Normal is Fat; Be Weird. How I lost 40 pounds by changing a few simple habits and walking every day

by Josh Hunt

Normal Americans eat a normal diet, the SAD (Standard American Diet). If you don’t eat the SAD diet, you are just weird. If you go Atkins—not as a diet but as a lifestyle, you are just weird. If you are vegetarian, that is really weird. It is just not normal. Normal people eat the SAD diet. Normal people eat burgers and fries and chips and donuts and ice cream and pizza and they always have dessert. That is just normal. Dave Ramsey has a saying that I would like to paraphrase. His saying Normal is broke; be weird. His point is that the average American is broke. If you spend like a normal American, you will be broke. If you use credit cards like a normal American, you will be broke. Normal is broke; be weird. Here is my Normal is fat; be weird. 70% of Americans are fat. Be weird. What? You don’t want dessert after every meal? What do you mean you want a salad rather than fries? Are you on a special diet? How long will this last? When will you be normal again? When you make healthy choices, people will think you are weird. Let them. Normal is fat; be weird. When you say you want to go for a walk after dinner, people will think you are weird. Let them. When you say you want to get another 1000 steps in because you have not gotten your 10,000 steps in and it is late, and it is cold, and you walk out the door and post on Facebook that you got a walk in at midnight, people will think you are weird. They will think you are obsessed. They will think you are crazy. They will think you are odd. Let them. Normal is fat, be weird.

87 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 14, 2014

About the author

Author of Good Questions Have Groups Talking and many other books.

Reviews

[Ruth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very motivating!

This book summarizes a lot of research on weight loss. It is motivating because it helps you see a clear, simple solution to obesity from someone who changed his own life. Thanks to Josh Hunt.

[Little House · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good information, but not much on walking (just do it). There were more than a few formatting errors in the book. The writing was good, but in my kindle copy (bought on Amazon) there were places where there seemed to be words (paragraphs) missing. There were also places where the pictures covered up the text making it impossible to read.

Overall it was a motivating book, but it still needs some work.