What is your #1 Health and Fitness Challenge?

[TonyRovere]

What is your biggest challenge when it comes to health and fitness? Is it losing the last 10 pounds? Staying on your diet? Staying motivated? The weekend pig out that destroys a healthy week of eating?

Let's come together...list all of these challenges...come up with the solution...and then take our lives to the next level.

I will start things off. For me, it was the weekend pig out, but I came up with a few ideas/solutions that enabled me to limit the damage...and I hope that this helps some of you as well.

1) Extra workouts in on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I try to burn extra calories on these days in anticipation of a problem over the weekend.

2) Plan those cheat meals. If you know you are going to be indulging on the weekends and eating more than you should, plan it to limit the damage. And here is what I mean.

Go to the website of the restaurant you are going to. Most restaurants have the menus and the calorie counts online. From here you can plan what to eat knowing what the calorie count is.

3) Load up on the salad bar. Ruby Tuesday is turning into one of my favorite places to eat because of the 'All-You-Can-Eat' salad bar. I load up on the salad before the meal and get tons of fruits and veggies in before the main course arrives.

This way I leave the restaurant feeling stuffed without loading up on the calories.

I hope these ideas help someone out there. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

[justmee]

getting motvated to fast. and avoid chcolate:

my main issue is time. i always think oh il start another day.

[sk8joyful]

Originally Posted by TonyRovere

What is your biggest challenge when it comes to health and fitness?

Currently from medical malpractice, Growing another Lung, & Heart, yes you heard Right!

Originally Posted by TonyRovere

Is it losing the last 10 pounds?

Yes, from the above complications, I have 13 lbs. to lose,
to recapture my Skating figure, with weight of 110 max. BMI is 22; goal is 20 again.

Originally Posted by TonyRovere

Staying on your diet?

I skip a few too many meals, otherwise doing good.

Originally Posted by TonyRovere

Staying motivated?

got all the right motivations:
1. ASAP getting back on the ice so I can learn the skills for my 1st. Program
and
2. chrono. 60 now; but since I live like a 23 yr. young kid, I've got 100's of years yet to go...

Originally Posted by TonyRovere

The weekend pig out that destroys a healthy week of eating?

Nope, eat healthy consistently

Originally Posted by TonyRovere

Let's come together...list all of these challenges...
come up with the solution...and then take our lives to the next level.

The next level? - Kewl!! - I know what my next Level is. And what about you?

Originally Posted by TonyRovere

I will start things off. For me, it was the weekend pig out,
but I came up with a few ideas/solutions that enabled me to limit the damage...and
I hope that this helps some of you as well.

otoh, when you don't pig-out, there's no damage to limit.

Originally Posted by TonyRovere

1) Extra workouts in on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
I try to burn extra calories on these days in anticipation of a problem over the weekend.

1) "Anticipate" problems? - does that even make sense??
The only thing I anticipate is SUCCESS, & more of it

2) "try"?? - As YODA said: there is
NO 'try'. try NOT. - Do, or do not. - And I know which I'm choosing.

Originally Posted by TonyRovere

2) Plan those cheat meals.

what! -a cheater, who "planned failure" - what next

Originally Posted by TonyRovere

Go to the website of the restaurant you are going to.

Why assume everyone goes to restaurants?

When I know how to prepare meals more Nutritious. (than they)

Originally Posted by TonyRovere

Most restaurants have the menus and the calorie counts online.
From here you can plan what to eat knowing what the calorie count is.

Nope; never bothered 'counting Calories':

with my healthy Lab-results, I'm too busy counting my next FUN...

Originally Posted by TonyRovere

3) Load up on the salad bar. Ruby Tuesday's 'All-You-Can-Eat' salad bar.
I load up on the salad before the meal and get tons of fruits and veggies in
before the main course arrives.

EVERY day at home, we have this 'All-You-Can-Eat' salad bar.

And this IS the Main-meal And the reason we stay Optimally healthy...

Originally Posted by TonyRovere

This way I leave the restaurant feeling stuffed
without loading up on the calories.

Never "stuff" yourself; stop with feeling Satisfactorily full.

FUN... HOW OUR MIND WORKS

[DoggyLady]

avoiding fried+salty foods.

[newmark]

To keep up my motivation to exercise. I've exercised all my life, but now I'm finding it harder to maintain motivation to exercise. I tried by taking a break for a few months, but all that did was start to add belly fat, so I need another way.

[Miss Moo]

My biggest challenge at the moment is losing weight. Mine has yo-yo'd a lot over the last few years and I'd really like to get it down and keep it down. That said, I'm at a place now where I feel like even if I stay this weight for the rest of my life, I know I'll be happy regardless. Instead of focusing on what the scales say, I'm trying to focus more on how I feel and to improve my fitness level. I've got a couple of friends doing the Kokoda trail next year and I'd really like to join them, so that gives me something to focus on fitness wise.

[Clint Cora]

After spending over 20 years on the martial arts competition circuit, my only real challenge now is to maintain my fitness through my middle age years. So far so good as I don't have any problems with working out at least five to seven days per week, maintaining a healthy diet, etc. I also want to make sure that I never have to have another ACL surgery again so sports injury prevention is also important in my case.

No plans to go on any other diets, fasting or other big changes since if what I'm doing keeps returning great results for me, it's just a matter of keep doing what I'm doing.

[Agota]

My main challenge throughout my adolescence up until now (I'm 22) was my energy levels. I decided to start taking this issue seriously and now my energy level is increasing fast due to my attention to my sleep, nutrition, exercising and thinking habits. I believe many people experience problems in this area, they simply don't realize that it's a problem because they're so used to dragging themselves through life without energy.