Ok I know I am going to get hung drawn and quartered

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But just lately I have been reading a lot of woman mags, ie Chat, Take a break ect and there always seems to be stories about large people dieting and losing loads of weight, now thats all well and good but dieting is like quitting ciggarettes or giving up choclate or giving up the booze or drugs or any other habbits you can think of.

So why I am reading lots of acheivments about the weightloss? never see any stories about anyone quitting fags, or wine or choclate or anything else?

They even had a bloody 4 page spread about weightloss, I mean come on would you have a 4 page spread about someone that quit fags? or booze ect showing how good they look? I wonder why they do it so much and so often?

Sometimes I walk pat someone smoking and the smell takes me back and I certainly crave a cigarette, especially when I'm stressed or upset. The process is different though, if I smoked again it would be a more deliberate choice. I would have to go and buy cigarettes and a lighter and make that choice, I HAVE to buy food, I have to eat it every day and I don't have a choice in that. I have a choice about about weather I light up again.

Agree with previous posts re: visible change of losing weight. But I think in the case of the celebrity weight gain/loss stories in the cheap mags, they are actually being paid to do so - imagine your income stream being stuffing your face / starving yourself & back again for a 2-page spread/exposure/publicity in a mag plus payment. Depressing stuff.

Do you know I actually stopped smoking to see if I would put weight on? and I havent and I am gutted! I had done 3months and now I have broken that. Because everywhere I go I smell a fag!

Because it shifts magazines. People buy the mag hoping there will be some magic secret that will help them shift three stone.
The masses don't want to quit fags or cut down on booze. But most people do want to shift a few pounds.

If it helps OP, it's now down to less than 20% of the population who smoke and it's falling every year. It's going to become increasingly usual to bump into smokers as time goes on.

It's different with food as you will usually have some in the house, you will have to have some and then stop yourself having more, not just 'never' having it. In a way, that's why so many people who've lost weight with low carbing have found it mentally easier. I know people who have cut out bread, pasta, and rice and then kept it cut out of their diets for more than a couple of years - they've never had to work out how to have just a bit, or to stop after one serving, they never eat it, which is easier than always just having some then stopping again. (Their problems usually happen when they have to live with someone else who does eat those foods so it's in the house/being cooked, much easier never to let it over your doorstep.)