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RUSH: I went out to dinner last night. This is fun, too. I\u2019m on a diet. I\u2019ve not made a big deal about this because I\u2019ve done it so many times, but I\u2019m down 30 pounds in 40 days and have taken five notches off the belt. I\u2019ve been hibernating for the most part this month. You\u2019ve gotta do that. You don\u2019t have to, but I choose to. I haven\u2019t gone to any restaurants but I\u2019ve gone to people\u2019s homes for dinner. Last night, I did another one. What\u2019s really tough is everybody else gets sauced and I\u2019m sitting there drinking water — and then all they want to do is talk about the diet. Everybody in the world has done diets but they act like this is a first, that they\u2019ve never seen it before. <\/p>\n

‘How are you doing? Well, looks like you\u2019re losing too fast!\u2019<\/p>\n

‘I don\u2019t know.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Well, what are you eating? Well, my gosh, you have to eat more!\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘No, not if you want to go on a diet.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Well, does it taste good?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Yeah, if you get your mind set. Yeah, you\u2019re on a diet. You don\u2019t expect to be eating five course meals every night.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Can you drink?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘No, alcohol shuts down the whole weight loss process.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Oh, I could never do that.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Well, then why are you asking me?\u2019<\/p>\n

Here I am, the expert at the moment who has lost 30 pounds in 40 days and they\u2019re all telling me, ‘Oh, I can\u2019t do that! I can\u2019t do that.\u2019 If you want to do it, you do it! If you don\u2019t want to do it, you don\u2019t. Don\u2019t act like you halfway want to do it, and then chicken out. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I casually mentioned at the opening of the program today, almost two hours ago, that I had been on a diet here and I\u2019ve lost 30 pounds in 40 days. Of course, it was a casual mention. It was not a big trumpeted thing, but people still heard it. <\/p>\n

‘How did you do it?\u2019 I\u2019m being asked in the e-mail. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a thousand to 1400 calories a day. I vary the number of calories so my body doesn\u2019t get used to a restricted amount. The fewer calories you eat, your body will slow down and becoming accustomed to it, thinking, ‘A-ha! I\u2019m being starved. I\u2019m going to start storing this stuff. I\u2019m going to start burning it not as quickly.\u2019 So you gotta go up and down in your caloric intake. It\u2019s that simple. I\u2019ve done this so many times. It\u2019s just, every diet you do works. <\/p>\n

Another question, ‘How do you plan on keeping it off?\u2019<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t. I\u2019m not under my illusion that I\u2019m going to keep the weight off. Nobody that loses weight keeps it off. Joe Torre\u2019s done it and a couple of other people, but it\u2019s very, very rare that anybody keeps the weight off that they lose. My goal here is to lose enough weight that it\u2019s going to take three to four years to gain it back rather than one. So I can look forward to three or four years of fun instead of just one. (interruption) What? It will not! <\/p>\n

‘With consistent exercise…\u2019 You know, I get so frustrated. Everybody keeps hammering this at me: ‘You gotta do exercise to lose weight. You gotta do exercise to keep it off.\u2019 <\/p>\n

You know, here I am. I\u2019m sitting here, at this moment, expert in this. Of all the people here on the staff, I am the only one losing weight. Yet they\u2019re all telling me that what I\u2019m doing is wrong<\/emphasize>. Thirty pounds in 40 days! I haven\u2019t exercised one shred <\/emphasize>above what I normally do, which is pretty much zero, other than playing golf. That\u2019s another thing. I know I\u2019m not going to turn into gym rat or an exercise freak. I\u2019m not going to go jogging, or walking down the street. You gotta know who you are. You gotta be honest about who you are. You can\u2019t go out there and make commitments, to chain yourself, that you know you\u2019re not going to make. Losing weight is about calories, intake versus outgo. Exercise is fine, don\u2019t misunderstand. It\u2019s got many benefits. But if you want to go out and eat 3,000 calories a day, the amount of exercise you\u2019ve gotta do to burn a thousand of them is something I know I\u2019m not going to do. Marathoners can do it and professional athletes. All they do is work out, but hey, that ain\u2019t me. <\/line>My life is mental <\/emphasize>exercise. <\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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