@Daithílocha Making huge life changes is never easy and I think losing weight is a huge life change for most people depending on their habits.
I will always recommend baby steps. Make small changes and when you feel like you've mastered one thing, maybe try changing another. A life worth of habits, good or bad, isn't going to go away in a day. Rome wasn't built in a day as they say.
As time goes by the small things you work hard on every day will become easier and maybe some day you do that thing automatically.
For me it's a mixture of dicipline and habit. I have no issues with my current calorie level even if it takes a bit of planning most days (habit) but I would also love to have a bag of chips with that and say no (dicipline).
Sometimes dicipline doesn't work and the more I "screw up" the more I learn. As my signature here says "try again, fail again, fail better". I've been in the game long enough to know that if I have 1000 calories extra one day, well then I'm at maintenance and it's not the end of the world. I just learn from it, get over it and move on.
Going out the door every day gets a bit easier but it gets very monotonous for me. Going to the gym got easy really fast because while I might not call it fun times, it makes me feel very accomplished and just generally good mentally and physically.
Seeing or feeling improvement is one of the things that push me to work harder. It can be any tiny little thing, like being able to take another sit up, increasing weight slightly on a gym exercise, jogging for another minute longer than last time, looking at myself in the mirror and thinking something changed.
So yes, it becomes easier. But eat what you like to eat and do what you like to do and it won't feel like so much work and it will be so much easier so much faster.
Good luck!
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@Daithílocha I think most of us are impatient to some degree, but in this day and age we have become so used to instant gratification it's hard to accept that things take time.
One thing I forgot to mention in my previous post is making small goals along the way and remembering to measure and recognize progress and not just weight related goals/progress.
Good luck to your and your teeenagers in this stressful time. It's almost summer and school's out so hang in there.
Best AnswerWhoops, almost forgot this week's weight update.
CSW: 92.3 kg
06/06 - 90.7 kg
GW: To be consistently in the 80's, leave the 90's in June 2017 and never come back.
It seems my body keeps hanging on to weight for shorter or longer periods of time then goes "oh, right, we're losing weight, cool" and I drop. This week, I dropped (yay).
On to the 80's!
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