WHAT'S YOUR BIGGEST BARRIER TO CHANGE?
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caci88
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Hi,
I'm hoping to gain some insight into what prevents people from changing? For me, for years it was being WAY too strict & then bingeing, drinking on the weekends which meant I never had healthy food in the house because I was too hungover to shop & being too lazy and tired to cook or measure/weigh my food so ate too much and ate easy foods.. what about you?
Caci x
I'm hoping to gain some insight into what prevents people from changing? For me, for years it was being WAY too strict & then bingeing, drinking on the weekends which meant I never had healthy food in the house because I was too hungover to shop & being too lazy and tired to cook or measure/weigh my food so ate too much and ate easy foods.. what about you?
Caci x
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My biggest barrier to change was simply resisting the fact that change was needed.
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I didn't really care for a long time. Food tasted good and I just wanted to eat.
Now I care about how much I eat, and I care about making progress and being healthy. I can still eat the tasty foods that I have always loved, but I just eat less now.0 -
I just loved food that was bad for me. Pizza, fast food, soda..all of it. And I didn't want to give up all that, go on a "diet" (hate that word) and be hungry all the time.
It wasn't until I stepped on the scale and saw the biggest number I had ever seen in my life, that I realized something needed to be done...and now. So I guess it all came down to lack of motivation and laziness...oh, and a love of food that is not so good for you. Lol0 -
My biggest hurdle was sweet tea and Coke. I literally drank 2 gallons a day plus 64+ ounces of Coke a day for 15 years.0
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Staying away from fast food. Got to be strong all the time to say no to it.0
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My biggest barrier was that CICO works!!0
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What I have come to realize is that change is messy. Change makes you rethink everything. How I look at food, how I cook, how I spend my time. Change does make you aware. Change wakes up your senses. Changing in this journey I have put myself on forever has taught me a couple of things. #1 I would rather change and live my life "eyes wide open than asleep". #2 Changing my lifestyle makes me feel capable of changing other things in my life. It starts the ball rolling so to speak. I am more adaptive of change than I was a couple of months ago. And that is a great thing...0
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Mine is the need to nosh while relaxing on the couch at the end of the day. It's a habit I can't seem to break. There are brief periods when I think I have it under control and then I fall back into the habit.0
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Coffee creamer lol0
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Im old...what is noshing....is that a cool word instead of saying snacking?0
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Yep that would be me... Noshing, scarfing... Mindlessly eating0
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hmmm @zdyb23456 well all that activity does burn some calories....its even SOUNDS active..."There she was noshing and scarfing like crazy....doritos everywhere!!"0
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Mostly, it was not knowing how to prepare healthy food. I'd eat plain, boring food and get sick of it. Like, if you cannot make a pan sauce, why even heat the meat?
I also kept trying to figure out how to eat prepared stuff and lower my sodium. Finally realized it wasn't possible for me...that kind of ties into making my own healthy food.
Once I quit looking for the easiest way, I found the best way. The best way for me, that is.0 -
Waffling on picking my hard. It's all hard. All of it. Just gotta choose, stick with it, and suck it up.0
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It takes time to learn how to marry flavors and tastes together... Its a matter of combining food and being patient while one thing cooks until you add another. My lunch today used a pan and a burner. I cooked some kelbasa with some baby red potatoes, asparagus and zucchini. I put water over everything and turned it down to simmer. That is when the marrying of flavors happen. The food is shy hahaha.. Anyway I put a tsp of chicken stock paste in it and waited until I could put a fork thru the potatoes. Then I put the whole mess into a large ramen bowl with fresh spinach and a sliced up Baby Bell cheese ball. The hot soup mixes with the fresh spinach and its heavenly. Its not hard, and it took maybe 20 mins.0
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ALL the Doritos make it into my mouth
Part of the reason I'm here...0 -
snickerscharlie wrote: »My biggest barrier to change was simply resisting the fact that change was needed.
This.
I gained the weight so gradually, and didn't gain a huge amount of it, that I just continued to see myself as I was.
A secondary thing was instability. During the years where I gained weight gradually, we spend several months packing and preparing for an 8-month trip around the world, we travelled for 8 months, when we returned, we lived with a friend for a couple months, then we moved into our own place for 6 months, but during that time we were working but applying for work in another state, then we packed up and moved to the other state but into temporary accommodations, there was more travel and back and forth for a bit, and finally last November we moved completely into the place we're in now and were able to settle.
And finally I was able to start focusing on things like losing weight and returning to university.
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A big barrier for me is depression. If I'm in the hole, it's hard to muster up the energy to prepare even the simplest convenience foods!0
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