Thread: From My Book: Weight Loss Solution

The Incremental Weight Loss and Lifestyle Plan:

Imagine you are behind the wheel of your car hurdling down a rain soaked highway at ninety miles per hour and your speed is still climbing. You notice that the road is wet and slippery and you are heading down a steep grade. Ahead a tractor trailer has lost control and has jack-knifed dangerously across both lanes. You realize that you are headed for a crash. You see other cars are slamming into it the big semi. If you jam on your brakes you may stop but there is a better chance that you will skid, lose control and become part of the ensuing pile up. You know that the best way to avoid disaster is to apply your brakes gradually and steer out of harm's way. Your car and your predicament is a metaphor for your life and the lifestyles of 73% of Americans, ie. a lumbering gas guzzling SUV that is on a slippery slope, gathering too much momentum and is heading for devastating crash. Jam on your brakes you end up in a dangerous spin. You may have enough time to stop but you need to be smart about it. If you have ever been on a crash diet or a very low calorie diet there is one thing you know for sure. It didn't work and you crashed. You may have tried other crash or fad diets and ended up with the same result. For many reasons very low calorie diets don't work and they are also fraught with dangers. You didn't get fat overnight and you will not get lean overnight. Losing weight is not a contest nor is it a war against fat. Fat is not the enemy. The real enemies are your brain, your mind and your willful behaviors. When your brain begins to act like the brain of a lean person and you beginning doing what lean people do you will attain and maintain a healthy weight simply by watching what fat people do and not doing it or watching what lean people do and doing it. It is almost that simple and the nice thing about an incremental diet it doesn't get more difficult the longer you are on it. It gets easier.

So we should get air bags? Or is that we ARE getting?

Seriously, the diet sounds great.

I'd suggest breaking this up into paragraphs. Double-spacing them for posting.

I think you are right about the paragraphs. I was thinking he same thing but because of what goes after I kept it in one paragraph as a one complex thought or a concept but it would certainly read better in paragraphs.

This is the only book that solves the problem of diet compliance. There are many nutrional plans presented in diet books that should work quite well in theory. The mechanics of weight loss is quite simple but getting people to change isn't.

You may find my motivations interesting. I could sound really noble and say how my book will save many lives and it will but my main motivation for writing it was to stick it to the health care industry and cost them some bucks.

The part that asks the reader whether being obese is a result of can't or won't isn't pretty and may bruise some egos but a bruised ego is a small price to pay compared to diabetes and heart disease.

I actually had one agent get very angry because she was overweight and the idea of suggesting that maybe over eating may be he result of chosen behavior really ruffled her feathers. If she had put ego in check and read the book she would probably be thinking me today.

This is pretty well written. I cannot comment on the content since that is a matter of opinion. But I do offer that maybe you should break it up after the car wreck scenario to emphasize that. Maybe like I did below, or your own way.

Originally Posted by LastChanceWeightLoss

The Incremental Weight Loss and Lifestyle Plan:

Imagine you are behind the wheel of your car hurdling down a rain soaked highway at ninety miles per hour and your speed is still climbing. You notice that the road is wet and slippery and you are heading down a steep grade. Ahead a tractor trailer has lost control and has jack-knifed dangerously across both lanes. You realize that you are headed for a crash. You see other cars are slamming into it the big semi. If you jam on your brakes you may stop but there is a better chance that you will skid, lose control and become part of the ensuing pile up. You know that the best way to avoid disaster is to apply your brakes gradually and steer out of harm's way. Your car and your predicament is a metaphor for your life and the lifestyles of 73% of Americans, ie. a lumbering gas guzzling SUV that is on a slippery slope, gathering too much momentum and is heading for devastating crash. Jam on your brakes you end up in a dangerous spin. You may have enough time to stop but you need to be smart about it ...

If you have ever been on a crash diet or a very low calorie diet there is one thing you know for sure. It didn't work and you crashed. You may have tried other crash or fad diets and ended up with the same result. For many reasons very low calorie diets don't work and they are also fraught with dangers. You didn't get fat overnight and you will not get lean overnight. Losing weight is not a contest nor is it a war against fat. Fat is not the enemy. The real enemies are your brain, your mind and your willful behaviors. When your brain begins to act like the brain of a lean person and you beginning doing what lean people do you will attain and maintain a healthy weight simply by watching what fat people do and not doing it or watching what lean people do and doing it. It is almost that simple and the nice thing about an incremental diet it doesn't get more difficult the longer you are on it. It gets easier.

Originally Posted by Mister URL

This is pretty well written. I cannot comment on the content since that is a matter of opinion. But I do offer that maybe you should break it up after the car wreck scenario to emphasize that. Maybe like I did below, or your own way.

I think you nailed it. Thanks!

May I ask, and please forgive me if this is too personal a question, have you had a problem with weight yourself?

I've been dealing with a whole carbs dilemma. I'm a fan of my carbs! I digress. Good read. I'm trying to do a calorie balancing diet -- just work off roughly the amount I've taken in (proving to be impossible) Interesting piece, certainly something I'm trying to avoid -- just a big change -- those never work out well.


stephen