Damn You, Ricky Gervais! The Only Weight Loss Program Built On Anger, Humiliation And Jealousy

By Stephen Porter

You SAY you want to lose 20-30 pounds. You've been saying it for years. So why haven't you done it? Here's the story of how one junk food junkie's humiliating meeting with Ricky Gervais finally helped him move beyond wishful thinking and turn repeated failure into weight loss success.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stephen Porter
• Release date: Dec 19, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301835973

Stephen Porter

Steve has been a newspaper reporter, technology magazine editor, PR guy, web and social media expert, and now a book author--which is really what he wanted to be all along. And thanks to the program he lays out in this book, he's also 40 pounds lighter than he was before.

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Damn You, Ricky Gervais!

The only weight loss program built on

anger, humiliation and jealousy

By Stephen Porter

Twitter: @DamnYouRickyG

Facebook: www.facebook.com/DamnYouRickyGervais

Copyright 2012 Stephen Porter

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1---Yes, You Can Do This!

Chapter 2---The Tao of Ricky Gervais

Chapter 3---Get Serious: The Six Pillars of Success

Chapter 4---Ten Unbreakable Rules about Eating

Chapter 5---A Few Thoughts about Exercise

Chapter 6---Tips for Staying Committed

Chapter 7---Handling Slip-ups

Chapter 8---Maintaining Your Weight

Chapter 9---A Final Motivational Story

Acknowledgments

Author Bio

Chapter 1: Yes, You Can Do This!

If you are like me, you have been trying to lose weight for years without much success. You’ve tried exercising more, cutting down on soda, and occasionally snacking on an apple instead of a candy bar or a cookie. But it wasn’t enough. The waistband kept expanding.

For me, all that changed following a fateful meeting I had a few years ago with comedian Ricky Gervais. It was a meeting that didn’t go particularly well, but eventually it inspired my discovery of the secret to weight loss. I call it the Damn You, Ricky Gervais! Weight Loss Plan, and I confess it is built a little bit on spite, anger, humiliation, and jealousy. It turns out, those things are excellent motivators.

At its heart, the secret to weight loss is pretty simple. Eat less and exercise more. We all know that. It’s basic math. You need to burn more calories than you take in each day. Finding the willpower to actually do that on a sustained basis, though, is the hard part. We’ve all had the experience of dropping a couple pounds now and then, which made us feel good for a short time, until we got lazy again and not only put those pounds back on but layered on a few extra for good measure.

Getting trapped in the lose-gain-lose-gain weight cycle is a common experience among those of us who are a bit overweight, and it’s incredibly frustrating when you feel unable to break out of it.

But what I discovered after meeting Ricky Gervais is that weight loss isn’t something that only other people can do. It’s something that I can do too. And it is something you can do as well. To succeed, you just need to be motivated enough to make a 60-day commitment to doing things differently. If you can find the willpower to make that commitment, the weight loss will come. Just as importantly, you’ll be able to keep the weight off because you will have developed a whole new set of healthy eating and exercise habits that you can maintain for life.

For myself, I managed to drop 23 pounds in 60 days (3 more pounds than I was hoping for), and then an additional 10 pounds over the course of the several months that followed. I could lose even more if I wanted, but now, at about 187 pounds (down from a high of 230), I feel like I’m at the right weight for my height and age, and I have no doubt that I will be able to maintain it.

The best part is that I did this without having to give up any of the foods I like (with one exception that I’ll talk about later), and without having to spend hundreds of dollars on a commercial diet program or insane ironman-type exercise routine (yeah, I’m talking about you, P90X). I also didn’t count calories, and I didn’t have to become an expert on nutrition.

The truth is, I am the kind of person who can barely remember which foods are proteins, which are starches, and which are carbohydrates. I definitely don’t know what an antioxidant is, and I’m still a little fuzzy about whether polyunsaturated fat is the good kind of fat or the bad kind of fat.

However, like most people, I know I should be eating more fruits and vegetables and fewer sweets and red meats, and exercising regularly. That information, along with a few other bits of common knowledge, is all you really need to lose weight. The rest of the formula for success boils down to developing your willpower and