How I Grounded the Weight Gain-Loss Roller Coaster: How One Foodaholic Finally Found Recovery

By The World Famous I.B. Corduroy

The World-Famous I. B. Corduroy has had a weight problem throughout his entire life and has tried almost every diet program there is. He managed to lose the weight, only to find that he would regain it and then some afterward. He calls this "the weight gain-loss roller coaster."

One day, he realized what he had been doing wrong. He lost the weight that he needed to lose and kept it off without dieting and without doing vigorous exercises or going to a gym. As an additional bonus, I. B. was able to lower his cholesterol from abnormally high levels to levels that were within the normal range without any medication.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: May 10, 2022
• ISBN: 9781662472978

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Chapter 1

The Solution

Wow! I know, starting a book out with the solution sounds a bit crazy, but I know that if you are like me, you would want to skip all the way down to this part anyway, so I thought I’d give it a go and get right to the point! I must warn you, though, it wasn’t as simple as you think it was, but once I gave it just three weeks, I was very, very surprised.

Okay, here we go…

I am addicted to food!

When I told this to my family and friends, they just nodded and said, Yes, of course, but they really did not understand the true meaning behind this sentence. I am an addict! Most addicts actually know on some level that they are addicted to something. We, addicts, all say the words but don’t really understand the true meaning. The meaning, to put it simply, is that we cannot ever control the thing that we are addicted to, be it alcohol, drugs, work, adrenaline, whatever. My addiction is that I cannot control my eating of certain foods, not all foods, certain foods. I can eat a single apple, but try and stop me at two Girl Scout cookies, I dare you!

Addicts lie. We lie to ourselves, to our friends, to our families, to everyone. We say things like, I can handle it, and I could quit at any time, but I just enjoy it, but deep down inside, we know the truth. We are addicts! My mind has always played tricks on me. I would lose weight on a diet, and then for some unknown reason, believe that I could then move on and go back to my former ways as if I could go back to normal. No! I am not normal! I am an addict! So, I finally realized that I had to make a change. I had to change for the rest of my life!

The next thing I realized, was that I have also been lied to by so many experts throughout my entire life. I have been lied to by my doctor, by professional nutritionists, and by diet experts!

I am an addict! Can an alcoholic stop drinking until their DTs go away and then start up drinking again? No!

Can a heroin addict stop injecting drugs into their veins for two months and then go back to shooting up again? No!

Then why would a diet work for a food addict? You see, addicts know that in the real world, only we, addicts, can understand what other addicts actually go through. That’s why many centers now employ recovering addicts to help counsel their clients.

Diets have a start date, an end date, and then we are supposed to all move on. Most of us buy into this lie. Sure we lose the weight, only to find out that it starts coming back again once we have resumed our normal lives. The roller coaster now starts its climb back up.

The diet industry does stress to us that we can’t just go back to our normal lives, but they don’t really train us on how to go forward once our diet is over. While dieting, we were living in an artificial world, eating things we don’t enjoy and in quantities that aren’t satisfying. We work out, doing things like aerobics, jogging, stair-climbing, or running on the treadmill, things that we know we are going to quit doing once our diet is over because we hate doing them! The only reason we are, in fact, doing them is to ride the roller coaster down.

Drastically reducing my calorie intake and eating foods that I didn’t like in order to lose weight didn’t set me up for success. It actually set me up for failure! This is why I always failed!

Doing vigorous exercises