Hey…
Yep…
It’s me again.
Your favorite Weirdo, Josh.
Do you know why I’m looking so frazzled in this image? Why I’m looking so shocked? So surprised?
It’s because I just learned – out of all the humans who read the first phase of this weight-loss guide – only 4 percent took any sort of action after reading it.
4 percent!
That means 96 percent of people (all who possess a burning desire to lose weight) took zero action to actually lose weight.
This is nuts!
Madness!
We’re downtown in CrazyTown!
But as looney as this statistic may be, here’s the thing that really concerns me…
I’m worried you may be one of the 96 percent!!!
Question for you.
Please be honest.
Now that you’ve read phase one of this guide, have you started your easy simple ten-minute little weirdo walk-a-thon yet? Have you started doing anything actionable? Have you begun the process of strengthening your self-discipline and willpower?
If so, great!!! You are well on your way to becoming a Weirdo Warrior! But if you are of the 96 percent, don’t fret. Because I get it.
I’ve done the very same thing over and over in my life.
It’s normal to read the first chapter of something and then go straight to reading chapter two.
And then once you finish reading chapter two, you jump to chapter three, then to chapter four, then to chapter five, and so-on-and-so-forth until the book, article, video, or course is completed.
But here’s where things get dicey.
Here’s why I’m a bit worried.
Here’s the mistake I’ve made over-and-over again.
Once I would finish the book, article, video, or course, somehow a new book, article, video, or course would magically appear.
And of course I would then dive into that one.
I would read article after article, take course after course, watch video after video. But after wasting all that time, I was still chubby and miserable and confused.
I was still no closer to reaching my goal.
This is called ‘performative learning’ and it’s a common and normal cycle that holds back a large segment of people from ever achieving their goals.
People get fixated on learning and learning and learning. They take courses. They read books. They read internet articles. They read fitness magazines. They watch YouTube videos. They become hypnotized by endless amounts of knowledge rather than focused on actually achieving their one singular goal.
In my experience, this typically happens when we fall into the mindset of believing that learning is a form of doing. We’ll convince ourselves that we need to learn all the newest hacks, tricks, diets, and exercise routines so we can then be knowledgeable enough to put together our perfect weight-loss and fitness plan.
But here’s the thing…the supply of hacks, tricks, information, and knowledge is never-ending.
You can read books, articles, and magazines for every second of every day and still have more articles to read, more information to learn, more videos to watch, more courses to take.
Don’t believe me? Let me show you something.
I just went to the website of Men’s Health Magazine and here’s what’s on the front page:
Fun fact: Men’s Health Magazine has been around since 1986. Ronald Reagan was President. There were no cell phones, no mainstream computers, no internet. ‘That’s What Friends Are For’ by Dionne Warwick, Gladys Knight, Elton John, and Stevie Wonder was the number one song in the country. Spud Webb won the slam dunk contest and Phil Collins won a Grammy. Top Gun was the blockbuster movie in the theaters. In all that time, from 1986 to today, are you seriously telling me it has taken this long for Men’s Health Magazine to finally discover a few back exercises that actually work?!
Bullshit!
You and I both know that’s not the case.
Look…here’s the truth:
These fitness magazines make money by either collecting advertising revenue or by charging subscriptions. Same with YouTube content creators (aka: Fitness Influencers). Same with most websites and blogs.
Their best interest is not in you losing weight and accomplishing your fitness goals. Instead, their pocketbook gets fatter only when you come back for more and more info.
Next month, Men’s Health will have another article about another ‘Best Workout Routine.’
Every month there will be a new hack, a new celebrity workout, a new way to trick your metabolism.
No disrespect to Men’s Health Magazine, or to any other content creator or fitness influencer, but let’s be honest: these are media companies.
Their number one goal is to make money, and they make money by feeding the masses with more and more information. They make money only if people like you and I keep coming back for more tips, tricks, and hacks.
Their job is to keep you believing that you need to know more, or that you don’t yet have all the information to accomplish your goal, or that there’s some hidden secret you’ve not yet discovered.
Here’s the secret:
You keep starting in the wrong freaking spot.
