Arrgh! Goverment Recommendations Go Overboard Again!

My body is one that doesn't fit into government guidelines either.I grew up on a cattle farm. All my meat was grassfed and the veggies were all home grown.I am a physically strong person and I do have a large bone structure. I build and maintain muscle easily. I was athletic.I didn't have a weight problem until I got into highschool and started eating out (fastfoods).When I went into the military I barely met the maximum weight allowed. After losing the excess weight I had gained, I stil had to lose some muscle to get in just under the wire.What amazed me was that during boot camp, I didn't lose any more weight. I was the same size when I got out (12/14). I was also weaker after bootcamp than I was before.My husband, who is a chronic exerciser, and I struggled for many years with lowfat diets to try and maintain our weight. Didn't work. Weight just kept going up for both of us.My jobs were always active, plus gardening, golf, dance, farming, and chasing a daughter around.A few years ago I got fed up with our continued weight gain and we both felt miserable.So I decided to go back to my roots. I dumped anything with preservatives in it, went back to grassfed beef, and found a farmer with pastured chickens for eggs. My husband strickly followed the Atkins diet. I wasn't as strick. I like my fruits.Slowly the weight began to drop. I've lost 25 pounds, but not muscle. I'm 45 yrs old, 5'7", a size 12/14 (depending on where I buy the clothes) and I weigh 180#. My husband went from 240 to 200 and all that muscle he was building underneath from his chronic exercise, now shows. He looks great! He's working towards a triathlelon now.I don't like intentional exercise. I prefer swimming, gardening, dancing, bowling, etc. Of course my doctors tell me that is not enough. Oh well.I did find out that when my weight went down my cholesterol went up. My doctor said it was the eggs I was eating. I didn't believe it though. I did some research and found out the High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFC) and processed sugar impact cholesterol. So I gave up sugar and anything that had HFC in it (which they've stuck in so much of our food). My cholesterol dropped below the 200 mark and I still eat two eggs a day. Need to check it again to see if it has continued to go down. I use maple syrup to sweeten things.So my weight is stable, I'm healthy (although I still don't fit into the government guidelines) and I feel great!

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