How Did R' Orlofsky Lose Weight?

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Hi, this is David Alowski with our question and answer series. Anonymous writes, "As someone who has struggled with weight since childhood, what is the best way to deal with this? In addition, I've noticed the RV has lost weight and kept it off. What does the RV advise for successful weight loss? I never believed that I would ever be asked about this." So my weight loss uh journey uh has mostly been a story of weight gain [laughter] and uh until fourth grade I should really say until fifth grade I was very thin and to the point where my mother was nervous about me um because I come from a family where most people are not thin [laughter] some but not many. Anyway, uh but I uh I didn't eat much and then we went cross country with my family and my father had an old station wagon and he kept stopping for gas and every time he stopped for gas, he'd say, "Let's get something to eat." And anyway, I came back at that summer and I was already chubby for the first time in my life. And that just grew from chubby to uh plump to uh stout to fat to obese to morbidly obese. Um at my height I was about 310 lbs. It was uh it was really hard. And uh those of us who are fat um you know

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1. 0:00Hi, this is David Alowski with our question and answer series. Anonymous writes, "As someone who…
2. 0:31really say until fifth grade I was very thin and to the point where my mother…
3. 1:31that uh life is much more difficult for you besides the fact that you're constantly facing…
4. 2:01weight. It is not easy. And so my life has been a process of losing weight…
5. 3:04actually try to to diet and I lost some more weight and um and I was…
6. 3:36next they put in stances and then one of the stances uh became blocked and they…
7. 4:36vegetables for the most part, nuts and berries and then seeds. And I began to lose…
8. 5:06body decides whether or not to lose the weight or not. So if you don't really…
9. 6:06with me which said, "You will live longer, but you won't want to." So, I basically…
10. 6:36at me and I for the for the first time since I was in fourth grade…

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