What do you think people should know to stay motivated in the battle of losing weight?
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The weight crept on slowly and will creep off just as slowly.
You may hit a palteau and that is normal...just keep working on it.
Everyday, renew your commitment (even if you think you failed)
Having a support system is better than going it alone.
Even small changes can have big rewards.
Knowing it and doing it are two different things babe!
They will live longer and feel better
that it might be hard at first but after a bit it gets easier. and also that if they want to lose weight its up to them, and for them...not someone else.
they should know all the disadvantages of being overweight and why it is better to lose weight to become healthier. they should also know that they aren't the only ones going through this, many others are too. there are other ways of staying motivated, like having a friend go on the same diet as you, family support, and many other things. and finally that weight loss and sticking to a diet will not be easy but must be done to better theirselves in the long run. hope this helps.
It's not lack of motivation that's responsible for weight loss diets failing. It's that diets don't work.
In one well-known study, prisoners were offered rewards for trying to gain weight by overeating. In some cases, they ingested as much as 10,000 calories per day, and after the first 10% of body weight, they gained weight slowly, or not at all. When the study was over, and they ate as they did before, they quickly returned to within 10% of their initial body weight.
My wife was supervising a group home of overweight women who had no gag reflex and who had no sense of satiety, making them constantly hungry, yet at significant danger of choking to death if they were allowed to eat freely. All food was locked up very carefully, and the women were kept on an 800 calorie diet, but after 8 years, they all met the definition for "morbidly obese". They switched doctors, and the new doctor upped them to 1000 calories per day. Of the five women, four *lost* weight on the new diet, one stayed the same.
Medline shows NO scientific study, EVER, of a weight loss diet being effective with even 10% of the participants, over a four year period. All the weight loss drugs? In the second half of the second year of clinical studies, the participants are gaining their weight back, and they stop the study after two years to keep the drugs from showing weight *gain* as the inevitable result of dieting.
And the nice thing about it, is that weight, by itself, is NOT a medical problem. At the age of 65, women have the *greatest* life expectancy if they are FORTY POUNDS over the height/weight table guidelines. With younger people, excess weight is sometimes a side effect of something that IS a medical problem, but if it's just excess weight, it won't hurt you.
Dieting to improve your health is like a redhead coloring her hair in order to avoid getting freckles.
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