I ran a very interesting experiment yesterday, and it proved to me something I had expected for a very long time – Most people already know how to lose weight properly.
This is what I wrote on this blog yesterday –
Hypothetical situation – I want to hear your ideas…
Your doctor has just told you that you need to lose 10 pounds of fat in two weeks, or you will die.
In this extreme situation, what would you do to lose ten pounds of fat?
Notes:
It’s ten pounds of FAT, so you can’t just cut of a leg or something crazy like that.
In this scenario we are assuming that you don’t have any crazy underlying health condition…obviously I see the irony here, I just don’t want to limit your creativity/ideas.
You can use the two weeks worth of time in any way you like (IE: let’s assume you don’t have to work or take care of the kids etc).
Looking forward to reading your ideas
BP
In 24 hours I received over 40 comments. I kept the comments private so we wouldn’t get any in-fighting over who’s ideas were best.
The good news? ALMOST Every single answer had something to do with eating less and moving more.
(In fact, I had only one ‘spammer’ go on about ‘conservation mode’ and not losing weight if you don’t eat.)
Every one else put forward very logical courses of action.
This is just another piece of the puzzle that is making me more and more convinced that most of us are a lot smarter then we give ourselves credit, and that the seemingly impossible task of weight loss is much simpler than we think…once we remove all the weight loss advice-clutter, obsessive compulsive Eating nonsense and nutrition myth that we are attacked with every day.
Bottom line – The answers most people gave made a lot of sense given this hypothetical situation. They all revolved around some form of eating less and exercising.
Given this was an extreme example, but it is still can be used to help better our lives. All we need to do is find a way to allow ourselves to eat less while still enjoying foods (and life) and we’ve got the answer.
Granted this is the most difficult part, but also the most personal. What worked to make eating less enjoyable for one person may not work for the other.
But in the end, this is the simple answer, it’s the implementation that can be difficult.
BP
