Could you loose weight if you were offered a lot of money!

tara747

That is so true bills!!!!! He can eat anything he wants and never gains an ounce grrr :rotfl: But he is so nice and pretends not to notice that I've put on weight awwww.

bills_2

tara747 wrote: »

That is so true bills!!!!! He can eat anything he wants and never gains an ounce grrr :rotfl: But he is so nice and pretends not to notice that I've put on weight awwww.

:rotfl:Snap...I get told off if I use fat in the same sentence in talking about myself! bless them for being so nice

benny123

some people do look better after losing weight( and i'd like to lose at least a stone ) but i don't think looking at hannah waterman would give me incentive, i think she looks ill and haggard, has lost the weight too drastically

ClootiesMum

Oh JMW - if only you know what I'd done today

I suggested in the work a "Biggest Loser" type challenge - if 10 people partake over 12 weeks then the person who has lost the largest percentage of weight would get the £600 acumulated form the £5 per week per person weigh in charge. I have takers (& I need the incentive myself) but as a few of us are fiercely competitive I can see this coming to blows. And as it's my idea I said I would organise it.

Me & my big mouth

But people are interested with the idea of the cash reward at the end so I suppose the answer to your question is - yes - but as an incentive rather than a bribe

CM

jenniewb

The above reminds me of the BBC documentary where they explained a group of people were told to get out of jail they had to gain alot of weight (it was a social experiement back in the '50s). Of the 100 of the that tried, several found it hard if not impossible and two could not do it- even when they were eating 20000 kcals a day by food and a drip feed!

I think there are genetic and real reasons some people cannot lose weight whatever they try (not everyone, but just like the experiment, maybe 2% not the entire country and also why some people cannot gain weight.
But the important thing to remember is that calories really make the difference, the vast majority of people out there who cut calories- and its hard and feels impossible for everyone, (otherwise everyone would yo yo with ease and no one would ever need a diet plan, they'd just stop eating full stop) those that do cut calories lose weight.

Also, your body can only burn off a finate amount of calories in a day when you exercise, its really the food that makes most of the difference.

I don't think its the money that makes celebs lose all the weight, (although it helps I'm sure!) I think its the phenominal personal trainers and having every ounce of their food measured and prepared by someone else. If anyone else went through that, they'd lose weight too I'm sure.

Makes me so angry when I see all these DVDs out- no one can follow the same plan as the celeb, its just not possible- not unless you can afford to hire a personal trainer and if you could why would you bother with the DVD...
It gives an unrealistic idea which few if any can really achieve- not to the same degree at any rate, it also doubly inforces the idea that to be attractive we all have to look as if we are 14. Why is a womens body so out of fashion? It worries me that masses of children see their mummies get these DVDs to look like someone who is a stones throw from their own age...and then we wonder why so many grow up and become afraid of their curves, stunt their own growth with anorexia, bulima or various other forms of eating disorder or live in elf loathing when they actually develop a female body which is anything over a dress size 10!

Rant over !