[quote=CBad]I can’t say I know any thin people who eat a lot of bad food AND don’t exercise unless they are kids/teenagers/very young adults. That behavior just doesn’t work when you are an adult unless you have a rare metabolism. [/quote]
one interesting group to look at are former athletes, professional or college/high school or former military.
these folks tend to eat badly but because of the physical demand of their sports/job they stay normal sized… until they get out of the sport/retire from military/raise up to command positions. then they just balloon up like no tomorrow.
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Of the overweight people I know who are healthy, they have healthy habits but just have never lost the extra weight that they gained at some point. I think that if they did a strict diet/exercise program to lose the weight and then went back to their normal healthy ways they would maintain.
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I agree, once the metabolism resets, very difficult to lose the weight gained from prior dietary indiscretions.
One other issue is people always preceive themselves to be normal when they are actually overweight. slightly plum really means obese. and need to drop a few lbs often means the need to drop 100.
body mass index remains the gold standard. the key to remember is 10-15 lbs over normal is not that bad at all. so if you say you are overweight by 10-15 lbs via the body mass index, I completely agree that is perfectly fine and you probably are even healthier than a person at ideal body weight.
THE PROBLEM IS MOST PEOPLE THAT CLAIM “OVERWEIGHT STATUS” IS REALLY MORBIDLY OBESE ON THE BMI SCALE.
