I've done it - I'm half the man I used to be.

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Glaucus said:
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Got absolutely sod all to do with realisation. It's not easy.
Why do people get in debt, why do people get addicted and everything else bad for us.
It is very hard for people to stop and change.
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Aedus said:
Man, you should give lectures to everyone suffering from some form of addiction. Make millions with your wise words.

Hey, alcoholics, why don't you realise you're drunk all the time and somewhere along the way you'll end up with alcohol poisoning and die? Absolutely no excuse for it in my opinion, so stop drinking.

Hey, smokers, why don't you realise you're smoking 30 cigarettes a day, and somewhere along the way you'll end up with lung cancer? Absolutely no excuse for it in my opinion, so stop smoking.

Hey, gamblers, why don't you realise you're wasting all your money at slot machines and somewhere along the way you'll end up bankrupt without a home? Absolutely no excuse for it in my opinion, so stop gambling.
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It's kind of a similar situation in all 3 of those cases. You eat too much and get fat, somewhere along the line you think "I'm getting fat" and do something about it. Same thing when you are losing excessive amounts of money gambling or can't get up first thing in the morning unless you have a drink. Not nice positions to be in, but nonetheless somewhere along each of those paths I can't see how you can bury your head in the sand until you get to 22st, lose all your money or become an alcoholic. That is the extreme scale and there will be opportunities to get back on the right path before your life is in ruins.

I'm noticing more and more how overweight the general population is. The real turning point was in ASDA last week (yuck) where it seemed you had to be 20st+ to enter. It was absolutely disgusting.

Anyway, I don't want to take anything away from the OP, he has done fantastically well to turn his life around.
 
Congrats on not only the weight loss, but on finding the personal willpower to do something for your health and happiness and sticking to it, must feel very good to have succeeded at what probably looked like an immense task (no pun intended) when you started.
 
Adam said:
It's kind of a similar situation in all 3 of those cases. You eat too much and get fat, somewhere along the line you think "I'm getting fat" and do something about it. Same thing when you are losing excessive amounts of money gambling or can't get up first thing in the morning unless you have a drink. Not nice positions to be in, but nonetheless somewhere along each of those paths I can't see how you can bury your head in the sand until you get to 22st, lose all your money or become an alcoholic. That is the extreme scale and there will be opportunities to get back on the right path before your life is in ruins.

I'm noticing more and more how overweight the general population is. The real turning point was in ASDA last week (yuck) where it seemed you had to be 20st+ to enter. It was absolutely disgusting.

Anyway, I don't want to take anything away from the OP, he has done fantastically well to turn his life around.
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You really are clueless. It's not about burying your head on the sand, or not noticing. It's about how hard it is to change your lifestyle. How hard it is to kick addiction etc.

If it was easy like you think, people wouldn't get fat, people wouldn't get into debt or 1001 other things that most of society does.
Most people get into trouble in one way or another.
 
Adam said:
That doesn't explain why you don't realise somewhere along the way to 22st that you are becoming overweight. Absolutely not excuse for it in my opinion. Someone of average height should start to realise something isn't right around 14-15st, surely?
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The world record on here is a 17 stone weight loss from somebody who was 33 stone and of course he knew what he was doing however like any 'addiction' you get to a point where you either carry on or do something about it.
I'm pleased that you know your turning point will be 14-15 stone.
 
Adam said:
That doesn't explain why you don't realise somewhere along the way to 22st that you are becoming overweight. Absolutely not excuse for it in my opinion. Someone of average height should start to realise something isn't right around 14-15st, surely?
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That's because you do not understand either the underlying reasons for many peoples weight gain or the psychological and physical problems that need to be overcome in order to combat it. Bio-chemical changes in the body added to psychological hurdles inherent in changing both your lifestyle and combating those physiological changes can be extremely difficult to overcome, in many cases despite the obvious weight gain, it is difficult to recognise the underlying causes of this. Overeating is not always the main hurdle, but education, support and simply knowing your body and its limitations can dramatically impact someone's success rate.

I don't know how old you are, but heaven forbid you find yourself in a position where you have significant weight gain that you find it increasingly difficult to combat..this happened to me and it took some serious and quite drastic action to deal with it, as well as time. It's still a battle now, dealing with injury, depression and the physiological changes inherent in my own personal circumstances but the last thing I, or anyone really needs is people like yourself judging people as being disgusting simply because of their appearance.

What Feek has done is phenomenal, to lost half your body weight is difficult in itself, but he would have fighting not only his psyche but also his body, once a body gains a level of fat it wants to continue to do so, it's almost a self perpetuating problem...this is why people plateau on diets. Easy it is not, which is why so many people fail...I did many times, and I may well do so again.
 
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