Right now, you don’t need an endless supply of information. You don’t need to know how Chris Hemsworth got jacked for his new ‘Thor’ movie. You don’t need to know the newest hacks, the newest tips, the newest tricks. You don’t need to know ‘The 25 Bodyweight Exercises That Unlock True Strength.’
You only need to focus on one thing.
That’s the secret.
You need to commit to one method or system.
That is all you need right now.
You need to find one method or system that works for you and then you need to stick with that same method or system for a long, long, long time.
And while doing that, you need to ignore everything else!
Sounds easy, doesn’t it. But here’s where the media companies come swooping in with baited hooks.
Here’s where your dedication will wobble.
Let’s say you find a weight-loss program you really like, and that you really believe in it, and that you’re gonna stick with this time.
No matter what. You’re all in.
You’re not gonna quit.
No way. No how. Not a chance.
A week goes by and you’re not seeing any results.
Huh? Welp… not gonna quit means not gonna quit, so you’re not gonna quit this time! You decide to keep going. Eye of the Tiger!!!
Another week goes by, and you still notice nothing different. No significant weight loss. You don’t feel lighter. You don’t feel stronger. You feel about the same.
Another week goes by…
And then another…
It’s been a full month, and your pants feel just as tight as ever.
You see an advertisement on Instagram. You click on it. Hmmmm, it’s all about hydrogen water. Maybe that’s the missing link. Maybe that’s what you need.
The next day you read an article about CrossFit and HITT Training.
Maybe that’s it.
Maybe that’s the thing that actually works.
Maybe you need to start doing CrossFit and HITT.
You buy the hydrogen tablets. You sign up for CrossFit.
Another month goes by.
Are hydrogen tablets sugar pills? They don’t seem to be doing much.
Nothing about your physique has changed.
CrossFit sucks.
It’s hard.
You’re sick of jumping rope and flipping truck tires.
Thankfully, you see another advertisement. This one is for a course promising a 90-day body transformation.
It has a money back guarantee!
It has tons of testimonials!
This is it!
And when I say, ‘This is it,’ I mean: This is the problem!!!
This is what normies do over and over. They start, and then they stop for a while, and then they start something else, and then they stop doing that for a while, and then they go back to planning and researching and eventually they will start again.
They’re always in this perpetual cycle of starting and then lapsing and then trying something else.
In my experience, there are two primary reasons you may fall into this cycle:
- The first is because you’re starting with a method or system that is too intense, which is causing your biological brain to revolt. And when your biological brain insists on quitting, it’s only a matter of time before your willpower follows. Here’s the truth: You will never win if you are constantly fighting against yourself. You’ll quit the thing you are doing and end up either accepting all your excuses as reality or you’ll end up trying something else. I go fairly in-depth on this topic in the first article of this weight-loss guide, please check it out here.
- The second reason you may fall into this normie trap is because you start to doubt whether the thing you’re doing is actually the thing you’re supposed to be doing. If you stick with one method or system for weeks or months and notice no real results, doubt will certainly creep in. You’ll wonder if you’re doing something wrong, or if the method or system is all hype and no substance. No one wants to waste years of their life following a method or system that flat-out doesn’t work.
And so the question becomes:
Are you not seeing the results you want because the method or system doesn’t work, or are you not seeing the results you want because you’re quitting a perfectly good method or system too soon?
In most cases, it’s likely you’re not seeing the results you want because you’re quitting too soon, and you’re quitting too soon because your biological brain is rebelling against your conscious goals and desires.
However, we live in the day-of-the-internet-scammer, so if you are weary of whether a system or method is worthy of your time and energy, then all you must do is ensure that it complies with the three fundamentals of weight loss.
If it does, then it is a system or method that will work as long as you remain consistent to the principles of the system or method.
But if the system or method does not comply with any one of the three fundamentals of weight loss, then it’s time to evict that system or method from your life.
Now let’s cut to the chase.
If you’ve read the first article of this Weirdo Weight-Loss Guide, you already know the first fundamental.
Weirdo Fundamental #1:
You must strengthen your self-discipline and willpower to a level where you can actually stick with the system or method you have committed to stick with.
