And the bigots are loud mouths. “It’s laziness” they bellow.
“Just reduce your calorie intake and stop whining” they scream on discussion
boards. “Nothing wrong with a fat person that a plane crash in the Andes can't
fix” gloats some other jerk. “It’s called ‘personal responsibility’” taunts
another.
Yeah right.
I have said this so many times in so many ways that I could
scream but I need to say it again: willpower doesn't have any role whatsoever
in weight loss…NONE…ZERO. Willpower is for football games or investing, not for
weight loss. Why? BECAUSE IT DOESN’T WORK! Never has, never will. Couldn’t
cannot and won’t.
Why?
Because hunger is a SURVIVAL URGE. That means it’s just like
breathing or thirst. That means that it runs over “willpower” like a
steamroller on a worm. Try to tackle
hunger head on and it will pound you into dust. Sure people can resist it for a
little while. With enough incentive that’s easy. But can you stay hungry the
rest of your life? Not unless you’re locked in a cage with no choice. It’s NOT
about “willpower”.
Obesity is a disease. It’s a thousand, actually perhaps
hundreds of thousands of insidious biochemical and neurochemical changes in the
body and the brain that increase hunger, decrease metabolism and turn a human
life into a slow-moving train wreck. It’s horrible, sad, frightening and deadly
and it’s a DISEASE as surely as cancer is a disease.
And so I say quite sincerely to all the loudmouthed obesity
bigots out there: shame on you! SHAME! How dare you presume to blame sick people
for their condition! How dare you presume to compare your body to theirs! How
dare you even open your big FAT mouths!
If you can’t grow-up at least have the common sense to
SHUT-UP!
