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Originally Posted by mopek1
I'm suggesting that for some it can be so difficult that they need help in the same way alcoholics and smokers do.
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This is the key point. As someone who struggled with weight all their life and just recently got it under control I can say that if you are 30-60 pounds overweight it can simply be a matter of bad diet and lifestyle. When you get to the point where you are 150+pounds overweight there is something deeper going on.
A person has to figure out what makes them eat like that and what their problems are mentally and deal with them before they are ever going to take weight off in any significant way. It is just like someone who drinks. They have things that trigger their drinking and they have to learn how to deal with those. Someone who is very overweight needs to discover the root cause of this and deal with that first.