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It’s a numbers game, right? Of course, it is.

When I started I knew 15 pounds was a lot of pounds to drop from the same body. That’s why I had “or at least 10” as a back up. A sort of high goal and low goal.

What I didn’t anticipate is how hard it would be to lose 10 pounds.

This whole weight loss and improving your health thing actually takes work. And change.

And change isn’t easy. Especially if it means doing something different, which is kind of what change means, I think. Or not doing something the way you’ve always done it –and frankly enjoy doing it (like eating what you want because it tastes good and not exercising because it hurts). That’s just plain hard! And gives one pause. And makes change seems like a really bad idea. You know? Which means you won’t change.

And, of course, change is especially tough if on this journey to change all alone.

You’ve heard the saying “There’s power in numbers”

I have to. But am not sure why I mention it here.

Oh! No, that wasn’t it. It will come to me….

Oh, I remember now. Yes, if you are …fat or overweight and lazy, like me, you may decide you want to change.

Well, good luck with that. If you are trying to do it alone.

There’s no accountability. No sense of commitment. No plan. No mentor. No process. No reliable resource offering guidance.

Just a fat, lazy guy who wishes he weren’t as fat and lazy as he feels at this moment. And no matter how intensely you feel that, it’s not enough in itself to lead to any sort of measurable change.

So what can help?

You have two choices.

1) You can be a miserable overweight and unhealthy person who hates yourself and will fail again trying to diet and get in shape.

If you are satisfied with this option, stop here. There’s no need to even go to the other option. I’m going to sleep on it myself (I joke) But if you aren’t satisfied with #1, try #2.

2) Sign on with The Recovering Politician and Jonathan Miller and me to try to make some real, incremental and lasting changes. Not for fun. It won’t be fun. Not for torture, even though it will feel like torture at first. Unless you are in to torture, which is none of my business. But rather because the pain of staying the way you are is greater than the pain of changing. That’s when I get motivated. And you can too. And not have to do it alone.

Seriously.

Jonathan and I joke a lot and try to have fun with our little weight loss undertaking, but if we had to identify a single silent health problem in America today, few would argue it’s obesity and lack of exercise. And as guilty of both as I am. I’m trying to make some small changes…that could create some pretty big results for me in the long run.

I hope you join me in trying too.

And, yes, there is power in numbers to go back to that topic…but there’s much more the RP can offer to help you get serious….and then get fit. Or at least fitter. Hey, I will not be part of any health improvement process that allows striving for perfection to undermine small measurable progress. Real change is the most probably with realistic assessments and objectives combined with a liveable plan that has worked for others.

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