Sick to Fit: Three simple techniques that got me from 420 pounds to the cover of Runner’s World, Good Morning America, and the Today Show

Our culture is designed to get you to eat crappy food, be sedentary, and drown your sorrows with consumption.

we delay taking action until it suddenly “hurts enough.” That’s when we feel the urgency of solving the problem. And then we want to solve it immediately, and completely, and forever.

it’s the beginner, not the expert, who displays courage

DO more. DO less. DO different. Tweak, experiment, observe, and repeat.

At that critical moment, what were you Feeling? How did you Act? What were you Sensing? What were you Thinking?

We don’t want to live in a world where the only things that are valued are the ones that can be measured. What about happiness, passion, curiosity, wonder, and love?

If you never feel cold, thanks to indoor heating, then the thought of being caught outdoors in the snow can be terrifying.

You may still feel the craving, but that’s different from having to make the decision again and again, every time the temptation presents itself. And as research shows, cravings that aren’t fed quickly subside and soon go away.

And, in a curious mental shift, once all three elements were in place, weight loss became an afterthought, not the main goal.