A motivation technique - wearing your weightloss

[abstractillusions]

I am watching the biggest loser right now and they are doing a challenge. What i found interesting is that in this challenge the people have to put on the amount of weight they have lost and run a mile with it periodically dropping off the weights as they move around the mile. The people when putting on the weights were talking about how heavy it was etc. i am not sure what i am trying really to say here but this challeneg really hit something in side of me. I think because ultimately i want to lose 130 lbs total. i picked up something that was 20 lbs which is what i have lost and put it around my shoulders and walked around, even for that short time the weight addition was so significant.

I think a good motivational thing in the fuiture for me will be to remember what the additional weight feels like. When i think i want to quit or i see myself faltering in keeping going, carrying around the weight i have lost depending how madly i am down and out for an hour to a day etc.. i think will help me keep understanding the difference.

Sometimes its a danger to "forget", if that makes sense.

Okay bye!

[Laurenfra]

Re: A motivation technique - wearing your weightloss

Sometimes its a danger to "forget", if that makes sense

You got it I forgot once and befoe I knew it I had it all back again. I will not forget again.

[abstractillusions]

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grins, i would love to be in a position that i have something TO forget for now lol but pretty soon i will, and then i will whine and cry about it lol when i decide to "wear" my weightloss lol.

[Lady_Hawke]

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oh my stars - I'm trying to imagine me carrying the weight I am going to be minus once I reach goal. That would beeeeeeee 255 pounds - I don't think I'd be able to carry that. I honestly don't know how I am doing it right now.....ok wait, I released 49 of that , but still. Wow. I thank God (THANK YOU GOD) that I can walk at this weight.

Its a good idea though - so we don't forget.

[Adena]

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Good point, Sher. Thanks for sharing. I have lost almost the size of one of my kids. And carrying them up our stairs seriously makes my legs wobble -- they are like little iron packages, I swear. Totally dead weight!

[Kent]

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I have tried carrying my kids on my shoulder who weigh not nearly as much as I lost, and OHMYGOD! I can barely walk anymore with that weight on me. Perhaps I deluded myself on how well I could back then, but that is a great way to drive home the point you never want to go back there.

[Elizellen]

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I would have to carry another current me around!! I cant imagine how I did it all those years.

Thank you Dr Atkins and the members of ADBB for helping me become half the woman I once was!!

[winter]

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Just think about how much better our knees and other joints are going to be. No wonder they hurt so much when we think about it this way.

[abstractillusions]

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Chuckles, here is my horoscope for today:

Shed restrictions the way a snake gets rid of an old and useless skin. It might take a few more wiggles than you're used to, but the efforts will be well worth it. Once you're free, your opportunities will expand.

I thought based on what we are talking about here lol it was appropriate for this thread.