Is losing weight really that hard or are people just lazy?

[UptownSoulja]

It depends on the person, me personally I was a bigger nikka all my life it took me going to the doctor and seeing I was almost 300 lbs to make a change. within a year of that doctors visit I lost 80 lbs and all I did was stopped eating junk food ate smaller portions and only drank water

 

[O.T.I.S.]

It's hard for certain people mainly because of the diet...

I have to lose about 15-20 lbs and it's hard as shyt because of what I eat and because I drink... But I'm in the gym almost daily (pending injuries)

And then injuries do nothing but interfere with the process because when you can't go to gym, I fall into bad habits.

I still got my 225 rep by 15-20 though and box... So w/e

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

I'm 27

I got to change now

I was depressed and it made me eat more at one point too. I won't lie.

Now I just eat because I like random bad foods

Don't help growing up broke or with bad eating habits. Unfortunately its kinda easy. Just get some Greek yogurt and a few pb and js and some fruit and some fruit snacks.

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

It's hard for certain people mainly because of the diet...

I have to lose about 15-20 lbs and it's hard as shyt because of what I eat and because I drink... But I'm in the gym almost daily (pending injuries)

And then injuries do nothing but interfere with the process because when you can't go to gym, I fall into bad habits.

I still got my 225 rep by 15-20 though and box... So w/e

Why you drinking if you box and are in the gym? why do people who associate with physical activity entertain alcohol? Maybe a beer or 2 once or twice a month but anything other than that is really unnecessary if you plan on being something nice

 

[Supercoolmayo]

Food is a drug

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

It's both...obviously lazy motherfukkas aren't gonna do something that's hard.

And it is hard. It takes time and discipline. Lots. Not 'i did cardio for a month' time and discipline. It takes 9 months to a year of diet, exercise, strategy, etc. and you gotta do it in fat ass America.

It isn't hard, its just creating new habits and being rational wtf. Eat simple and light, exercise consistently and every 1 day a week or so have a cheat meal.

 

[The ADD]

It isn't hard, its just creating new habits and being rational wtf. Eat simple and light, exercise consistently and every 1 day a week or so have a cheat meal.

That's part of the issue. People can read that, have the cheat meal and fukk off all progress. That's why I said it's confusing. I personally know what you mean but to someone new it needs context.

 

[Rack4K]

It isn't hard, its just creating new habits and being rational wtf. Eat simple and light, exercise consistently and every 1 day a week or so have a cheat meal.

'creating new habits' is one of the hardest things any human can do, food or otherwise.

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

'creating new habits' is one of the hardest things any human can do, food or otherwise.

That's true, I just used the excuse old habits die hard on my superiors yesterday

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

That's part of the issue. People can read that, have the cheat meal and fukk off all progress. That's why I said it's confusing. I personally know what you mean but to someone new it needs context.

Yeah, I mean you must be realistic about your goals though you know?

 

[jerniebert]

Most of it is just laziness. Your body can pretty much do anything you want it to do. You just have to commit to it and understand its not going to happen overnight. As far as people not being educated about it that's a bullshyt excuse. Google is your friend and you just have to seek the knowledge. That just goes back to laziness and not willing put in the work to get healthy. Take care of your body its the most important thing you own. Even you skinny people who eat unhealthy need to get the right nutrition. Being skinny and being fit are not the same. Getting the right nutrients is probably more important than anything else you can do to your body.

 

[The Mad Titan]

I think lack of knowledge is the biggest.

Its hard to begin to eat well when you don't know reasoning behind it. All you know is "this is what so and so said worked for them so imma try that"

Once you realize how your body uses carbs proteins and fats, you begin to realize we consume a lot of stuff the body just cant process and or doesn't need.

Which leads me to the second reason: Portion control

This is big for Americans, I think reports have shown that we buy and consume the most food world wide. A lot of people tend to eat out of boredom, and or for taste, not necessity. And go WELL over the serving size when eating meals.

Third, people tend to want the best of both worlds, they wanna eat anything they can and still have killer abs for the summer. That only works for people for extremely high metabolisms, and even then, they aren't usually very muscular. Also, being skinny DOESNT mean your healthy. Seen so many people work out just to throw it all out the window from binge eating. At best you'll stay the same weight doing that. Working out doesn't give you a license to pig out. You can afford to cheat a little, but you'll never see significant progress with out a modest eating regimen (not diet).

Last of all, patience and will power. These are big, some people just don't have the discipline to say no. They don't see they benefits of it beyond losing a little weight. And that's fine, if your happy with eating what you want, and remaining the same size (or possibly gaining weight) cool. Just don't complain when you look in the mirror and you don't look the same as your high school self (girls do this so much its nauseating) or you just can't explain why you have random health ailments.

I honestly feel if you can conquer and achieve the weight/fitness phenomenon, you are better for it. The feeling of setting a goal for you self and meeting (and some times surpassing it) is like no other, and can make you feel like you can do anything.

-DMP-

So true, once you realize that eating two ice cream sandwiches is a huge deal instead of a small one you start to think of things a bit differently. I could eat 650 calories of junk that will fill me up for about 30 mins eat something else that wont taste as good but be more filling.


I use to never think about calories and stuff, until I really understood caloric intake and how many empty calories things like soda, honey buns, and pizza gave you. I still enjoy those things but instead of eating junk twice or more a day its a once a day thing, and if I burn up all my calories in one sitting well my punishment is starving the rest of the evening. For me that works well... for others it might not so much.

It's gotten me to a point where I just dont want to waste 600 calories on a large fry or 300 on a soda.

 

[MR. SNIFLES]

I THINK IT IS THE BREAKING OF OLD HABITS.

 

[BlackAchilles]

"Everybody wanna be a bodybuilder, but nobody wanna lift them heavy ass weights" - Bodybuilding great Ronnie Coleman

Also losing it isn't that complicated, its the relapse that gets most people

 

[The ADD]

Most of it is just laziness. Your body can pretty much do anything you want it to do. You just have to commit to it and understand its not going to happen overnight. As far as people not being educated about it that's a bullshyt excuse. Google is your friend and you just have to seek the knowledge. That just goes back to laziness and not willing put in the work to get healthy. Take care of your body its the most important thing you own. Even you skinny people who eat unhealthy need to get the right nutrition. Being skinny and being fit are not the same. Getting the right nutrients is probably more important than anything else you can do to your body.

Like I said, overal conflicting information is an issue you to. Google can lead to a number of methods and topics.

I've been there and had some success so I get the struggle.