Nunya B. wrote:
Speak for yourself (pot-kettle here).

You are the one speaking for all obese people. You are the one saying
its always doable for everyone and if it isn't it's only because they
are weak and lazy.

I have decades of firsthand experience as an obese person

I am sure that is unique in this group.

and pleny of empathy and sympathy for those
who are trying to do something about it.

I don't really care about empathy and sympathy. I care about knowing why
losing weight is so hard. That means the biology top to bottom, of which
we still know very little.

What I don't care for are FFID's
like yourself who decide to blame the world and your genetics for your
choices.

You are projecting and you have no idea about my choice. I have found my
learning to be very helpful in attaining my own success. The it doesn't
matter approach you have has never worked for me. Actually knowing the
challenges I face is helpful.


If you prefer the taste of food over being a healthy weight,
that's your CHOICE.

Judgemental, arrogant, and again, projecting.


You're picking a fight with the wrong person here.

I am not picking anything. That you personalize everything as an attack
on your own identity, is your choice.

I've spent the last 20
years dealing with at eating disorder that pretty much dominated my life.

And you think you are the same as everyone else and what works for you
will work for everyone else?

I understand what it is like to feel like you're out of control and can't help
yourself probably more than you ever have from reading your articles.

Should we hug? You apparently know little and want to know even less.
For example, if you understood the relationship of food on your opiate
and dopamine systems that might be revealing. That your body fights back
with leptin and ghrelin and a dozen others chemicals to keep you hungry
migh be revealing. Most people still think hunger is psychological!

I didn't just wake up cured one day.

You aren't cured now. Food is an addiction that doesn't go away.

Not everyone is willing to do that.

Why do you think that is? Where's the line? What makes the decision for
different people? If you think it is because people aren't hard workers
you don't know a thing. You know your own pain. Very well. But that
doesn't tell you much else.

It
doesn't make them a bad person but they're no victim either. So take your
"macho" crap and shove it.

It's not on my diet, sorry.