Everything in moderation

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The hardest, more cruel slap of reality is, you CANNOT just eat what you want, when you want, in any amount you want. There are rules and limits.

Yes, we understand that there are limits. Which means that if there are particular restrictions that are exceptionally stressful and at which we often fail at applying it's better to avoid those restrictions whenever possible. For some people, that means pretty much eliminating certain foods.

I've maintained my weight well into middle age. My weight creeps up from time to time and I work to get it back down, but I have always been at a medically healthy weight. But I have relatives who are obese, have serious medical problems because of obesity who insist that I "should" be able to eat things in moderation. If I eat too much buttery, sugary food, I start pigging out.

Exercising judgment based on observation of how I react to food has worked for me. I'm not interested in eating myself moderately into obesity, Type II diabetes, and senile dementia (all problems with family members that were caused, or exacerbated, by obesity).