I want to share with you an email I received this morning only minutes after initiating my reader survey.
Do you believe in fate, Karma, nothing is coincidental, and all that?
I was searching for info on our Winchester 30-30 and for whatever reason your blog was included in the search. I started reading and am interested in your health regimen. I am 43 years old and a mess. I am active, I try to ride my bicycle everyday for about 30 minutes, but weigh around 350 and am sick of it. I have started lots of programs, bought almost every book, could probably write one but can’t seem to stick to anything for very long.
I answered your survey and it intrigued me. I will be married 20 years next May and would love to weigh 50 – 75 pounds less by then. ( I have learned to set reasonable goals). I have two daughters that are 7 and 9 and I would love to be more active with them.
I am going to go through your archives and see what I can glean but it seems like you are on to something. Please publish your program.
It's quite touching that someone who didn't know you from anyone just five minutes ago can write you an email like that, that quick. It's heart wrenching to know that so many people out there are in such despair. I've recently had friends that I've not seen in quite some time email me expressing utter despair and discouragement. And note: these are always people who are very successful in their lives. These aren't slothful, lazy people. They truly care about themselves. They even try program after program, but because virtually all programs are so unnatural for human beings, most everyone fails at them. How long can you do something that's unnatural?
Indeed, should you, even, be able to persist at something so unnatural as, say, a low-fat diet and slow, boring cardio? The truth: it says more for you that you indeed can't do those things than if you could.
Please help me decide. Take a minute to give me a piece of your mind. And if you already have, thank you very much.
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At age 77 and never having had a weight problem I chose not to do your survey. I do, however, read a lot of what you write with interest.
It has always seemed to me to be intuitively obvious that how we evolved over eaons tell us a lot about what to eat, how and when to eat, and the need for exercise.
There are scores, maybe hundreds, of books out on the subject. Yet, there is great need. Your approach may be exactly what some people need.
A successful business plan?? I don't know. What I do know is you have high energy and great discipline and that's a big part of success.
Jon :>)
Richard,
about the e-mail you got from the man weighing
350lbs he sound's just like me,we need someone like you to show us the way.There are tons of diet books out there but we need something we can live with for life, and you have a chance to change a lot of peoples lives including mine.
Bill
Jon:
Now, see, you already gave me an idea.
Nobody has a "weight problem." Some people have a "body fat problem." You've never had that, either. But you weigh what you weigh.
You don't have to take the survey, of course, but you have insight and good judgment, so that input would be appreciated regardless. Do you think it can help people with a body fat problem?
Richard…good point, body fat not weight problem.
OK, I took the survey but I have difficulty answering yes or no when MY answer would be MAYBE or NOT SURE or NA.
Question 3 and 5…MAYBE : 7 YES…could, but doesn't mean you would (lots of variables):
8 YES…if younger and SINGLE : 9 NA.
Would it be useful to know the age of the survey takers and, maybe, whether, or not, they have a too much fat problem?
Just my thoughts.
Jon :>)