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Originally Posted by HOZ
This was a nice post to read. I wish you luck DA.
I read somewhere (I will see if I can find it) that said that it is far easier to stay "skinny" or never get fat than to ever lose the excess weight. Once the weight gets put on and then the person loses it, the body reacts as though you are starving. Basically, tempting you to put it on.
Get your kids on a healthy lifestyle to start with and they will find it easier to stay that way!
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As much as you might be to loathe something coming from MSNBC, this link agrees with you:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36716808.../#.TwbbqJgTs3Y
I can tell you right now that the year and a half that I have spent staying at 170 has been much, much, much harder than the year it took to get to 170. The last two weeks of December I fell off the wagon. One night I had a Pizza Hut Panormous pizza for supper. I saw a chocolate fudge cake at the bakery regular $14 on sale for $6, so I bought it since it looked so good. Had the whole cake for desert that night. Obviously I can still eat like a 360 pound person.... that would probably make someone that was always 170 pounds very sick. But I have not felt "full" since I started losing the weight. Even after eating the whole Panormous pizza, I felt like I could have another.
So, absolutely, definitely,the best thing is for parents to get their kids started out right. It is far easier to grow up eating right and exercising and being fit through childhood and adolescence and staying thin through adulthood than losing the weight later on in life and keeping the weight off.