[Ikeon]

eat less food...... is like telling an alcoholic to drink less booze.. its simple for you to say. Not so simple for overweight people to do. Its as much genes as alcoholic is in the genes.

[oldasrocks]

Cut off the Food Stamps. Rarely do I see a skinny person using them and then the cart of full of junk food.

[daler]

As a person who could certainly stand to lose a few pounds (so yes, call me biased), I do believe there may be a little more to losing weight than “eat less.”

Personally, I do care about what I put in my mouth from a nutritional standpoint, and I don’t have a lot of bad habits, like snacking between meals.

My spouse and I split dinners at restaurants, not because we’re cheap, but because they serve too damn much food per order. After asking for take-home boxes nearly every time we dined out, we finally wised up.

I don’t make it a practice to watch people eat, but I’m pretty confident there are a lot of relatively thin people that have no problem scarfing down the aforementioned huge restaurant meals. Seemingly, with no consequences.

It’s my guess that genetics play a major role. And age, certainly.

So, the assertion that every overweight person is just a glutton that needs to exercise a little restraint at the dinner table is a bit simplistic, IMHO.