cork2win
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Thanks for the support. I'm not on any particular "diet". I've been fat all my life so I know the drill. I've just been watching calories and exercising. My problem is that I hate exercising and I love eating. It seems no matter how hard I try I can't make the changes any sort of permanent... it's always just a temporary thing to lose weight which I know is never going to work in the long run.
I honestly don't know how to make any of the changes more permanent. I know they say to do exercise you enjoy but honestly, the only things I enjoy can't be done on a daily basis nor do they actually burn the amount of calories I need to burn. I like sports, team sports. I can't do those often enough (nor do I have any access to them) to matter so I need to face the fact that I need to do boring old cardio stuff to work off the calories and that just sucks. Hour long workouts in the basement on my bike/elliptical burn lots of calories but it's boring and frankly I hate doing it.
Food is a whole other issue. I'm always hungry, I never have time to shop (I work practically two full time jobs) so my food choices are limited to nothing and fast food and cake most days. I'm just not in a position in my life right now to be able to make any serious, permanent changes it seems. I know these sound like excuses but they're really not, they're just facts. It's hard to find time to shop, prepare food and work out when you work 14 hours a day and 9 of those hours are spent sitting on my butt while the other 5 are spent working on cake, one of my favorite foods!!
Anyway, not really looking for advice or sympathy or understanding, just feeling the need to vent.
I honestly don't know how to make any of the changes more permanent. I know they say to do exercise you enjoy but honestly, the only things I enjoy can't be done on a daily basis nor do they actually burn the amount of calories I need to burn. I like sports, team sports. I can't do those often enough (nor do I have any access to them) to matter so I need to face the fact that I need to do boring old cardio stuff to work off the calories and that just sucks. Hour long workouts in the basement on my bike/elliptical burn lots of calories but it's boring and frankly I hate doing it.
Food is a whole other issue. I'm always hungry, I never have time to shop (I work practically two full time jobs) so my food choices are limited to nothing and fast food and cake most days. I'm just not in a position in my life right now to be able to make any serious, permanent changes it seems. I know these sound like excuses but they're really not, they're just facts. It's hard to find time to shop, prepare food and work out when you work 14 hours a day and 9 of those hours are spent sitting on my butt while the other 5 are spent working on cake, one of my favorite foods!!
Anyway, not really looking for advice or sympathy or understanding, just feeling the need to vent.