Hardest thing about losing weight so far?

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Keeping my back straight and not slouching. I have always just been lazy and relaxed my back, not having good posture is hard...well it's getting better but at first I was like....wow this sucks. Jogging and having good posture was even harder! All I wanted to do was slouch my back and catch my breath haha.

What's the hardest thing for yall about losing weight?
 
realhope, I think you should try varying your exercises. Try some different things, you might find one you really love that makes the time fly by. Being bored leads to you not putting in a lot of effort and that will show.

As for me, the hardest part has to be trying to resist all of the sweet stuff in the world. And also making myself exercise!
 
Eating and drinking in social occasions.


Nights on the town are a pain, 6-7 pints followed by a takeaway is about 2 full days of calories in about 4-5 hours. As with everything else a compromise is needed, spirits and diet coke much lower cal.


I'll be damned if I can work out a way of avoiding the inevitable late night takeaway though, if anyone figures that one out then let me know, for now I jsut try and get a little extra deficit each day of the week to sort of save up some calories for that week and offset the cheating :)
 
Usually, going out. Sometimes I feel I need to avoid being social if it'll involve food (which it quite often does), because I can't track it. Also if I'm out and I haven't eaten for awhile, sometimes I get hypoglycemic- my response pre diet was to just eat something, anything, particularly something with lots of sugar to get me out of that state fast. Now I have to find something suitable to eat that will more or less fit on my diet, which is very hard to do when I'm starting to feel sick.


Also, disappointing people. I recently visited my family (I live overseas) and my mum cooked for me like crazy (she just got a new kitchen and I'd been away for nearly two years)- half of the progress I made was wiped out. I tried to say no at the beginning, but I just couldn't, and had to accept that I was going to put on quite a bit of weight.
 
Wow, two very insightful comments. I know many people feel as you do. On the first note I have learned to eat ahead and then when I am out, eat the minimum and put my napkin on my plate when I am done, out of sight, out of mind! On the second note, it was painful for me to read, as this has happened to me too. People want to love us with food. The answer is: stand firm, really firm and let your loved one know how hard you have worked and how much you need to stay on track for your goal. The trick is: you cannot veer even a little, because then they will pounce as they find that opening and your diet will be history!
 
When i get depressed, some hormones start to kick in and i can't drag myself out ot exercise and i get this insatiable need to eat and eat and especially to eat and eat sweet food. I am in this state now. Its been coming on for a few weeks and it happens when i get a succession of knock downs. I'm feeling like giving up right now. But i do'nt want to put o all the weight i just lost. I was feeling so good. And with this comes a whole lot of other painful backtracking. I feel i am just about to start sliding seriously backwards.
 
Originally Posted by RadioActive

Keeping my back straight and not slouching. I have always just been lazy and relaxed my back, not having good posture is hard...well it's getting better but at first I was like....wow this sucks. Jogging and having good posture was even harder! All I wanted to do was slouch my back and catch my breath haha.
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This may be a silly question, but does having good posture help with losing weight? If so I need to start focusing on that at work!
 
The hardest thing for me is going out to eat with friends.

To get around this, I ask for the diabetic menu, or skip the potato and ask for double the vegies. The other thing I "try" to do is only eat about half of the entree, then take the rest home for lunches later.
 
For me it's always been sticking with the workouts, in the past when I tried to lose weight I never had problems with eating healthy, but once I stopped working out, than the eating unhealthy part came right after that.
 
having body envy my best friend literally eats crap all day and never works out and shes so skinny thats defintly the hardest thing to look at for me!
 
AThe hardest thing for me is by far the fact since jr high I've been pretty anti social, I would get asked to come out to places and I'd make an excuse so i could stay home eat junk food and play video games. Of course this caused friends to just stop calling and move on which I regret now. I've always been like that since I can remember. While I still play video games its now only because there is nothing else to do not because I really care about it.

So the hardest thing for me so far is waking up knowing that I have nothing to do of value during the day and it sucks. I've been anti social for too long. I think thats prob why I kept eating terrible food anyways. It felt like if I go drive to the store or the drive thru I am doing something with my day which is of course not really true. Trying to stay in the mind set while I may have nothing to do I can keep being active with my goals for losing more weight, I am doing 15+ pounds under 2 months of work. This is the longest I've gone with out daily intakes of fast food and soda and I mean if thats not a good first step I don't know what is

For me it has never really been about the food because I can cook up some sweet healthy dishes I just gotta stop being lazy and anti social and get out there and experience life :)
 
the hardest thing for us when doing our weight loss goal setting and then the follow through, was realizing we have a terrible food shopping style, we went totally away from most types of processed foods, and more into fresh fruits and veggies, which meant prepping meals. AND label reading. all of which was hard, and is still hard today, then we go to friends places who eat horribly, you know where that leads, what i eman by hard really is that like everyonelse were time pinched worked two jobs have a kids etc etc so its the time constraint that is the hardest for us.
 
The hardest part for me is losing all weekend. Then I have two cheat meals over the weekend I'll end up having two beers total over the weekend. I then will gain 5 lbs over the weekend. And its not like I'm eating unhealthy besides the beer. Its just my portion control is off and I over eat. So starting this week I am spending more time at the gym and not cheating on the weekends no more till I hit my goal weight. I am also going to try and start running either at night or in the mornings on top of the gym.
 
Well, I guess for you "normal people" their is probably a lot of hard things about this health and fitness lifestyle.


For myself on the other hand, the only hard part (apparently) was deciding I was going to flip my whole life around, and go from the absolute extreme of poor health, to the absolute extreme of health and fitness. It's actually really easy when you just completely eliminate stuff like chips, candy, ice-cream, fast food, fried food, etc. For you all that try to eat just a little bit of this stuff, then try to use self control to stop right there.... Ha ! If that works for you, more power to you. For myself, that would be like telling a crack head, "Okay, here's 10 lbs of crack rock...... but you can only take a few hits. Then you have to just stop right there. Oh, I'll be back in a few days to see how your doing...." YEA RIGHT ! Like that's really going to work !


Oh, and as for keeping up with my workouts..... eh.... Sure, I have some tired mornings, or maybe a hard start, after a full day of physical work, but once I get going, and start to get my pump on, I usually feel pretty good.


But hey though, again, if I were only trying to have a medium amount of lean muscle, and like 13% BF (in other words, where I'm at right now) yea, it might be hard to try to simply maintain where I'm at. But since I want to be rediculous buff, and 9% BF, I can't even think about just "maintaining". I have such a long ways to go..... and at 47 years old, I have no time to waste.


Honestly, I have a harder time "not working out" on my scheduled rest days !


Peace,

Fish
 
Fast food seems to be the hardest thing for me to kick. I used to think it was sweets, but I have gotten those under control. Just my cravings for fast food get me every time.
 
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