EUGENIZATION.

If he had lived in our modern world, George Bernard Shaw might instead have written,

“The road to good health and six-pack abs is paved with good intentions.”

There are many methods that will get you from Point A to Point B (i.e., many things “work”), but not all methods are created equal.

For example, in your haste to lose weight, you skip meals, you cut out all fat from your diet, and you start running (oh, maybe 5 miles per day). Well, continue on this route, and true to form, you will lose weight.

But it’ll hurt you in the long run. Although you can sustain weight loss in this manner for a little while, in actuality, you’re wreaking havoc on your metabolism by burning through muscle tissue for energy (since your body has to get the energy for the activity from someplace, if you’re not going to feed it). End result: once you get tired of being hungry all the time, or your joints no longer can withstand the pounding from the running, you gain weight at an astronomical rate.

You had good intentions - you just didn’t use the best methods to manifest them.

Just like the young lady mentioned in this article, the method you used “got the job done”, but at what cost?

Good intentions are integral to achieving your fitness goals, as they are the force behind your actions, with which you make your goals real. But having good intentions is not enough - you need good methods, too.