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Thursday, July 30, 2009

I'm an Example on Both Sides

While reading the latest debate on whether fat people can lose lots of weight and keep it off, I realized that I'm an example on both sides. I lost over 100 pounds in my late teens and mostly kept it off for almost two decades (with a little bit of a backslide in my early 20s). On the other hand those two decades are increasingly far in the past …

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Anonymous TJIC said...

I lose 100 lbs, and kept it off or two years.

I think that Megan's assertion that "fat people who have lost weight act like starving people" is dead on accurate.

I had the willpower to lose the weight and keep it off...but it was work.

As soon as a few bumps in the road distracted me (a break up, etc.)...

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