WHAT'S YOUR BIGGEST BARRIER TO CHANGE?

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  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,627 Member
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    yourself.
  • AbsoluteTara79
    AbsoluteTara79 Posts: 266 Member
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    Patience.
  • caci88
    caci88 Posts: 53 Member
    edited September 2015
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    Wow thank you all so much for your posts!
    queenliz99 wrote: »
    My biggest barrier was that CICO works!!

    I was definitely guilty of this!! I wanted to believe I could have the body I wanted AND eat what I wanted when I wanted and be inconsistent with workouts.. haha go figure!


    Annr wrote: »
    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...

    This is SO true!!! I saw a quote the other day "change may be difficult but it means soon things will get easier" and I loved it.. because it's so true!

  • goldthistime
    goldthistime Posts: 3,214 Member
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    My biggest barrier was relying on sweets for "instant energy". Not enough sleep? Coffee and donut (or two). Feeling under the weather but there is work to be done? Nothing a piece of cake or a cupcake can't solve.

    The act of "propping myself up" with those sugary carbs (and concomitant fats), worked well the first time. If I tried it later in the day I'd have to eat a larger amount to get the same bump in energy. Then I'd fall into days where I had very little protein or vegetables, just lots of carbs.

    I was under the weather a week ago and I dearly wanted to have a sweet treat just so I could get up and DO something. But once that snowball starts rolling...
  • knelson095
    knelson095 Posts: 254 Member
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    Change has always been really hard for me...but in June I had to move 2800 miles from home (my husband is an officer in the Navy),clear across the country from everything and everyone I have known my whole life. I was angry about it, and absolutely terrified...but really, it's not as bad as I thought. I mean it sucks and I hate it most days, but my life is not ruined like I thought it would be. Realizing I could manage this life changing thing and not have my world crumble around me helped me make the decision to finally be healthy. If I can handle missing my lifelong best friend having her first baby, I can handle anything. And honestly, once I tried it and stuck with it, it got waaaay easier. And I love seeing the scale of down, even just a fraction of a pound.
  • sbmcm
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    My biggest barrier has been that I want instant gratification. I want the weight off, but I want it off now and for some odd reason it never complies (go figure). And when that happens, I turn to my old standby -- fun food, where the gratification may be brief, but it sure is quick. Patience may be a virtue, but it's one I've never been accused of having. (And yes, I'm working to change that :) )
  • WBB55
    WBB55 Posts: 4,131 Member
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    I think I've had to overcome many barriers to change along the way. The first one was probably just recognizing that I could do something about my extreme obesity. That it wasn't inevitable, and the fact that everyone else in my family was obese did not mean I had to be as well. That I had a choice.
  • Azuriaz
    Azuriaz Posts: 785 Member
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    Despair

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