The Six-Word No-Excuse Free Diet Book

What's the problem?
ABC news reported on May 2012 here that the U.S. weight-loss industry generates $20 Billion in annual revenue, while according to The Huffington Post, the U.S is the most obese nation on the planet.

We must need to spend more money
I guess we must need to spend more money on diet books, diet plans, diet pills, diet coaches, and other diet stuff. And let's make sure that we get the government involved, they can really fix stuff like this, didn't they fix the national debt already?

I just searched Amazon.com for diet books and it reported 80,771 results, and we are still overweight! We must not be reading enough because there are certainly enough books and advice to fix this problem.

Now, before you start getting all bent out of shape, it is better to get in shape, no, just kidding. What I want to say in all seriousness is that you MUST NOT believe that you need to look like some skinny little model to have a healthy weight. All I care about, really, really, is helping to lower the odds that a really hefty person is sitting next to me on an airplane, crowding me and forcing me to brush up against their hairy arms, really don't like that.

Shortest diet book ever
While their are a number of exceptions, the vast majority of us know what we need to do. The shortest book on dieting ever is below, six words.

Eat less
Eat better
Exercise more

I call this my Triad of Diet Success. Each is good alone but you must do all three to be successful. Eat less and eat better but sit on your fanny all day and :-(
Eat better and exercise more but still eat too much and :-(
Eat less and exercise more (without eating better) and you might die, seriously, you might so :-( :-(

I could have made it look more like a book but why bother.
 Oh OK, here is the book, though the words fit on the cover so I won't make any pages.

Print the diet book right here FOR FREE!
You can print this page, cut out the book image below, and you will get my book, absolutely free and it fits in your pocket or you can add some tape and stick the book to your refrigerator or your snack door where most diets meet their demise. This is a one time offer, while supplies last, I reserve the right to remove the image below at any time so ACT NOW.

WAIT, WAIT, and I have a large print diet book option absolutely FREE here:

The disclaimers based on extenuating circumstances might fit on one page, or maybe I will put them on the back cover. "I am not a doctor, blah, blah,blah."  We are over weight because we eat too much, don't eat well, or don't exercise enough, and we most of us know that. We don't need to read books.

Oh wait, wait, I found diet book that looks like it is shorter than mine. Ah, but wait, they use chapters and chapter headings have words, so I still have them beat. And I will argue that you can gain a lot of weight if you "Eat healthy food" in too much abundance, so "Eat Less" are two words that matter. I can't believe that the other books passes off as a true diet book when the omit those two words, what a scam.

Now there are of course many, many, many reasons (AKA excuses) why most of us don't eat less, eat better, or exercise more. I won't coddle you, you are already coddled by all of the commercials and "feel good" books and advice from people that want to make money off of you and tell you that it is not your fault and that sitting on your butt and snacking on garbage has nothing to do with your "rotundity", yes that is a real word, Google says so, don't look at me like that. 

We often don't eat better because we: opt for that quick meals that come in a wrapper and has ingredients that we can't pronounce. We sometimes eat too much because we have become addicted to salt, sugar, or fat and we have a lot of stress in our lives. And we often don't exercise enough because sitting on the couch staring at the tube is easier. Any more excuses?

Sorry that I am so mean, but too many people are too nice, someone needs to give it to you straight and tell it like it is, that is my Greg Sense.
 

Why Extending Unemployment Benefits is a BAD idea

Historical unemployment benefit
Unemployment insurance dates back to 1935 and in normal times is geared to provide six months of benefits. At the height of the recession, benefits went beyond one year. Now, congress, and democrats in particular, want to extend beyond the normal six months again.

So what is the problem? 
People are getting use to it. Once you give people something they expect it, and taking it away is viewed by many as harsh and uncaring. We are creating people that are expecting more and more and more from the government. Guess what, the government does not have money, we give them our money in the form of taxes. So it is not the government running up the bill, it is us. Look in the mirror. You and your kids are funding all of this.

Won't unemployment benefits stimulate the economy?
I actually heard that statement on the news yesterday, unbelievable. "Extend benefits they said", "the money will bet spent in local communities and it will stimulate the economy". In the short term maybe. But with that rational we should double the benefit, or not stop there and triple it, if we REALLY want to stimulate the economy, right? Wrong. Someone is paying for it and sooner or later these unpaid bills will start to hurt.

Hardship? I did not have to work or hustle for any job, please don't make me
On the news the other night I actually heard someone complain that if unemployment checks did not get extended they would have to go back to work at a lowering paying job that they did not like and it would be difficult to continue their education at the same time. I am sorry (not really). Life is difficult. Sometimes we have to work at a job (or 2 or 3) that we don't love and have to go to school nights, evenings, or weekends to better ourselves. 

It is cycle, the more we give the more that it expected
We can't keep going on like this and hope to be a nation that leads the world. Take away the motivation to hustle, innovate, work hard, and lift yourself, and we are more likely to become lazy, waiting for the government to provide. 

Being uncomfortable is a motivating force. It is not cruel.
You might need to downsize, move in with parents or relatives (oh no, that would be awful). You might have to suffer and work long hours and not watch one minute of TV or cancel cable, oh no, not that. Get over it and get busy. Giving you stuff just takes away the motivation for you to rise above. Giving you stuff is what is REALLY cruel.

That's my Greg Sense.