Whats up with the "I quit" threads lately?
Tatiyanya
Posts: 255 Member
Tons of em around in last 2 weeks.
And each every one of em makes me want to pick up slightly soggy plastic chicken toy (my cats are strange, ok?) and apply loving violence.
NEVER GIVE UP
NEVER SURRENDER
CHANGE YOUR WHOLE LIFE NOT ONLY A DIET AND TRY TO QUIT THAT
*pants angrily*
Its not about the scale results , its about the quality of your bloody life >:[
If you plateu for days and weeks , ask forums how to counter that. Metabolism can be a *****, but we are here to help.
but DO NOT GIVE UP!
I shout because I care
And each every one of em makes me want to pick up slightly soggy plastic chicken toy (my cats are strange, ok?) and apply loving violence.
NEVER GIVE UP
NEVER SURRENDER
CHANGE YOUR WHOLE LIFE NOT ONLY A DIET AND TRY TO QUIT THAT
*pants angrily*
Its not about the scale results , its about the quality of your bloody life >:[
If you plateu for days and weeks , ask forums how to counter that. Metabolism can be a *****, but we are here to help.
but DO NOT GIVE UP!
I shout because I care
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Someone once said somthing like: 'if you fall of the wagon, run after it and if you cant get back on wait for the next one'
I think it means if you go major off track try to exercise or what ever to compensate or if not start again.
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YEAH!!! WELL SAID!0
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well said.0
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NEVER GIVE UP
NEVER SURRENDER
By Grabthur's hammer!
Seriously, sometimes it takes people several tries before something "clicks" with them. I can tell you that this isn't my first diet attempt, but it does seem to be successful (and I had good reasons for quitting the other times). My guess is that some of the people who are quitting now will be successful when it's a better time for them.0 -
apparently, this is the time of the year when the New Year's Resolutioners become disenchanted because they haven't been able to lose 35lbs in 6 weeks, so they start quitting.0
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I agree with Winner; those threads look like mid-February on a weight loss sight, around the time a subset of the Resolutionists throw their hands up in despair over not having lost 25# in the past 6 weeks.0
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apparently, this is the time of the year when the New Year's Resolutioners become disenchanted because they haven't been able to lose 35lbs in 6 weeks, so they start quitting.
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apparently, this is the time of the year when the New Year's Resolutioners become disenchanted because they haven't been able to lose 35lbs in 6 weeks, so they start quitting.
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No more queueing for machines at the gym :laugh: :laugh:0
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It's February, when all the New Year's resolutionists realize this isn't easy. Or they aren't losing 10 pounds a week, like people on the Biggest Loser. So they quit, or whine about quitting.
People need to realize that this process is slow and hard and you need mental toughness and will power to get through every day. Some people just don't have it.0 -
apparently, this is the time of the year when the New Year's Resolutioners become disenchanted because they haven't been able to lose 35lbs in 6 weeks, so they start quitting.
Took the words right out of my fingers. Same thing will happen this time next year too.0 -
Let them quit! I'm sick of them0
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i quit..........0
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I think you get a lot of quitters this time of year because some people start after new years as a resolution and a lot of those people (NOT ALL!) end up giving up because they do it wrong or don't get over night results. Or because they gain first or hit a plateau and don't do the correct things to remedy it.0
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apparently, this is the time of the year when the New Year's Resolutioners become disenchanted because they haven't been able to lose 35lbs in 6 weeks, so they start quitting.
My thoughts exactly0 -
Let them quit! I'm sick of them
Also this
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Someone once said somthing like: 'if you fall of the wagon, run after it and if you cant get back on wait for the next one'
I think it means if you go major off track try to exercise or what ever to compensate or if not start again.
Make sense?
I love this! Running after the wagon! Brilliant!!0 -
Quitting won't help with weight loss - I don't understand why the quitters think that resuming what is already not working is their best route. It's a cop-out, in my humble opinion. I hear stuff like "this is too hard" or "I can't do this" or "I don't have time", blah blah blah, blah. Either they want it or they don't; they'll figure it out or they won't.
