What do you think is the hardest part about losing weight?

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  • wrenak
    wrenak Posts: 144 Member
    How very long this is going to take. I realize that I didn't gain overnight. In fact, I have been higher than average weight since 5th grade when the doc put me on pills to try and make me grow (some bunk about how my skeleton was younger than I was and he wanted to speed things up? idk, it was 1984). I wasn't on the pills for long, but I went from slender to pudgy, and it just crept on from there. But when you're only 5' tall and staring 272lb in the face, plus all the associated health issues that come with it, getting down into a health BMI range seems like an impossible feat. This time it's much easier for me because I *finally* get CICO. Still hard realizing how long this will likely take.
  • cdcllcga01
    cdcllcga01 Posts: 71 Member
    It's a tie between the long term consistency of effort vs. the fact that no matter how precise you are, everything is still an estimate and weight loss isn't linear. The engineer in me wants precise measurements that yield predictable results on a day in, day out basis and not having that is frustrating and makes you question yourself along the way. My cultural training makes want everything to happen now; instant gratification.
  • Alidecker
    Alidecker Posts: 1,262 Member
    starwhisperer6 wrote: »
    being social. Lots of my friendships are cemented around a table, and learning to socialize without it having to be at some Italian place every time. Don't get me wrong I still love to go out to eat, but making it a treat instead of a norm.

    This! Finding a balance in my social life has been tough for me. I do have friends that will go do active things with me, but we also tend to center our fun around going out to eat and having a few cocktails, which I enjoy.

  • MariliaPa
    MariliaPa Posts: 42 Member
    ARGriffy wrote: »
    Losing the last few is the most difficult thing I've ever done!!

    THIS! And being patient with it- progress with me is really slow.
    And as was already mentioned, going out and being social only slows down he process further.
  • Ashtoretet
    Ashtoretet Posts: 378 Member
    The water weight fluctuations are what bother me the most. It's hard to tell real weight loss and dehydration apart until you wait a couple days.
  • BurnWithBarn2015
    BurnWithBarn2015 Posts: 1,026 Member
    Didn't and dont find it hard at all. Had no stalls plateaus had no fall backs etc. I just weighed all my food and ate what i wanted only smaller portions. Created a deficit and that's it. Some days when i was more hungry i just ate a bit more. Why making it hard on myself? As long i dont eat SURPLUS for days than it is just normal life. A dinner a party i did it all and still do.

    What i have more problems with atm is the fact that it takes longer than i thought to find maintaining level.

    After the period of losing i am now trying to find maintenance and i am still upping calories...Every time i think now it stops i lose another half pound it seems lol
    So up it again with 100 calories and wait it out for 3 weeks....The waiting game it seems.

    And not really a problem with it. And love the fact i can add more calories. But it plays a bit with my patience atm. And sometimes i think just add 250 or 300 right away and see what happens.

    for now we take it step by step.


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  • dkingdom1
    dkingdom1 Posts: 60 Member
    The other 23 hours I don't spend working out. :wink:

    And the fact that I'm just not seeing the results I had hoped for over the past three months. ): It's hard because I like junk food and I know everyone says it's okay in moderation but still, I feel like it slows my progress. Yet if I tried to completely cut out junk food everyday, I'd end up buying an entire box of oreos like I did (twice!) last weekend. Maybe I'm not ready yet, and that's ok.
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    As Tom Petty says, the waiting.

    The beginning is tough, making and adjusting to new habits. But it's the long process, having to do the work every single day for such a long, long time. I totally get it when people say, "I feel like I should be done by now!"

    It requires so much patience. Subtracting my break, I will have been dieting for over two years when I'm done. Two freaking years! Drop a tenth of an ounce here, three ounces there. It all adds up, but takes forever.

    The waiting is the hardest part.
  • MsMaeFlowers
    MsMaeFlowers Posts: 261 Member
    Not being able to fit an entire large bag of Doritos into my daily calories :'( or at least half a bag.

