Re:Well... yeh. (Score 1)

Being obese is pretty much an invitation for all sorts of problems. I love my steak, fries, chocolate, soda and burgers, I just eat them once every other week in small quantities. It helps when I think of baby carrots and apples as snacks.

Now imagine trying to do that with severe cravings for the food. The kind of cravings addicts have for their poison of choice.

I'm fat. I'm able to avoid a huge variety of foods due to my wife's allergies. (If I've eaten the tiniest amounts of garlic, onion, capcicum, chilli, or a whole raft of spices one kiss from me could kill her. Do you have any idea how many different foods have trace amounts of these? I'm lucky if I can eat the fries at a fast food joint. If they use chicken salt, forget it). I don't have a simple issue with self control. If I did she'd be dead and I'd be up on murder charges. On the other hand I have a huge problem eating small portions. If I do I literally walk around voraciously hungry.

Oh and by the way I have an ankle so arthritic that I don't know how many more years I'll be able to walk for. At the moment if I had to run for my life I still could but I'd be paying for it with a couple of weeks worth of agony. Combine this with a desk job and yeah I _could_ try to make time for the gym (which I hate with a passion) but keeping up an excercise routine is to say the least problematic.

People who think it's a simple self control issue are idiots. Your makeup pre-disposes you to wanting to eat and to piling on weight. It's like looking at a dyslexic person and saying it's just a matter of self control when it comes to reading. It shows a profound lack of understanding of the issue.

Agreed, I come from a long line of fatties, I eat very little, exercise daily,and have a remarkable (yup the doc said so!) recovery time. It's very easy for a slim guy to point a finger and say 'just eat less' but there's a lot more to it than that.