jherico t1_iu331em wrote on October 28, 2022 at 4:49 AM

Reply to comment by UnknownYetSavory in Eli5: How are people unhappy about being overweight, that is something you can change like 80% of the work is changing your diet I'm decently healthy and most healthy food taste good by biggerthenuFR

This is just an appalling take that overlooks the fact that there are wealthy fat people. Like "wealthy enough to have a personal trainer and a full time personal chef" people.

I'm not personally that rich but I still earn enough to buy pre-cooked meals from services like Factor 75 or meals that I still need to cook from services like Blue Apron and it doesn't fucking help.

Being overweight and losing that weight is so monstrously hard that the only way to do so reliably is to undergo surgery that permanently impacts your diet and lifestyle.

If your take of people just being lazy were valid you'd expect some percentage of people to be able to turn it around, but for every success story you might see here on Reddit or in other media, there are so many people stuck in obesity that the people who succeed are basically a statistical fluke.

https://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/fat-officially-incurable-according-to-science

UnknownYetSavory t1_iu35k62 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 5:17 AM

Nah, it's really easy. I had a bad case of depression that left me unable to drive without fear of wrecking, let alone doing anything else, and I gained forty pounds in that time, a course of two years. Lost the weight in about three months. It's really easy. Wealth has nothing to do with it, you even said yourself that you're paying people to select your food for you. It should be of no surprise that selecting the right food for you is not their priority, making money is. Cooking is cheap (the cheapest possible option), it's easy, and you can have absolute control of what you eat.

Want to eat broccoli and mushrooms? Then you cook broccoli and mushrooms. Want to eat a salad with chicken and whatever vegetables you like? Then you make that salad. No preservatives, no added sugars. If you're having a problem finding something to stick to, cut out sugar and starches (bread, rice, etc). That's an easy diet to work around, and it's the one I typically use whenever I want to lose some weight.