I went from just right all my life to way too little, unhealthy & ended up in & out of the medical hospital for several years forced to have central lines & IV nutrition. Then for a couple of years, dealing with continuous migraine headaches & horrible side effects to medications one that was like having parkinson's where I couldn't even walk & it was difficult to even coordinate feeding myself.....but with the inactivity, I ended up gaining more than I had ever weighed in my life & more than my Mom ever weighed (something I swore I would never do)......then I got sick with asthma after a forest fire smoke caused that & I everything tasted like smoke & I couldn't stand to eat, then stress on top of that & I lost almost all the weight I had gained. The stress was long term & my mom was dying of cancer & the trauma that the home care person caused me was the final straw & landed in the medical hospital again with a central line & IV nutrition. It took me 2 years to get back to a healthy weight because of the bad marriage I was living in & I really wanted to JUST DISAPPEAR...but 2 years after that & I was just back at what was considered my lowest healthy weight. I was able to leave the marriage & for the last 7 years I have been holding right around the healthy weight.....up & down to it depending on the stresses. Living alone is a good incentive for me to stay at a healthy weight because I can't afford to get sick since I have to take care of myself.....but quite often, I'm lazy about cooking & living out in the country, fast food isn't an option. I'm stable up & down to my lowest healthy weight....must be healthy because I've only been sick for a couple of days since leaving my H 7 years ago & staying at the healthy weight does help.

Maintaining for me is tricky.....& when I do end up gaining a little more than I feel is acceptable I will usually back off on the amount I eat & it keeps me in the healthy weight zone.....it can be done....but I have to admit, I'm worried that having the major oral surgery after the first of the year in order to get my dentures, may seriously trigger a weight loss as it will be difficult eating for a long while after that.....like 4 months of healing before then can even do the implants......we will see what happens as pain & the inability to eat solid food isn't going to help me maintain my healthy weight.