Respectfully, bullshit.
I have been too overweight for too long to believe that.
It is simple mathematics. You eat fewer calories than you burn. You loose weight.
People have no will power, and they rely too much on crappy food.
I have been a type II diabetic for almost a decade. This past year I’ve been able to reduce my meds by about 80%. Another six months and I should be free.
When you are sick of feeling like crap, you will examine what you eat and how active you are. Being obese is an addiction. You need to break it.
Sorry to sound cold and unfeeling. But it’s not complicated. It’s just really hard. It easier to have a bowl of chips out of habit than it is to go for a walk.
It’s not just a matter of going for a walk. For a lot of people, weight loss means exercising two or three times a day—say, weights + running + swimming. Building muscle raises the metabolic rate and indirectly causes fat reduction. There have been times when I was doing all that and I still wasn’t losing weight. But eventually I got it straightened out and lost about 65 pounds. And I have kept off for 25 years. It does take discipline.
I pray for us both, fren. It sounds like we both have difficult journeys ahead of us.