[Chris Haynes] Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid has dropped a considerable amount of weight.
Ozembiid
Less significant muscle mass but weight loss is almost always Ozempic now
I do agree that is true with the influx of normal people who have been fat their entire life and are now rapidly getting skinny.
Things are a lot different when you are a professional athlete with millions of dollars for a billion dollar organization that relies on your health for success. Losing weight is very easy when all you need to do is eat the healthy and filling food that is prepared for you and do the workouts with the trainer that prepares your workout plan and being in shape is one of your main priorities and you don’t need to work a 9-5.
Yeah that’s how Mac got back in shape and lost all the weight he gained for his “fat Mac” season of It’s Always Sunny, and he said the same thing - he’s lucky that in his profession and wealth he has the luxury of having the time and resources to easily lose weight and get in shape if he needs to. It’s harder for regular people to do that.
Plus yknow, steroids
I miss fat Mac
“Look, it’s not that hard. All you need to do is lift weights six days a week, stop drinking alcohol, don’t eat anything after 7pm, don’t eat any carbs or sugar at all, in fact just don’t eat anything you like, get the personal trainer from Magic Mike, sleep nine hours a night, run three miles a day, and have a studio pay for the whole thing over a six to seven month span. I don’t know why everyone’s not doing this. It’s a super realistic lifestyle and an appropriate body image to compare oneself to.”
Losing weight is very easy when all you need to do is eat the healthy and filling food that is prepared for you and do the workouts with the trainer that prepares your workout plan and being in shape is one of your main priorities and you don’t need to work a 9-5.
It’s really not that simple, even if you’re rich. Especially since a lot of people have food or alcohol addictions (or a weed habit that gives them the munchies every day).
One of the main things the GLP-1 do is turn off that food/booze noise. And I’m not saying I know embiid is a food addict, but in the past decade I’ve read plenty of stories of him going to restaurants and downing like 4~5 full entrees and sides. You can have the perfect chef and perfect diet plan 99% of the time, but going out and eating like that just once every 10~14 days is enough to kill whatever progress you’ve made
For sure. That’s why I’m saying they can leave the decision making to a professional. It’s a lot easier when you’re told, this is what you’re eating and you eat it vs making decisions for yourself.
As a regular person, it’s easy to say you want to eat healthy, but then you get to a restaurant, look over the menu, and find something really good but unhealthy and eat it.
If you have somebody cooking you every meal to fit perfectly into your diet, you just eat what is given to you and nothing else. No decisions needed. If you plan to go out to eat, you tell them, they choose what you’ll order from there and adjust the plan for the remainder of the day/week.
It’s a lot easier to stick to something that you don’t have to make any decisions on
One of the main things the GLP-1 do is turn off that food/booze noise
The other big thing both my wife and I have noticed it that it makes us want to eat healthier food. High fat and/or highly processed food just seems gross to me now.
I haven’t had fried chicken since I started taking it. I LOVE fried chicken, but it just sounds unpleasant now. Meanwhile, I devoured a wrap from a salad spot yesterday and I never did that before taking a GLP-1.
Also the more muscle you have the easier it is to lose weight, for nba player it should be nothing to lose weight
So why didn’t he do it years before? Same with Luka and Zion. If you don’t think it’s drugs idk what to tell you
Got a source indicating that “it’s drugs”? Otherwise, agreed, you don’t know what to tell us.
Did they spend an offseason trying to get skinnier? Having size, especially for big men, is an advantage. There are pros and cons to having size. I wouldn’t assume they’re trying and failing to lose weight. They’re trying to be as good as possible at basketball, not look as good as possible for a photoshoot
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Weight loss is a medical reason, assuming we’re discussing people with overweight and obesity. The trials studying these drugs in patients with obesity always had intense diet/exercise as the control arm and the results without medication were not great.
You honestly sound incredibly ignorant, and no I’m not gonna take the time to explain why.
People now look at you weird if you tell them you just eat healthy and exercise like a normal person.
Yeah, why would anyone respond negatively to someone saying that. It’s definitely all other people’s fault and nothing to do with you
Something you learn when taking a GLP-1 is that the issue was never willpower. You talk to overweight people and tell them that the food noise is just gone, and they’re amazed. You talk to a skinny person and they have no idea what you’re talking about.
I also crave healthier food, and highly processed food seems gross to me now.
