[davidthefat]

Originally Posted by artdutra04

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Who ever said losing weight was easy? Everybody wants an instant gratification success without any real hard work. Just pop a few magic pills and everything is better! People who want to seriously lose weight need to make major decisions that slightly alter everything they do.

Instead of driving 60 miles to work, move closer to a walkable neighborhoods and walk/bike to work. Bingo, free exercise while you commute. Bonus points if you can also walk to the most common stores you'll need (grocery store, convenience store, pharmacy, etc).

When in the grocery store, don't buy junk food. If you don't have any in your house, you can't eat it.

Keep a list of all the calories you eat everyday; after a while you'll begin to dread having to add that snack to the list and you'll just skip eating it.

Stop driving to the corner store to buy a gallon of milk; seriously if it's less than a half mile away you can walk there and back in under 15 minutes.

Get rid of your leaf blower. Use a rake. Unless you have a back condition, get rid of your snow blower and use a shovel.

If you have to eat fast food the breakfast menu is generally more healthy than the lunch/dinner menu.

Eliminate high-fructose corn syrup from your diet. It's not natural, and the enzymes in your stomach can't break it down easily. Thus, your body doesn't accurately know when it's full, and you'll tend to eat more food than you need.

It's lots of little decisions like this compounded together that all help reduce weight. There is no magic solution other than consistent hard work and personal will power.

This is what I mean about people being lazy, they DON'T do those... I know its a long process, I was 210 after my Freshman Football Season, dropped down to 187 then got back up to 205 and leaner, that took 1.5 years... and countless hours in the gym busting my $@#$@#$@# lifting some heavy $@#$@#$@# weights...