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My mom made it through 4 days - she lost 11 pounds in 4 days and quit!  Why?  How can losing 11 pounds in 4 days NOT motivate you to keep going?  What tasted SO great that it was worth giving up and blowing it?  I just don't understand.....  She has high blood pressure, knee problems and her doctors have told her for the last 3 years to lose weight for health reasons.  How much more motivation do you need?

I have done the diet several weeks (taking weeks off in between) and I don't understand why people can't make it 7 days without totally blowing it?

I just wonder how strong your motivation is that's driving you to want to lose weight.

I deserve to be happy with the skin that I'm in.  I deserve to be able to put on ANYTHING and feel attractive in it.  I derserve to have my husband touch my body and not feel self-concious about the way my body feels.  And I am going to do the work it takes to get what I deserve.  I have lost 26 pounds since December and I feel awesome.  I still have 6 to go, but I believe in myself that I can do this.

You deserve to be happy with your body too.  You deserve to NOT waste time thinking about what size you can fit into, what department and isle you have to shop in because of your size or feeling guilty if you have an item of food that's maybe not so good for you once in a while.

Why is 7 days so hard?  Isn't it worth it?  Is that feast you had at your family get-together or the 1/2 a pizza you had with your family or the bag of chips you just couldn't put down worth the guilt, helplessness and shame you are going to feel tomorrow - when you have to try to pick yourself up and start over again?  Just CHOSE not to do that.  It's your choice ALWAYS- why is it so hard to make the right one! 

Someone wrote in a post one time.... "NOTHING TASTES AS GOOD AS THIN FEELS!"  Every time people are eating things around me that I shouldn't eat (and I know what I should and shouldn't eat), I just remind myself of that phrase and remember how it feels to be thin and healthy and love the skin that I'm in.

I know I am going to upset some people and I really don't mean to.  I'm not trying to down anyone, I promise.  I just don't understand why people can't make it through one week without blowing it.  The diet works - there's no doubt about that.  And it's so simple - nothing to measure, no points to count - it's a no-brainer.

I just don't understand why anyone would cheat themselves like that....


Decide.....  decide that you are not happy with your weight
Commit..... make a commitment to youself to stick to the plan no matter what
Achieve..... sticking to the plan, you will achieve your goals - it's a fact!
Celebrate... remember to reward yourself when you achieve your goals.

I completely understand where you are coming from - and thanks for writing that - it has helped me a bit as I am on day 3 and struggling to be honest. I did slip up once yesterday (not a big slip up at all) - and it was more a moment of not thinking than thinking i just wanted something that tasted good, that's all! As for your mum, she is lucky that she can lose that much that easily!!!

Hey there,

First of all congratulations on your weight loss. You are awsome. I also wanted to say thanks for your post. I printed it out, and I will post it on my fridge so that I can remind myself of what you have said. Thanks so much. I will use this as motivation. =)

I was so afraid I would offend people with what I wrote.

I was so frustrated and let down by what my mom did that I had to get the hurt out. 

Thanks to everyone who listened and responded. 

God Bless you all and I wish you well on your weight loss journey.

We are all travelers here and sometimes sharing the burden makes the load a little lighter.

Thanks to you all for sharing your stories and for allowing me to share mine.

Take care.

nope. everything you posted I feel the same way.  I have had plenty of years of eat, drink and being merry and have paid the price for it.  Almost 100 extra pounds for that "good time".  Now I want to be able to  climb a hill without almost dying, I want to buy new clothes and feel that I look really good in them, and most of all I want to do it because I know it's more healthy for me NOT to be obese as I am right now.

Thank you for your post.

ICANDOIT, I don't know if you still check in on this site, but I just had to say thank you for your post.
I was only a couple of weeks away from a wedding that I was a bridesmaid in and was struggling greatly to lose some weight for my dress.  I had lost about 16 pounds already, but that was over a long period of time and it was coming off slowly and I was getting discouraged.  I did a search on line for diets, found this site and one of the very first posts that I read was yours.  It truly touched me and motivated me to do this diet and push through to fit into my dress.
I printed off your post for myself to keep motivated, and made copies of it for my mom, my sister and my sister-in-law, who were all struggling to lose weight.  It has helped them all.
I also have put a shorter version of it on another thread to help motivate others.  ( I didn't take credit for it, I said I had read it elsewhere!)
So thank you, you have truly touched a lot of people!
And by the way, congrats on your 26 pound loss and being so close to your goal!  I am down 24 pounds as of this morning, and still going.  I have another 25 - 30 to go until I am at my dream weight and thanks to people like you I have the confidence for the first time in my life to make the dream a reality!