Health guru and Instagram sensation Blake Horton shares the reasoning behind his extreme intermittent fasting and eating routine, which consists of having one 5,000-calorie meal per day. Find out how he’s eating to lose weight.
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 This meal is super filling.
00:12 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:15 [APPLAUSE]
00:22 That was actually chicken gravy mash.
00:24 And that's not all.
00:25 Imagine eating all of these epic meals.
00:27 These are real meals to eat.
00:28 Giant fries, onion ring sandwich, a three-pound pastry--
00:34 that's pretty large--
00:35 and a ginormous mac and cheese steak.
00:37 Sort of looks like this thing I got behind me.
00:39 I got a close-up of it there.
00:40 Look at that.
00:41 But yet, despite that, this Instagram sensation
00:43 has gone viral for his health.
00:45 Secret to losing more than 60 pounds.
00:47 That's in before and that's after.
00:48 And that's really his physique.
00:50 Blake Horton says he eats 5,000 calories in one meal
00:54 just once a day.
00:56 It's not just a fitness fanatics trick, guys.
00:58 There are women who are trying this as well, more and more.
01:00 Today, we're investigating this new extreme form
01:02 of internet, rather intermittent fasting
01:05 that's all over the internet.
01:06 Can you really eat all those calories in one sitting
01:09 and lose weight?
01:10 And here's the other question.
01:11 Is it even healthy?
01:12 Please welcome Blake.
01:14 I got to say, you have captured the nation's attention.
01:18 Half a million people watch you eat every night.
01:21 I've witnessed this myself.
01:23 Why are you so passionate about how you eat your food?
01:25 When I figured out how to eat what
01:27 seems like a cheap meal every night before bed
01:31 and lose weight and get all your daily nutrients
01:33 at the same time, there's no reason not to be hooked.
01:37 And also, no longer get hungry.
01:40 So I just think we're going to get into all these bits
01:42 because it's so much--
01:44 so different from any of us thought was possible.
01:46 But how did you learn about that?
01:48 Who taught you you could even try this?
01:50 I was losing weight eating small meals spread out
01:52 throughout the day, which I was miserable.
01:55 When you understand your caloric budget
01:57 and you're counting calories, and you try to spread it out
02:00 over three, four, five meals, shakes, snacks,
02:03 you're calorically broke.
02:04 You have no budget.
02:06 And when you shrink that down--
02:07 I read about intermittent fasting
02:09 and it said you can eat fewer meals,
02:11 same daily caloric allowance, reduce hunger, go to bed
02:18 happy and full with a giant food baby,
02:22 and continue to the same progress.
02:23 So I decided to test it out.
02:25 And I took it to--
02:26 everything I do is to an extreme.
02:28 I took it--
02:29 I'm sensing that.
02:29 Yeah.
02:30 So I got really creative with it.
02:32 And I reduced it to one meal a day,
02:35 which I didn't know anybody at the time who was doing that.
02:38 So the longer you wait to eat, once you get used to it,
02:43 you no longer get hungry.
02:44 If you eat in a four-hour time period, all your calories,
02:48 all your nutrients in a four-hour time period,
02:50 you're not going to be hungry, not nearly as much
02:52 as if you did three meals or four, five, six, like the--
02:55 Let's kick the tires on this.
02:57 We're going to investigate, first of all,
02:58 what Blake's eating to lose weight.
03:00 So walk me through your meal plan
03:02 and just bring it up to speed of why you would eat this.
03:06 And just to be clear, this is what it actually
03:08 looks like on the Instagram feed.
03:10 But all of these things went into this.
03:14 So take your time.
03:15 Explain what this is.
03:16 And this is about 5,000 calories we calculated.
03:19 This is a little bit higher calorie.
03:21 I believe mine was around 4,000 calories.
03:24 But I do see a lot of oil here, which I didn't have on mine.
03:28 Oh, OK.
03:28 Here, I'll fix it.
03:29 Here.
03:30 Yeah.
03:30 There we are.
03:31 OK, it's 4,000 calories.
03:33 So this is all 4,000 calories in here.
03:36 There you go.
03:37 Yeah, I didn't recognize that.
03:38 So what do we have?
03:39 We had some--
03:40 Salad and vegetables.
03:41 Yeah, we had about four pounds of vegetables.
03:43 Everybody asks if I eat fruits and vegetables.
03:45 Most of my meals have like four pounds of vegetables,
03:47 or like three pounds of fruit.
