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Originally Posted by tragedy
Take it from someone who used to weigh 175 pounds and now weights 147. The thing that makes losing weight hard isn't "motivation" . Its the pain.
Losing weight hurts. It hurts like a motherfucker. You're constantly hungry for the first two weeks, and youre mind gets into a panic, because you think youre gonna die if you don't eat a huge meal. Even though you know deep down you're not.
The only reason why I was able to lose weight was because I accepted that the pain wasn't going to go away. I knew that the only way to win was to endure it.
Now at 147 pounds, I don't feel massive hunger pains. I sometimes forget to eat. The only reason is because im 147 pounds. The pain these people on the biggest loser must be feeling....its gotta be agonizing.
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I can see this totally. I can eat. Mind you I have cousins who average 6'5"-7' in height and 3-400lbs ain't uncommon. Yet put us at a table and I can DESTROY food and not gain ONE FUCKING POUND of fat. I've been that way my whole life. There are other times when I won't eat for jack. I had to force myself to eat after workouts as I would lose my appetite. I would get seriously hungry like once a week. It's how I'm built.
I'm just 20lbs overweight and I know what you mean by pain. I eat less now and gained the weight in one month as I wasn't exercising for a month and a half. That shit changed this week.
I just went back to my old bodybuilding advice and pounds are melting off. I've never, ever heard of anyone losing 20lbs in a week unless it was water. Burning that much fat is probably against the laws of physics so I'll research what happened on this show. Trapped in the Andes mountains without food or desert training I can see losing that much fat but you have to intake the proper nutrients and water.
Pain barrier is something I can deal with. Learned that in martial arts when I was like 5 years old, then in Yoga classes. Tai Chi is an awesome fat burner though. I just found out why.
If you lost that much weight then hats off to you. That took serious discipline and means you can accomplish anything.