Stand back…because I’m about to drop a Truth Bomb.
You ready for it?
Good. Because here it comes…
No weight loss system or method will ever work if you cannot remain consistent with the system or method for a long enough time period for the system or method to actually work.
And that is the absolute truth.
I don’t care what you do, whether it be HITT, CrossFit, Peloton, Barre, BeachBody, P90X, or The Ancient Spartan Workout of the Greek Gods – flat out: if you do not do it consistently, then you will not see results.
Look…when you boil it down, weight loss is only about two things:
- Starting.
- And continuing.
You obviously must start before you can continue. But if you start a method or system that is too difficult or complicated, then you will not continue.
You’re very own biological brain will fight against you.
It will rationalize.
It will persuade.
It will use excuses and reason.
It will come up with a million justifications as to why you should stop causing yourself such discomfort and pain, and this is why you must start with a system or method that you find enjoyable or that you perceive to be so easy that your biological brain cannot reasonably create a valid excuse for you to quit.
Normies do the exact opposite. They start with a severely restrictive diet, or with a grueling workout routine, and in thirty days they’re angry and frustrated because they didn’t have enough self-disciple or willpower to stick with the diet and workout.
They act as though low self-disciple is a disease, as though they were born with it at birth, as though it’s fate and there’s nothing to be done about it.
Well, take cover, because here comes another bomb!
You ready for it?
Good. Because here it comes…
No one was born with stronger self-discipline or with more willpower than you.
Never has an infant come straight from the womb and said, “Yo, I’m doing Intermittent Fasting, Mom! So, no baby formula for me.”
The very notion is ridiculous.
The truth is that self-disciple and willpower are muscles, and most people never properly develop these muscles, which is why they quit before they ever reach their goals.
Instead of reaching their goals, here’s what often happens…
The old me, the old you, or any current Normie, commits to a weight-loss or fitness program and they fight for weeks and weeks to remain consistency with the program.
But lo-and-behold, the program gets old.
It’s time consuming.
It’s hard.
It becomes a chore simply to show up.
Sooner or later something (life, kids, work) disrupts your routine.
Doubt creeps in.
“Maybe this isn’t the right time,” your biological brain whispers. And it suggests this because it’s your biological brain’s job to move you towards pleasure and away from discomfort. It begins to chatter on and on about why this is not the right weight loss program. “You’re just not ready,” it rationalizes. “Not now. Not with everything going on.”
You eat some chips with salsa and decide to think it through.
You eat some cookies and ice cream.
I’m just not ready, you think to yourself.
You’re blissfully happy while eating those Oreo cookies but also frustrated because you’ve destroyed your diet.
You promise yourself that you’ll try again when things get easier. When your life settles. When you have more self-discipline. More willpower.
Does this scenario sound familiar?
Crazy how easy it is to accept our own excuses as reality, isn’t it?
So how do we fix this cycle.
Where do we go from here?
From where I’m standing, I see three possible options.
- The first is to do nothing. You finish reading this article, you eat dinner, you grab a tub of ice cream for dessert, you watch Netflix or Youtube before bed, and a month from now you’ll have forgotten you ever read this article in the first place. Everything will be as it’s always been. Eventually, you’ll try another diet or weight-loss system and you’ll end up quitting that too. Each and every year, you’ll steadily gain weight. You’ll remain frustrated, but instead of taking the required action necessary to accomplish your goals, you’ll blame genetics, or age, or your weak willpower. You’ll never earn the confidence and pride that comes from looking your very best and living within a body you love rather than inside a body you despise.
It’s easy to choose this option because deep down you can convince yourself that you’ve made no decision at all. You can convince yourself that things just happened. That this is just your life. That you’re destined to be fat and frustrated forever. That you have low self-discipline and weak willpower and that’s just how you are, it’s how you were born, it’s how you were made, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
This is complete bullshit of course.
It’s simply a clever justification devised by your biological brain. In all truth, if you choose to do nothing then you are still making a choice. You are choosing to not act. You are choosing to believe your excuses rather than to create the reality you desire. Being fat and frustrated is not your fate, but, instead, your fate is nothing but the destiny of your indecision.
