For those of you trying to lose weight what is harder for you

Do you do so regularly?

 

Both. With 2 young kids and money a bit tight, I have no time to work out. I was given a Wii for the holidays and will hopefully be able to use it in this fashion since I can't afford or have time to go to a gym. If it weren't for soccer, I'd never get any exercise.

 

maintaining the diet is a lot harder IMO. It's just the temptation that is out there is sometimes to irresistible.

 

Definitely. What's worked for me is eating bad one day out of the week. That way you get your fix, and you're not so tempted to eat unhealthy the other six days. And because it's only one day, those empty calories should come off easily.

 

I'm not trying to lose weight but putting my two Yen in maintaining a healthy diet is harder since most of my work out is martial arts and I think I suffer an obsessive compulsive disorder about doing martial arts. The only thing holding me back from working out more is multiple injuries.

I think I eat relatively healthy but it is hard especially this time of year with family and other events plus my elderly neighbor loves to bake pastries and always gives me a bunch about once a week.

 

I can easily workout every day, no problem. Basketball especially makes the conditioning part of my exercise regimen fun. However... diet-wise I try to stray away from junk food and etc... but it just keeps calling me back.

 

In the short run at least, it's much easier to forgo a few hundred calories than to burn it off (if anything, you might work up an appetite that way). You eat a few cookies and then spend an hour burning them off, that's a pain.

From an overall metabolism standpoint though, muscle burns more calories naturally.

I lost 30 lbs in 6 months limiting myself to 1500-2000 calories/day, main thing is to get rid of any/all snacks/soda, if the food is around it's too tempting to nosh. Keep track of calories at first to develop habits.

I love these when I get a craving for sweets (only 150 cal).



Only exercise I do is walk my dog for 30 min/day.

 

Maintaining a healthy diet takes discipline. Get in the gym once and it's easy to keep going back.

Eating healthy after a rigorous work out is hard. I just want to eat something greasy like fast food.

I dropped 5-10 pounds in two days just sitting down and working. I didn't eat a lot, but when I got hungry I'd grab one or two dates or any fruit and keep going.

 

the eating part, sometime you just dont give a ****. so that's the hard part i guess

 

it's hard to resist from food.
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I only have to fight through a workout for 90 mins.

I have to fight cravings for 15 hours.

 

Definitely food.