So here's the question of the day....

Who has tried to carry around the amount of weight you lost for a couple of hours?

I have now lost 50 pounds and I got out the weight set the other day and tried to carry around 50 pounds for as long as I could.... That was not easy. I am going to try to do that with every 10 that i loose...Just to give me a little reality check....My body is going to be sooo happy to not be carring around all that extra.

Just wondering who else on here is as weird as me?? haha

Amazing isn't it.

I haven't gone so far as to actually get a weight out and see what it was like....but I do imagin the pounds in food....Like 10 pounds of potatoes....or 10 pounds of butter.....theres what, four sticks of butter in a pound. Right now I have lost 54 pounds. Soooo 54 X 4 is 216 sticks of butter~~~ Thats a real good idea though to break out the weights and carry it around! It is amazing huh???

I've tried lifting it at the gym .. couldn't do it lol. Dunno how I carried it around for as long as I did - guess it was just cause it was spread all over my body.

I'm at 65 pounds and my youngest is 70lbs. Definitely a reality check. I can hardly pick him up any longer, few minutes tops.

You're not crazy. Great reality check!

well I'm glad I'm not the only one who compares their weight to sticks of butter!!! Do you guys remember when Oprah lost all that weight doing the liquid dite and then came out on stage with a huge wheelbarrow full of fat equal to her weight loss??? That was GROSE!!!

I am going to the grocery store today so I will check out how many sticks of butter 51 pounds looks like!! lol

The fat visual always gets me. I've seen it tons of times in tons of places - a synthetic chunk of human fat that's supposed to represent what 8 lbs of fat looks like. I've even gone so far as to picture it and look at my body figuring - "Yep, I have one of those here, two of those here, one here, four here... yep! That about adds up to the amount of weight I have to lose!"

Of course I can't find a pic now but it looks similar to what the guy in this picture is holding.

I tried to carry a 50lb bag of dog food the the house and omg it was so hard for me.. and to think just 7 months ago thats what I was carrying...

I carry round a 13 kg toddler and when I think I need to lose 3 of her, I'm horrified to be honest. And I pick up my 37 kg 10 year old and cant barely walk with him! I need to lose an entire 10 year old :-O

I like to think about my weight loss of .25 of a pound as a stick of butter.( I have to look at small amounts). I visualize my pants under the top button and how nice it would feel to be smaller by just a stick of butter.

Or I have went to the grocery store and picked up a 20 pound bag of potatoes and just walk around that section for a few minutes. Makes you feel pretty good.