If your decision is to do nothing then nothing is exactly what you will get. - The second option is to completely give up on your weight-loss goals. With this option, you quit trying entirely. This sounds counterproductive, but you may be much happier by simply accepting that you are unwilling to do what it takes to earn the body you desire.
Let’s be real: losing weight requires sacrifices. It requires work. It requires that you do things differently.
If you are unwilling to make the sacrifices, or to do the work, or to live differently, then why continue to chase the goal when you refuse to do what it takes to earn the goal?
Doing so is a form of self torture.
So either do the things you must do to get the body you want, or learn to be happy with the body you have.
But do one or the other and do it soon, because life is short and as far as we know this is the only life we have. So for God’s sake, do what will make you the happiest! - With this third option, you start. You break ranks from the 96 percent, from those who will never take any consistent action, from the army of normies who will only read and learn and then read and learn again and again, always trying some new exercise or fad diet, never sticking with one thing long enough for it to work.
With option three, instead of playing this same ole normie game, you decide to be different. You start in the right spot. And then you continue day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. And in this process, you will become a completely different person. Your body will improve. As will your self image and confidence. Your health will improve. Your energy levels will increase. I’m willing to bet that your entire life would drastically improve.
At this point, most humans will say they are choosing option three, but then days, weeks, months will go by and they’re still playing the same Normie game.
This happens to Normie’s because they perceive fitness and weight loss as being painful and difficult, filled with workouts they hate and diets they despise.
Their biological brain is winning.
And it is winning because these Normies keep STARTING IN THE WRONG FREAKING SPOT!
And if they keep starting in the wrong spot, then they’ll keep ending up where they keep ending up, which is not being able to remain consistent with a system or method for a long enough time period for the system or method to actually work.
Starting in the correct spot allows you to strengthen your self-discipline and willpower to a level where you can actually stick with the system or method you have committed to stick with.
Once you do this, Weirdo Fundamental #1 will be locked into place and you’ll be well on your way to reaching your goals. However, if the fitness system, diet, or method you are thinking of trying is something you cannot realistically remain consistent with for a minimum of 1,000 days, then I would drop it into the toilet.
If you’re not sure where you should be starting then please click here to learn how to start where you need to start!
Let’s move on to the next Weirdo Fundamental of Weight Loss:
Weirdo Fundamental #2:
You must consistently consume less calories than your body can burn.
This is a balloon.
When you put air inside of it, it gets bigger.
This is also a balloon…
When it loses more air than it receives, it gets smaller.
Fun Fact:
Your body works within this same basic principle, however, weight gain and weight loss are determined by calories rather than by air.
When you put too many calories in your body, you get bigger. When your body loses more calories than it receives, you lose weight.
Right now, many of you may be thinking, ‘Well…yes…but weight loss is not exactly that simple.’
But…
Actually…
Yes…
It really is!
If you eat less calories than your body burns, you WILL lose weight. This is a fact. It’s a matter of math. There is no debate.
You can eat carbs, and sugar, and fats, and fast food…as long as the carbs, and sugar, and fats, and fast food contain less calories than your body can burn off.
Wait…did someone say you can eat carbs, and sugar, and fats, and fast food, and still lose weight?!
Sounds great, doesn’t it?
Well…temper that excitement because here’s the problem:
Normies don’t want to eat less calories than their bodies can burn. Instead, they become convinced they can eat what they want, when they want, as much as they want, and then simply go to the gym and burn everything off with a forty-five-minute session on the elliptical.
They believe they should be able to eat ‘within moderation’ but then they don’t have a solid definition of what moderation actually means!
Let me ask you this:
How much ice cream is a moderate and acceptable amount? How much can you eat before you begin to get fat? How much is too much?
A cup?
A bowl?
A pint?
Normies have no freaking clue!
How often can you eat ice cream and still reach your goals?
Everyday?
Only on special occasions?
Never?
Not knowing the answers to these types of questions is like going into a grocery store where there are no prices on anything. You search and search but there’s no way to determine how much anything costs. When you look around, everyone else seems unconcerned. People are steadily tossing groceries into their buggies. You begin to do the same. You stock up on toilet paper, hamburger meat, protein shakes, ketchup, coke zeros.
