Hey guys it's Nate aka The Foot Account and welcome back to the channel. I want to talk about the content that came yesterday on Friday, kind of just review that, talk about what's going on with some of the objectives, some of the interesting things going on with SBCs, talk about the Europa League final, some price range updates that finally came. We have some Man of the Match cards that were released as well and talk about maybe what is coming today on Saturday in FIFA 20 Ultimate Teams. We'll talk about that a little bit again, just it's kind of a quiet time, right? I mean it's not, it's not a lot of unknown stuff that is happening right now, it's just basically when is the next like TOTS upgrade pack or when is the next, you know, like whatever 90 plus TOTS upgrade, 92 plus TOTS, like when is the next SBC of that sort coming out, because that's kind of all that we're getting right around now at this time. But still there's some things to talk about related to this market. Let's take a look back at yesterday really quick and talk about what happened. We had a 90 plus double upgrade SBC, I believe, that was released on Friday or on Thursday, excuse me, today we had the 90 plus player pick. We had a 90 plus player pick SBC. It was actually pretty decent value for an 83 rated squad, 60 chemistry. I mean we've been getting these like once every other day at least, that was our upgrade SBC for today and we had this big objective, which is the biggest W of all the content that came yesterday on Friday. This is the biggest W for team of the season 90 plus rated players. And all you have to do is play 10 games with you can do both. Wait, no, you can't three players from each squad. Okay, so you can't do all of these at once, but you can play 10 games, arrivals play 10 games of squad battles using the squad battle glitch. If you want to using two different squads and you will get this you will get these four 90 plus packs very easily. Now of course in those 10 rivals games you do have to score 20 goals. So you know maybe it'll take you a couple more than 20 games, score 20 goals in rivals, play 10 rivals games, no win requirement, play 10 squad battles, no win requirement with those leagues, players from those leagues in your squad, gets you an 86 to 90 rated overall, lone player in foot 21 and a 90 plus pots pack. So you get one for each of these individual objectives and then another pots pack 90 plus pots pack for the entire thing. So that's a huge W getting four tots cards. Basically what that does is it allows you to have even more of a grind on the menu content. That's like one of the biggest W's for an objective from EA sports that we've seen in honestly like a long time in terms of just the amount of quality of card that you get back. So that's the biggest GG in terms of content today. I know this isn't really content related, but if you guys have been grinding upgrade packs for whatever reason, it seems like the weight has been increased on like all of these upgrade packs. The 81s, the 80 pluses, the 82, the 88s, even the icon moments upgrade. Some of the packs that I opened last night on stream compared to what I was seeing in the days previous were so much better. We packed prime moments Maldini from a pack, an icon moments pack tonight on stream. That was dope, right? I don't think I've seen Maldini pack the entirety of the prime or icon moments SBC or just the icon moments. So that was a huge W. So these packs definitely seem to be giving out a little bit more now. It's just another reason and another example of why Packweight is among the things in this game that is just dynamically adjusted and weighted to however EA wants it. So for whatever reason, they cranked it up, it seems, at this time. And this is another interesting, I want to talk about some Champions League stuff, right? Under Herrera and David Alib, if these SBCs still say three days remaining, they right now are set to not expire until after the game is completed. And that's usually not how these UCL showdown players go. Usually what they do is they expire before the game. You have to choose one or the other. This happened earlier this year during the summer heat promo with the Boeysius. I think I forget who was with Boeysius, but whatever matchup that was, their SBCs were initially set to expire after the game ended. So I think if you want to do David Alib or Under Herrera, today is the day you're going to have to do it because I think they're going to change the time on this SBC and they're going to make it one day remaining at 6pm today on Saturday so that you only have one day to complete this because Sunday is Champions League. Big day on Sunday with Champions League coming out and that game being played and these cards could get upgraded based on that game. So all I'm saying is just be careful with it. Don't wait too long and don't be surprised if this changes in the amount of time that you have left to complete it. Just a heads up there. Now speaking of Champions League stuff, we got some cards upgraded to their new stats of course, but we also had some price range updates. And you know what, boys? I'm thinking that EA is watching these videos or