How Penn Jillette Lost over 100 Lbs and Still Eats Whatever He Wants

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The story of the Penn Jilllette's weight loss is, as you might expect, quite extreme. In fact it was the radical nature of his diet that attracted him to it in the first place. Jillette's latest book is "Presto!: How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales" (http://goo.gl/jJDkz1).

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I lost over 100 pounds, a third of my weight. I was probably at my heaviest. You donâ??t ever weigh yourself at your heaviest but I was probably over 340, certainly around there. And now as I sit here in front of you Iâ??m probably about 232. Thereâ??s a fluctuation of a couple of pounds, it goes back and forth. Thatâ??s a lot of weight. And I did not lose it for vanity. I was pretty happy with myself fat. I didnâ??t mind being fat. It wasnâ??t a big deal to me. I didnâ??t mind how I looked. But my health was getting bad.

I didnâ??t even mind how I felt very much. I didnâ??t mind not being energetic and stuff. But I started having blood pressure that was stupid high like, you know, like English voltage, like 220 even on blood pressure medicine. And I have two young children. Iâ??m an old dad. My daughter was born when I was 50. So Iâ??m 61 now.

And my life expectancy, the actuary tables were crashing down and the doctor said that I had to get a stomach sleeve. It was a wonderful moment because it then gave me the option to go crazy. If youâ??re going to surgically do something to me to stop me from swallowing that means I donâ??t have to worry about doing a sane diet. I can get nutty. And being given the option to be nutty was all I needed. I realized that not only am I not good at moderation, I also donâ??t respect moderation. Anyone I know whoâ??s able to do moderation I donâ??t like them.

The people I respect and love are people that go wild. I mean I donâ??t want to go into Kerouac here but the mad ones. No one brags about climbing a nice little slope. You brag about climbing Everest. So once my friend Ray Cronise who I can Cray Ray, once Cray Ray told me that I could lose the weight but it was going to be really hard, it got really easy. Once you make something a challenge, you make something I can brag about, I can do it. Read Full Transcript Here: https://goo.gl/X54URE.

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