The No-Bull Guide To Losing Weight

The Inner Game of Dieting

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I went into a Subway recently, home of the famous "Subway Diet," where the world-famous Jared shed dozens and dozens of pounds.

The guy behind the counter where I was standing was probably pushing 350. Seemed like a good guy, but evidently, the world-famous "Subway diet" wasn't working for him.

In the same way, I have friends who have done Adkins, the "Soup" diet, raw food, and dozens of other ones, etc, etc. Sometimes the diets work; sometimes they don't.

In other words, there's no clear single "diet" that is the winner. The most important part of the process, again, is who is doing the dieting, and why.

So what do the Subway/Adkins/blah blah, etc etc folks not tell you? That our buddy Jared made a decision - something like "I'm only going to eat two subs a day, and THAT is IT!" . . . and, most importantly, he stuck to it. In other words, it wasn't a matter of the actual food he ate; it was a matter of him having the heart, mind, and soul to stick with it.

My hunch is that he could have eaten two Jersey Mike's subs a day, and nothing else - or Adkins, or whatever - and he would have gotten similar results.

In other words, the most important part of the diet plans, which they don't tell you about, is the persistence, determination, willpower, and overall "character" to stick to it through the tough times. (And again, very few of the diet folks will tell you this - you can't really sell character, so there's no money in it.)

But not your dutiful LiveReal Agents. The essential quality required for sticking to most diets is described as "willpower". For more about willpower, click here.

Why do you want to lose weight, anyway?

Answering this question, honestly, is one of the biggest factors in weight-loss success. After all, it happens fairly frequently that - say, Hollywood celebrities, for example, lose and gain weight regularly to size themselves up or down for roles. Matt Damon, for example, lost over forty pounds for a role (being already pretty thin to start with, and making himself pretty sick in the process). Renee Zellwegger for Bridget Jones put the pounds on, on purpose, as did Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison in The Doors. And then they took the pounds right back off.

Sure, they had personal trainers and full-time chefs working with them, but the point is, there's no huge secret about dieting and exercising that all of us don't already know. Personal trainers and personal chefs, in this case, are nothing more than surrogate character-coaches.

In other words, a key thing is, how badly do you want to lose weight? If you're a struggling actor, and your career is essentially a matter of life or death . . . then you'll find a way to lose weight. Or, if you work as much with your mind and heart as much as you do your body . . . then your rates of success will drastically improve.

So, how to do that? This leads us back again at our original premise:

It's not about what you eat
nearly as much as it's about
how and why you eat.

OK, so let's address these one at a time:

What you eat might be about 10% of the equation. We address this here.

How you eat might be about 30% of the equation. To dig into this, go here.

Why you eat might be about the remaining 60% of the equation. To dig into this, go here.