It's a meal,not a party.

It always amazes me how completely addicted people are to food and how blind they are to it. In all my years of training people, I have almost NEVER heard someone say " yeah, I eat like crap, that's why I am fat." Except for my wife, who took full responsibility for being as heavy as she was. "I know why I'm fat," she would tell me. " I eat too much and too much crap.I'm just not motivated to lose it. But it's not like I dont know why." So so many people are really clueless to how much they eat and the effect it's having on them on so many levels.

The need for each meal to be a pleasure filled experience with an unlimited array af gastromic choices available all the time is a wee bit immature imo. Eat your meal first, then you get dessert.What ever happened to that concept?

But starting your day off with a 700 calories frappa crappa latta and another 700-800 calories from a mutant scone on steroids is just "having breakfast". Right, that's why you are gaining 25 pounds a year with no end in site.

People eat like they will die before lunch if they dont "get their bloodsugar up". It's like filling up your car with gas and driving 2 miles to the next gas station and "topping it off".You just dont NEED that much food. The idea that the gene expression that occurs after exercise and intermittment fasting actually helps promote fat loss and muscle gain is gaining acceptance and my own experience can definitely correlate with that.

Living on refined, processed foods,developing insulin resistance and becoming pre diabetic or diabetic is becoming way too common these days. It's almost the norm that I see in the population around me and I work in a highly educated, wealthy community who should know better.

But very few want anything to be tough.And God forbid anyone gets a bit hungry! Not being so dependent on eating every two hours has been one of the most liberating experiences of this whole RKC kettlebell experience for me. Recreating a body that I've never had before. I've had lean and I've had strong. I've had strong lower body( cyclist) and strong upper body( gymnast).

But until KB's and the Warrior Diet I haven't had them all together. Lighter,leaner, strong with stamina and balanced development in the upper and lower body. Not to mention the core. But nobody wants to suffer, at all.

"Pain is a great instructor, it is said, but nobody wants to go his classes". Don't know who said it but it is so true. People want many things but few are willing to pay the price to get them. And not just monetary price, which most times is the least of the expense.

And if one is not willing to pay the price to achieve what they thought they wanted that too is good knowledge. Then you can accept why you are not achieving what you said was your goal. You don't want it enough to do what it takes to achieve it. It is too hard, or too uncomfortable> Or requires too much mental effort too often. That is cool. At least you would know the truth and that is alway powerful.

That's all I ask from people, take responsiblity for your choices, and deal with the consequences of those choices, good or bad, without whining.It's not like you can do anything that doesnt have a consequence.Or that you can choose NOT to choose. Doesnt happen. Whether you see that consequence as a good or a bad thing will entirely depend on where you are at the moment.

The key,imo is being conscious about what you choosing by looking at what you are getting. If you don't like what you are receiving figure out what it takes to change it and then, just do it.

How? By being willing to do what it takes, to the best of your ability. And that usually means eating food before dessert. No matter how good it looks. Or maybe skipping dessert entirely. Or being willing to go a little hungry. Or learning how to cook real food. Whatever it takes to get results.

Or accept that you arent and live with that.

Part of this food cycle is the understanding that by eating refined carbs and tons of sugar one is basically drugging themselves. Carbs release insulin and seratonin which calms you down and relaxes you.Comfort food. And this is good. Unless you can't eat anything else and are falling asleep from your blood sugar dump at 10 am. Where's the roach coach?

Changing from being a carb burner to a fat burner is one of the best things I've done. I feel so much more alert for much longer, have way more energy and clarity of thought and know that in a pinch I can go for long periods with little or no food and no fall off of strength or energy. All good things.

IN my favorite book by Herman Hesse "Siddhartha" Kamaswai asks the ascetic sadhu Siddhartha what skills he posseses when he tells him he will earn the money necessary to spend time with the courtesan Kamala.

"I can think, I can wait and I can fast."

Kamaswami asks him of what value fasting is.

"It is of great value sir,. If a man has nothing to eat fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. If, for instance, Siddhartha had not learned how to fast, he would have had to seek some kind of work today ,wither with you, or elsewhere, for hunger would have driven him.But as it is , Siddhartha can wait calmly . He is not impatient, he is not in need, he can ward off humfer for a long time and laugh at it. Therefore, fasting is usefull sir."