CHALLENGE POST - What's the hardest part for you

[Got_To_Do_It]

While participating in this challenge what have you found the most 'challenging' part.

Is it to do with food portions, food groups, calories, certain foods?

Is it to do with exercise, motivation, time, ability?

Is it to do with attitude, wanting it enough?


For me the most challenging part of the 'New Me' is Wednesday evenings is cooking night for my four year old daughter  -  and she makes some amazing cakes... or pastries.... she chooses what to make out of her cooking book -  I don't want to steer her, I want her to learn about choices and options.... tomorrow she is making a Sausage plait.... like a large sausage roll but you cut slits in the pastry and inter weave them over the sausage meat to make a plait (braid) look.

[junglejim46]

I think my worst thing about eating is when I'm hurting or can't sleep.  When I'm aching and hurting from my fibro. or the weather, I can't help it , I eat.  When I can't sleep, I get up and nible.  When I'm restless I do the same thing.  
I have tried SO hard to stop this, but I'm getting no where with it.  Plus, I think my meds. keep some of the weight on.
I don't keep candy or anything sweet in the house if at all possible.I drive myself nuts at times trying to avoid something.
junglejim46

[dai3symae]

The most challenging part is always getting started.  For me it's always "tomorrow".  First thing I know a year of "tomorrows" has gone by.  The next biggest challenge will be keeping it off.

[Jame0223]

Ok...I would say its a mixture of the top two things.  Eating and being motivated. I want this SOOO bad..but its just so hard to push myself to get the workouts done...to even want to turn the DVD player on! I used to adore food...well I still do. I am a food-aholic. I actually could care less for chocolate hahaha...lol But just food in general...I love starches! lol Potatoes...pasta...I've always loved my fair share of veggies and fruit...but just the feeling of having to limit my portions and stuff is really hard. I hate not being able to have a slice of pizza or a cheeseburger...My favorite restuarants are really bad! Like Chili's...i love a lot of things there, but they all seemed to make it to the top 100 worst foods! lol I LOVE CHEESE and its SO hard not being able to eat a lot of the things I love...the things everyone loves. Choosing a carrot stick over a string cheese is horrible...lol I miss a lot of food...but I have been doing pretty well...

The worst aprt of it is that I never feel full...I miss the feeling of being stuffed...Sometimes I walk away from a meal still hungry..and that just makes me depressed!

[TrudieC]

I have two hard things - when I am stressed or upset I use food as comfort and I find it very difficult to motivate myself to do exercise.  I'm really hoping that when I get a job that it will help me to get into a routine where I can schedule exercise or even have an exercise club close by.  Being bored and at home is not helping me to exercise - I always say later.

[Lisad1180]

Sub sandwiches...seriously, it's odd but I find myself almost daily craving Subway (ham and cheese toasted) or Quiznos (ham and cheese toasted), etc.  Subway is right next to the gym so its hard to not stop in after my workout!

I will let myself go in once a week, but I no longer get a foot long.  I get a six inch and skip the cheese and it's been working for me.

Ultimately, although its hard, I just have to look at my dad and know I NEVER want diabetes...

[Got_To_Do_It]

Wow JoyRenee -  you REALLY made your point ha ha

I am a self confessed chocoholic so I am VERY impressed that I have not had a single bar of chocolate since I started on 1st Jan... Im sure down the road I will eat chocolate again but I needed to abstain totally until I got control of my eating :)

[JoyRenee]

Eating! I really didn't eat a lot to begin with. But now that I've started to eat more and get my recommended calories everyday, I want MORE. Commercials and pictures of chocolate don't help (chocolate is my weakness--- I could eat it and nothing else).

[gokuangel]

Definetly the eating part! i still try to slide bk in to old habits and eat bad!! But i have to remember just that i ate it and keep on trying its all i can do!! That and this stinkin cold weather! i dont like the cold and when its too cold i dont work out! i only have space heaters so when its really cold i just want to bundle up and stay warm lol!! i did finally sux it up got 30 mins on wii fit better than nothing! on to the shred 2morrow!!

[bet643]

My problem is staying healthy. Everyone around me has had the flu/colds, and it keeps going around and around. So when I'm sick, I am too weak to excercise. I do manage to move about a little, but hard when you have a fever and dizziness. I guess I'm quite hard on myself when I don't lose as much as I expect to. Though I am losing, I am never happpy with my results. I guess all I see is what I use to be 3 yrs ago.....115 lbs. It is quite depressing at times. But I also manage to find the humor in things. I have learned to have fun once in awhile, even if it's at someone elses expense. LOL. Oh, and I do talk to my scale LOL. I can curse at it and it dosen't curse back. I feel better when I'm a potty mouth....good way for me to vent. I'm not hurting anyone when I do so, because it's only a scale.

[wonko]

For me, I think one of the hardest parts is to stay in control of what I eat when the rest of my life feels out of control.  Food has always been my "band aid" to fix my problems.  (Of course, it doesn't really!)  Even though I really want to move on from those habits and from this weight, I find myself relying too much on emotional eating still.

Not getting discouraged by my inability to lose weight in now months is also hard.  It has been a huge challenge for me to not gain during this time, so while I'd prefer to be losing, I should give myself some credit for staying conscientious and keeping the weight off that I was able to lose earlier.  But it's often hard to feel like my efforts are good enough when I can't get the scale to go down.  

Overall, I think I need to work on being nicer to myself.  I do believe that I can get through this rough patch and enjoy weight loss success in the (near, please?) future.