thought about what I could do to get that. I knew the most active thing I could do was run but I hated running throughout my whole life. I was the guy in middle/high school who would walk the mile every week instead of run it. I decided that if I could stop eating after 6:00 then I could at least give running a fighting chance. I also discovered the Couch to 5K program on the internet and it guaranteed anyone could go from no activity to running 3 miles in a few weeks. It cost me no money, well, except for running shoes, so I figured "What the hell?"

One June 18, 2007 I did my first Couch to 5K day and I felt like I was going to die during the whole 20 minute ordeal. But I was able to finish it and I didn't die. In fact, I had more energy that I knew what to do with and I was driving my wife crazy on the drive into work with how awake and alert I was. I was sore as hell but I will never forget how great I felt after that first day. From then on I persisted and though it was very tough I kept at it. I remember the day I was able to run 10 minutes without stopping... probably one of the best moments of my life. Anyway, as a side effect of my new running lifestyle I lost another 60 lbs over the next 18 months and that's where I've been ever since.

These days I hover between 180 and 185. I still have to stick to my regimen... running 3 times per week, weights three times per week, salad after dinner, no soda, no eating after 6:00. I had and ankle sprain for nine months which kept me from running, but I did other activity to compensate and was able to stay withoin my weight zone during that time. I'm not Adonis or buff hunk like Jonah Hill (I sport an awesome set of love handles) but I love my cheesesteaks and ice cream - I eat ice cream almost every night after dinner... I don't think I can give that up.

I just want to be the guy who says you too can be that 1 and 1,000 person. Make a small change today, then let it become a habit. Then, make another change, then another. Be brave and realize it's not going to be easy, but the most important thing to understand is that once you make that small change you CAN NEVER GO BACK. Make that your mantra and you'll be that 1 in 1,000. Thanks for letting me indulge - I consider June 18, 2007 as once of the most important days in my life and this is a big anniversary for me.
 
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