

You want to get rid of the screens an hour or three before bed, which is the hardest part for me. You don’t want to have to take Zzzquil or Benadryl, and you definitely don’t want to have to start taking Xanax and things like that because that’s all habit-forming and addictive, and you’re still not getting the proper, quality sleep. I couldn’t sleep and you don’t want to get addicted to sleep aids or taking pills, which I have been on and off.

I’m still struggling with insomnia, but I just quit coffee recently. I’ve been really bad with sleep historically throughout my whole life. What ways have you tried to help with that? How did the sleeker physique help with filming? It’s easy to make a mess but it’s very tough to clean it up and keep it tidy.

It’s hard to lose it but easy to gain it. I got back from the trip and stepped on the scale, and I undid six months of work in about three weeks. And then I went to Portugal and drank my weight in wine. In fact, as soon as we wrapped, I went to Prince Street Pizza and I ate an entire pepperoni pizza. That’s what our bodies are designed for-but I like hot Cheetos, rum, cognac, and playing video games. We belong closer to the equator and should be walking, hunting, and gathering, and eating plants and animals. We sit too much, don’t get enough sunlight, and are in cold climates. Our bodies are not meant for a technological society. It’s basically all the things we would do 10,000 years ago before the Ice Age. I also tried to get sun because it helps with testosterone growth, it has vitamins, and it sets your circadian rhythm. I learned all of this through training for the show, I’m not an expert. You need low-intensity cardio like walking to burn it. With fat, you have to think of it as burning a candle, or low-heat oil. The white fat is easy to lose but the yellow fat is the hardest thing to lose. I would do an hour of walking because of the yellow fat on your -the cottage cheese-looking fat, not the white fat. At night, I would do low-intensity cardio. I would just do a 15-minute ab set-maybe 10 minutes. Then I would try and do abs in the middle of the day. I would wake up, eat my little shitty pre-made meal, and work out for about an hour and a half with my trainer. Food is 90 percent of it, then sleep, and then the gym. Going through that process, how would you break down your training formula? If you put in your age, weight, and all of your stats into the app and you say how much weight you want to lose-there’s like a math to it and you just follow exactly what your calorie budget is for the day every day. If you’re only going to take away one thing from the bullshit that I’m saying, it’s calories in, calories out. That’s actually the most crucial part of it - the calorie counting. The apps really help-MyFitnessPal and all that shit. I would type in the number of calories I burned for the day and the amount I took in. Admit that you’re human and have a little bit of ice cream. You don’t want to go fuck it, I can’t do it and then eat a bunch of crap. Satiate the craving and then go back to the healthy food. It sounds overwhelming and discouraging at first but if you were losing your mind and you need a bite of ice cream or chocolate, just have it. The only carbs I would do towards shooting were Japanese sweet potatoes and sourdough bread because they have the most nutrients. I wouldn’t have too much steak-but it’s really good and nutrient dense. I would have a ton of chicken, fish, turkey, no-sodium tuna, and steak. What did your food consumption look like? I was about 213 and I got down to 173 pounds and under nine percent body fat. The last big drinks I had were at the top of October and then we started shooting in March.
