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Originally Posted by Trazey34
I posted before - if the magic fat fairy waved her wand and you could **POOF** be skinny, could you maintain it or would you get heavy -- and it got a lot of responses...
my new question is: if the fat fairy **POOF** made all your aches and pains, health problems, and any chance of dying prematurely disappear...would you continue on the weight loss journey??
I thought about it and i think my answer would be no.... don't get me wrong, the "looking better" and clothes fitting is a nice by-product but not my motivation at all.
You guys??
Gosh, TRazey, I must have missed that first question and I'd like to address it. I used to ALWAYS wish, if only I could start out all over again and be skinny, that there would be no way on earth I would ever let myself get so fat again. I have no way of knowing if that would be the case. I think it would be now, at 43 years old, but I don't know what would have happened if I were younger.
Your new question. Man, that's a hard one. Because without a doubt my number one factor for losing the weight was my health. I was terrifed of dying and leaving my children motherless. I hated the inactvity and the limitations my weight put on me. If those were gone, I honestly don't know if I would have found the strength to do this.
I do know clothing was a huge factor for me as well. I was barely squeezing into the largest sizes at the plus sized store. I was sure if I didn't do something, there would be nothing, absolutely nothing for me to wear eventually. I hated always be the largest, yet shortest woman where ever I went. But, I just don't know.
Now that I've actually lost the weight and know just how marvelous it is to "feel" so average and regular sized, now that I know just how great it is to have a phenomenal wardrobe, now that I know just how great it feels to be thin - yes, but before it actually happened - I just don't know.
I also can't help but think that if this were the case for everyone, just not me, that there were no health issues involved, that there would even be MORE people that would be morbildy obese. So maybe society would have to make larger booths and stronger chairs
. I'm thinking about this too much, aren't I.
Hey, that was a real commited answer, huh?