(07-17-2017, 06:37 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: Yes, it's our diet, and yes, it is our lack of exercise, but the existence of the words "fat shaming" and the existence of the billion dollar weight loss industry tells me people don't want to be fat.  The answers are quite simple- eat less and exercise more, but actually doing that must be quite difficult, because there are so many very fat people out there, and I have to assume they don't want to be that way.   And yet I see these people eating a bag of potato chips, or chocolate cake at 9 o'clock at night.  There must be something about being overweight that destroys the willpower to resist.  

I also agree that we are being taught not to embarrass these people, but that doesn't make sense to me.   They are killing themselves; they want to lose weight; we are in the room when they pick up the bag of chips, and yet, we can't say anything.   If a person is killing themselves with drugs or alcohol, someone is supposed to intervene.  Why can't we intervene when someone is killing themselves with food?  I think one thing we have to do as a society is get over this idea that we can't talk openly about this.  It's killing our friends, it's bankrupting Medicare and Medicaid, it's filling up the hospitals.   It's more than a private issue.

But- back to the original question.   I wish someone could tell me, if you want to lose weight, but you are confronted with chocolate cake or candy or potato chips, what goes through your mind?   If you want to lose weight, when you go to the grocery store, why do you buy potato chips?   I can understand why, if someone offered you chocolate cake, it would be hard to resist it, but it seems like the first line of defense would be in your own grocery cart.    

It's really frustrating, because I see friends and relatives destroying their own quality of life, and sending themselves to an early grave, and I can't do anything about it.

You can't teach anyone anything who doesn't want to learn, you can't help anyone who won't help themselves, and you can't make people want to be healthy... I keep seeing people who think it's simple to lose weight...It's really not easy...I eat a low carb high protein diet and do exercises from my Drs
and lose very little if any at all...I am diabetic and I take my medicine and my glucose level is generally within the parameters set by my DR. and find it very hard to lose weight

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