Foot Economist is watching this channel and they're doing the stuff that I'm saying is not going to happen because they have not updated price ranges for literally a month. Over a month, they have not updated any price ranges on this game. And earlier tonight, this Gretzware got his price range update from 260,000 coins up to I think 450,000 coins based off of what Fuppin says right here. So we went from 260 to 450 and right now it's about 352,000 coins for this card. He still has one upgrade pending if they do end up winning the Champions League, but they finally did upgrade some price ranges. So again, I think EA is watching these videos, right? I said I didn't think that the... I didn't think that the SBC for De Bruyne was going to come out. It came out. I said I didn't think they're going to update price ranges. This came out. And maybe I'm going to say it because I know you guys all want it. I'm just going to go on the record and say EA's ports. I don't think you're going to drop the 89 rated times five real gold players pack, all right? Do the thing, right? Do your thing. All right. I'll expect that SBC tomorrow. Anyways, it looks like what actually happened today on the 22nd is a lot of cards got upgraded in price range. Some of these moments icons, their maxes went up and their minimums went up as well, which is interesting. Some of the minimums went down though. So I guess they did go through and make a very large change in price ranges. Maybe not. See, this is the last time we had price range updates was when the new team in the weeks were coming out. And that's what I was referring to as almost a month ago. And it looks like they just updated a bunch of icons today. Like what's up? Page two, it takes me to here. I don't know what exactly is going on with these cards and with these dates. But I thought there were other cards that got their price ranges updated, regardless. I don't see the garage girl on there, but it looks like there were a few price range updates. Here's one that I'm interested in. 94 Harry Kane. Another card that's been extinct for a long time. Let's see if he is extinct, right? This is a card that I look at at all times. If there's a 94 on the market above 100K, wow, okay. Maybe just people don't want this card anymore. Is he actually 89K? Wait, what? I don't know what I'm seeing right here, man. Oh wait, 130K. So they did, oh wait, 89,000 coins. Is that actual facts, bro? I don't know. Anyways, it looks like they did update some price range on some cards, which is nice. Now, I know some of you guys are like, yo, this Handanovic was extinct as well. I haven't been watching that Harry Kane in a while, so I very could have, he very well could be not extinct anymore. This Handanovic did not get a price range update. Oh, he did. He got a price range update, but he went down in price because this guy was maxed at 100,000 coins before. They lost, so he's not going to get upgraded to a 97. Is he the cheapest 96-rated card in the game right now? He's not. Oblock 96 is 70K, wow. That's another thing I want to talk about in this video is how some cards in the high-rated fodder price range are very cheap. Some high-rated fodder is getting very cheap right now, and I don't talk about that a little bit, but all I'm saying is, if there are some extinct cards that you were looking at and messing around with, Kingsley Coleman, I don't know if he got a price range update because he was very close to being extinct at about 200,000 coins. He wasn't quite extinct yet, and I wonder if he actually got a price range update or not. I'm going to search Footbin right now. I think Footbin has found all of these because before on stream when I saw it, they didn't. They didn't have Gretzgra updated, so Kingsley Coleman got a price range update to 310,000 coins. He was originally capped out at 200K, so he got a price range update as well. So that is a GG, obviously impending another upgrade to his card if they do end up winning on Sunday. So that is kind of interesting there with those price range updates. Maybe check around with some other extinct cards if you were seeing some of those. They might have had some price range update as well on some of those. But again, speaking of SBC fodder, I mentioned the 89, 5 Rare Goal Players Pack. That is the pack that everybody wants right now on foot. Everybody wants that. It's added into the code. We know it's there, and it hasn't come out just yet for whatever reason it is. It hasn't come out yet, right? And you've seen a lot of this high rated fodder that is basically 85, 86, and above has really come down in price. A, because some of it is in packs, but even a guy like Pianich, right? He's been in packs the whole time. The past couple weeks when he was all the way up here at 35,000 coins before they added more cards into packs. Pianich was pretty expensive, man. He was even almost 30,000 coins earlier this week because of the SBCs that came out as an 86 rated card. And since the SBCs were getting the past day or two have only required 83 rated squads, some of this stuff is now getting lower. Again, told you guys, I think, on Thursday with rewards that you could get involved with some