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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm about the exact size and eat a really healthy diet to maintain a size 8/10 at age 46.  To lose weight I basically have to starve myself.  
I've never been super thin or below a size 4 or 6--even when I was a rabid cross country runner (running 20 miles a day) and subsisting on rice cakes and water in high school and college.

I'm just not built like a pencil (a fact that has annoyed me my whole life). I'm sturdy and always have been.  At 46 I just don't care anymore and so I've embraced being me.  [/quote]

This is OP and YES - I just don't care. I'd rather be healthy and happy than healthier and watching every morsel. [/quote]

Yup, same.  Also mid-40s, and a size 8 mostly, up to 10/12 for fitted tops (I have broad shoulders).  I've really leaned into intuitive eating during the pandemic, which has meant more sweets but also less obsession with food.  Mostly I eat what I want, which includes plenty of veggies, protein, and water, and treats, too.  I love working out, which I think helps overall.  But yeah, I'm trying hard to embrace what I like about my body (I put on muscle very easily, especially for a woman) vs. what I don't (all my fat seems to go directly to my thighs--and aside from altering my DNA, there's not a lot I can do about that).  Being skinny would take SO much work, and for what?[/quote]

Late 40s - and I think I am pretty much there, too. But I might feel differently if I were actually overweight as opposed to just a bit heavier than I was in my 30s. At this age, at this weight, I don't find it worth the effort to stay as thin as I was. But I am pretty happy with my weight now, which I maintain by being a conscientious grazer, is how I sometimes describe it. I don't restrict calories or go on diets but I am aware of what I am eating, and if my clothes start feeling tight I will make small modifications (like skipping appetizers for takeout, or giving up dessert for a while).

Ask me in my 50s how I'm doing with all this - I can't imagine that even keeping this weight will get easy when I get older!

But yes, to me, I enjoy food more than I enjoy being my skinniest. But I also like being the now version of thin, and I can't say how I will feel or what I will do if this gets harder to maintain.[/quote]

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