I would also recommend people check out a blog of reality show “rejects” for accountability and inspiration at http://www.realityofweighting.net.

The one thing about our film that we’ve tried to keep in mind, is the aspect of attention — do people success more because we are filming them? Of course they do! But…over the long haul, this effect wears off, as you will see in the film. When we are faced with finding our own motivation to do it, we can all struggle to find it. We have paid nobody to lose weight in the film, because we felt it would make the premise less “real” and not everyone gets paid to lose weight. Hopefully INSPIRED will come through and show it all…

People have not really gotten freaked out over the attention, but we do see quite often, that people don’t believe they need accountability to stay successful.  Either people have a little or a lot of success, and then start getting pretty confident in the fact that they understand how weight loss works, and can do it all by themselves, and feel no need to report to anyone.  Sometimes they feel the accountability is a pain, and that they can keep themselves accountable.  What we have found, is that most of us cannot do this very well.  We need accountability to really push ourselves.  I can’t tell you how many people I know who have asked me to follow them for the movie, because they need a reason to do it (it wasn’t because of lack of knowledge!).  I have people come back after a year of not hearing back from them, and ask us for help…mainly staying accountable.
Sorry for my lack of blogging lately, I have been so swamped with getting this footage ready for post-production. You have both however, renewed my blogging spirit — thank you! I will try to blog much more often because of you.