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> --- In , "Nathan" <navin@i...> wrote:
> To put it in perspective, it's taken me about a year and a
> half to drop 22 lbs, so y'all are at a nice, steady pace.

> It really is amazing how something as simple as "eating less" 

> actually works. :-) 

Nathan, thanks for sharing this (and congratulations!). It's amazing
that the solution for being overweight is both obvious *and* not
unpleasant, and yet people still refuse to believe it. 

Yes, it's slow. But that's intimately bound up with "not unpleasant,"
which is in turn intimately bound up with "sustainable." The 
change
we're striving to make here is for a lifetime. If it takes a year or
two to reach our ideal, so be it. Better than get there in mere months
only to fall off within that year or two. "Slow expectations" are 
not
low expectations, they're high. I don't think you can realistically
separate the two.

--- In , "Debbie Feder" <deborahfederlmt@h...>
wrote:

> This is the "hurry up already I want it now!" 
> immature way of viewing weight loss. But as immature, and
downright 
> silly as it is to think this way, it seems to be a very hard 
> argument 
> toresist when basically *everything* in our society is geared 
> towards 
> *NOW NOW NOW*... 

Deb, I don't think it's a coincidence that patience, that stodgiest of
old fashioned virtues, is on the wane, while we wax ever more obese. 

> I 
> myself just had a very annoying few weeks of "doubt", and if 

> Reinhard 
> hadn't been the great and awesome problem solver he is, I might be 

> flip flopping mentally (yet again) and sucked back into the 
> "desperate dieters mode"...

Deb, I'm happy my pep talk did the trick!

Reinhard