Motivational backfire

11kimberly11
11kimberly11 Posts: 65 Member
edited September 20 in Chit-Chat
Years ago when I worked at Fridays. My friend and I used to try to help each other eat right but often we would just end up pigging out together.LOL Well at one point we used to carry around old fat pictures of ourselves as motivation to not eat the tostado nacho's or potato skins. The idea was to remind ourselves that we never wanted to be that big again....however when ever we had a craving and whipped out our fat pictures we would say " damn compared to these pics we are smokin and we can go right ahead and eat what we want... It makes me laugh to think about it so I thought I'd share. Anybody else have any motivational backfiring stories to share?:tongue:

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  • jdramage
    jdramage Posts: 37
    Absolutely! I've always enjoyed watching the Biggest Loser but often I end up thinking "I don't have nearly as much weight to lose as these folks do, it's probably ok if I have that <insert junk food item here>"!
  • smarston
    smarston Posts: 78 Member
    Just wanted to say that I love this post. Gave me a giggle. :) Sounds like something I would do.
  • simona1972
    simona1972 Posts: 355 Member
    I was always in TOTAL denial about my size. I knew the number on the scale but I convinced myself that since I didnt LOOK over 300lbs that I could eat....anything and everything.

    My motivational backfire was pictures of thin people. I went through a period where I collected them thinking if I stared at them long enough, it would motivate me to lose weight. All it did was depress me and think I could never look like that so what's the point in trying and I just ate...and ate....and ate.
  • HonestOmnivore
    HonestOmnivore Posts: 1,356 Member
    My BFF and I used to go to this local bar and grill (to where we worked) and eat these amazing 1/2 pound beef franks. They were sooo good yet so high calorie that we would try to gross each other out by guessing what parts of the "beef" they were made of. All we ended up doing was deciding that cow uterus and eye balls were dang tasty GROSS but true story!:laugh:
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