Whenever people ask me what my secret is i say "my running shoes". It's the truth but ironically it does always seem to shut down the conversation. Though i can remember when i once asked one of my coworkers who'd lost a lot of work how he did it and he said running. (He said that he always has his running gear in his car with him so that if he sees a nice park on the way home he can stop off for a run. I was so interested. I had just started my own running and though the weight loss hadn't really started to show yet i was already hooked. His answer seemed completely logical and simple and i was really interested. I know that when someone is still interested after my "running shoes are my secret" answer, that they're for real in their weight loss attempt.
There are so many ways to lose the weight and it is so personal. To be honest, unless you're in my "inner circle" i really don't want to talk about my weight with you (with the exception of all you ladies in this forum
). Therefore i kinda like how simple my running shoes response is and i really don't mind at all that the weight loss interrogation usually ends right then and there.