03:49 But everyone sees the cheese sauce, the dressing.
03:53 And this, it's some low calorie cheese sauce.
03:56 What about the French fries?
03:57 They're not the health food normally.
03:59 Fries, I mean, they are potatoes.
04:01 They're not like deep fried, fried like for hours.
04:04 I mean, the fries I used are probably
04:06 between like two to three grams of fat per three-odd serving
04:09 of fries.
04:09 So you're very thoughtful about the cheat foods.
04:11 I count all my nutrients.
04:14 And what time do you normally eat?
04:15 I normally eat usually around like 1 to 2 AM.
04:18 I thought that was the case.
04:19 I figured it's impossible.
04:20 Why at that hour?
04:21 Because I go live on Instagram, and everybody's like,
04:23 why are you live in the middle of the night?
04:25 My schedule is just packed.
04:27 Like, I like eating at the end of the day.
04:30 Because, I mean, biologically, we
04:31 were meant to feast and fast.
04:34 And when we feast, we go to sleep.
04:37 You digest while resting.
04:38 A lot of people have heartburn, indigestion, acid reflux.
04:43 I mean, I'm sure plenty of people here have had--
04:44 I've had it in the past too.
04:46 But when we go out to eat a lunch,
04:47 and then you try to walk off your big lunch,
04:50 or you go try to run it off, or go to the gym after eating,
04:53 and your body's trying to digest all this food while moving,
04:56 that can cause a lot of those issues.
04:58 I eat all my food, and yes, I look like I have a huge baby.
05:02 But I digest while resting.
05:03 See, I'll be honest.
05:04 If I ate at 1 in the morning, I wouldn't
05:06 be able to sleep all night.
05:07 That would keep you from sleeping?
05:08 Yeah, for sure.
05:09 That would throw me off.
05:09 And you know, this doesn't look so healthy to me.
05:11 And this for sure is a little bit petrifying as a doctor.
05:14 That's right.
05:16 I'm surprised they recreated this.
05:19 We took a long time.
05:21 We had to push people off.
05:22 So let me go back to this.
05:23 Come on over here for a second.
05:24 I'm going to walk you through how
05:25 I analyze the food I'm living.
05:27 So this is one meal you had, right?
05:29 Doesn't look as healthy as some other meals
05:31 that I could imagine you eating.
05:33 Is that a big hamburger?
05:34 It looks like it.
05:34 Yeah, it's a giant cheeseburger.
05:36 It's a cheeseburger.
05:37 Yeah, cheeseburger.
05:38 It's a cheeseburger, believe me.
05:39 All right, look over here.
05:40 Calorie content for that, pretty significant, 3,385.
05:45 So it's less than the 5,000 I said, less than the 4,000
05:48 that you might have said.
05:49 Fat was almost 90 grams, and carbs 391 grams.
05:53 Here's another one.
05:54 This is some pizza can cool you.
05:56 This is a pretty big size of pizza.
05:58 It's bigger than your torso.
05:59 Yeah.
06:00 Here we had 3,974 calories, sugar 123 grams, sodium 8,046.
06:08 Well, that was for two of these slices of pizza, not just one.
06:11 How many did you eat?
06:12 Two.
06:13 Well, then what's accurate?
06:14 The total was for two slices.
06:15 Yeah, total one, yeah.
06:16 Sure, sodium's a little bit high, but--
06:18 A little bit high?
06:19 8,000?
06:19 Yeah, for me, I mean, it's almost
06:22 double the recommended amount, or a little bit over double
06:25 the recommended amount.
06:26 But I keep my potassium in check.
06:27 I'm sure you've heard about the sodium potassium balance.
06:30 Yeah.
06:30 And I'm also into fitness, so I mean, I flush out the sodium.
06:35 Can I see your abs?
06:38 This is what I'm talking about.
06:40 I want to know how he eats that food, that pizza,
06:43 and has this.
06:46 So part of the reason I wanted you to come on,
06:48 if you don't mind, is I actually know
06:49 that women are following you and are losing weight
06:51 on the program.
06:52 So because they're off on social media
06:54 and they're looking at what you're doing
06:55 and imitating it, getting success, I got curious.
06:57 So I've got Kathy here with us.
06:59 How are you, Kathy?
07:00 I'm good, how are you?
07:00 If I get it correctly--
07:02 Blake, come join us.
07:04 Kathy's lost 50 pounds in six months.
07:06 By the way, before you even start to go,
07:08 is that unusual for people who are following you?
