You’re Fat Because You Want To Be

Do you want to be fat?

Stupid question, right? It’s not as stupid as you might think. Being fat is a choice and until you take responsibility for it you will stay fat. 

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How You Got Fat

You got fat by eating too much. Ask anyone – fat people, thin people, and anyone in between - they all know you get fat by eating more food than you need. If you are honest with yourself, so do you.

No one is forcing you to eat food that makes you fat. You choose to eat it. And never mind that your brother, sister, or best friend can eat as much crap as they like and look like a cover model. You can’t. Wishing you could pig out on chocolate and beer and still look like Brad Pitt won’t make it so – not even if you are Brad Pitt.

Let me ask you this: even if you are “big-boned”, have some “glandular problem”, or you believe there’s some celestial being crushing your will to resist every time you see a donut, what are you going to do about it?

You see, even if these things were true, nobody else can help you with them. It’s up to you.

My Very Own “Glandular Problem”

I have diabetes. I inject insulin daily. Insulin makes you hungry. This makes losing fat “more challenging” as my doctor eloquently put it. 

If I misjudge the dose and take too much insulin I have to eat more food or I will end up in hospital or worse. 

As I lost fat, my body needed less insulin. This meant adjusting my injections. But sometimes I took too much insulin and had to eat more food. It would have been easy to give up in the face of this, but I accepted that I might not lose any fat some weeks and carried on. 

I didn’t choose to have diabetes, but I did choose not to let it stop me losing fat. It was my choice.

It’s Up To You

Taking responsibility is the first step towards losing fat. You have to take responsibility for what you are putting into your mouth, and you have to take responsibility for exercising. 

Don’t let anyone tell you different.

The world is full of people who will take your money for telling you that it’s not your fault, that all you need is their special diet or supplement or workout. None of it works; the work has to come from you. That work starts by making a decision to change. 

Decide now to be thin and follow through with action. If you don’t, that’s your choice. 

Do you want to be fat?

Comments

[Johnny B. Truant]

Oh, wow. I like this blog. I love how you took the bull by the balls and didn't blame circumstances for making you fat. A kindred spirit, I think.

[Craig Knight]

Great site you have, Johnny. I think you're right, we are kindred spirits.