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This. I didn't get fat because Monsanto knocked my door and shoved cheeseburgers down my throat for 30 years.

Nobody ever gained weight from not eating.

/Has lost 130 pounds in the last year by simply not eating when I wasn't hungry, instead of eating when I'm bored or sad.

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I'll admit I'm only saying anecdotes, but I've met very, very few obese people who said they ate when "bored or sad". The friends I had who did gain weight, did during the fat-free craze of the late 80s and early 90s, when "guilt-free" candybars shot onto the market labelled as diet foods. It even has a name: the "SnackWell Effect".

ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snackwell_effect

Be honest. Did you write that wiki article?

He didn't. It's an old one and it's not an example of citation genesis either.

Agreed. It is clearly more complicated than "worthless lazy person can't control themselves."

I'm not sure this is only about people who have an extra 130 lbs.

Supposedly "obese" is about 30% overweight. A lot of people are more than half of the way there. And it's probably due to the same factors that could get them to official obesity. Which often does _not_ include eating when bored. The biggest one may be directly related to aging.

I remember speaking with someone who laughed at the idea that what eat has anything to do with our health. I was taken aback, but he's not alone in that.

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