Is It Difficult To Lose Weight?

If you look at the ads for diet pills or the weird contraptions being sold on those late night infomercials, you’ll probably think it is easy to shed those pounds. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Losing weight is one of the hardest things to do. This probably explains why so many people give up on their fitness goals or break their New Year’s fitness resolutions.

Losing weight is a long, tough road paved with sweat and in some cases tears. The concepts of weight loss are pretty straightforward. Consume less calories than you expend. Combine cardio and resistance workouts. Eat healthy. Avoid the fatty foods and so on so forth.

So, what makes it so difficult?

Implementation. It’s applying these concepts that is so difficult. Eating less requires sacrifice. Most people are into the habit of eating whatever their hearts desire. Cakes, ice cream, pizza and all the other comfort foods make people happy. Giving up these high calorie foods means sacrificing short term happiness and nobody likes that.

Furthermore, eating poorly is a habit. So, by attempting to eat right, you’ll be breaking a bad habit. This is extremely difficult. Most habits are hard to break.

To make matters worse, exercise is required to burn fat. Often for periods of 30 to 60 minutes. This involves sweating, panting, gasping and pain. Exercise is not exactly fun for those who are fat or obese. They are not used to it. Once exercise becomes a part of your life, you’ll do it more willingly but even then, it’ll take motivation.

Not only is it painful to sacrifice your favourite foods but now you have to torture yourself with exercise daily. It’s a double whammy. Sacrifice and effort. It’s so much easier to gain weight. Just sit on the couch, watch tv and eat whatever you want , whenever you want.

It doesn’t take effort to gain weight. In fact, gaining weight is not only easy but it’s fast. This is the third annoying fact.

Why?

Because it takes a much longer time to lose fat that it does to gain it. This is the main reason that most people give up.

They do not see the results fast enough. An hour of intense exercise only burns about 400 to 500 calories. One slice of pizza contains about 300 calories. Eat two slices and you have cancelled your workout.

Can you imagine that? 1 hour of sweat and hard work gone with just two slices of pizza. That’s enough to break most people’s hearts.

Losing weight is a slow process. You will need to be on the right diet for quite some time. Depending on the amount of weight you need to lose, it could be a diet that you have to keep up for months. During this time, you will need to exercise as often as you can and not slip up on your diet.

A long, difficult process, to say the least. As difficult as it may be, you should stay on the path and not give up. You will reach your goal if you persist.
Once you have lost the fat and reached your desired goal you will feel a sense of achievement and happiness that no comfort meal can give you. The daily exercise and training will have you looking fit and feeling good. All the sacrifices will be worth it.