His theory is basically this… The reason people resent simple is it because it insults their ego. “What, it can’t be that simple, no way I’ve struggled with this for 20 years, when all I had to do was xyz… No, it must be some secret code I haven’t hit yet”

In other words, its almost an insult to admit you’ve spent years with a problem, if the solution is so simple that a 5 year old can understand it. The reason is that the solution (in whatever personal change area), even though simple… Is actually hard. And when I say hard, I mean mentally hard. It takes admitting stuff on the inside and solving deep, character flaws.

Its simple to eat less, but its hard to admit psychological eating, eating out of dissatisfaction with career choice etc… So we’d rather blame it on not having found the right combination yet. Its just that we haven’t found the right system yet.

Stupid science program.

Oh well, and yeah, judging by the sales of diet books and programs, I’d say you are right on the money.

BP

It’s almost human nature to believe that something complex has to be more effective.

But this often keeps us from making thing simple and keeps us in the rat maze of always considering “what should we do.”

unfortunately folks don’t have much success on complex programs. So we are more likley to buy the stuff that doesn’t work as well.

I like to call it the complex paradox, waddya think?

I noticed in your article Eat Stop Sleep you said that people who don’t get enough sleep have ‘older brains’ is this why you say sleep when tired?

KK

Hey, I’m a major fan of organics—but to promote sustainable farming. Farming practices DO matter

I started playing golf at varsity when I was 23. I simply picked up the club and hit the little round white ball down where the short grass grew using my basic hand/eye co-ordination. I got down to a 8 handicap in 18 months—THEN I picked up a Golfers Digest and I never got lower than a 10 handicap again. Every issue had an article on how to hit your drives further and I tried every suggestion. The irony was a friend of mine had an issue from 1987…what was on the cover–you guessed it, “how to hit drives further”. Logically, 21 years later every golfer should be bashing the ball way past Tiger by now. I became so confused I quit in disgust. The same with exercise…every Men’s Health is about getting ripped abs and having better sex. The bottom line is magazines have deadlines to meet and they have to fill the magazine with something…but it can and does confuse the bejabbers out of you.

I was making the same mistake with nutrition until in disgust I just ignored everything and reduced my food intake by just not eating and kept that up till my pants lost their tightness again. As simple as that.

Let’s get back to the basics! My new method of eating is “eating less”!!!

Thanks for making me THINK