> What I want you to understand, more than anything else, is that telling a fat person “Eat less and exercise” is like telling a boxer “Don’t get hit.” Actuall

> What I want you to understand, more than anything else, is that telling a fat person “Eat less and exercise” is like telling a boxer “Don’t get hit.” Actually, that's most of what my coach would tell me. In fact, 75% of my training was for not getting hit. I was the worst performing boxer in the place for almost a year, known as "the bleeder" for the number of times I'd finish a match with a river of blood running down my shirt (which was about 90% of the time). At one point the coach threatened to ban me if I didn't shape up, because I was scaring away his clients. I remember many an hour balancing on a tire, trying to defend while he whacked me with a stick from all sides, berating me every fucking time he got a blow in. But at some point SOMETHING starts to sink in; some kind of ... instinct maybe? I stopped bleeding. I got hit a LOT less. I even started winning. Lesser skilled opponents looked like they were punching in slow motion. I have no idea how this would help someone fighting obesity. My experience living in the USA for a few years was being shocked at how SWEET everything is. American bread was like eating cake. Balsamic vinegar was like eating soft drink syrup. I always look at the label to see what's in the food, but something's really wrong in America because there's no way the food can be so sweet with what they say is in it.