Of course it is hard to exercise. Because you are not use to it. But keep going, keep building, and soon you will look at the gym as a playground and no longer an evil dungeon. The real question is, what is it about losing weight that makes you not want to try? Food? There is food that does not taste so awful, and its not always what you eat it is how much you eat. Working out? Small at first than work your way up. Simple things like instead of going to the elevator to go up 1 or 2 levels helps. Or even instead of sitting as your kids play on the play ground get up and walk around the play area even going around 1 time helps. Now before I get anyone saying anything negative about what I am saying I am over weight but I am working on it. I'm still at the little at a time stage but I will never stop because it only takes 1 step to start a journey.
Also, just FYI, obese doesn't look gigantic. That is morbidly obese. Obese is right past overweight. I'm not that big ( size 17 in pants ) and I'm just passed the obese mark ( though I'm working on it and I'm planning to lose 70 lbs ) so just go and check your BMI on a BMI calculator to see where you are.
I don't trust BMIs, for some people they don't work depending on muscle mass and age etc.
I prefer body fat percentage measurements, just because at least that way you tend to get a more accurate reading
I'm 165lbs and stand 5'11", I'm at my thinest and I feel like I need to put on weight. According to my BMI, an extra 5lbs would make me "Overweight". Definitely don't trust a BMI reading.
I was once in a hospital for a week and couldn't keep anything down. I wasn't given a liquid diet because I was so big and when I was released a week later, I had lost 36 pounds. Yes it was a starvation "diet" and no I wouldn't do it again, but you will lose weight if the energy taken in is lower than the enery put out. There is no excuse people.
There actually is a girl who can't lose weight. She's like 11 years old and she had a surgery that messed up her metabolism. She eats like 500 calorie a day age exercises a lot but she keeps gaining weight. I think she's like 175+ pounds.
The look on her face kills me - "it's really hard to exercise". As though that's a valid point. As though the guy's gonna say "oh miss nevermind, you're right, that changes my argument entirely"
Id just like to punch that woman in the face. Really hard.
I used to be 185lbs. I fucking ate less and exercised and now im at fucking 98. Dont you fucking tell me you cant loose weight
Right you are xprincesszelda! I'm in the exact same situation. I was overweight and unhealthy. Its as simple as deciding you don't wanna be that way anymore.
I think what he said is true but there are exceptions, for example, friend of mine is on the heavier side but she eats a lot healthier than me and works out more than me, I still work out and eat healthy but she obviously eats better and works out more. What it comes down is that she and I have different genetics, bone size ect. She has no controls over that. It pisses me of when overweight people say it's genetics when it's really lack of effort.
Listen to me because im only gonna say this once:
The. Size. Of. The. Bones. Doesnt. Matter. Bones dont wobble. If you compare her skeleton to mine it would be the same because i have
very big bones because im tall and strongly built. Now please refer to my profile picture and tell me that having big bones means you have to be overweight.
While not untrue, this post is misleading. Current medical research indicates that body chemistry has almost everything to do with weight. The whole "calories in, calories out" thing has failed in every clinical test leading us to consider other factors. In fact, people who are overweight and have been all their lives have a much harder time loosing weight without medical or professional intervention. I'm not saying that the weight can't be lost, I just want people to know that there's a lot more at work than calorie counting can fix and shaming people for "not having self control" doesn't help. No, you probably shouldn't be ordering a Big Mac, but instead of pointing fingers we need to figure out what is driving some people to overeat while others have no problem turning fast food down.
" The whole "calories in, calories out" thing has failed in every clinical test leading us to consider other factors."
Every clinical test? Every? LOL!
Um yeah, this part of your post kind of makes the rest of it dismissible...
I prefer body fat percentage measurements, just because at least that way you tend to get a more accurate reading
I used to be 185lbs. I fucking ate less and exercised and now im at fucking 98. Dont you fucking tell me you cant loose weight
The. Size. Of. The. Bones. Doesnt. Matter. Bones dont wobble. If you compare her skeleton to mine it would be the same because i have
very big bones because im tall and strongly built. Now please refer to my profile picture and tell me that having big bones means you have to be overweight.
Every clinical test? Every? LOL!
Um yeah, this part of your post kind of makes the rest of it dismissible...