Health habits after the quick fix fails.
American Glutton is a practical, candid health show built around food, weight, hunger, habit, and maintenance. Ethan Suplee uses personal history, listener questions, and guest conversations to test what actually survives weekends, stress, and real appetites.
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American Glutton is a measured, candid show about food, weight, appetite, and the long work of changing behavior. Its center of gravity is practical maintenance. Ethan Suplee talks about diets, eating, exercise, cravings, and body composition with the skepticism of someone who has seen rigid plans collapse under ordinary life. The show is not built around miracle fixes. It keeps asking what happens on weekends, on the road, under stress, in front of a screen, or after the first burst of motivation has worn off. That makes the conversations more useful than tidy. A cheat day becomes a question about labels, permission, restriction, and the aftermath. Hunger becomes a question about headspace, emotional triggers, and whether the body is actually asking for food. Fast food becomes a question about environment, advertising, airport survival, and the difference between abstinence and practical damage control. Even nutrition details, like fruit, added sugar, protein, carbohydrates, and meal timing, are usually brought back to behavior rather than left as isolated facts. The listener-question format gives the show a grounded rhythm. It often starts with a specific problem, then works outward toward a rule or structure that might hold up next time. Guest conversations broaden the frame. Ken Rideout brings a conversation about discomfort, while Dr. Ailey Cohen is presented through a practical lens on pesticides, toxins, and food-system exposure. The show can be blunt. It also makes room for the emotional cost of body change, including loose skin, scars, and the strange grief of not recognizing one's body after weight loss. Its strongest through-line is that excess fat, cravings, and relapse are rarely just isolated failures of willpower. They point to patterns that need to be managed directly. American Glutton suits people who want health advice that is serious, concrete, and skeptical of extremes, with enough lived friction to make the advice feel tested.
Made for: For listeners trying to make weight loss, nutrition, exercise, and appetite management work inside real schedules, family patterns, stress, and cravings. It especially fits people tired of purity rules but still looking for structure.
What sets it apart: The show treats personal history as evidence and pressure-tests health advice against ordinary failure points: weekends, hunger, screens, fast food, and emotional eating. It is less about ideal plans than about what can be repeated.
Actor Ethan Suplee was an aspiring plus size model long before it became trendy and now sets out to examine our current obesity crisis. On American Glutton, he’ll talk to everyone from experts to the average Joe, exploring all the diets he has been on over the last two decades, taking us on his journey from obese to svelte and back again, examining what worked and what made him gain everything back plus 50 pounds. Sharing his ever-lasting search for the next quick fix, we’ll delve into the joys of suffering, relativism, dogged determination, and the proper way to braise a pork belly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Ethan Suplee tests weight-management advice against cravings, disrupted routines, maintenance, and his own history of repeated dieting.
American Glutton turns weight management into a sustained inquiry rather than a parade of rules. Ethan Suplee brings his own cycles of restriction, regain, and maintenance into conversations with guests, then presses broad advice against ordinary complications such as weekends,…
Ethan Suplee makes maintenance the main event, where diet sainthood finally meets an actual weekend.
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Ethan Suplee questions cheat-day guilt and extreme restriction through practical, lower-calorie substitutions.
Cheat days are supposed to offer relief from dieting, yet the word "cheat" brings guilt and restriction straight back into the picture. Ethan Suplee draws on his experience of eating too little, staying hungry, and dreaming about forbidden foods to question that cycle.
A steady conversation about near work, eyesight, and the value of one manageable habit shift.
American Glutton frames near work as something the body learns, not just a condition of modern life. Ethan Suplee and his guest connect close-up focus with tension, headaches, and myopia, then keep the advice deliberately simple: step to a window, look as far as possible, or…
A candid discussion of weekend routines, hunger, and complicated feelings about loose skin.
Weekends put routines under pressure, especially when brunch, travel, and a disrupted meal-prep schedule enter the picture. Ethan Suplee considers how family eating patterns, hunger, and an awkwardly timed restaurant invitation can unsettle good intentions.
A candid look at diet fatigue, emotional eating, and why hunger is rarely the whole story.
American Glutton pushes back on the clean promise of "eat less, move more" by staying with the less orderly reasons people eat, stall, and abandon plans. Ethan Suplee and Dr.
A grounded talk on added sugar, fruit, cravings, and workout-day eating choices.
American Glutton takes on a familiar weight-loss problem: why cravings and snacking can hang around even when someone is trying to eat with more control.
An ice bath opens into a thoughtful look at whether difficulty can still carry meaning once the promised payoff falls away.
American Glutton frames this episode around a useful distinction: doing something hard can still matter even when it fails to deliver the payoff that first made it tempting.
Ethan Suplee looks at why maintaining weight can be harder than losing it.
American Glutton flips the usual weight-loss promise around: reaching a satisfying weight is not the finish line, because Ethan Suplee says staying there can be harder than dieting down.
Researchers, doctors and coaches, translated into everyday health stakes.
Supplement labels, decoded with conviction.
Practical health conversations for reducing overwhelm.
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American Glutton uses Ethan Suplee and Paige Dorian to debate cheat days, cheat meals, and whether comfort food belongs in a diet.
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American Glutton centers Ethan Suplee and Paige Dorian on how weekends break a weekday food routine, from Saturday brunches to family soccer games.
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Ethan Seplee and Dr.
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