Really, you think it is the same.....seriously!!!!

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  • ChristiH4000
    ChristiH4000 Posts: 531 Member
    People can do whatever they like to lose weight, but I'll stick to good ol diet and exercise, the only thing that's ever lasted for me. I find myself getting butthurt when I see people around my former size tell me they need gastric bypass or they need pills or they "can't" lose.
    Lazy bungholes will always look for the easy way out, but it shouldn't get to me. I really need to remember to just focus on myself, my goals, and my idea on how to do it the right way.
  • auroranflash
    auroranflash Posts: 3,569 Member
    It's a process... I started on the diet pills back when I thought eating healthy meant ordering the happy meal instead of the regular meal. That lasted all of about two weeks. Things made me feel ill, heart racing, and dry mouth like crazy.

    If you're lucky, you live, learn, lose, gain it back, then figure out the right way to do it. A lot of times, you can't "tell" people what they don't want to -- or are not ready to -- hear.

    Congrats on being healthy and taking care of your body. :)
  • BruteSquad
    BruteSquad Posts: 373 Member
    I get to say it again! YAY!

    Get into the best physical shape of your life.

    The weight will come off.
    If you really focus on getting in shape, the scale will not mean a lot.

    THE MIRROR WILL!
  • gypsybree
    gypsybree Posts: 218
    You go girl!!!!!
    His wife is the reason why I've never dieted in my life before!!!!

    Some people are all about the wrong things!!
    Stick to your guns like fat does to our ribs!! Don't look at numbers and don't be hurt cause someone compared his wife to you when you're not even comparable!
  • LynC33
    LynC33 Posts: 196
    Ok, I have to vent! I have been working out and eating more healthy for about 11 weeks consistantly and since Jan off and on to April. I have lost 16 pounds and about 15 inches (I haven't checked measurements in the last two weeks) and down from a size 14 to a 10-8. My coworker was in my classroom during conference today and was asking me about how things were going...........

    I told him that things were going well, but I was no longer focusing on the number on the scale but how my clothes fit. I was feeling proud of all my work and then.....

    .....he kind of stammers around and informs me that his wife has lost 53 pounds and could now wear a size 10 down from an 18. I was kind of taken a back. I told him "wow that is great and wanted to know how she was doing it" . He told me "just watching her calories and doing a little walking" I said "wow, I am working my tail off and things still aren't working that well for me" Then he let it slip that she was taking diet pills. My response to this comment was......well I have decided to loose mine the old fashioned way........lots of hard work, plus I wanted to do this to be healthy and that taking those can not be good for you or you could just get them any where.

    I mean does he really think her accomplishments are the same as mine? My theory is anyone can loose weight if your taking diet pills. I don't mean to step on anyones toes or make any enemies.

    I just felt like he was putting me down because she had accomplished so much more and it hurt my feelings and........mad me very mad! I hope he decided to stay in his room tomorrow!

    Why be mad at him? You asked how she did it. Didnt sound like he was putting you down at all, merely stating how his wife had done it. Its sad that he encourages the whole diet pill thing and not encourage a more healthy approach to losing weight. Though in life in general, some people have to work harder than others to lose weight, diet pills or not. Btw, not everyone can lose weight on diet pills.....I didnt.
  • Elizabeth_C34
    Elizabeth_C34 Posts: 6,376 Member
    To all who recognize there's more to this than a number on a scale I salute you!

    CHEERS to that one!
  • LynC33
    LynC33 Posts: 196
    Ok, I have to vent! I have been working out and eating more healthy for about 11 weeks consistantly and since Jan off and on to April. I have lost 16 pounds and about 15 inches (I haven't checked measurements in the last two weeks) and down from a size 14 to a 10-8. My coworker was in my classroom during conference today and was asking me about how things were going...........

    I told him that things were going well, but I was no longer focusing on the number on the scale but how my clothes fit. I was feeling proud of all my work and then.....

    .....he kind of stammers around and informs me that his wife has lost 53 pounds and could now wear a size 10 down from an 18. I was kind of taken a back. I told him "wow that is great and wanted to know how she was doing it" . He told me "just watching her calories and doing a little walking" I said "wow, I am working my tail off and things still aren't working that well for me" Then he let it slip that she was taking diet pills. My response to this comment was......well I have decided to loose mine the old fashioned way........lots of hard work, plus I wanted to do this to be healthy and that taking those can not be good for you or you could just get them any where.

