Fatties. My money where your mouth is.

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Yes changing your habits/addictions IS easy.

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Wow you're a moron. There's a reason why it's called an ADDICTION. It's not easy one bit, it really takes a lot of hard work for anyone to break a habit or get out of a rut.

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I'm a moron - fair enough.

The point I am making (albeit making it very badly) is that if you have convinced yourself that something is hard to do - if you believe that something is difficult then you are actually making it harder for yourself - if you believe something is easy or at the very least not so hard that you can't get there without some superhuman effort you are much more likely to succeed.

I have not claimed that breaking an addiction doesn't involve hard work clearly it does - but that doesn't mean that it is hard to do.

Losing weight and quitting smoking are perceived as being difficult - quitting smoking is not at all as hard as it is made out to be - I know this to be true because I have done it. I imagine that losing weight is similar. (I concede that I might be wrong here but I don't think so)

I used to think that breaking my smoking addiction was hard, I tried and failed several times - when I learned the right way about thinking about it - that it's not hard at all, that I could easily achieve it then I discovered that it was actually quite easy.

I had a very similar conversation to this with my brother when I was encouraging him to lose weight. More an argument than a conversation but anyway. Some time later when he had got to his target weight and had stayed there for some time he told me "I never thought I'd say this but you were right - it was easy" - make of this what you will.

The hardest part of breaking any addiction is admitting you have one in the first place and resolving to do something about it - once you clear that hurdle the rest the actual losing weight part IS easy.

I will quit posting in this thread now - I do not want to derail it any more than I have already - we can all argue round in circles about this and it won't help anyone.

My intent was to encourage the guys who are losing weight and perhaps others who read - looks like I have done a bad job of this for that much I apologise.