Comments on: Dieting for Dollars http://doesthisblogmakeuslookfat.com/2008/12/18/dieting-for-dollars/ Try the laugh it off diet. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:32:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Shelley http://doesthisblogmakeuslookfat.com/2008/12/18/dieting-for-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-3437 Shelley Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:29:22 +0000 http://doesthisblogmakeuslookfat.com/?p=372#comment-3437 Ok, I can tell you in my case this is 100% true. I don't seem to have much motivation in the weight loss department, because my health...BP, cholesterol, blood sugar, etc..are all fine. Yeah, I have to buy big girl clothes, but whatever. My husband loves me the way I am and I have a hard time caring what anyone else thinks. However: 2 1/2 years ago, I was in Virginia visiting my brother and his family. My brother had beered and chicken-winged his way up to 310 lbs. At the time, I wanted to lose weight too so I suggested a Biggest Loser contest. I also suggested that we include my parents, and my brother's wife (who only wanted to go from like 160 to 130), but I wanted more money in the pot. Hehe. So all five of us threw in $50, so $250 to the winner. This was in July of 2006, and we all posted a starting weight. The winner would be decided when they all came west to AZ for Christmas. So it was like 5 1/2 months. Well, we went by percentage of weight loss, and my parents weren't really trying so much I don't think, they just wanted to see my brother and I do it. I think my SIL ended up losing about 15 lbs. I lost 40 lbs, and my brother, that bastard, lost 60 lbs and won the contest. But I totally lost 40 lbs in 5 1/2 months, with my only motivator being that $250 prize. Of course, here we are in Dec of 2008, and I've put 20lbs of that 40 back on. *$&*%&&*$$%#! But anyway, my point was, if someone told me that they'd give me $25,000 if I lost 50 lbs in six months? You'd better believe I could do that. My biggest problem is that I have this disease, I think it's called Hateus Exercisus? It sucks. <abbr><em>Shelleys last blog post..<a href="http://thehormonezone.blogspot.com/2008/12/merry-christmas.html" rel="nofollow">Merry Christmas?</a></em></abbr> Ok, I can tell you in my case this is 100% true. I don’t seem to have much motivation in the weight loss department, because my health…BP, cholesterol, blood sugar, etc..are all fine. Yeah, I have to buy big girl clothes, but whatever. My husband loves me the way I am and I have a hard time caring what anyone else thinks.

However: 2 1/2 years ago, I was in Virginia visiting my brother and his family. My brother had beered and chicken-winged his way up to 310 lbs. At the time, I wanted to lose weight too so I suggested a Biggest Loser contest. I also suggested that we include my parents, and my brother’s wife (who only wanted to go from like 160 to 130), but I wanted more money in the pot. Hehe. So all five of us threw in $50, so $250 to the winner. This was in July of 2006, and we all posted a starting weight. The winner would be decided when they all came west to AZ for Christmas. So it was like 5 1/2 months. Well, we went by percentage of weight loss, and my parents weren’t really trying so much I don’t think, they just wanted to see my brother and I do it. I think my SIL ended up losing about 15 lbs. I lost 40 lbs, and my brother, that bastard, lost 60 lbs and won the contest. But I totally lost 40 lbs in 5 1/2 months, with my only motivator being that $250 prize.

Of course, here we are in Dec of 2008, and I’ve put 20lbs of that 40 back on. *$&*%&&*$$%#! But anyway, my point was, if someone told me that they’d give me $25,000 if I lost 50 lbs in six months? You’d better believe I could do that. My biggest problem is that I have this disease, I think it’s called Hateus Exercisus? It sucks.

Shelleys last blog post..Merry Christmas?

]]> By: NeverSayDiet http://doesthisblogmakeuslookfat.com/2008/12/18/dieting-for-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-3425 NeverSayDiet Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:00:46 +0000 http://doesthisblogmakeuslookfat.com/?p=372#comment-3425 i must admit, money would be a major motivator. for instance, I know I should drink more water - I am chronically dehydrated - but I am so so bad about doing it. If someone told me they'd pay be a dollar - heck, a dime - for every glass, I totally would drink more. anyone wanna help? <abbr><em>NeverSayDiets last blog post..<a href="http://www.neversaydiet.com/blog-article/dress-body-you-have" rel="nofollow">Dress the body you have.....</a></em></abbr> i must admit, money would be a major motivator. for instance, I know I should drink more water – I am chronically dehydrated – but I am so so bad about doing it. If someone told me they’d pay be a dollar – heck, a dime – for every glass, I totally would drink more. anyone wanna help?

NeverSayDiets last blog post..Dress the body you have…..

