Is losing weight supposed to be hard?

paulawatkins1974

And with the attitude you have, the only way for your girlfriend to get the boyfriend she deserves is TO FIND A NEW ONE

Look back in history and tell me, how many of the greatest leaders ever were complacent, weak willed,etc.?
I'll wait

You consider insulting a community of people to be a trait of leadership?

"Hey, you should lose weight "
"You're fat, stop making excuses and drop the weight"

Which would you listen to? Don't lie.

Is there something wrong with you? Everyone on here (that needs to) Is losing/has lost weight. And most of us weren't fat at 18.

jescamp9481

lol

HazeyBlue69

45 days and 16lbs, is that all you have lost, not much for an 18 year old boy to be honest? I lost 15lbs in the first 28 days way back when I was 18 doing my first diet (and Im a woman). Now 25 years later it takes me 2 months to lose that

karmac0matic

Calories in<Calories out

Done.

QFT

i am dying laughing at this.

Aaron_K123

Oh and by the way, a lot if you are being ageist.

I love how direct and strong young people are. I respect what they've got to say, they quite often haven't had the nasty knock backs that make the rest of us half hearted and weak. I like being around people like that.

Are you referring to experience? So you prefer lack of experience and brash claims to experience. Okay then.

QueenBishOTUniverse

I'm sorry, but as someone who works with 18 YO's on a regular basis, I have yet to meet one that was THIS ignorant and obnoxious that wasn't just doing it to try to upset people. So no matter what age the OP actually is (and I'm almost certain it's NOT 18), this is just 100% pure troll. So moving on:

I'm not seeing many gifs yet? Am I just missing out because I'm at work, and if not it's time for gif hijack. Go.

mortuseon

And with the attitude you have, the only way for your girlfriend to get the boyfriend she deserves is TO FIND A NEW ONE

Look back in history and tell me, how many of the greatest leaders ever were complacent, weak willed,etc.?
I'll wait

you by good young fella are complacent and weak willed...otherwise you wouldn't ahve been 30lbs overweight.

Exactly

Being overweight doesn't necessarily imply complacency or being weak willed
Nice try though

So you came out of the womb overweight?...

Everything in life is a choice, whether it's conscious or not.
Did I choose to be overweight? Yes. I had zero problem with being overweight, and I still had the qualities that I did then that I have now
The only difference is that I got tired of having a belly

...errrrr...isn't that the definition of complacency?

establishingaplace

Oh and by the way, a lot if you are being ageist.

I love how direct and strong young people are. I respect what they've got to say, they quite often haven't had the nasty knock backs that make the rest of us half hearted and weak. I like being around people like that.

Troll within a troll.

Trollception?

getlean414

Everyone is different. What may be easy for you, may be extremely challenging for others. Losing weight is not easy, and if it was we would not work so HARD towards getting the bodies we want. As for me i enjoy working out, its brings a relief of stress, but eating right all the time is difficult when you're tempted by numerous amounts of unhealthy foods that everyone wants a bite of.... For someone else, working out might be the challenge and eating healthy is the easy part. Everyone's different, you just gotta remember that.

jec285

This community is way too easy to troll.

Good job OP, but 4/10 is the best I can give you, you came on a weight loss forum and said losing weight is easy, notimpressed.jpg

RHachicho

Oh and by the way, a lot if you are being ageist.

I love how direct and strong young people are. I respect what they've got to say, they quite often haven't had the nasty knock backs that make the rest of us half hearted and weak. I like being around people like that.

It's not a matter of being ageist. His body is biologically better at losing weight than ours. That's a fact. Also who says nasty knock backs make all of us older people half hearted and weak?. A lot of us become stronger through our suffering and wiser. Humans also have to suffer to learn the value of kindness. This lad has clearly never really suffered in his entire life. If he was being nice or talking sensibly I wouldn't give a rats bottom that he was 18.

I think the only ageist in the room here is you.

Springfield1970

Oh and by the way, a lot if you are being ageist.

I love how direct and strong young people are. I respect what they've got to say, they quite often haven't had the nasty knock backs that make the rest of us half hearted and weak. I like being around people like that.

