What's your biggest struggle with your weightloss?

1. Accepting slow progress, as someone else mentioned
2. I travel a lot and it's hard to stick to a diet when I can't prepare my foods
3. Eating to ease stress, it's almost like binge eating sometimes.

I get frustrated that I am not seeing results fast enough, and give up. I am trying not to do that this time. Everyday I have to remind myself that it is a slow process.

The dreaded PLATEAU !!

Reason I joined MFP! I also struggle keeping my sodium intake within decent levels.

Drinking my calories has been my biggest struggle. I'm a big pop drinker, and in addition to that I like sweetened tea, hot chocolate, milk, etc. I still make room for at least one pop a day, but now having a drink with calories in it is more of a treat. It still makes me sad sometimes though, because every once in awhile a mocha is exactly what you need!

My biggest Struggle is keeping track of everything I eat. Portions, Measuring adding it all to my food journal. It all becomes daunting after awhile. And to lose weight and be healthy its not just about Calories and fat, its everything Sodium, sugar etc. Sodium is the worst it goes buy so quickly before Ive even used up half my calories for the day. And i am Not a salt adder to my foods I never add salt at all its just most foods these days have a lot in them.

and then this confuses me How come on here MFP the calories you burn are added to your food intake for the day. I thought if you want to lose weight you try to burn the calories you eat and not eat the calories you burn?????

I hate that I have to choose between increasing my lifts or decreasing my body fat. It's hard to make time to pack all of my food especially on days that I'm gone for 14 hours (work and then a late night martial arts class). I can make restaurant food fit my calorie and macro goals, but it's more expensive and generally less healthy or less tasty.

I get a little discouraged when I see other peoples great losses and great lift progressions when I'm not doing either very quickly. I also don't have a body that shows abs as quickly as some other people's, so it can be discouraging with just how hard I work.

ETA: I also go through the occasional "eff it" moment and just want to eat everything especially after a few drinks. Not a true binge, but definitely much more than planned/necessary

Changing my brain and my all or nothing thinking! ! I have always had the mindset of,"oops I slipped up today. May as well go all out and start fresh tomorrow." Then tomorrow would elude me, sneaky douche!! So I have had to train my brain to be ok with indulging but not over indulging!!!! I still have issues with it. I am convinced that my brain has made me fat not my stomach!!

Alcohol

Me too! Anything carb/salty is my downfall!

Inconsistency is my biggest issue. One day I'll be excellent, the next day I'll go over my deficit by a little (read under a 100 over), and then the very next day I'm back to under my deficit but WAY over in my macros. Ugh. I really like carbs apparently and need to work on switching them for protein. It's high on my to-do list.

Next issue is finding the time! The only place to really fit exercising in to my schedule is in the morning and I am NOT a morning person. It's been a struggle but I am slowly getting better about getting up at 4:30-5am to hit the gym, shower, dress, eat breakfast and make sure everything is good to go before I leave for work. When I get home, first it's chores then it's making our own dinner and by then I have an hour or two to digest before it's bedtime.

Sometimes I really hate working so much, haha.

Insulin resistance and reactive hypoglycemia. It's one of the hardest things to live with.

Because my body overproduces insulin, I am constantly hungry. When your body becomes resistant to insulin, it cannot metabolise carbohydrates properly. This leads to weight gain, and a constant craving for carbohydrates.

With my blood sugar constantly crashing into the 40s and 50s, I have to eat frequently- usually within every two hours. Sometimes I'm not even hungry so it is very frustrating having to eat so frequently just to keep my blood sugar up.

That sounds really tough. My sister is a type 1 diabetic and I see the struggle she goes through every day with a (seemingly) bipolar blood sugar. It must be very difficult to keep a consistent, healthy diet throughout. Feels.

The very last leg of the weight loss journey can take FOR-EV-ER (at least that's been the case for me.) My goal had been to reach my goal by Thanksgiving but I didn't quite reach it. And then throw the holidays and family visits into the mix things just really have taken sooooo much longer. Almost there but that very last few pounds takes a lot of work.

I cannot go to a gym (I can't drive yet because I'm 15, and my mom said she's too busy to go to a gym) and it's below freezing outside... It's always too cold. Just a few weeks ago it got down to -3 degrees in our area! Coldest I've ever seen it where I live... I also get lost when I get home from school. So much stress lately with the midterms and I seem to eat junk food!

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