“No one wants to hear the facts about weight loss. It’s simple. Take that bag of Doritos and throw it as far as you can. Now chase after it. Pick it up, do it again.” 

Anyone who’s been to the movies in the past 7 years may remember the movie ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ starring Nia Vardalos. I won’t dive into the details of the movie, but let’s just say it was hit, where Nia played the lead role. 

The above quote is Nia explaining her ‘secret’ to her weight loss over the past year:

Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive – What’s the big fat deal? « – Blogs from CNN.com

I loved the article because she talks about how Hollywood and the media are only interested in the ‘secrets’ to weight loss – not the cold,hard-to-digest truth.

The take home message being. The media, Hollywood, hell most of the population doesn’t want to hear or know how to lose weight. They want to know where the ‘silver bullet’ is. They want the quick-fast-and-in-a-hurry solution.

Don’t mention the words: work, consistency, diet, exercise, or god-forbid patience and time. That’s just too hard, too long, and frankly doesn’t fit into their life style.

They want the ‘Easy Button’ of weight loss because the truth…

Well the truth is just too damn difficult.

Way to go Nia.

Carpe Diem

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