of this fodder. If you look at his price on Thursday, he went down on the graph to about 23,000 coins right here. I picked up like 10 of them of this Pianich card at like 22K, and I sold them at 30,000 coins when the 92 plus tats or 90 plus tats came out, only required an 84 rated squad. And this card actually went up for that SBC. I think the fact that some of this stuff is going down a lot, it makes kind of sense to me, right? Because a lot of these high rated cards are getting supplied that are cards in packs right now. And there aren't many SBCs that you really need high rated cards for. Yes, you need high rated cards for De Bruyne, but that's not enough demand for these cards. There's one SBC that could make high rated fodder go up. I'm talking 86 and above. That one SBC is the 89,5 rare players SBC. If that does come out, I do think you will see guys like Pianich, like some of those 86s. Because the 89,4 rare players pack required an 87 rated squad. And that SBC was out just a couple weeks ago. So I'm going to snag a Pianich again, throw it on my transfer list, go right back in on some of these high rated fodder. I'm not going to go crazy with it, just because I, of course, we're not guaranteed to get that SBC. I don't even know if we're guaranteed to get any sort of SBC that requires high rated fodder. But if we have a squad that is 86, 87 rated for a repeatable SBC, or not even repeatable, but just an SBC like that 89 rated five players pack that would have so much hype and so much demand, I do think you would see some of the stuff go back up again. So that's just something to watch out for.  It honestly is. It was even higher earlier, but Kevin Campbell is 8,000, basically 9,000 coins for a lot of these 83s. Most of them are 10,000 coins in extinct. 84s are 15 to 16k, 85s are 19k, 86s are 22k. And just looking at all this stuff over here, you can start to see where the bottle up is and where a lot of these SBC cards, where the demand is, right? 84 rated cards are 16,000 coins. Only 3,000 coins away from that, 2,000 coins away are 85s. And then another 2k gets you to 86s. That's such a short, like there's so little, why would you pay 16k for an 84 when you can pay 21, 22k for an 86 and get plus two rating, right? Five extra thousand coins can go a long way right here between these two cards.  Their prices are so close together because of all these SBCs that are coming out that are 83 rated, 84 rated. You have most of your demand for the 82s, the 83s, the 84s to finish off these SBC squads because people are getting high rated team of the seasons in their clubs through these daily upgrade packs and now through these objectives as well, right? If you're somebody who wants to do KDB, you're getting four tots cards right here that you can literally just insert into four of the six squads for KDB and instantly have a high rated player above 90 that is gonna make that SBC a lot easier. It is so easy to craft this 99 rated KDB right now. Literally it's the easiest it's ever been to craft an SBC with the amount of upgrade packs, the amount of cards that are in packs, and the objective packs, the free packs that they're giving you, right? So that is just kind of a point I can make to you guys as well. But yeah, the only thing that's gonna make that fodder rise is, in my opinion, a 85 or 89, five rated players pack SBC because that's gonna be where a high rated SBC is needed. Now if they would somehow drop a top transfer content SBC, like again, I've been talking about maybe a tots Timo Werner with Chelsea Lynx, if that was to happen, of course it didn't happen yesterday. I'm still a bit disappointed that we're not seeing the top transfer content yet. Hopefully we see that after the Champions League is over on Sunday and maybe they'll kind of transfer the second half of this promo is where they will be doing stuff with the transfer content. I don't know. That's a thought of mine as well. Last thing I want to talk about, this just came to my mind, but Champions League, a lot of people are saying that they think Weekend League is over after next weekend because there's only two of them in the schedule. In my opinion, I think that is incorrect because sometimes it comes down here where there's only two Weekend Leagues that show up and EA just hasn't added the next one yet. I don't think Weekend League can be over as long as we have a promo running, as long as we have special Weekend League rewards and special cards impacts for another three weeks, 20 days, 15 hours. So I think we're actually going to have this weekend for Weekend League next weekend. I think we're still going to have three or four weeks left of Weekend League until the preseason promo is over. That's when I think the FIFA 20 stuff is really going to shut down. So I still think we have three weeks of Weekend League. Honestly, this weekend, one more next week and then the week after that. So I still think we have more than just the next two weeks. If you're getting a little bit, I mean, not scared, but worried about that possibly, I still think we have three weeks left. I don't know why EA would stop Weekend League before their promo ends. I really don't know why