Do mentally-healthy thin people make every daily choice with the intention to stay thin or is it effortless?

I ask this because I really don’t know how much thinking about food/calorie intake is “normal” and what borderlines on obsessive.

I’m not an obese person. I never have been. But I have been overweight for most of my childhood and my adulthood years. When I was a teenager/young adult I became consumed with self loathing and insecurity and I made a choice (?) to be thin. I decided to cut all sugary drinks, became a vegetarian, learned to count calories, and picked up extreme exercise routines that typically involved training 2x a day. I was thin and honestly I was proud of my ability to be as small as possible. Looking back, I don’t think that’s normal. I know that most adolescents have issues with body image but I was making almost every daily choice from the perspective of how it could/would affect my weight.

Mentally I am in a much more secure place. I am a parent now and I work from home. I’m fortunate enough to be able to afford the groceries that I need and I live in a safe neighborhood that I could exercise in. I would say that I do start the day with intentions to make healthy choices because like I said earlier in the post, I am overweight. But I just can’t…. I always overeat because I just like to eat—I enjoy it. I eat when I’m not hungry at least once every day and I don’t know why I do it. I make very very little effort to get out of the house to do something active because I find my combined household and work duties to be very time consuming.

I think back to being a young thin person and the (sometimes extreme) choices I would make and I just don’t don’t want to do that again. It might have “looked” healthy but I was so obsessed with weight. Now, I want to be healthy mentally and physically so that I can be a good parent and enjoy my life.

While I try to make changes to my lifestyle, I need to know are there thin people out there that just live a life that leads to a smaller body? Is every thin person making the choice (?) to be thin? Do I have to count calories for the rest of my life?

I hope this is the right place to post. I am looking for some advice from others to help me through this slump. I want my body to look good and feel good without agonizing over it. Any tips would be appreciated.

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