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What's The One Thing That You're Really Struggling With?

quitmakingexcuses
quitmakingexcuses Posts: 906 Member
edited October 2024 in Motivation and Support
For me : eating one bad food on a good day and just saying "well, I already messed it up... might as well just not try the rest of the day". I know this isn't good, but it's what I'm working on!

Anyone else have this problem? What's your weakness?
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  • shovav91
    shovav91 Posts: 2,335 Member
    Nights are my weakness- I eat well all day, only until I'm satisfied... then night comes and all of that goes out the window. I eat crap until I'm beyond stuffed =/
  • quitmakingexcuses
    quitmakingexcuses Posts: 906 Member
    Nights are my weakness- I eat well all day, only until I'm satisfied... then night comes and all of that goes out the window. I eat crap until I'm beyond stuffed =/

    yeaaahh totally know how you feel on that.. it seems like once I start I just can't make myself stop..
  • kittyloo123
    kittyloo123 Posts: 300 Member
    drinking water. i get most of my fluid in the form of decaffinated hot tea.
  • mandeiko
    mandeiko Posts: 1,657 Member
    Lately it's the Halloween candy :sad:
  • PennyNickel14
    PennyNickel14 Posts: 749 Member
    All or nothing thinking has really messed with me. I am learning to do the best I can for where I am in my journey. :smile:

    Also, boredom eating -- I know you just said one :)
  • risefromruin
    risefromruin Posts: 483 Member
    Night eating for sure :(
  • quitmakingexcuses
    quitmakingexcuses Posts: 906 Member
    Night eating for sure :(

    Yeah.. I'm sadly doing it now. And realizing that I shouldn't, especially since the scale this morning was the lowest it's been in a while.. So much for that!! :(
  • wbgolden
    wbgolden Posts: 2,066 Member
    For me : eating one bad food on a good day and just saying "well, I already messed it up... might as well just not try the rest of the day". I know this isn't good, but it's what I'm working on!

    Anyone else have this problem? What's your weakness?

    That.
  • My weakness is arriving home from work and eating a snack and another snack, I have eaten my dinner. Overall I am trying to maintain my calorie 1,200 this week was a tremendous challenge due to work stress.
  • quitmakingexcuses
    quitmakingexcuses Posts: 906 Member
    For me : eating one bad food on a good day and just saying "well, I already messed it up... might as well just not try the rest of the day". I know this isn't good, but it's what I'm working on!

    Anyone else have this problem? What's your weakness?

    That.

    You do that too?
  • wbgolden
    wbgolden Posts: 2,066 Member
    For me : eating one bad food on a good day and just saying "well, I already messed it up... might as well just not try the rest of the day". I know this isn't good, but it's what I'm working on!

    Anyone else have this problem? What's your weakness?

    That.

    You do that too?
    Yes. More than I care to admit.
  • leemarie324
    leemarie324 Posts: 63 Member
    def saturday nights for me, my friends all wanna play beer pong and it gets me every weekend..and another thing is i work in orthopedics so i never get outta work @ 5, so i get home different times every night and i wanna work out right way but dont wanna eat @ 8pm b/c then i eat too much b/c im starving after my work out..wish i had a set schedule, it would make life easier..
  • quitmakingexcuses
    quitmakingexcuses Posts: 906 Member
    For me : eating one bad food on a good day and just saying "well, I already messed it up... might as well just not try the rest of the day". I know this isn't good, but it's what I'm working on!

    Anyone else have this problem? What's your weakness?

    That.

    You do that too?
    Yes. More than I care to admit.

    Same!! And it seems like it's been a lot more common for me lately. Like i'll do really good a few days or a week and then just go off the handle for a day or two! Like cheating on a cheat day.
  • wbgolden
    wbgolden Posts: 2,066 Member
    Same!! And it seems like it's been a lot more common for me lately. Like i'll do really good a few days or a week and then just go off the handle for a day or two! Like cheating on a cheat day.
    For me I think it's self sabotage. If I hit my next goal weight, I'm "committed" to hitting the pool to train for the swim part of a triathlon. But I hate being shirtless in public. So maybe I'll just make sure I never hit that goal. :/

    And yes, talking about it is kinda therapeutic. :)
  • Yakisoba
    Yakisoba Posts: 719 Member
    Eating when I'm supposed to be sleeping.. At 3 in the morning everything is tasty.
  • For me : eating one bad food on a good day and just saying "well, I already messed it up... might as well just not try the rest of the day". I know this isn't good, but it's what I'm working on!

    Anyone else have this problem? What's your weakness?

    That.

    You do that too?
    Yes. More than I care to admit.

    Same!! And it seems like it's been a lot more common for me lately. Like i'll do really good a few days or a week and then just go off the handle for a day or two! Like cheating on a cheat day.

    Hey that's me... I messed it up. Who cares, right? Wrong...every day should be better to get to my goal!!! Weekends are better since hubby is hard core on me!
  • Exercising. It's weird. Two years ago I was working out with a trainer and four other women three times a week and having trouble committing to eating right so I was strong but not losing weight. I stopped going after losing my mom in-law and my own mom within six months of each other. Now I'm losing weight and can't seem to get motivated to exercise. I even moved my awesome treadmill into the family room. It would be nice if I could be eating healthy AND exercising at the same time!
  • quitmakingexcuses
    quitmakingexcuses Posts: 906 Member
    Hey that's me... I messed it up. Who cares, right? Wrong...every day should be better to get to my goal!!! Weekends are better since hubby is hard core on me!

