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Originally Posted by kane
A couple of things. There is a big difference between needing to lose 25, 30 or even 50 pounds and needing to lose 150+ pounds. Also, for many people who are very overweight there is a lot more behind it than just learning how to eat correctly. Most people who have serious weight issues also have other problems and eating is the way they deal with them.
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I'm one of those people Kane. While I was never that overweight I do have some serious health issues, and the deterioration in my back is a lifelong sentence for me that is now curtailing a lot of exercise activities that I used to take for granted. I know full well what you're trying to say, but you're not entirely correct. But what I'm saying is very much a choice and a commitment, no question, and not everyone has that kind of commitment in them,
but they do have a choice.
They just have to make it. Or else wait for that magic pill to be invented that rids them of their excess tonnage. OR... have their insides mutilated, get their stomach stapled or what have you. I have a couple of cousins in the states that had that done. It worked, but I know others that had it done and later gained weight even with the smaller stomach.... because their stomachs stretched even further. lol
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Some people smoke, some drink, some do drugs, some eat, it is often a symptom of a greater issue. So when a person loses weight on their own, but they don't deal with those issues those issues eventually show back up and they fall back into their old patterns because eating is how they deal with it.
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See above for most of that. As for smoking etc, all that takes a commitment to oneself as well. That still doesn't negate the fact that what I'm saying works. Of course it will only work for someone who is truly fed up with being a fat out-of-breath smoker who drinks a lot and wants to change once and for all.
Hey, I had to give up a good 95% of the booze as well. I'll still take a drink now and again or a glass of wine at dinner, but I keep a limit on it. Don't think for a second that I'm chirping on here but didn't have to make any personal changes and sacrifices of my own. If you think that you'd be way wrong.