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This is absolutely true. I thought it was hard to lose weight at 235, but it was a different hard than I experience now. Now my calories have to be spot on, and the quality of the calories matter (I'm convinced) and I have to not just exercise, but exercise with goals and intensity in mind. Before it was hard because I was battling cravings, any exercise was hard and intense and I had so much self-doubt. But I think the hardest thing for me was that I worked so incredibly hard and looked in the mirror and still hated what I saw. Now I can work really hard, lose nothing...but I least I like what I see in the mirror. I attribute that once again to having been where I have. If I hadn't gotten up so high, I would NOT currently like what I see. So when the scale doesn't move, at least I can say, "Well, at least I maintained this."Originally Posted by rakel
It all depends on perspective. Plus, there is a lot of self loathing involved, which really has nothing to do with you, it's just how they feel about themselves. When I was 170lbs I thought I was disgusting too, and now I am almost twice that! But just because they have less to lose doesn't mean it's still not really hard. From what I know, it's actually easy to lose a lot of weight in a short amount of time if you have a lot to lose, whereas if you only have a small amount it takes longer and is harder to get rid of. Thats not to say that it's not hard to lose weight if you're larger like me - because no matter what it's difficult to change habits, change your heart/mind, etc. For the purpose of my demonstration, the "ease" is just physical... But if you don't address the mental, the physical won't happen, or it does and you end up gaining it back and sometimes more.