What do you struggle with the most......

My biggest struggle by far is waking up in the middle of the night and hitting the fridge. Bread is my weakness. As much as I tell myself I won't do it, it still happens almost nightly. I do great during the day, but then middle of the night comes and the urge is intense. It's a work in progress.

Gym for me

Definitely diet for me. At night I fight the snack demons! I leave calories for snacks but it’s a daily battle and has lasted for two plus years!! Sometimes the demons win the battle but I’m winning the war lol!
I enjoy my gym time and my walks so they’re not so much of a battle. This wasn’t the case in the beginning when getting motivated for exercise was harder.

It’s diet for me too as there is so much food out there

Diet. I honestly dont know if I know what feeling full is like. I just eat to complete discomfort or pain, or I'm hungry.

I'm lazy and undisciplined, with strong self-indulgence and hedonistic tendencies. IF it's a struggle, odds are good I'll fail out of it.

On the plus side, I'm very analytic. While becoming active, I tried many things, and was lucky to fall into forms of exercise that I genuinely enjoy. Those became reasons to do other forms of exercise that aren't as fun, to get better at the fun things. On the eating side, I used that analytic bent to figure out how to eat in ways that were mostly calorie appropriate on average, but still enjoyable and pretty easy for me.

I work kind of hard at *not* struggling, truthfully, because that's a better way to game my individual personality and inclinations. That's not intended as braggy: We all have strengths and weaknesses to work within, to accomplish goals, y'know? I consider myself sort of bad at being a grown-up. I'm crap at doing things because they're good for me, so I need to find alternatives.

If anything is a struggle, it's keeping up a decent exercise schedule in my rowing off season. Rowing machines are just not as fun as boats, so I get tired of machines. This year, because of the pandemic, that has dragged on longer, so I had to trot out my poorly-performing "motivation" and "discipline". Ugh. And strength training is always a struggle, because I like the results but don't enjoy the process. I won't generalize "struggle" to workouts, or to being active in general, though. That's mostly pretty fun. Even the rowing machine is kinda fun . . . for a while. 🙄

Defenitely a diet. I can exercise and surly will even overdo it but when comes to a diet I just struggle so much. I tired so many different diets which made me finally believe that diets doesn’t work at all. I wasted about 12 years of my life trying diet and loose weight which resulted in being obese today. Pretty sad it is I suppose. You need your own, personal approach and balanced meals which will hit your target and will be tasty and satisfying, otherwise it won’t work.

That I won't be able to reach my goals and be healthy. That all of this effort is like last time and will result in being in the worst health I've been in in my life and doctors will dismiss my concerns about fainting randomly.

I've gone from 200 lbs to 130 lbs before. It's not the easiest thing, but it's not the hardest thing. Hardest thing when it comes to dieting and my health is getting the stupid arrogant doctors to do anything about my getting faint, blind, and passing out randomly once my weight gets below 150 lbs which just so happens to be the threshold of overweight and normal weight is. Otherwise I would set my goal to between overweight and when I start collapsing randomly - those are the same weight unfortunately.

Allegedly being 250 lbs is not great for my health so I'm going to get down to 170 lbs. But that will still put me at 20 lbs overweight and I'll still be told I'm unhealthy by those ugly arrogant lazy doctors. But I'm afraid that, like last time, I'll put myself in a situation where driving to work, taking a shower on my own, standing up on the buss, and just generally trying to live my life like a normal person will be a dangerous risk to my health. All so people I don't even trust with my health anymore will approve of my body weight and these same doctors won't even care about immediate health risks I don't even face at 250 lbs.

Biggest obstacle is feeling objectively healthier while obese than at normal weight and finding no doctor on earth to tell me why or even show the least bit of concern.

Doctors, doctors are what make losing weight and keeping it off hard for me.

Exercise.

Neither really...diet is pretty easy and I enjoy eating healthfully for the most part and having some pizza on Friday nights. I love to ride, either road cycle or trails on my mountain bike, so that's not really a struggle either...

I suppose time would be the biggest struggle...I'd like to ride much more than I do and ride the kind of miles I used to, but I don't have the time like I used to...promotions at work leading to greater responsibilities...kids getting older and in school and needing help with homework, etc...kid's extracurricular sports and activities and practices and games, etc...

StevefromMichigan wrote: »

Pizza!!!

Me too I hate stretching out the dough I like it thin and I'm impatient so it always rips.

My struggle is consistency. I’m good with both for a week and then the following week the plan goes out the window. Smh.

Staying motivated . . . I definitely overeat carbs. I will exercise but it makes me more hungry so there's that.