After losing a ton of weight, he wrote a book touting his success.
Mahr interrupted, asking what kind of diet he was on.
"I didn't diet. I never dieted," Garlin said. "I made a lifestyle change."
“You mean you started to exercise and eat healthy food?” I yelled from the kitchen counter while slicing tomatoes into my salad.
A moment later Garlin explained that he was eating better and exercising.
"The great mystery solved," I said. Like it was a state secret. Like nobody thought of it before.
Only millions have tried the same thing, but Garlin wrote a book?
The subject was old and tired, and too dull to maintain any level of excitement. Then again, Garlin’s likable, fat, and friends with Larry David.
Funny too.
More important almost everyone identifies with losing excess poundage. New Years resolutions commence on midnight December 31st and depart by the time Dick Clark takes his New Year's nap.
But Garlin made a commitment.
Like Seinfeld coming into that car rental agency and finding that they hadn’t held his reservation, he learned it's easy to make one, but real hard to hold.
Jeff Garlin had sworn off sugar and hasn't had a cookie or a crumb of cake in ages. Like an alcoholic, one whiff of a Ho-Ho and he’s lost on that white crystal path to Twinkie Land.
So he doesn’t buy it, and if he’s near it, walks away.
That’s what he says, and he’s thinner, so we believe him.
It’s a lifestyle change, and that ain't easy.
Of course there’s plenty of alternatives.
Amazon carries 49,420 diet books. There’s the No Diet, the ph Diet, the S Diet, the Mayo Clinic Diet, the Diva Diet, the Fat Smart Diet, and the anti-inflammatory one for starters.
If you’re seriously trying to drop weight, I’d pick the Kind Diet over The Skinny Bitch, and the Eat-Clean over the Crap-filled.
Okay, there’s no crap-filled because that’s the one we normally ingest but abandon when we’re following one of the 49,000 above.
Mahr mentioned that many people lose but gain it back, a la Kirstie Alley. Garlin countered that he wasn’t on some controlled program, that his was a way of life.
Lifestyle versus specific program. Everyone knows both require commitment, which means perseverance, no matter what.
No matter if your boyfriend, husband, girlfriend blew up and walked out on you, now no matter if you lost your car, your job, your maid, your money, your mind.
Gotta stick with the program--like any of the to-die-for diets on Amazon.
That first, and anything will work.
Because those that don't commit, just keep buying more books.
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