Chris Pratt says he became 'impotent and depressed' when he was obese.

[marylander1940]

There has been plenty of talk in this forum about this man's journey from morbidly obese to hunk, no he opens up about it.

 

Chris Pratt went from the lovable, pudgy Andy Dwyer on Parks and Recreation to the incredibly buff Peter Quill on Guardians of the Galaxy in what seemed like overnight. But the new action star says he had a very real struggle with his health before he finally decided to do something about it.

 

"I'd gone back and forth, lost weight for Moneyball, got fat again, then trimmed down for Zero Dark Thirty, then gained it all back again for Andy," Pratt recalls to Men's Health UK (via Daily Mail). "That's when I saw Zero Dark Thirty and right after walking out I was like: 'I'm going to get in shape and I'm never going to be fat again.'"

 

https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/chris-pratt-says-became-impotent-163600607.html

 

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[tyro]

If he feels better and has a better life, that's all that matters.

T

[marylander1940]

If he feels better and has a better life, that's all that matters.

T

 

Yes, it does matter but it's also a patriotic thing to do and a hot eye candy

[+ stevenkesslar]

There has been plenty of talk in this forum about this man's journey from morbidly obese to hunk, no he opens up about it.

 

Chris Pratt went from the lovable, pudgy Andy Dwyer on Parks and Recreation to the incredibly buff Peter Quill on Guardians of the Galaxy in what seemed like overnight. But the new action star says he had a very real struggle with his health before he finally decided to do something about it.

 

"I'd gone back and forth, lost weight for Moneyball, got fat again, then trimmed down for Zero Dark Thirty, then gained it all back again for Andy," Pratt recalls to Men's Health UK (via Daily Mail). "That's when I saw Zero Dark Thirty and right after walking out I was like: 'I'm going to get in shape and I'm never going to be fat again.'"

 

https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/chris-pratt-says-became-impotent-163600607.html

 

http://d12gru76acl07x.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/chris-pratt-1.jpg

 

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Well this sucks.

 

I'm impotent and depressed. Now you're telling me I have to become obese, too, to explain it away?

[JDXXX]

There has been plenty of talk in this forum about this man's journey from morbidly obese to hunk, no he opens up about it.

 

Chris Pratt went from the lovable, pudgy Andy Dwyer on Parks and Recreation to the incredibly buff Peter Quill on Guardians of the Galaxy in what seemed like overnight. But the new action star says he had a very real struggle with his health before he finally decided to do something about it.

 

"I'd gone back and forth, lost weight for Moneyball, got fat again, then trimmed down for Zero Dark Thirty, then gained it all back again for Andy," Pratt recalls to Men's Health UK (via Daily Mail). "That's when I saw Zero Dark Thirty and right after walking out I was like: 'I'm going to get in shape and I'm never going to be fat again.'"

 

https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/chris-pratt-says-became-impotent-163600607.html

 

http://d12gru76acl07x.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/chris-pratt-1.jpg

 

http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_large/hash/a9/fb/a9fb444819de2a4449de12044d5e22e3.jpg?itok=JJhP7alZ

 

OMG - What happened to him? Not exactly what I remember him to be, but if he's happy and content, why question it - I guess.

[JDXXX]

Well this sucks.

 

I'm impotent and depressed. Now you're telling me I have to become obese, too, to explain it away?

 

Definitely not impotent, babe, and certainly not one who's depressed from what I can tell. . You value the person on the inside(who they are as a person), and count so much of who they are as a person on the outside. .

 

At least I think, but what do I know. LOL.

[MsGuy]

http://www.mblazoned.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/scarlett2.jpeg

 

As God is my witness,

I'll never be hungry again!

[TruHart1]

If he feels better and has a better life, that's all that matters.

T

All I can say is, Anna Faris is a lucky woman!!!

 

TruHart1

[+ FreshFluff]

Many people naively believe that losing will immediately and dramatically improve their lives. Classic example of the hedonic treadmill.

[marylander1940]

Many people naively believe that losing will immediately and dramatically improve their lives. Classic example of the hedonic treadmill.

 

In many cases if they don't lose weight they might just die or go ill costing tax payers a lot of money.

[+ WmClarke]

Classic example of the hedonic treadmill.

Fascinating concept. Explains a lot.

[+ stevenkesslar]

Definitely not impotent, babe....

 

At least I think, but what do I know. LOL.

 

Exactly. How would you know?

 

You've never sucked my cock, except in that wet dream I had about you last night.

[+ FreshFluff]

In many cases if they don't lose weight they might just die or go ill costing tax payers a lot of money.