07:09 Do you hear these stories?
07:10 No.
07:11 I have my own diet.
07:12 It's the Blake Diet.
07:13 And plenty of people have watched my how-to videos,
07:15 my tutorials.
07:16 And I have over 1,300 people now losing weight because of me.
07:19 1,300?
07:20 Over.
07:21 All right, so you're one of the over 1,300 people.
07:23 Yes.
07:23 Tell me your story.
07:24 OK, so we found Blake on the internet, my fiance and I,
07:27 Jamie.
07:28 He's here today.
07:30 He found him on YouTube.
07:31 And we decided to watch him.
07:33 He decided to start the diet.
07:35 He's like, oh, I'll give it a try.
07:36 I saw his success.
07:38 The first week or two weeks, he lost like 15 pounds.
07:40 Did it make you mad?
07:42 A little bit.
07:42 Yeah.
07:42 Yeah.
07:43 And I was just like, you know what?
07:44 I'm going to give it a try.
07:45 I mean, I have nothing else to lose.
07:46 I mean, I've done the whole traditional dieting.
07:48 And it didn't really work for me.
07:50 And I was never a breakfast person.
07:52 I could never eat breakfast.
07:53 So this diet was just perfect.
07:54 Where is he?
07:55 Where is he hiding?
07:56 We'll pull him out there.
07:57 There's Jamie.
07:57 So Jamie looks skinny too.
07:59 He is.
07:59 He lost 85 pounds.
08:01 He lost 85 pounds?
08:02 Yeah.
08:03 And are you eating the same kinds of food as Blake is?
08:06 For the most part, yeah.
08:08 Scaled down into my calorie intake, my burn.
08:10 And your fiance is also?
08:12 Yes.
08:13 Did I say fiance or boyfriend?
08:14 Fiance.
08:14 Yes, just making sure.
08:15 Yes.
08:15 OK.
08:16 All right.
08:16 And it's the same kind of food.
08:18 And you say that you lost the weight,
08:20 but you had other benefits also.
08:22 Yeah, I had more energy.
08:24 I didn't feel so sluggish.
08:26 I felt better.
08:26 My skin cleared up.
08:28 My hair felt better.
08:29 And at what time of day are you eating?
08:31 I eat at midnight.
08:32 You also eat at midnight?
08:33 Yes, I do.
08:33 What is going on here?
08:34 It's the face of everything we're talking about.
08:37 Now, you may get to eat thousands of calories
08:39 and shed pounds.
08:40 But what's it doing to your insides?
08:41 We tested his cholesterol and his blood sugar
08:43 before the show.
08:44 And I asked him to keep track of his sleep patterns.
08:46 And the results are in.
08:48 Are you ready, Blake?
08:49 I am ready.
08:50 You're ready.
08:50 All right.
08:51 You confident?
08:52 I'm confident.
08:53 OK.
08:53 Total cholesterol should be under 200.
08:56 Blake's 118.
08:58 [APPLAUSE]
09:02 I'm not quite sure how this is all working.
09:04 But I got to say, that number is nice.
09:05 The blood sugar ought to be less than 100, between 70 and 99
09:08 ideally.
09:09 Yours, 84.
09:10 Smack, dab in the middle.
09:14 I was surprised.
09:15 These are just two of the lab results.
09:16 I looked at all your lab results.
09:18 Literally, every single one was in the optimal range.
09:20 So I'm a little trying to figure out, get my footing back.
09:25 But I have to say, at least on the insides of you,
09:27 you look as good as you do on the outside.
09:29 But then I did one more thing.
09:30 I wanted to know whether eating that late at night
09:33 was messing with your sleep at all.
09:35 You think of yourself as a good sleeper?
09:37 If I get the time to sleep, I sleep like a rock.
09:40 But with my schedule, I'm basically a long napper.
09:45 All right.
09:45 Well, long napping is a good way to describe it.
09:47 Because on average, you are getting two hours and 45
09:50 minutes of sleep.
09:52 Which is-- as your sleep score, there's
09:54 a little scoring system we have.
09:55 Your sleep score was 46.
09:57 Let me show you the actual chart.
09:58 There's the 46.
09:59 And you fell asleep immediately like a rock.
10:02 Told you.
10:03 But you weren't asleep very long.
10:04 You didn't get deep sleep.
10:06 You didn't dream.
10:06 Do you remember dreaming at all?
10:09 Depends.
10:10 Very rarely.
10:10 Yeah, 18 minutes you're not dreaming.
