We all say we’d “do anything” to get in shape, until someone tells us what “anything” actually means. The truth is, most people don’t want to change, they want to feel like they’re trying. Giving up sugar, pasta, or alcohol isn’t complicated, it’s just uncomfortable. And that’s the toll: you either pay it or you stay stuck. This isn’t about perfection or punishment. It’s about honesty. If you’d “do anything,” prove it. Because the difference between “I can’t” and “I won’t” is the difference between talking about change and living it.

Every generation has its own flavor of self-inflicted misery. For Boomers, it was bell-bottoms, fondue pots, and crash diets. We thought we were smarter than science, like we could just out-starve biology with cabbage soup, grapefruit juice, or whatever hack some half-drunk doctor scribbled into a paperback that somehow ended up on a bestseller list.