Well hell, man, I didn't realize it was so easy. I guess I've just been stupid the last 42 years and didn't follow your brilliant doctor's miracle weight-loss plan. Why isn't she a billionaire with all this wonderful wisdom and half the country overweight? If it's so easy -- if anyone can use weight if they want to -- hell, we must all be choosing to be overweight! We're all just big ol' pigs who can't follow the insightful brilliance of Jimmy's doctor! Thanks for setting us straight!
I'm glad you were able to lose the relatively small amount of weight you waned to lose, and you were able to do so without a lot of difficulty. I assure you that's not the case for everyone, and if you think that being overweight is just about choices, you're flat out wrong. After four decades of dealing with weight loss -- of losing 100+ pounds twice, 75 three others, 50 two beyond that and 30 more times than I can count and then gaining it back, of trying very diet system and plan you've ever heard of short of surgery -- it ain't nearly as easy for most people as it's been for you. I won't convince you of that, because those who are not fat carry their own preconceptions of those who are fat, but I will let you know that it's not a matter of choice, or at least not a matter of the kind of easy choice you've described. For some of us, losing weight requires Draconian measures well beyond your doctor's simplistic and, for most people, inaccurate suggestions. While many may not be willing or able to do what their body requires to lose weight, for most of us it's not a matter of will power and it's not a matter of bad choices. it's a matter of body chemistry. If you're going to suggest that being overweight is just a matter of better food choices or being tough enough to give up candy and thousand island dressing -- which you clearly did -- it's not going to go unchallenged. At least not by me.