Challenge: Carry the weight you've lost for an hour.

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MDF247
MDF247 Posts: 64 Member
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I have a 27 lb dumbbell that I use for workouts. I realized yesterday that I have lost exactly that much since I started dropping pounds. For that, I say, HOORAH!

So, I let everyone in the family lift it and feel for themselves how much it really is. Surprising really, how much extra we carry around and become accustomed to.

I'd like to challenge you, if it's possible for you to do without injury, to carry around the amount of weight you've lost for an hour, in whatever form is convenient... a barbell, a bag of flour, a box of books, whatever. For me, it's a HUGE motivation to not want to carry that around on me EVER again.

If nothing else, sit down with the weight on your lap... it'll make an impression!

P.S. I started my ticker after I had already lost a bit of weight. I still have a ways to go.
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  • edstreiff
    edstreiff Posts: 24 Member
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    I have lost 50lbs+ at this point and yesterday as I was at the hardware store I looked at a 50lbs bag of rock salt. Curious I picked it up and was blown away by heavy it was.

    Hard to believe that 6 months ago a bag as heavy as that was on my body 24/7

    Keep up the good work
  • Changeisachoice
    Changeisachoice Posts: 63 Member
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    I change out the water cooler jug at my office and am amazed that I have lost almost twice the amount that the jug weighs. Hard to belive that i carried that much extra weight around all these years!
  • mochapygmy
    mochapygmy Posts: 2,123 Member
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    Great idea OP!
  • MDF247
    MDF247 Posts: 64 Member
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    I have lost 50lbs+ at this point and yesterday as I was at the hardware store I looked at a 50lbs bag of rock salt. Curious I picked it up and was blown away by heavy it was.

    Hard to believe that 6 months ago a bag as heavy as that was on my body 24/7

    Keep up the good work

    I went on a hike in the fall and was really struggling to get up and down the hills. I told my friend I was with it was because I was wearing a 50 lb pack. He looked at me odd since it wasn't "visible". :)
  • lavaughan69
    lavaughan69 Posts: 459 Member
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    Well as I struggled to curl a 25lbs weight on the weekend I'm pretty sure there is no way I'll be able to lug around 46lbs for an hour! It would be a great challenge though!
  • dschassie
    dschassie Posts: 192 Member
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    I picked up a 100 pound barbell at the gym and tried lifting it...and to think that extra weight used to be on me from fingertips to toes! How did I walk and not waddle back then?
  • MDF247
    MDF247 Posts: 64 Member
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    I picked up a 100 pound barbell at the gym and tried lifting it...and to think that extra weight used to be on me from fingertips to toes! How did I walk and not waddle back then?

    It's amazing, isn't it? For all the grief overweight people get, you have to be pretty crazy strong to tote around all that extra.
  • accokeekjudi
    accokeekjudi Posts: 32 Member
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    A fabulous reminder indeed . . . thanks for the suggestion . . . I am going to do that with every pound I loose.
  • lizzardsm
    lizzardsm Posts: 271 Member
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    Brilliant! Great job on your losses sofar! :)
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,741 Member
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    in total, I've lost 113 lb. I can't lift 113 lb.
  • mamagirl49
    mamagirl49 Posts: 97 Member
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    I went to the grocery store and had my son snap a photo of me with two ten pound bags of potatoes to celebrate the 20 # mark. I'm gonna need another bag of taters here very soon!
  • BarbellBlondieRuns
    BarbellBlondieRuns Posts: 511 Member
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    Not happening!!! I'm strong but not THAT strong.
  • captmiddy
    captmiddy Posts: 147 Member
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    Picking up a weight really wouldn't be proper as your weight on your body is distributed, also for people like me who have dropped 100lbs a good portion of that was lean body mass as well which means I am no where near as strong as I once was. But I have thought about it and how I could put a body pack on that would distribute the weight a little on my upper body and allow me to tote around 100lbs to remind me NEVER to go back.
  • Cathalain
    Cathalain Posts: 424 Member
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    Yikes. Carrying around 111 pounds for an hour? I'd be lucky to carry that for five minutes!

    Your point is well taken, though. It's amazing that I was able to function on a daily basis with all of that extra weight. Crazy.
  • meganjcallaghan
    meganjcallaghan Posts: 949 Member
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    I don't need the chiropractic bill
  • linluvsbirda1
    linluvsbirda1 Posts: 20 Member
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    Well congrats to you all for your success!
  • GracieGag
    GracieGag Posts: 24 Member
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    I love your idea!
  • deaddawn
    deaddawn Posts: 42 Member
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    Although I'm quite overweight, I'm pretty strong. I recently carried my 65 lb sleeping child two short blocks and into a parking garage while holding the other's hand. Whenever I pick up either of my children and carry them upstairs or into the house while they are asleep, I'm reminded that if I lost the weight I would not be carrying an invisible child around everywhere I go.

    I think I get the best "feel" for it when I put them on my shoulders so they can see something over a crowd. The weight is over my feet that way.

    So far I've lost a milk jug. Whenever I unload the groceries I remember.
  • MDF247
    MDF247 Posts: 64 Member
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    I love it! Losing milk jugs, sacks of taters, and invisible children!
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,868 Member
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    I do this a couple of times per week. I have 40 lbs worth of bricks that I carry around in my ruck on my hour long lunch walks. It's heavy.

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