Your biggest weight loss challenge?

RetiredAndLovingIt

@asliceofjackie..I have gotten quite a few nice clothes from a thrift store..much more reasonable than new, especially when you are losing rather quickly. My friend also buys a lot of shoes there, but I draw the line on that. I dont want someone else's foot problems.

bpotts44

I think you are right in that the patience required to be disciplined over the long period of time it takes to make a significant difference is the hardest part.

JennJ323

My biggest challenge is sticking to my plan on the weekends. Weekdays are so easy, meals are prepped and planned.. each day is the same routine. But then on weekends other plans often pop up and I don't want to be tied down to my planned meals. So I almost always go over my goal. I'm in maintenance right now and overall it hasn't affected me, but only because I'm so good during the week. They off set each other.

mjglantz

Funny, when I think back on when I started I don't think I saw anything as a real challenge. I made small changes so I wouldn't be overwhelmed & had no timetable for losing weight. Knew that what I did to lose weight was what I'd be doing for life.

yasmine_ah

I think my biggest issue is balancing my social life with dieting. I eat well at home (except holidays), but there is always someone wanting to go to happy hour, brunch or dinner. All my friends want to go out to eat when we hang out and it's hard to not be tempted by the delicious food. I also have been going on a lot of dates recently, and it's even harder to be restrictive with what you're eating when you're meeting someone for the first time...

Also free food at work. Free food is the best food. >>

whmscll

It’s not free, though. It doesn’t cost money, no, but it costs you plenty in terms of exercise and reducing your calories at other meals and work in generL to keep the pounds off.

endermako

my biggest weight loss challenge is the final 10lbs. i've been working on them since january. I've got 4lbs to go.

matrosov65

Hazelnuts. Pine nuts, almonds, pecans, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds. It's my snack food, netflix food, comfort food, I eat them by fistful. Now I have to literally count them and that truly stinks.

MissCM1983

Probably resisting eating the calories I burn through exercise. That and not eating breakfast!

TanyaHooton

The table at the entrance to my office where there is often platters of chocolates and cookies and pastries. I have to take the long way around so I don't see them. If I see them, I end up taking one...or five.

That I don't have to be perfect ALL THE TIME. I only have to do pretty good most of the time and it will fall into place, even to lose the vanity pounds. And that if I'm not losing weight even after being diligent, then there's something up with my body (TOM, oncoming sickness, too many salty chips)...not that the method doesn't work.

That "scarcity mentality" is a thing, and that it is hard to overcome. It takes a lot of conscious willpower to overcome thinking that was programmed in childhood and to remember that there is not a scarcity of peanut m&m's and I can forgo this opportunity because the world will not run out.

That a lot of foods I'd indulge in (even in moderation) actually don't leave a good taste in my mouth. Like Dove dark chocolates. They are deliciously sinful on my tongue. But after I've swallowed the chocolate, the fat and sugar leaves a gross aftertaste. And I don't like that. So I stopped having them because I don't want the aftertaste.

avlucia

My biggest challenge is actually measuring and weighing food. I just find it super inconvenient and usually just end up estimating, which I'm still losing so I must not be too bad at my estimates, but I also tend to be under my calories by a decent chunk.

Second would be not getting the results I feel like I've earned. I haven't felt this in a while but it's just something I'm constantly conscious of and one of those pitfalls that can easily discourage me.