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Maintaining a healthy weight is not that difficult FOR YOU. Many, many people struggle to control their weight. One day you might too. I never had an issue wit

Maintaining a healthy weight is not that difficult FOR YOU. Many, many people struggle to control their weight. One day you might too. I never had an issue with my weight until I had a thyroid infection around 30. I now have "normal" thyroid levels, but ever since then maintaining my weight take vigilance and lots of discipline. It's possible, but definitely "difficult".

tayo42 4y ago
Why? How many calories do you eat in a day?
- rootusrootus 4y ago
  Have you ever tried to deliberately eat fewer calories every day than your body wants, for an extended period of time? Like, months and years, not days.
  - tayo42 4y ago
    yes i intentionally eat healthy. I used to get breakfast smoothies and large portion breakfast and lunches. i put on weight, i cut that out and started to lose weight. i had butter with breakfast everymorning. atleast 100 calories, i noticed that was a mistake and cut it out. that isnt calories i need. Your body wants about 1800-2200 calories. it doesnt need chips and soda and chocolate etc.. which push you above that
    - sarchertech 4y ago
      Your body wants your maintenance calories. If you are overweight for an any significant time, your body adjusts and will push you to consume your new maintenance calories. It takes a very long time for you body to adjust back down once you lose weight, which is why more often than not people gain the weight back.
      - tayo42 4y ago
        What are you saying that based on? Your going to feel full and not get fat if you binge on brocolli. Not the same as reaching for snickers. If you reach for something healthy everytime your hungry instead of something sweet or extra fatty you'll lose weight. if you lose to much weight you'll feel bad. The way i understand what your saying is If you cut out 500 calories of sugary snacks and soda your going to crave 500 calories of turkey. I think thats false, thats based on my experience.
- Volundr 4y ago
  None of your business. I maintain a healthy weight. Even that is none of your business. How many calories I eat does not change it being difficult to maintain.
  - rootusrootus 4y ago
    There's a whole contingent of ignorant (but smug, of course) people who like to chant "just eat less" as if that simple biological truth is the easy answer. How nice it must be for them.
  - tayo42 4y ago
    what are you sharing your personal anecdotes then as something conclusive about weight management. we know nothing about you except take your word that you eat healthy?
    - Volundr 4y ago
      What would knowing my number change? If I say a number it becomes "just" eat less. With that just doing a lot of heavy lifting. Just eat less may be easy for some people. It's extremely difficult for others. I shared my anecdote to point out that even within ones life it can change. It was not an invitation scrutinize my life. Too many people think the phrase "I have a hard time losing weight" is a justification to start quizzing people down about their habits and judging them. Fuck that.
      - tayo42 4y ago
        Yeah if your eating 3k calories a day as an average height person it does invalidate what your saying. If your eating 1800 to 2k calories a day and still are obese then id consider what your saying. alot of people make poor food choices and dont eat clean. meals are filled with fats and sugar or they snack all day and dont just drink water
        Volundr 4y ago
        1) It really wouldn't invalidate anything. For some people eating less than 3k calories means being hungry all the time and that's really, really difficult for them. They'd lose weight, they'd be healthier, but that doesn't make it "easy". 2) You keep calling my obese, you clearly aren't considering what I'm saying right now, I doubt suddenly knowing my caloric intake would change that.
RHSeeger 4y ago
I had a similar issue. I was over the weight I wanted to be, but not amazingly so. Then I had a thyroid issue, and I lost a bunch of weight; down to my target weight. Then, once the thyroid issue was treated, my weight rebounded well past it's starting point. I'm still trying to lose the extra weight.
- Volundr 4y ago
  That sucks. Best of luck. FWIW I have managed to get my weight under control, so hopefully it's possible for you too. But yeah, if it's anything like it is for me, it really is a challenge, just know your not alone. I frequently wish I had measure of what my levels were before my thyroid went weird. "Normal" is a pretty wide range, it'd be nice to know how my currently levels compare to my previous "normal" even if just to confirm that something physically changed.

tayo42 4y ago

Why? How many calories do you eat in a day?

rootusrootus 4y ago
Have you ever tried to deliberately eat fewer calories every day than your body wants, for an extended period of time? Like, months and years, not days.
- tayo42 4y ago
  yes i intentionally eat healthy. I used to get breakfast smoothies and large portion breakfast and lunches. i put on weight, i cut that out and started to lose weight. i had butter with breakfast everymorning. atleast 100 calories, i noticed that was a mistake and cut it out. that isnt calories i need. Your body wants about 1800-2200 calories. it doesnt need chips and soda and chocolate etc.. which push you above that
  - sarchertech 4y ago
    Your body wants your maintenance calories. If you are overweight for an any significant time, your body adjusts and will push you to consume your new maintenance calories. It takes a very long time for you body to adjust back down once you lose weight, which is why more often than not people gain the weight back.
    - tayo42 4y ago
      What are you saying that based on? Your going to feel full and not get fat if you binge on brocolli. Not the same as reaching for snickers. If you reach for something healthy everytime your hungry instead of something sweet or extra fatty you'll lose weight. if you lose to much weight you'll feel bad. The way i understand what your saying is If you cut out 500 calories of sugary snacks and soda your going to crave 500 calories of turkey. I think thats false, thats based on my experience.
Volundr 4y ago
None of your business. I maintain a healthy weight. Even that is none of your business. How many calories I eat does not change it being difficult to maintain.
- rootusrootus 4y ago
  There's a whole contingent of ignorant (but smug, of course) people who like to chant "just eat less" as if that simple biological truth is the easy answer. How nice it must be for them.
- tayo42 4y ago
  what are you sharing your personal anecdotes then as something conclusive about weight management. we know nothing about you except take your word that you eat healthy?
  - Volundr 4y ago
    What would knowing my number change? If I say a number it becomes "just" eat less. With that just doing a lot of heavy lifting. Just eat less may be easy for some people. It's extremely difficult for others. I shared my anecdote to point out that even within ones life it can change. It was not an invitation scrutinize my life. Too many people think the phrase "I have a hard time losing weight" is a justification to start quizzing people down about their habits and judging them. Fuck that.
    - tayo42 4y ago
      Yeah if your eating 3k calories a day as an average height person it does invalidate what your saying. If your eating 1800 to 2k calories a day and still are obese then id consider what your saying. alot of people make poor food choices and dont eat clean. meals are filled with fats and sugar or they snack all day and dont just drink water
      - Volundr 4y ago
        1) It really wouldn't invalidate anything. For some people eating less than 3k calories means being hungry all the time and that's really, really difficult for them. They'd lose weight, they'd be healthier, but that doesn't make it "easy". 2) You keep calling my obese, you clearly aren't considering what I'm saying right now, I doubt suddenly knowing my caloric intake would change that.

RHSeeger 4y ago

I had a similar issue. I was over the weight I wanted to be, but not amazingly so. Then I had a thyroid issue, and I lost a bunch of weight; down to my target weight. Then, once the thyroid issue was treated, my weight rebounded well past it's starting point. I'm still trying to lose the extra weight.

Volundr 4y ago
That sucks. Best of luck. FWIW I have managed to get my weight under control, so hopefully it's possible for you too. But yeah, if it's anything like it is for me, it really is a challenge, just know your not alone. I frequently wish I had measure of what my levels were before my thyroid went weird. "Normal" is a pretty wide range, it'd be nice to know how my currently levels compare to my previous "normal" even if just to confirm that something physically changed.