/eye roll

I'm a higher education lecturer. I love it when I see them later in life and their youthful arrogance has weathered them through this ****storm called life.
Adults are pretty frikkin rubbish sometimes.

ZoeLifts

Have you guys ever considered that your tendency to make excuses for not accomplishing a goal is why you're "too busy" to eat right? Try applying yourself to a goal, because I know for a fact that based in your current position and choice of words, you've never done that before in your life

Funny, because at 18 years old I couldn't have gotten to 50 pounds overweight if I tried? Metabolism was too good and I had no worries. So if this is all so easy, how on earth did you ever let yourself go to the point of being 50 pounds overweight as a teenager?

Exactly.

OP, you aren't one to talk based on the simple fact that you are 50 lbs overweight and only 18.

This was actually my thought as well. I had a horrendous diet in high school and could eat whatever I liked and still had a concave belly and wore a size 6.

Aaron_K123

I found it really hard to lose weight when I was 18, impossible.

Funnily enough, now I'm 43, single parent, running a business, no family, I find 10 hours a week to train and fight daily urges to comfort eat.

Yes, OP is getting his point across really clumsily, and is yet to learn charm and diplomacy, but in a funny way....

He's kind of right. Just coz he's 18 and a jerk doesn't change that.

Just out of curiosity why was it difficult for you to lose weight when you were 18? Was it just a lack of knowledge thing? I assume it wasn't because you were busier then than you are now.

Simple. Lack of self discipline and inability to delay gratification, alcoholism and an eating disorder ! Lol!

So you were undisciplined. Okay, well...that doesn't mean it isn't easier to lose weight at 18 when you don't have responsibilities that just means that in your specific life you were undisciplined at 18.

I think the point most people are trying to get across is it is a little ridiculous for someone who has been trying to lose weight for all of 2 months at the age of 18 when he has no responsibilities other than to himself to lecture adults about how easy it is.

theostlerscat

My son is about your age. This past year he lost about 40lbs. He's 6'0" and about 150lbs now. Loosing the weight was easy for him, it just fell off when he stopped eating junk food and stopped eating when he wasn't hungry.

Now the problem is gaining muscle; that's the hard part. He was so concerned with weight loss that he lost track of the fact that some of the weight he lost was muscle. He has taken off the fat, but he is skinny now and needs to bulk up. It isn't about loosing weight so much, for any of us. It is about reaching a healthy muscle-fat ratio. Keep your eye on the prize; weight loss isn't always all that's important.

Yagisama

Yup. Read many of the posts here. No surprise, the OP is a troll. Not worth the time or effort, unless you find this thread amusing and/or entertaining.

_Pseudonymous_

Oh and by the way, a lot if you are being ageist.

I love how direct and strong young people are. I respect what they've got to say, they quite often haven't had the nasty knock backs that make the rest of us half hearted and weak. I like being around people like that.

Troll within a troll.

Trollception?

Akimajuktuq

You're an 18 year old male. Get back to me when you're a 45 year old woman.

Calories in<Calories out

Done.

The famous Law of Thermodynamics is the ONLY thing going on in the human body? Yup, ok. (I sure hope that you are studying biology and other related topics. You might find hormones of interest.... but wait! You are an 18 yo male so you already know it all. Nevermind.)

chivalryder

Wow.

This has got to be the most successful troll thread I have ever seen! Keep feeding him! this is making for a good afternoon.

Aaron_K123

OP I do have to ask, why do you need strangers on the internet to acknowledge your wisdom?

GallifreyanGirl396

So, let's see...when I was 18 I had: life figured out, a full scholarship, a rockin body with abs, extra cash from my job, a sporty looking vehicle, not a whole lot of attachments ,and enough energy to stay awake for days on end.

Now I have: 2 college degrees and a job that barely cuts it, a strict budget , hypothyroidism, PCOS, diabetes, barely enough time to sleep, and the occasional whiskey to deal with all of the ulcer causing, migraine inducing stress.






