Weight Control, Simple Key/Complex Implementation

Just today, I’m not going to eat between meals and I’m not going to take seconds. And I’ll weigh myself & use the tools and guidance from The Hacker’s Diet to help me reach (and keep) my goal.

This post, The One Guaranteed Instant Cast Iron Indisputable Success Factor by Chris Garrett at Performancing, sent shivers down my spine:

People love guaranteed, cast-iron “laws”, “secrets”, “unshakable advice”. Certainty makes people feel confident and secure, even when there is no certainty and everything is shades of grey. “Do this and definitely absolutely without question you will get what you want” always looks good in a sales pitch, funny how the actual product never works that way.

There are two things to understand here:

1. It’s what people want – People love to be given promises of what they want given in absolutes or superlatives so these sorts of headlines work powerfully (…snip…)
2. It’s rarely true – Sad but the more complex the subject the less certainty there is. (…snip…)

So what is the One Guaranteed Instant Cast Iron Indisputable Success Factor? “Doing it”.

(…snip…)

The thing is, he isn’t writing about weight-management or dieting. He’s writing about blogging. Amazing, isn’t it how well his words fit here?

We’ve known for years how to lose weight — eat fewer calories than you burn. It’s just that simple and we all know it. The problem is in reaching that state on a regular basis for long enough to lose the desired amount of weight. And then eat exactly the number of calories you burn for the rest of your life.

A total breeze, isn’t it?

Not exactly. If weight-management was that easy to do, we wouldn’t all have our own libraries of diet books on that bottom shelf over there. Successful techniques for managing weight don’t just differ from person to person, they differ for each of us from day-to-day! That’s one of the most frustrating things about The Commitment and why it took a blog for me to start to get a grip on it.

The key is “Just do it”? Ok, I’ll try it — just today.

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