But don’t think for a second that you need to be like those Biggest Loser guys on television where they lose an unrealistic 10 to 15 pounds per week.
Who has the time to exercise for 6 to 7 hours per day? Not me, and I’m pretty sure neither do you. I wouldn’t recommend this method of weight loss; it’s simply not realistic for the general population to follow when you have a fulltime job and family to worry about. Great if you can hole yourself up for 12 weeks with a personal trainer, all of the latest cutting edge technology equipment and with the entire world watching you’re every move, who wouldn’t succeed?
Please don’t think that because you are not losing 5 pounds per week that you’re failing your program or that it’s not working. Don’t compare your results to these types of shows as the conditions they lose the weight under are extreme.
A recent study revealed that if you give someone a good enough reason to lose weight, they will. Twenty-five overweight participants had pictures taken of them wearing nothing more than their
underwear revealing of all their lumps, bumps and jiggly bits.
The challenge for the group was for everyone to lose at least 10 pounds in the next month or run the risk of having their picture published on the front page of the highest publication newspaper. Thirty days later, how successful do you think the experiment was?
100% success rate and why wouldn’t it be? If you were faced with humiliation you would do anything to avoid that type of pain. Same thing with the Biggest Loser contestants, not only is money a
motivating factor but who wants to look like a failure in front of the world?
Wouldn’t it make you want to work just that little bit harder? You bet it would.
So please don’t put yourself under unrealistic pressure to
match pound for pound what these contestants are losing. I
recall once reading a weight loss forum post where a woman was so depressed over having only lost 3 pounds in one week compared to her favorite female contestant who had lost 8 pounds. It derailed her diet because she couldn’t keep up, she thought she wasn’t working hard enough which left her disheartened and feeling like she failed.
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