tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600344518364997198.post8686090455318757759..comments2023-07-09T07:38:34.273-06:00Comments on Refuse to Diet: Celebrity Weight Loss Week: Biggest Loser Extra EditionLaurie Tossyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16435739968905733384noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600344518364997198.post-5266837741158729012009-11-16T09:32:12.108-07:002009-11-16T09:32:12.108-07:00Gregory--
I love hearing your thoughts and I agree...Gregory--<br />I love hearing your thoughts and I agree with so many of them. And congrats on addressing your health and making progress in your goals!<br /><br />TBL is about drama...that is what makes it good television...not necessarily good for people's weight loss at home. That's why I doubt any of the major networks will come up with a show about more "average" people...just not sexy enough to get the ratings!<br /><br />Instead we can help inspire each other...and I hope you will come back here often!<br /><br />I am glad to hear you won't let a trainer (or hopefully anyone) abuse you like Jillian does...and chuckled to myself that you also picture her beside you while you are at the gym. That is fantastic if you can make her an empowering force rather than internalizing her abuse!<br /><br />As you have found, one of the big challenges people who are overweight have at a gym is feeling out of place because trainers & other folks are fit & trim and don't really understand them. That's why it is important if you are going to seek a trainer to get someone who either has a great success record with seriously overweight folks, or has been there themselves.<br /><br />Weight loss is so not a simple math equation. So much of it is in our heads...when we are emotionally and mentally ready the weight comes off forever. And if we aren't then it just doesn't.<br /><br />I wasn't obese growing up...I wasn't skinny, but I was active and healthy, and "chubby"...but I did struggle to keep my weight down...and I got heavier and heavier. It wasn't until I was an adult that I became obese...but the foundation for that all started much younger.<br /><br />I am going to challenge you to re-evaluate your thoughts about "that emotional piece"...to get to 140 pounds over ideal takes more than a casual extra bite now and then. It doesn't have to be a huge thing like some of the participants have...it can seem like a little thing...what has kept you from living your best life, being your best self? It's worth at least exploring the idea.<br /><br />I am looking forward to hearing more from you Gregory. Let me know your progress. What you find that works...focus on small steps that you can keep up. Maybe it won't be as fast as TBL, but it will be permanent!Laurie Tossyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16435739968905733384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600344518364997198.post-60895826543197612872009-11-13T23:20:46.852-07:002009-11-13T23:20:46.852-07:00Hmm. For me I really enjoy TBL and all the drama t...Hmm. For me I really enjoy TBL and all the drama that is involved in peoples weight loss - for the most part all the contestants have had their weight problem ALL THEIR LIVES - and there is a huge piece of psychology wrapped around food and their growing up to cause them to become what they were upon starting the show.<br /> <br />I do agree that they (most people) need to address it - otherwise they will bounce back to their previous behaviour/size. And while I would never allow a trainer to abuse me like Jillian does to them, I also find it usefull to picture her beside me while I do my cross-training at the gym. <br /><br />I personally fall into a different category and didn't grow up heavy (right now I am 100lbs over ideal, 40 less then when I started addressing it). So I don't need that emotional piece that Bob/Jillian keeps nattering on about. <br /> <br />I often feel very out of place in the gym and "out and about" as most people in my kneck of the woods are impossibly thin - the trainers I have worked with help me - but they lie when they say "I know how you feel" as they have been fit their entire lives.<br /> <br />I have "lived" the TBL lifestyle for a month of nothing but training (4-5hrs a day, precise nutrition) and could only ever lose a maximum of 6lbs a week for a couple of week. I backed off and now average 3-4, but I would really like to know if these #'s are fake or not.<br /><br /> I have done my personal-training to try and find some answers and the answer I got was "weight loss isn't an exact science". You have have weight loss of over 10lbs a week on paper (adding calories) that don't equate to real life.<br /> <br />I really with someone (ABC, FOX) would have a weight loss show of more "average" overweight people, in a more realistic "incorporated into real life" situations that more people could relate to.<br /><br />Unfortunately I think a lot of people eat ice-cream, drink pop and watch TBL and think "I'll never get that bad", and don't address their own living habits. They rationalize their minor (>20<50lbs overweight) as reasonable by comparison.<br /><br />Cheers<br />GregoryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com