Jul 16, 2019
You are not broken š
I donāt believe there is anything wrong with you.
Convincing people they need your product to fix themselves is an incredibly effective sales technique. The fault is yours and if you canāt do this narrow program for the rest of your life, the failure is yours too.
Hey, thanks for the $$$$.
My approach has much more to do with accepting a few basic premises, and nothing to do with pathologizing other humans.
- We are better off modifying our environments than excavating our failings when it comes to eating and exercise.
- The modern world is specifically designed to get you to eat and drink while getting as little exercise as possible.
- You have to learn to modify your own life, there is no other way.
What many plans call an addiction to food I think of as the effects of advertising and insane availability fueled by cheap plastic.
We have to learn how to protect ourselves from this onslaught of calories, and spend less time wringing our hands about what is individually wrong with each of us.
That is what my principles try to address.
diets debunked š¤„
Counting calories is a waste of time ā www.1843magazine.com
For more than a century weāve counted on calories to tell us what will make us fat. Peter Wilson says itās time to bury the worldās most misleading measure
Can CBD Really Do All That? ā The New York Times ā www.nytimes.com
How one molecule from the cannabis plant came to be seen as a therapeutic cure-all.
extra credit š¤
I loved this piece on decision fatigue. It is directly attributable to weight loss. We set ourselves up for success by deciding in advance.
āThe Essence of the strategy is to lock yourself into a virtuous path.ā
How Decision Fatigue Is Silently Killing Your Productivity And What You Can Do About It. ā medium.com
Precommitment is an effective strategy that would prevent you from having to rely on willpower in the first place. The Essence of the strategy is to lock yourself into a virtuous path.
