Word on the street is that you don’t burn many calories when you sit down all day long. As we get older, we trend towards less exercise and more sitting. Unsurprisingly, our body starts growing like it did during adolescence—but wider instead of taller. Combine that with all the food we eat and the obesity we see is no mystery at all.
We’re lazy and we eat a lot.
Rather than simply eating in accordance with what we expend, we’ve decided to periodically modify the amount of food and drink we consume. Most people refer to this as dieting.
But what is a diet anyway? Isn’t it what we do all the time? As a matter of fact, it is. A diet is the food and drink we habitually consume.
So, if you go on a diet, what were you doing before? Not eating? Hardly. Let’s get the facts straight: the diet definition we use today is a made up creature, designed to make you feel guilty for gaining weight and not being on a diet. But you are on a diet! Oh, it’s so confusing.
Don’t worry, Qualler will clear up this mess we’re in. Do you eat food? Check. Great-you’re on a diet.
Don’t worry about Jenny Craig, Slim Fast, South Beach, Atkins, or eating salads for lunch. Who invented that strategy anyway? Salads for lunch?!
Just start eating less food. Oh, and it wouldn’t hurt to walk a few miles every day, either–at the very least. (Not exercising your body is like buying a car but only driving it in first gear.)
Now that we have this diet thing cleared up, the only thing left to worry about is whether or not you have a kettlebell. Do you?
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