they would do that. I guess they could do it, but to me, that doesn't make a lot of sense. So that's kind of the video for today, boys. Just talking about Champions League stuff. Of course, Europa League Finals, your Diego Carlos. I should have looked at that over here on Footbin. I can show you that really fast. If you guys still have this Diego Carlos, he's going to go to a 93, because Sevilla did win the Europa League today. He's going to go to a 93-rated car. It'll be sick, even better than his team this season, which is pretty crazy. So if you still have road to the final, Diego Carlos, you are feeling good. But again, boys, thanks for watching today. I would appreciate it if you enjoyed it. Hit a thumbs up. Subscribe to the channel if you're new. And of course, comment down below if you have any questions. It's been Nate, The Foot Accountant. I will catch you guys later. Peace out.


It pays to be loyal to the Democratic Party apparently now He does disclose in his Twitter bio that he's the senior advisor to really American and as far as the wayback machine goes Which is to November of 2020 it does show that he did disclose this back then as well So we don't necessarily know how long this affiliation has been intact But very clearly this is something that a lot of people did not know about now This isn't necessarily surprising because everything that he says and does you know It really points to him being some sort of like a literal paid shill Having said that though, there's a lot of questions like there's there's not a lot that we can definitively say But here's what we do know as Beth Lynch points out on Twitter. He received $57,000 from the really American PAC So it's obvious that there is a financial incentive there at a minimum for him to say the things that he says and This really is something that like I'm not accusing him of committing any illegal activities here But I will say that this is very obviously unethical So as a youtuber if I were to say Advertise Nike for example or iPad If I were to do that. Oh, I just activated Siri if I were to do that and You didn't know that I was getting paid by Apple to advertise their products That would be pretty immoral that would be really unethical and Fraudulent so on YouTube if we were to do an advertisement we would have to explicitly State that we are getting paid to say the things that we're saying about said product We are legally required to do that. In fact, there is this gigantic scandal I think with Kim Kardashian where she was promoting products on Instagram and wasn't fully disclosing that she was getting paid to advertise These particular products so this might not necessarily be like a one-to-one Comparison here, but all of the ethical questions here are present and this is just extremely Fucked up and it gets you to wonder like how many people how many of these resistance liberals who? Argue with progressives and bashed Bernie Sanders How many of them are also on the payroll of some Democratic Party super PAC So for more on this we got a Lydia Wang of refinery 29 who writes with nearly 900,000 followers Majid Patalin known as Brooklyn dad defiant or just Brooklyn dad is one of Twitter's most vocal supporters of Joe Biden It comes with some confusion though as the account prides itself on being a whistleblower and a steadfast liberal But during the past election cycle Patalin received backlash from leftists for among other things urging Bernie Sanders to drop out of the presidential race and Discrediting Tara reads allegations of sexual assault now He's facing renewed backlash amid revelations that he accepted tens of thousands in donations from a Democratic PAC on Tuesday Several tweets began circulating with evidence that really American a pro-biden PAC paid Brooklyn dad nearly $60,000 in 2020 in his bio He says that he works for the PAC as a senior advisor But many users began arguing that major Democratic donors are paying him to espouse certain opinions and theories with his large following Since Biden took office Patalin has continuously tweeted out his support for the new administration and defended the president from criticism Surrounding the rollout of stimulus checks the fact that he hasn't yet held a solo press conference and more the controversy's grimmest Implication of course relates to Brooklyn dad's most questionable tweets his criticisms of Reed and his since deleted Suggestions that governor Andrew Cuomo who has been accused of sexual harassment might be the victim of a smear campaign Although Patalin often rightfully calls out Donald Trump in the GOP For their abuse of policies and personal behavior He's been criticized for failing to hold other Democrats accountable for the same things and now we know why Now we know why now it could very well be the case that at some point before he had this in his bio He disclosed that he was working for the really American PAC or was a senior advisor getting paid from them But the question is like how far should someone go to disclose a very Obvious and problematic conflict of interest so like let's go back to the example of me like advertising for Apple Which I'm not by the way and would never do if