Reject the false promises of popular weight loss methods: Establish a long-term, sustainable path to a healthy life.

Why are popular weight loss methods so popular? Because most popular weight loss methods work, at least initially, helping you lose a few pounds. They result in significant and rapid weight loss. If a new weight loss method claims to help you lose 2 pounds in a week, many people will laugh at it, saying it's too little or too slow! Popular weight loss methods are simple to use! They directly tell you what you can and can't eat-just eat less, or simply don't eat at all! And they're painless! While starving yourself is agonizing, losing 5 pounds a week means losing 10 pounds in just two weeks of torment. This is still within a person's tolerance. Even if you have 50 pounds to lose, you can wage a relentless "self-torture war." Because you feel that being overweight has led to prolonged ridicule, insecurity, and unhappiness. Popular weight loss methods seem to understand your mindset, offering a quick solution to all your problems. However, these very people who have "successfully" followed popular weight loss methods say with deep feeling, "Losing weight is easy, maintaining it is hard!" Why can "simple and effective" methods only work temporarily and not help you maintain your weight in the long run? Because you can't eat only those few things for your whole life! Because you know best that you have no energy for anything, and your body is far from what it used to be! Because you know best that after rounds of self-torture, you've lost your appetite! You're afraid to eat! But you crave food even more! You don't even want to mention the "cruel" diets you used during your weight loss period, and you're afraid of gaining weight from your previous diets. You don't know what to do! Because you know best that the mental stress caused by wanting to eat but being afraid to eat for fear of gaining weight has made you unhappy! The brief happiness you gained from being thin is over, and everyone has gotten used to your current unhealthy thinness! People have started to pity you, afraid you'll suddenly faint. The confidence that being thin brought you has long since vanished; you're terrified of gaining weight, afraid of others talking about you and mocking you for being thin and then gaining weight again. Now you're finding it increasingly difficult to maintain your weight loss results! It's difficult because you constantly struggle with the choice between eating and not eating! It's difficult because staying thin has become the most important thing in your life! It's difficult because you've completely forgotten what a normal life is! It's difficult because you're starting to doubt whether weight loss brings you more joy or more pain! It's difficult because you want to unload the burden of weight loss from your heart, but the burden is already too heavy to put down! This kind of weight loss may indeed make you look thinner, and you may indeed look more confident, successful, and as if you've taken control of yourself. But weight loss is ultimately short-term; living a healthy life and maintaining a healthy weight are things you need to do for a lifetime. Can you live a lifetime of happiness from being physically and mentally exhausted from hunger? He who laughs last laughs best! He who can genuinely and happily laugh while controlling his weight laughs best! "The Revolution of Your New Self" aims to help you make this change, helping you laugh through every stage of weight loss, laughing last and laughing the brightest! If you see weight loss as a lifestyle change; if this change is healthy, slow, and acceptable to you and your lifestyle; if your confidence comes not just from weight loss but from a holistic transformation, then maintaining your weight loss results is easier than losing weight, not harder. People who successfully lose weight this way can also maintain it. Even though sometimes their stomachs seem bottomless and they're never truly full, they persevere in using food to nourish themselves; even though they may have excuses like time, place, money, or pain, they still persist in using exercise to maintain their health; even though delicious food can be tempting traps during holidays, they face them with equanimity. Because they know that the purpose of weight loss is health and beauty, for themselves, not to please others. Because they know they can't indulge in unhealthy eating habits. This isn't about depriving themselves of their rights, living like an ascetic, or controlling their desires; it's about keeping their bodies-the most precious sanctuary-in their final state, without tilting or collapsing! Because they know they can't use food to heal psychological wounds; food can't cure psychological pain! Only facing themselves, opening their hearts, and having a dialogue with themselves is the right medicine! Food will only hide the pain; food will only make the wounds deeper! Because they know exercise isn't torture. Exercise, like eating, is a part of life. If your hands and feet don't move, they will atrophy; if your heart doesn't move, you cease to exist! You're not a specimen hanging on the wall in a laboratory; you're a living, breathing person. You need to move your body, you need to breathe fresh air, you need to explore the world; your life needs movement! If your mindset accepts this change, if your lifestyle has begun to change, you're in a period of psychological peace in controlling your weight. You have a clear goal regarding weight loss-this physiological challenge-and you no longer fear it, but rather find it very comfortable. You've learned a lot about nutrition and are clear about the factors that influence weight, although sometimes you feel confused and lost, and you want to give up. This is most likely to happen during holidays, when you're sick, or when there are other life interruptions. You see exercise as acceptable, you enjoy it, and you stick to it. You actually enjoy healthy eating, and you choose healthy foods when dining out and in social situations. You are confident and willing to accept the challenge from your environment and others to your efforts in controlling your weight. You've chosen to manage your weight for life; you believe you can succeed, and you'll be the one who laughs last, and laughs the brightest. Of course, the reality is definitely much more complicated than this. Sometimes, you will pay a heavy price. "I don't want to reopen my wounds and face them; I know the bright lights and bustling nightlife look beautiful, and I want to get lost in a dimly lit bar; I know the smell of fat is strong, and I want to eat a whole tub of ice cream; I don't want to run on the street, and I love my warm bed! I'm already thin, I don't need to lose weight. Everyone's used to my thinness, and no one looks at me with envy like before. But as soon as I gain a little weight, people start staring and saying I'm fat. I want to indulge myself! To let myself run wild, to do whatever I want!" That's what I thought, and that's what I did. So many people live like this, and they're not dead, so am I. Anyway, I don't know how old I'll live, whether I'll live a long or short life. Not long after, I started to enjoy lying down; I started eating whatever I wanted, as much as I wanted; I started eating when I was bored, when I was unhappy, and even more so when I was happy; I started convincing myself with another theory: "Turtles live long because they don't move." I became increasingly numb to my stomach, my taste buds and sensory system became increasingly dull, I became increasingly listless, and my mental state became increasingly depressed! Although I indulged myself in doing what I wanted instead of what I should have done, although I seemed free, I was even more unhappy inside! I got sick! It was this chaotic lifestyle, which did not conform to the body's and natural laws, that made me sick. It was this lifestyle, which did not stem from the body's needs but from human greed, that made me sick. The body itself has its inherent laws-rising with the sun and resting with the sunset is a law; eating according to the body's needs is a law; calorie balance is a law; activity should adapt to the body's condition is a law; and maintaining a calm and balanced mind is a law. By following your body's natural rhythms, you'll reap health and happiness; disrupting them will bring consequences! Get yourself back on track to health! Start a new weight management plan. You'll undoubtedly waver, even regress. But each wavering and regression will give you more experience and lessons. In the process, you'll become stronger and more experienced in fighting those powerful fat cells. When you waver, tell yourself: "My body is my sanctuary; I must protect this most precious place!"