Anyway, all the best to everyone who is on a journey to better health and good luck to those still struggling amongst themselves.
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Weight loss is hard. If it were easy, everyone would do it.0
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Well said!0
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We'd all love the weight to fall off while we sit around sipping champagne and having big fat chips and mayo/Belgian chocolates/kettle chips (delete to taste) readily to hand. But life's not like that
Just signing up for this won't make you lose weight, any more than buying 10 fitness DVDs will make you lose weight - you have to participate!
I don't join a gym because I know I wouldn't go - and I can not go for free without joining (if you see what I mean). So I cut out those little extras, and I do some exercise so i can fit a little treat into the calculation, and slowly its working. SLOWLY. I know it stalls at least once a month (ahem) and I know it won't all go at once. But if I lose slowly hopefully my skin will snap back too and I won't have bingo wings and wrinkles like an old lizard. According to the calculation I should reach my goal weight right about on cue for my summer vacation. And I can live with that.:happy:0 -
Like anything, I think it's down to not being ready to change perhaps because they wanted to change not for themselves but for someone else. When you want to change something, it may be beneficial to think "What's in it for me?" If you think "I want to lose weight so men find me attractive" or "I want to lose weight to make my husband love me again" or "I want to lose weight so people don't laugh at me" that's all about changing for someone else.
If you want to lose weight so you can live a long, healthy life or so your knees don't hurt or so you can play with your grandchildren then that's doing it for you.
Learn to love yourself.0 -
The weirdest are the quitter topics where the OP claims to have started like 3 or 5 days ago, or a week...
Like... what were they thinking?0 -
It's February, when all the New Year's resolutionists realize this isn't easy. Or they aren't losing 10 pounds a week, like people on the Biggest Loser. So they quit, or whine about quitting.
People need to realize that this process is slow and hard and you need mental toughness and will power to get through every day. Some people just don't have it.
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I don't understand the whole concept of quitting. What are they quitting? Being thin? Being fit? Being healthy? I understand bad days and taking a break for a treat, but what is there to quit? I have asked this question several times on "quit" threads and have yet to be answered. I think people take this way too seriously and have an unattainable expectation of themselves. My view is that if you ate a dozen doughnuts every breakfast, cut back to eleven, then ten, etc. Don't replace all your doughnuts with two spoons of orange juice. And don't be in such a hurry, you have forever to lose this weight. One of the best pieces of advice I read was that this about caloric equalibrium. If a person ate at the calorie number of their maintenance weight, eventually they would be at their target weight. It just would take longer than a calorie deficit. So every little thing you do, be it walking a little more, throwing away that last bite of a hamburger, skipping the fries, is a step toward reaching your caloric equalibrium. This doesn't have to be a drastic change. If it's too hard to maintain a deficit, go to target weight maintenance for awhile. That is still moving in a positive direction. I hope this ramble makes sense, I am on my first cup of coffee.:yawn:0
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I think it's a cry out for attention as well. In addition to the realization that this isn't easy, they simply don't have the support they need or want to keep pushing. But the trick is, I think you have to give a lot of support in order to get a lot back. And some people just don't.0
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I think it's a cry out for attention as well. In addition to the realization that this isn't easy, they simply don't have the support they need or want to keep pushing. But the trick is, I think you have to give a lot of support in order to get a lot back. And some people just don't.
This tbh!0 -
The weirdest are the quitter topics where the OP claims to have started like 3 or 5 days ago, or a week...
Like... what were they thinking?
They think that losing weight is like the Biggest Loser, and that you will lose 10+ pounds a week and be at your goal weight within a month.
To OP:
So let them quit.
More room in the gym for me, and less annoying threads on the boards.0 -
It's because people here are so mean. They'd all stick with it and reach their goals if people here weren't so rude and told them things they didn't want to hear. They would eat right and exercise and have all the success they wanted, but someone used a cat gif they didn't like so forget it.
<seriously heavy sarcasm>
It's the end of February. Now we see who's serious about this and who isn't.0
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