Why Is It Hard

NoLongerBig
NoLongerBig Posts: 10 Member
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We all have our ups and our downs. Why is it hard to be on a diet, but it's so easy not to be. It takes weeks to lose a few pounds, but only a day or two to gain them. Why is that? What's the secret. I feel like years ago something like this wasn't a huge problem as it today. P.S. I'm doing fine. I just wanted to know.

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  • synchkat
    synchkat Posts: 37,368 Member
    Cause being bad is more fun than being good
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  • AdamAthletic
    AdamAthletic Posts: 2,985 Member
    edited September 2016
    Because, everyone's on a diet - some people have diets that work for them and others have diets that work against them.
    If your ultimate goal is health, viewing this as a diet instead of a lifestyle change for the better is the first major hurdle to overcome.

    In order to succeed, you can't always look to 'weight' a blanket number doesn't define you - your desired body image coming to fruition over time is more of a reward than seeing a few lb of potential water retention fall or rise on a scale, week on week!

    All the best!
    Adam
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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    LiftingLady5 wrote: »
    All right fine I'll be serious. Try not to look at it as being on a diet. Focus on healthy eating and good nutrition. Change your goals to physical goals...so instead of every week stepping in the scale to measure your success, say this week I'm going to run a little farther, or run a little faster, or do more push ups, or walk four miles instead of three....and as long as you focus on achieving those fitness goals you aren't so focused on "diet" and how hard it is to diet and lose weight. Instead you are focused on your success every week. Just a thought and one way to approach it to always keep moving forward.

    Diets suck. They only work as long as you are on them.
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  • gothchiq
    gothchiq Posts: 4,590 Member
    Well there is only so much of a deficit you can run in a day. However the limit to how many calories you can stuff in your face in a day.... well there's not much of a limit.
  • Angela937
    Angela937 Posts: 514 Member
    Rub it and it'll go down.
  • gothchiq
    gothchiq Posts: 4,590 Member
    Angela937 wrote: »
    Rub it and it'll go down.

    OH NO SHE DI'INT LOL :D
  • jenmar222
    jenmar222 Posts: 9,271 Member
    This thread title is what I ask every morning when me and the older fella in the tight lime green shorts are the only two in the gym
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  • jenmar222
    jenmar222 Posts: 9,271 Member
    LiftingLady5 wrote: »
    jenmar22 wrote: »
    This thread title is what I ask every morning when me and the older fella in the tight lime green shorts are the only two in the gym

    Does he have a mustache?

    Not on his face
  • MonkeyMel21
    MonkeyMel21 Posts: 2,396 Member
    That's what she said
  • JustMissTracy
    JustMissTracy Posts: 6,338 Member
    jenmar22 wrote: »
    LiftingLady5 wrote: »
    jenmar22 wrote: »
    This thread title is what I ask every morning when me and the older fella in the tight lime green shorts are the only two in the gym

    Does he have a mustache?

    Not on his face

    :s

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