Not too long ago someone emailed me and thanked me for the information on the site about weight loss. They told me that they lost 30 pounds by following the info on the site, which is always nice to hear. They then went on to tell me about a weight loss chat room that they go into every once in a while where the people in there didn't know very much about losing weight. They wanted me to check it out. So, I checked this weight loss chat room out one day and what I saw was pretty bad and actually kind of funny, in pathetic kind of way though. The main subject of this room was of course the almighty question... How do I lose weight? I am going to answer that question for you right now plain and simple and by only using 4 easy words that everyone can understand even if you know nothing about weight loss.
The main thing in this weight loss room that caught my attention was that every once in a while, someone would come in and say that they lost weight. Everyone else in the room would then congratulate them on losing the weight and within the next 5 seconds, EVERYONE in the room would all ask this person one question all at once.... "How did you lose it???" Honestly, I find that question to be extremely funny. I just can't figure out how anyone can ask that question. Someone loses weight and you ask them how they lost that weight? What kind of stupid question is that? To me that question is just as funny as if someone said "I just got a haircut" and someone asks them "Really? How did your hair get cut off?" The obvious answer is "With scissors." And the answer to the question "how did you lose weight" is just as simple and as obvious as that... and that is why I find it so funny.
You see, despite the hopes and dreams of many lazy people, there is only one way to lose weight. No, that wasn't a typo. You can only lose weight 1 way, by doing 1 thing. Here it comes, get your pads and pens ready and write this one down. Here are those 4 simple words that I mentioned before, here is how weight loss happens.
Drum roll please...
If you want to lose weight, you need to "eat right and workout." There you have it ladies and gentlemen, the 4 simple words. Eat right and workout! That's it! That is ALL that works!! EVERYTHING else is USELESS! If weight loss and losing weight is your goal, then you just need to eat right and workout and THAT'S IT!!!!
When people ask the "how did you lose weight" question, it's like they are expecting to hear something other then "I ate right and worked out," but you will NEVER EVER hear any other answer to that question. I mean honestly, when these people ask that question to someone, do they really expect them to say "Well, I bought one of those electronic ab belts 3 weeks ago and LOOK AT ME NOW!!" Hell no, you will never hear that! Do you think someone is going to answer them with "I went to the supplement store and bought these amazing fat burning pills to help me lose weight and I lost it all in no time. The pills did all the work for me!" You will never hear that either! The only answer that they will ever hear is that this person lost weight by eating right and working out. Do you know why that is the only answer they will ever hear? It's because that is the ONLY thing that works. There are no weight loss secrets, no machines with super powers, and no magical pills, products or supplements.
Another thing that I found so funny in this room was how these people, who all claim they want to lose weight, will try just about anything (no matter how stupid) as long as it doesn't require them to eat 100% correctly, workout correctly and do all of the hard work that is needed in order for weight loss to happen. One of the many stupid conversations that I saw in this weight loss room was something about some type of herbal tea that is supposed to allow your body to burn 4% more calories than it normally does. At this point I had to grab my chair to stop myself from jumping out of my window. Are you kidding me? The person who started this magic tea conversation also mentioned that they had about 60 pounds to lose. If you have 60 pounds to lose and you're wasting your time talking about drinking magic herbal tea because it is supposed to allow you to burn 4% more calories, then you might as well start eating herbal potato chips and herbal Mcdonalds cheese burgers because you are herbally out of your mind.
But wait, there's more! The next wonderful weight loss conversation that started was about how you should drink cold water instead of warm water because the colder water requires your body to warm it up, and this "warming" of the water burns calories, which will of course make you lose weight. I swear I'm not making this up! First of all.. who the hell is drinking warm water in the first place? Secondly, do you honestly think that the calories that "supposedly" get "burned" while your body is "warming" up this water is going to make any difference what so ever in terms of weight loss? OF COURSE NOT! Not one single little bit! This conversation proved 2 things to me. One, that people will try anything to lose weight as long as it doesn't require them to work hard. And two, that I could start the "eating snow diet" and tell people that all they need to do is move somewhere where it snows a lot and just start eating snow 5 times a day, and they will lose weight because their body will be "warming" the snow all day long.
Don't just think I sat there and watched this, I jumped right in to tell them how wrong they were and how they should be focusing on just eating right and working out, not on useless crap like herbal tea and cold water and other little weight loss tips they read about or heard about that won't make one damn difference. The only tip there is when it comes to how to lose weight, and the only tip that will make a difference, is to just eat right and workout. They refused to listen to me though. At one point, I just came out and said these exact words: "Weight loss is SIMPLE" and half the room sounded like they wanted to fight me. They refused to believe that it was simple. Crazy huh? It took me a few minutes, but I figured out why they didn't want to believe me. These people obviously have not lost weight yet. Therefore, they want to believe that weight loss is confusing, hard and impossible. If they believed it was simple, they would hate themselves for not being able to do something that was simple. They'd much rather believe that they can't do something that is extremely complicated. Sometimes I think people would much rather just have a good excuse for not being able to lose weight, than to actually lose it. So, after a few minutes of wasted time arguing, I wished them all good luck with their herbal tea and cold water and left.
