INSPIRATIONAL/MOTIVATIONAL WEIGHT LOST THREAD (COMPILATION)

Very inspiring video of a disabled veteran who was told he would never walk again who lost weight! A must watch video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX9FSZJu448

I read this recently and it has scared me into exercising more! Apparently rapper HEAVY D died from what is known as deep vein thrombosis. This is a blood clot in the legs that loosens up and travel to the heart/lungs/etc. and can kill you. It happened to rapper Heavy D after a long flight of sitting down on an international flight. I didn't know you could die from sitting down too much/too long! Very scary, get up and exercise and get your blood circulating properly!

http://www.tmz.com/2011/12/27/heavy-d-pulmonary-embolism-died-cause-of-death/
"Deep leg vein thrombosis is often associated with long plane flights, in which a clot can form due to prolonged immobility."

WHEN YOU LOSE THE WEIGHT, YOU WILL ALSO BE REWARDED WITH THE FOLLOWING....
1. Reduce your risk of heart attack/heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer and avoid taking meds for the rest of your life. Live longer.
2. Be able to shop for clothes in hundreds of more stores. Be able to find a lot more clothes you really like in your size that looks great on you. You'll have an incredible wardrobe!
3. Attract more people of the opposite sex. Turn heads. Have a better sex/love life. Not have to settle but find someone who is a great match for you!
4. Go swimming in public without worrying about what others think. Go to the beach. Really enjoy a vacation!
5. Increase your chances of getting a job or a promotion over other candidates. Make more money in your lifetime. Have the ability to work more physical jobs if you like at any point in the future.
6. Every time you meet someone new for the rest of your life, you'll make a great first impression.
7. You'll have increased energy and much more productive days where you accomplish a lot more and you'll be even more successful at what you love doing.
8. You'll finally be able to stop worrying about losing the weight or having the same new years resolution each year and can set exciting new goals and move forward with your life.
9. You'll feel much more comfortable taking photos and will want to take lots of them with all your friends and family and won't fear being tagged in them. You'll be able to take photos anywhere you go and can share them proudly and will have much more to look back on!
10. You'll have a much better mood! You'll suffer from less depression, anxiety, fear, pain, discomfort and worry less. This leads to you being more pleasant to be around. You'll finally love yourself more which allows more people to love you! You'll naturally make even more friends than you have now and can really strengthen relationships by experiencing new activities. More people will want to be around you because you'll be a much more positive and energetic person! You'll have a lot more self confidence which will lead to great possibilities in life as you take more risks and go and do things you never did before!

GREAT NEWS: YOU ARE BURNING MORE CALORIES THAN YOU THINK WHEN YOU EXERCISE
In the documentary "10 Things you need to know about losing weight" they go over a thing known as "afterburn effect". This is where after you exercise, you go on to burn sometimes up to twice as many calories or more during the rest of the day! So if you've been on an exercise bike, treadmill or elliptical or whatever machine and you feel like your calories burned could be higher and you feel discouraged or like what's the point...DON'T GIVE UP! You actually are burning A LOT MORE CALORIES afterwards! It's been scientifically proven. Watch that documentary mentioned above or search google for "afterburn effect".

Here is a great article that talks about afterburn. You don't need to do high intensity activity to get it, but if you want to have even more afterburn, he mentions occasional spurts of higher intensity activity can lead to a much higher after burn effect. Many websites mention as little as 20 seconds to a minute at a time even!
http://www.builtlean.com/2011/06/29/afterburn-effect-of-exercise-qa-with-dr-christopher-scott-phd

TIP FROM BODYBUILDING.COM (be sure to stretch properly before doing any spurts of high intensity activity)
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/afterburn-3-ways-to-burn-more-fat-build-muscle.html

LOG EVERYTHING. Post what you are eating in your food diary! I've been checking out a number of people's food diary's on here that are public and I notice that many people skip days. I can only assume because they binged/cheated or lost control and are embarrassed to log it.

Then I read that one woman on here ate a large Dairy Queen Blizard and then went to log it and realized it was 1,100 calories! She posted that she felt it should be outright ILLEGAL for something like that to have so many calories and that after she realized it, she is less likely to have one again. So LOG EVERYTHING to learn the truth about it and it could be just what you need to stay on track.

I believe we eat certain things because we really don't know how bad they are. When you log it, it puts it in your face. You have to look it up and you learn all of it's dirty secrets and how it effects your daily calorie amounts. You could eat that large blizard or you could eat __. Start thinking in those terms of what else you could have instead for the same amount of calories. I think this is very important and could help!

This thread is pretty inspirational, people share their stories of how they were treated differently after they lost weight!...

Were you treated differently after losing alot of weight?
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=898532