Thanks! I know the occasional day off is actually a good thing, I just need to remember that one day off does not mean it is OK to go ahead and take 3-4 off. That is where I get in trouble. Guess that will keep me coming here as unmonitored me is a fat person struggling to return. Sounds like we are kind of in the same boat regardless of how we "diet". Not staying on top of it will drag us back up in short order.

I've often wondered what it would be like to be one of those people who just never has to think about what they eat and still never get overweight. I did eventually see my dad go from one of those people to one who got fat when he got older and quit working. There was a certain, sick satisfaction for me seeing him with absolutely NO CLUE how to take weight off because he had never struggled with it when he was younger. I hoped he had regrets about his longtime attitude that fat people were that way because they didn't have the will to not be. (yes, I felt judged even though he wasn't directly cruel about it)

Good wishes to you on your battle.

@DotLewis

I'm totally convinced that we're battling our inner child pre-pubescent food habits...the ones our loving, "spoiling" parents gave us.

I have to say that with a caveat;

too many are "angry" with or hold resentment against their doting parents who - out of love - and a need for us to "settle down"....often overfed us...and gave us the eating habits that we have for life.

That caveat is....don't be angry with them. They did the best they could. If you were a doting and spoiling parent....have no regrets. Again....you did what was "right for the times".

It's these future parents who I'm concerned about.

I even see my son and his wife pushing the "eat up/finish up" habit on my unsuspecting grandson...and I as a grandparent have already overstepped by boundaries....so I foresee my little grandson growing up with overeating habits...and I can only say, decades from now...."I told you so"....