I have this thing about diet tips and fitness tips. And by thing I really mean hatred for. I am fully aware of how strange that may sound. I'm also sure you're wondering why. What exactly is my problem? How could a person actually HATE diet and fitness tips? Well, it's pretty simple. I just happen to hate useless things, and, in my humble opinion, the majority of diet tips and fitness tips are completely useless. Not just useless either... but plain old stupid. That's a combination of useless and stupid. Can you really blame me for hating them?

So, if diet tips and fitness tips are indeed stupid and useless like I claim, why do they continue to exist? Honestly the only real reason for this that I see is for the purpose of selling something... usually magazines. Go check out the magazine rack at a store and tell me what you see on the covers.

10 Weight Loss Tips!
3 Diet Tips For Getting Sexier Abs!
5 Fitness Tips For Getting Bigger Arms!
20 Calorie Burning Tips From Celebrity Trainers!

People see these headlines and then buy the magazine or read the article. After all, who wouldn't want to know all of these fantastic tips? The one tiny little problem here is that there are only so many actual pieces of useful diet and fitness advice and information. Come to think of it, there's probably not even enough to fill one whole magazine, let alone 1000's of magazines and newspaper articles every single day, week or month. So then, how do they come up with these new useful diet and fitness tips all the time?

The answer is, they don't.

1) I mean, there will be a heading that includes the words Diet Tips or Fitness Tips, and they'll probably be in bold.

2) And yeah, underneath that there will be enough words to form some sentences, usually short ones.

3) And sure, the sentences will very likely be on separate lines.

4) And of course there is a 99% chance of those sentences being numbered.

5) But that's all it is.

6) Nothing useful there.

7) Just a way to fill pages of a magazine or newspaper (or website) in a format that's appealing to you, the reader.

What, what's that you say? You don't believe me? You think I'm making this up? You want to see an example? Ok, you got it. Here's my personal favorite of all diet tips and fitness tips. Actually, I'm not really sure if it even qualifies as either. All I know is every single weight loss or workout article I've ever read always includes this one on its list of tips. Let me know if you've heard it before...

"Take the stairs instead of the elevator."

Sound familiar? Yeah, I thought so.

Listen... "taking the stairs instead of the elevator" will cause you to walk a little extra during the course of your day, and extra walking is always a good thing. However, unless you live or work on the 1,384th floor, IT WILL NOT CAUSE YOU TO LOSE 50LBS!!! I don't know if it's just me, but when I see stupid diet and fitness tips like this one I always get this picture in my head of someone who needs to lose 30lbs reading this article and thinking "Hey... I can cancel my gym membership now. I'll just take the stairs instead of the elevator." Or sometime later on that day thinking "Hmmmm, ya know what? I'm going to eat this bag of potato chips. After all, I did take the stairs instead of the elevator today."

Can you now understand why I used the word "hate" to describe my feelings towards diet tips and fitness tips? Not only are most of them stupid and borderline pointless, but they can actually do more harm than good. Never once have I seen a list of diet tips include something like "Tip #1 - Figure out how many calories you eat each day and then add or subtract 500 to it depending on whether you are looking to lose weight or gain weight." You know why I've never seen that before? Because that one tip gives it all away. People would read it and do it and get results and therefore have no need to buy next week's issue to see the newest diet tips.

No matter what your goal is, it is going to take REAL work to get there, and to me, these stupid diet tips and fitness tips make it appear as though there are these other little things that you can do that will get you to that goal. That's just not true. The only real tip you need is this... eat right and workout correctly. It doesn't matter what your goal is, this tip is still the only real diet and fitness tip you need.

And for the people who think the tips that I refer to as stupid are in fact helpful to people who don't have the time to "eat right and workout correctly," here's what I have to say to you. If you have the time to read tip lists in the first place, it means you have time to organize your diet and "eat right." If you have time to take the stairs instead of the elevator, that means you have time to do a real workout. Figuring out that diet and doing that workout is what's going to make real results happen. Taking the stairs instead of the elevator is just going to make you late for work.

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