17% is normal body fat for most people, he should be able to do this easily imo. wtf?

I'd guess some sort of normal dude bodyfat level is more like... 22% in a dexa scan. Doug Polk got quite a bit leaner than most people are and he scanned at 15% at the end of his bet with Perkins. So 17% definitely isn't normal for most men.

Shaun Deeb's morbid obesity isn't normal for most people

Seems pretty normal in USA to me and getting quite a bit more normal over time.

https://twitter.com/george__mack/sta...35058315788289

Pretty sure way more adult males in the US are obese than have <17% body fat?

haha i love it

Probably the craziest thing about obesity in the USA to me is while it's obscenely bad, it's only getting worse and not slowing down at all. All demos are getting fatter year over year, especially children. Even on the off chance that your statement isn't true now, it's only going to get much more true with time.

A weird thing that's happened to me personally, is I've been very consistent with my weight my entire life. And yet, I feel like in the USA I have been getting more comments than ever while I'm there that I'm too skinny and that my weight is unhealthily thin, and yet, I'm very much in the healthy weight range. I feel as though the overton window has shifted so far away from reality people don't even know what's correct any more.

next step: meal size

lol yes

Yea, with that meal size he better be on OMAD or at least on some kind of intermittent fast.

Or maybe they just want a really soft start to make it easier, idk.

I am guessing we are talking specifically about the USA here because normal healthy dudes who arent overweight do not average 22%, no chance, I actually looked that up not too long ago and in canada it said the average was 15-19% for males my age (I am 36)

I agree.

I ate one meal a day once, while just drinking water and lost 2 stone in a week.

Easy peasy.

I assume Ethiopia looks a little different, too.

lol I would assume so

Every country has a stereotype. I'm from Ireland and what comes to peoples minds is alcohol, which is quite over exaggerated in my opinion, but not completely untrue.

A US stereotype is a country that is facing an obesity problem.

While I thought this was a stereotype when I visited the US, I was gob smacked by the amount of take aways that are there. It's actually ridiculous. Laughable.

The second you land in the airport, every second building is a pizza, Mexican restaurant or burger joint lol.

I just went from 315 to 199 in the last year and a half. It’s totally doable for him. Just needs to cut out all sugars/carbs and lift weights.

Oh and props to Perkins because that’s really what this is all about. He just wanted to motivate him to get into better shape.

There might be 6 billion better places for him to “donate” his money though

This guy was never motivated to get in shape for the sake of always being there for his family. But give him a prop bet with money and he’s in.

Haha you guys are funny, thats not what I was getting at.

How do you know?

I would just go 80-90% plant based tbh. Keep sugar low, keep carbs low. Coffee with almond milk, non fat milk. Eat fruits with fiber to feel more full. Lean meats and fish. Win your million, get your LDL cholesterol levels down at the same time. People saying eat mainly meat and fats seems to be disregarding the long term health implications of triglycrides, LDL, saturated fat etc.

I am starting to think that he will do this easily.

It's noticeable in the recent gym video clip that he has thin lower legs, which indicates that his natural genetics are not chunky, and the fact that he is low 300s lbs and not mid 300s
means that in the chicken eating video he looked quite a lot bigger/more overweight than he actually is.

14 months is also very generous. He can really pace himself nicely for the first 2/3rds and go much harder if he needs to in the last third, by which time his body
will be much stronger and his cardio way better.

Think we can safely infer it based upon what we know about the guy and the complete 180 now in effect due to the prop bet

Do you believe he’s been aggressively pursuing a healthy lifestyle for past ten years?

Just cutting out sugar lol. Like cutting out the most addictive legal drug