I were advertising You know how phenomenal the iPad is and I use it for every single show But I only put like that disclosure that I'm getting paid by Apple in my description box Would many people see it would many people know about this conflict of interest am I being explicit enough? Like there's a reason why where if you see an advertisement on another YouTube channel They're going to very explicitly point out multiple times usually that this is an advertisement because if they do not do that They are breaking the law like I watch a lot of gaming channels and sometimes they'll advertise like apps or there They'll advertise like a particular game or product from a gaming company or third-party, you know accessory for the Nintendo switch if they do not Put in their video Both in text and audio that this is an advertisement Then they could get into trouble for that. So I mean, what's the standard here for Twitter? I mean, this is someone who very clearly has a gigantic following He has almost 90 or 900 excuse me a thousand followers on Twitter That's more than all of my accounts combined my Twitter Facebook YouTube. He's way bigger than me So if I were to do something like this, I would expect pushback I would expect to be called out if I were to do an advertisement I would know to be explicit about you know The financial incentive that I have to say the things that I say So why does this individual get to get away with this when what he does is a lot more detrimental to society because it Have as political implications like to impugn the character of someone who is sharing their me to story tar read That's really disgusting Now again, I don't know if he's getting paid specifically to put out individual tweets like are they saying hey Tweet this bad thing about Bernie Sanders. I don't necessarily know but the financial link that he has That in and of itself is a huge issue and as journalist Walker Bragman points out Political operatives should have to disclose their affiliations on social media That's my feeling on this Brooklyn dad situation online astroturfing is a problem even when it's not Russian He made more than $57,000 in six months from the Super PAC. That's more than most journalists I know that's upsetting all really American PAC does is make shitty ads They don't seem to have a lot of viewership either as Ted Cruz ad has 3,000 views Now the question is like if the ads that the Super PAC is putting out isn't actually generating that many eyeballs Then it can't be bringing in that much revenue organically, right? So how are they getting all this money well like all Super PACs It's being funded by big donors and as Walker Bragman points out going through really American PACs big donors I've already found a healthcare CEO and a hedge fund partner And I know that it's not just occurring on the Democratic Party side There's a lot of paid shills on the Republican Party side as well But when you are trying to influence Leftist and Democratic Party politics and you're getting paid to do that you have that financial incentive. That's obviously an issue It's unethical. So this goes back to the question like what should we expect from folks? And as Pam Asius points out There's a difference between acknowledging you're a senior advisor to a PAC and disclosing that you're being paid to influence American voters on social media every tweet and the profile should include a paid advertisement disclaimer and you might think that That is a little bit too far But that's what we'd have to do for YouTube videos now whether or not you can compare a YouTube video to an individual tweet I don't know if you can do that. But what's very obvious is that this shill should have made it abundantly clear that he was getting paid either to say the things that he said or Had a financial incentive to say the things that he said that is a lot of money $57,000 in six months We don't have all of the details About his relationship specifically and what they paid him for we can't say we can't prove There's no evidence to say at this point as far as I know that he was paid to tweet but this conflict of interest is Obviously troubling and this isn't the first time that the Democratic Party has tried to you know disperse shills into Social media in order to tip the discourse in their favor back in 2016 Let me remind you that David Brock he put down one million dollars for online paid trolls to defend Hillary Clinton Against what he deemed were attacks from Bernie Sanders supporters. So I mean, I don't know what's left to say again There's a lot of things that we don't know here with regard to like his relationship specifically But what we do now as of now don't know when specifically he started to Point out the fact that he is affiliated with the super PAC We know that he's a paid shill and the things that he says online on his gigantic platform Are influenced by the fact that he's getting money to promote the Democratic Party and Joe Biden That is Not shocking to say the least but nonetheless We still have to call it out because this is disgusting like you're poisoning political discourse Because you want to make money and lots of money and it's it's really lucrative apparently to be a paid shill for the Democratic Party But that doesn't mean that you should get a pass and if you have a gigantic platform like that Then I think that you should be a lot more responsible not only in the way that you engage in Political discourse, but in the way that you like tell people what you're about in your disclosures of your relationships with the Democratic Party Man


