To anyone who has always been thin...

I had been 250 pounds and my diabetes was getting worse as a result. I knew I had to make changes or my health would get worse.

I ended up joining weight watchers. I tracked all my food faithfully and kept within my "points" weekly. I started walking daily and did some strength training. It took me over a year and I lost over 90 pounds. It helped my diabetes tremendously. My meds were reduced quite a bit and my a1c became normal.

Since the fall i gained back nearly 20 pounds because I binged and did not track faithfully. Now I am back on track and am on the road to lose again. It is not easy, it takes work, but you can do it.

Find what works best for you. Try to find a support group, in person or online. You can do it CoralMist.

I’m careful about what I eat but I don’t obsess about it. I prefer to eat healthy food because it makes me feel better. When I have junk food, I get migraines and feel sluggish.

I’m ordinarily a fairly active person. On the days I’m physically active, I consume more calories. On the days I’m not active, I consume less.

We never had dessert growing up except on special occasions and we didn’t have big meals either so I think that also contributed to the way I view food. I don’t really eat unless I start to feel hungry either. I rarely have fast food (like 3x a year). When I eat at a restaurant I almost always end up taking half of it home

I do know what it’s like to be overweight though. When I was pregnant with my twins, I gained an enormous amount of weight. I had edema too. I weighed over 200 pounds the day they were born. I felt awful. I felt unwell. I lost all that weight through exercise and nutrition. It took a long time to lose it but I’m glad I did it it the right way

You're going to hate me.

I don't do a thing, but live a highly physically demanding for my entire life.

When I'm walking. I walk like I have a sense of urgency. I'm always in hurry when I'm walking, even when I'm not.

I take the stairs over the elevator. Every time

I've always worked in physically demanding jobs. Construction trades, Farming, Ranching, and so. Jobs that force me to use my body to the limits and make me physically exhausted after 10/12 hours a day sometimes more.

Even when I'm in pain or sick. I still work. No one else going take care of the livestock. If I don't feed, give them bedding, milk them, collect eggs and so on. They will die. They need me to live

I get no days off. The only time I get days off, if family takea over or I pay someone

I eat very little store bought food. We eat, what we raise for meat or grow in the garden or we hunt or trap for food. We try our best to live as close we can to the life of the days of the pioneer. Its not 100%. Some of that life, the government deems illegal to live.

That's our way of life.

As a caveat, anyone under 25 need not answer…I was about 130lbs until I was 26 and couldn’t gain weight no matter what or how much I ate. Then my metabolism started to slow. Now I’m 225ish and can’t loose any weight no matter what I try.

I walk and climb stairs a lot. I also do eat as often or as much as I should. I've always been 'skinny' and took as much grief over my body type as those who were considered 'fat'. It's almost like the so called 'normal' people are afraid of anyone or anything that isn't exactly like them...

Don't starve yourself, always eat what you crave because you will eat less of it. Try healthier snacks like nuts, and ghe lowest percent milk that you can tolerate.
Good luck. 🙂

I consume very little. Some of us are just built to carry the weight. So if I'm not careful I will get chubs lol

I was thin once and I remember being cold and hungry all the time.

My hassle is getting weight off - especially when I can't exercise anymore.

Sadly I have no tips. It took me no effort to stay thin. It was incredibly hard work to gain weight though.

I'm trying intermittent fasting... nothin serious I just stop eating completely after dinner. counting cals didn't work for me.

Get a piece of clothing from when you were at your biggest and hang it somewhere where you can see it to remind yourself that you don't ever want to go back.

More walking, exercising, keeping busy and less calories is the key 😀

I lost another five pounds, another 55 pounds and I'll be at 200, then I'll be able to get my surgery where they'll scrape all my scarring and residual dried clots out of my lungs like a canteloupe 😁