I posted this elsewhere

[montrealais]

I am what many people consider somewhat overweight. I am 6'2" and weigh 200 pounds. I have weighed 200 pounds for ten years. During that ten-year time, I was: a poor undergraduate eating crap food; a very poor undergraduate literally doing dinner at Dairy Queen where I worked because I had to go directly from school to work and stay there until 11

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[darquis]

*applauds*

[tansu]

hooray!

[oldfemmejournal]

*claps and kisses you*

[felis_ultharus]

Good on you. I was listening to a CBC program - was it Ideas? -- that says that all the latest research indicates that your body has a barometer of correct weight set when you're a teenager, and will simply return you to that weight later on.

I do get more exercise and I am more active now. It feels good to a point and improve my life to a point, but after that I'm just going to work sore and exhausted.