When I started this ball rolling a year ago, 2 pounds a week seemed like a nightmare. To lose 50 pounds meant 25 weeks, 25 weeks meant 6 months and a bit, 6 months is half a year!!! Half a YEAR!!! OMG!!! I need to lose 80!!!!! Thats too damn long!!!! Why bother?!?!?!?

But then (if you can find that little something inside) you do it. And you lose those 50 pounds over 6 months (often more time than that actually) and when that 6 months, or year, or 2 years has gone by, and you lost all that weight, you think "6 months was nothing! What a Joke!!! Why didn't I do this 20 years ago?!?!?!?!"

At least thats the case for me.

I have 2 obese buddies here in China who have seen the amazing changes I have made in the past year and they still don't get it. They want to do the same thing I did, but are not willing to put in the time. They always seem to forget that I started off at 300 pounds walking 4 blocks a day, then 5, etc, till 4 months had gone by and I started running (back to 4 blocks mind you) etc. And I lost the pounds. They saw the results, but not the effort.

So what did BOTH of them do? They took their 300+ pound bodies out pounding the pavement and trying to run 5km the first day, much against my repeated advice and warnings. Needless to say, they have both suffered so many injuries and setbacks that not only have they not lost weight but in fact gained weight sitting on their couches nursing injuries with beer, TV and McD's.

I get this a lot from people around me trying to feed off my motivation. They see results but not the effort and time it took to do it. The result, failure. I don't blame them though, took me 20 years to figure that out myself. I guess it is part of human nature. We all want the fast way, not necesarily the best way.

A pity really.

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