Which of these 2 is more difficult according to you? gain or lose weight?

[Anonymous]

I believe gaining weight is much more difficult than losing. especially if you're not used to eat a lot.

Now i'm forced to gain weight (due to my mother's THREATS, that she'll bring a doctor here if i don't go up to 130 lbs), and sometimes i have to eat more than i used to, and that makes me feel uncomfortable, stuffed and dizzy. Even if i complain, doctors are on her side, because my BMI is a little below than 18.

Losing is much easier from my experience. I have lost very much weight in the past and it was very easy compared to this.

Which one do you believe is moe difficult?

Gaining

Losing

[HaventMetYouYet]

This totally depends on your body type. Everyone will have a different answer based on their own experiences.
You might think that gaining weight is harder, but someone who has a genetic disposition to obesity and was raised by parents who don't live a healthy lifestyle will then find it much harder to lose weight than someone like you.
It also depends on how much you want to gain/lose. People fluctuate weight all the time. I don't find it difficult to gain five pounds. It's harder for me to lose five pounds, but it's still pretty easy.

Of course if your body is naturally tiny it will be extremely difficult to gain weight. But if your body is naturally larger, then it is harder to lose.

[Kyndra]

As someone who experienced both, gaining weight is more difficult for me, especially in a healthy way. It sucks even more if you have insulin resistance -.-

[blondfrog]

I think it all depends a lot of people have I think have more trouble gaining weight and its not always out of laziness some health conditions really does practically inhibit you from losing weight such as certain heart conditions or hormonal disease like hypothyroidism and etc. I especially know this cause I have been on both ends I used to super skinny then once I got diagnose with pernicious anemia (b-12) deficiency it was so hard to lose weight cause I practically had no energy and with hypothyroidism.

[blondfrog]

*trouble losing weight

[Nomad93]

It all depends if you are an ectomorph, endomorph, mesomorph and how your genetics are. Personally losing fat is the hardest part, weight is rather easy because you can just not eat, use the bathroom and don't drink much and you will weigh like 5-8 pounds less

[CourtJester]

Again, it's up to the person's body but generally losing weight is. Gaining is simple... eat more calories than what your body needs and it becomes stored fat. Losing weight is much more complex... eat less calories but your body has a way in adapting to that... catabolize muscle, fat, etc. and that's why fatloss is a slow progress.

[Blondiee2014]

Defintiely losing, gaining is easy all you need to do is consume more calories than you lose, so eat Macdonalds and ice cream and don't excersie and you will gain fast :)
Losing is not that hard you just need to eat low calorie food and excersie :p

[Kyndra]

I've lost 8 kg eating junk food and not even leaving the house for school in 3-4 months. Apparently that's the easiest way to lose the muscle you have.

[Blondiee2014]

Well yeah if you don't use it you lose it:)

[Hopefuldreamer8]

It's actually very easy for me to do both. I don't know why but I've always been very good at controlling my weight. If I wanted to gain twenty pounds I could do it no problem. If I wanted to lose them again I could easily.

[AthleticMom]

MH after only one hour?
Guess it's the message you want to hear/publish...
ref: Super Size Me
the movie
for a better answer, even if only quasi research

[JackKerouac77]

Losing is harder because it's not fun. Gaining simply requires sitting on your ass and eating foods you love non-stop.

[Asker]

you can't, you'll burst out if you eat that much

[Laura1995]

Losing weight is hard for me :O
I used to be underweight, and my doctor said I needed to gain weight... I did that very easily.

[Asker]

how? that's really tough if you're not used to eat a lot

[Laura1995]

Are you talking about the gaining weight part? For some reason, it was easy.

[kheserthorpe]

Gaining muscle is brutally hard for me.

Losing fat requires consistent effort but isn't too bad.

Gaining fat is effortless.

[meatballs21]

I'm going to say gaining as it took me years of heavy drinking and a desk job and not giving a shit to put on not very much extra. In a year I've burned it back off with a sensible diet and exercise.

[aamy811]

Losing you have to watch what you eat and exercise and meal plan, just a bunch of stuff. To gain all you have. To do is sit there an eat

[muliebrity]

Neither is more difficult. My body reacts in proportion with how I balance. I gain and lose weight in the same manner. Gain and lose steadily.

[misscocobutter]

Gaining weight is much easier for me because I simply love food

[YourFutureEx]

Depends on the person and his/her current physical conditions.

[ThatGuy98]

Completely dependent on you genetics, ectomorphs will easily lose weight but have a hard time gaining weight while endomorphs are the other way around.

[Acleverusername]

Go get some whey protein it helped me put on about 50 lbs which was easily turned into muscle. It worked for me so I feel like it can work for you! Just make sure you are active when you take it because just gaining weight is not good for you.

[Asker]

that's silly i don't want to add 50 pounds. i want to be 14 lbs more.

and i do it only for my mother to stop threatening me. otherwise i'd not.

[Acleverusername]

You can obviously stop at your goal weight lol do you not know how gains work?

[jacquesvol]

Losing weight is hard work for me.
Once I lost weight, it comes back in a few months.

[WhaChaChaKing]

Unless your metabolism is crazy fast then gaining weight shouldn't be that hard. Losing weight is a pain though.

[art84]

I think it's harder to lose weight as gaining weight is easier to do.

[Piploy01]

I'm overweight , I can't losing its too diffucul to do it.. Even if I don't eat anything in 2 days...

[dartmaul15]

okay, it's time for some hardcore educating.
First of all, dieting does NOT work. When you don't eat, your body adapts to it and stores close to everything of nutrition it gets. This means that not only do you barely loose anything, but the moment you start eating again you gain weight FAST until your body realizes it's no longer in short supply of nutritions.
And 2 days isn't really enough to see any noticeable difference.

You need to work out, eat healthy, and live a healthy life. A bag of chips and coke on Saturday is ok as long as the rest of the week is ok. It's not that hard once you get used to it and into the rythm, the hard part is the first couple weeks.

[Prof_Don]

No contest. Losing weight is tougher.

[Asker]

i've lost almost 150 pounds in the past and it was a walk in the park for me

[Belgie]

It depends on your metabolism.