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Human's nature is full of mysteries. Or isn't it? Achievements lose value if the effort required to achieve them is too hard or takes too much time. Or takes time at all.
It's relatively easy to lose 12% of the weight in 3 months. Almost every week there is a new achievement to report. And then the weight loss stops. One month passes - nothing happens, 2 months - nothing, the weight just goes up 1lb and down again.. Up and down.. Or just up, when midnight indulgence on beer and what-not is not counterbalanced by 5 days-a-week gym visits.
Oh, how would our weightwatcher be happy, if only could he lose 4 more lbs. It's an important psychological barrier, it's a round number and he can't even remember being that light.
Another two months pass.. Still nothing to report. Summer ends and with it, countless weekends of grilled fish, meat and other weight-loss-unfriendly food come to an end as well.
Comes September, religious gym-visiting and fasting every week, not just on Yom Kippur, mind you. The scale arrow hesitantly starts to move counter-clockwise, unfortunately not as fast as it used to.
And then, on October the 7th, it finally happens, the round number is a passed stage. But does he really feel happy?
Not at all, I have to say, not at all. And that is the mystery of human's nature. Right in front of us.
It's relatively easy to lose 12% of the weight in 3 months. Almost every week there is a new achievement to report. And then the weight loss stops. One month passes - nothing happens, 2 months - nothing, the weight just goes up 1lb and down again.. Up and down.. Or just up, when midnight indulgence on beer and what-not is not counterbalanced by 5 days-a-week gym visits.
Oh, how would our weightwatcher be happy, if only could he lose 4 more lbs. It's an important psychological barrier, it's a round number and he can't even remember being that light.
Another two months pass.. Still nothing to report. Summer ends and with it, countless weekends of grilled fish, meat and other weight-loss-unfriendly food come to an end as well.
Comes September, religious gym-visiting and fasting every week, not just on Yom Kippur, mind you. The scale arrow hesitantly starts to move counter-clockwise, unfortunately not as fast as it used to.
And then, on October the 7th, it finally happens, the round number is a passed stage. But does he really feel happy?
Not at all, I have to say, not at all. And that is the mystery of human's nature. Right in front of us.