Would the loss of 20 lbs dramatically change your life? If not, what would be your ideal weight loss?

I think the thought of weight loss dramatically changing someone's life is the carrot that we dangle in front of ourselves. We think, if I only could do...this...or that...then I would be so much happier. Now, scientifically, losing even just 10% of your body weight will make you healthier and probably reverse a lot of medical problems you might be having - high blood pressure, metabolic disorder, etc.In addition, I think we do feel better when we accomplish something like that because losing weight really is difficult - being a mental and physical challenge.

Losing it can put you in a different frame of mind, even to the point where you think you can accomplish more. There are other studies that suggest that looks do matter when it comes to getting jobs or how people think about you.So let's say that you couldn't get a job because you were overweight and you thought that was holding you back. So you lose weight.

Now, if you get the job, then you'll think, yup that was it. But if you don't get the job then you'll have to figure out some other reason, and the weight loss, while beneficial, didn't really do what you hoped it would. Assuming that it will magically change your life puts too much pressure on that one thing to make you happy.

Losing weight doesn't endow someone with happiness.So my ideal weight loss is much higher than 20lbs but I don't think doing that will magically change my life unless possibly living longer counts (but that too is hypothetical as I could lose 80lbs and then while celebrating in the street - get hit by a bus. ).

I think it would and will. Lol I've always been a fairly small girl with the classic hour glass frame.. I never realized how much I liked the way I looked and what it meant to me until I had two pregnancies back to back and stopped looking that way. To me its not what other people think, it's what I think and when I look in the mirror I don't like what I see right now.In reference to dramatic change.. I think it would restore my confidence in my appearance.

20lbs would be an awesome step back to my healthy and prepregancy weight. Before my first son I weigh around 120 and after his birth I got back down to 125 before becoming pregnant again.. right now.. (my due date is tomorrow) I weigh almost 180 lbs. Once I have the baby I'll probably have about 40 lbs to lose to get back to that 120 mark.

That's my goal...though I'll admit I'm cheating.. pregnancy weight tends to just sort of melt off right up to that last 10 lbs that you really have to work off and retone the muscle to lose.

Yes it would. While I probably wouldn't technically be hospitalized for being underweight, I'm sure my quality of life would go way down and my family would develop serious concerns about anorexia. If this happened, it would probably be due to some other generally harmful medical issue.

I'm not sure I'd be comfortable losing any weight at all. Maybe just three or four pounds; if I didn't like it, it wouldn't be too hard to go back.

I wouldn't go so far to say that losing 20 pounds would dramatically change my life. Would I be able to fit into some clothes? Sure.

Would some of my current clothes be too big for me? Sure. I might get a few more compliments, but probably not an extreme amount.

I'm within the normal weight range for my height, if towards the top of it. 20 pounds won't make much of a difference. The thing, though, is that weight really isn't a moral issue, no matter how much some people try to make it.20 pounds isn't going to make or break anyone in terms of health.

Even if someone's 20 pounds overweight, a few studies suggest that this can actually be healthy depending on other lifestyle aspects (food choices, exercise, family history, etc. ) Losing weight won't change anyone's life as much as, say, losing negative personality traits.

Naw. I am quite a healthy weight - mid mid bmi. If anything I could put on weight.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.