Tell me your current Weight Loss Frustrations

I've been frustrated lately, and since misery loves company I thought I would ask you all what you've been struggling with.

I hate that if I had only maintained instead of gaining back 6 months ago, I would be half way to my goal by now instead of trying to make up lost ground.

Dessert is my downfall, I never prepare my own, but I don't feel comfortable refusing desserts offered to me.

I just discovered my scale is off, my 5 month old quite expensive scale is easily 7 pounds off, that a TON when you're trying to lose

I hate to bounce, fat girl on a treadmill is not a pretty sight.

When I talk to you about trying to lose weight don't tell me about this new miracle drug you heard about your cousin trying.  I don't want that crap.

All your turn.... what's frustrating you lately???

A few weeks ago I finally decided to start working out (I had lost about 40lbs just by my diet change) and since then I haven't been able to move the scale! I believe my scale is out to get me.lol. HOWEVER, I am losing inches so as long as I am losing something somewhere (except my mind) I am happy.

I am also having a REALLY hard time with self control over foods. That is my current battle and it is an uphill one.

I love your pictures, you've made some pretty impressive progress with just diet adjustments!  Keep in mind that muscle weighs more than fat, and if you're losing inches at least you can see some progress.  You may have plateaued (sp?), keep at it.  You're looking so good.

thanks!

Yea, I know. But it is still frustrating. lol. I know as long as the trend is going down time and speed isn't important. It's a lifestyle change and I'm doing this for health reasons. Now if only I could quit those pesky cigarettes haha.

All I want to do is eat chocolate. I'm dying for some chocolate milk.

Thank God for ur vent Im going through the same thing i lost about 70 pounds and got off track during the winter time 25 pounds i gained and i was dieting off and on but my life took a drastic turn for the worse i lost my job i couldnt eat my diet healthy food for a while we couldnt afford it. but now finally i could say to the whole world that for two weeks i have been on sbd and doing so well again and i got a job Thank God. i myself is very embarresed that i fell off the wagon so bad when i started out really strong people all around me say why u havent lost anymore weight i know i set myself back big time and its gonna take time adjusting to smaller portions again eating early not late and working out again but im here to tell those who lost there way dont lose hope its never to late life happens :) it makes me feel happy theres people in the same boat as me :0 anyone need a friend im here for support and to keep us strong ahhhh so happy i vented thanks

I am also hugely tempted by chocolate and all this Easter candy is absolutely killing me.  I'm trying to do my best but it's a struggle.  I've lost ~82-83 lbs. so far and I have about 3 lbs. to go to hit my goal weight but I still haven't reached it.  I've been stuck ~135 for about 2 months now (I'm happy here but I still want to reach my goal of 131).  I lose weight every week from Monday to Thursday, get down to 133/134 and then go back up to ~138 over the weekends.  I'm hoping once this Easter season passes along with all its chocolate bunnies and creme eggs, that I will be able to hold it together a bit better and finally reach my goal...

Hello!

Well I'm new here and today is actually day 11 since I began my journey. I've been on diets in the past, but this time I'm making a lifestyle change.

Anyway my frustration. I'm 5'9 and stand at 198 lbs as of yesterday (started out at 203 lbs) and I have a small body frame so I've always hid my weight really well, everyone has always said I have good curves, because they never could figure out my actual weight.

Well now that I've began to lose weight and some inches I actually look chunkier. I don't know if it makes sense haha. I  started to lose in  my cheekbones, then my neck, shoulders and arms and now my ribcage but just the top part...so basically my lovehandles are still there , at their original size while everything else on the top has shrunk.

So there you go, I'm getting slimmer but looking chunky haha. It's frustrating but I can't wait until I start to even out, that will be nice.

Diet frustration #1: No matter how much I work out or how much I manage my calories I've weighed in at 127.2 everyday for the past 3 weeks despite exercising 7 days a week 1-2 hours and eating moderately. I've even been on 2 different scales (scale at home and scale at my dorm room in school). I was 125 just a couple months ago. By the way I'm 4'11" and right now I'm overweight.

Diet frustration #2: I used to effortlessly maintain at 120 no matter how much I ate or what I did UNTIL I decided to go on a diet - I dieted myself down to 113 and when I started college I ballooned and now I can't get below 125.

