@AndyDandyPandy wrote:
Everyone who loses weight is scared of gaining again. Many people who achieved weight loss goal are still struggling everyday to maintain and is documenting everything from being active and counting calories and eating healthy like they're still on a journey. So does this mean if you're once very fat it is impossible to live like a normal person who can just enjoy life and not have to worry about weight/health issue? Normal people doesn't count calories, think before they eat, trying to get that few extra thousand steps. So can we not live like this? Can we just live and not have to worry about health/weight once we hit a healthy bmi and still be normal bmi?
All I can say is that life isn't fair. My answer is that if you're once very fat and have some kind of eating disorder you'll have to watch what you eat for the rest of your life and do some sort of exercise weekly. While some other people can not care about their health and still stay normal bmi.
I would say it is very abnormal for an individual to A) not exercise at all, B) be able to eat whatever/whenever in any quantity desired, and C) maintain a healthy weight (forget BMI, it's a bunch of crap).
If a formerly obese individual reaches a healthy weight they would like to maintain, then he or she will need to A) maintain a normal healthy activity level in their lifestyle, B) restrict what they eat, or C) some of each.
In my case, I chose option "B", I refuse to watch what I eat (from a quantity perspective; I keep the quality pretty high), and instead, prefer to run a few extra miles per day.
