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Take Joseph in Indiana, for example, who called into my radio show looking for help. He is twenty-four years old and packed on over fifty pounds during college. I asked him how he had gained so much weight. He explained to me that it was the unstructured nature of his days at college that made him gain the weight. I said, “Joseph, that’s a lie—it wasn’t the lack of structure, you went crazy on the meal plan and frat parties and you let go, didn’t you.” “Yes, ma’am.”“Okay, stop lying about the reason you gained weight. This is your fault, you got lazy.” “Yes, that’s true.” Next I asked Joseph why he wanted to lose the weight. And again, I got another lie for an answer. “Ma’am, I want to lose weight because I give blood every month and I noticed my cholesterol has been rising steadily.” Now my memory is still fresh enough to remember that there isn’t a twenty-four-year-old man on the planet who cares about his cholesterol. Twenty-four-year-old men care about one thing—having sex. “Joseph, let’s level with one another—this has nothing to do with your health, does it?” “Ma’am?” “Joseph, you hate your body, don’t you? When you look in the mirror, you see a beer belly and a set of man boobs and you hate it, correct?” He laughed. “Yes.” “How’s that faring with the ladies? Not so good, huh?” “No, ma’am.” No one wants to admit that he hates some aspect of his life, so you come up with all these fruity reasons that you want to change. Something that sounds good. Joseph couldn’t tell me the truth that he hated how fat, flabby, and unattractive he had become.