How A Customer Broke Through

Am I Too Mean To Fat People?

About half of what we do here revolves around the weight
loss business. The other half revolves around getting
people to take world class supplements, to make sure they
stay put together, better than the average guy. Both things
sort of go hand in hand.

Most Americans tend to get heavy, as they age. There’s just
no way around this simple fact: Americans are, by and
large, some fat bastards. The number is around 60% total,
and among those over 45, it is higher. You don’t believe
me? Go to any function where there is a large gathering of
people, say a professional baseball game, and just watch
the people walk by. Hell…you don’t have to go to a ball
game…go to church on Sunday and look around. Chances are
…you are within reach of of a very high thread count. And
a hat that’s big enough to provide shade for three.

Every now and then I get a email from someone who accuses
me of being mean to “fat people.” (That’s called fattism in
the liberal lexicon.) I used to answer this kind of thing
myself, but now I just use emails from fat people, or
formerly fat people, or those on the road in between.

Here’s one.

“Dear Dr. Bill,

Your email hit me right between the eyes. I’ve been fat for
20 years, and what you’d call a buffet molester for the
last 5. When I got your email, I weighed in at just a shade
over 290. My gut hung down over my belt so far that I
developed back problems, just trying to stand up. My blood
pressure was high, my feet and ankles ached, I had acid
reflux and I could go on and on.

I tried to lose weight before (sort of), but everybody
always babied me. And so, it was easy for me to just
continue doing what I was doing. But that suggestion of
yours to stand in front of a full length mirror and take a
real look…from all directions…that was like getting hit
with a baseball bat. That forced me to stop lying to myself
and everybody else, too.

I used to actually tell people that I didn’t eat that much
(and I didn’t when they were around). But I ate plenty when
I was by myself and with the wife, who is overweight, but
not nearly as bad as I was. But that naked viewing, that
was a huge wake up call and while some people in my office
thought the email was a little mean, it was what was needed
and I wish somebody had said it earlier.

I’ve been “on the program” for 18 weeks and I now weigh
246. I’m shooting for around 205-210. The first month was
tough, but it’s been smooth sailing, ever since. I’m eating
about 1600 calories a day, which is probably a third of
what I shoved down the old pie hole, previously. My ankles
don’t swell up anymore, from trying to carry too much
weight, and my back is much improved, too.

Today, I actually told a business associate he was too fat.
He was complaining about all the same stuff I used to, so I
gave him some of your medicine. Don’t lighten up, Dr. Bill.
When you have a big problem, you need someone to tell you
what to do, in no uncertain terms.

Years ago I had an uncle who drank too much. (Way too
much!) He went to the family physician (same guy for 54
years). The doctor told him, “Elmer…you can keep drinking
…and I’ll be a pallbearer at your funeral in six months,
or less…or you can stop…and live another 20 years.
Elmer lived 15 more years and died from a fall on the ice.
(He quit drinking immediately, after leaving the doctors
office. One bartender told me that he lost $300 a week in
income when Elmer went dry.)

Somebody has to give it to us straight, Dr. Bill. Keep up
the good work.”

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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

Want Some Diet Food For The Future

Those green eco folks are some sly dogs. Since their anti
meat campaign doesn’t seem to be going anywhere, in spite
of their best efforts… and outright distortions, they
have done what any good liberal does when cornered…and
that’s open a new line of bullshizz (Would you like
sprinkles on that?).

Here is the subtitle of an article entitled “The Six Legged
Meat Of The Future.”

“Insects are nutritious and easy to raise, without harming
the environment. They also have a nice nutty taste.”

Well maybe they do, but they ain’t passing by these lips!
If Bravo TV wants to pay Andrew Zimmer to eat bugs, rodents
and animal entrails, that’s all well and good, but leave
the creepy crawlies where they belong, which is dusted with
DDT and rotting back into dust.

Here is more bug propaganda.

Insects are cold blooded, so they don’t need as much feed
as animals do, like pigs and cows.

Insects produce less waste. 30% of a cow is inedible and
only 20% of a cricket. (Jiminy!)

Raising insects requires very little water.

Raising insects is more humane. Insects are not stressed
out by living in close quarters.

You could actually raise your own bugs in your garage.

You can make meatballs out of insects, or use them in
quiche.

I just have one simple question, “Are these friggin’ people
out of their minds?”

