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It's certainly not "out of their control". I'm not claiming it is, and I'm not claiming that everyone's genes have suddenly changed to make us fatter. I'm sayin
by DangitBobby 3y ago
It's certainly not "out of their control". I'm not claiming it is, and I'm not claiming that everyone's genes have suddenly changed to make us fatter. I'm saying thinking "it's easy" as the root comment on this chain claims comes from a place of relative advantage that they fail to acknowledge.
As I alluded to, I lost weight and have kept it off for about 7 years. Almost 100 pounds. But losing that weight was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do and I don't think I could have if I didn't have so little going on in my life that I could dedicate most of my willpower to it. I know very few people who have managed to do it.
- somenameforme 3y agoI can definitely appreciate that. One of the biggest issues with environmental factors is that they can directly impact the difficulty of something. Imagine you have some devoutly religious Muslim guy, and you lock him in the Bellagio in Vegas for a year. He's going to have a much harder time following his values than if he was in Medina, Saudi Arabia. It's not like his values themselves, or their own inherent difficulty has changed - but just being in an environment completely contrary to abiding them, makes them vastly more difficult. So a lot really depends on your environment. And right now, America (and the West in general) has turned into a hellscape for people actually trying to control their weight. By contrast imagine you were in a country with a low obesity rate, no such obesity acceptance, and a culture (portion, clothes, etc) aimed towards more fit weights. It is dramatically easier. So congrats, because yeah - dropping and keeping off 100 lbs in America is definitely an achievement.