Preface: A Complete Solution for One-Time Success

Preface: A Complete Solution for One-Time Success

Hello, welcome to the "Scientific Weight Loss Course." I am Jessica,

the director of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Center at Beijing People's

Hospital.

At the beginning of this preface, I first need to address your small

doubt: What qualifications does a cardiovascular doctor have to talk

about weight loss? Does she really know how to lose weight?

What you may not know is that among all doctors, cardiac

rehabilitation doctors absolutely have first-tier experience in weight

loss.

Why? It's simple. Cardiac rehabilitation is about preventing heart

disease from recurring. If weight loss isn't successful, heart disease

will recur. So many world-class authoritative weight loss guidelines

are participated in or even edited by cardiac rehabilitation doctors.

Getting back to the point, our scientific weight loss course can be

learned by people who want to lose weight, those who want to help

others lose weight, and especially those who don't want to gain weight.

Obviously, gaining weight and then losing it is many times harder than

not letting yourself gain weight in the first place.

Regarding weight loss, I have good news and bad news. Which would you

like to hear first?

Let me start with the bad news—data shows that a person's probability

of successful weight loss is only 0.5%. Out of 200 people who decide to

lose weight, only one succeeds.

Are these people not trying hard enough? Absolutely not. Surveys show

that two-thirds of them exercise hard or diet strictly, or both

exercise and diet. The result? Still failure. Obviously, weight loss is

not a matter of one unit of effort equals one unit of reward.

Now, let me tell you the good news—At the Peking University People's

Hospital Cardiac Rehabilitation Center that I'm in charge of, what's our

average success rate for weight loss management? 76%, more than 3/4.

Of course, I'm not advertising our center. No matter how capable our

center is, it can only serve so many people. I want to share our

experience and practices through this course to help you succeed in

weight loss on your first try.

Why do I have this confidence? Not because medicine has magic, but

because failure is the mother of success.

When you lose weight alone, you encounter at most a few dozen pitfalls

in your lifetime, so your understanding of weight loss is built on your

own experience and physical sensations, making it easy to be like the

blind men touching an elephant.

Medical solutions to obesity problems are built on systematic logical

reasoning and scientific methods obtained after solving thousands upon

thousands of pitfalls. This includes not only the experience of tens of

millions of weight loss participants worldwide, but also active

exploration by top doctors.

The biggest difference between our course and other weight loss courses

is that I will transform the most scientific and effective research

results from the world's top doctors into actionable practical

knowledge for you, covering everything from exercise physiology to

energy metabolism, from psychological emotions to neural control, from

personal behavior to gut microbiome.

To achieve this, I conducted a comprehensive carpet search of the top

fifty academic journals globally over the past decade, ensuring I

didn't miss any recognized new discoveries in weight loss.

As for specific weight loss methods, they are all detailed in the

subsequent courses, so I won't repeat them here.

In this preface, I want to share with you the three most important

insights about weight loss. You can check yourself to see if you need

to take this course.

The first question is: Why do we want to lose weight?

You might say: Dr. Jessica, I know—it's for health. In 2013, the World

Health Organization defined obesity as a disease. Every minute after

obesity forms, it damages our cardiovascular system, liver, kidneys,

gastrointestinal tract, and immune system, potentially leading to heart

attacks, strokes, diabetes, depression, sexual dysfunction, and even

tumors. So, for health, I want to lose weight.

But Dr. Jessica tells you: No, this is far from enough. Losing weight

for health is certainly fine from a medical perspective, but it's

actually insufficient to sustain weight loss actions.

Because health has no limits, and diseases have years of lag time. How

can you have correct feedback and sufficient motivation when acting

toward an unverifiable goal? Therefore, the number one factor in weight

loss failure is psychological collapse, leading to self-doubt and

eventually giving up.

What is your long-term motivation for persistence?

Dr. Jessica tells you: Besides health, it's more for beauty, for

charm, for social competitiveness. The improvement and maintenance of

charm and competitiveness can continuously give you correct feedback,

positive motivation, and the drive to persist.

