Motivation

[scarletdemon]

I've lost 21 lbs in about the last nine weeks and I'm very happy about that (although admittedly I *did* have an organ full of stones cut out of me during that time, which must have helped). I am still far from my goal weight but I am the kind of person who stays on track, once they have made a decision... So yeah, go me, the day will come. Of

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[antrobus178]

Ooh, I could totally go for some nacho cheese pizza right now.

[solar_diablo]

Were she an American, she would either have not been arsed to diet at all and simply reached for nacho pizza while scheduling her stomach stapling, or she'd be so motivated fitting into the chair that now she'd be training for her first Ironman. There's no in between for Yanks - we're either the fattest or the fittest SOBs on earth.

Seriously though, it's pretty common. I used to have clients who would sign up for 8 weeks of training sessions with the goal of fitting into the dress they chose for their ten year reunion. Some would reach that goal in 4-6 weeks, happily buy out the remainder of their contract and vanish. Diversity of human nature, I suppose - we all have different goals, triggers, and motivations.

[wardytron]

My goal is to reduce down to single figures the number of helicopters and winches needed to move me around.

[chrysalisspirit]

Once you can barely fit in a chair is when you start dieting seriously, because you can barely fit in a fucking chair. With arms. That's when you're still overweight. Not chubby; overweight, fat. (For average body build, of course.)

Perhaps the girl's just lost hope that she'll ever be good looking, so she doesn't see the point. I know how it goes, because I've been slightly chubby all my life, and I just never thought I could get rid of that and be happy with how I look. Inertia is a nasty beast. However, I've been losing weight for three months now and I'm loving the results. I'll never let myself get fat again.

[bradhicks]

It's not an American problem. Everybody thinks it is, because we were the first nation to solve the hunger problem; what it really is, is a problem of the fact that humans did not evolve in an environment of cheap, readily available, ubiquitous, high calorie food. Assuming the global economy doesn't totally collapse, every nation on Earth is going to face this problem, once people stop going hungry; you're going to all find out that more than half of your population are genetically programmed to eat anything that's available all of the time.