What They Tell Themselves
Take a look at the challengers' internal dialogue.
Angela: I look like a freak of nature. I'm grotesque, I'm monstrous... I will be dead before I'm 40.
Thomas: I'm fat, I'm flabby.
Sarah: I don't look at my body if I don't have to... I'm wasting my life.
Marilyn: I always tell myself that no one's loved me in the past and losing weight isn't going to change that in the future....When I look at my body, it reminds me of Jabba the Hut.
Leslie: I just look like the side of a barn.
Jim: I can't stop thinking that I'm going to probably die from this.
Barbara: I try to make myself look good, but how good can a fat girl really look?
Judith: I have a big stomach, I have a big butt and I've got these cottage cheese thighs...I feel that I'm fat, disgusting, gross and not appealing.
Monika: I think I'm ugly, I think I'm a loser and I think I'm a whiner....I always tell myself that I'm just not worth it.
Kim: I'm a pure failure.
Terri: I would describe my body as just being big everywhere.
Fred: It's one of those things where you say, "Screw it, I've got too far to go, it's not going to ever happen, it's a pipe dream."
Angela: I look like a freak of nature. I'm grotesque, I'm monstrous... I will be dead before I'm 40.
Thomas: I'm fat, I'm flabby.
Sarah: I don't look at my body if I don't have to... I'm wasting my life.
Marilyn: I always tell myself that no one's loved me in the past and losing weight isn't going to change that in the future....When I look at my body, it reminds me of Jabba the Hut.
Leslie: I just look like the side of a barn.
Jim: I can't stop thinking that I'm going to probably die from this.
Barbara: I try to make myself look good, but how good can a fat girl really look?
Judith: I have a big stomach, I have a big butt and I've got these cottage cheese thighs...I feel that I'm fat, disgusting, gross and not appealing.
Monika: I think I'm ugly, I think I'm a loser and I think I'm a whiner....I always tell myself that I'm just not worth it.
Kim: I'm a pure failure.
Terri: I would describe my body as just being big everywhere.
Fred: It's one of those things where you say, "Screw it, I've got too far to go, it's not going to ever happen, it's a pipe dream."