I also meant to say that exercise is good. But exercise should be for the sake of being healthy, not for the sake of losing weight. Just like eating healthy is good, but should not be for the sake of losing weight.

What does not make sense is the notion of "losing weight for your health." Since only about 5% of the people keep the weight off, and probably 60% regain more than what they started with, someone who diets has a 5% chance of being smaller, a 35% chance of being the same, and 60% chance of being bigger.

Now, if someone has high sugar, avoid sugar. If you have high cholesterol, then avoid fats. If someone has HBP avoid salt.

Dieting is an obsessive-compulsive behavior. And studies show that yoyo dieting is more unhealthy than being fat.

I guess the hardest thing to understand is when people say that diets don't work when you diet to please your SO or parents, but then think it works for "your health." A diet is a diet, no matter the purpose.

And because diets don't work, changing the name of a diet to anything else, including "lifestyle change," won't make a difference. Any change in eating to lose weight is a diet, no matter what you call it.

And since being large has a number of causes, including mediicine side effects, hormonal changes, genetics, etc., eating less will not change those factors.

You know the answer. She was wrong to do those things. Write her off, and keep looking. Good luck.

I love to hear about women who are not pregnant who are wearing maternity clothes. Are there any others here?

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