I don't think metmom said anything about character defects, just that sensible eating tends to resolve being overweight.
There are many hormonal conditions that cause weight gain and prevent weight loss. PCOS, hypothyroidism
Agreed. Then you find a good endocrinologist and find the right medications, hormones, whatever to balance yourself.
It’s a form of virtue signaling and you just had to put it out there.
Maybe. But it's also an expression of frustration that close to half the people you see around you are overweight, some morbidly so, and these aren't the salad eaters and exercisers. You know as well as I that most obese people are there because they will not control their eating. And yes they can ... if someone stood there with a gun and said don't eat that donut you wouldn't eat it. A choice was made.
Most (I know, not all) people that are fat today are so because they eat too much, because they are sedentary, because they stare at screens for hours, that everything today is geared towards less physical activities (drive thrus, Doordash, etc.), that food is EVERYWHERE and every third business is a restaurant. I get it.
But in the end it's on us, and I say that as a formerly fat person. I'm not "superior" but I am someone who wanted to look better and feel better so I got serious and dropped the weight.
Also, when I was a kid, obesity was rarely seen.
Clearly something has changed besides genetics.
The vast number of fat people wouldn’t be if they are better and doing a cursory look at what I see people have in their shopping carts at the grocery store shows a high correlation between the person’s weight and how they eat based on what they filled their carts with.
So yeah, cut out the highly processed junk food and soda and other sugary drinks, get more exercise and you’ll be starting to lose weight.
I know somone who has lost over 60 pounds in the last year by just doing those few simple things.