I just don’t understand why people keep believing this bull****, but I’m gonna stop you if I can.

I’m gonna be honest here. Weight gain didn’t happen overnight for me. I sat my butt down in a chair and for years and I basically didn’t move out of it. I stuffed my face with crap and now my butt looks like two pigs curled up beside each other.

I also won’t lie and tell you that I didn’t enjoy those years of homemade pizzas, powdered doughnuts, Taco Bell and Chili Cheese Fritos. Its easy to enjoy those when you don’t look in the mirror.

Everyone wants a magic bullet, especially me. There isn’t a soul on earth that I wouldn’t sacrifice to have the genetics of some 18 year old skinny blond Swedish model. I know that’s not gonna happen.. so I’m gonna take my warped genetics and lose weight the way my warped genetics allows. It sucks but that’s life.

Its not just me that agrees there’s no magic pill for weight loss:
Fast Track to Weight Loss
By EatingWell on Apr 15, 2009 12:00 PM in Healthy Eating
By Rachel Johnson, PH.D., M.P.H., R.D., EatingWell.com

As I expected, none of the quick fixes had strong scientific backing. So I turned to my friend Jean Harvey-Berino, Ph.D., chair of the University of Vermont’s Nutrition & Food Sciences Department and author of The EatingWell Diet (The Countryman Press, 2007). “The best way to give yourself a jump-start,” she said, “is to create rules that add structure to your diet.”

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So while magic pills, dvds, powders, trainers, shoes and assortment of diet wonders sound really great, I didn’t make my ass into a condo unit by magic, so I’m not going to demolish it by magic either. And neither are you.

When I had finally reached my breaking point in weight gain, I sat down and began browsing websites to learn about losing weight. At first, I’ll admit, I was trying to find information on bypass surgery or pills.

Luckily the first website I found, which taught me the correct way to lose weight, was Caloriesperhour.com. While this site is very professional now, when I first started reading, it I think sometime back in 2004, it was just some calculators, forums and very interesting articles by a guy that ran the site. I wish I could remember his name because he taught me so much.

This site is important because of, not only its vast amount of material, but information and tools which don’t advocate ridiculous pills, powders, money or other ridiculous claims. It gives you the tools to work out for yourself exactly how to lose a pound per week and exactly how many calories you are burning now per week. The calculators are an invaluable tool that every person who wishes to lose or gain weight using healthy methods.

This site is completely free and I recommend their calculators highly.
Warning: You can get lost in this site because it has an amazing amount of articles and calculators and you may never leave their forums.

Calorie counter, calorie calculators, exercise advice and more.