I don’t know about you, but I don’t want any ants, or
flies, in my salad. I don’t want any grasshoppers,
crickets, wasps, or caterpillars in my meatloaf, either. If
they want to eat that shizz in Laos and Thailand, God Bless
Them! May they never run out! Maybe I’ll start raising bugs
in my garage to export to the bozos who think this is a
good idea.

Now this kind of an evil thought…but it’s all in the mind
of the beholder.

How about this for a new diet plan?

If you’re diagnosed as a Tubolard and you fail to slim down
…you have to eat bugs, until you lose enough weight to
qualify as being within acceptable limits.

Oprah would be a size 2 in 90 days!

Unless she was just sprinkling the bugs on her mashed
potatoes.

I can just hear the barrista in Starbucks: “Would you like
some larvae cream on your cockroach frappacino?

There’s an easier way.

Just order my special report on weight loss. Get yourself
looking buff, before these fools take over the planet.
(Remember all the people who said Obama couldn’t get
elected? These are his spawn.)

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Does anyone know what the nickname for the University of
Nebraska sports teams used to be?

The Bugeaters.

They changed it to the Cornhuskers.

Anybody think they ate one too many bugs?

I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

Are Six-Pack Abs And Buns Of Steel A Good Thing

Before I get to this burning issue, I heard a great joke today. Here
it is:

A three year old boy is in the bathtub, examining his genitals. He
is particularly fascinated by his testicles. He asks his mother,
“Mom…are these my brains?”

His mother replies, “Not yet.”

That’s a good one, I don’t care who you are.

Every day, we get bombarded with images of “hard bodies.” These are
the guys and gals who make a lot of dough pretending to be fit. Now
some actually are fit, like the people in the P90X commercials, but
most aren’t. They are young, they are good looking and when they
aren’t, you don’t see them anymore. They’re certainly not like Jack
Lalanne, who looked the same for seventy years.

There is a huge difference between looking fit and actually being
fit. Tyra Banks looks fit, but couldn’t lift 5 pounds over her head.
Think about that for a minute, because it happened on live
television. That means that she is so weak that she couldn’t hold an
average baby in her arms (which is probably one good reason why she
doesn’t have one).

It also means that she must be paying a boatload of mundo to a large
group of people, to schlep her shizz around (’cause you know a girl
like Tyra has a lot of shizz.) Oprah, on the other hand, can handle
a 10 pound bag of potatoes with ease. (Now you see it…now you
don’t…baked, fried, mashed, scalloped, gratineed…with or without
gravy, butter, garlic, cheese, sour cream, horseradish…its all
good.)

You don’t have to worry about either one of them having a six-pack,
or buns of squeal. (That’s a good one!) Does George Clooney have a
six-pack? How about Aaron Rodgers? How about Obama? (Hardly.)
Clooney and Rogers are actually in pretty good shape, but they
aren’t what you would call “cut.” They look natural, like they work
out a bit, but they aren’t obsessive.

A friend of mine, who trains people in Southern California, knows a
few things about beautiful women. He’s trained hundreds of them:
models, actresses, singers, he has a list that would make most
trainers cry. I asked him who was the fittest woman he ever
trained. “Oh, that’s easy,” he said. And of course he made me wait
…. “So who was it?” I said.

“Salma Hayek,” he said. It wasn’t an answer I would have thought of.
He said, “It didn’t matter what activity we did, or what program I
designed. She would do it and do it easily and laugh the whole time.
She didn’t worry about what she ate, but she never finished
anything, food or drink.”

“And,” he added, “she looked just as good without makeup as she did
with it, a rare thing in these parts.”

So stop for a moment…and release all the six-pack and buns of
squeal obsessions. Let them go. Going…going…gone. Do what you
need to do, to get the flabby pounds off and get yourself stronger.

You don’t want to be fat…or weak…but you don’t have to look like
Brad Pitt in “Troy,” either.

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And, like Salma Hayek, laugh all the way through your workout.

I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

Is Organic Food Cheaper

That’s a good question, and my best answer is: maybe. The truth is
that we don’t know how organic food stacks up against non organic
food in the long run.

This is a tough issue to sort out and since I’m not a food
scientist, let me analyze it from a layman’s point of view.

First, “organic” is a very abused term. What it means in one state
is completely different from what it means in another. The federal
government complicates the matter even further, by allowing
companies not to list certain ingredients in their foods.

