Losing 70 Pounds in 8 Months: Questions Answered
If you’re reading this article, you probably fall into two categories. You either want to know “How did you do it? What diet?” or “What happened when you did it? I bet you feel great!”
I will attempt to answer both questions within the body of this text — hopefully to the satisfaction of both groups of readers — as well as share other interesting insights that I encountered along the way.
What diet are you on?
Those looking for a diet to follow — I’m going to give you the best advice you’ll get from any article anywhere.
Diets aren’t real.
They are figments of your imagination. They are fairy tales that provide some sort of feigned easy, reproducible path to weight loss that will somehow remove all need for actually participating directly in your quest for health.
Over the last 8 months, I’ve been asked this question over and over again. Here is my canned answer:
I changed my eating habits to match the lowest possible needs of my body.
That doesn’t have a cool trendy name like Ketogenic, Atkins, The Zone, South Beach. Sorry. There is no silver bullet for fighting your fat — your dietary needs and mine are not going to be the same. What worked for me, isn’t going to…
