Wallet hub ranked Greenville as the fattest city in the US

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00:00 We fat, Lee. We are really, really fat. Okay. South Carolina just... Oh, you mean the state collectively. Oh, no. No, the state, yeah. The state's fat. But Wallet Hub just ranked Greenville, the Greenville metro area, one of the fattest cities in the U.S., which I think is kind of self-evident every time you shop at Walmart. We got some big people here. There's some other stores where you'll witness that as well, so... Yes. Not exclusive to that location. 00:29 No, no, mean, it's where I've been recently. um It's shocking, actually, how fat people are. How fat are they? Very fat. So Greenville is 15th in the nation. You're wondering, Little Rock, Arkansas is number one. All right. Yeah, but still not good, not good at all to be 15th. to rename it Big Rock or Fat Rock. Yeah, no, fat bunch of rocks. 00:58 So, okay, but the good news is that Columbia is even fatter um at 11. And Myrtle Beach, have you ever been to Myrtle Beach? Yeah. It's like the northern exposure. I go through there, yeah. Yeah, I used to live there. I had to. I did radio there. Yeah. We couldn't wait to load up that U-Haul. Let me tell you what, it's a place to visit. No, I wouldn't want to live there. Those people are fat. And we beat them. We are fatter than they are. 01:28 Now, WalletHub actually used insurance company data. So this is actually accurate. Now they looked at obesity rates, including for kids. And so they're trying to explain this lack of access to healthy food. What? No, not buying it, sorry. No, no. There are no food deserts. I'm sorry. no, that's no, not a thing at all. You know what I think the problem is here? Stop eating so much. 01:58 You know what was really interesting when I went on the PhD weight loss plan, I don't know if you had this experience, but I did. I've always been pretty conservative in what I eat. You know, I'm not sitting around eating like french fries and stuff. And yet I was 29 pounds overweight. And when I went and they had this really cool, what do you call it? Scale. That I have one in my bathroom now and I use it all the time and they could measure your metabolism with it. 02:24 And I'm only 5'2", right? So every serving is standard sized, right? What do I do? I go to Chick-fil-A. Well, what I would do for lunch most days after the show is I'd go get a Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich. Just no fries, nothing, no soft drink, nothing like that. Well, when I did the metabolic analysis for a 5'2 body, my caloric intake need was actually half a chicken sandwich. I didn't know. I mean, we don't question serving size. We just go get something. Well, drink is what size? We're drinking tea. I don't know. It's just a serving. I'll drink that thing. 02:53 Well, maybe you shouldn't. Maybe the math doesn't work out for you. And so I've had to and you know our boss Mark here, who's also in great shape. He says, he said to me once, and this is so true, man, you know, I ate a lot this weekend. This is something that affected. And he says, yeah, I'm gonna have to shrink my stomach for the next three days. And I now know exactly what he's talking about. The three days are Hades because you're hungry, right? Your stomach's to expand. And once you go through the shrink phase of about three days, your whole body adjusts. 03:22 And that's what you're used to now. So I feel full with a half of a Chick-fil-A sandwich I didn't used to. And I think there's a process there, but you gotta go through that. And he would say three days and you know what? I don't know where he got that. I don't know if it's scientific or what, but it's so true. You gotta go through the stomach shrink phase and then you're fine. Why? Because our stomachs expand and then they expect to consume that amount and send us a signal that we're hungry if we don't. Well, one of the things that occurred to me when I went through this, you know, before you did. 03:52 I had a bad habit of always eating till I was full. Yes. the PhD folks h ...

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