I did not say that. People should lose weight. That is the easy part though. Keeping it off is not easy. I speak from experience. There is a database of people who have kept it off, and it takes at times many attempts. It is also very small, by percentage by people who try, but definitely do, and avoid crash diets, and fads.

This is why the body positivity movement is a problem. Their point that society shames, and medical systems discriminate is true though.

What she posted though is the typical sloth social theory of obesity. Obesity comes via many very complex causes. They range from metabolic disease, to social cues, and mental health issues. Trust me, somebody with PCOS would chose not to have it. But society will judge that person as lazy.

We should be, as a society beyond the blame point. Especially since the last fifty years is when it exploded. Which coincidentally is also the era of big food. We no longer blame smokers for their smoking. Guess what? This is in the same vein.

Here, a couple recent pieces I wrote on this,.

https://nadinbrzezinski.medium.com/the-addictive-industrial-food-system-9bb959d0064e

https://nadinbrzezinski.medium.com/what-to-eat-if-you-want-to-be-healthy-3e995494af36

Incidentally, especially with people who are morbidly obese, mental health is essential, and most health providers will be over the moon if people lose ten percent of their body mass and KEEP IT OFF. It will also help with metabolic issues.

But yes. my highest ever weight came from a side effect to a med. I would have been judged by the OP for a moral failing. It wasn’t. I have managed to lose all that and then some (and keep it off), but it’s work, since my body was wrecked from the medicine. That was over twenty years ago. Yet, the judgement is clear.

I am asking for people to stop judging people as moral failings. You have no idea why people are obese. And all obesity is a metabolic issue at this point, however about twenty percent of obese people are metabolically normal, for the moment. About forty percent of thin people are not, and will become overweight to obese sometime in their future. Usually it’s the same judge mental people.

But when you have the obesity rates we have, start digging deeper. You are not going to like the answer. I know I did not.

I will add this. There is an obesity gene, whiuch has been identified. People with multiple expressions of this gene were likely higher than. normal even before the last fifty years. That gene is maladaptive now, but allowed them to survive lean times better than you or me. It is maladaptive because we live in a very toxic obesogenic environment, made far worse by available, calorie-dense, nutritionally suspect, food 24–7

Then there are food deserts and add campaigns.

But should people who are obese attempt to lose weight? Yes, as many times as they need to... and this statement is controversial on its own, since yo-yo dieting can lead to its own medical issues. But in my mind, yes, they should. However, not because you lecture them. Or for that matter doctors who think they are lazy lecture them.

Incidentally, my medical chart has weight loss in there. My doctor and me are over the moon, but we both are aware this is the rare exception, not the rule.

Mostly plant based diet with very little if any processed junk. It’s not willpower either. It’s knowledge. I even can pinpoint what triggered my metabolic syndrome. And it is a collection of things, that were not in my control. It’s not just Frosted Flakes, or corn flakes, or chocolate Rice Krispies in individual portions. There are other causes, some in-utero.

It’s time to stop this judgement.