It's Not That Hard!
https://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=6277456 Way back in December 2016 over on the SparkPeople site I'd written a blog about the struggle to maintain weight loss as we get older. And today, a good Spark friend BROOKLYN_BORN dug out that old blog to comment on it at the ex-Sparkie google docs site. When I weighed 240 pounds back in 2000 (that was a typo in yesterday's blog -- I first lost the weight which I've kept off in 2000 and not 2020) I could actually eat "more" calories because I was burning a certain amount of fuel lugging around that excess 90 pounds. Yeah. Those extra pounds were just like carrying around, 24/7,almost 2 big bags of dog food: and pumping blood through it, too!! Well, pretty clearly with my weight creeping up and up back then I was still eating more calories than I was burning but I COULD stay steady at the obese weight while eating more than I could eat after losing the weight. And an...