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Originally Posted by Lost Dog
There's nothing magical about slow and steady, except for a couple of things. We can debate how trivial they are, I guess.
1. It teaches you good habits. A dramatically low diet that gets you there overnight teaches you nothing about good eating habits. A slow and steady diet makes you suffer a little less, but for far longer. You get use to it and/or find strategies that help you cope.
2. Because slow and steady sucks so much for so long, only someone who really wants it will do it and stick with it. Since they wanted it that badly, they tend to stick with it afterwards, too.
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So true, so true. I just don't hear very many people talk about it at all. It is so rare. It is definitely unpopular. I am on the 2.5 lbs a month plan LOL! I am thinking, heck, that is TOO slow LOL! I did not start out with a fast loss, I have never been able to do that. I even only lost 7 lbs on South Beach but that took me weeks! And I quit after 6! Everyone else around me dumped the weight.
Who in their right mind goes into something like this, intending to work harder than you ever worked before, and losing less then hundreds of people around you.
I guess the only thing that keeps me coming back are the words, forever, permanent, never again. If I only have to do this once, then never again, how cool is that!
But the motivation thing is tough.
Anyone else?