Superb. Clearly in your case you summoned the necessary will to lose all that weight. But I think another important factor is that you established a new lifestyle/better eating habits.
> But I think another important factor is that you established a new lifestyle/better eating habits.
How is it not a given that you need to do this? Your lifestyle and eating habits got you to that overweight state in the first place. Of course you will return to that state eventually if you don't permanently change them.
"Summoned" implies it's only possible for people who know the arcane secrets, I'm not personally a fan of removing people's agency when talking about something like this.
Removing agency is exactly what you should do when you're talking about a widespread problem. If I have a personal friend I'm absolutely going to tell them they can make the right choices and overcome their problems, but you can't do that with a society. You have to look at incentives and environment and change those to change widespread behavior.
vonmoltke|7 years ago
How is it not a given that you need to do this? Your lifestyle and eating habits got you to that overweight state in the first place. Of course you will return to that state eventually if you don't permanently change them.
diminoten|7 years ago
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sidlls|7 years ago