 

You're talking about very extreme cases. Anyway, the evidence shows that everyone has a weight set point. Unless someone is willing to have stomach stapling surgery, maintaining significant weight loss about as difficult as holding a beach ball underwater. To succeed, you have to spend your entire day trying to ignore strong cravings.

 

People speak derisively of magic bullets. But that's what it will take for most people to be able to reduce calorie intake over long periods. And it happened with Fen-Phen twenty years ago, before Fenfluramine was taken off the market due to the cardiovascular problems it caused. Maybe it will happen again.

[tyro]

I'd wondered about the idea of a "happiness set point" myself. Thanks for the link to the info on the hedonic treadmill, Fresh!

T

[curiousnomore]

I understand what Chris is saying, from two different perspectives.

1. I'm mid 40s, 6'2", and my weight stays around 185. 13 years ago, I weighed 250. I still feel fat, even though I know I'm in better shape than most guys my age.

2. I work with an INSANELY hot guy (mid 20s) who was really fat as a young teen, according to him. He has trimmed down in to a really fit (+ huge bulge) guy, and still has the great personality.

 

It's not so much how you look, it's how you feel. And, as long as you're happy, it's good.

[ZhenXBear]

As a person who has struggled with weight loss for a decade, and gone from gym body at peak to bear body. I think my epiphany came when I read this:

 

"Food is the most abused anxiety drug. Exercise is the most underutilized antidepressant."

In looking back over the last decade, through a trying relationship, I used food as a coping mechanism for problems. I'm happy to report that my body is celebrating my decision to heal spiritually and physically. This mornings weigh in shows me 23 pounds lighter than when I began the journey. Sill much mason work to do on the inside and out.

[+ WmClarke]

As a person who has struggled with weight loss for a decade, and gone from gym body at peak to bear body. I think my epiphany came when I read this:

 

"Food is the most abused anxiety drug. Exercise is the most underutilized antidepressant."

So true. Been thinking about it a lot this weekend. I'm in the best shape of my life but seem to self-sabotage due to emotional eating. Just realizing that I'm still doing that was an important epiphany last night.

In looking back over the last decade, through a trying relationship, I used food as a coping mechanism for problems. I'm happy to report that my body is celebrating my decision to heal spiritually and physically. This mornings weigh in shows me 23 pounds lighter than when I began the journey. Sill much mason work to do on the inside and out.

I need an entire team of masons, but that's ok. Slow and steady wins this race. Keep up the good work!

[+ purplekow]

As i have stated here in a different post, I made a decision to try to lose 100 pounds over the course of a year. That was in April 2014. I weighed myself then, though I was weighed at the doctor's office and opted out of knowing the weight. No weighing for the next year. I dieted for one year, faithfully marking my calendar with gold stars for good days and big red X for a bad day. Bad days were noted not only by the red X but by details of the manner in which I deviated. If i had a small piece of cake at a birthday party, i considered that part of life and no deviation, if I had it just because, the red X came out. Dinner with an escort might be celebratory and some wine might be imbibed. Waking up and having a shot because I was hung over, not allowed. This helped me to put in to perspective that I am not on a diet, it is a lifestyle change. Lifestyle has to have some Life in it.

 

So in April i weighed in. Lost about 68 pounds. Not 100 but still. So I set a new goal. Would like to make that 100 and a few extra over the next year, Want to keep doing a daily record to remind me of success and avoidable deviations. I will never be 28 and 165 pounds again, but i will never be over 300 pounds again either. So Wm Clark and ZhenXBear and others of you out there who have faced the demon of overeating, keep up the good work. It took a long time to get fat, you should give yourself enough time to get unfat.

[+ stevenkesslar]

So in April i weighed in. Lost about 68 pounds. Not 100 but still. So I set a new goal. Would like to make that 100 and a few extra over the next year, Want to keep doing a daily record to remind me of success and avoidable deviations. I will never be 28 and 165 pounds again, but i will never be over 300 pounds again either. So Wm Clark and ZhenXBear and others of you out there who have faced the demon of overeating, keep up the good work. It took a long time to get fat, you should give yourself enough time to get unfat.

 

And it shows, PK. As sad as I am that there is less of you to love, and as bad as my failing memory is, when you were here in Palm Springs you did not look to be quite the same man you were the last time all my lips parted for you. Congratulations and keep it up! I mean, keep losing weight, that is.

[+ Chris Eisenhower]

I like to imagine the Pratt/Faris household goes something like this:

 

Chris: Hi honey, I'm home! What did you do today?

Anna: Got ready for you to fuck me.

 

Wash, rinse, repeat.

[+ FreshFluff]

BTW, he does not look obese at all at bottom left.