It’s almost like overweight people’s brains are different, and rather than try to understand them a lot of people just blamed them in order to write them off.
weight loss is almost always Ozempic now
what a wild assumption
it is a wild assumption. ozempic doesn’t do anything to your muscles that rapid weight loss wouldn’t do. if you did ozempic but ate your 1g of protein per pound and kept strength training you’re not going to lose any muscle.
If you lose weight at the correct pace to keep or even grow muscle you could’ve just done it without GLPs anyway… Most people who take it are too lazy to work out or plan out a reasonable calorie deficit to pace the process, because if they did have the discipline they would’ve not needed the GLP in the first place. And so in effect the effects on muscle are what they are, as shown in studies.
Ozempic weight loss is easy to spot. It’s like they picked up a nicotine habit while training for a marathon
Skinny fat its called
He’s been working his ass off… definitely not ozempic.
It can be both.
Did they put sandpaper on the floor?
Can’t outrun a bad diet. If he’s been working his ass off, it’s dietary. These are NBA players - being active is not the problem.
First, you can absolutely outrun a bad diet - people do it all the time, usually people who do a lot of cardio, such as training for marathons (i.e. literally out running it) or in certain cases NBA players (like Dwight Howard) who stay in great shape for a long time despite their diet. In either case, that’s not what is happening here. He almost certainly made a conscious choice to lose weight, which likely includes muscle mass, to protect his knees better and adjusted his diet and exercise to the frame he wants to have.
bad take. ozempic doesn’t eat muscles. rapid weight loss will though if you don’t eat your protein and continue strength training
LeBron eating Embiid’s cookies and drinking his wine now.
*Drinking his Shirley Temples.
WHEN A BOY ORDERS IT IT’S CALLED A ROY ROGERS
Not sure if I’m missing something, but a Roy Rogers is with coke not sprite
Wegobiid rolls off the tongue better
Jozempic
GLPiid
He and Kat both lol
He really went on a novo nordisk diet just to make his flops look more realistic to the refs. Now he’s light enough to get blown away by the arena ac units on every single flop
He needed a new process to trust.
Considering; 1) his age, 2) the physical shape he maintained all his adult and playing life and 3) the amount of weight loss in the offseason timeframe - its definitely some GLP1/GIP induced weight loss.
Joel Slimbiid
think about it, Ton, the sudden weight loss…
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Yooo that crazy. I wonder how much strength he has lost
Will def improve conditioning and strain on his joints
I mean when you no longer have to worry about jokic you’re prepping to go against wemby or skeletor in the finals. Don’t really need that strength
Skeletor is jacked btw
Yeah skeletor would be the top 1% in THE NBA for being yoked
Yeah all assumptions that Skeltor is built like a skeleton are very incorrect 😂
You don’t need to worry about Jokic on the defensive end regardless.. He needed that weight for guys like Gasol.
Or realistically Gobert in today’s game
finals??
He was basically falling forward instead of running in last year’s playoff run including one he scored over 30. He needed to change something for him to be able to contribute deep into playoff.
He always does that tho and it won’t change. He’s just a generational flopper
Jalen Brunson is a generational flopper too gtfo
Just because they’re a Knicks fan doesn’t mean they can’t be against flopping. I hate it too and I wish Brunson didn’t do it
Foul baiting I get if it’s not too egregious, but flopping is just annoying to watch
Not even close to the same degree especially considering the size difference
He surely is losing a ton of strength, but it is well worth trying at this point to see if it reduces strain on his knees. (It should)
He won’t be as much of a monster down low, but quite frankly he was already trending that way anyways last couple of seasons. Better off with 65 games and healthy playoffs out of 80% of the player than 35 games and no playoffs out of 100%.
good thing his midrange is silky
He was so strong that it probably doesn’t matter that much if he’s weaker
It does matter, but he’s not gonna be down low banging bodies with his injury history. They’re gonna hope they can get him to last as a stretch 5.
“When a guy is banging you…”
It matters a lot, a big part of post strength comes simply from weight. But trade off will be well worth it if it helps him last longer.
We need him to run, play defense and rebound. Less weight should help that knee
Didn’t he get injured because he flopped and some dude fell on his knee as a result of his flopping?
