Weight Loss (and other) Stuff I Believe

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Here’s a list, certainly not all-inclusive and in no particular order, of weight loss related and non-weight loss related stuff I happen to believe.

- Nobody ever got fat from eating too much fruit.

- Just because something is printed in a newspaper or magazine, written on the internet, or reported on TV, that doesn’t mean it’s true.

- The average person will believe the last thing they read or saw on TV.

- All of the weight loss and exercise gadgets from Body by Jake are worthless pieces of crap, 95% of which aren’t used more than a couple times by the people duped into buying his junk.

- Nobody ever got fatter from learning to eat right and following a well-designed exercise program.

- There is no excuse for smoking.  It is just the dumbest thing you can possibly do.  And don’t give me the ‘it’s an addiction’ crap.  You weren’t addicted when you lit your first cigarette.  You were stupid when you lit your first cigarette, not addicted.

- Smoking around children is child abuse. Really.

- There is nothing more important than my three girls.

- Nothing can stress you out unless you allow it to.  Situations are not stressful.  Stress is caused by your reaction to a given situation, not the situation itself.

- You can choose how you respond to most situations.

- The people who whine the most about their weight (or anything else for that matter) are usually the ones least willing to take the real action needed to change it.

- Losers only talk about problems.  Winners talk about solutions.

- Most people aren’t successful with long-term weight loss because they go about it wrong.  Instead of first worrying about how to lose weight, you need to first learn how to live a healthy lifestyle by eating right and exercising.  Once you nail that, then you can figure out how to lose weight.  Eating like crap, going on a diet to lose weight, then going back to eating like crap will always fail in the long run.

- People who push scam ‘miracle’ weight loss cures like acai berry pills and electronic ab belts are scumbags.

- You shouldn’t look to tomorrow for happiness.  Be happy today because you aren’t promised a tomorrow.

- Potential parents should have to pass a test before being allowed to reproduce.  I’ll write the test.

- Poor behavior by kids usually isn’t their fault.  It’s their parents’ fault.

- Politics is not the same as legislating or governing.  Politics in this country is divisive, mean-spirited, and non-productive.  Most people take stands on things based on their party line rhetoric and don’t understand most of the issues and will unthinkingly allow themselves to be defined by their party affiliation.  Civil discourse and debate has disappeared into special interest spin, and the people we elect to congress are more interested in ‘winning’ on an issue than they are in creating real solutions that better the lives of the people who put them in office.

- Too many people look for others to blame their situation on instead of sucking it up and taking personal responsibility.  You are not overweight because of your parents, you are overweight because you choose to be.

- The mechanics of weight loss really are simple.  Eat right and exercise properly.  That doesn’t mean taking the action to do that is easy though.

- Given that the mechanics of weight loss are so simple, it is usually the mental aspect of it that torpedos a person’s efforts.  What’s between your ears is far more important than what’s on your plate.

There’s more, but I’m on vacation today, so the rest of the list will need to wait for another day.  In the mean time, I’d love to hear your thoughts on my list as well as some of the items on your ‘Stuff I Believe’ list.  Add them to the comments below.

~Dave

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