Despite how people typically think about it, weight loss is actually very simple. It isn’t EASY – in fact I admit it’s incredibly difficult – but it is simple. Eat less, exercise more; consume less, burn more; indulge fewer times throughout the week, go to the gym more than you feel like it. However you put it, the scientific rules that govern the process of weight loss are fairly straightforward and uncomplicated. The difficulty is not finding a treadmill; the difficulty is getting onto it. (Hell, do some jumping jacks in your room – if you want it bad enough,…

Until recently, the only experience I had with yoga was trying it and hating it. I took MANY classes – I didn’t just try it once and give up – but it really wasn’t my thing. Granted, though, I was obese my entire childhood and physical activity of any kind really wasn’t my thing. I grew older, I got fitter, I became a personal trainer, and I slowly went from barely tolerating to absolutely loving exercise, so I thought I’d revisit the yoga thing – and I’m glad I did. Having fallen in love with lifting and cardio, I was…

In Weight Loss: My biggest mistake was extremity. I approached weight loss with an unrelenting and unwavering impatience; I wanted to lose as much weight as I could, as fast as physically possible. I knew on some level that rapid weight loss wasn’t exactly “healthy,” but at 300 pounds it’s impossible to feel like losing weight with any method and at any speed could lead to anything but a promising future. Because I just wanted to get it all over with, I started to see the world around me as being full of things that either helped me achieve my…