Would you?
WE all want results quickly. Would you do a diet that said “I can guarantee 24 lbs of loss that will stay off”. I’d say sign me up. If they said” it will take 2 years”. I’d say you are kidding. Forget that. I want to be skinny and I want it now. Forget that it took me 30 years to gain my current weight. If they said I have a pill that will make you you ideal weight forever but you will have to give up 2 years of your life, would you swallow it?
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I would totally swallow that one…being overweight is taking years off the end of my life. So my potential healthy lifespan -2 years is probably a lot longer than my current possible fat lifespan. Gets you thinking though doesn’t it….
I blogged this awhile back.. sort of pertinent, as for the pill……no way, I’ve got little enough time left. Maybe when I was 20 or 30 ?? lol
Go on, pass me by. You’ll all make your goals way before I do. And I don’t really care anymore. I used to beat myself up because I was maintaining week after week, sometimes even gaining a pound or two! But I have to say, look again at my weight ticker…… see a big loss? OK, look again, see a quick loss? That’s right. Slow and steady works. And stays off. I average 2 lbs a month. It took me 50 years of yo-yo dieting to learn that fast doesn’t work when it comes to weight loss. If you take your time your brain will reprogram itself to prefer healthy food. It’s a fact. And it’s true, as you age it just gets harder to lose. So start changing your brain now. My mantra is ‘only eat food that is good for me’. Of course I go off track from time to time, but I have come to realize the payoff is a gain and regret. I’m a slow learner, and I’m a slow loser and that’s OK with me. Please, please don’t be impatient. I just want to shake some of these gals I see on here who expect to lose 5 lbs a week and will do almost any crazy thing to do it! It will come back to haunt them, eventually, and then some.
No way. Fight for your life! Lose the weight and keep the 2 years. ESPECIALLY YOU! You don’t have a ton to lose, it is soooo doable. Make it happen, and let yourself be happy in the meantime (please forgive me if you don’t want this advice). Let yourself wear beautiful clothes and feel pretty, laugh and enjoy life, and don’t be defined by your weight.
Okay, I’m done cheerleading. I’d love a miracle pill, too. But I’d be devestated if my mom or my dad or my sister, who are all overweight, traded time for weight loss because I would miss them with all my heart. I bet there are a handful of people who feel that way about you…
Purely philosophical.
Heck no! No way would I swallow that pill and lose two years of my life. It might be that being morbidly obese would take those two years off anyway, but who knows? I don’t know that..but hypothetically I would know that I’d be taking those two years away by swallowing that pill…so no way!