    On a serious note, just having the patience to keep going until you see results.
  • MondayJune22nd2015
    MondayJune22nd2015 Posts: 876 Member
    Losing weight!
  • MsJulesRenee
    MsJulesRenee Posts: 1,180 Member
    The everyday struggle of balancing my calorie limit. Sometimes I have good days, sometimes bad days. You can see a pattern of weight loss over time but trying to stay positive on the bad days and getting back on track is the hardest.
  • Lynzdee18
    Lynzdee18 Posts: 500 Member
    It's forever, not just a diet. :D
  • MollyJE19
    MollyJE19 Posts: 67 Member
    Struggling to control cravings now that the weather is colder. I've gained and lost the same 3 pounds for the past 3 weeks, due to giving in to some of the high-fat, high-carb food cravings I have at the beginning of every winter.
  • elisa123gal
    elisa123gal Posts: 4,324 Member
    hmm where to start…
    I guess trying to find a way to do this and get it done for good -- without crazy restrictions and being food obsessed. Much of my life is geared around dining and social drinking.. so.. you can understand the struggle.
  • kpk54
    kpk54 Posts: 4,474 Member
    Not finding it again.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,570 Member
    edited November 2015
    What do you think is the hardest part about losing weight?

    Maintaining it.

    I had very little difficulty losing the weight ... but I'm not feeling so confident about being able to maintain the loss.

    I'm just about to go into the phase where I start adding calories. On the one hand I don't really want to eat much more than I'm currently eating ... generally speaking I like what I'm eating and how much of it I'm eating. But on the other hand, it might be nice to have a pastry at morning tea once a month. I'll need to sort out a balance.
  • ArmyGirl1314
    ArmyGirl1314 Posts: 9 Member
    peter56765 wrote: »
    The non-linearity of weight loss and plateaus. It's very demotivating to be so disciplined for weeks and then not see the scale budge, or worse, go up.

    This.
  • rustyquinn
    rustyquinn Posts: 41 Member
    I would have to say shift work is the top of my list. It's difficult to create a routine to stick with.
  • bpetrosky
    bpetrosky Posts: 3,911 Member
    Resisting the urge to smack people who first note that I've lost weight from the last time they saw me and turn around and offer unsolicited advice on what I should be doing to lose weight. Clearly I have a handle on it since you noticed, why do you have to tell me to do anything different?

  • MondayJune22nd2015
    MondayJune22nd2015 Posts: 876 Member
    bpetrosky wrote: »
    Resisting the urge to smack people who first note that I've lost weight from the last time they saw me and turn around and offer unsolicited advice on what I should be doing to lose weight. Clearly I have a handle on it since you noticed, why do you have to tell me to do anything different?

    That doesn't seem like the intent, to me. It seems that they're trying to enhance and/or provide variety.
  • Livgetfit
    Livgetfit Posts: 352 Member
    Having patience. Not my strong point anyway.

    Also, as someone who is quite private, I dislike being a topic of discussion.

    Jealousy and unsolicited advice.

    BUT - it is all worth it. To put yourself first, to learn about your body, to tell yourself & others that you deserve to be healthy, to feel that sense of achievement, to inspire others and so much more. The rewards are great and I think this is what we should focus on!
  • Merkavar
    Merkavar Posts: 3,082 Member
    The sinking feeling when you realise you should have done it 10, 20, 30 years earlier.
  • riffraff2112
    riffraff2112 Posts: 1,756 Member
    8-11 pm.
    Still a battle every night to not indulge with ice-cream, chips. Been two years, and I win the battle most nights, but I always have to remind myself that pigging out just wont get me where I want to be.
  • CoffeeNCardio
    CoffeeNCardio Posts: 1,847 Member
    Surrendering that feeling of being really full and over-satiated has been the hardest thing for me. Like that need to loosen my belt and lean back and kick up my feet feeling... I wish my stomach would shrink.
  • Lourdesong
    Lourdesong Posts: 1,492 Member
    Hmm. That conscious choice I have to make many times a day, every day, for 1.5 years now, to stop eating after a certain point of intake, cuz goals.
  • victoria_1024
    victoria_1024 Posts: 915 Member
    The weight loss has actually been pretty easy. The hardest part though was just not being able to eat whatever I wanted whenever I wanted.

    I'm only a few pounds from my goal weight now and it's been much harder since I got to this point. I feel like I'm good at losing weight and I'm good at gaining weight, but maintaining is going to be way harder for me.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    Maintenance
  • oolou
    oolou Posts: 765 Member
    Echoing the others, the hardest thing I'm finding is accepting how slow the process will be, along with the scales occasionally going up or not budging despite sticking to the diet. I very recently started to track my weight on weightgrapher to help build a more positive frame of mind, in that I can now see there is a downwards trend - but still, ugh. So Slow.
  • GaleHawkins
    GaleHawkins Posts: 8,159 Member
    Keeping it off.
  • Orphia
    Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
    Getting my massively-sized head from how proud I am of myself through the door.

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