I've always wanted to maintain a healthy weight because I don't want to drop dead in the street of a heart attack in my early 50s like my dad did. Losing your dad before you've left junior school is more than a bit crap.
Lockdown is having a bad effect on my waist becaus I'm missing the low key regular movements such as walking to school about 15 times per week. I'm still running, but my background movement has nosedived. Having the constant presence of a DH and DCs in the house means that I can't please myself with a lighter lunch of fish or salad and makes 5:2 harder (OK, I can, but it's double effort and double temptation). There is much more sugar and carbs going on with them beeing fed. The DCs have ribs like xylophones, so keeping any meat on their bones is a good thing.
It's good that attractiveness is now being seen as something far more diverse than 90s heroin chic, but "big is beautiful" does nothing to minimise the increased health risks of obesity, añd we can't even see the lower ends of obesity anymore because "healthy" is now the minority. Slim/ healthy is now seen as skinny which implies unhealthily underweight.
Making healthy choices and keeping to a healthy weight is a constant battle against hard practical choices out of convenience and what is avaliable and soft cultural pressures, "just one/a bit more", wine/gin/ cake cultures. Things like big plates that completely distort your sense of portion control.
We all know that obesity is a risk and most people have a pretty decent idea about where they stand, but we have a culture where it is so difficult to maintain a constant sense of management/ control for losing or maintaining weight.
Particularly for women, there is also the side of calories in/ calories out is complicated by the calories out being distorted by hormonal and immune conditions, and medications.