At the checkout line, you ask the cashier for the total price, but she refuses to tell you. “Just go ahead and swipe your card,” she says with an evil little smirk. “It will be okay.”
Does this seem sketch?
Of course it does! You’d beat feet for the exit in this situation. You’d never hand your credit card to someone if you didn’t know the price you were paying.
But when it comes to fitness and weight loss, do you know what this very same situation is?
It’s NORMAL!
For Normies, this sketchy situation is completely normal.
Normies do this every single day, but they do it with something much more important than with their money.
They do this with their health!
Normies will eat and eat, and the entire time they are stuffing their normal little faces, they have no clue as to how many calories they are actually eating.
Fun fact for any Normies in the room: You cannot consistently overeat and then simply burn those excess calories off with exercise, workouts, and cardio.
Purge that idea from your brain. Because it’s not going to happen.
It Will Not Work!
To lose weight, you must eat less calories than your body burns.
Does this mean you must count calories to lose weight?
NO!
It doesn’t.
You can guesstimate if you want. But in my experience, the quickest, easiest, and only guaranteed method to lose weight is to accurately track how many calories your body burns and then track how many calories you are feeding the furnace.
Eat too many calories and you gain weight.
Eat less calories than your body can burn, and you lose weight.
It is honestly that simple. So if you are starting a weight loss program, method, or system that does not conform with this second Weirdo Fundamental of Weight Loss, which is to consistently consume less calories than your body can burn, then you are failing before you begin.
It’s time to drop that program, method, or system in the toilet. It’s only going to waste your time.
Now, on to the third and final Weirdo Fundamental of Weight Loss.
Weirdo Fundamental #3:
You must keep doing the thing that is working for as long as you want the thing to keep working.
I’m cooking jambalaya right now as I write this.
To cook said jambalaya, I first browned some chicken and sausage and then added my ‘Holy Trinity.’
I sprinkled in some spices and such.
I then added rice and chicken broth, and do you know what I have right now with all those ingredients mixed together?
Nothing.
I have a bunch of smelly slop.
I have a great big pot of ‘nothing I am willing to eat.’
Not yet at least.
Not until it cooks down.
Waiting and allowing all these ingredients to boil and simmer and cook is a fundamental step to creating what I want.
Weight loss is no different.
It requires time.
And this is where most people fail. Most people do not allow the pot to boil and simmer and cook.
Most people give up too early.
And when I say, ‘most people,’ make no mistake: I am talking about you!
The reason you have not yet reached your goals is because of one of these three reasons:
- You simply have not started.
- You have started, but you have started at the wrong spot.
- You have started. And you have started at the right spot. But when you do not see immediate results, you begin to doubt whether the system, method, or diet you are using is actually a system, method, or diet that actually works which causes you to quit and then you try some other system, method, or diet that you will also give up on before it has time to work.
Look! Here’s the truth!
There are a million different fitness systems, methods, and diets that work, but none of them will work if you do not stick with one long enough for it to work.
Let’s circle back to our original question from earlier in this article:
Are you not seeing the results you want because the method or system doesn’t work, or are you not seeing results because you’re quitting a perfectly good method or system too soon?
Again, in most cases, it’s likely you’re not seeing the results you want because you’re quitting too soon, and you’re quitting too soon because your biological brain is rebelling against your conscious goals and desires. Which means – you, my friend – are starting at the wrong spot.
But if you have started a fitness or weight loss system, methods, or diet and you are weary of whether the system, method, or diet is worthy of your time and energy, then all you must do is ensure that it complies with the three fundamentals of weight loss.
To recap:
Weirdo Fundamental #1: Is the system, method, or diet something you will be able to stick with for a long time? (We’re talking decades here, not days.) Can you consistently stick with the system, method, or diet for the next five to ten years. If not, then you’re better off finding a different system, method, or diet. You’re better off finding something easier and less restrictive. Remember, you only need to move forward one tinny tiny little bitty centimeter. But you must continue to move forward consistently, everyday, for a long, long time.
