[Lizavetta]

I've never bothered with calorie counting and to be honest stress and worry which leads to very little eating for me is what did it for me, then later on I added a lot of walking.

We'll have to agree to disagree on that people cannot maintain weight loss for long. Of course they can. They just won't because will power and consistency is difficult and a constant struggle. If they kept up the same eating and exercise habits as they did to lose, they will keep it off. I ain't saying it's easy but it's certainly doable.

[Pining_4_TX]

I didn’t mean to say tha nobody maintains weight loss. There is the National Weight Control Registry that keeps track of many who do.

However, it has been shown that many people start re-gaining the weight they have lost even while still dieting. Their bodies compensate for the decreased intake and become more “thrifty”. It is a defense left over from when people endured frequent famines. Our bodies have their own ideas about what we ought to weigh. Low or high.

Freegards,
Pining

[Pining_4_TX]

Oh, BTW, stress doesn’t help me. I only eat more. You sound like my slender son-in-law who loses his appetite when he is ill or stressed out.