Losing Weight By Sheer Terror!
Posted by Liz on 09 Apr 2006 | Tagged as: General
Just been watching a TV program in which they got overweight people to lose weight by scaring them silly. First they took a photo of them all in a little bikini. These folk agreed that if they had not lost 15 lbs in 8 weeks then their photo would be shown on National TV. We weren’t shown the images of course. But these people were really embarrassed. In 8 weeks they came back for a check and all except 1 had lost the 15 lbs some had lost considerably more than that. They were all so scared they had been totally motivated and determined not to let it happen. They didn’t give them any diet or exercise regimen - that was up to them.  The one who had only lost 12 lbs was let off of course- they didn’t expose her to TV.
Mind you its easy enough t lose it but how will they keep it off now the fear has gone? Anyway I have my daughters wedding to terrify me into shedding fat!
Ok, I don’t know what’s getting into me, but this post just sparked something in me.
I’ll grab my digital camera and shot a few pictures of myself at this (almost) initial weight and appearance.
And then I’ll do the same when these 12 weeks are over.
But I won’t be wearing any small bikinis.
If I’m not at my goal weight at the end, then I’ll totally embarrassed publicly post my before-shot here.
When I succeed at reaching my target weight of 90 kg then I’ll proudly post my after-shot.
Looking in the mirror I just know that it’s not a picture that I want to go public with, so that’s definitely an additional motivating factor.
You are brave Henrik! I did that once and I was in a bikini - no those were not for public viewing either. LOL. Somehow those pictures got lost (delete!) but the image is still in my mind and is still a motivation.