Is losing weight supposed to be hard?

I think the majority of us are reading this laughing to ourselves quietly because we know they're trolling

Oh and by the way, a lot if you are being ageist.

I love how direct and strong young people are. I respect what they've got to say, they quite often haven't had the nasty knock backs that make the rest of us half hearted and weak. I like being around people like that.

/eye roll

I'm a higher education lecturer. I love it when I see them later in life and their youthful arrogance has weathered them through this ****storm called life.
Adults are pretty frikkin rubbish sometimes.

Am I reading too far into this or are you coming off as someone who has a fetish for youth?

Oh and by the way, a lot if you are being ageist.

I love how direct and strong young people are. I respect what they've got to say, they quite often haven't had the nasty knock backs that make the rest of us half hearted and weak. I like being around people like that.

:yawn:

Yeah, I liked to bang 18 year olds too.

Granted I was also 18, but hey, who wants to grow up.

Ladylike! I'm a teacher at a college. I understand how these people work. Really mature btw! Keep at it!

Adults are pretty frikkin rubbish sometimes.

OMG stop being AGEIST

You see criminals all the time using childhood's like mine as an excuse for their crimes. Instead of crime or drugs, I turned to food. Its an addiction I've had since I was a child. You can't avoid it completely like you can with other addictions because we all have to eat to live. And the there's the fact that when you're carrying the weight of 2 people on your body, exercise becomes much more difficult.

Despite my addiction to food weight loss in high school was super easy. During the school year, I couldn't gain if I tried and any weight I gained over the summer melted of in just a couple of weeks.

I don't expect it to be that easy this time. I expect my workouts will be interrupted by my children. And not only do I have to fight my food addiction but breastfeeding gives me a really bad case of the munchies. Especially when she's going through a growth spurt. I'm also am married to a man who is not quite ready to give up his junk food addiction. And I've recently read that people at my bmi have less than 10% chance of success without surgery.

However, I will do this this time. My girls deserve a mom who wears them out instead of being tired all the time. They deserve to be taught how to have a healthy relationship with food. I'm just going to take it one day at a time. Today is day 4 of logging and is shaping up to be day 3 of eating under my calorie goal.

Guys really stop feeding this troll. All he wants to do is make overweight people feel like *kitten*. Hes a spoiled little brat high on his recently acquired and unfamiliar male hormones. Why for the love of god are you actually taking him seriously? Let him prattle on. he will learn his lesson the hard way. As people like him always have to.

Oh you have confused this with seriousness. Trust me, I am not taking this seriously...I have a big ****-eating grin on right now.

LOL! yep

Oh and by the way, a lot if you are being ageist.

I love how direct and strong young people are. I respect what they've got to say, they quite often haven't had the nasty knock backs that make the rest of us half hearted and weak. I like being around people like that.

/eye roll

I'm a higher education lecturer. I love it when I see them later in life and their youthful arrogance has weathered them through this ****storm called life.
Adults are pretty frikkin rubbish sometimes.

you shouldnt speak that way about yourself.

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?

I'm finishing up my second year and have to agree. I think some people find it hard because they haven't really figured it out yet.

I would agree that it's simple. Easy is another thing. And, if one of my kids got seriously sick, you know that tracking calories would be the last thing on my mind.

I think easy depends on your frame of mind. I have had my own personal stressors, and I have decided not to log here and there, but that's just life. Life sometimes throws you a curve ball, and you have to react.

That doesn't make it *hard* to lose weight, once you find what works. And obviously, I realize that some folks have medical conditions, and some may be on birth control or other meds that directly cause weight gain. I'm not dismissing that. I'm just saying, that for me, I struggled for *YEARS* to figure it out. Once I finally learned how it works, and figured out the right macros/calorie goal for *ME* personally, then it was easy. I used to drop and gain 20 pounds from diet pills and such. Now I'm lighter than I've been since my kiddos, and I've been able to maintain that for over 9 months without tracking daily.

So, that's why I said the people who struggle are people who haven't figured it out. Or they could have some medical condition, which I didn't mention in my earlier comment, but yes, for some, that's simply a fact.

Many of the people who struggle haven't figured it out yet. However, I've had this conversation with my friends list. and some of the people who have been really successful and inspirational, etc. admit to still struggling with it. Different people have different challenges.

Oh and by the way, a lot if you are being ageist.

I love how direct and strong young people are. I respect what they've got to say, they quite often haven't had the nasty knock backs that make the rest of us half hearted and weak. I like being around people like that.

:yawn:

Yeah, I liked to bang 18 year olds too.

Granted I was also 18, but hey, who wants to grow up.

Ladylike! I'm a teacher at a college. I understand how these people work. Really mature btw! Keep at it!

Oh and by the way, a lot if you are being ageist.

I love how direct and strong young people are. I respect what they've got to say, they quite often haven't had the nasty knock backs that make the rest of us half hearted and weak. I like being around people like that.

:yawn:

Yeah, I liked to bang 18 year olds too.

Granted I was also 18, but hey, who wants to grow up.

Ladylike! I'm a teacher at a college. I understand how these people work. Really mature btw! Keep at it!

I've taught Highschool and College and I've never met a student this willfully ignorant that wasn't doing it just to get a rise out of someone, so troll.