{"id":715,"date":"2026-02-21T22:15:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T21:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/beastie\/vecina-zena-odustane-od-vjezbanja-i-bolje-prehrane-zato-jer-nema-podrsku\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T18:58:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:58:58","slug":"most-women-give-up-because-they-lack-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marinabosnjakovic.com\/en\/most-women-give-up-because-they-lack-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Women Give Up on Exercise and \u201cEating Better\u201d Because They Lack Support"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m sure there has been at least one time in your life when you decided to improve your eating habits and start exercising.<\/p>\n

Then your colleagues offered you biscuits at work.<\/p>\n

At a family lunch, you felt like you \u201chad\u201d to eat dessert.<\/p>\n

And when you suggest going for a walk, the other person would rather sit in a caf\u00e9 and have coffee.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s one of the most common reasons women give up on exercise and healthier eating\u2014not because it\u2019s difficult, but because they constantly encounter obstacles.<\/p>\n

And often, a lack of understanding.<\/p>\n

Before working with me, my clients were anything but lazy.<\/p>\n

They weren\u2019t lacking motivation.<\/p>\n

They weren\u2019t lacking determination.<\/p>\n

What they were lacking was support.<\/p>\n

In fact, many of them felt constant pressure from the people around them and often gave in, even when they didn\u2019t really want to.<\/p>\n

They skipped workouts.<\/p>\n

They ate the extra slice of cake.<\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t get their daily steps in.<\/p>\n

All for the sake of keeping the peace, avoiding hurt feelings, or simply because they needed support rather than resistance.<\/p>\n

Social pressure can sometimes be worse than high school peer pressure!<\/h3>\n

Yesterday, I went to a workout with a long-term client who has since become a close friend.<\/p>\n

After that, I had a consultation with another client\u2014we walked around the lake together.<\/p>\n

And once again, the same thing became clear.<\/p>\n

For most women, the challenge isn\u2019t doing a workout.<\/p>\n

Nor is it preparing healthy meals.<\/p>\n

The real challenge is maintaining those habits over the long term.<\/p>\n

Because when you start changing your habits, it\u2019s not just your food choices or your schedule that changes.<\/p>\n

Your relationship with the people around you changes too.<\/p>\n

Because when you decide to:<\/p>\n