The Vanity Diet

The Vanity Diet is a 2008 book written by Las Vegas Fitness entreprenur Gregory Kelly. The book is unique in the respect that it is written in the form of a , which is designed to be accessible to the reader's intuition as opposed to rational thinking.

The book tracks the six year odysee of Cyborg Burns, a character Kelly claims is based loosely on himself. Cyborg is the owner of a revolutionary personal training gym, living in Las Vegas, along with his wife Safa, daughter Storm, son Crypto, and two rescue dogs, Monty and Clifford. Cyborg's radical training program requires just 12 minutes of exercise per week, for which his clients pay him a handsome fee.

The book starts out recalling Cyborg's attempt to find the answer to obesity, using the clients from his gym as human guinea pigs. Despite several examples of life changing transformations with clients, Cyborg keeps running into the same problem over and over again. His clients return to their old eating habits, and gain back all of their old fat. No matter what approach he takes, every single success story eventually succumbs to their old eating habits, much like drug addicts.

It is at this time that Cyborg starts becoming aware of a phenomenon he would eventually name, The Weightrix. In many ways, The Weightrix, closely resembles the Matrix, except that Cyborg knows it is real, and is the absolute source of the obesity epidemic in our country. However, while he can feel it on his back, he has no idea what to do about it. He does not yet understand that The Weightrix cannot be defeated by diets or exercise, and at the time, has no idea of the power of his own consciousness.

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