Losing weight is HARD

This really is so fucking hard. It is the hardest thing I have ever done. Why is it so hard?

The reason is that it is a long process that interferes with you mind and schedule. You can’t just set it and forget it. It requires daily mental and physical cycles for a sustained period of time. And, due to the long “holding horizon”, you sometimes don’t even know if you are making progress or not.

Weight loss Sharpe Ratio

What I need is a high Sharpe strategy. This means I want a reliable way that can consistently make me lose weight. That consistency will have to come from deficit + light workout.

Why is it so hard to keep consistent?

The tail events that cause me to deviate from this strategy include things like:

• Fucking boredom. Sometimes I want to go out and just party.
• Uncontrolled environment for meals, with family, gf, etc.
• A massive tail event that causes me to just stop giving a shit.
• Not tracking in Lose It
• Stress, late nights at work, etc.

Each of these tail events needs to be curtailed. Every moment, every second of my life has to have a gate — a buffer — to stop me from descending down into hell. I cannot let time go by and not make progress on this goal dude. No, I cannot do that.

Keep it simple

There are so many tail events, so many things to balance, etc etc etc etc etc.

*Deep breadth* Just take a step back and keep it simple. Be in a deficit, and remain active. That’s it.