Diet frustration #3: I have some mystery stomach illness that makes my tummy feel INCREDIBLY bloated and look incredibly bloated after I eat - it's very unsexy. Food also goes right through me so I'm always hungry :(

Diet frustration #4: All I want to do right now is go rollerblading for an hour and a half but it's pouring rain outside. My boyfriend and I had plans to go to the zoo today too!

sroscoe - i'm kind of in the same boat as you when you say you wish you maintained instead of gaining. 2 years ago i was literally mabye 10-15 lbs away from my goal weight, losing about 30 pounds total in a few months on a very restrictive diet of 800-900 calories. i didn't wean myself off the diet like i was supposed to, and went back to my normal eating habits and gained everything back..and then some. ever since then, i have tried countless diets, and have never gotten down to that weight. even though it was 2 years ago, it still sort of haunts me. i guess this is my long term frustration.

what frustrates me currently is my night time eating habits. i want them to go away! i really want to try and stop eating by 8pm, or 9 at least..and i think this means i have to try to sleep earlier, because when i'm up late at night on the internet or playing games, i just wanna munch away. mindless eating is a frustration.

it's really difficult for me to get motivated to workout..once i'm actually doing it its fine..but to actually begin is the hardest.

the scale: it's not my friend. even though i only recently started changing my eating habits, i can't step away from the scale. i think i need to ditch it, and just make sure i'm eating right, exercising, and perhaps measuring instead.

i too am back on the weight loss kick after many months yo-yoing up and down. having been about 32lbs from my goal...i'm now 48. i has 54 but i've managed to lose about 6lbs in the last ten days that i've been counting. it's a very frustrating cycle of fat, i must tell you. i'm currently in a very healthy, happy and food oriented relationship so, we both went on a diet. she's lost 5lbs :). it's just hard to continuously see the number on the scale that i had passed SO long ago. my present motivation is a wedding i have to be in come october. i'm hoping to be 48lbs thinner by then which means the next 7 months are going to be stressful. i keep kicking myself everyday for gaining back what i worked so hard to lose, but at least i've gotten myself back on track i guess.

Original Post by lafoutloud01:

 

Diet frustration #3: I have some mystery stomach illness that makes my tummy feel INCREDIBLY bloated and look incredibly bloated after I eat - it's very unsexy. Food also goes right through me so I'm always hungry :(

 

 lafoutloud...Have you been checked for a gluten allergy?  My sister had the exact same symptoms as you and it took the doctors years to figure out that she was allergic to wheat.  Something to look into if you haven't already.

No matter how many calories I eat, high or low, I cannot break this 130 pound barrier. I'm 5'2, 130 pounds, 20 years old and female. THIS SUCKS.
I starved myself through highschool, so I'd assume that my BMR has suffered accordingly, but shouldn't a year and a half of eating at least 1200 calories have brought it back up to snuff? I'm dying here!

I workout 5-8 hours a week, averaging around 400 calories from exercise per day, and still - zip.

I keep going up and down and up and down and up and down and up and down.

My frustration is my 5'10" 120 pounds friend with whom I just cannot escape food. She eats ALL THE WRONG THINGS, ALL THE TIME! It's quite hard not to eat in her presence.

But don't get me wrong, I like her a lot :)

My frustration today is... I put in 2 and 1/2 hours today doing activities I dearly love and burning a whopping 1,165 calories.  I couldn't wait to spend half that one something yummy - like a york peppermint patty broken over some frozen yogurt.

BUT THEN - mom wanted to eat Taco Bell for lunch and I think what the hey, I'll get something small and enjoy it because it couldn't possibly wipe out my deficit for the day.

Now I'm at a net surplus of calories without having had dinner.  Ugh, and it so wasn't worth the calories.  I love my cheat days, but I'd rather spend them on things I want - not eating crappy food just because that's what others want to eat.

Being a 'social eater' is so frustrating some days.

I actually got a blood test for a gluten intolerance and a host of other things (including stomach parasites and stuff) so I'll be finding out on tuesday what's wrong with me (or going for more tests).

Thanks for the advice though, I'm hoping it's not gluten intolerance since I dearly love my grains :)

Every time I go home, I make bad food choices.

Two weeks ago, during Spring break I erased most of my progress from the last three months. That included some loss of muscle and a few added pounds.

If I had stayed at a constant calorie deficit since the first time I started dieting, I would have reached my goal weight by now. But I diet during the week days only to erase my progress during the weekends.

I am 5'2" and haven't broken 120 yet, even though I've been trying for 1.5 years.

Ive only been counting my calories for a little over 2 weeks, and I am already bored with the choice of food.... gah.

I really just want to go up the street and get a nice big turkey club sandwich with bacon, 3 peices of bread, and lots of mayo. But no... I will be good cause I have seen some results. I just need control. mmm.

Ooh, bouncing while running is a bad one. I've been wearing sweatshirts to the gym all through the winter, and I just wore a t-shirt a few days ago because it was a beautiful day, and I caught sight of myself in the mirror bouncing all over the place. So I'm going to go back to running in a sweatshirt. Here's hoping summer's still a little ways off...

My 2 biggest demotivators are people who poo-poo the fact that I have a high calorie burn and assume I'm miscalculating.  I know they don't mean for anything bad, but it causes me to second guess what I know to be true and then I eat less and end up on a plateau.

My other biggest demotivator is having a teething baby who is constantly waking up in the middle of the night in spite of Motrin... my only workout time is in the early AM and it's really really really difficult to get up at 5:30am and be excited to go run outside when I've been up most of the night with the baby.