If a person is particularly fat, their charm decreases, making it

difficult for the person they love to fall in love with them. Their

social competitiveness also decreases, making it difficult to achieve

career success.

Life is like this. The truth is always cruel.

But the flip side is that if this person learns to lose weight, they

can increase their charm and enhance their social competitiveness. This

is the reward flywheel of weight loss, allowing you to achieve

appropriate weight and beautiful body shape through continuous rewards

and success, and maintain this state permanently.

This leads to the second question: Maintain permanently—When can you

stop losing weight? In other words, when can you declare weight loss

successful?

You might say reaching your target weight means success? But Dr.

Jessica tells you again: No, this is far from enough.

The essence of weight loss is changing your life. The sign of

successful weight loss is that you've adopted a healthy lifestyle. If

you haven't decided to live differently, then don't start losing

weight—even if you start, you won't succeed.

Why is weight loss about changing your life?

Because obesity is determined by your current lifestyle. Many

entrepreneurs say that if they lost all their money now, starting from

zero, they could still become wealthy again. The problem with poverty

isn't lack of money, but lack of awareness, trapping yourself in this

snare. Actually, I'd say weight loss is like poverty—you are your own

prisoner.

As a doctor, I can hardly solve your motivation problem. What I can

promise you is that if you come to me for help, I can pull you out of

the trap.

The third question is: Once you have scientific weight loss methods,

can you succeed in losing weight?

When you want to lose weight, various weight loss methods immediately

flood your mind. You can also obtain countless so-called successful

methods. You might be delighted thinking that getting the method equals

achieving success.

But Dr. Jessica has to say that phrase again: No, this is far from

enough.

Are these methods unreliable? No. Any weight loss product that conforms

to the scientific weight loss principles we'll discuss later is

reliable. But please note, even if they're reliable, they only provide

guidance for the first stage of weight loss, telling you the correct

approach and helping you avoid detours.

But what about afterward? On the long road of life ahead, with so many

hardships and difficulties waiting, ready to destroy your weight loss

results at any time, how will you cope?

So, remember this: The key to maintaining your weight loss achievement

permanently is that you must have companions. Both the short-term

weight loss journey and the subsequent long-term lifestyle changes need

people to accompany you all the way—only then can you go further.

So, if you want to succeed in weight loss on your first try, you must

solve these three problems.

First, the motivation for weight loss is for health, but more

importantly, to improve your charm and enhance your social

competitiveness.

Second, the essence of weight loss is changing your lifestyle, adopting

a new way of life.

Third, only by walking together with a group of like-minded people can

you go further and ultimately succeed in weight loss.

In this course, I will guide you through scientific weight loss via

four modules.

The first module is basic principles.

I'll start with the first principles of weight loss and help you

establish correct weight loss goals. This way, you'll have the

discerning eye to identify false weight loss methods and join us on the

righteous path of lifestyle management.

The second module is weight loss plans.

I'll guide you hands-on through three aspects—dietary adjustment,

efficient exercise, and psychological factor management—to establish a

healthy lifestyle that makes your weight loss both efficient and

satisfying to your social needs.

The third module is medical intervention.

Are there effective weight loss drugs? Is weight loss surgery really

reliable? How should intermittent fasting be done? And the most

sophisticated current weight loss method—how do top weight loss centers

help people lose weight? We'll explain all these questions one by one.

The fourth module covers important topics.

I've selected two of the most important and frequently asked

questions—meal replacements and adolescent weight loss—to clarify them

for you once and for all.

Finally, I want to say that there's no auspicious day for weight loss.

Today is the best day to start losing weight; this very moment is the

best time to enter the "Scientific Weight Loss Course."

Let's set off together, right now.

Key Points

1. The motivation for weight loss is for health, but more importantly,

to improve your charm and enhance your social competitiveness.

2. The essence of weight loss is changing your lifestyle, adopting a

new way of life.

3. Only by walking together with a group of like-minded people can you

go further and ultimately succeed in weight loss.