I know, I know, I am not the first person to say this. but…

I myself heard the phrase, for the first time, about 11 years ago ago. There’s a non-fiction written by a fellow who owned a fitness center, I believe in Texas, the book begins with one of the better lines in history, he wrote “I had to call in fat one morning…”

Dr. Bob owned a gym. He worked there 7 days a week. And he needed to call in fat, because none of his clothes fit him. Now, that forces you to ponder a little bit, I hope..

And the folks who visited the health club, the moment they began to diet, they eventually ended up fat.

He even did an test: there were 3-4skin and bone thin fellows that wanted to gain weight, so he did something totally against common sense, and placed them on a weight loss program. They did lose a couple ofpounds, but when they started to eat normally, they put a lot more on than what they lost on the restricted diet. That’s how he arrived to the conclusion that in the end what causes people to gain weight is dieting.

The book is quite basic, though very well crafted. It says one thing, something that we have been told for some time, but not many of us have the ability to (blank) take note of: eat when you’re hungry, and cease eating when you’re no longer hungry.

Even though this is sound advice and tried (I think, because I was never able to conform!) the issue with his method is that it is still a diet. A restriction. Something that requires you to concentrate on your conduct, have perseverence, and therefore it does not truly work. Don’t forget? diets don’t work.

So why did he do an additional diet after proclaiming that diets don’t work? Because we, as humans, have always engaged in reactive conduct.

From the limited perspective of the human mind

But in addition to reactive conduct, humans happen to be notorious for not seeing the forest for the trees, trying to treat symptoms and either not searching for the cause, or searching for it where there is lumination… just like the drunk looked for his keys…

What, you do not know that joke?

The police officer is watching a guy apparently looking for something, at night, under the lamppost. “What seems to be the problem?” he asks when he finally decides to approach the guy. The man, obviously drunk, says, “Officer, I am looking for my keys. Can you help me find them?” So now both of them are looking, to no avail. The policemen finally asks: “Did you lose your keys right here?” “Oh no,” answers the drunk, “I lost them over there.” And why are you looking for them here? Because there is light here.

So this is how humanity has been behaving for thousands of years, looking for answers not where they are, but where there is light, where they have already looked. Just watch your behavior when you can’t find your car keys. If you behave like I do, you go back to the same spot 10 times, and say: It must be here, l.o.l.

This quite depressing, wouldn’t you say?

There is no answer to this weighty problem?

Well, not where we have been looking, not there. But given that I am an innovator, I have found a place where we haven’t been looking….

The Science of Getting Thin or Diets Do Not Work, In Truth They Turn You Fat