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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the last two PPs: isn’t that serious all or nothing thinking?  Do you think there’s nothing between morbid obesity and restrictive dieting?  I’m very fit and strong, and can physically do whatever I want, but I’m also not skinny.  It sounds like there are a lot of us in that camp: not much benefit to starving ourselves to lose 10 pounds, given that we don’t really need to lose them other than to meet some absurd ideal.[/quote]

[b]NP. The real black and white thinking here is believing that losing ten pounds means you will have to starve yourself and live the rest of your life deprived of the pleasures of food.[/b] [/quote]

Wow! Good call!
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Not really, as subsequent PPs pointed out, and as my experience also supports. When most bodies find their happy weight, they hang onto it, and when you don’t have much (or any) to lose, it’s much harder to. For me, losing ten pounds would take an enormous amount of deprivation. And because I’m not obese and am already fit, the only reason would be to look “skinny,” rather than average.

So, yeah. [/quote]

If your doctor tells you to lose ten pounds and you refuse to because it requires a few weeks of dieting, you are the kind of person that is going to keep gaining as you age, and you will have all kinds of health problems that could have been nipped in the bud with minor weight loss.[/quote]

I think the point is that losing 10 pounds, for the OP, would require more than a “few weeks of dieting” and it’s not “minor weight loss.”   I mean, did her doctor not get the memo that diets don’t work?  There is SO much data on that.  She’s active, eats a healthy diet, and is in otherwise excellent health.  So...?[/quote]

Of course diets can work. It has worked for me, and I’ve maintained the weight loss for years and it’s not a struggle. Some people just choose to make excuses. [/quote]

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