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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-fat-trap.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
I think we had a thread here where many people testified that they had lost meaningful amounts of weight, and kept it off. Here is an article that maintains that keeping weight off after a diet is either impossible, or a life long Herculean task.
I have no personal experience. My former wife would occasionally gain 10-20 pounds, and much more with her pregnancies. So 2 pregnancies and maybe 3 periods of dieting, equals 5 round trips For the last 25 years she has maintained her weight very steadily at about a 21 BMI, which is a very attractive weight for her. Parker-Pope's article maintains that it takes unwavering almost obsessive focus to keep even part of the weight from returning. I have no idea about the truth of this, but it definitely does not describe my former wife who has an iron will but mostly focuses on her work.
Many things that seem typical of people on this board would take a suspension of disbelief in almost any other context. We are mostly better at everything, other than putting up with work. We report that we adjust better to retirement (in fact we are ecstatic usually). We get along much better with spouses or SOs (present writer excluded). We are happier with small spending, or we have plenty of money to spend a lot.
Do we also keep weight off better, after successful weight loss attempts?
Ha
I think we had a thread here where many people testified that they had lost meaningful amounts of weight, and kept it off. Here is an article that maintains that keeping weight off after a diet is either impossible, or a life long Herculean task.
I have no personal experience. My former wife would occasionally gain 10-20 pounds, and much more with her pregnancies. So 2 pregnancies and maybe 3 periods of dieting, equals 5 round trips For the last 25 years she has maintained her weight very steadily at about a 21 BMI, which is a very attractive weight for her. Parker-Pope's article maintains that it takes unwavering almost obsessive focus to keep even part of the weight from returning. I have no idea about the truth of this, but it definitely does not describe my former wife who has an iron will but mostly focuses on her work.
Many things that seem typical of people on this board would take a suspension of disbelief in almost any other context. We are mostly better at everything, other than putting up with work. We report that we adjust better to retirement (in fact we are ecstatic usually). We get along much better with spouses or SOs (present writer excluded). We are happier with small spending, or we have plenty of money to spend a lot.
Do we also keep weight off better, after successful weight loss attempts?
Ha