A few days later I went back in. This time the conversation was about gimmick diets (or fad diets), and I mean EVERY gimmick diet. Everything from the weight watchers diet plan, to atkins, to slimfast, to stuff I could swear these people had to be making up on the spot, like the "cabbage soup diet." This was really the conversation that just made me mad. To me, the worst part was how after someone mentioned one of these diets, everyone else would say something like "yeah, I tried that one, it was ok" or "I tried that one for a while" or something along those lines. This means that basically all of these people have "tried" all of these different diets at some point to lose weight. What I can't understand is how they could just "try" a diet. How can you expect the diet to work if you just "try" it? These people go on one of these diets for a week, come into this stupid chat room or read some stupid magazine or see some stupid commercial for some other diet and they say to themselves, wow this one looks like the best weight loss program of all, I'm going to "try" this one! DEAR GOD HELP ME! You can not "TRY" diets!!! You have to "DO" diets!!! Do it and keep doing it! That's it! And if these people were just "trying" the diets to see which one would better fit their lifestyle or to see which was easier for them, it would be fine. But no, they "try" them to see which one will allow them to lose 20 pounds in a week. They fail to understand that unless they are on the "cut your left leg off diet," these results can NOT happen EVER. Weight loss takes hard work and consistency! Sadly for these people,
The next thing that bothered me was the gimmick weight loss diets themselves. Now, before I go any further, let me just say that if you like these types of diets and they work for you, then please, keep doing it. You should do whatever works for you! Now, getting back to these gimmick diets.. you do NOT need them! They don't do anything special, they just make it seem like they do so they can get your money. None of these types of diets really do anything special at all in terms of losing weight. For example, slimfast. Do you know what slimfast is? It's calories. Sure, its a "delicious shake," but all it really is is just calories. I do not know how many calories are in slimfast, but for this example, lets pretend it has 250 calories. The thing about slimfast is that it is just these calories. There is no weight loss magic in it. You would get the same results by eating 250 calories worth of good food like chicken breasts or tuna fish. The only difference I see between 250 calories worth of slimfast and 250 calories worth of chicken is that you will probably be fuller and feel like you ate more after eating the chicken instead of drinking down a slimfast shake. See my point?
To be honest, I think these gimmick diets are bad for most people. They are confusing. I don't know everything about the weight watchers diet plan, but I know the basic idea is that food counts as points, and each food is worth a certain amount of points and you are allowed to eat a certain amount of points a day. The big sell of this diet is how something like a cookie is this many points, which means you can still eat a cookie as long as you stay within your daily point range. This one is starting to sound like "eating in moderation" and if you read my food cravings article, you most certainly know that I am fully against "moderation."
I mean, if counting weight watchers points and checking your point guide book thing and seeing how many points are in this and seeing if this many points equals this many cookies and points this and points that works for you, then fine with me. But honestly, it is not needed one bit. Weight watchers is just replacing the word calories with the word points. Instead of watching the calories you eat per day, you are now watching the points.
The difference? Watching calories is free, and watching points costs money. Oh, you didn't know? Weight watchers isn't free. You need to pay to sign up for all of the really important weight watchers stuff and point system guides and other junk or else it will never ever work and you will be doomed to never lose weight!!!! Bullshit, just eat right and workout.. point system my ass.
Moving on, another thing that really made my day in this weight loss room was the constant spam. If you don't know what spam is, lets pretend you are in a chatroom and all of a sudden someone comes in and says "Looking to by life insurance? Click here NOW!!!!!!!" and then they leave the room right after, that is spam. It seemed like once every 20 seconds someone new would come in and spam their useless weight loss crap. Sometimes they'd stay for a while and put on a whole act that sadly, only I was able to figure out was a spam act. They'd say "I feel great, just lost 50 pounds!" Then of course, the whole room asked them how, and they say "It was easy since I used herbal-meta-slim-weight-fast-quickfix-watchers-pill" or whatever the name of the useless product or gimmick was and then, magically, this person just happens to have a web site or a phone number or some way for everyone else in the room to buy this product.
Remember before when I said the only way to lose weight was to eat right and workout and that this was the only answer anyone would ever give you if you asked them how they lost weight? Well, let me add a second half to that. If anyone EVER tells you they lost weight some other way or even just says that another way of losing weight exists, then they are lying and trying to get you to buy something. Remember that.
You know what though? In the end, weight loss IS simple! There is nothing to it actually, just learn what you need to do and then just keep doing it. Here's how.... Your weight works like this. There is a certain number of calories that you need to eat a day in order for your body to maintain its current weight. If you eat about 500 calories less than this maintaining number, then you will lose weight. Combine this with making sure the calories you do take in come from only good foods, combine this with drinking lots of water and getting enough sleep, and combine this with working out correctly, and weight loss happens. How do you like that? You didn't have to spend any money and there were no fancy gimmicks. What I just described works. It ALWAYS works! If it doesn't work, then you are NOT human! How's that for a guarantee? So if you do it and it doesn't seem to be working, then guess what? You were NOT doing it right! It's just that simple. I know I just gave a very broad description, but the whole weight loss diet and workout is described in way better detail on other parts of this site. EVERYTHING you need in order to lose weight is here for you, free. Check out the weight loss page for the full diet and workout information here: weight loss
Weight loss isn't rocket science. It isn't confusing and it isn't complicated. It is simple, whether you refuse to beleive it or not. Just eat right and workout, and that's it. Oh, and one more thing... please never invite me to any more weight loss chat rooms!! LOL
From : intense-workout.com
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