Weight Loss Advice

What If Everything You Thought You Knew About Weight Loss Is Wrong?

I know you have heard this: all you need to do to lose weight is to eat less and exercise more. Right?

I've heard it. You've heard it. It makes perfect sense.

Just eat less and you'll lose weight. Just exercise more and you'll lose weight. That's all you have to do! So simple. It sounds like good weight loss advice.

Eat less--lose weight. Exercise more--lose weight. Nothing could be easier.

And you know who says that? You know who says, "All you have to do to lose weight is eat less and exercise more"? People who never had to lose weight!

It sounds easy

It sounds so easy if you never had to struggle to lose weight. But look--does it help you? Does that bit of weight loss advice help you in any way?

You've lost weight before but it came right back, didn't it? You dieted--that's the "eat less" part--and you lost weight, but it came back.

So you see it isn't really true that all you have to do is eat less and you will lose weight.

It doesn't explain why you gain weight so easily.
It doesn't explain what dieting does to your metabolism.
It doesn't help with the cravings.
It doesn't tell you about different body types.

Telling you to eat less doesn't help you. Eat less of what? What foods are best? How much less should you eat?

If eating less is such a simple way to lose weight, then how about not eating at all? That would be best wouldn't it? Except you'd starve to death.

You can just stop alcohol or cigarettes--you know, go "cold turkey"-- but you can't go cold turkey on food. You have to eat.

So "eat less" is one of those things that sounds so simple. But it's not. There is some truth in it. So the idea sticks. But it doesn't help you lose weight.

It sounds right but doesn't help you

See, it sort of sounds right, so it makes you think it should be that easy. But it

doesn't give you any guidance,

doesn't make it easier for you to lose weight,

doesn't help you keep the weight off,

doesn't help make you strong,

doesn't help make you healthy,

doesn't help you with food choices,

doesn't help you change habits.

The same thing with "exercise more and you'll lose weight." It sounds right but it doesn't help you. It doesn't tell you

which exercise is best,

how much you should do,

how much is too much,

which exercise burns up fat,

which exercise wastes your time,

why the gym is full of people who exercise but are still overweight,

and it doesn't show you what is right for you.

So what does this do, this weight loss advice, this "harmless" little phrase: Just eat less and exercise more?

It makes you feel bad about yourself. It makes you feel weak, like you don't have enough willpower. It makes it sound easy when it's not easy.

See? In that way it is bad. Even though there is some truth in it, it is missing so much that it is wrong.

It's just bad advice

It sounds like helpful weight loss advice, but it isn't. It is actually an insult. You know, people that tell you that, a lot of the time they are not really trying to help you.

You'll hear it on TV sometimes. They're talking about people that are overweight. And the host is telling jokes. And he's talking about somebody that is overweight and he says they just need to eat less and he gets a laugh. It just becomes a joke to some people.

Well, it's not a joke. If you struggle your whole life to keep your weight down it's not a joke.

It's not so easy to lose weight. It's hard to lose weight. You know it. I know it. Everybody knows it. Even the ignorant ones that laugh at us know it. They do. Down deep they do.

And it is 10 times harder to lose weight when people sabotage you with false ideas, wrong information, nonsense, fad gimmicks that don't work, and statements like "if you just eat less and exercise more you wouldn't be so fat."

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