Distorted Reality

I am calling BS!!! You see this all the time on magazines drop _____ weight in___ days or like this one "Walk off 10 LBS, easy no-gym 15-min plan"

Now learning what I've learned from the; Boston Marathon Documentary by Nova, was that even training for a marathon doesn't guarantee weight loss.  So how in the heck is walking 15 mins going to make you lose weight?  Here is the fine print.

It makes me laugh that they think someone who is 50 lbs over weight (me) could lose 5 lbs in two months by walking 15 mins & cutting 200 calories from my diet. Ok, the numbers might work in theory but come on! Let's say I eat 2200 calories a day & I cut 200 calories each day. 2000 calories is still a higher amount I should be eating to maintaining my current weight.

With wording like I just did this and lost 100 lbs! Magazines are full of before and after's with little articles about how they felt before and how they fell now that the weight is off. This is all great, and good for them for losing the weight but I feel like this is party of the reason us women are so frustrated with the weight loss process.  We have a distorted view on the reality of losing weight.  All of the wording makes it all sound so simple. With infomercials, websites, talk shows & magazines always offering the quick fix. "Lose a pant size in a week" "10 lbs in 10 Days" "Lose 5 lbs in 5 Days" "Drop 2 sizes in 2 weeks!" "Lose 20 lbs in 4 weeks" (Theses are all from actual Magazine Covers), we are conditioned to think that losing weight should be easy.  What the before and after stories din the magazines leave out is the time that person wanted to give up, the time they cried out of frustration. 

The cold hard truth about weight loss & getting in shape is that it is FRICKIN HARD WORK!!! The idea of starting something that is going to be difficult and hard, makes any normal person think twice about it.  Not only do we have to change what we've been doing for years but it's going to be difficult to do! Why would we want to do that? We are all looking for instant gratification, quick fix, simple and easy. Well I'm here to tell you that regardless of all the people out there promising you the quick fix, there isn't one. We need to hear that THIS SUCKS and you're going to have to suck it up and do what you don't want to do. The good news is one day it won't suck. One day you won't understand how you used to live the way you do now. Am I speaking from experience, not yet. I have yet to suck it up & get to the to this point. But I know others who have. Having to surrender to the fact that this is just going to suck for a while is hard, but I think it's about time to face it.