My secret, I worked out every other day, always trained in intervals, never ate more that 2000 calories, 50-70-% of calories came form high bv proteins Whey, Egg, Chicken Breasts etc.
I worked out maybe 15 times in 52 weeks, kept strict to my diet and gave myself 2 cheat meals per week.  Every story deserves from the opposite side (fact checked) and I just so happen to be a well educated and A.C.E National Certified Persona Trainer.   Nice try though

Seriously?  We’re still doing this?  It’s NOT THAT SIMPLE. Metabolism. Genetics. Medications one takes. Certain diseases/disorders. It can all make a difference when it comes to weight-loss.

You make very good points and I’m sorry I made that obtuse, over-broad statement.  I  was wrong to say that.

I was more referring to fad diet programs than anything else, but I didn’t make that clear at all.  For the majority of people, I do think the “exercise more / eat less” mantra is golden.  But, you’re right, it certainly doesn’t apply to everyone.

I have huge freakin’ calves and thighs, which got bigger, not smaller, the more I exercised.

Sounds like you should try swimming every day you can, if that’s possible for you.

I’ll pass on his products & his story. I have been fat and thin, currently fat, and dealing. Didn’t need this dude’s commentary on my health,  and his joke of a “junk” diet just shows that he will never understand the people he’s trying to reach.

See I’m strongly with you on this, so when I’m discussing the continuity of Green Lantern comics with my training partner, who is inviting me to a roleplay night hes planning involving Cthulhu and Mecha, WHO DO I SIT WITH AT LUNCH?

Are you guys seriously gonna tell me that being the slightest bit driven about exercise and diet is to be ashamed of?

I look good I know I do, I’m a big guy with a lot of  tattoos, but in my head I’m still that skinny kid that would sit on his own reading D&D books outside rather than even risk the school dinner hall.

So I guess 30-40 years ago all the fat people in the US used to hide out in their houses too?
While I can´t claim to have spend a decade in Asia I have been there plenty of times, in public and in private homes. Either what you write is hyperbole or all those Asian fatties are damn good at hiding.

Sumo wrestlers were pretty fat, last I checked. Not all Asians are thin.

Not all Sumo wrestlers are Asian.

Sumo wrestlers were pretty fat, last I checked. Not all Asians are thin. Just like not all Americans are ignorant. It is impossible to generalize for an entire population.

As for your supplementary question:

if we let *you* be x and the derivative of x is x’

then when x’ = happy, x = happy^2 congruent to line does not exist

I also agree that he is more concerned about an ad campaign that he is about people becoming healthier. This is obvious in his condescending tone:

“People that are overweight have to overcome both physical and emotional barriers when it comes to losing weight. I hope to have a better understanding of this through my experience over the next year.

Also, I hope to better gain an understanding of how hard it really is to be overweight. I know it’s only going to be for 6 months, but at least it’ll give me a small window of the physical and emotional issues that come with being overweight.”

6 months is NOT a lifetime. 6 months is not getting bullied in high school until you almost committed suicide. 6 months is not learning to navigate your way through relationships and worrying if someone broke up with you because your weight bothered them more than they thought it would. Every time I see an ex with skinnier partners, it makes me die a little inside. You actually WANT to hear it being drawn to your personality because all you think of is your body (I don’t think that way *as much* anymore, but I’d be lying if I said it didn’t still cross my  mind sometimes). Personality seems so much easier to change!

Also, he’s failing to leave out the fact that some people, no matter how much they exercise or change their eating habits don’t lose weight. I’ve been active for the past 5 years, so much so that I too became a personal trainer. I didn’t do it to motivate people to lose weight; I did it because I couldn’t believe that exercise left me feeling this amazing and I did it to help with chronic disease management.

But I also shoot myself in the foot by being honest with people. Everyone is obsessed with the scale and the “results”. There are so many fat FIT people that look mostly the same as the fat unfit people. The judgment is the same. What’s worse is that a lot of the beanpole types that eat the way he does (to put on weight) but have the genetics where it doesn’t show up are usually the ones to have heart-attacks before the age of 40. They got cocky and think “well I’m thin no  matter what I eat, so my  body must be amazing!” so they don’t put in any effort.

It’s okay. Let this guy think he’s enlightened to the lives of overweight people and let him extort more overweight people into believing that if they give him money, they too will be successful in their weight loss goals. It might help some. It always helps some. Waking up every day feeling happy with who you are, *regardless* of how you look however is much more difficult to teach. I’m hoping that as an overweight personal trainer (with a chronic disease to manage) is helping to “tip the scales” a bit more in the direction of true health and wellness and not just the next shocking ad campaign. I love chocolate. I love beer. I love salad. I love fruit. I love riding my bike. I love my life.