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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aside from the shaming aspect, we aren't giving enough attention to the fact that metabolism decreases with weight loss.  Maintaining can be harder than losing and once you lose the first time you will never be at the same level as a naturally thin person.  I once lost a significant amount of weight and maintaining it (which I did for two years) was harder than losing it.  I was working out 2+ hours a day and eating around 1,000 calories.  When I got pregnant with my first I gained a lot of it back, and the rest of it back when I was pregnant for my second (which also required bed rest).  I've done weight watchers since and lost nothing.  I still work out.  I am significantly overweight.

The shaming is very real, too.  Both DH and I have larger families.  Our babies were born normal weight but gained weight quickly even EBF.  Both of my kids had their weight flagged as problematic from about 3 months on...  They already hate doctors.[/quote]
Were you overweight as a child? It changes your physiology when you are fat as a child and makes it virtually impossible to be a normal weight adult. Stopping obesity before it starts is the only way to combat it
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Yes, I was overweight as a child as were all of my siblings.  My kids were "overweight" starting at around one month old (exclusively breast fed).  Our kids see a dietician.  It helps but they are still bigger than other children and I worry a lot about giving them more of a complex by trying to address this.  I'm also not convinced by many of the methods people use to treat childhood obesity, i.e. limiting fruit (which I have tried) and stimulant medications (which I will not try).  I have a good friend who is a dietician and I will say that most of her colleagues have never been overweight, many came into the profession because they judge the obese, many have disordered eating, and the failure rate long term is nearly 100%.[/quote]

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