What frustrates you the most about weight loss?

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  • charovnitza
    charovnitza Posts: 689
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    Well, like many of you, plateaus...but also Keeping the Weight OFF.

    I read somemething recently that made sense to me. (I'm paraphrasing this)

    We all make mistakes. If you made a mistake on a test, or a paper at school, you would stop going to school? No, you'd admit the mistake and keep going. If you were driving a car somewhere, and made a wrong turn, would you drive home and forget about where you were going, or would you find another way there?

    So when we make a mistake or two on our weight loss program, why do many of us think weI've blown it, and then go back to eating ourselves into oblivion? It was just a mistake, get over it and pick up where you left off. Makes sense to me.

    "You can have a fresh start any time you like, for failure is not the falling down, but the Staying Down"
  • katiefridley
    katiefridley Posts: 151 Member
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    I hate that all of my clothes fit poorly right now. :ohwell: I can't wait until I can buy all new clothes.
  • Today_BBD
    Today_BBD Posts: 7
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    The lack of time to work my plan frustrates me....how do I get so busy with life's responsibilities that I can not do the right thing for my own best interest....the care taker mentality sends me off in a million directions caring for others,,,
  • baja572
    baja572 Posts: 94
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    menopause is mean! I know your pain.
  • Cassiopeia5
    Cassiopeia5 Posts: 6 Member
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    Back when I was a size 14, I could hardly ever find nice clothes in my size, and the most common size in clothing stores was 12. Now that I'm size 12, I'm finding it hard to find nice clothes in that size, and the most common size is 14. It's like the universe is working against me. :grumble:
  • pikachuFL
    pikachuFL Posts: 75 Member
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    Plateaus are what have killed most of my diets. I try to hang in there but after a few months, I can't do it anymore without getting results. I try to figure out what I'm doing wrong (do I need to eat less? eat more? exercise more? exercise less?) and nothing seems to push me past it.

    I do have one good plateau story, though. When I was in high school, I got to within 14 pounds of my goal weight and stalled. After several week, I gave up on my diet and stopped writing everything down. A few months later my family was at Sears looking to buy a new scale and when I stepped on it, I was pleasantly surprised to find that I had broken through the pleateau and lost another 9 pounds!

    One of these days, I will figure out the riddle of the plateau and reach my goal. I'm determined to make it!
  • Qskim
    Qskim Posts: 1,145 Member
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    Back when I was a size 14, I could hardly ever find nice clothes in my size, and the most common size in clothing stores was 12. Now that I'm size 12, I'm finding it hard to find nice clothes in that size, and the most common size is 14. It's like the universe is working against me. :grumble:


    YES...I was a 20-22... N those sizes were first to go...now at 12/14...they are first to go! And also..some size 20/22 clothes I really like they dont make smaller! I walk into city chic now n it's like what are u here for lol? But I love their clothes!
  • Aviva92
    Aviva92 Posts: 2,333 Member
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    getting to my goal weight and still hating the way my body looks.
  • britneyy32
    britneyy32 Posts: 97 Member
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    What frustrates me is when you are working so hard and doing everything "right" and you aren't getting any results what so ever.. it's like what's the point of working so hard when you aren't even getting any results from it? It just makes me want to give up. :/
  • mjhedgehog
    mjhedgehog Posts: 249 Member
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    It frustrates me that you can't spot reduce and it seems like I lose from everywhere except the places I want to. And it frustrates me that its seems so easy to put on weight but its harder to lose it. (for me lol)
  • wmoomoo
    wmoomoo Posts: 159 Member
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    It frustrates me the most when people ask why they are not losing weight when they just started the journey for less than 1 week. I mean come on, you didn't gain all those lbs in a week, what makes you thing you can lose them in a week? All those magazines talking about how to lose 10 lbs in 10 days..... They are really misleading and make people think weight lost should be fast and easy.
  • optimist49
    optimist49 Posts: 28
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    What frustrates me the most is when you had a great week with your food and exercise and you don't lose an ounces. UGH.
  • elizabethis
    elizabethis Posts: 155 Member
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    That it isn't linear, or more predictable.
  • Kim55555
    Kim55555 Posts: 987 Member
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    My personal experience has frustrated me the most. I can eat basically the same calories, same macronutrients, almost same sodium from one week to the next and have different numbers show on the scale. I've been hovering around the same weight for MONTHS now.