I've never been the type to play it safe.  They can hate me for this one. But their opinions ain't gonna stop me. They analyze a player like Jamie and Henry. But I'm still Flames on B, different city. But I see the same on streets, young bucks. Trying to press odors in the old man up. Oh, man, man up. That don't matter, man down. To put a money's on the coat hangers. I see fresh guns, but no swagger. They ain't in it for the long run, like Mofar. I head down, I'm a notorious toe tiger. I can walk in the dragons, then set them up.  They told me that I wouldn't come close to these rappers. Told me not to go toe to toe with these battlers. Now I'm coasting around the globe. Ghosting these rappers, being humble. But it's hard not to glow when it happens, I mean. Friends are asking me how the battling's going. I do, I say I keep winning when I sound like I'm gloating. I'm roasting them seas. The only chef I hit flipping, because they can't take the heat.  Forget about the bitching, girl. Come on, why do you care? I mean, the friends like to get, of course. Who's it? Who's got move on? You strong, independent woman. Cue the Moulin Rouge song. Needle to the record, I'm getting my groove on. I ain't looking for Cinderella, split to put a shoe on. I built every time I had a writer's block. It's even pussy on my mind, or I'm thinking outside the box. Carried the weight into my shoulders, cracked her up once. Did I show the cracks? Realized I'm the only one who's holding me back.  I'm too old, in fact, I'll take the heat like a soldier. Matt said my words don't have value. When did I sold that rap? Some dream, and I've nothing to show for that. But if you got drive, then show for that. I've been broke, now I'm so intact. Every day's an opportunity to close the gap. Everybody busy taking the same path. I fooled them into thinking they were silhouette, or they were chain heart. Now my name's on the flyer and the name card.  Trying to do this before my views, now that ain't smart. And we can put those figures aside like a race car. Quill, don't flop, DFAFT. Let's go.


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insecure about and that's been dogging me and then I lost my main source of income we head for the sky it's all right our wings wouldn't fly it's all right if we aren't crashing down again what is up my youtube family right youth to razi here and today i want to talk about something that i've been pretty insecure about and that's been dogging me that for the most part this whole year especially during the pandemic which is my weight as a lot of you know i've been a natural competitive physique bodybuilder for the past three going on four years now got my pro card last year did my first pro show at mussel beach in venice in october of 2019 and i placed third amongst two other veteran bodybuilders veteran pro bodybuilders so i was stoked that's like the best that i could have fathomed i would do and i wasn't even expecting the place so that was amazing anyway since then my weight has steadily increased so my weight when i went to the competition was like 159 160 which i will admit is not a sustainable number for me for my body that's like i can make i can have that weight for like three days and then we're being unhealthy so that's the way it is with competitions you shred shred shred shred get as lean as possible for those for that one day in particular and then you go back to a normal healthy weight which for me being still being really lean but also healthy i would be closer to like high 160s to 170 i think is a good goal weight for me since then over this course of this year i and the thing is i've never weighed more than 174 pounds so over the course of this year my weight has slowly but surely been inching upwards that's in large part to the fact that i'm no longer working bartending shifts for eight hours at a time where i'm constantly running around on my feet on the go go go go go fast and serving tables at the same time which was really high-paced burned a lot of calories i know that in addition gyms have been closed in LA for almost the entire year and so there was a period while i was doing at home ig live some of you joined me for that thank you i hope you got something out of it but you know it really wasn't doing it for me it was it's a good like hit body weight stuff but man do i miss strength training hypertrophy training with with maximal resistance pushing myself to failure like that's that's what i love to do and then in addition to that i haven't really had access to the cardio well okay rake why don't you go run why don't you go run a couple miles you can do that well i did i did that i tried it and i was going every morning for a while and then i got shin splints and then i got weird like weird pains