In your opinion, what's the most difficult part about losing weight?

epotasnak

I'm curious. I'm right on the edge of losing my first 20 pounds of my 100 pound goal weight loss journey. In your opinion, what's been the the most difficult part of your weight loss journey?

For me it's keeping control on eating healthy and sticking to my diet plan while family and friends around me indulge in all the foods I use to regularly eat

cerise_noir

Hardest part? Hmm. I still eat the same foods that I used to (yay for chocolate, pizza and cheese puffs!) so I'd have to say the "hardest" part for me is making sure that I prelog my day in advance to make sure I get enough protien even though it's not even that hard.

Christine_72

The hardest part for me is not being able to eat however much when i want.

GoddessofBody

Watching how many calories I actually consume on a daily basis by far is the hardest. Working out regularly is so easy because it takes no more than an hour or 90 minutes at most and I have an affinity for athletic activity anyway. However, most of my waking hours are going to dictate how many calories are actually consumed. I enjoy eating more healthily than not anyway, but I need to really pay attention to my energy input.

usmcmp

Patience. It's not a big deal to log day after day or to fit in the foods I enjoy (those took some practice though). Being patient when the scale isn't moving and knowing that I am doing everything right, that's the tough part. Life isn't The Biggest Loser, it took a long time of just chugging along to get there. My success story looks like it happened overnight when it was really 3+ years in the making.

Jabbarwocky

Two things actually. Honesty in logging food. Not that I'm intentionally trying to mislead myself, but I have a bad habit of underestimating amounts. Eating low sodium is the other. Finding it VERY hard to keep my sodium levels down. Granted, we've been eating out a lot lately but anytime you use anything to make cooking a bit more convenient you tend to pay for it in sodium for some reason.

JeromeBarry1

The hardest part during weight loss is the same *radish* thing that prevented me from beginning to lose weight. Overcoming the lies I tell myself.

fitmom4lifemfp

Christine_72 wrote: »

The hardest part for me is not being able to eat however much when i want.

I'd say that is the answer for most people. Certainly is for me.

stevanisim

stay motivated and patiance is the hardest part when losing weight. I've been in plateau phase in past 3 weeks and been searching different method to change my diet pattern. Patiance is the key i think

KateTii

For my first (successful) attempt at losing weight, the hardest part was getting others to accept that I had made a lifestyle change and getting used to comments.

Then I did my first bulk and gained half of it back (Deliberate).

Now i'm on my first cut (second attempt at losing weight), i'm struggling with the scales not reflecting what i'm seeing. I've massively increased my exercise and I know i'm still putting on muscle in the gym, but it's frustrating now to see the scale stand still when i'm doing the same as I did the first time. My head knows about water retention, muscle density, etc. but for that 5 seconds after standing on the scale and seeing the same result, the emotions overtake the logic and it isn't happy.

TimothyFish

For me the hardest thing was getting started. I was overweight for years knowing what I needed to do but I dreaded it so much that I kept putting it off. Once I started it was easy.

jelleigh

Patience. Defiantly patience. I only ever did crash type diet before and I was used to seeing results relatively quickly. Of course it was never a lifestyle change ao I gained it back. But now I know I could go weeks and not see change even though I'm sticking to plan.

The other part is unsurety. I live in a country where 80% of meals are eaten out at small roadside booths and of course there is no nutritional info and you can only guess how it is prepared. I can't weigh my food and essentially have to just watch my results and hope I'm Tracking right. Which makes the stalls harder because I'm not sure if it's just a normal stall or a sign I've been tracking inaccurately.

altairego21

the hardest part for me is balancing my marcos. I always seem to be eating alot more carbs and a lot less protein

CaliMomTeach

The hardest part for me is really accepting that I will never be able to eat the way I used to eat again in this life and maintain my weight loss. (at least not on a regular basis)

leanjogreen18

Patience. I'm used to fad diets that makes the weight come off faster.

But I try to acknowledge that this is just the way I need to eat so it's not slow its just the way it is.

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JaxxieKat

epotasnak wrote: »

I'm curious. I'm right on the edge of losing my first 20 pounds of my 100 pound goal weight loss journey. In your opinion, what's been the the most difficult part of your weight loss journey?

