Hi there! Nick Reegan here, and like you I've fought the battle against weight gain on and off for much of my life. Luckily, things have changed.
It feels like just yesterday that I first laid eyes on the love of my life, and now wife, Lisa. She's fought tooth and nail to stay in shape and, one day, get the fit, sexy body she had always dreamed about. She's been at it, trying to keep off the extra weight, for as long as I've known her, and this determination is one of the things that first attracted me to her.
You lose a couple pounds here, four pounds there, and one day it feels like you're finally making a genuine breakthrough.
Then it all comes crashing down in front of you. One day she hit her plateau. No matter how hard she exercised, or how much she starved herself, she simply couldn't lose any weight, or drop to the dress size she desired.
Feeling like you're never getting ahead can take a serious toll on your life, and can cripple any motivation you once had to make any progress. It would never be too long before she got burned out on her back-breaking workout routine or ludicrous starvation diet, and reverted to her old ways.
It feels like you're directing every last bit of your energy, to count calories and exercise, just to make sure you don't have to buy a completely new wardrobe come next season. It's a constant struggle, just to maintain your weight, let alone shed those unwanted pounds.
But then you look at the people around you. How are all these skinny people able to make staying in shape so darn easy?
"How Do Some People Manage to Maintain a Healthy Weight and Attractive Physique Without Putting in Any of the Effort?"
You know the type. It could be a close childhood friend, your sister, or your old college roommate. No matter how many quarterpounders and chips they demolish, regardless of how many beers or sodas they slam back every single day, or how many countless hours they spend vegged out in front of the TV...
Some People Are Simply Blessed With The Right Body Chemistry That Allows Them To Live The Most Unhealthy Lifestyle You Could Imagine, and Still Never Pack on a Single Pound!
The idea, that if you just try harder, work out harder, or just eat less, is drilled into our heads at a very young age. And the reason this mentality is so believable is that, it kind of makes sense.
The diet industry is BIG business. Every year, people just like you collectively spend millions of dollars on the whatever diet pills, meal plans, and workout programs happen to be stylish and popular that year.
My wife and I had spent at least $600 on miracle weight loss pills and high intensity workout plans over the past few years, and guess how that turned out.
The vast majority of the diet pills we were exposed to were nothing more than ridiculously expensive sugar pills. While others made her break out all over with acne, and others would make her nauseous or cause some other untold side effects.
Then came the workout routines. Now these may actually work, assuming you are a superhero or have 6+ hours of free time every day to spend in the gym.
"But Why Do These Companies Keep Coming Out With New Ways To Lose Weight If They Obviously Don't Work?"
As mentioned above, millions of dollars are spent by people struggling to get...
Saturday, July 13, 2013
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