For instance, many foods that are listed as being “free of trans
fats”…are not. The federal government has decided that certain
levels of trans fats are acceptable and not necessary to list in
labeling. So when a company makes the claim that their product is
100% trans fat free…it ain’t necessarily so.

In Lalaland, out west, the former domain of the Governator, this has
been a big issue for years and although California labeling is
better than in other states, it still has big holes that are being
exploited by giant food companies.

So how do we know what is organic, and what isn’t? The answer is…
you really don’t, unless you know the farmer personally and he tells
you what he uses…and doesn’t use.

That brings us to Whole Foods, the best known and largest “organic”
store, which makes the claim of actually inspecting what it sells.
(Don’t go there looking for diet soda, or low fat yogurt, because
they don’t sell it.) Their main claim to fame is that they can get
people to spend $75 on fruit and vegetables that would cost $25 at
Costco and $100 on beef and chicken that would cost $25 at Costco.
All because these items are “organic.”

My question has always been, why is organic food so expensive? A
neighbor of mine, with four kids, told me she blew a month’s grocery
budget in one week at Whole Foods. I’m pretty careful about what I
eat these days, but $11 for four apples is pretty steep for anyone’s
budget. Especially when you can get a dozen for $5.99 at Costco.

Here’s the maybe part. Maybe taking in all that wonderfully
expensive food at the organic store is worth it in the long run.
Maybe it will mean less time at the doctor’s office and fewer
prescriptions. But, nobody knows for sure. No studies have been done
and there isn’t any real evidence that I’m aware of.

My advice: Do the best you can, with what you can afford. That
usually works out best, in almost all situations. And, as I say in
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Eat less! Exercise more!

I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

Where’s My Invitation

The invitations are out, the crying has begun and the accusations
are flying. I’m not accusing anyone of anything (Except overlooking
yours truly…Esquire.) I had a tux, new shoes and some thoroughly
starched British drawers. I even had some botox (just kidding) to
make sure I could maintain a stiff upper lip, when I met the father
of the groom, Chuck.

I knew that Prince Dumbo would find a way to get even with me for
making fun of his ears, nose, copious nose hair, teeth and all his
various and sundry twitches and glitches (not to mention bitches…
with apologies to what’s her name, who would be Queen).

Damn! The social event of the world and I’m not going, because this
is definitely “Invitation Only” stuff we’re talking about here. It’s
not like some White House dinner, where the Salaki’s, or Samaki’s,
or Janeane Garofalo could end up seated next to you (or Ed Begley Jr
…who would invite you over to see his latest idiotic green gadget,
or offer to get you tickets to the opening of a sewage plant).

I guess I’ll just have to sit in my recliner and watch reruns of
“Heavy.” I bring this up, because I saw this show for the first time
Saturday and whoa…after seeing the dude who was on…I’m telling
myself I was never fat. The dude was huge…550 pounds, sometimes
more, and he had lost 100 pounds!

This is how to think of how big this dude is. Say you weigh 220
pounds, which for a man is not that uncommon. Think about having
another guy your size strapped to your back and another guy, half
that size, strapped to your front. Or, if you want to make it equal,
two 165 men, strapped front and back. Think about trying to move
that mass with just one motor. I can’t tell you the thoughts going
through my head, as I watched this horror show. The scenes with this
lardass on the treadmill were torture.

To tell you the truth, I don’t think I can watch anything like this
again. The fat boy would not admit during the show that he was
addicted to food. He maintained that he did not cheat on his diet
and exercise program, even though nothing could be further from the
truth. When a trainer found candy bars in his room, he told him he
didn’t know who they belonged to.

Let’s just hope you don’t weigh 550. Or more.

But what do you do if you’re overweight?

Well…you don’t wait for an invitation, like I was doing.

You must take some action to get a reaction. (Dr. Bill’s Law #1)

You can start by getting my well received book on weight loss and
putting your big S in motion. A big S in motion tends to stay in
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And don’t try telling me it doesn’t work.

Negative results are always due to operator error, such as not being
able to stop the fork before it gets to your mouth. Or not being
able to get the fried chicken out of your hand. Or not leaving the
case of malted beverages in the store.

This is your invitation. I may not be Bonnie Prince Charlie…but
that works in your favor. He’d have you eating meadow grass and
alfalfa sprouts, for the rest of your life.

