No Shortcuts for Losing Weight CHEATER

“You can’t cheat an honest man”.  How many of those “lose 10 pounds in 5 days” diets have you tried? or those get a 6 pack exercising 3 times a week for 15 minutes machines?  I gotta admit I’ve been suckered by those way too many times.

I was watching this show called “The Real Hustle” which is all about scam artists and their latest ploys.  One of the scam artists said “You can’t cheat an honest man”.  And this really hit home with me especially when it comes to fitness and weight loss.

It’s funny, I’ve always been looking for the shortcut.  One of the most search terms online today is “fast weight loss” or “lose weight fast”.  In looking for a shortcut for years, I’ve ended up gaining more weight.  I think the latest diet I tried was the warrior diet, what a joke and I guess I’m a bigger joke for trying it.

See it all makes sense now.  It’s not really about the weight, rather the habits that keep me overeating and gaining weight.  I bet you if I had weight loss surgery and all the fat was sucked out of me, I’d slowly gain the weight right back…

Hard to believe? Well it’s kinda of like how if you take a person in great shape, lock them up, and make them gain 20 pounds of fat and then let them go they’ll eventually lose all the weight.  I don’t know think of all your friends, family and relatives.  Can’t you classify a lot of them as either an “in shape” kind of person or a “fat” person.

It’s interesting how some people will live their whole lives fat and others stay skinny and in shape no matter what happens.  An extreme example I a handicapped guy who had a six pack.  The guy was stuck in a wheel chair yet still somehow managed to workout.  It really got my emotions going.  I mean he has every excuse not to workout and become a fat ass.  Yet he’s in better shape than most of us who aren’t handicapped.

And all those weight loss ads that make losing weight look easy, why do you think they are so appealing to us?  Why do you think we always buy into them?  Well it’s because we want to cheat the system.  I mean if someone wants to naturally and honestly lose the weight, he/she knows it’ll take time, be slow and has to become part of his/her lifestyle.  Only a cheater will go for a magic diet to drop all the weight, and I guess to some degree we are all cheaters.