Growing up is trap...gloat about your glory days while you have them.

karmac0matic

I think the majority of us are reading this laughing to ourselves quietly because we know they're trolling

WendyTerry420

I've always read and heard about people complaining about weight loss being too difficult, or that it's too complicated. I'm on day 48 of my weight loss "journey" if you wish to call it that, and there's been absolutely zero challenges I've faced. I lift weights 3-4 days a week, and eat at a 500 calorie deficit and I've lost 16 pounds.
So what's the big deal with weight loss? Why is it considered to be so impossible?

I'm finishing up my second year and have to agree. I think some people find it hard because they haven't really figured it out yet.

I would agree that it's simple. Easy is another thing. And, if one of my kids got seriously sick, you know that tracking calories would be the last thing on my mind.

I think easy depends on your frame of mind. I have had my own personal stressors, and I have decided not to log here and there, but that's just life. Life sometimes throws you a curve ball, and you have to react.

That doesn't make it *hard* to lose weight, once you find what works. And obviously, I realize that some folks have medical conditions, and some may be on birth control or other meds that directly cause weight gain. I'm not dismissing that. I'm just saying, that for me, I struggled for *YEARS* to figure it out. Once I finally learned how it works, and figured out the right macros/calorie goal for *ME* personally, then it was easy. I used to drop and gain 20 pounds from diet pills and such. Now I'm lighter than I've been since my kiddos, and I've been able to maintain that for over 9 months without tracking daily.

So, that's why I said the people who struggle are people who haven't figured it out. Or they could have some medical condition, which I didn't mention in my earlier comment, but yes, for some, that's simply a fact.

SugaryLynx

Oh and by the way, a lot if you are being ageist.

I love how direct and strong young people are. I respect what they've got to say, they quite often haven't had the nasty knock backs that make the rest of us half hearted and weak. I like being around people like that.

/eye roll

I'm a higher education lecturer. I love it when I see them later in life and their youthful arrogance has weathered them through this ****storm called life.
Adults are pretty frikkin rubbish sometimes.

Am I reading too far into this or are you coming off as someone who has a fetish for youth?

rathimani

haha this

You're in high school and have zero life responsibilities and associated stressors.

Grow up and stop trivializing what is difficult for a lot of people.

Springfield1970

Oh and by the way, a lot if you are being ageist.

I love how direct and strong young people are. I respect what they've got to say, they quite often haven't had the nasty knock backs that make the rest of us half hearted and weak. I like being around people like that.

:yawn:

Yeah, I liked to bang 18 year olds too.

Granted I was also 18, but hey, who wants to grow up.

Ladylike! I'm a teacher at a college. I understand how these people work. Really mature btw! Keep at it!

action_figure

It doesn't seem hard to me most days. However, there are days when you just don't wanna. Fighting that is the hard part.

Aaron_K123

Adults are pretty frikkin rubbish sometimes.

OMG stop being AGEIST

AvesArdens

Oh wow, this thread got you a lot of attention. Well played!

IlluminatedMayhem

You see criminals all the time using childhood's like mine as an excuse for their crimes. Instead of crime or drugs, I turned to food. Its an addiction I've had since I was a child. You can't avoid it completely like you can with other addictions because we all have to eat to live. And the there's the fact that when you're carrying the weight of 2 people on your body, exercise becomes much more difficult.

Despite my addiction to food weight loss in high school was super easy. During the school year, I couldn't gain if I tried and any weight I gained over the summer melted of in just a couple of weeks.

I don't expect it to be that easy this time. I expect my workouts will be interrupted by my children. And not only do I have to fight my food addiction but breastfeeding gives me a really bad case of the munchies. Especially when she's going through a growth spurt. I'm also am married to a man who is not quite ready to give up his junk food addiction. And I've recently read that people at my bmi have less than 10% chance of success without surgery.

However, I will do this this time. My girls deserve a mom who wears them out instead of being tired all the time. They deserve to be taught how to have a healthy relationship with food. I'm just going to take it one day at a time. Today is day 4 of logging and is shaping up to be day 3 of eating under my calorie goal.