I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

How You Can Avoid Falling Apart

Once most of us pass the Five Oh marker (age 50), our bodies start
to get a might cranky. I once saw Bill Cosby do a hilarious routine
about all the noises his father made…it seemed his father had a
corresponding noise for everything he did. There was a noise for
standing up, a noise for sitting down, one for walking, another for
going down steps and on and on. As a teenager, this drove the Cos
crazy. He promised himself that this would never happen to him.

Then one day…shortly after his 49th birthday…he got out of his
chair…and heard a noise. He thought there were ghosts in the house
and he checked all over, to see if one of his kids was playing a
joke on him. Then he realized…that HE made the noise. He made it,
because it wasn’t as easy to get out of chair as it used to be.

I think all of us go through this and if you haven’t yet, it will
happen. But the question is, can we hold off the effects of aging?
Well…the answer is: Yes we can…and no we can’t.

Let’s deal with “no we can’t” first. No matter what happens, we
cannot stop time and every year, we get a year older. If you were
born in 1960, you’re going to be 51 this year. Unless we get a hold
of some “Back To The Future” machine, that’s an inescapable fact.

Now let’s deal with “yes we can.” (This is not affiliated with any
Obama “Yes we can” campaign.) We can “de-age” ourselves, by slowing
the aging process. Take Jack Lalanne, for example, who just checked
out a couple of weeks ago, at 96. At 95, he was still cruising
around California in a Corvette and exercising every day. In fact,
he exercised the day before he died. He had all his faculties and
was still appearing on television and radio.

Jack joked that he had outlived almost all of his doctors. He did it
by eating fruit, vegetables and protein. He was one of, or perhaps
the first, to tell people that, “if it comes in a box, or a bag, or
a wrapper, I’m not eating it and you shouldn’t either.”

His exercise program, laughed at by many of today’ s know-it-all
gymsters, lasted longer than any program in the history of
television. (It almost doubled “Gunsmoke” and he appeared five days
a week.)

We not only have all the things Jack used to use today, we have
more. Fish Oil and CoQ10 weren’t around, until Jack was in his 70′s.
We can use these to help our hearts and brains and energy
production, in addition to eating right and exercising on a regular
basis.

The way you age is not “predetermined” by genes, good luck, or some
power totally out of your control.

You CAN do something about it.

I’ve been talking about weight loss for a couple of weeks, which is
very important. But you also need to get your body tuned up. My
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already accumulated. My CoQ10 Formula will help you produce the
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A few years back, I heard Jack Lalanne on a call-in radio show. He
must have said “Ya gotta move it or lose it!” a dozen times while I
listened. He was probably in his late 80′s, then.

We’re going to miss him.

I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

Why You Should Follow This Advice

A year or two ago, a young friend of mine, who goes by the handle of
“The Greedmaster,” wrote a slim volume on fitness called, “Your
Marriage is Making You Fat…and 25 Other Fat Loss Secrets That Diet
“Experts” Don’t Have The Balls To Admit.” It takes you about an hour
to get through this book, but there is some very good advice in the
76 pages.

I’m going to quote here from Chapter 14, titled, “Push Away From The
Freaken Table.

The author, whose real name is Nate Rifkin, says that this is the
story of a college girl and of his telling her to do “Sit Downs.”

“One day in college, I was eating a meal with a couple of annoying
women who lived in the same dormitory as me.

After they finished dinner, they both went back to get some ice
cream…and they went together for “moral” support. (Remember what I
said about your friends and your fitness level?)

As I watched, I realized they did this just about every day.
Together. To make themselves guilt free since they weren’t alone.

A couple of weeks later, one of the girls asked me what exercises
she could do to tone up her stomach area…which had grown a bit.

I said, “Do sit-downs.”

“What are sit-downs?” she asked, getting very curious.

“Well,” I explained, “Sit-downs are when you’re about to get up out
of your chair to go get some ice cream…and instead…you sit
down!”

She was not pleased with my answer.

Yeah, I’m a complete jerk. But you have to admit…I’m a clever
jerk.”

Now that’s funny…I don’t care who you are…but Nate has a point.

The point is…that we eat too much.

If I tried to eat what I used to eat…right now…my stomach would
not tolerate it. I’ve been practicing “sit-downs” for almost two
years now and I can testify that this is a very effective weight
loss strategy. And of course, I’ve done other things…but stopping
the eating…when you first feel full… will knock off a lot of
calories in your quest to lose some lard.

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And the next time you want some more pizza…sit down!