As a person who has struggled with weight loss for a decade, and gone from gym body at peak to bear body. I think my epiphany came when I read this:

 

"Food is the most abused anxiety drug. Exercise is the most underutilized antidepressant."

In looking back over the last decade, through a trying relationship, I used food as a coping mechanism for problems. I'm happy to report that my body is celebrating my decision to heal spiritually and physically. This mornings weigh in shows me 23 pounds lighter than when I began the journey. Sill much mason work to do on the inside and out.

 

Great work, ZhenXBear! You must feel really good. I think one key is to find another escape/coping mechanism to look forward to at the end of the day.

[+ WmClarke]

Please pardon my re-ordering of the original material, but I just wanted to respond in this order.

 

I am not on a diet, it is a lifestyle change.

Yes! I at least did that right with my food changes. I make permanent changes (incrementally at first). Change a dietary habit, do not "go on a diet."

 

So in April i weighed in. Lost about 68 pounds. Not 100 but still. So I set a new goal. Would like to make that 100 and a few extra over the next year, Want to keep doing a daily record to remind me of success and avoidable deviations. I will never be 28 and 165 pounds again, but i will never be over 300 pounds again either.

I, at first, had a very unrealistic goal of getting down to 200 pounds. (I am 6'4" tall.) I did realize that as some of the fat converts to muscle (since I am actually exercising, in addition to changing dietary habits), that is not going to happen. I might get to 220 and look great (or maybe not), so I'm not setting a hard goal. Just going to keep at until I can wear a speedo and not be embarrassed.

 

It took a long time to get fat, you should give yourself enough time to get unfat.

For sure. A few (7?) 'normal years' then almost 40 years of getting heavier each year. A few years of dietary changes and, finally, regular exercise (just started Dec 27). I think I will, ultimately, take the extra weight off and convert some of it muscle much more quickly than I put it on!

 

So Wm Clark and ZhenXBear and others of you out there who have faced the demon of overeating, keep up the good work.

Thanks. You, too! Great progress so far!.

[+ purplekow]

I, at first, had a very unrealistic goal of getting down to 200 pounds. (I am 6'4" tall.)

Just going to keep at until I can wear a speedo and not be embarrassed.

 

 

Thanks. You, too! Great progress so far!.

 

If I had set my goad at wearing a speedo and not being embarrassed, I would be doomed to failure. Jersey Boys and Speedos are not a good pairing.

I would rather set the goal and not being embarrassed to be bare assed. And, I have made that goal. Strangely, for me anyway, wearing nothing is less embarrassing than wearing a speedo.

[ZhenXBear]

So true. Been thinking about it a lot this weekend. I'm in the best shape of my life but seem to self-sabotage due to emotional eating. Just realizing that I'm still doing that was an important epiphany last night.

 

I need an entire team of masons, but that's ok. Slow and steady wins this race. Keep up the good work!

 

Thanks! And congratulations on reaching your goals. What's weird, being an introverted guy even when I hit my peak fitness at age 31, I still didn't deal with it very well; At the time, I still went "out" and socialized at gay clubs. I'd been single for nearly 1.5 years after a 3.5 year relationship and was mentally "unavailable". For some weird reason, I had the adoration of the 18-22 year old crowd and they kept asking me out on dates....and I kept politely responding "Lets be friends!". I went to Orlando one weekend with a large group for Halloween Horror Nights and we decided to go dancing. A female friend who was in our group insisted (before the trip) that I buy this black form fitting shirt (totally not me, but I caved to her insistence) and that I wear it that night.

 

I walk into the room of guys in the next hotel room and one remarks "God damn, look at that chest." and did a 180 and marched right back into my own room....my ears, face, neck bright bright red. I was totally not use to people saying stuff like that to me.....

[+ WmClarke]

Thanks! And congratulations on reaching your goals. What's weird, being an introverted guy even when I hit my peak fitness at age 31, I still didn't deal with it very well; At the time, I still went "out" and socialized at gay clubs. I'd been single for nearly 1.5 years after a 3.5 year relationship and was mentally "unavailable". For some weird reason, I had the adoration of the 18-22 year old crowd and they kept asking me out on dates....and I kept politely responding "Lets be friends!". I went to Orlando one weekend with a large group for Halloween Horror Nights and we decided to go dancing. A female friend who was in our group insisted (before the trip) that I buy this black form fitting shirt (totally not me, but I caved to her insistence) and that I wear it that night.

 

I walk into the room of guys in the next hotel room and one remarks "God damn, look at that chest." and did a 180 and marched right back into my own room....my ears, face, neck bright bright red. I was totally not use to people saying stuff like that to me.....

 

So, uh.....you got any pictures of you in that shirt? You can cut the head off and just let us see the chest.