Originally Posted by PornMD

Congrats! Main thing is to keep it off, or at least most of it.

I was down over 70 from my high a few months ago...now unfortunately about 15 up from that, but will be getting back into tennis on a regular basis soon enough, and with regular tennis (2-3 times of about 3 hours) plus a bit of exercise between, I could eat completely shitty and at least maintain weight if not lose. Getting rid of the ridiculously stupid habits like drinking regular soda or other high-sugar drinks and constant junk food is certainly the easiest thing to do to lose weight and in my 70 lb loss, that accounted for the first 30 in just a few months. IMO exercise is probably even more important than the diet/nutrition stuff beyond that though, especially if without exercise your day is just a bunch of sitting around on the computer like mine is. My issue is that if I'm not exercising regularly (which is easy if I'm overwhelmed with work), I could eat great for a week and then get sucked into binging because my body craves it and honestly because I'm not a health nut and don't like most healthy foods, and I end up seesawing in weight, up 10 down 10 up 10 down 10. If I'm exercising regularly, as I said I could eat pretty badly almost all the time and I won't gain weight. In fact, if I'm not exercising regularly, even if I'm eating well and/or seesawing but not gaining weight overall with it, my body fat % generally goes up whereas with good regular exercise, even with eating like shit my body fat % will stay the same or go down. It really makes all the difference in the world IMO. I love tennis in particular because with it being a game, it's a lot easier to do a lot more than with going to the gym or running - at least for me. I used to wear a body bugg (should start again) and I think my best day including tennis was over 600 more cal burn than my best day with gym, like 15% higher. Huge difference.

I think part of why US and probably other countries as well have a weight problem is because people don't get into fun organized exercise activities like sports, end up relying on the gym, hate working out at the gym, eventually stop because they hate it or simply never get into the habit of doing it to begin with and end up being mostly sedentary all day because so much involves computer and lots of people's leisure time anymore is spent on the computer or watching TV. Unhealthy food has been around for eons, but the general activity level of people has really gone down in recent years/decades.