What has been your biggest obstacle to losing weight?

biancad_1992 · September 2014

In a word... Chocolate.

NoMoreBlameGame · September 2014

My biggest obstacle is the way my mind blares the *amount* I have to lose...like a megaphone in an empty room. I've lost 50 lb, which is a piddle-fart amount to me, considering I have at least another 120 to go. A few people have said to just take it one pound at a time, but it's very difficult for me to have that mindset when I see that massive number on the scale and the massive number on my ticker. Soooo...in a word, I guess my biggest obstacle is my mind.

pghsteelerfan · September 2014

You said a mouthful..no pun intended....exactly what i feel..i sabotage myself always...do well..then let my emotiona take control....how do u finally figure out what it is u r cramming the food into your mouth for??? I just cant seem to make it surface....

JaneLane33 · September 2014

Myself and being consistent. Logically I know what I need to be doing. I struggle with doing it long term. I start out great, see some results and then I sort of let things slide a bit.

bubaluboo · September 2014

Putting it of until tomorrow....and then eating everything in sight because from tomorrow I'll be starting the diet...then tomorrow never quite comes or if it does, it doesn't last long. Once I realised that eating today because I'll diet tomorrow meant that I ended up gaining weight I decided that it was best to just start rather than waiting for a special day to arrive. That also made me realise that if I blew the diet for one day / one meal, it was better just to draw a line under it straight away and carry on with the healthy eating rather than calling it game over. The worst thing was having a dieting/not dieting mentality (which even now I find hard to break) which leads to cycles of binging and starving. Better to take one meal at a time and choose the best option. Sometimes that best option is the calorie laden one because I just need it...but no guilt, just making the next choices balance it out means that the weightloss stays on track.

justalittlecrazy · September 2014

I've been my own biggest obstacle. Because I didn't have any health problems, I have always been like "I'm big but I'm active and I don't have any problems." Basically, I was an ostrich sticking my head in the ground. You don't get to be 300+ lbs forever and not develop health problems. So I had an extremely unexpected health scare and had to decide if donuts and double quarter pounders with cheese were better than living a long, happy life. They aren't and that was that.

Gingerspice45 · September 2014

stress and depression. I have problems with emotional eating as well. Trying to get these problems in check.

Ashantih87 · September 2014

I'm a stress eater with a sweet tooth. I procrastinate when it comes to working out. A workout buddy would help but now I take my son for walks, so he's my buddy.

pander101 · September 2014

Consistency. I do great for a few weeks then crash and burn. Sometimes I can keep it going for months on end but some days I really struggle for motivation between school, work, and lack of sleep.

Quasita · September 2014

Knowing that to reach my goal weight in a healthy way, I still have over 2 years of work to go... and that's without any more major health issues. Since I started losing, I have had to have 3 abdominal surgeries, which resulted in a lot of bedrest and long stretches of medical restriction to my exercise. Most people assume that I had weight loss surgery but NOPE.

dammitjanet0161 · September 2014

A sense of complacency because I'm not *that* overweight so I thought I still looked ok even when my weight had started to creep up. I'm tall and have a broad frame so have always been physically bigger than most of the other females I know even when I was slimmer and lighter - this made it easier to be in denial even when clothes were becoming tighter.

Also, a picking habit. I've never been a binge eater but the phrase "little pickers wear bigger knickers" could have been made for me.