When is it the hardest for you?
 

Do you ever find that the first week, maybe two is the hardest when you change your eating habits and lifestyle? Everytime I have done this, it's like day 1 is torture, then day 2 is slightly better and so on then by two weeks its natural and I don't even want that burger anymore?

Or like my boyfriend, he's like 140 lbs, a skinny boy and his family eats nothing but takeout like all the time, and like fried stuff. I don't get it. Whenever I hang out with him, his parents bring it home and bring some for me, it's difficult but I need to be strong.

Are You Reading My Mind?
 

I know exactly what you mean! Day 1 is torture and the first 2 weeks is the hardest. I keep having to remind myself to get through it and stay focus. I started setting weekly goals and keep myself busy in school to take my mind off of it. Oh and my boyfriend is a little skinny mini too and him and his family eat whatever they want with no gain or workout. I dont know how i will deal

It will catch up to him, when he's like 40. Like for his birthday, there is this one pizza place he loves but his family never orders it, so I said, what if I order a pizza to your house? and his response was " That would be the best present ever" I'm like geez he's such a fatty inside lol. Like I swear when he see's a dessert his eyes glaze over lol.

id have to say the whole first week is hard for me! ive tried many times and most times i never made if a whole week!

I think I'm different. I can stick to a plan at first and when I'm not really seeing results; however, when I crack a sticky number or have a signifigant loss for the week I tend to go overboard. Not sure if this is self sabatoge or what's going on here but I just go wild. Not good. Trying to break the cycle.

I'm like redliss. The first week I don't really care, because my fat stores are plentiful and I don't get hungry on salads and fruit all day. By the beginning of the second week, though, the low food intake catches up to me and I start getting hunger pangs. Then the chocolate cravings start. That's when it's hardest to keep myself from binging--and when it happens I know I really have to up my calorie intake and maintain until I feel comfortable lowering again.

Rollerblade analogy: I take the zig-zag-down-the-hill approach to weight loss; if I try to just zip down I crash :D

The first few days/weeks can be torture for me! Also the weekends. I tend to get busy and forget to count my WW points on the weekend.

The hardest is when I go out to eat. My husband loves to go out to eat, especially to Mexican, and it is difficult sometimes to find healthy options.

It's hardest for me when I'm studying. I always get the munchies because I want a distraction! I try to keep empty-calorie foods (celery, carrots) on hand for mindless chewing if the craving doesn't go away, but other times I just remind myself it's not food I want, it's entertainment, so I dance to an ABBA song (calories burned, right?) and then get back to work.

This is awesome! I have the same procrastination habit. Darn you books!

I think the hardest point for me is the amount of time it takes to see change... Starting out is no issue, and even continuing isn't that hard (especially when I'm living at home... My both me and my dad are super cheap and avoid eating out because it's so expensive). What's hard is when you do everything right, and the scale STILL DOESN'T BUDGE! Not only is it extremely discouraging... but you also feel so helpless, because you have no idea where to go from there... to continue as is? Eat more? Less? Maybe something's wrong with you? :( There's nothing harder than feeling so trapped and helpless.

Okay so somehow the top part of my post didn't make it on here... guess the comp ate it. What I was tryign to say was that I usually make it about 2 weeks then something "comes up" and I fall off the wagon and can't get back on.

I don't remember WHO had this in their sig on here... but it's stuck with me. I have it on my dry erase board in my room:

"Four months from now what will you look like if you quit and what will you look like if you keep going? Four months is going to happen no matter what. What will beYOUR CHOICE? "

I also have that on an index card in my car -- I don't want to know what 4 months of NOT keepin' on is going to look like because I know what 26 years of NOT keepin' on made me look like. Plus. I'm down 10 in the past month...so... what is it going to be in 3 more months!!!

You can do this!!!

I find the first 2 or 3 days pretty easy because I'm all motivated and excited.

Then there's the motivation crash, which lasts a week or so, until I start to see results.

Once I see or feel a little bit of success, I get motivated again... until "something comes up" like Feral said and I get thrown off. A party, a gift of food, whatever. Then it's always really hard to keep going.

This time I'm really trying to ignore all the little things that might derail me, with the assumption that there will always be more <parties at work, boxes of chocolates, happy hours, bottles of wine> once I reach my goal and I can add them in then. I'm not really sure what will happen if I stop seeing results at some point... I've never stuck with it long enough for that to happen. :o

I really don't find changing my diet that hard... Maybe I am doing it wrong?

