• I, SafeTinspector, lost sixty pounds and have kept it off for over a year.
• I’m 37 and now weigh less than I did in my freshman year of high school.
• I am more physically fit than at any time in my life.
• Roughly 86% of people who first learn of these facts ask me some variation on the question, “what is your secret?”

    The reality is that I’ve got no secret. Many years ago Opus, a cyborg penguin sent to the year 1984 to kill a boy named Milo, attempted to lose weight through various complicated gimmicks and fads before finally exclaiming in exasperation, “there’s got to be some other way!”
    Milo leans in and says, “eat less and exercise,” to which Opus replies, “no, no, no! There’s got to be a simpler way.”
    Well, there’s not. Gimmicks and fads don’t work long-term because they aren’t designed to be a sustainable way of life or they exploit biological loopholes you must be in strict compliance with in order to succeed.**

    I lost my sixty pounds by eating less and exercising. I went from a 38” (96cm) waistline to a 32” (81cm) waistline, XL shirts to M shirts, L underpants to S underpants.
    It was NOT easy, but if you’re creative you can figure a way to trick yourself into doing it anyway.

    Yes, I tricked myself; which turns out to be the closest thing I have to a secret. Instead of trusting in my flaccid willpower to succeed, I treated my future self as the faithless jerk he’ll inevitably turn out to be and worked hard to reduce his temptations while making it as inconvenient as possible for him to cheat.

    I’ll give you some examples, details, and eventually we’ll get to physical exercise in the posts you’ll find here in the near future, I’m almost certain.