Do you encourage others to lose weight? And how?

Other people have inspired ME to lose weight, just by doing it. And the person right now who needs or wants to lose weight but isn't doing much is ME...

I encourage myself to lose weight from time to time. I try to encourage people, that show a desire. I offer some product that helps, if they want, and give tips that I know. If they ask, I will tell them, all that I know, and if I remember where I got it from, I will share that as well. With Appreciation.

Both my sisters are very heavy.....but I don't say anything to them. They both have tried tons of diets and lose weight just to gain it back. I lost alot many years ago and struggle everyday to keep it off....so I know how hard it is...I wish they would go on a diet. I smoke...want to quit someday soon....so I don't say anything to anyone about their bad habits or lifestyle.....but as a smoker I still am somewhat healthy.....my sisters being overweight...both have heart problems!

for me i encourage anyone to loose weight and be normal in their vital statistics, because i think sexy is hot, beautiful and you can call it anything you want it as long as its good to hear..

Yes i do like to inspire people to lose weight.Sometimes by sharing with them my eating habits or sometimes indirectly they see it in me with how i look.And i practice what i preach. I have been a vegetarian for over a year now, and i don't eat red meat too much.So i try to inform people of the pros and cons of eating and not eating red meat. Overweight had many bad effects on our health, i guess everybody knows that.But not everybody has the strength or conviction to really lose weight, for real. I think loosing weight is an ongoing process that we must be done everyday. (^_^)

Well, before I could encourage others to lose weight, I, myself should start shedding pounds first. I am working on it right now though and I'm having fun doing it because I started doing one of my favorite things which is dancing and at the same time I know that I am losing weight because of the effort I put into it. I also started eating healthy. So I need to be in my ideal weight first before I could convince and encourage others to lose weight also.

I will encourage people if they express they want to lose weight, but i don't actively try to get them to unless they want it. I've been doing weight watchers for almost a year now. If someone expresses wanting to lose weight then I'll tell them what I'm doing and invite them to join me at my meetings. I've also joined the gym, so I invite people to join me at the gym. I know a few that could use it but like you said, until they want to do it and really try hard, it's useless to say anything.

katsmeow1213, Being aware of the health hazards that comes along once one gets to be in the overweight category just makes me more wary and concern for others around me. However, I am against being pushy or outright persistent to the extent that I get misunderstood and get this idea being pushed away by the ones who really needed it. I can understand the urgency for overweight people around us especially our family and loved ones. Like my dad, who is stricken with high blood pressure as a result of his overweight, I made sure that the family go on a low salt and oil food. Also, ensured that saturated fats are avoided by going for more fish and skinless chicken in our diets. I feel that people like my dad will adapt faster if everyone is involved and that there is no differential. It helps when the family sits down eating the same cooked meal and food. For the exercises, it will need a little more work like getting his friends to encourage him to participate in morning exercise groups. Walking every possible opportunity since he is never in need to rush or have a schedule to keep. Taking the stairs instead of electric elevators or lifts. As for my friends, I would always speak when asked as I understand that they would have enough pestering from their family and loved ones. Besides, with a successful example like my father, it is just easy for them to approach me than the other way round.

But kat, you aren't really telling the truth here. You've inspired a lot of people on mylot to get back on track with their weight loss. I had somewhat fallen off of the bandwagon and then with your sharing your weight loss journey, I've been able to get back on track. As far as me encouraging others to loose weight, I don't think that I really do in the conventional manner. However, the fact that I make sure that my family eats right is doing a lot in the direction of helping my children to maintain a healthy weight.

yup, i encourage few people that i know that rely needs help, but it's upsetting cause they don't have strong discipline, motivation and determination..

Select an exercise pattern to suit your life style. All of us have different life styles and professions so there is no sense in trying to follow the book strictly. Try and follow an exercise routine that is suitable for you. You have to understand that even more important than the exercise it is sticking to it. So unless you choose something that can suit your life style, you are not going to stick on to it.

I really don't know too many overweight people who would seriously need to lose weight so I hardly ever encourage anyone to do so. If someone wants to lose weight but doesn't have the motivation, I'll of course try to encourage them. But for me it's pretty much the opposite, I usually encourage people to gain weight. I don't mean people of normal size, I mean underweight people, I actually know quite a few underweight people who I think have some kind of an eating disorder... The reason why I'm more motivated to encourage underweight people to gain weight than overweight people to lose some is because I'm underweight myself, I mean seriously underweight. This has nothing to do with eating disorders, in fact I eat more than most of the people I know, even more than some of the overweight people whose eating habits I know about :D And I also don't eat much healthy foods, I exercise a lot and eat food that's high in protein but that doesn't help either... I guess my problem has something to do with some kind of digestion problems, my body takes hardly any of the needed stuff from the food I eat and thus my body doesn't work properly. So I encourage people to gain some weight if they're underweight because of my own experiences, it really isn't nice to be underweight...

i have encouraged only one person to loose weight... eheh my girlfriend...

I usually don't encourage anyone to lose weight because it might work the other way, that is instead of getting encouraged they might think "uh here is another one who is concerned about my overweight" and as a result they might restrain themselves from getting along with us and might sometime avoid us completely. It is best NOT TO GIVE ADVICE NOR A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT TO A PERSON, IF HE DOESN'T ASK FOR IT FROM US. Forgetting completely about their appearance and keeping themselves engaged completely in other activities has helped many lose their weight instead of sitting alone and dwelling over it. And most of all, we find one thing in common to all those who think they are overweight is they start to reduce their food intake. I want to tell this to them all, the food we take in should contain all these - proteins,vitamins and carbohydrates in order to form a complete layer. Having a food without anyone of it or in an improper proportion will make our body unable to absorb the food completely and it will again result in overweight. So, don't reduce your food intake.