    I mean does he really think her accomplishments are the same as mine? My theory is anyone can loose weight if your taking diet pills. I don't mean to step on anyones toes or make any enemies.

    I just felt like he was putting me down because she had accomplished so much more and it hurt my feelings and........mad me very mad! I hope he decided to stay in his room tomorrow!

    Why be mad at him? You asked how she did it. Didnt sound like he was putting you down at all, merely stating how his wife had done it. Its sad that he encourages the whole diet pill thing and not encourage a more healthy approach to losing weight. Though in life in general, some people have to work harder than others to lose weight, diet pills or not. Btw, not everyone can lose weight on diet pills.....I didnt. All Im saying is you know how hard you worked and how proud you are of what you have achieved, why let his comments deflate you just because his wife took the easy(for her) option? It doesnt diminish what you have done.
  • LynC33
    LynC33 Posts: 196
    It's not a contest, is it? Your attitude and competitiveness are just not useful. Who cares? If the only way you can feel good about your weight loss is to maintain that your way is better than hers (even if it is), you have bigger issues than the fact that she lost more weight than you. You lost weight and someone noticed ... that should be enough.

    I agree 100%.

    Generally speaking...

    Im sick of people saying "but they havnt worked hard for it". So you can only be happy and proud if you "work hard" for it?? What if they have ailments, sickness or disease that stops them from exercising so the only way they can is to have surgery or make it a bit easier by using pills. Sheesh, you dont like to be criticized but are quick to criticize others that in your opinion "dont work hard enough!"
  • naku
    naku Posts: 109 Member
    what does any of that matter; how she loses weight or what he thinks about your weight loss?

    really.
  • Carfoodel
    Carfoodel Posts: 481 Member
    My husband and I both want to lose weight and get healthy but for my husband, the task just seems to overwhelming at the moment without a lot of help. Diet pills are not for me, but I will admit before I started on this path I felt like I would never find the inner resolve I needed to do what needed done, so I considered getting the tablets to "kick-start" my weight loss - I then realised that I didn't want to take that path.

    My husband decided that he did need the tablets to help him find his feet, and he is also eating more healthily and is almost at the stage where he is ready to start getting to grips with exercise. My husband struggles with being his size as much as I do, I am just more fortunate in that in taking the healthy eating/exercise route, it's boosted my self esteem and I have gained far more advantages out of it than other methods - but it doesn't mean that I am "better" than my husband - just that I am able to take a different route but he isn't in the same place I am at the moment - he is still wanting to be healthy and lose the weight which is all that matters.
  • fightingautism
    fightingautism Posts: 84
    This is America.
    People are lazy even when it comes to losing weight.
    Most people will take the path of least resistance even if that include pills or elective gastric bypass surgery.
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    Good thing i live in Canada. Dodged a bullet there!!! ;)
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    LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • weighlossforbaby
    weighlossforbaby Posts: 847 Member
    I am proud of you that you're doing it naturally and not taking diet pills or getting surgery to lose weight.
  • Marll
    Marll Posts: 904 Member
    I think that it depends on the situation. If you make a lifestyle change that you are commited to, but also take some diet pills to help you along, I don't see what's wrong with that at all. Just because someone is taking what you would likely deem a shortcut doesn't negate the fact that they are trying to loose weight and make themselves healthier.

    Now, that being said, if their only strategy is to take pills, and aren't learning anything about WHY they got fat in the first place, that's probably not going to be successful long term as yours likely will be.
  • Marll
    Marll Posts: 904 Member
    duplicate post
  • Marll
    Marll Posts: 904 Member
    This is America.
    People are lazy even when it comes to losing weight.
    Most people will take the path of least resistance even if that include pills or elective gastric bypass surgery.

    Good thing i live in Canada. Dodged a bullet there!!! ;)

    LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    America doesn't have the corner on the laziness market, it's actually human nature to be lazy and take the easiest path, you'll see it in all nations.

    Fattest, laziest nation on earth is now Qatar:

    http://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/15/the-fattest-country-on-earth/
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  • jezlives
    jezlives Posts: 3
    In my experience, diet pills did make me lose weight, but it also made me moody, and mean. I didn't like what it did to me mentally, so I stopped taking it. And of course, I gained it all back. Fast forward 15 years. I am now running three or four times a week. I have lost a small amount of weight before I discovered myfitnesspal through a co-worker. No judgement from me though, whatever works for everyone else. I personally would rather do things the old fashioned way. I like the idea that I will "earn" my new body. Diet pills, eh. Not for me.

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