LOL Baker I think you're doing it right!!! :)

Actually I find it hardest when i'm near or on my period doesn't matter. It was so easy the first little while but when it comes close to my pms time all I am is hungry hungry hungry and crave different things.

Same here. I don't even try to eat at a deficit the couple days before TOM and consider it an accomplishment if I stay at maintenance for those days.

My hardest is day 3, i don't know why but if i can pass day 3 i am pretty solid, around day 14 i totally give up on fast foods and temptations, they just disappear for me

I'm pretty motivated until something happens I don't plan for. I always just want to cave to what is easiest, with fast food being the all-too often choice. I'm trying to learn to plan better by carrying food with me

The hardest part for me is definitely the first couple days. It's not so much that I'll buckle and cheat, because I'm pretty good at sticking with it, but my body has trouble adjusting to the much smaller portion sizes and I feel hungry almost all the time.

Of course, that's the fault of me being a glutton when I'm off a diet. I eat massive meals and my stomach gets stretched, so when I reduce my intake to an appropriate level I'm left hollow until my stomach can shrink to a healthy size.

Where I risk falling off a diet is when I visit home. I've lived on my own for the last five years, but when I spend a week or two at my parents' place for Christmas or a summer vacation I'm just surrounded by food that I'm better able to avoid at my own house. They've got two fridges, two freezers, and two pantries overflowing with delicious food.

I could go in the fridge to get some mustard to put on a low fat wrap and emerge with cheese and salami. Then I could go to the pantry to choose a can of soup and see my favourite flavour of chips and think, "One or two while my soup is heating up won't hurt." Except one or two becomes half the bag... or more. My parents' house is where diets go to die. :lol:

Ha I could not agree more on every account. No one in my parents are on diets, my entire family is obese. I am trying to break that mold. It's been two days and I have stuck with it but I think that I am not bloated, and I have to pee all the time, which is shedding water weight, I didn't lose any lbs on the scale yet but my waist is slimmer for sure.

I think I'm there's a trend in what makes it hard. It has nothing to do with you and your willpower in your bubble at home with only healthy food. LIFE can make it difficult. There will always be an event with unhealthy food, a busy day where you wanna stop for fast food, or family/friends offering up things that aren't great for your eating plan.

I think the trick is to be prepared! Think about these situations before hand. Maybe you should have snacks in your purse/car. Plan your meals for the day, etc. I think it's always easier when I have a plan. When I'm caught of guard, I mess up.

Yeah, the first few days are the toughest for me.. but TOM is pretty bad, but I've been managing to get over those days too.. I just have to REALLY stay away from the kitchen, lol. The times I really cave though, are around social events.. those are the ones I'm really working towards getting over. I just recently got over a big one when my friends went to this place known for really good pizza and bought a salad... I plan on visiting that place much later, when I can better moderate myself.

Beaka - I totally agree!!

The first few days aren't a problem for me, it's usually pretty situational. The times when I'm most tempted to fall off the wagon in a big way are when I'm traveling for business. I live in a small community and don't have easy access to a lot of different restaurants, but when I go to bigger cities for meetings, there's any type of food I could possibly want in abundance and easily accessible. No matter how much planning I do, I have an urge to dive head first off the wagon.

The whole first month was pretty horrible for me...probably because I don't like change and I really loved all my junk food/unhealthy habits. After the first few weeks it became a whole lot easier to deal with cravings/temptations. Although I do occasionally have the urge dive head first off the wagon too. :)

Getting started is the hardest. Then day 2 with diet, exercise, anything when I realize i have to keep doing it and not just for the one day lol. It's a mental thing. It's been long since i've been on a diet but i vaguely remember that once my stomach gets more accustomed to smaller servings it's slightly easier and eating at home for awhile i am less inclined to buy out. then something stressful comes up and it's off the wagon for me. Social events - yeah i have no clue how to avoid that except to eat before and just have really small helpings once there.

I have decided to work on diversion with cravings - go listen to a song instead of eating the ice cream. We'll see how that goes. I'll keep trying methods until i find a good one.

I'd have to say the hardest time for me is when I watch one of my friends doing something that I want to do too (aka eating crap and drinking a ton). I get all in my head about it and become really whiny, thinking things like "It's not fair; I'm only 23, I should be able to go out and eat pizza and drink beer!" :tantrum:
Plus, I'm in a sorority and we have food at virtually everything. Trying to hold back from it makes me feel left out.

I love this quote! I think I'm going to follow your lead and post that around the apartment.