| IT IS TOUGH! | | | | anymore. It's almost like women and pregnancy, |
| Losing weight is one of the biggest challenges | | | | the amount of pain and suffering women go |
| anyone will ever undertake in their life. You need | | | | through during that 9 months, but in the end it |
| huge amounts of motivation and determination to | | | | doesn't matter because you have a baby and it's |
| lose weight and more importantly, keep it off. | | | | the best thing in the world, so you tend to forget |
| The media make out it's all so easy but it's really | | | | how hard it is. Now when people ask me how to |
| not. Getting to your ideal goal can take years and | | | | lose weight, I find myself saying "oh yes it was |
| keeping the motivation up through tough times | | | | easy, just do lots of exercise" but that's not true |
| can be extremely difficult. This is why I have | | | | or helpful. Losing weight is extremely challenging |
| failed at losing weight in the past so many times. | | | | and tough, and anyone who has managed to lose |
| I have been trying to lose weight since I was | | | | weight should in my mind deserve a medal. |
| about 12 so that's 7 years. It has taken me 7 | | | | You have to constantly watch what you eat, are |
| years to gain the motivation and sheer | | | | constantly thinking about how well or not so well |
| determination needed to successfully lose weight. | | | | you are doing, it drove me insane. And the worst |
| A lot of losing weight is gaining the motivation | | | | part is once you drop the weight you become |
| needed and unless you have that there, you have | | | | even more obsessed with your body because |
| no goal to reach and are really not interested | | | | now (well for me anyway) I want my body to be |
| enough to lose weight. There has to be a goal | | | | perfect. Although I've lost the weight, I do not |
| that you are aiming for otherwise why are you | | | | have a muscular, defined looking body so now |
| trying to lose it? | | | | I've got to exercise even more and train harder |
| I have lost 6 stone in 6 months, which may | | | | to get the results I want. You'd think I would be |
| sound good but I could have done it in a shorter | | | | happy with dropping the 6 stone and getting to |
| time had I not encountered any of the mishaps | | | | my ideal weight, but no, now I want to look like |
| along the way. The biggest thing for me when | | | | the man on the cover of Men's Health magazine. |
| losing weight was the pressure I put myself under | | | | It's almost like it's never ending but in some ways |
| to succeed. After 4 months of constant worrying, | | | | looking after your body and being healthy is never |
| am I eating right, I should go to the gym, am I | | | | ending. To "fit in" to this society of beach babes |
| doing enough, it does really get to you and makes | | | | and glistening 6 packs you have to watch what |
| you want to just curl up and tell everyone and | | | | you eat and look the best you can. Maybe it's me |
| everything to go away. Yes it's good to be under | | | | just constantly feeling like challenging myself but it |
| pressure as it makes you perform well however | | | | makes you question...will I ever be happy with it? |
| being under that huge pressure can make you | | | | Well at least I know that I now have a healthy |
| feel trapped and want to run as far away from it | | | | body, I've lowered my risks of heart disease and |
| as possible. I know I did. | | | | all the other medical side effects of obesity. It's |
| I gave up completely for 3 months during my | | | | just the aesthetic effects of being bigger and |
| weight loss journey, I ran out of motivation and | | | | losing weight that are a pain in the ***. |
| just couldn't take the pressure anymore. It was all | | | | I think unless you know that you are absolutely |
| too much. However after a while everything | | | | ready to lose weight and you think you have the |
| settled down and I was ready to face it again. | | | | determination and motivation to succeed, then |
| It's very easy for me to make out that losing | | | | you should wait. All you will do if you try to lose |
| weight was easy, but that's because I've done it | | | | weight without this is cause unnecessary stress |
| now, I've got the results and so everything that I | | | | and pressure that no one needs in their life. Just |
| went through to get here doesn't matter | | | | make sure you have this and you will be fine. |