What's your BIGGEST obstacle?
LaDiablesse
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What is the BIGGEST obstacle you face with your eating healthy & working out?
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my LOVE of good food and drinks!! dang it....gets me everytime! I will workout and just kill it, don't mind it a bit. but, then undo everything I had done with what I put into my mouth!! ugh.....0
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My budget. I eat a whole lot more when I workout, and I get really frustrated trying to have the right foods available at all times!0
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Likely my insulin resistance... but I do like to drink...0
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I like my wine & I'm diabolically lazy (really, it's a crime how lazy I am)0
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Myself0
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junk food and sweets!!!!!!!!
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my love of sweets!! it completely throws off all my hard work
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Weekends. I love to eat at pubs and drink beer and then go to Mcdonalds for a hangover breakfast (and usually a midnight snack too!!)
If there was no weekend, I would be skinny.0 -
My budget. I eat a whole lot more when I workout, and I get really frustrated trying to have the right foods available at all times!
Oh I hear you! I call them "Gym Worms" (cause if you get stomach worms they eat away at your insides and you constantly feel hungry...) LOL
But yes, I need to constantly have the right types of food around otherwise I can just go nuts eating everything in sight somedays after working out in the morning!0 -
How much I miss candy, particulary Swedish Fish. People tell me I can still have some so long as I measure out my servings, but when it comes to my favorite candies, the whole box feels like a serving to me. lol0
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peanut butter and chocolate. and dont even get me started on reeses.0
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Chocolate and salty foods!!!
And...getting lazy days....0 -
My schedule. Doesn't lend itself to eating right and I tend to eat too late.0
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my habit of reverting to an oh F&%K it attitude when I make a tiny slip... generally causes me to go months repeating "I'll restart tomorrow, I'll restart Monday, For SURE I'm restarting Wednesday" always followed up with "but since I've already blown it for today..."
usually results in ice cream, cupcakes, pizza, candy blah blah blah. badness!!!0 -
I think for me is would be that I'm surrounded every day with people eating junk food. Sometimes I do just want to say "yeah i'll have a soda/fast food." Then I watch them eat, and I get happy with my meal. Also understanding what that food does to my body really helps lol.0
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my self0
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Ice cream. Gets me every night.0
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Drinking on the weekends...nothing beats a few cold beers on a patio 0
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Usually I cave when I haven't had enough sleep - then I eat to stay awake and it all goes wrong from there I have a 1.5 year old who dictates just how much rest I get (or don't get) . 0
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my self
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1. Missing a good and healthy lunch.
No lunch leads to an empty stomach. An empty stomach leads to hunger. Hunger leads me to the grocery store. The grocery store fills my bag with all kinds of food I don't actually need (nor want). Funny food leads to unhealthy meals. And that definitely leads to the dark side of the force.
2. Plus there is no time to go to the gym I love, being a single mother with not enough money for babysitters on a regular basis.
Yeah, working hard and being alone is basically it.0 -
Weekends. I love to eat at pubs and drink beer and then go to Mcdonalds for a hangover breakfast (and usually a midnight snack too!!)
If there was no weekend, I would be skinny.
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my self
taso42
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I am totally slacking in my eating and working out departments. I have become overly obsessed with everything, that I needed to take a step back. Right now since my funds are low, I cant even go grocery shopping, so eating this week has been horrible...but hanging in with my workouts!0
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My boyfriend and my willpower.
He brings crap into the house.... I eat it.
If I was single I would be ripped again. Sigh.0 -
boredom.........it's hard to believe that I actually get bored at times but I do and then that's when I want to eat ......everything!!! I try hard NOT to get bored!0
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Ugh! The weekends are the worst! It's easier to control what I eat during the work week. I can pack my breakfast, lunch and snacks and stay right on track. When the weekend rolls around, its another story. The fridge is too easily accesible and I LOVE to bake for my boyfirend and his son, who are both skinny of course :0)0
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Trying to find healthier alternatives to my cravings. Lately my craving has been for slow roasted pork with a side of rice and black beans, but I know that it's not that great for me. I know cravings are just your body's way of trying to get some sort of nutrient it needs, but the hardest part is trying to figure out what I need that's in the food I'm craving. Sometimes, if it's vague, I know what it is. For instance, I'm craving something salty, I probably need salt. I'm craving something sweet, I probably need sugar. I crave oranges, I probably need vitamin C. But what am I supposed to do when my body decides that it wants pork, rice and beans? Or something of non-nutritional value, like ice?
(when I crave ice, I'm not dehydrated. I crave water when I'm dehydrated :P) 0 -
my parents! They just dont get it! They dont understand that its a life change not just a diet. I still live home bc moving out is way too expensive for me right now. My mom will cook whatever she wants and when she makes pasta, I get an argument if I start to make my own dinner or I get told "have a little" They dont get that I want to cut out past and pizza as much as possible. Since Ive been working on this, Ive had pasta (whole wheat) once and havent had pizza. My dad seems to think i work out in the gym with 15lb weights for 5 mins and come home. He wouldnt last 15 minutes doing what i do
... and my boss thinks my protein shakes are steroids and wants me to take a drug tust lol0 -
my habit of reverting to an oh F&%K it attitude when I make a tiny slip... generally causes me to go months repeating "I'll restart tomorrow, I'll restart Monday, For SURE I'm restarting Wednesday" always followed up with "but since I've already blown it for today..."
usually results in ice cream, cupcakes, pizza, candy blah blah blah. badness!!!
I feel ya! That's always been my problem in the past...I'll start tomorrow. Whoops I forgot and ate something bad, might as well start tomorrow, blah blah blah 0
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