The 500-lb. Attorney Who Was Buried in a Piano Crate
I ran into a buddy recently who reminded me of the lawyer I helped bury a couple of years ago. No, this is not a lawyer joke; the lawyer was dead of a heart attack.
My buddy is just like that lawyer, forever fat. He’s into “wait loss,” waiting for something to finally help him lose weight. He knows my business and he mentioned that he needs to get on my program. But he hasn’t, and has been that way for years.
One of my tactics in The Maui Diet for people like him is called “create your own click.” Instead of waiting for something to click to make you lose fat. Because who knows when that might come along? Creating your own click is a proactive approach and easy to do. You just do it—create your own click instead of waiting for it to magically appear. You make it happen. Anyone can do this immediately.
What if you don’t? You can end up like Ed, the 500-pound lawyer who is no longer with us. He suffered a massive coronary infarction—a heart attack—and died in his early 30s.
A tragedy. He was a smart guy and could have put all his intellectual powers to work and lost all the weight he needed to lose. Anyone can. But he didn’t. He was into “wait loss.”
As sad as his death was, another friend who never lets anything get in his way of seeing the humor in things, said before the funeral, “My God, they’re going to need a piano crate to bury Ed in!”
And indeed Ed’s casket was a biggie, which are being made more these days, along with oversize furniture, hospital beds, clothes, etc. At the cemetery we pallbearers actually had to walk uphill hefting Ed in that piano crate-sized casket. I thought we were going to have heart attacks.
Think something like that could happen to you? Maybe, maybe not. A heart attack is just one of many risks of overweight. We now know overweight is connected to many more forms of cancer than previously known. Along with stroke, diabetes and all the other unsavory scenarios being overweight invites into your life.
I urge you to get out of your “wait loss” mode and into creating your own click right now to lose weight, healthfully and permanently. I show you how in my books, The Maui Diet and The Maui Diet Daily Action PlayBook. Get your copies and you can and will turn “wait loss” into real weight loss.
