My mother told me (16f) that I should lessen my jogging and start power walking again or else when I'm an adult I wont have time and I'll gain back a ton of the weight--how can I not make that happen?

I posted this here because I'm literally scared right now, as I'm typing this. I have bad anxiety and I thought instead of posting to one of the other 1928283 fitness subs I'd post here where a broader demographic would see it maybe.

Ok so my family has struggled with weight..a lot. I have 2 younger siblings and both are chubby. The last time I went to the doctor in the spring I had a BMI of 25.8, which is very close to 24.9 (the cutoff point of healthy bmi for my age and height) so I was already on the right track.

I've been jogging since the last week of august. School started in Sept. The 1st week of jogging, I went every day. I stop between laps and take water and I can therefore get more laps. I eat way healthier and I've lost inches, my clothes are getting loose, I generally feel better (I have bad anxiety but it is kind of better now) and I am looking better and feeling confident.

Once school started I gradually didnt jog as much, naturally. This past week I got 2 days and then I went out dancing with friends for hours so that's also exercise. I power walk/jog to get to places instead of getting a ride or walking slowly. But I still feel active and I eat really healthy and my waist has still stayed at the decreased size.

Today my mother says that I shouldn't jog as much and I should go back to power walking (I started power walking this summer before jogging). Her logic is that there are so many of my friends and her friends, and herself, who also did high intensity exercise like dance and weights and now they've stopped and gained back so much of the weight. She says once I start working as an adult I wont have time and I'll be gaining weight. Also there are many accounts of that happening. I told her its probably because they eat as much as they did before exercise and it doesnt work anymore. Online there is proof and research, and she also says its gonna be winter so I should do an exercise that's sustainable like jumping Jack's or power walking because if you stop power walking you apparently wont gain too much back. The jumping jacks I'm fine with as I do it to warm up, I'm gonna do them for like 45min instead of jogging if it's too cold.

I love jogging though. I get an hour to myself and I listen to music or take out my earbuds and just hear my breaths and the wind and the birds. Exercise is a lifetime commitment, I'm sure I'll have time to jog 45min 2x each week as an adult, right?

My question is how do I make jogging sustainable? How do I not gain back so much weight? My mom is really scaring me and I dont want to give up something that I love and has made me so much healthier, but she has experienced the same thing so I want to find out how to avoid that.

Tl;dr She says I should figure out how to "balance out" jogging and make it sustainable so I wont gain it back as an adult. How do I do that? How do I give up smth I love so much and it's so successful for me and I'm healthier?

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