Agreed. If the weight is affecting your health in a definite way, then you should control it. But control is one thing and looking like a super-skinny model is another.
Years ago, back before I met jedusor, I used to weigh 250 pounds. I injured myself one day, hurt a muscle in my leg just walking down the steps of the green line train. And it was due to no particular cause except my weight, and that was when I realized I needed to do something about it.
I weigh 175 pounds these days, which is still overweight for my height on some absurd doctor's chart, but I am happy with it. It's my stable weight for what I eat now. I don't obsess over my weight. I still eat according to my diet when I am home, because I know eating anything I want will get me back up to my unhealthy weight. When I am out doing stuff, and it is not convenient to stick to my diet, I don't worry about it, and eat what I want. Several days of doing this at con adds a few pounds, but only a few, and when I go back home to my usual diet those pounds will come off, gradually.
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Date: 2011-08-07 01:11 pm (UTC)Years ago, back before I met jedusor, I used to weigh 250 pounds. I injured myself one day, hurt a muscle in my leg just walking down the steps of the green line train. And it was due to no particular cause except my weight, and that was when I realized I needed to do something about it.
I weigh 175 pounds these days, which is still overweight for my height on some absurd doctor's chart, but I am happy with it. It's my stable weight for what I eat now. I don't obsess over my weight. I still eat according to my diet when I am home, because I know eating anything I want will get me back up to my unhealthy weight. When I am out doing stuff, and it is not convenient to stick to my diet, I don't worry about it, and eat what I want. Several days of doing this at con adds a few pounds, but only a few, and when I go back home to my usual diet those pounds will come off, gradually.