The more I study the obesity epidemic, the more I am convinced we are an overweight nation (and growing more so) because we do not know or practice the truth.

Look at our politicians.
Look at our television programs.
And advertising.

LIES. LIES. LIES.

It’s so easy to bend the foul pole.

It’s even easier to blame the other guy or gal.

And to pretend.

When I embarked on my quest to lose weight (I lost 74 lbs. and it has not returned for 11 years), I learned these truths while researching weight loss in real scientific environments and the medical school library – not in the media:

1. Losing weight does not equal success. Losing fat equals success. Any idiot can restrict calories and see the scale go down. I was an idiot doing that for 20 years. That weight loss is just water, or maybe some of your very valuable muscle, organ or connective tissue. Like I said, “idiot.”

2. Losing fat is a VERY slow process and it’s SLOWER if you’ve dieted a lot in life, like I had.

3. If we lose weight fast, it returns faster than Vin Diesel’s turbocharged sports car in that new bank heist-car movie. I hope you’ve never had this happen to you. Believe me, it’s a helpless victim feeling when weight comes rushing in like a runaway freight train with you on the rail; all misguided ideas of control are instantly obliterated by the iron will of those starving fat cells.

4. No device, supplement or commercial program can change your metabolic rate, even if they claim they can. They LIE. The entire diet industry LIES to make money. “The Biggest Loser” LIES and makes a lot of money doing so.

5. 99% of people who lose more than 20 lbs regain it within 2 years. This is TEMPORARY WEIGHT LOSS. 99% of what you see in the world is TEMPORARY WEIGHT LOSS.

6. The diet industry won’t promote permanent weight loss (even if they pretend they do) because it’s messy, complicated, takes time and doesn’t make money fast.
If you see incredible headlines – “lose 5 pounds a week”, or “lose 30 pounds this month”, etc., look the other way.

Imagine the silence if we only promoted, advertised and wrote stories about PERMANENT WEIGHT LOSS!

Imagine the integrity!

There would be no one on the cover of all those glossy women’s magazines saying we should all be a certain size.

A hush would fall – over the fitness industry!

Now, for the SECRET:

Anybody can achieve permanent weight loss. If I can, I know you can. Because, remember, I’m one of those idiots that believed what I read (and practiced it) for years.

You only need two things to achieve permanent weight loss:

1. willingness
2. patience

Be willing to really change your habits. Be patient with your body.

That is all.

When we buy diet industry drivel, we empower them to make more money while we destroy our metabolisms and give away our bodies’ future weight loss flexibility. And that means we are dis-empowering ourselves in the future.