My biggest challenge is trying to eat healthy and in moderation when i live with my bf who eats junk, and a lot of it. He is supportive of my efforts, and never tried to temp me or goad me into eating poorly or excessively, but the presence of unhealthy foods and seeing him eating them is something that causes me to struggle so much. If I lived alone I know I would just keep junk out of the house. But I am not going to force my diet on him.
I could have written SaraShrinking's entire post, including the goals! Great minds think alike. In my case I am married to the junk eating guy, but I am fond of him, so I have to live with the junk.
My biggest hurdle is probably the large amount of time it takes to prepare healthy meals. In the past, I have always given up because I got so sick of spending what seemed like my entire life thinking about what I need to do about my next meal. I would probably do well if I had my own personal chef. And a million dollars, too. Ha!
I have brought in a supply of Lean Cuisine and other prepared foods to avert the "I can't face another day of cooking" syndrome. I don't care for ready prepared salads because I always find a piece of rotten lettuce and that spoils the whole thing for me, but at least I will have something acceptable to eat.
my biggest challenge has been my desire to maintain a clean, healthy lifestyle- and maintain my old friendships which were based around food, booze, and partying.
while i no longer have a huge interest in food- i do like to be social, which with my friends happens to involve booze.
i have also found some challenges in making healthy friendships with people that are RESPECTFUL of my situation, as I am very open about it if asked.
My biggest issue is staying on plan while still fixing the food I LOVE for my two little girls.
I am also really struggling with working out. I did really good for a few weeks, but then went on vacation and just can't get myself back in. I have promised once I get to 200 I will get a personal trainer lol
I struggle with feeling full and with tracking. Also with preparing lunch. It's weird, breakfast foods are comforting and filling (I love eggs), but when lunch rolls around, I get so off track and end up eating horribly the entire afternoon. I think I need to make salads with protein ahead of time so I don't have an excuse to not eat healthy. I wish I could stomach day old-chicken so I could make several breasts ahead of time but I can't; it has to be freshly prepared. Argh!
right now i am struggling, and have all summer, with how to stay within my calorie limits when i'm awake for such a long amount of time each day...i get up at 5:30 a.m. and work out 6-7 a.m., then i'm home, then i work 11-4 p.m., then i'm home again doing errands, cooking, cleaning etc, putting kids to bed and i'm finally asleep by 11 p.m....that's like an 17.5-hour day? HOW do i get through it with only getting 1500ish calories...i've struggled with this All Summer...it should get easier when school starts again and i'm not up so very early anymore
i also struggle with being lonely in real life with my weight loss journey...i dont have one single person in my real life who's in this journey with me, or even vaguely interested in nutrition or fitness...i've sort of made one friend at the gym but it's taken me almost a year there for even that...i'm super shy...but my sister, my friends, my mom, my DH none are interested at all and when i talk about it, they all sort of zone out or look patently irritated *sigh*
My biggest hurdle has been controlling my weekends. I was cheating (planned) every Saturday, but then it spilled over into Sunday. Doing this for weeks on end has slowed my weight loss down, and I want to cut back the cheat days to one or two a month only, but it's been very, very hard.
I see I'm not the only one I have been doing the same thing, and like you I have to stop it lol!!!!
Alaskanlaughter, I know what you mean about not having someone to talk to about your journey. No one I know gives a flip about my diet. LOL. I guess that's why we have to have firmly in mind that we are doing this for ourselves.
You have a grueling schedule. Mine is much less so. I am retired and work part time, but I wish I would develop some interest in being sociable. I am not especially shy, but I like entertaining myself better than participating in group activities. I think having social friends in general helps make up for not having friends specifically interested in diet and fitness. Of course, it would be good if the social friends like to do some physical activities. Isn't it amazing that some folk like physical activity and don't have to be forced into it?
A few years ago I got interested in genealogy. No one wants to hear about that either...
