Is losing weight supposed to be hard?
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Because I'm hungry all the time. Alllllll the time. I'm so hungry right now I could burst into tears. When I get home (from my full time job, that I work in addition to a part-time job), it'll be even harder because I'll have food all over the kitchen and have to use all the discipline and self control in my possession not to eat any of it even though I feel like my body is digesting itself from the inside out.
And I've lost...3 pounds.0 -
To the OP, may I suggest you go out and get a job right now while you still know everything.
Come back and lecture us when you have some life experience...............0 -
Those aren't challenges, those are excuses
You have all the tools available to you that you need to complete your goal. Responsibility and stress aren't reasons to not develop healthy habitsYou'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.
Don't have time to have a healthy breakfast or lunch?
Make it the night before and en masse
Don't have time to exercise?
Go for walks around the office or workplace if you have the chance
You asked about challenges. Examples were given. No one said those challenges preclude success.
The troll is strong with this one.
At what point do "excuses" become challenges then. Where is that line?
I am sorry but when you are trying to maintain a house, working a 10 hour shift and starting a family those "excuses" qualify as challenges. We all have been through highschool, I can assure you....you have not experienced true stress yet. Your body is in peak form at your age, your energy level is at its highest it will ever be, you have the fewest responsibilities you will ever have in the rest of your adult life.
You perceive things as not being difficult because you have nothing in your life that makes them difficult.
Is weight loss or fitness complicated? No. But it, like anything, takes time...and time becomes a lot more precious at 30-65 than at 18.
I'm 40, a wife, a mother of two teens, work full-time.........................
...................and I used to make excuses as to why I couldn't lose weight. The truth was that I hadn't figured out how to do it. Once I figured it out, it was actually pretty easy.
I'm still kicking myself that I spent all those years making excuses instead of putting in the work to research, learn, and figure out the math and science of it.0 -
Yeah sorry it appears I butted in on everyone's game of tease the little kid ... my bad.0
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Being overweight doesn't necessarily imply complacency or being weak willed
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Look back in history and tell me, how many of the greatest leaders ever were complacent, weak willed,etc.?And with the attitude you have, the only way for your girlfriend to get the boyfriend she deserves is TO FIND A NEW ONE
I'll wait
you by good young fella are complacent and weak willed...otherwise you wouldn't ahve been 30lbs overweight.
Nice try though0 -
gr8 b8 m8, i r8 8/8ITT: incompetence, complacency, excuses, and not much progress
Can't say I'm surprised0 -
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Those aren't challenges, those are excuses
You have all the tools available to you that you need to complete your goal. Responsibility and stress aren't reasons to not develop healthy habitsYou'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.
Don't have time to have a healthy breakfast or lunch?
Make it the night before and en masse
Don't have time to exercise?
Go for walks around the office or workplace if you have the chance
You asked about challenges. Examples were given. No one said those challenges preclude success.
The troll is strong with this one.
At what point do "excuses" become challenges then. Where is that line?
I am sorry but when you are trying to maintain a house, working a 10 hour shift and starting a family those "excuses" qualify as challenges. We all have been through highschool, I can assure you....you have not experienced true stress yet. Your body is in peak form at your age, your energy level is at its highest it will ever be, you have the fewest responsibilities you will ever have in the rest of your adult life.
You perceive things as not being difficult because you have nothing in your life that makes them difficult.
Is weight loss or fitness complicated? No. But it, like anything, takes time...and time becomes a lot more precious at 30-65 than at 18.
I'm 40, a wife, a mother of two teens, work full-time.........................
...................and I used to make excuses as to why I couldn't lose weight. The truth was that I hadn't figured out how to do it. Once I figured it out, it was actually pretty easy.
I'm still kicking myself that I spent all those years making excuses instead of putting in the work to research, learn, and figure out the math and science of it.
I'm making the progress I want to be too, doesn't mean it wouldn't have been a heck of a lot easier for me to do so when I was 18. How about you?0 -
Anyone else wonder why he has to lose weight, if it's SOO easy, how did he gain to begin with? I mean, anyone should know the tools, use the tools and always be successful with the tools(or so he says) guess this chimp wasn't so well trained before!0
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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.0 -
Being overweight doesn't necessarily imply complacency or being weak willed
Exactly
Look back in history and tell me, how many of the greatest leaders ever were complacent, weak willed,etc.?And with the attitude you have, the only way for your girlfriend to get the boyfriend she deserves is TO FIND A NEW ONE
I'll wait
you by good young fella are complacent and weak willed...otherwise you wouldn't ahve been 30lbs overweight.
Nice try though
How about "lazy". You know, that term you self-applied for 90% of your life.0 -
Being overweight doesn't necessarily imply complacency or being weak willed
Exactly
Look back in history and tell me, how many of the greatest leaders ever were complacent, weak willed,etc.?And with the attitude you have, the only way for your girlfriend to get the boyfriend she deserves is TO FIND A NEW ONE
I'll wait
you by good young fella are complacent and weak willed...otherwise you wouldn't ahve been 30lbs overweight.
Nice try though
So you came out of the womb overweight?...0 -
Being overweight doesn't necessarily imply complacency or being weak willed
Exactly
Look back in history and tell me, how many of the greatest leaders ever were complacent, weak willed,etc.?And with the attitude you have, the only way for your girlfriend to get the boyfriend she deserves is TO FIND A NEW ONE
I'll wait
you by good young fella are complacent and weak willed...otherwise you wouldn't ahve been 30lbs overweight.
Nice try though
nope it doesn't imply it...it outright screams it...
anyone who has been overweight knows why we were...because we got complacent and weak willed and gave in...
So if yours isn't from the above why are you overweight?
btw 400lbs in plates isn't enough....0 -
Oh my god if my kid turns out this stupid and rude it's military school all the way.0
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Being overweight doesn't necessarily imply complacency or being weak willed
Exactly
Look back in history and tell me, how many of the greatest leaders ever were complacent, weak willed,etc.?And with the attitude you have, the only way for your girlfriend to get the boyfriend she deserves is TO FIND A NEW ONE
I'll wait
you by good young fella are complacent and weak willed...otherwise you wouldn't ahve been 30lbs overweight.
Nice try though
Not for you. But for us it does?0 -
ITT: incompetence, complacency, excuses, and not much progress
Can't say I'm surprised
LOL not much progress?
Lots of people in here have been able to lose crazy amounts of weight, change their body shape dramatically though hard work, and also managed to stick through it for YEARS - a couple of years should look like a lot for someone who's 18.
And then, you lost 16 lbs in 50 days. Most of it being water weight probably. You're not the only one, lots of people see such progresses in a short amount of time. Yet I've never seen any of them acting like they're Napoleon.0 -
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.0 -
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?
.....you're 18.
My first thought too...when my husband was 18 he could eat his weight in Big Macs and not gain a pound. Come back here when you're 35 and tell us about your "zero challenges" lol0 -
I bought a bench, 400 lbs of plates, a bar, and a half rack for $120 on Craigslistnot all of us have access to a FREE gym!!!
You're obviously not willing to lose weight if you refuse to seek out alternatives
I wanted to lift for months, then finally found a bench and some plates (no rack) at a yard sale for $20.0 -
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