in my achilles tendon and my calves from the high impact running i kept going even though it hurt for like a week or two but it just it just kept getting worse and worse and worse until i was having trouble walking so at that point i had to say okay we tried that it's not gonna work anymore it's not working for me let's pivot so i kept trying to like think of new ways that i could incorporate but at the same time while this is going on it's not enough and on top of that i'm not eating as healthy i've just kind of i've been busy so i've been getting a lot of delivery and a lot of delivery is not healthy or it's expensive and i've slowly been putting on more weight so i'm talking about like we went from 160 stage weight to like 170s chilling that's like that should be my limit right there to stay in good shape so i'm photo ready if you would say and then we're creeping up to 175 and then when i hit 180 i was like whoa i've never weighed this much ever in my life that's a lot and for a while it chilled there and then you know with not being able to run it inched its way up to 184, 185 and then in the past month or so i hit i hit 190 zero after a solid meal 192 that's a lot that's over 30 pounds from stage weight of fat that is not muscle and on top of that one must assume since i haven't been strength training that i've actually lost some muscle mass i should weigh less so that's even more fat so over 30 pounds of fat easily so for a while i was trying to pivot i'm like okay what else can i do so i you know that we have a pool on our roof it's like three and a half feet deep it's not like a swimming pool but i was trying to like do laps back and forth do some stuff on the roof uh do the stairs even the stairs hurt after a while um and the pool i'm getting old man i'm just getting old i just gotta this is what this is what happens face the music but i was trying to do the swimming too and then and i was doing that every morning as soon as i woke up before anyone got up there before it was even open i snuck in and then i lost my main source of income my primary source of income which was a huge blow for me uh and so i was desperate to find a job my parents happened to be looking for a sales rep and i mentioned this in the last video and so i jumped on it 40 hours a week salary got a commute to orange county a lot of days which is about an hour or so away depending on traffic and so i can't wake up in the morning and go do that on the roof anymore either that was my next solution i can't do that anymore either because i'm waking up at like 5 5 30 a.m so i can get ready get on the road and get to my job in orange county by 7 a.m so there you have it and so my weight has climbed and i'm bringing this up because it's so easy to get down on yourself and to blame yourself and to just and a lot of times you know i do catch myself being like gross and seeing things not i just don't feel i don't feel vibrant and like alive and fit and all of that and it affects my psyche and it affects my attitude and all of that so i very consciously have to work against that anyway i want to show you what i'm talking about in the mirror and this is really vulnerable for me because i don't want to show this stuff but here we go okay so here is a picture of me when i was really lean in my ideal weight range and now so this is me now you know it's not as noticeable my weight like in my arms and my in like from here up by really and even here it's not like it doesn't look like oh rave gained you know over 30 pounds but me and my genetics i retain a lot of my fat and weight in my lower back in my glutes and in my thighs actually let me sit here now you can really see i mean i'm not like it's not like i'm overflowing at this point but for me for where i was at if you compare it now like you know let me make sure that's focused like that's a big difference i got this gut in the front see the other side the light might be better like check this out this is this is big for me and so even this part doesn't look too bad it's just really it's really filled in with fat and i've got all this extra fat right here that used to just be really cut and here of course and then it's also evenly spread out amongst my muscles and you know so anyway that's been my struggle and so lately one of the things that i decided to do for myself is i invested in a peloton bike and right now it's really great because they have zero percent financing over i think it's three years which just means that you can split your payments up once a month over three years without having to pay any like interest on top of it like you would with a credit card or a loan so here's my baby there she is and what i really love about the peloton is that it's i mean it's got this huge screen first of all and it is touch screen which is brilliant and they've got all these classes you can take them online when they have them you take them online when they have them or you can take classes that have that are pre-recorded you can just do it whenever you can do different difficulty levels and it's just such a brilliant brilliant device and you can have it to automatically adjust the difficulty etc etc and they even