“Encourage any effort on diet or exercise. “
I do so consistently and regularly.
But I refuse to enable the delusion that people are helpless in this matter.
Sure, like you many are burdened with issues that make it harder.
Not impossible.
10s of millions in this country of abundance do it every day.
Great!
You’re not “enabl[ing] delusions” by holding the insults.
You’re just expressing your own frustrations. It’s not “mental illness” for someone like me to get to the point where you think weight loss is impossible, and you give up hope.
That’s not a delusion. That’s despair.
I’ve had to come to accept that for the rest of my life, in order to achieve and maintain a healthier weight, I will be miserable.
Oh well. A lot of less-than-pleasant-stuff has happened to me in the last years. Misery doesn’t seem too bad.