I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

Why Some Chair Crushers Can’t Lose Weight

Last Friday, I received an email from a fat guy, which was basically
a long and whining read. He had a hundred reasons why he couldn’t
lose weight and he wanted me to guarantee that my book would do the
trick. I sent him a very short reply that essentially said “no dice
partner.”

As Clint Eastwood once said, “If you want a guarantee, buy a
toaster.” Or paraphrasing some Washington wag, “If you want a friend
to listen to your sad story, buy a dog.”

If you quit before you start, you don’t have a chance in hell of
success and writing me with a long tale of woe isn’t going to help
you any. I will guarantee this: The guy who wrote asking me for a
guarantee has a coffee table full of diet and fitness books,
gathering dust in his living room, while he carves a big S groove in
the sofa. I’ll guarantee you he has enough information on health and
fitness to start a lending library.

What he can’t do is hold himself accountable…because it has to be
someone else’s fault that he is muscularly challenged and can’t stop
the fork and spoon ballet, that is playing over and over and over
again.

As the old ball coach once said, “You can’t make any of the shots
you don’t take.”

Anybody who achieves any measure of success finds a way to make it
happen. They don’t sit around and wait for somebody else to succeed
for them.

There are literally thousands of weight loss books and programs on
the market. But there aren’t very many written by somebody who
actually lost 55 pounds and kept it off, just happens to be over 60
and is a doctor. You could count those programs on a couple of
fingers and maybe only one.

But nothing works, unless you actually use it, or put it to work.

Another woman wrote in to say that she had a book by a colleague and
she wanted a guarantee that mine was better. I’ll guarantee you
this: She’s a double stuffed pork chop, a large rump roast, the
Queen of Tranfatsylvania. (Lord forgive me….)

A friend of mine, who spent many years (33) in the Army, told me a
great story. When he was in Vietnam, a grizzled old sergeant told a
group of men they would be going into a fierce battle, very soon,
and he wanted to know who was scared. A number of men raised their
hands. He said, “Okay, you guys move to the front, you’ll be going
in first.” One of the men who raised his hand asked, “Sarge why is
that?” The old sergeant said, ” Well, if you aren’t going to be a
soldier, the rest of us are going to use you as cover.”

That platoon didn’t lose a man in that operation.

You want to complain? Do something first, or save that breath.

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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

Why Most Diets Don’t Work

Today, I learned about a study done a couple of years ago, called
the A to Z weight loss trial. I had never heard of it, even though I
try and get my hands on as much weight loss information as possible.

In this study, over 300 female Lardassians were recruited, to follow
one of the many popular diet programs, much like the ones you can
find at Ediets.

Each woman was given “coaching,” before she started her diet, which
included 8 classroom sessions, so that she would know what she was
doing. (Nothing complicated, right?)

Here’s what happened:

All the recruits lost a lot of weight in the first 60 days. Then the
results began to sag. And at the end of the one year trial, no diet
produced results averaging more than 10 pounds each, for the
recruits. Losing ten pounds in an entire year certainly isn’t
impressive and we know that only 2% of the recruits kept off the
weight they lost.

Most of the popular diets then…and now…are highly restrictive.
They tell you exactly what you can eat and how much. This drives
most people crazy, after a short time frame (60 days). So they cheat
and their weight loss slowly comes to a standstill.

What does that tell us?

What you ought to see is that the more rules and complications a
diet has, the lower it’s chance of success, over the long term.

What it boils down to is that you should find the most comfortable
way to reduce the total amount of calories that you put into the old
pie hole. Remember what I said a couple of weeks ago: the only way
to lose weight is to take in fewer calories than you have been, over
the long haul.

Many of us take in 4,000 calories a day. (I used to,but it’s nowhere
near that number today.) That’s 28,000 calories a week, or 112,000 a
month, 1,344,000 a year. To lose 1 pound a week, 4 pounds a month,
or 48 pounds in a year, you need to drop 500 calories a day, or
3,500 calories a week, 14,000 calories a month, or 168,000 calories
a year.

You can, of course, speed this up by doing regular exercise, if you
need to.

I have written a book about how I lost 55+ pounds and have kept it
off. You can get a copy by going here:

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A few weeks ago, I repeated the words of a top pharmaceutical
executive researcher who said, “The single worst thing you can do to
yourself, in terms of health…is to be overweight. Being overweight
keeps the body in a constant state of inflammation, which leads to
all serious disease.”

So join me in melting off some lard and keeping it off. It could
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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill