Just Stop Eating So Much! Completely Revised and Updated: The No-nonsense, Common Sense Way to Lose Weight and Feel Great
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Just Stop Eating So Much! Completely Revised and Updated - Gregg McBride
Meet My Belt
The belt you see here is for a 60-inch waist. If you ever meet me in person, ask to see it. I’ll show you how it was worn down around the belt buckle holes—from when it was keeping my 60-plus-inch waist from spilling out over my pants and from popping buttons on my shirt. Even though I haven’t needed this belt for well over 10 years, I keep it as a reminder of what I accomplished—and I share it as a motivator in regard to what you can accomplish.
And the best news? I achieved my weight loss without surgery … or pills … or the latest fad diet … or a personal trainer … or a private chef … or an expensive food delivery service.
Before I took control and embarked on the Just Stop Eating So Much! eating plan, I had been overweight for most of my life. I have memories of eating too much and stuffing my face from as far back as the first grade. My parents were horrified and tried to put me on all kinds of strict diets (even at age six!) and they banned candy and so-called junk food
from the house.
Well, I showed them! Eating forbidden food became my way to rebel. And rebel I did.
By the time I was a senior in high school, I had ballooned to an enormous weight and had been known as the fat, funny kid
for most of my life. (Note which descriptor came first!)
Here’s my high school senior class picture.
I was trying to look cool. Looking back,
I think I look a little sad.
Even though people thought of me as the class clown (a title I wore proudly—anything to gain some much desired popularity), inside I yearned to be around the same size as some of the jocks and cheerleaders I aspired to be friends with.
I was desperate to fit in (no pun intended). And I was trying to lose weight. I would put myself on all kinds of diets and even on temporary liquid-only fasts.
I remember successfully
staying on a liquid diet for several months one summer, and then finding a half-eaten bag of stale chips in the kitchen trashcan. If you’re wondering if I ate the chips, the answer is … yes.
That’s right—I ate junk food right out of the trash. Forget the liquid diet. None of the diets I put myself on were working. And I decided the reason for that was that there was something wrong with me.
Sadly, high school wasn’t the end of my growing
phase.
By the time I graduated from college, despite almost a lifetime of dieting attempts (usually I’d lose several pounds, then gain back even more weight), I found myself weighing more than 450 pounds. Eating was pretty much my sole focus in life. Even though I knew it was killing me—literally. I was living a life in Purgatory.
And yet I couldn’t find any solution for my problem. No matter how many diets I went on, no matter how many weight loss groups or organizations I joined—no matter how much money I spent, I just kept getting fatter.
Here I am right after college graduation. I remember being out of breath while this picture was being shot—even though I was just standing there.
I want to emphasize that I’m not proclaiming Poor me.
I realize I was the one putting the food in my mouth. But the fact is that our society does treat fat people with a lot of resentment, loathing and misunderstanding. You might even know what I’m talking about. People treated me like I had a disease and often wouldn’t even look me in the eye.
I remember going on job interviews (just after graduating from college) and having prospective employers not hire me because they assumed I was lazy and unmotivated. How could they know that? Was it just because of my size?
I also know the misery of weighing so much that just talking on the phone would leave me breathless—as well as the agony of having no social life and no chance of any kind of romantic relationship. I recall having no choice other than to shop for ugly clothes and often not being able to find any that fit comfortably—even at the big and tall
stores.
I remember boarding an airplane and having to ask for an extension for my seatbelt (as well as witness the horror of the person who realized he or she was going to have to sit next to someone so heavy during a transatlantic flight). I’m mindful of the food binges, too—those times I was by myself, eating as much as I could as a way to stop the mental pain of being a fat man in a thin-minded society. Fact is, I hated myself more than anyone else did.
Anyone who has weight to lose knows how much willpower it takes to try (and try again!) every diet known to man—including some potentially dangerous diets—in an effort to just fit in with the rest of society.
Like many of you, I tried all of the different diets out there. I was determined to be the poster boy for some weight loss group or organization. But it seemed the more I tried to diet, the fatter I got.
Sure, I’d lose a couple pounds initially. But then I’d gain even more weight back. And when I asked why that was happening, the so called authorities of these weight loss groups or organizations would shrug off my question and then encourage me to start again or to rejoin. Restart the diet plan on which I just gained 10 pounds? But still, I did rejoin … and usually gained more weight on top of that (after some initial loss).
Here I am celebrating Christmas … shortly before turning my back on the commercial diet industry and deciding to take the weight off on my own.
It wasn’t until I took matters into my own hands that I made a life change that resulted in my taking off more than 250 pounds of excess weight in just about a year’s time—and then, after a little yo-yo-ing, keeping it off for more than ten years, up until this day. People who meet me now tell me they never would imagine I weighed as much as I did. Or that I wore a belt that was sized for a 60-inch waist. But I did. And I share this belt with you as a symbol of what you can achieve—no matter how much or how little excess weight you want to take off.
You can forget the confusing messages that the commercial diet industry has been selling you. It is possible to achieve your goals without surgery, without pills, without fads, without a personal trainer, without a personal chef and without special food delivery services.
I can’t wait for you to share the picture of your before belt
—or whatever your memento from your heavier weight ends up being—with me.
I still marvel when looking at this belt size to this day.
Soon you can be doing the same with your own memento.
You have the ability to change your life if that’s what you really want to do. It all starts with a commitment—to yourself.
And for the record? I believe in you and your ability to reach your goals.
Introduction
Both men and women have forever pondered the mystery of how to lose their excess weight. They’ve joined weight loss groups, paid for expensive nutritionists, hired personal chefs, enlisted over-caffeinated trainers, forked over tons of cash for expensive meal delivery services, consumed freeze-dried of other prepackaged forms of food, altered their bodies with potentially risky surgeries, taken pills and even starved themselves—all in an effort to get thinner, look better and feel healthier.
And most of us are familiar with the many convenient
excuses used as to why we haven’t succeeded up to now:
I can’t seem to stop eating.
I think my metabolism is too slow.
I can’t eat carbs.
I need a quick fix.
I’ll be able to lose weight after the holidays.
I’ll never be able to fit into a smaller clothing size.
I don’t have any willpower.
I can’t do it myself.
As a winner of the weight-ing game, I’m here to remind you that losing weight isn’t complicated, although the multi-billion dollar a year diet industry would like you think it is.
The means to feeling and looking better are simple. And you’ve known them all along.
The secret to losing weight and looking great? Just Stop Eating So Much!
YOUR JUST STOP EATING SO MUCH! CHECKLIST
__ Eat Less
__ Move More
__ Drink Plenty of Water
__ Get Enough Sleep
Unfortunately, people have become so brainwashed by confusing messages from the commercial diet industry, they now look for quick fixes and tricks
to take off the pounds. It’s not about being sensible anymore. The media, diet centers, a few nutritionists and even some doctors and surgeons have us convinced that losing weight is a mystery … a mystery that could possibly cost your life savings to solve.
After a lifetime of trying fad diets, joining numerous diet programs, seeing doctors, considering surgeries, fasting, eliminating carbs, combining certain food groups, and depriving and hurting my body in an attempt to shed what became over 250 pounds of excess weight, I finally realized something amazing: The more