There is No Quick Fix

I have had a lot of people lately ask me questions about health in fitness because for all of those who weren't aware my major is physical education exercise science and I am thinking about minoring in nutrition. So when I tell people this, they get this strange gleam in their eye's like they have just found the holy grail and I then get bombarded with questions. Some of which are "What should I be eating?!" "Will you help me workout?!" "Can you make me a workout plan?!" I am always quite willing to help so then I start asking MY questions. "What's your activity level like?" "What do you generally eat on a daily basis?" And the answers are usually I don't workout and I don't eat breakfast then have ramen for lunch then drink a huge soda then eat some candy and then have some cereal and poptarts for dinner. I am not saying that everybody out there eats like this but believe it or not some people do. So then I tell them ok first you have to get rid of the soda and then they freak out and go no I need to have that soda!! Well then I can't help you. So really what the person wanted to know was how can I eat crap and not exercise and look like a total babe. Sure some people can do this because they have awesome genes but for the rest of we have to work really hard. But do people want to work hard and earn success of course not. We want it handed to us just like everything else in our lives. If you do what you have always done you will always look the way you do. So don't expect me to sympathize with you. I will probably just give you a good dose of tough love and nobody wants to see that :)