An Effective Weight Loss Plan

What keeps you from losing weight?

Recently I was writing a book, Dr. Dan's Super Weight Loss Plan.

I had lost weight myself. I was treating patients who were overweight. I had researched weight loss for 20 years. I had the answers.

I knew what worked. I knew what didn't work. I knew why it didn't work.

I wanted to make a difference. I wanted to help my patients. I wanted to do something about so many people being overweight. So I decided to write a book that would show people an effective weight loss plan.

I wasn't writing a book on fitness--you can be fairly fit and still overweight. Or a book on health--even though losing weight is often the best thing that you can do for your health. Or a book on dieting--because most people that just follow a "diet" aren't successful.

I was writing a weight loss book. If it didn't have to do with an effective weight loss plan I didn't put it in there.

Did I have ideas about getting in better shape? Sure. But I am not trying to train you for the Olympics. I just want you to lose weight.

Did I have some things that would help your general health? Sure. But I am not a "wellness" guy. I am interested in weight loss.

Did I have ideas about diets? Of course. But you going on a diet and losing weight and then gaining it back later, that isn't going to help you, now is it? I am not interested in that. So, no fad diets.

While I was working on the book I went to a seminar for writers. It was something like "How to be a million dollar author."

Did I go to make a million dollars? No. I went to find out how to reach the most people with my message.

Can you help yourself?

You know what they told me at the meeting? They said that people don't want to help themselves.

They talked about the story of the fisherman: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, but teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

You know what they said about that? They said, "People don't want to learn how to fish. They don't even want to be given a fish. They want you to catch the fish, fillet the fish, cook it, and feed it to them."

They also said that I shouldn't tell people what they need to know. They said to tell them what they want to hear.

See that? Don't tell them what they need to know. Tell them what they want to hear. Even if it's wrong. That's how you make a million dollars as an author. And don't worry about what happens to the person later.

Do you know what? That's where all the fad diets come from.

That's where all the gimmicks come from.

That's where all the phony supplements come from.

And that is where all the pain, and heartache, and failure, and loss, and worry and despair come from.

It comes from people who are telling you what you want to hear. But it also comes from you listening to it. And you following it, even though it doesn't work. Failing at it. And then accepting the next false promise and doing the same thing all over again.

The easy way

The easy way is always easy to sell. Who wouldn't want to lose 12 pounds in one weekend? Who wouldn't want to lose 18 inches with a body wrap?

But why would you just keep beating your head against a wall in a hopeless effort to find the quick fix? When it is never going to happen?

If I don't tell you what you want to hear, you might just click the back button and find somebody that does tell you what you want to hear. The next gimmick.

Of course the gimmick won't work. You won't lose the weight that way. You'll end up fat and miserable. And you'll probably lose all hope and you might live your whole life overweight and unhappy.

I get letters from people who tell me they lost weight with my program. They say my book should be in every home. They say I have information they have not gotten anywhere else. That is what I live for.

But if I don't tell you what you want to hear you might just give up. And then you won't lose the weight and I will miss the chance to actually make a difference. That's what this is all about for me. I would like to really make a difference.

So I am going to give it to you straight. It's not the easy version. It is the version that works. I try to make it so it is not too hard. And there are some parts of it that may be hard for you to face. Being overweight is hard for people to face. You probably have a lot of emotion tied up in your weight and how you feel about yourself.

Well, it's time for you to face it. Do what it takes. And get the weight off once and for all.

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