10s of millions of people have been able to maintain healthy weight and fitness through the proven methods.
Even amid an abundance of cheap food.
That the “Biggest Losers” were even on the show is proof of of their inability to control themselves and their physical outcomes.
Each of them essentially mentally ill. That they were not able to sustain their gains should be of no surprise to anyone.
The same can be said of those who subscribe to your powerlessness philosophy. After all, it’s not their fault.
The problem is once they get into that state they have damaged their body to the point that it takes an enormous amount of willpower all the time not to regain that weight. Far more than you realize or are capable of long term because it only gets worse over time.
You can sit in judgment of them all you want because it makes you feel good about yourself but that is just a different kind of character failure than their gluttony and sloth you love to point out.
Many of those people have had a doctor hectoring them for years about their weight while simultaneously throwing the food pyramid at them. Once they understand the dumb thing is upside down they can lose the weight.
The problem with playing drill sergeant with them is that their body is broken and “diet and exercise” not only doesn’t work long term, it makes the problem worse. They are at the very least insulin resistant if not diabetic. Their hormones that signal hunger and satiety are scrambled, making them feel hunger continuously, no matter how much they eat or don’t eat.
The excess weight goes from being the cause to being a symptom of another problem it initially caused. Simply demanding that they lose the weight is treating the symptom while making the problem worse.