Weirdo Fundamental #2: Is the system, method, or diet consistently allowing you to eat in a manner where you enjoy the way you eat while also allowing you to be in a calorie deficit? If not, if you hate the meals you are eating, or if the system, method, or diet promotes a way of eating that does not consistently have you eating less calories than your body burns, then run away from that system, method, or diet. Because no matter how long you stick with it, IT WILL NOT WORK!
Weirdo Fundamental # 3: Yes, this is basically the same as Weirdo Fundamental #1. With Fundamental #1, you ensure that you start with a system, method, or diet that is so easy you cannot ever imagine quitting. You almost think it sounds too easy. That is how you start. Weirdo Fundamental #3 is where you accept that you are going to have to do this thing for a minimum of 1,000 days. No matter what you do, as long as the system, method, or diet is in line with both Fundamentals 1 and 2, then you DO NOT quit or give up. You keep going. No matter what.
I promise you, if you start and continue with a system, method, or diet that fits within these three Weirdo Fundamentals, then you will reach your weight loss goals, and you will change your life.
You will leave the land of the 96 percent, the land of the Normies, the land of those who want to lose weight and become better and live a better life, and who read about how to lose weight and become better and live a better life, but then do nothing.
You can do this.
It’s easier than you think.
All you have to do is start.
Like…right now!
Not after you finish reading this. Not after the weekend. Not when you feel better. Not when you are more motivated. Not tomorrow. Not in an hour. Not after you eat. Not after you brush your teeth.
Right NOW!!!
DO SOMETHING RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!
Go for a walk. Do some pushups. Get in the plank position. Do some lunges. Do some jumping jacks, some high knees, some burpees, whatever…but for God’s sake, please just do something.
I’m not asking you to do anything hard.
You don’t need to walk for miles and miles. Walk for ten minutes. That’s it.
If you choose to do pushups, then do ten pushups. If that’s too much, then do five. If that’s too much, then do one.
All that matters is that you do something.
You must start.
So before you read any further, please…DO SOMETHING.
START!
And then you just continue doing that simple easy thing you started, day after day, week after week, year after year, over and over and over…
And the pot will boil, simmer, and cook.
And if you just stay with it, and give it time, then you will have exactly what you want.
This concludes the first phase of the The Stupid Simple Easy Weirdo Guide To Murdering Your Fat! In the next phase we will piece together your Three-Piece Nutritional Puzzle, but before we get to that…
Have you started yet?
If not, there is honestly no point in moving forward until you begin. If you can not complete level one, then you will not be able to win the game. You’ll just be wasting your time. And time is too short to waste reading about how to accomplish your goals when you have zero intentions of actually accomplishing your goals.
Don’t lie to yourself and say you will come back and take action after you read the next section.
You won’t.
You’ll move on to something else.
Reading and learning without taking any action is only fooling yourself into thinking you are doing something productive.
But you’re not.
You’re not moving forward until you start taking action. So you have a choice right now.
1.) You can go back and read this article on how to start at the right spot and then you can take action and actually start. By doing this, you will be beginning the march towards a life where you are happy to be living inside a body you have chosen rather than living inside a body you are merely accepting.
Or, you can keep reading and learning, and reading and learning, and never take any action at all, and just keep hiding behind the hope that eventually a magic little fitness fairy will sprinkle you with weight loss and fitness dust.
Or, you can give up on your weight loss and fitness goals completely and accept that you don’t want it anymore and that you will be happier with the body you currently have rather than making the sacrifices required to live in a body you love.
Either way, you get to choose.
You get to choose your life.
You get to choose how you feel.
You get to choose your energy levels.
You get to choose how you will look.
You get to choose whether you will be a Weirdo of Discipline or an Everyday Average Normie just like everyone else.
Whichever you choose, hopefully it’s the decision that will make you happy!
That in itself would make you different. And the world needs different.
It needs more Weirdos!
Hey Human!
Have you broken free from the 96% of Normies who have still not started?
If so…
Congrats!
You Should Now Check Out:
The Stupid Simple Easy Weirdo Guide To Eating For Fat Loss! (Phase 1)