TheTubbyPony:
So for 5 years my girlfriend has gained over 80lbs from a normal 155lbs to a lovely plump 235lbs. This past two years she's been trying to fight it and slim down but to her avail, she keeps ballooning. Now she's decided to not fight so hard anymore and just go with the flow. Of course she's doing walks and exercises, but her curvaceous figure hasn't dwindled. Anybody else had this experience?
My wife had a similar gain, going from 145 to 235 over the first six years of our relationship (we got married after four years), only resisting the gain in the last couple of years of it. In her case she did then lose close to twenty pounds, but then we had a baby and she put ten back on, and has basically +/- 15 pounds of that weight in the many years since. Basically if she gets much lighter she doesn't feel so bad so stops fighting her appetite as much, and if she gets much bigger she begins to feel uncomfortably fat and gets her habits back in hand. Although with age she has tended more to the high end of that range.
Given that nobody can gain forever, I'm pretty ok with her staying moderately fat but still quite active, and having some minor ups and downs over time.