This comment will probably get buried, but I'm putting it here anyway. I've always been fat. My entire life. I joke that when I was born, my mother gave birt

This comment will probably get buried, but I'm putting it here anyway. I've always been fat. My entire life. I joke that when I was born, my mother gave birth to a toddler. I've never known what it's like to be skinny, thin, fit, or whatever word you want to use. I wish I did, though. I'm sick of being told how to be healthy by people who have never been fat. Or, even worse, people who have been fit when younger, then put on weight for a few years only to go back to being fit. They have the delusion that their experience is possible for everyone and therefore the fat person is just lazy or lacks self control, and therefore make a moral judgement about the fatso. I cannot stand that type of person. All of the "Just do this..." quips don't help. "Just cut back on the alcohol." I have never drank in my life. Ever. "Just cut back on the sugary drinks." I cut out sodas 3 years ago. I'm heavier now than I was 3 years ago. Since then, I only drink water at restaurants, and I only drink water or 0 calorie flavored water at home. No exceptions. "Just exercise and you'll feel better." I have never felt good exercising. Never. Exercising makes me miserable. I don't mean just while I'm exercising, but I mean that I feel incessantly exhausted during the times in my life when I did exercise regularly. In my 20's I did Tae Kwon Do consistently for several years. I jogged. I rode my bike. I was consistently miserable. And I was still fat. "Stop eating out." I did that with my switch to keto (mentioned below). Not a huge change. It's more expensive to cook "good" food than to eat the McDonald's dollar menu, but I guess I make more $$$ now than I did when I was a poor student. "It's just calories in and calories out." Yeah, and programming is just ones and zeroes. It's not technically wrong, and yet it's obvious that the person doesn't know what they're talking about beyond this rudimentary quip. They don't understand how the gut microbiome can make absorption of nutrients/calories more efficient, or genetic predisposition and the relative strength of those predispositions, or any other nuance. It's like talking to a racist or woke person; neither one sees how their naive and myopic understanding of the world doesn't actually match reality, but they are proud to spout their nonsense and then judge you for not meeting their standard. My blood sugar has never been caught "high" so I had never worried about it much, but in an annual insurance checkup, my A1C was 10.6. That's bad. The insurance person tried to make me go to the ER right at that moment. They were REALLY pushy. I thought that they were overreacting. They were not happy that I didn't panic or react in the same way that they were acting. I didn't go to a doctor. I switched to a keto diet. It's been 4 months, and I've only lost 20 lbs. My A1C is down to 6, though, when I checked it a few days ago. No meds. I want to exercise, but I absolutely hate my life when I do it. I have a bad knee, so it's often painful to exercise. Exercise makes me feel bad in general. I'm currently 6'0" and 269lbs. The only time I guess that I'll actually be skinny is about 10 years after I'm dead.