]]> By: Deb http://doesthisblogmakeuslookfat.com/2008/12/18/dieting-for-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-3421 Deb Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:01:19 +0000 http://doesthisblogmakeuslookfat.com/?p=372#comment-3421 I have a sneaking suspicion the only way to stick to a program is to want to do just that - and to want to do thata more than anything else that might interfere. For me the hardest part of any program is actually starting it. Once I get started each day of exercise or of willpower leads to the general feeling that this IS who I am, the person who DOES exercise and DOES NOT over indulge, and bit by bit it becomes true. The tricky bit is where something happens that interrupts the exercise program (like a broken bone in a foot hypothetically) and/or the weight once lost comes back, and then suddenly that becomes who I am. A person who is not (even for a legitimate reason) working out and who now is again already over the desired weight so now that is who I am. Somebody who is not exercising and weighs more than she wants. I swear there is a switch in my head. In one position I will do what I know will get me to the weight I want, healthily, in the other position I will do that "later". Money or yelling either one has nothing to do with it. <abbr><em>Debs last blog post..<a href="http://austinagrodolce.blogspot.com/2008/12/good-newsbad-news.html" rel="nofollow">Good News/Bad News</a></em></abbr> I have a sneaking suspicion the only way to stick to a program is to want to do just that – and to want to do thata more than anything else that might interfere.

For me the hardest part of any program is actually starting it. Once I get started each day of exercise or of willpower leads to the general feeling that this IS who I am, the person who DOES exercise and DOES NOT over indulge, and bit by bit it becomes true.

The tricky bit is where something happens that interrupts the exercise program (like a broken bone in a foot hypothetically) and/or the weight once lost comes back, and then suddenly that becomes who I am.

A person who is not (even for a legitimate reason) working out and who now is again already over the desired weight so now that is who I am. Somebody who is not exercising and weighs more than she wants.

I swear there is a switch in my head. In one position I will do what I know will get me to the weight I want, healthily, in the other position I will do that “later”. Money or yelling either one has nothing to do with it.

Debs last blog post..Good News/Bad News

]]> By: MizFit http://doesthisblogmakeuslookfat.com/2008/12/18/dieting-for-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-3418 MizFit Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:13:55 +0000 http://doesthisblogmakeuslookfat.com/?p=372#comment-3418 no. when I was working to lose all my saddlebagfluff all the money in the WORLD wouldnt have motivated me. and though Id like to say 'it was all about how I felt inside' (cue crappysappy music) I regained it all ---so that obviously didnt help either... <abbr><em>MizFits last blog post..<a href="http://mizfitonline.com/2008/12/19/mizfits-halfassed-friday-rhyme-subtitle-youll-have-that-people-please-to-forgive/" rel="nofollow">MizFit’s Halfassed Friday Rhyme. (subtitle: Im emptying the wallet, People, & need your help.)</a></em></abbr> no. when I was working to lose all my saddlebagfluff all the money in the WORLD wouldnt have motivated me.

and though Id like to say ‘it was all about how I felt inside’ (cue crappysappy music) I regained it all —so that obviously didnt help either…

MizFits last blog post..MizFit’s Halfassed Friday Rhyme. (subtitle: Im emptying the wallet, People, & need your help.)

]]> By: Christie http://doesthisblogmakeuslookfat.com/2008/12/18/dieting-for-dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-3415 Christie Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:35:58 +0000 http://doesthisblogmakeuslookfat.com/?p=372#comment-3415 A gal at church told us about a weight loss challenge her sister organized that awarded $1,000 to the one who lost the greatest percentage of body weight. They had 30 participants pay $50 as an entry fee. Some of the money went to little prizes along the way, but at the end of their challenge, the grand champion walked with $1,000 bucks! And they didn't have to appear on television in a sports bra and biking shorts to get it. That's something I could get serious about. (Oh, and I'll also be reminding myself that women can beat men at weight loss. The Biggest Loser is proof positive of that!) <abbr><em>Christies last blog post..<a href="http://losingthelowcarbway.blogspot.com/2008/12/honest-scrap.html" rel="nofollow">Honest Scrap</a></em></abbr> A gal at church told us about a weight loss challenge her sister organized that awarded $1,000 to the one who lost the greatest percentage of body weight. They had 30 participants pay $50 as an entry fee. Some of the money went to little prizes along the way, but at the end of their challenge, the grand champion walked with $1,000 bucks! And they didn’t have to appear on television in a sports bra and biking shorts to get it. That’s something I could get serious about. (Oh, and I’ll also be reminding myself that women can beat men at weight loss. The Biggest Loser is proof positive of that!)

Christies last blog post..Honest Scrap

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