10:12 So usually.
10:13 So this is not surprising, I guess,
10:15 because you're not giving yourself time.
10:17 If you gave yourself time, would it be better than this?
10:19 One of my goals in 2019 is to set my schedule where
10:22 I can get a good night's sleep.
10:24 So I have to acknowledge, I'm shocked.
10:26 I've never seen anyone look as good as you look
10:27 eating what you've been eating.
10:28 So I asked my medical unit to dive into you a little bit.
10:31 What makes you different?
10:31 What makes you special?
10:32 And one issue in the back of my mind is you do work out.
10:35 And I wanted to figure out how many calories do you really
10:37 burn a day?
10:38 So I had the med unit calculate it out.
10:40 They think that your calories burned in a day,
10:42 because you have a lean muscle, looking at your weight
10:44 and everything else, all the other variables,
10:46 3,850 calories a day of burning of calories.
10:50 That's part of the answer.
10:52 So if you're not burning 3,850 calories,
10:54 don't eat 4,000 calorie meals.
10:56 It's not going to work so well.
10:57 That's correct, yeah.
10:58 OK.
10:58 So that doesn't explain everything.
11:00 Let's get back to this intermittent fasting issue.
11:02 Because people are losing a lot of weight
11:04 who don't burn 3,850 calories.
11:07 And I want to understand what's going down with them.
11:09 So let's just go through the average American
11:10 and how we all think about weight loss.
11:12 The average person starts eating their breakfast at 7 AM.
11:15 And they've done their dinner, whatever
11:17 they're going to eat, by 10 PM.
11:18 That's about 15 hours.
11:20 We used to think calories in, calories out.
11:22 And when you eat like this, that might be the case.
11:25 Because if you're going to have breakfast, lunch, dinner,
11:26 and snacks in between, it takes you a long time.
11:28 It's a big, long eating window.
11:30 Your metabolism is going to want to deal with it
11:32 as it can, piecemeal.
11:34 What you're arguing is eat it all at once.
11:36 Get up at 7, go to bed at whenever
11:39 you're going to go to bed, and eat one meal,
11:41 whatever it happens to be.
11:42 Well, the data seems to suggest that if we shorten the window
11:46 when we eat, you might be better off.
11:48 You can eat the same number of calories
11:50 in a short period of time as you would over the whole day,
11:52 and you'll lose weight compared to what you would be eating.
11:55 Now think about that.
11:56 And they did a study, actually, shortening it down
11:58 to just a four-hour window of eating
12:00 and demonstrated results like yours.
12:02 So I don't know how many of you are thinking about this,
12:04 but that combined with the idea that you're not hungry
12:07 because you're not thinking about food,
12:08 not tempting yourself all day long, might make it work.
12:11 The one issue that I've got is what kind of food you're eating.
12:15 So the one beef would be you're eating junk food.
12:18 You're arguing you're having fruits and veggies,
12:20 but what do you have to say to folks at home who
12:22 think they want to copy you?
12:23 To the untrained human eye, if you just
12:25 assume what you are seeing on the screen, you're wrong.
12:29 Any of my meals that I make personally,
12:32 if you would go to order it out at a restaurant,
12:34 it would be twice the calories, probably more.
12:36 So I'm using healthier versions of everything,
12:38 lower calorie versions.
12:40 My foods are higher protein, lower fat.
12:44 My meals, I'm weighing all my ingredients.
12:47 My meals are like-- it's like I'm a scientist in a lab,
12:50 a mad scientist making my meal to fit my daily needs.
12:53 The macronutrients work for you.
12:55 Macro and micro.
12:57 And micro.
12:57 But across the board, you're doing your homework.
13:00 If people want to jumpstart their way
13:01 towards doing what you're doing, what's the best way to start?
13:05 On a very basic level, to just skip
13:07 your first meal of the day.
13:09 If that's breakfast, some people go out,
13:11 they eat a 500 calorie breakfast.
13:13 They don't really know-- or eat one at home to start their day.
13:16 If they would just save those 500 calories,
13:19 500 calories times seven days a week is 3,500 calories.
13:22 That's one pound of body weight.
13:23 And if you're looking to lose a pound a week
13:24 and you're maintaining, and you cut out
13:26 that 500 calorie breakfast, you're
13:27 going to lose a pound a week just like that.
13:29 Blake, you're intriguing to me.
13:31 Congratulations.
13:32 Appreciate it.
13:33 We'll be right back.
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