What's your biggest weight loss challenge?

I can't stop myself from eating at night in front of the tv. I've been better lately, but, it's whats kept me from reaching my goal of body building for competition. I'm gonna be one of those old ladies regretting not doing certain things.
 
Mine is lack of motivation. I break the diet and then just feel so bad about it that cannot come back on track.
 
my biggest weight-loss challange: MY BOYFRIEND!! lol

he eats so much junk food, that i of course LOVE and often give into. this always use to screw my diet, but now i calorie cycle (instead of eating 1400/day everyday for example, i'll have 1100 one day and 1700 another day etc. ) and that sort of levels out me eating junk for the days when i see him. i know when we live together this will be a challenge, but i just have to make sure that my good eating habits rub off on him! instead of his rubbing off on me lol
 
hmm... i guess my problem is getting bored with the diet. have to admit that dieting is rarely (make it never =p ) a pleasure for me. Having cheat days and other goals has helped somewhat.
 
Mine is being lazy and not working out. It used to be not eating enough during the day, but having a eating routine has helped this.

Now I gotta kick myself in the butt to work out, especially on those cold days were all I want to do is snuggle in bed with my hubby :)
 
smith123 said:
Mine is consistency. I start with a plan and it eventually falls by the side of the road. Anyone else strugglewith this?
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LaurenS11 said:
Mine is staying motivated. I will train hard and watch what I eat closely for a few weeks, then just die out and not care anymore. Its really easy to skip the gym after work and eat everything I want.
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:iagree: I think they go hand in hand...some times I lose the motivation to be consistent.
 
JulianaRose said:
I'm a terrible binge eater. I'll eat a spoonful of ice-cream and then think "Well damn, I've already blown it for today..." and then I'll just go crazy and eat it all >_>
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Ohhh my gosh.. i can totally relate! I have totally talked myself into this kind of reasoning before.
 
I think my major set back is poor meal planning and horrible impulse. Planning in advance, getting up 15 min earlier every morning during the week to make my lunches and making sure I have enough to last me 12 hours that im away from home is essential if I have any intention to succeed. We have to live INTENTIONALLY! Very challenging at times.
 
San said:
My biggest challenge is not too eat too little, surprisingly enough. For some reason, I am rarely hungry now, other than *after* I have eaten something, so I'm kinda reluctant to eat.
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>.< hadnt seen this and I totally relate. Since I've started dieting and exercising, I dont really feel hungry often and if there werent easy snacks in the fridge, I think sometimes I can't be bothered to eat. Plus I get full faster and then immediatly bored of eating? weird...
 
A huge problem for me is just motivating myself to get going. Once I get started I'm fine but getting out there and doing it is the hard part.

Also the chocolate.
 
my weakness is actually remembering to eat snacks in between meals. i get busy doing something and forget to eat a snack, by then it's lunch time, so i eat my snack then and push my lunch back and pray i don't get busy again and forget about it. that's a neverending process for me...i should start setting an alarm so i know it's time to eat. :)
 
mine's breaking the cycle of a lifetime.
over-eating.. then doing well for a few days.. then binging and so on.
I lose a few lbs.. then gain them back.
for me, it's always been ''tomorrow will be a fresh start'' or ''tomorrow is THE day''.. it was almost like I lived for tomorrow but tomorrow never came.
I'm doing okay now.. I take each day as it comes and if I make a mistake then so be it. i put it behind me straight away. but it's very early days. i just hope it gets easier!
 
Mine is that I really don't want to do it.

Sure I want to be thinner and I want to be healthy and live a long time. I want to live the benefits of being healthy, I don't want to try and get there. I can exercise, I don't have problems exercising even at my weight exercise has never been the issue for me.

I don't want to have to control my eating like I do. I want to be able to eat anything I want (and A LOT of it!), whenever I want and be able to be healthy which isn't the case for anyone.

I'm holding onto the hope that once I get used to eating less that I won't feel so terribly about it all. I think I need to find something to replace my addiction to food with.
 
A couple things for me:

1. Eating out. I love to dine out and the food isn't always the best but I try to stay on track cutting back on my portions.

2. Not eating when I'm bored!! I'm like to munch.
 
Hi All!

I'm new to this site and I totally relate with you all I have been struggling with myself to excercise again and control my binge eating for so long now that I lost hope in finding that motivation again but after I read your posts I have enough motivation and this time I feel that i'm going to succeed anyone care to join? we can do this together :)
 
slimfor10 said:
mine's breaking the cycle of a lifetime.
over-eating.. then doing well for a few days.. then binging and so on.
I lose a few lbs.. then gain them back.
for me, it's always been ''tomorrow will be a fresh start'' or ''tomorrow is THE day''.. it was almost like I lived for tomorrow but tomorrow never came.
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This is me exactly. I finally started to focus on living a normal life, and have realized that slow weight loss is so much better in the long run. I'm so much happier than I ever was trying to lose all the weight as fast as possible. Why I didn't do it this way from the beginning, I have no idea.
 
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