Forget The Weight Loss Tips
Simply put, weight loss tips suck. They serve almost no purpose and do not provide you with any real direction on how to actually shed the pounds and keep them off.
I’ll give you a few examples of some tips about losing weight that I have read recently and why I think they are useless.
1. How to add more fiber to your diet – “Eat a cereal with more grams of fiber per serving”
The tip above is a no brainer to most people. I mean what actionable advice are you receiving that you haven’t or couldn’t have already thought of on your own?
For a health/weight loss tip to provide any real value it should include at least some specifics or examples that you can put into practice immediately. The “How to add more fiber to your diet” tip above does none of this.
2. How to get more exercise in your day – “Take the stairs” or “buy a gym membership.”
Again this is another pointless health tip. The “Take the stairs” part although vague, does seem reasonable enough but, the “buy a gym membership” part really offers nothing to the reader. Which brings me to my next point.
Wrong Questions
While I think that most of the weight loss tips and advice offered online are a waste of time at best, they are not the real underlying problem.
The problem is in the questions that we ask or the advice that we are looking for. The most popular searches related to weight loss are around dropping weight quickly?, which diet pills work the best? or are questions based around different diets (example HGC Diet, The Mediterranean Diet etc….)
The thing they all have in common is that they’re all looking for short term fixes to a life long problem. If the information you get based on the questions above were actually helpful and useful, you would be fit and healthy by now. Odds are, if you are reading this you are most likely still looking for the real answer, the real solution to the problem.
New Focus
I am out of the “tip” business as I’ve realized that there is very little value in it for both you the reader and myself in writing them.
Instead I am focusing this blog on educating both of us on transitioning to a healthy and active lifestyle. It’s something that I think all of us strive for but don’t know how properly achieve. In my opinion this is Mainly due to the conflicting messages floating around on what we should be eating, how we should be exercising and everything in between.
I hope that I can clear up as much of the confusion as I can and that is part of the reason why I won’t be posting “tips” on this site anymore.
In the coming weeks and months most of my posts will be centered around nutrition and really understanding the importance of certain vitamins and minerals. How they affect us and the best ways to ensure that you are getting enough of them.
There will be more recipes as well. This helps to incorporate some of the ideas and habits that i hope to present. I am a big advocate of home cooked meals as I have seen the results first hand of not following my own advice. Fast food and frequent trips to my favorite restaurants have tipped the scale in the wrong direction too many times.
Getting Social
A major part of educating is making sure that the message is reaching the people that need to hear it. Social media is one of the best ways to achieve that these days. Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and other SM sites are going to be part of the mix going forward so I encourage you to spread the word if you can.
Follow me, Friend me, Favorite me, Stumble me and feel free to email anything you find here to your friends and family. I’ll be adding social buttons to make the process easier (hopefully).
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Comments
For the past few months the amount of comments on Weight Loss Weapons has dropped off, mainly due to WordPress making all comments closed on all my posts for the last 6 weeks. I have fixed that now and re-installed comment luv.
I am also planning on launching monthly comment contests and rewards for people that have downloaded my e-book as well.
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Saving Money?
The last thing I wanted to mention was around losing weight and money. Many people thing that eating healthy, losing weight and getting in shape is expensive. That just isn’t the case or at least it doesn’t have to be. There are many parallels on weight loss and debt reduction/saving money. I will be presenting different options and ways you can lose weight and save money at the same time.
Lets face it, money stress is a major cause of weight gain so getting that under control can help your weight loss efforts.
That’s it, leave a comment, or contact me thorough my contact page and let me know what you think.
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Weight loss tips are not a general panacea that can be handed out to everyone. Although there may be some commonalities, most ideas need to be customized to fit a person’s exercise and diet routines.
I think you’re exactly right about the “weight loss tips suck” attitude. We all know the “secret” to weight loss: consume fewer calories, consume healthier calories, and exercise. That’s it. People don’t fail at weight loss from a lack of knowledge, they fail from a lack of motivation. It’s hard to get, and stay, motivated for a long-term process like weight loss. One motivating factor in weight loss is being able to get an actual idea of what you’d like like should your weight loss plan be successful. If you want an interesting way to see what you’d look like if you do lose weight, check out the iTunes store for the iApp SkinnyMe. You can use your iPhone to take a picture of yourself, then use the app to set a “skinny factor” to realistically alter the picture so it shows just what you’d look like if you lost a certain amount of weight. Seeing an actual picture of yourself thin is definitely motivating! You can read more about the iApp at see myself thin.