Due to the cruel realities of evolution weight loss requires the one thing we enjoy the least: PAIN
This is due to a fairly simple fact about your body. Your body wants to store fat, because through most of human history, food was scarce and in times of plenty it wants to store up for when supplies are short.
This is a process your body invented to keep you from starving to death, over centuries of living in a world that did not have McDonalds or that nice Chinese place the delivers. Any time you try to stop or undo that process, your brain will send you unpleasant reminders, because it thinks you’re setting youself up to starve to death.
To lose weight, you must endure pain. There is no shortcut.
When exercise to the point that your body will run out of the ready fuel in your system, it will reluctantly dip into its fat reserves and burn them. You will experience fatigue and our old friend pain when this happens. This is your body punishing you for using the fat it has stored up. It doesn’t want you to use it. Your body was keeping it for an emergency. And here economists have been telling us Americans have trouble saving.
You can also cut back the amount of food coming into your system so that your body is forced to go through that same fat-burning process, but this time your body will punish you by making you feel hunger, sugar cravings or cravings for fattier foods that will let it replenish those fat reserves on your thighs and belly and everywhere else.
Any pill or cream that claims it can “burn fat” while your fat ass sits around watching Oprah, or exercise machine that claims to make exercise “easy” or “effortless” is a scam to steal your money.
There have also been numerous products put on the market intended to suppress hunger. But turning off one of the fundamental processes that keeps you alive is not an easy thing, and time and time again those pills turn out to be dangerous or even deadly. The popular diet drug Fen-Phen, pulled from the market due to potentially fatal side effects, only to be replaced by Ephedrine, which was also promptly banned in weight-loss products for being just as dangerous.
Now, most of the weight loss supplements you see at your grocer store now are just mild appetite suppressants, usually just packed full of caffeine or another stimulant, since the nervous, jittery, mildly sick feeling they induce does tend to kill your hunger.
The most recent and terrifying addition is Alli, the brand name of Orlistat, which lets you eat fat, but simply prevents it from being absorbed in the stomach. If this sounds like a perfect get-out-of-fat free card, keep in mind that (once again) you are short-circuiting one of the body’s natural processes. The result is that you will have uncontrollable greasy diarrhea, pooping out an orange substance like the stuff you see sitting on top of a pizza. The fat your stomach couldn’t absorb has to go somewhere.
