The magic weight loss formula is a mixture of diet, exercise, and motivation. It’s like a cocktail, of sorts, a potion that when mixed together in the right way can make weight almost disappear. It can shrink that annoying waistline once and for all. It can shrink your belly, and firm up your thighs.

It can give you more energy than you’ve had in years. It can make you a social butterfly, and the life of the party. Okay, maybe that’s a stretch, unless you already are a social butterfly. But it will perform a miraculous change. It can do all of this, but there is a hitch.

The magic weight loss formula takes effort on your part. It takes a master decision. It takes a commitment to action. Nothing in life is free, as they say. If you’re prepared to give effort, your return can be ten-fold, or perhaps more.

If you create, and then hold to a future vision of a newer, thinner version of yourself, your return for your efforts may end on the side of the angels. You may very well be unrecognizable to your friends and business colleagues.

If you are prepared, then step forward and embrace the magic weight loss formula.

The magic weight loss formula consists of three parts:

Diet: You don’t have to change your eating world, as the “experts” might have you believe. You only need to scale back the bad foods (mostly the fast food and late night snacks) as you progress.

For example, for your lunch hour begin preparing meals at home and bringing them to work. That’s a start. From there, eat smaller portions of the bad foods, until you can reduce them completely, except for one cheat day a week.

Exercise: We’re not lazy people, there’s just so many things to do. If you can make time for brushing your teeth, you can make time for exercise. Get up a half hour earlier every morning and do 20 minutes of exercise.

It can be any exercise, including using that info-product you bought on late night TV (Who didn’t?). It doesn’t have to be a struggle. It just has to get done. Remember, I said commitment? We aren’t trying to move a mountain.

Motivation: This is where you make or break your success. If you can discipline yourself to keep an inspirational book of some kind by your bedside and remember to read a chapter a night, you will stay on track. If you cannot, chances are pretty good you won’t stay on course.

Yes, it takes motivation to, um, keep yourself motivated. That’s pure irony for you.

Magic is slight of hand. You thought you saw something, but it was only an illusion. The magic weight loss formula is real. It has real power. It has true staying power. The only variable is you.

Make a personal commitment to yourself and begin, right where you are, right now.