Comments on: Change Your Body In Six Weeks! It’s Crap!

By: julie

julie — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:41:30 +0000

It was hard to give up hopes of instant gratification for a joyless life of restricted eating and hard exercise, but I fortunately have settled into the minimum restriction and as much exercise as I can handle without it taking over my life, consuming all my time and energy, and leaving me a joyless, lonely existence. Weight loss is slow, but happening, and I can still have other interests, which is great for someone for whom weight has been fixation #1 since my early teens (I’m now 40). It’s strange, and a whole new life, but I’m up for it.

By: Deb

Deb — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:39:28 +0000

Totally agree.

When I lost my weight, it took from october to january to feel differently about exercise. Then 3 weeks off to recover from surgery…

It was April before I began buying smaller clothes and noticed I was developing a chin again.

It was July before I had the last 10-15# to lose. And a full year until I lost it. I’d lose 1-1.5# a week for 4-6 weeks, then spend 2 months with no loss as my body adjusted. The good news? My skin adjusted and I look great.

In the 2nd year, my body completely changed as the weights become heavier…

A year to reach a reasonable goal is completely good timeline.

By: lauren

lauren — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:20:36 +0000

I just read most of this article out loud to my boyfriend, punctuated with loud snorts of glee and mirth. the best was Too Short. thanks for that. my own journey to getting fit could not have been embarked upon without copious amounts of gangsta.

I recommend “Nuthin But A G Thang” for sets of bicycles and crunches.

By: Marla

Marla — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:31:56 +0000

New York Times. Phhhht. I’m pretty much done reading anything about health, fitness, or weight loss from any source other than someone who has done it herself.

By: ettamommy

ettamommy — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:14:30 +0000

Dee, I do want it big and I want it now. Tee hee.

By: Lan-Ling

Lan-Ling — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:40:26 +0000

Noooooooo!!!!! Don’t take away the dream!!!!!!

By: Dee

Dee — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:13:29 +0000

I totally agree with you. However I do have the Slim in 6 workout and I have to admit you see results fast and I think it’s a good motivator for someone overweight to keep working with it when you do see those kind of results. I love it. I did it for almost a year and then I switched to a boxing kickboxing class at the gym to shake things up.

By: BEE

BEE — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:23:34 +0000

God, we’re such an ‘instant gratification’ type of society. We all want it big and we all want it now.

I can’t say anything, because I’ve tried some of those crappy diets too- and somehow they keep enticing us to come back again. How?? Promise of instant Gratification. And you’re right, no one keeps it off- or if they do it’s because they have tons of money (or not- hello Oprah).

By: JudiesJuice

JudiesJuice — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:01:47 +0000

I read that article. Most people are looking for a quick fix. No one wants to hear it’s going to take a while. http://www.judiesjuice.wordpress.com

By: Lisa A

Lisa A — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:46:30 +0000

“I’m a big believer in doing the minimum you can get away with in diet and working out like a fiend and just relaxing so the coal gently drops to the ground while you enjoy your beautiful, badass life. ”

Hear! Hear! I *love* my inner badass….and she loves food! Sure, I’m as guilty as anyone about wishing for miracles, but I know that if I’m not a sedentary slug I can eat and still keep a body that has made me quite happy. And if I get busy that happy body can be pretty badass. After a year of sedentary due to all sorts of annoying circumstance, I have joined the gym to jumpstart my way back to at least the happy body. Who knows…if I try hard enough I may even get the badass body back (at 41+? hmmm)…but I wont make myself insane over diet to do it. Life, as you said wise one, is just too damn short! (And yummy)