It’s time for an effing rant! %$&#*! **%+$!!!
You don’t know me and I don’t know you so let’s have some real talk.
Let’s assume you are on a diet to lose weight.
I’ll speak first.
If you have “been on a diet” for over a month (or more) and haven’t lost any weight then you’re not on a ****ing diet. Are we on the same page? If you haven’t lost any weight and it’s been four plus weeks, this is what I know about you:
- You’re not frickin’ trying at all.
- Your lack of effort sucks.
- Your discipline needs to hit the reset button.
- You want to look like someone that is lean and active but you don’t want to be lean and active.
- You don’t want to lose weight bad enough. You would rather follow the “one day” mentality instead of the “day one.”
- You love to make excuses and lack accountability.
- You lack the knowledge on how to lose weight, but shockingly don’t want to put in the effort to figure out how to be successful at it or why what you are doing isn’t working.
Maybe all of this applies to you or maybe it doesn’t, but the truth is you’re too comfortable in your life to put in the effort that is needed to change the person you currently are into the person you want to be. Your mindset needs to change. You need to tear down who you are and the sh***y habits that you have to create the change that moves the needle.
I’ll give you some advice.
If you are not losing weight it’s because you are eating too many calories. Your snacking, pitstop at Burger King that you ate in the car and threw the trash out so no one would see it, and that 2 AM scoop of ice cream aren’t helping your cause.
If you are on a diet to lose weight then actually ****ing try. Don’t go a month without losing any weight and then when I offer you crackers and cheese you tell me “I’m good. I’m on a diet.” No, you ****ing aren’t. Because I know that three months after I offered you crackers and cheese you will still not have lost the weight you’re “trying” to lose.
And another thing. Eating one thing regularly will NOT make you fat or ruin your diet. Do you like ice cream after dinner? That’s cool. It won’t make you fat or ruin your “diet.” What will ruin your diet and make you fat is all the other crap that you can’t stop eating and your lack of motivation to move enough to burn calories.
If you want to lose weight then do this:
- Be serious about it. If you can’t be an adult and actually try then you’re not ready to change. Recalibrate your goals and create a plan.
- Cut out the ***t food that made you look the way you look in the first place. You are a reflection of your habits so fix that first.
- Move more. You need to lift weights in some capacity. If you don’t know how, think you’re too old, etc. it’s BS. It’s a great way to make you look and feel fantastic.
- Keep moving. If you hate weights and don’t want to do the gym thing then don’t. But you need to move and work up a sweat. Move with a purpose to exercise. Walking outside to sign for your UPS package is not a daily walk. Set aside time every day to move with the idea of exercise in mind.
- Move some more. You can start with 20-minute walks or workouts and add time five minutes every week. Start where you are at (physically) and progress.
- Set a calorie limit for yourself using an app like MyFitnessPal. This will set your calories for you so that you know what you’re eating and don’t go over. Make sure you don’t exceed that number every day. Do this and the weight will melt off of you, Frosty.
- Don’t exercise and think you can still eat like crap. You can’t out train a bad diet. You must create diet restrictions and stick to them.
- Weigh yourself daily or weekly. Do whatever holds you more accountable. Be real and be honest with yourself if you didn’t lose weight. Be able to answer the question “why?” if you didn’t lose weight in a week. Numbers don’t lie. People do.
If you don’t want to put in any of the effort that I listed above then you don’t care enough about losing weight and you’ll just be on that really cool, cozy little hamster wheel of contentment.
The Bottom Line
You are not some unfortunate breed of human whose body defies all of science and you belong in a circus because you can’t lose weight. You can create all the excuses that you want, but I don’t even know you and I can tell you that you’re full of ***t and you aren’t even trying. You have no idea what you’re capable of because you let excuses, stressors and distractions control what you get done in life. Cut the BS and get it done.
And eat the ****ing crackers and cheese.
Love you.