have on the back of the seat a little rack for some weights so i've got some three pound weights some of the classes incorporate using weights and also this screen rotates to the side so you can take other classes that are strength training with just dumbbells you can do it on the floor and have this screen with the instructor to guide you or they have yoga meditation a bunch of stuff so it's really multifunctional love it you know i'm trying i'm trying to supplant the old gym with something new and so i'm hoping that i'll be able to wait lose some some weight now and get back into um just a weight class that i'm gonna be happy with and so i want to i want to track some of that journey and post that with you guys and share that with you so you can see it's not a linear progression towards a weight it it goes up and down and up and down and up and down and some of you have seen an instagram post i think it was maybe a two or three weeks ago where i was like okay guys i'm starting my weight loss journey i was 190 in a week i managed to shave off a little bit look at me now well i'm back up to 192 190 right now so we're starting at square one again and that's just the way it goes so stick around i know that um there are there are those of you out there who are also struggling with your weight and who are very familiar with making that attempt and it being a struggle and then having to start again and then and then falling off again and then starting again and you just get so down on yourself and it's like why should i even bother i'm never going to get there it's never going to happen but i can tell you that 90 of it is in your mind and then the rest of it is a matter of coming up with practical solutions surrounding yourself with things that are going to help affirm that's dookie sign if you can hear that coming up with practical solutions that are going to keep you in alignment with your goal so like not surrounding yourself with junk food and things like that and having friends who who who have the same you know values and health and fitness and eating right and things like that so it's all those little pieces as well as your mindset that are really going to make it or break it for you and and you know i'll touch on that more in in the coming videos but for now this is where we're at we're accepting it this is where i'm at today it's okay um this is exactly where i'm supposed to be and so it's all about the next step and what am i going to do now no looking back hey fam so i wanted to do a quick update i originally recorded this video way back in november like mid to end november 2020 with the full intention of releasing this video the first week of december that obviously never happened i've been so busy with work with multiple projects you can hear my phone going off right now i'm working for my parents 40 hours i don't even remember if i covered this in the previous footage but real quick i'm working full-time 40 hours a week for my parents at their plastics manufacturing plant i am also working with miss peppermint assisting her um and then we're also co-producing some projects exciting then i'm also doing plus life media content for them um i'm doing stuff with a hf and i am trying to work on my own as well but that tends to get pushed to the very end so that's why we haven't seen any videos from me i'm trying to be efficient with my time and trying to make it all work it's a learning process and it's very difficult but i'm gonna get there anyway so guess what since i recorded this video and i told you my weight i have gained even more weight um i'm now at 195 average pushing 200 so i've recently purchased a uh a bench a training bench and i've got 100 pound weights so i can do 100 pounds in each dumbbell great it's like well i don't need more weight than that i can't there's no way i can't i couldn't bench more than that in dumbbells so that's gonna be great for me that's exciting i've got my peloton to do cardio so it's a matter of figuring out my schedule and having time to do all this stuff for example like last week monday through thursday i had a total of all those nights eight hours of sleep that's not that doesn't work then i don't have time or energy to work out so i gotta i gotta work figure out how to use my time more efficiently and um yeah so there you go anyway i'm 195 pounds i'm still focused and i want to lose the weight and um not just because of the weight itself but because of how it makes me feel because i don't like being breathless when i'm doing basic things like taking duke out it shouldn't be the case and i know that has an impact on my health so it's really important that i get that under control and i'm gonna be sharing that with you i'm gonna make it happen all right cheers guys like this video if you liked it subscribe if you haven't already and please share um my content for with people that you think would benefit and would find value in this content because i really need that support from you guys too duke's here because he wants to be a part of it as always hey good boy okay you can go back to what you were doing all right cheers guys talk to you peace we head for the sky it's all right