    That's good you have a little support though! My bf will help and tell me to stop, but I usually just yell at him and keep eating. I swear I feel like an eating monster!! Hahaha
  • risefromruin
    risefromruin Posts: 483 Member
    It's awful!! I have kidney/bladder problems so I wake up a lot to pee and somehow a long time ago I formed a night eating habit. I get up and I immediately want a snack of some sort. It's so hard to break! I'll go weeks doing really well and then all of a sudden I'll go back to my horrible ways :( I have a feeling that if I could just sleep through the damn night it would go away *sigh*
  • quitmakingexcuses
    quitmakingexcuses Posts: 906 Member
    It's awful!! I have kidney/bladder problems so I wake up a lot to pee and somehow a long time ago I formed a night eating habit. I get up and I immediately want a snack of some sort. It's so hard to break! I'll go weeks doing really well and then all of a sudden I'll go back to my horrible ways :( I have a feeling that if I could just sleep through the damn night it would go away *sigh*

    Aaah.. well what do you snack on? Could you maybe start with trying to swap the snacks for something better?
  • risefromruin
    risefromruin Posts: 483 Member
    Think about how amazing your body will look if you exercise and lose the weight at the same time! All of that exercise you're missing out on will help firm and tighten your skin. Get with it...you'll be so happy you did!!

    Ooops, that was supposed to be a reply to the poster who was having a hard time finding motivation to exercise.
  • risefromruin
    risefromruin Posts: 483 Member
    It's awful!! I have kidney/bladder problems so I wake up a lot to pee and somehow a long time ago I formed a night eating habit. I get up and I immediately want a snack of some sort. It's so hard to break! I'll go weeks doing really well and then all of a sudden I'll go back to my horrible ways :( I have a feeling that if I could just sleep through the damn night it would go away *sigh*

    Aaah.. well what do you snack on? Could you maybe start with trying to swap the snacks for something better?

    I definitely could. If I switched to fruit or veggies I'd be waayyy better off than my go to peanut butter or protein bars (did I just admit that!?). I sense a new challenge coming on...
  • quitmakingexcuses
    quitmakingexcuses Posts: 906 Member
    It's awful!! I have kidney/bladder problems so I wake up a lot to pee and somehow a long time ago I formed a night eating habit. I get up and I immediately want a snack of some sort. It's so hard to break! I'll go weeks doing really well and then all of a sudden I'll go back to my horrible ways :( I have a feeling that if I could just sleep through the damn night it would go away *sigh*

    Aaah.. well what do you snack on? Could you maybe start with trying to swap the snacks for something better?


    I definitely could. If I switched to fruit or veggies I'd be waayyy better off than my go to peanut butter or protein bars (did I just admit that!?). I sense a new challenge coming on...
    Yes! Maybe try and pre-measure things out for yourself. Maybe bag up some baby carrots, cut an apple in half, etc..
  • happy_travels
    happy_travels Posts: 51 Member
    Night time eating.
  • quitmakingexcuses
    quitmakingexcuses Posts: 906 Member
    Night time eating.

    Welcome to the club...
  • cppeace
    cppeace Posts: 764 Member
    I struggle with the freaking scale. Me and it got along fine before I started exercising losing 1.5-2lbs a week just on diet. Kept diet strong and added exercise. Bam gaining weight! Jeans getting looser but scale continues to rise grrr. Scale doesnt start telling truth soon me and it are gonna play with fire :P
  • quitmakingexcuses
    quitmakingexcuses Posts: 906 Member
    I struggle with the freaking scale. Me and it got along fine before I started exercising losing 1.5-2lbs a week just on diet. Kept diet strong and added exercise. Bam gaining weight! Jeans getting looser but scale continues to rise grrr. Scale doesnt start telling truth soon me and it are gonna play with fire :P

    I hate the scale too.. except I just weight myself waaayy too often and sort of obsess over the number.
  • cppeace
    cppeace Posts: 764 Member
    I only weigh myself twice a week it just likes to mock me... Where are my matches?
  • It is the weirdest thing.....since drinking green smoothies I have no cravings, no desire to eat at night nothing.,...Even with all the Halloween candy nothing...I don't crave salt anymore, my sodium is way down. I don't crave sugar at all...pop none, I even gave up tim hortons steeped tea's and they played a big role in weight gain...I am not complaining because it is cool...my hardest thing is my emotions..I feel like I am cleansing this fat girl....no I don't feel like I want to beat her up anymore....I feel like it is okay for her to let it go....


    I think my hardest thing is weighing myself too much....maybe...
  • quitmakingexcuses
    quitmakingexcuses Posts: 906 Member
    It is the weirdest thing.....since drinking green smoothies I have no cravings, no desire to eat at night nothing.,...Even with all the Halloween candy nothing...I don't crave salt anymore, my sodium is way down. I don't crave sugar at all...pop none, I even gave up tim hortons steeped tea's and they played a big role in weight gain...I am not complaining because it is cool...my hardest thing is my emotions..I feel like I am cleansing this fat girl....no I don't feel like I want to beat her up anymore....I feel like it is okay for her to let it go....


    I think my hardest thing is weighing myself too much....maybe...

    Oh man, I so know how you feel with the whole emotional thing.. I think I've been holding on to mine since like 5th grade.
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