Jaylen Brown pushed off of Maxey and Maxey fell into his knee
He also missed playoff time to bells palsy, an orbital fracture, and an appendectomy, none of which are weight related. It will help with some but not all injury risk
What
He donated 2lbs to Chet
Everyone losing weight this offseason. Only dude we’re missing is Zion
Chet erasure, dude spent his valuable time all summer to gain 2 pounds
Not enough to keep up with inflation
The affordability crisis rages on.
Bro just didn’t take a shit before weighing in lmao
At that height even a 10-15lbs gain won’t look like anything tbf
On Chet, 10-15 lbs would absolutely be noticed
Would be funny if we gains 20 lbs and it’s just a beer belly
Idk tall people have to change significant weight before you can tell, my old roommate was 6’5” and a 10lbs change in him was unnoticeable. We were both collegiate runners so he has a thin frame.
I think even a 20-30lbs change in Chet wouldn’t look significant but it’d be noticeable. I think below that it wouldn’t be.
You’re supposed to go to the DMV to get a new ID picture taken if your weight changes more than 10%, so it would definitely be noticeable for Chet.
Oh, he didn’t get a haircut this off season?
Zion has lost weight too, he’s 4% bodyfat and looking like Prime Ronnie
He also grew 2 inches, gave up only fans girls and now goes to Church
Who cares about the extra 4 inches? I think the real question is how long he will last
hmmmmmmmmmmmm
Hey! Phrasing🤨
Changed his name to Bill Brasky.
But he lost 27” of vertical leap.
Prime ramp up season. We got all the ramps on sale
I almost read that as 2 inches to OF girls
It’s the law of conservation of weight. If all these guys are slimming down, someone’s getting fatter. Just turns out that guy is always Zion.
Kat is still the craziest to me
I don’t even know why he did it. Part of the reason they won the championship is he and Robinson bullied Wemby with their size. If it ain’t broke…
Zion finds whatever weight other players lose.
Much more difficult. If he misses a meal, the stock market drops.
Zion gained the weight everyone else lost. He’s collecting it like Infinity Stones.
Nah. Mobley gained 15 pounds. Just like he does every offseason.
Zion found all the weight
Some guys realizing it’s their last chances or it’s now or never before legacy takes a pounding
Everyone lost weight and gained muscle and trimmed body fat percentage and studied film and added a skill and worked on their 3-pt shot. Jody Meeks renaissance time!
Zion and pj tucker
Lol
The whole sub clowned in chet for putting on two pounds.
NBA stars tend to start the season lean and gradually bulk up as they approach the playoffs. It’s hard to carry extra mass through 70+ regular season games.
I think LeBron perfected this formula, and that’s why he’s been so healthy and effective for this long.
It’s the exact opposite. It’s hard to maintain the muscle mass over the course of a season with the sheer amount of games and travel, so they tend to lose weight.
I think Shaq perfected this formula, and that’s why he’s been getting so big since he retired.
You don’t bulk up during a season. It takes a shitload of work to maintain what you started with.
It’s also a lot easier to keep focus on a diet for players on the off-season. Those easy cheeseburgers look a lot better in January in between an Atlanta/NOLA B2B than in August in LA.
Zion gained 35lbs
Joel Embanyama
You joke but this is terrifying in concept
Imagine Wemby length with prime Embiid’s strength and explosiveness. Would undoubtedly be the goat assuming health.
Embiid offense with wemby defense is crazy
Embiid offense with Embiid defense was also crazy once…
I welcome the skinny revolution
Chef’s kiss
We make fun of these headlines but damn he really has, lost a person worth of weight lol
it genuinely looks weird lol
It’s uncanny it’s kinda freaking me out tbh
Hes still listed at 270 lbs but that has to be a lie.
He’s got a massive frame, he could be 260-270 now, and just was way more than that before
Yes wouldn’t be surprised if he was pushing 300 in the past at his height with that muscle mass
Yeah they listed him at 280 for most of his career. Embiid was listed at 250 coming out of college and was a little higher than that weight in his rookie year where he looked slim.
Yeah a lot of the time the listed weight is when their career started no?
Isnt Giannis still listed at 240 pounds?
Embiid was probably over 300 at his heaviest
Seriously! I know he needed to improve his conditioning but he slimmed down significantly. Is he even eating?
Saw the title: sureeee
Saw the post: Joel Ayton???
Lot of people hating but as a day 1 Embiid hater this is concerning, if he’s healthy the sixers are gonna be an absolute problem
A lot of Cs fans found that out pretty recently I think.
He was at like 70% and it was a problem. To be fair our big rotation was Vuc, Queta and Garza.
