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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No. But I do enjoy looking at myself when I have a good body.

Honestly, being fit is really easy. It's just requires you to eat right and workout consistently.  It's like going to school, in which getting good grades just means you need to do your homework every day/week.

It's not hard, and I find it odd that people have such a hard time doing it consistently.  I guess this sentence makes me sound like I feel superior, but I assure you that I do not, because I don't find that being physically fit is difficult. And so I don't feel superior for doing something easy.[/quote]

It's not easy for many [b]- for some reason they have more of an urge to eat and its harder to resist feelings of hunger. [/b]While I do agree anyone can exercise and eat healthy foods - but to lose weight you do need to restrict somewhat and eat less than you're used to and that's difficult for many people. [/quote]

So these people will be a fit 145 pounds at 5'8 rather than 135 pounds at 5'8.  They won't be 215 lbs at 5'8.

When you talk about how hard it is to lose weight, you have to think about how you got fat and unfit in the first place. It's usually because you had a long period of no exercise and 10+ years of eating poorly. Thus, when you want to lose weight, you start doing these crazy crash diets like "I'm going to eat 1200 calories of popcorn only from 8 am to 12 noon for the rest of my life" and immediately give up after 3 days. The trick here is to honestly figure out what a healthy lifestyle actually means, and try to emulate it the best you can. Then, over time, you will actually become healthy and fit because you're developing the right habits.

It's only "hard" when people set themselves up for failure by thinking it would only take a few months to undo years of unhealthy habits. To use the school analogy again, it's like expecting to get a perfect SAT score after a summer college prep program when you've been blowing off every subject since middle school. You can take the SATs and get a good score eventually, but you're only going to improve so much in 12 weeks.[/quote]

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