For me it is accepting the fact that I've consumed all of my daily calories right after dinner, because I was a notorious late-night boredom binge eater. I would say the biggest contributor to my weight gain was nearly constant, mindless shoveling in the food. Three and four Hot Pockets. Bagels with cream cheese and slices of turkey. A pint of ice cream. Soda after soda after soda. Mini pizzas. Entire sharing size bags of M & Ms and Skittles. Now that I'm sticking to my calorie goals, it's hard when the night rolls around and I'm sitting around bored. I've had to learn how to cope and be okay with being hungry when I wake up.

Another hard part is when you get closer to your goal and you start training really hard and despite doing everything right, not seeing the scale budge one way or the other for two and three weeks at a time.

Machka9

After I lost the weight ... the difficult part is trying to balance long distance cycling with my caloric needs and thus maintaining my weight while still having the energy to do the long distance cycling.

sijomial

Eating less, I didn't need to change how I ate - just the quantity.

I like food and don't like the feeling of being restricted.
But in the end it was only for a (relatively) short period and was something I just had to endure.

ceiswyn

Patience. The worst part is having to be patient.

BUT WHY CAN'T I HAVE ALL MY WEIGHT LOSS NOOOOOOOOW?!?! Why do I have to take another six months to lose the rest?!?! WHY?!?!?!

kommodevaran

For me it has been wading through the confusion and seeing through the lies I've been force fed through the years. Oh, and losing weight wasn't really that difficult, even with the lies and deception - because you can do anything for a limited amount of time - but keeping it off was impossible until I got things sorted out.

Eating healthy and sticking to my plan isn't difficult now, because a healthy diet isn't strange or restricitve, but something that is easy to stick to, and I know I can eat what I want, when I want to, so I do that.

tomteboda

TimothyFish wrote: »

For me the hardest thing was getting started. I was overweight for years knowing what I needed to do but I dreaded it so much that I kept putting it off. Once I started it was easy.

Ain't that the truth! I'd dieted as a teen, and made myself desperately ill, too, with disordered eating. The experience terrified me so badly that I let the weight creep back up .. and up.. and past my original "unacceptable" weight, and beyond by some 45 lbs over that before I said "I MUST DO SOMETHING! THIS CANNOT CONTINUE!"

I was more than pleasantly surprised to discover these truths
1. I don't need to starve
2. I don't need to give up any food groups
3. I can eat real meals
4. Walking counts as exercise
5. As long as I moved in the right direction, the magnitude didn't matter

stevencloser

Not something that happpened to me but something I see a lot of people struggling with on here: separating fact from fiction. There's so many myths and outright lies to sell people diet books that many people who start losing weight get overwhelmed by it.

jennifer_417

Staying consistent.

Wolfger

I still eat (mostly) the things I want. Portion control is hard. The hardest part, though, is cutting out (or way down on) snacking. Which includes things like having a beer. As a "boredom eater", the temptation to grab a snack is overwhelming at times. As a brewer, not being able to have a pint whenever I want is rough.

creepy_unicorn

For me it is keeping my grabby hands away from snacks in the evening (a habit that I have had for years). I always say to myself: 'you've eaten what you need, and that's enough', and this stops me snacking but I can't wait until these urges disappear all together. Now 20lbs down 44 to go and I am definitely not going to gain them back because of a *kitten* chocolate bar craving!

tomteboda

Also, the hardest thing was not eating all the cookies. I am an amazing baker, and I love baking. Cookies are my biggest creative joy, and they are delicious.

I cut down to 2 meals a day solely to make sure I have room for cookies whenever I want them. This way I can be thin and have my cookies too.

wellthenwhat

Definitely the cravings and munchies. If there are cookies in the kitchen or break room, I want to grab a cookie every time I go through the room. Or I'll be fixing myself a healthy dinner at my mom's place, and want to snack on the candy bars she has on top of her microwave. I'll even try snacking on things I don't really like. My mouth likes to be busy at all times. For now, I'm smacking on lots of mint gum, lol

katharmonic

The hardest part for me has been wanting to use food as a reward, comfort, substitute, whatever. I still do it - treat myself with food - but I log everything as best I can so I'm aware of what I'm doing and offset it with planning the rest of my day/week.

Francl27

Same as you. Resisting the stuff that you know you can't fit in.

3rdof7sisters

Not being able to eat whatever I want, whenever I want to, sticking to portion size and daily calories.

I still indulge in all the foods I did before, just way less of them, and make them fit into calories for the day. I would never be able to stick to this if I couldn't eat all the foods I love still.