"Two pounds a week is a healthy weight loss. You are more likely to keep it off."
I have always hated that. I hate reading it, I hate hearing it, I hate trying to appease myself with that thought when I only lose two pounds a week...
But, I hate the alternative even more.
Last night I watched the Biggest Loser. It is the next to last episode and the final four contestants ran a Marathon! Oh wow, I have to say I was really inspired. I mean, if they can run a Marathon after 6 months, I can surely run a 1/2 Marathon by January 2011 (a goal of mine).
So I'm on the couch getting all motivated. And of course, throughout the Marathon they have flashbacks of when the contestants were much heavier, when they thought they'd never be able to do something like that. You know, stuff that will fill up 2 hours of TV time. Then, about half way through the Marathon they show the contestants meeting up with a former Biggest Loser contestant that runs with and encourages them for a little while.
Two out of the Four previous contestants were obese again! I was dumb founded..."Really?? REALLY?"
My husband shrugged, "What do you expect, they lost the weight too fast. They didn't know how to keep it off in everyday life."
I was still in shock. I mean, that is always what I shoot for. If people on the Biggest Loser can lose 10 pounds a week, dang it, I should be able to too! And maybe I could...but if people on the Biggest Loser gain their weight back...then I could do that too, especially if I don't learn how to maintain my healthy lifestyle...if I don't just lose 2 pounds a week.
So, yeh, wow.
For about 3 years now I have known that I am overweight and on some level I have been trying to lose it. For 3 years I have gotten really irritated whenever anyone said, "Oh, just lose 2 pounds a week. That is healthy, yada, yada, yada."
But if 3 years ago I would have had the realization that I did last night, if I would have listened to that advice rather than diet/binge/diet/binge, yoyoing back and forth...then I would be to my goal weight. No questions asked. Easy Peezy. I'd be there.
2 pounds a week? That means it will take approximately 7 months until I reach my goal weight (160 pounds).
For the first time I'm okay with that.
It is worth it.
For a lasting change.
This is so weird. Now people are going to hate me when I say...
But, I hate the alternative even more.
Last night I watched the Biggest Loser. It is the next to last episode and the final four contestants ran a Marathon! Oh wow, I have to say I was really inspired. I mean, if they can run a Marathon after 6 months, I can surely run a 1/2 Marathon by January 2011 (a goal of mine).
So I'm on the couch getting all motivated. And of course, throughout the Marathon they have flashbacks of when the contestants were much heavier, when they thought they'd never be able to do something like that. You know, stuff that will fill up 2 hours of TV time. Then, about half way through the Marathon they show the contestants meeting up with a former Biggest Loser contestant that runs with and encourages them for a little while.
Two out of the Four previous contestants were obese again! I was dumb founded..."Really?? REALLY?"
My husband shrugged, "What do you expect, they lost the weight too fast. They didn't know how to keep it off in everyday life."
I was still in shock. I mean, that is always what I shoot for. If people on the Biggest Loser can lose 10 pounds a week, dang it, I should be able to too! And maybe I could...but if people on the Biggest Loser gain their weight back...then I could do that too, especially if I don't learn how to maintain my healthy lifestyle...if I don't just lose 2 pounds a week.
So, yeh, wow.
For about 3 years now I have known that I am overweight and on some level I have been trying to lose it. For 3 years I have gotten really irritated whenever anyone said, "Oh, just lose 2 pounds a week. That is healthy, yada, yada, yada."
But if 3 years ago I would have had the realization that I did last night, if I would have listened to that advice rather than diet/binge/diet/binge, yoyoing back and forth...then I would be to my goal weight. No questions asked. Easy Peezy. I'd be there.
2 pounds a week? That means it will take approximately 7 months until I reach my goal weight (160 pounds).
For the first time I'm okay with that.
It is worth it.
For a lasting change.
This is so weird. Now people are going to hate me when I say...
"It is a very good goal to lose 2 pounds a week.
Take it from me,
I wasted 3 years being a skeptic."
Take it from me,
I wasted 3 years being a skeptic."
Thanks for reading and have a great day!
Yeah, the pace of loss or how you go about losing the weight is really less of an issue for me. If you can lose it in a healthful way, I don't really care how much you lose in what length of time. Of course, it does make it much harder then to ingrain the lifestyle elements so you can keep it off.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't ever able to solve that riddle until now. If I knew I could just get to a point where I could make good food choices and enjoy exercise with some decent frequency, if I could have stepped out of my "fat suit" instantaneously, I would have.
But, since that wasn't a possibility, I'm glad to have arrived where I am at about 2-3 pounds per week.
Again, do you HAVE TO lose at that rate to keep it off? I don't really believe so, but I don't really know how else to solve the behavioral challenges otherwise.
Keep it up...the time is never wasted as long as you don't give up.
Now looking at it differently doesn’t 7 months seem like nothing?
ReplyDeleteGirl you are doing it and more importantly you are accomplishing the one thing that you wanted just as much as your goal weight.... the ability and drive to live a healthy life style!
ok this is weird..i had you on my blog list but your blog never updated..i figured you had dropped off blogland..i have a post about that biggest loser ..check it out..
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