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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]“It feels so preventable” but it’s really not. [/b]Preventable, yes. But not SO preventable as if it’s easy. It’s extraordinarily difficult to lose and then keep off large amounts of weight. That’s a fact. The constant vigilance, deprivation, and mental energy required to be thin or average sized when your body and mind are fighting you is just not something some people are willing or able to take on. [/quote]

PP and yes. For some of us it's not that easy. I've lost about 100 pounds now and it's a daily, all day every day, struggle to stay this way. My life revolves around it in a way that's pretty exhausting and has for awhile now. It never goes away or really gets any easier. I'm determined to stay this way but it's a lot. Maybe that is something you could "process", OP, as you struggle through trying to accept that your sister is fat. [/quote]

So much this.  I once lost 75 pounds on Weight Watchers but, maybe thanks to genetics or what have you, losing that meant never deviating from the strictest form of the program at that time (no flex points, no eating activity points, lots of exercise).  Maintaining was much harder.  I could barely add in calories and was working out almost 2 1/2 hours a day.  When I had kids I couldn't devote that kind of time and mental energy.  I gained it all back plus some.  I still exercise.  I'm still relatively careful about what I eat.  It sucks to be fat, but it sucks more having your life feel consumed by struggling with weight.  FWIW, both of my parents were 100+ pounds overweight, as are/were all my siblings.  My siblings seem to be on the same weight loss journeys. [/quote]

+1 I’ve lost 100 pounds on Weight Watchers and I am very close to being overweight instead of obese but I’ve been stuck at the same weight since November. I’ve been tracking everything and it’s very discouraging. But if I would stop trying I would gain back every pound. I have decided that the only thing left I can think of to cut back is too much fruit. It’s hard but I am only doing the plan in a way that I feel that I have a chance at maintaining.[/quote]

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