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Five Simple Weight Loss Habits That Help You Lose Weight Automatically

6 min readFeb 13, 2026

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Take it from me, I used to be a fat guy…

But that was a long time ago.

Even so, I know what it’s like to be a blimpoid. At my peak, I weighed 245 pounds (111 kg), at 5' 8" (1.7 Meters). Now that’s really fat.

Today I weighed 124 pounds in my morning birthday suit.

No, I don’t weigh myself every day, and I don’t recommend that anyone else do so either. Once a week, or once a month, possibly, but I think habitual weighing is self-defeating.

Here’s why: If you are on a typical low-calorie diet (I call these starvation diets), your weight will fluctuate daily. One day you’ll be happy and the next day discouraged. This is due to irrelevant differences in water retention.

Don’t punish yourself like this. There’s a better way.

Ok, let's get started.

First, I don’t believe in weight loss diets; statistically, over 95% of them fail. Even worse, 90+ percent of people who starve weight off regain most, or all of it back within 1–5 years.

Here’s the reality about calorie-focused diets:

The abject failure of low-calorie diets is directly related to human physiology. When one’s metabolic meter gets the signal…

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