I’d argue that wasn’t even 70%, 61% at best.
He was definitely worse than 70%. He might’ve been around 50% lol
Embiid just owns Vuc. No point in playing him against embiid
Cs beat Embiids’s ass plenty of times when he was healthier than the recent playoffs. Vuc, Queta, and Garza just wasn’t it.
This implies that there was a time when Embiid was healthy.
I can taste the salt in your comment
I appreciate the brute honesty
Yup. Contending for title purely depends on Embiid’s health. If he is, it’s a real problem.
Skinny, bulky, ripped. Don’t matter. Im not sure its possible for him to be an stay healthy at this point
He hasn’t proven otherwise.
Tbf, less weight means less strain on his legs which should help, although it’s definitely no guarantee. Anything to improve the odds is welcome though. Hell, it would be awesome to see him bring back the mask too.
For sure. On an unrelated note would you be interested in purchasing a bridge?
He will gain weight back as the season progress to get back into season shape
Apt username to post
Opposite
ye opposite, just like luka
GLP and 1!!!
Kevin Embiid
Kensington Embiid
GLP-21
JoeLP-1
The Process part VI: Embiid and the power of Ozempic.
Will weight loss be the soultion to the stars chronic health issues? Find out next week on The Process!
Ozembiid?
Jozempic was literally right there dude
I think we can both do better
Wait, holy shit. Usually these headlines are BS
I almost didn’t recognize him ,has he ever been that thin before??
Maybe before he moved to the US.
He’s on his Jo-El P 1 journey.
Can we give some of that lost weight to chet?
2LBs is the best I can do
Looks like KD
Is that a cadaver ?
Looking like Ayton
For real if his name wasn’t in the title I would’ve thought that was Ayton
These knees must be living their best life rn (for what’s of left of them)
Shocked to see how small his arms and shoulders look here. Big fella getting ready to run the floor this year?
Dayum that looks like Kansas Jo
He would have had a historic march madness
With modern pharmaceuticals, being fat is a poor person’s problem now! What the fuck is windy’s deal?
Windy is fat for the love of the game.
Born in it, raised in it, molded in it, hardened by its jiggliness
I’m crying
it’s part of the brand
Windy’s lost a ton of weight. He used to be probably 450 and now he looks like he’s under 300
I thought he dropped a bunch of weight?
Valid
Try and tell me doesn’t look comfy
to not be able to wipe your own ass? I’m good bro.
Bro get a bidet please. You probably stink.
I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m talking about medical literature documenting problems like not being able to wipe your own ass at class 3 obesity which windy clears and then some. Average height and around 280+ needs flexible shoulders and hips to continue to wipe their own ass. Guess what population tends not to have flexible joints?
the side effects from glp1s can be brutal for some people
Chick fil a in shambles
Hopefully that relieves the burden on his knees a little bit 🙏🏻
If he can actually play defense and rebound, watch out. But cool to see the dedication
He should have thought of that years ago
No knee problem, skinny Embiid ? League better be ready
As a Celtics fan this has me far more worried than JB and LeBron.
Jozempic/Wejovy
INJECT IT ALL INTO MY VEINS
Considering he already favors finesse over using his frame it will help his games played. They need a real big to rebound still
Looking like Greg Oden out there now.
Embiidwanyama
How hilarious would it be if Lebron had an exit clause in his contract centered around Embiid’s physical fitness?
Ben Simmons shooting 3s in the summer level title
BigMac inflation hurt him too?
Maybe this is the real reason the brought Lebron in- to be LeDietician
Joel Embid
You have to wonder why he didn’t do this like 7-8 years ago?
watch him have a healthy season. you get the feeling all he had to was lose weight and he wasnt willing/trying hard enough
LeFitness Journey
And Ben is hitting 3s
He’s changed his game a lot to include the mid range and the ball to the basket instead of backing guys down… even then very few centers would stand a chance against him at this weight.
His issue has always been putting on weight during the season. Especially his diet during the season combined with rest days
That Chet holmgren physique
I can hear the commercial featuring Joel now….The Sixers and Joel Embiid are NBA Finals (Zep)bound!
We got skinny Embiid before GTA 6
Joel Wemby’d
Joezempic
Must be chokeing on his food like he has in playoffs
He must weigh 80 pounds by now doing this every year lMFAO
Jalen Duren got offended watching this