Is losing weight supposed to be hard?

Wow.

This has got to be the most successful troll thread I have ever seen! Keep feeding him! this is making for a good afternoon.

Nah, I've seen better. He was called out as a troll too early on for it to be successful. 4/10, maybe 5/10.

I dunno. 13 pages and people are still tying their panties into knots because of him.

It's just too funny to stop.

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?

All of this he's 18 and I'm 4o, 41, 42, 45 implies an inherent difference in BIOLOGY in aged people that makes it hard.

Besides my injuries I have to consider when choosing exercise I wasn't aware that there was some biological or physical state that my age bestows on me that nullifies CI/CO? I thought as far as I don't have PCOS or thyroid problems which are rare, I have the same methods as any other human. Am I misinformed? Have I misread hundreds of threads?

I agree with OP that calories in calories out is all there is to it, that conceptually it is easy. I disagree that as an adult balancing your own personal needs with your responsibilities to others is "easy".

The backlash is largely centered on OP's lack of life experience and overall smugness and arrogance.

OK but that wasn't part of his original OP or his thread title. I think he only said so far that the weight loss plan is easy. I don't think he has called adulthood or the responsibilities "easy" but has simply encouraged people (in a blunt style) to work out those challenges and find a way? I read over his posts which seem limited to this thread and that was my read on his posts anyways. I fear people may be reading more into what he is saying just from personal perspectives.

I understand what you are trying to say but honestly if that is really the case then he needs to learn to convey this attitude far more effectively. Because everything about his delivery suggests a smug immature person belittling people for not being able to do something that he is decided is trivial. And frankly I think that is in fact .. the case. I am sorry but I believe you are trying to imagine virtue where none exists.

Oh no OP is a smug immature prick, I was just saying that I agree that weight loss is about calories in versus calories out. I don't think OP has any insight to offer and I find is arrogance amusing.

Oh i get it man, Don't worry I realize there is big difference between you and him.

For a bunch of "people" who are so busy with work, family, and other responsibilities you sure have a lot of time to post on an Internet forum

You'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.

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 habits
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.

Those aren't challenges, those are excuses

Stop trying to tell people who have a lot more life experiences than you that what they are doing isn't hard. Fine, it may not be hard for you, but for some, they aren't in an 18 year old male body that has the strength and endurance to do this as easily as you. You want to log on here and be judgmental, maybe you should just stay off MFP, and do this on your own. Not one person on here needs another person telling them that they should be better at something when they are trying their hardest to accomplish what you're accomplishing, with twice as much effort. Life happens, and I applaud everyone here for at least putting in the effort of trying to better their life one day at a time.

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?

For a bunch of "people" who are so busy with work, family, and other responsibilities you sure have a lot of time to post on an Internet forum

Of all the possible words to put quotes around why did you put quotes around the word people? The implication there is that the thing you doubt is that we are actually living breathing human beings.

Personally I would have put the quotes around the word "busy", would make more sense that way. Emphasis is all wrong here.

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 in high school and have zero life responsibilities and associated stressors.

Grow up and stop trivializing what is difficult for a lot of people.

OMG this. Let us know how easy it is when you hit your late 20's and have some adult responsibilitis like a full time job, a mortgage, and a car payment.

I have a 3.9 GPA and I'm looking at scholarships for BC, BU, UMASS Amherst, UNH, and UMaine
I doubt I'll have to worry about those responsibilities, because I applied myself all throughout school, and I'll continue to do so

OMG seriously Imma gonna get good grades so I will succeed in life XD. Sorry I'm not even gonna bother debunking that one so I'm just gonna laugh ... hard. I mean sure it helps. But you if you think it's going to give you a free pass you've got a rude awakening in your future.

Oh and incidentally I have an I.Q of 163 and a Masters degree. So this is hardly jealousy.

You'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.

OMG this. Let us know how easy it is when you hit your late 20's and have some adult responsibilitis like a full time job, a mortgage, and a car payment.

I have a 3.9 GPA and I'm looking at scholarships for BC, BU, UMASS Amherst, UNH, and UMaine
I doubt I'll have to worry about those responsibilities, because I applied myself all throughout school, and I'll continue to do so

<laughing into my palm> Well go you, welcome to being like most people. I swear its like you are going to whip it out and yell for people to compare **** size next. You are very proud aren't you.

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?