What's your biggest challenge?

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  • newheavensearth
    newheavensearth Posts: 870 Member
    Blocking out the voices, getting a thicker skin, and staying in my lane.
    I'm always tempted to bail on my plan when I see someone else is getting better results on theirs. For a minute I was actually thinking "I should have let myself get morbidly obese so I could have got surgery like So and So" instead of being happy with what I've already accomplished. And most of these thoughts come from the morons in my life whose opinions I allow to get to me: not thin enough, not thin yet, not thin like them, too much loose skin, etc. Not helping things at all.
  • fitoverfortymom
    fitoverfortymom Posts: 3,452 Member
    My biggest challenge is food. I want all the food.
  • JetJaguar
    JetJaguar Posts: 801 Member
    Battling my family. To them food = love, and if they offer me food and I say no, it's the same as if I said "sorry, but I don't love you anymore", so every meal is a struggle. They also make it very difficult to exercise because someone always needs me to do something for them. Even when there's nothing going on at the moment, they don't like me to be away just in case something does come up.
  • Zeuggma
    Zeuggma Posts: 157 Member
    For me, it's not letting weight loss and fitness fall into the background when I get busy/stressed. This is the second time I'm focusing primarily on weight loss. Hoping it sticks this time.
  • AMV91
    AMV91 Posts: 86 Member
    Food is deeply intertwined with emotions for me. For example, one very rainy day in 9th grade it was pouring and my mom ran out of the house with a towel so we wouldn't get soaked from the 1 minute walk from bus stop to my house. She made pasta and meatballs that day and it was a very comforting day.

    SO now every (and I mean every) time it rains, I want a massive plate of pasta and meatballs.

    If I wake up and its a cool crisp morning, I want cinnamon buns and coffee because my SO brought me cinnamon buns and coffee on a crisp fall morning when we started dating, etc.

    I get so upset thinking about how little calories I get. Honestly though, they aren't that little. Plus when I actually eat mostly whole foods, 800 calories is a TON of food. I know I need to get to the point where I can have cinnamon buns on a cool morning here and there, just not every morning of fall lmao.

    Does this make sense?
  • bernadettenz
    bernadettenz Posts: 252 Member
    kommodevaran wrote: »
    I don't have to accept every offer of food.
    I really struggle with this one!
    kommodevaran wrote: »
    I tend to feel sorry for myself when I say no.
    Oh man - you just exactly described what I hadn't realized about myself! Thank you for giving me an AHA! moment!

  • Danimri84
    Danimri84 Posts: 262 Member
    Severe emotional eating, and the sheer volume of food I can consume. I can down 4000 calories like it's nothing and not feel even close to uncomfortably full. I can easily consume over 10,000 in a day. I LIKE eating. I love feeling full. I like food that is absolutely awful for you. Now I'm going to stop talking about food before I go eat something massive.
  • gabriellejayde
    gabriellejayde Posts: 607 Member
    Sweets, which I've given up completely.
    And snacking, which is harder to change.
  • Enjcg5
    Enjcg5 Posts: 389 Member
    1). Getting out of my own head about losing the last 10lbs
    2). Eat diligently and mindful M-F only to screw up on weekends ( eating out and wine)
    3) beating myself up about it
    4). Repeat cycle
  • theresa961
    theresa961 Posts: 37 Member
    celebrations are always happening..birthdays, parties, potlucks..vacations...always involve food and yummy treats
  • jesspen91
    jesspen91 Posts: 1,383 Member
    Social situations involving food and alcohol. I hate drawing attention to myself or being a party pooper.
  • clicketykeys
    clicketykeys Posts: 6,589 Member
    Patience. I'm still making progress but after going from almost 230 to just over 170, it's slowed down a LOT. It's soooooo hard to keep plugging away when the pace feels absolutely G L A C I A L!!
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