you shouldn’t worry about being skinny, only not being fat. the goal should be to avoid the bad thing (being fat, in this case meaning only fat to the point of unhealthiness) not to be the opposite because that is bad too (being excessively skinny can cause just as many issues). as long as you aren’t at the point one way or the other where it is hurting your health nobody actually cares. also I’m aware op was joking but some of y’all need to hear this.
To ammend even further: Health neither stops nor starts at weight in almost any case. Far better strategies for self care will instead look at:
- Cardiovascular fitness (resting heart rate, blood pressure, etc)
- Energy levels, blood sugar and sleep
- Immunity, inflammation, stress
More broad attention to these three rough categories is going to be way more positive than worrying about the single metric of weight or BMI. Doctors may recommend a raise or lowering of weight, but for ALMOST EVERY person that’s only as a means to the end of improving one or more of the broader cardio, energy, and immunity mechanisms.
Feels like a pyramid to me. If I don’t have good sleep and good hydration I struggle mightily to control my food intake, and if I’m eating too much then I’m aching so badly and feeling so sluggish that I barely get anywhere at the gym.
I’m not to great at managing sleep or food intake myself, but I’ve found that adding some flavoring to your water helps with hydration. I don’t mean those little squirt bottle things though, I mean more like tea. I used to make tea in the morning before school and when I finished it I would refill the water bottle with regular water from the water fountain. the flavor wouldn’t be as strong as when I first made the tea, but it made me go from almost never drinking water to drinking 1 bottle of tea (that water bottle was like 20 oz) and 2 bottles of water a day. they also make cold brew tea now, and from the couple times i’ve tried it it seemed to steep pretty well in ice water and had a good flavor. also as dumb as it may seem, having a water bottle with some cool gimmicky feature may help too. for example, i use an owala one right now and it’s been pretty helpful (i stopped doing the tea thing for a while bc i ran out and forgot to buy more) as well.
You can still eat junk food and not go up in weight as long as you don’t overeat
Conversely, though, remember that unhealthy nutritional choices can mess with your immunity, cause inflammation, and really screw with your day-to-day energy and sleep. Nutrition is always a story performed on a much more complicated stage than weight=calories in - calories out! (Though that equation is a good signpost that guides the plot.) See https://lemmy.cafe/comment/9956540