    Hi maybe I can help

    How much do you weigh?

    How much do you want to lose?

    How many calories do you gross and net ?

    Do you exercise and how much?

    If you haven't lost weight in months I don't understand why you don't try something different!

    Looks to me like you either have to lower or raise your calories depending on your answers.


    Edited to say:

    Hi

    I was reading one of your replies to a topic back in September where you said that you eat between 1900-2500 gross calories depending on your exercise for that day. I think you have still been losing but slowly. From what you have talked about on mfp lately your body is changing shape (slowly recomping) so i think you are slowly losing the fat but its not registering on the scale.

    I think if you change your gross calories to between 1800-2000 & or net maybe between 1350-1500 you will have a more moderate (faster) rate of fat loss. Well done so far on your loss.


    Same thing has happened to me. I've been going at it for what will be 3 years in April and when I need a breather (as you do when on a marathon fat loss journey) I eat at a slight defecit of between 1700-2300 gross calories. I find I still lose fat but at a slower rate. Also the scale doesn't move much as I go through this recomp stage. I still however lose cms and get leaner in my photos though! When I'm ready for it and want to start losing at a faster rate i eat at my moderate defecit range of between 1700-1950. I net around 1350-1400.

    I exercise vigorously and lift heavy, and I have learnt what my sweet spot is for the different phase that I'm in. I think you'll need to experiment to find your sweet spot. Also I have lost 3 kg in the past 12 months but you wouldn't think so looking at photos of my transformation from the christmas 2011 period through to Christmas 2012.. I really need to upload to photo bucket and post my success story one day.

    Hope I've helped and good luck. Keep up with the persevering :)
  • xxtaliaxx
    xxtaliaxx Posts: 123
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    How long it takes. For some reason, I'll get to a certain weight and I'll just stop losing, even if I was doing the same thing!! That's definitely frustrating. Or how I have to eat healthy if I want to lose weight so I can't eat what everyone else is eating. ORRRRR how if I have to go to work in the morning (like 430) and I need to stop somewhere to get something to eat, there's nothing healthy out there!!! WTF am I suppose to do about that?
  • charismanoodles
    charismanoodles Posts: 343 Member
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    People asking for diet advice then completely ignoring what I say because it's 'too hard'. Of course it's going to be hard! But worth it :)
  • Kim55555
    Kim55555 Posts: 987 Member
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    I've been thinking about this lately. At work it would be nice to join in and be one of the crowd (food is kind of like a bonding experience isn't it. People all the time are eating cake or biscuits and I miss the socialising the comradship. Dunno if I explained it the way I wanted to. Sometimes I'll stand there and eat a banana. I'm just not even keen to eat the junk anymore anyway which is good. It was fun at christmas time as I felt like part of the group. Felt a regular.
  • squindles
    squindles Posts: 350 Member
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    that it takes so long
    Yea, this for me as well. This is why I always fail. Come on, I'm morbidly obese so how can in 3 weeks of cutting my cal intake by HALF, I've lost 7lbs where as I could put that on in a week? :huh:
  • starrisonmclennon
    starrisonmclennon Posts: 64 Member
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    i see virtually no chance since i started even though the number on the scales goes down
  • Natihilator
    Natihilator Posts: 1,778 Member
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    That it isn't linear. That my body doesn't operate like a calculator and give me expected results based on all of my various calculations. It frustrates me, but I've come to accept that it's just how this deal works.

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