Absolutely determined to be offended. I challenge any reasonable person to read this & conclude that I have a problem with fat people and people with mental illness. https://twitter.com/zoupmachine/status/992893213471072257 …
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I didn't mean you had to accept, you do you. Just that for many, a happy life lived fat is likely preferable to a life of self-loathing, which seems to be outcome of unfulfilled striving. To me dieting is restricting, eating well is just that.
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That could be the problem then. If you eat well and not too much, you will lose weight. If you follow diets which make you feel deprived and restrictive, that will be hard to stick to. I lost 130lbs in the year after I came off these meds last time by eating well & not too much.
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Are you giving me advice? I'm not trying to lose weight. I am responding to the piece you linked to about acceptance being dangerous, suggesting that there is more than one way of living a good life.
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Not you specifically. But seeing a diet as something you do to lose weight rather than a change of diet which will fix an obesity problem generally.
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And the second bit entirely depends on your understanding of 'good.' My father decided a good life was one where he drank more than recommended and smoked and was probably going to be quite a bit shorter than if he didn't. Of course, people can make the same choice re food.
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Also I said it's medically rare, not unachievable. Science, right?
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It's not medically rare. It's what happens when you eat fewer calories than you burn off. That is the science.
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For overweight people sure, but not obese in the long-term. Medical interventions more likely work though.
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This will probably be because they stop doing it tho. The option of changing your lifestyle without medical intervention does still work.
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