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We're talking many things here, guys. I might be wrong, but I'm guessing that if you're saying, "all you have to do is eat right and exercise every day" then you've never had a weight problem to begin with. Which is great.
But if you do have a weight problem, then even if you do those things you might need extra help because your metabolism is seriously out of whack. That happens, too. I would say - and concede - that the biggest problem is diet. The second biggest is exercise. But I can show you two people doing the same two things in life, and one will gain weight and the other won't.
I'm not saying people aren't lazy or eating wrong foods. But it's just not easy to tell folks to "just do this and be like me." Food is a drug for some folks, and some folks are addicts. You have to reach the mind before the body can follow in those cases, and you can't just tell someone to do something; you have to wipe the brain's hard drive and start clean.
Man, I love this.
It's such a dichotomy. If I told someone to "just stop using the internet" if they were addicted to online porn, I think it'd be the same thing. Or, "just stop playing WoW" if they were wowheads. Not to make it easy, but if it was easy to lose weight, everyone would be the size they needed to be.
Meh. I'm done with this for now.
I can understand where you are coming from with what you are saying I am both an Ex WoWhead, Internet addict and Food addict. What vital ingredient I used to break those patterns was willpower. The mind is absolute and can overcome all patterns and addictions if you want it bad enough. Nothing is ever easy, ever... things are hard they are supposed to be. What people need to do is re-frame the date in their had from "this is hard" to "this is hard and I am going to do it because I am in control and I will be damned if I am not in control."
I just started P90X a few weeks back with my brothers and some friends, out of 6 of us I am the only one who can do it and still does it. Why? I am not stronger then they are or more fit, if anything my brothers fitness levels are much better than my own. But I have a power they don't, its called drive and determination. I can take the extreme pain of an intense workout, the shakes, the low blood sugar withdrawal, the dizziness and fuel an inner anger to explode even harder and try even harder which is usually enough to push me not only through the hard workout, but to go running after it as well.
This is what people need, not excuses. Excuses are meant to soften our failures, and failure in my opinion is a personal choice.