Why it's hard to live a healthy lifestyle?

Today's date life has become so materialistic that people doesnt have time for themselves.Many people work night shifts,in hurry eats unhealthy just to fill the tummy but people are much more aware of the health now but there is no time to maintain it.Its difficult to live a healthy lifestyle.For me knowing all the adverse affects of junk food i often go for it.

its really not difficult to live a healthy lifestyle but what we lack is motivation. what is difficult is to try to live healthy when everybody else around us don't.

Actually it is not so difficult, but the problem is that we find it difficult to maintain discipline that is why it seems so hard. If we do some basic exercises and watch what we eat and take some basic precautions it is easy to live a healthy lifestyle. Also I think these days our lifestyles have become sedentary due to cosy offices and we have less and less time to spend for taking care of ourselves and that is what is causing problems maintaining general health. Cheers! Ram

For me not if you used to live healthy living if not it is difficult to the one not to do.

I don't have a problem with eating healthier, I am now accustomed to eating three good meals a day and just don't like junk food anymore. However I DO have a problem with exercise, as I get older I find it more and more difficult to motivate myself for any exercise.

This is also my problem. I want to live a healthy lifestyle but it is just so hard not to eat unhealthy foods. I am working in an office and I usually worked overtime so I have no time to work out. However, every time we have an excursion in the beach, I tend to work out and avoid unhealthy foods because I have to be fit to look good to others. So what's the point there? Sometimes it is also kinda helpful if you are beauty conscious. Nah! just kidding. The point there is that you need to have a motivation so that you'll be able to do what you want to do. If there's a will, there's a way! ^_^

It's definitely a challenge! The unhealthy foods taste so good and most of us have developed an addiction to unhealthy food and it is everywhere to entice us. Everyone we visit serves us unhealthy food, like soft drinks and sweets or salty foods, and feel insulted if we refuse these poisons. Definitely a challenge but we can live a healthy lifestyle if we keep on fighting, at least most of the time. No one is perfect!

Hi,, same here, It is difficult for me to live with a healthy life style, and you know what, all of the above are difficult for me... :P

It's hard to live a healthy lifestyle cuz there are a lot of vices. Those vices prevents us from having a healthy body. For example, I try as much as possible to hit the gym but I'm also a smoker. There are times when I'm just too lazy to even get up so I miss some sessions I could've been attending.

Yes it's quite hard for a person like me who loves to eat hamburger and pizzas.

Yes, I think it is hard to live a healthy lifestyle. We have all these types of food available - pizzas, takeaways, many flavours of ice cream, etc. and it is all tempting us every day - in TV adverts, magazines, in the shops. We hardly exercise because most people travel by car to work, etc. Most jobs are sitting at a desk in an office. Then we are too stressed to sleep!!! I sleep okay most of the time, I do walk most places as I don't drive. But I don't exercise enough nor eat healthily enough. I am a vegetarian and do eat fresh vegetables every day and cook meals from scratch, but I do eat other food too like chocolate and cake.

I think it depends on what you're used to from childhood. However i will say this- the body is LAZY! and even athletes agree that you need a mind like iron to get over muscle fatigue and such.

I personally don't think it is that hard. I have been living a healthy lifestyle for along time and I honestly wouldn't want it any other way as I found that when I eat junk I feel like junk and vice versa.

Yes , its reali hard to live a healthy life .. Its har to eat only healthy food and avoid oily or unhealthy food coz we as humans jus can't resist our temptation . As for exercising , it all boils down to a word 'laziness' coz noone is nt lazy . Getting enough slp is th most serious of all for mi, as I'm am reali a computer games addictor . It can cause mi nt to do anything and jus plae al day .

I read some of the responses that had the usual platitudes about we and generalizations, so I will not do the same thing. I do not consider myself part of a group, except of the human race and of the Christian part of the human race. For me, the price of the organic foods and the cheapness of the processed food is a factor. Also it is the inablity to sleep all through the night because of my husband's als and him being unable to move himself and not wanting him to get bed sores. I am sure the young mother with an infant or small child feels the same way when she has to get up in the night. Note I am not talking about having fun and wild parties as what is inferred by those who tell us to get enough sleep. One cannot abandon a sick spouse or your own child - not talking about adoption in the latter. That is a different story. The second factor is climate. It is hard to move about in extremely cold weather and extremely hot weather. Try plodding through knee high snow. You certainly will not go 3 miles per hour. And you need extra fuel to sustain you through the cold so there is the tendency to eat more high calorie stuff. Also the vegetables and fruits cost more and if there is just two or you or just one, it costs more and in some stores they only have packages or vegetables set up for 4 or more. Not all veggies are put out in bulk so I can take one or four that will be gone in a week. Many of the common vegetables are available, but if you want to make a salad, up here you cannot get separate Romaine leaves, or separate radichio leaves or separate spinach leaves. One has to buy them in bulk and that means that at the end of the week you are throwing some away. If one lives in the country and can grow the food, it is all right, or if one is made of money (why do you think the rich are more fit? They can afford the gyms and memberships and afford to buy the best fresh produce). Then there is the way one has been brought up, to not let anything go to waste. So one eats the food that the kids did not eat, or the spouse did not, because one was told when they were young, that some poor kid in China would have eaten it. So there are many factors that make it hard to live a healthy lifestyle.

It is hard to live a healthy lifestyle specially if you grow up in a family that do not follow healthy lifestyle. If your mom loves to cook fried food and bake sweets, how will you be able to resist those tempting food. If your dad asks you to accompany him during a drinking session, would you let him down? Aside from the family lifestyle, the working environment is also a big influence on how we live. If you are stressed out, would you not care for a few puffs just to release your anger of your boss? Living a healthy lifestyle takes a lot of determination and focus.