effort

[carla guaraldi]

Hi there,

If someone goes to the gym and works out every day, making effort to lose weight but at night eats a lot of chocolate and pasta and everything one should not in order to lose weight, can I say it is a waste of effort?
what I want to say is that they are wasting the effort they made in order to lose weight...
thank you

[RonBee]

You can say that they are wasting their efforts or that they are working contrary to their goals.

[Raymott]

Hi there,

If someone goes to the gym and works out every day, making effort to lose weight but at night eats a lot of chocolate and pasta and everything one should not in order to lose weight, can I say it is a waste of effort?
what I want to say is that they are wasting the effort they made in order to lose weight...
thank you

Yes, you can say "it is a waste of effort".

[Tdol]

Or that they're wasting their time (or time and effort).

[tedtmc]

It defeats the purpose of going to the gym.