What's your BIGGEST obstacle?

LaDiablesse
LaDiablesse Posts: 862 Member
edited October 1 in Health and Weight Loss
What is the BIGGEST obstacle you face with your eating healthy & working out?
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  • runnermel
    runnermel Posts: 278
    my LOVE of good food and drinks!! dang it....gets me everytime! I will workout and just kill it, don't mind it a bit. but, then undo everything I had done with what I put into my mouth!! ugh.....
  • foodforfuel
    foodforfuel Posts: 569 Member
    My budget. I eat a whole lot more when I workout, and I get really frustrated trying to have the right foods available at all times!
  • XFitMojoMom
    XFitMojoMom Posts: 3,255 Member
    Likely my insulin resistance... but I do like to drink...
  • wickedcricket
    wickedcricket Posts: 1,246 Member
    I like my wine & I'm diabolically lazy (really, it's a crime how lazy I am)
  • Gigi_licious
    Gigi_licious Posts: 1,185 Member
    Myself
  • AHealthierRhonda
    AHealthierRhonda Posts: 881 Member
    junk food and sweets!!!!!!!!
    UGH!!!!!!!!
  • klkopa
    klkopa Posts: 35 Member
    my love of sweets!! it completely throws off all my hard work :(
  • moriaht
    moriaht Posts: 251 Member
    Weekends. I love to eat at pubs and drink beer and then go to Mcdonalds for a hangover breakfast (and usually a midnight snack too!!)
    If there was no weekend, I would be skinny.
  • ayshamc
    ayshamc Posts: 226 Member
    My budget. I eat a whole lot more when I workout, and I get really frustrated trying to have the right foods available at all times!

    Oh I hear you! I call them "Gym Worms" (cause if you get stomach worms they eat away at your insides and you constantly feel hungry...) LOL

    But yes, I need to constantly have the right types of food around otherwise I can just go nuts eating everything in sight somedays after working out in the morning!
  • annmrie
    annmrie Posts: 38
    How much I miss candy, particulary Swedish Fish. People tell me I can still have some so long as I measure out my servings, but when it comes to my favorite candies, the whole box feels like a serving to me. lol
  • skinnylove00
    skinnylove00 Posts: 662 Member
    peanut butter and chocolate. and dont even get me started on reeses.
  • muitobem
    muitobem Posts: 436 Member
    Chocolate and salty foods!!!

    And...getting lazy days....
  • robynann01
    robynann01 Posts: 5
    My schedule. Doesn't lend itself to eating right and I tend to eat too late.
  • Nikiki
    Nikiki Posts: 993
    my habit of reverting to an oh F&%K it attitude when I make a tiny slip... generally causes me to go months repeating "I'll restart tomorrow, I'll restart Monday, For SURE I'm restarting Wednesday" always followed up with "but since I've already blown it for today..."

    usually results in ice cream, cupcakes, pizza, candy blah blah blah. badness!!!
  • sgressock
    sgressock Posts: 47 Member
    I think for me is would be that I'm surrounded every day with people eating junk food. Sometimes I do just want to say "yeah i'll have a soda/fast food." Then I watch them eat, and I get happy with my meal. Also understanding what that food does to my body really helps lol.
  • taso42_DELETED
    taso42_DELETED Posts: 3,394 Member
    my self
  • JS295
    JS295 Posts: 27 Member
    Ice cream. Gets me every night.
  • rmjj5
    rmjj5 Posts: 55
    Drinking on the weekends...nothing beats a few cold beers on a patio :(
  • mamajess82
    mamajess82 Posts: 51
    Usually I cave when I haven't had enough sleep - then I eat to stay awake and it all goes wrong from there :( I have a 1.5 year old who dictates just how much rest I get (or don't get) .
  • Heather75
    Heather75 Posts: 3,386 Member
    my self

    taso42
  • mamaredhead
    mamaredhead Posts: 112
    1. Missing a good and healthy lunch.
    No lunch leads to an empty stomach. An empty stomach leads to hunger. Hunger leads me to the grocery store. The grocery store fills my bag with all kinds of food I don't actually need (nor want). Funny food leads to unhealthy meals. And that definitely leads to the dark side of the force.

    2. Plus there is no time to go to the gym I love, being a single mother with not enough money for babysitters on a regular basis.

    Yeah, working hard and being alone is basically it.
  • josaleigh
    josaleigh Posts: 73
    Weekends. I love to eat at pubs and drink beer and then go to Mcdonalds for a hangover breakfast (and usually a midnight snack too!!)
    If there was no weekend, I would be skinny.

    Amen
  • taso42_DELETED
    taso42_DELETED Posts: 3,394 Member
    my self

    taso42

    MFP!
  • LittleD311
    LittleD311 Posts: 618 Member
    I am totally slacking in my eating and working out departments. I have become overly obsessed with everything, that I needed to take a step back. Right now since my funds are low, I cant even go grocery shopping, so eating this week has been horrible...but hanging in with my workouts!
  • YukonJoy
    YukonJoy Posts: 1,279 Member
    My boyfriend and my willpower.

    He brings crap into the house.... I eat it.

    If I was single I would be ripped again. Sigh.
  • lannlynn
    lannlynn Posts: 72 Member
    boredom.........it's hard to believe that I actually get bored at times but I do and then that's when I want to eat ......everything!!! I try hard NOT to get bored!
  • Nessi37
    Nessi37 Posts: 47 Member
    Ugh! The weekends are the worst! It's easier to control what I eat during the work week. I can pack my breakfast, lunch and snacks and stay right on track. When the weekend rolls around, its another story. The fridge is too easily accesible and I LOVE to bake for my boyfirend and his son, who are both skinny of course :0)
  • brittanyjeanxo
    brittanyjeanxo Posts: 1,831 Member
    Trying to find healthier alternatives to my cravings. Lately my craving has been for slow roasted pork with a side of rice and black beans, but I know that it's not that great for me. I know cravings are just your body's way of trying to get some sort of nutrient it needs, but the hardest part is trying to figure out what I need that's in the food I'm craving. Sometimes, if it's vague, I know what it is. For instance, I'm craving something salty, I probably need salt. I'm craving something sweet, I probably need sugar. I crave oranges, I probably need vitamin C. But what am I supposed to do when my body decides that it wants pork, rice and beans? Or something of non-nutritional value, like ice? :| (when I crave ice, I'm not dehydrated. I crave water when I'm dehydrated :P)
  • carbons2k
    carbons2k Posts: 383 Member
    my parents! They just dont get it! They dont understand that its a life change not just a diet. I still live home bc moving out is way too expensive for me right now. My mom will cook whatever she wants and when she makes pasta, I get an argument if I start to make my own dinner or I get told "have a little" They dont get that I want to cut out past and pizza as much as possible. Since Ive been working on this, Ive had pasta (whole wheat) once and havent had pizza. My dad seems to think i work out in the gym with 15lb weights for 5 mins and come home. He wouldnt last 15 minutes doing what i do

    ... and my boss thinks my protein shakes are steroids and wants me to take a drug tust lol
  • brittanyjeanxo
    brittanyjeanxo Posts: 1,831 Member
    my habit of reverting to an oh F&%K it attitude when I make a tiny slip... generally causes me to go months repeating "I'll restart tomorrow, I'll restart Monday, For SURE I'm restarting Wednesday" always followed up with "but since I've already blown it for today..."

    usually results in ice cream, cupcakes, pizza, candy blah blah blah. badness!!!

    I feel ya! That's always been my problem in the past...I'll start tomorrow. Whoops I forgot and ate something bad, might as well start tomorrow, blah blah blah :|
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