1. You can’t magically lose weight unless you eat less or burn more calories with activity. Not unless you take drugs and those either make you eat less or burn more anyhow.

2. Don’t bitch about how much you hate dieting or exercise. You can either change your diet and activity patterns, or you can stay fat. Those are your two options, except for drugs.

3. The key to losing weight and keeping it off is the following

a. Change your eating habits: so that you’re eating less

b. Change your activity patterns: so that you’re expending more calories

c. Repeat: Keep doing this over a long period of time.

d. Forever: Newsflash, you don’t EVER get to go back to your old eating habits unless you want to get fat again. To maintain weight loss means maintaining at least part of the changes you made to a and b.

4. All diet books, no matter what line of bull[*#$&*#!] they sell you, are working in terms of a-d. Cutting all of the carbs out of your diet will generally make you eat less, so will cutting out all of the fat, so do diets taht change your eating habits in one fashion or another. Some books go the activity route. At the end of the day, even if they tell you that you don’t have to eat less to lose weight, they will trick you into doing it one way or another.

Note: My job, as diet book author, is to turn a-d into a 300 page book. Most diet books do it with 150 pages of recipes.

Everything else that you may come across, including my various gibberings in my books, are just details on the above. But at a fundamental level, until you are dealing with that 1% of 1% of trainees (elite athletes, bodybuilders trying to get to 5% bodyfat without muscle loss), those secrets are about all you need to know.

The equation is this:

Ass busting work + consistency + time = results.

Burn that into your head and quit looking for quick fixes and secrets.

Because they don’t exist.

Finally, back to me, since I am a self-important tool: I know that the next 1.5 years of my life will be hell. I am currently training 2-3X/day and, under the guise of my new coach, I expect to suffer pretty much nonstop (except for a month in April) until I reach my goal or I fail to reach my goal. I have no false expectations, I know what it’s going to take: ass busting work over the next 1.5 years. And that’s fine with me.