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What are you talking about? There's plenty of stories out there of obese people who lost weight on their own and got their life back into shape (myself included
by eanzenberg 8y ago
What are you talking about? There's plenty of stories out there of obese people who lost weight on their own and got their life back into shape (myself included). This ivory tower elitism is nonsense. They are worried that if enough people took actions into their own hands they'd be out of business.
- dpark 8y agoThe percentage of people who manage to successfully lose and keep off a significant amount of weight is tiny. No one disputes that some people manage it. The concern is that depending exclusively on willpower clearly doesn’t work for most people.
- throwawayjava 8y agoWho is "they" and what does Columbia have to gain from keeping people fat?
- asveikau 8y agoI think a lot of people could "will" to fix some of these problems in an ideal world, but other factors beyond their control prevent them. I "beat" obesity in the last year. My BMI was low 30s and it's now low 20s. Knock on wood, after some time I don't seem to be regaining it like a lot of people do (as suggested by my sibling post). Without getting into too many personal details, the biggest thing to cause that was a radical re-shift of my work habits. A vast majority of people do not have the luxury of chosing when and how they work. I do not fault them for not replicating what I did. I struggled with it myself for a long time, before my recent success, until I was able to make these latest changes. In general I think things which lead to judging other people for their circumstances is a bad idea. There are probably people who could will it away. Is it their fault that they don't? Honestly, probably not usually.