Excuses

"MFP is too hard to use." That's right, the ridiculously easy to use website not automatically logging food for you as soon as it hits your lips is the reason you can't lose weight.

"I can't eat 1200 calories." Yes you can, or you wouldn't be trying to lose weight. My two-year-old can eat 1200 calories. My dog can eat 1200 calories.

"I know doing this is unhealthy, but I really need to lose weight fast." No. Just no.

Oh, I almost forgot.

Friend: "HAHA you count calories HAHA. That doesn't work! You need to eat only THESE foods, at THESE times, in THESE quantities. Using all this fitness jargon like macros and LBM won't make you thin! Doing exactly what I've told you will make you thin."

Me: "Then why are you still fat?"

Friend: "Oh, that's just how I'm built."

I need motivation! Sure thing, allow me to wave my enchanted wand of motivation. :laugh:

Dude, that one burns my biscuits!!!

A recent favorite from a yo yo dieter "I'm droping the weight on this diet so I don't need to work out, it doesn't do any good anyway" Um really?!?!

"I have a large bone structure"
"Everyone in my family is fat"

Not an excuse necessarily but when people say something like "everyone is beautiful"- says the 5'5 320 pound woman

I just saw the movie Chef and I have to have a Cubano sandwich!

" I am exercising and eating right and not loosing"

(looks at diary) Sorry cleaning, I do not care how "deep" it is, is NOT exercise. Also, learn to use spell check if words are hard for you lose not loose!!

"Why do you lift weights?! Aren't you afraid you are going to look like a man?!"- actual friends have said this to me

I lift because it keeps me strong, and you don't even realize the amount of excess protein and calories a women needs to eat in order to even gain muscle. Don't worry, you won't spontaneously sprout Arnold muscles by lifting a weight heavier than 5 lbs.

"You're so lucky you thin, you can eat whatever you want- here have my cake"- co workers

Umm no- I am not lucky, I work hard. Don't use me as an excuse "it's because your young" and say that that's the reason I look the way I do. If you want to look better, than eat better and exercise.

I'm starting on Monday, so I'm going to enjoy the rest of the week by eating anything I want and eat and drink loads at the weekend cos I've got to 'be good' after that.

I'm going to a bbq so I can't not eat the sausages and burgers etc cos it'd be rude not to.

I've paid for it so I'm going to eat all of it - don't want to waste my money do I?

It's a carvery, we're supposed to pile our plates up - it's in the rules.

"I hate cooking for one person". -Me

i often cook for just myself. what i actually do is cook for 4 and freeze 3 portions so if im out late/unwell/cant be arsed to cook i can just defrost a portion and heat it up

/\ This. I make a large meal on Sundays (roast/veggies) and turn the leftovers into a delicious beef/barley stew and freeze into lunch size containers for me and anyone else in my family that doesn't want to take a sandwich for lunch. Low-cal, delicious and I don't have to think in the mornings! On the off occasion that I cook during the week, I always make extra to freeze as well...

I think a lot of people use the same excuse I used before discovering this website...they think it doesn't really matter much what they eat because they have tried super restrictive "healthy diets" and did not lose weight immediately. Or their loss was disappointingly small. When you're used to eating with abandon, pizza and burgers and chocolate, you may expect to lose a LOT quickly if you switch to salads and fruit. It's not as fast or simple as they would like. They maybe have not counted calories ever, so they don't realize how even "healthy" foods can be eaten excessively, and/or things like condiments & sauces add up to a lot.

Also, I hear people making excuses to not log/track because it's too hard, too tedious, or they go nuts with inaccuracies like my stepsister (who doesn't really even need to lose weight anyway) looking up an item in the MFP database and finding 3 different calorie counts for the item...for some that just deters them completely from even trying it.

Mostly I hear people making excuses not to exercise. Sniffles, exhaustion, extremely minor injuries. A friend of mine has a fitness blog where he basically writes about how tired/sick/hurt he is every day and then one day a week he does some crazy strenuous workout. I am not judging - I could exercise A LOT more than I do - but I personally think walking briskly and stretching every day beats a two hour workout once a week. JMHO.

"its too much of an effort to log what i eat - you obviously have too much time on your hands" - yeah i work full time, have a toddler, exercise 6 days a week and log all my food - of course I gave up watching hours of tv to do it!

"I dont have time to eat right or exercise" - but you have enough time to watch all those tv shows and go on facebook! Seriously I dont understand that - I record the tv shows I want to watch and watch them when its convenient for me.

"i'm a real runner even though i just run on a treadmill."

"I am one of the nicest people you'll meet--even though i look for ways to divide and diminish people rather than unify and edify them."

Someone once told me that she couldn't lose weight because she was big boned. :huh:

"I have to have my sweets (everyday)"

My whine: I have a friend who weighs 199lb and is always talking about how she has trouble walking. Letting her know that losing 50 lb might be an idea doesn't work. Well, you make choices about being friends, so I keep my mouth shut.

It's ok for you...- why? I work full time, have 3 kids, with many after school activities...

Im going to start.... (insert mythical day / date)

I don't have time....

It's too expensive... I shop at aldi / like for my cheap veggies / fruit. I have a council gym membership, by going twice a week it pays for itself.

I don't know why I keep gaining weight....

It's too hard... it is hard to lose weight, it's also hard to maintain and hard to be fat, choose your hard.

Sorry think period one is legit.... but do make sure chocolate binge is in my calories.